8 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, January 17, 2022
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
The New York Choral Society presents The Caged Bird Sings for Freedom, a multidisciplinary digital performance ...
more >> of composer Joel Thompson’s choral work The Caged Bird Sings for Freedom based on Maya Angelou’s poem “Caged Bird” from Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? in collaboration with choreographer Marjani Forté-Saunders. Featuring the musical partnership Port Mande and Mezzo-soprano Miastasha Gonzalez-Colón.
1:00 pm
free, registration required
Over 220 bird species have been spot-ted on the island, which pro-vides excel-lent habi-tat all year ...
more >> round. Whether you're an expert bird-er or a begin-ner, this tour will help you dis-cov-er all of the bird life the sland has to offer this win-ter.
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Moderator Annette Insdorf will interview Jeremy Irons about the new Netflix film. Based on the international ...
more >> bestseller by Robert Harris, the film is an engrossing drama set during the Munich Agreement of 1938, with Europe on the brink of World War II. Jeremy Irons, who plays Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, is the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor (Reversal of Fortune), as well as Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, and SAG awards. While he is perhaps best known for his recent work in House of Gucci, HBO’s Watchmen, and Justice League, he has starred in such films as The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Moonlighting, The Mission, Dead Ringers, M.Butterfly, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lolita, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Man Who Knew Infinity. On television, his credits include Brideshead Revisited, Elizabeth I with Helen Mirren, and The Borgias.
A high-visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress. Artists ...
more >> are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
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The Drum Major Instinct presents dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...
more >> The Drum Major Instinct--a powerful, cautionary sermon about the impulse in all humans to be first--for diverse audiences, with the goal of generating powerful dialogue about racism, inequality, and social justice, fostering compassion, understanding, and positive action. These readings are accompanied by original and arranged music composed and conducted by Dr. Philip Woodmore, featuring a choir of diverse singers from St. Louis, Missouri and New York City. On Sunday, February 4, 1968, Dr. King delivered The Drum Major Instinct at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, exactly two months before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. In it, he prophetically spoke of his own imminent death and laid out a challenge to his congregation, and also the world, to harness an inborn human drive--"the desire to be out front, a desire to lead the parade, a desire to be first"-- and use it to promote justice, righteousness, and peace by channeling it into acts of service and love. The "distorted personality," King argued, fails to harness this" the drum major instinct" for good and instead, "ends up trying to
Our sense of our history requires us to recall the details of time and of the experiences that help us ...
more >> find our place in the world together. When we lose sight of the past, our ability to see ourselves and to understand one another is diminished. Author Colette Brooks explores the mechanics and malleability of the collective American memory.
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Tai Murray, violin; Melissa Reardon, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Doug Balliett, double bass; Aaron ...
more >> Wunsch, piano. Violinist, Tai Murray ("superb," N Y Times), joins violist, Melissa Reardon ("virtuosic," Classical Voice); cellist, Raman Ramakrishnanan ("admired," New Yorker); bassist, Doug Balliett; and Artistic Director Aaron Wunsch for a program of quintets, traditional and contemporary. Schubert's beloved Trout Quintet accompanies Xhosa composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen's Intlanzi Yase Mzantsi (The Fish From South Africa, based on Schubert's "Trout"); Judith Weir's A Song of Departure (based on Schubert's Farewell); and Vaughan-Williams's lush, romantic Quintet.
7:30 pm
free, registration required