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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 23, 2023?

22 free events take place on Monday, January 23 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out January 23 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of January . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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22 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, January 23, 2023

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors
free events nyc Adventure in Italian Opera: Met Conductor Michele Gamba (in-person and online)
free events nyc One-Act Play Festival
free events nyc The Intimate City: A Conversation About Touring NYC
free events nyc Works By French Composers Performed by String Ensemble
free events nyc Violin Works by Mozart, Robert Schumann, and More (In Person and Online)
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations 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
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Explore Techniques for Making Great Art


Learn to explore different visual art movements and themes by using different art mediums and techniques.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Start times: 10:30am, 12pm, 1:30pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

Museums | Special Viewing: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper


This limited-viewing exhibition will feature works on paper by el Greco, Goya, Fernao Gomes, Volkmar Machado, and Lazlo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Classical Music | Historical Chamber Music


Chamber music performed on period instruments in a 110-year-old church.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Poetry Workshop


Whether you are a student of poetry or just jumping into the world of poetry for the first time, poet Judy Katz will lead this workshop to explore the world through reading and writing poetry. Participants will look at one or two poems (20th century and contemporary), making observations about their craft, subject matter and music. Katz will also use the poems as jumping off points for participants’ own writing. The writing that you do will be strictly for you and does not have to be shared with the group unless you are so inclined. Whether you are a longtime reader and writer of poetry, or a complete beginner, you are welcome in this workshop. (First of four sessions).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | The Passionate Photographer Critique (online)


It feels good to hear nice things about your photos from friends, relatives and fellow photographers, but pats on the back are far less useful than meaningful, constructive criticism. Putting our photography out into the world—seeking opinions and critique we can use to improve and push ourselves forward is essential to our development as photographers. In this session, Steve Simon, "The Passionate Photographer," will give an honest evaluation of the photographs submitted—talking about what works, what doesn’t and how photographs can be improved. You will learn as much from the critiques of other photographer’s images as you will about critiques of your own images.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Musical | Interactive Musical Comedy in an Off-Broadway Theater


A crew of everyday people leave normal jobs and families to live as pirates. Setting off to find the hidden treasure left behind by Captain Toothy, a pirate famous for pirating DVDs in the early 2000s, (and shutting down Blockbuster Video stores worldwide) the crew encounters a wild series of events, and ends up learning a little something along the way. With Book & Lyrics by Brayden Martino, and Music by John-William Gambrell, Toothy's Treasure is a boisterous interactive theatrical experience that brings fresh life to the New York stage. Dir. Brayden Martino With Anneke Angstadt, Jordan William McKinney, Cait Winston, Chloe Gardner, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Road of Bones: Haunted Highway in Siberia (online)


In Christopher Golden's supernatural thriller, an American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy


Art critic Ben Davis discusses his new incisive collection on the meaning of art in the face of today's climate and capitalist catastrophes It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism’s dysfunction. Davis attempts to make sense of our extreme present as an emerging "after-culture"—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free

Book Discussion | The Intimate City: A Conversation About Touring NYC


Join acclaimed New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman in conversation with New York Times editor Sam Sifton about his 2022 book exploring his celebrated walking tours. "New York City comes alive in this scintillating collection of conversations between New York Times architecture critic Kimmelman . . . An enchanting and lyrical montage of an ever-evolving city." --Publishers Weekly Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic of The New York Times. He was the paper's chief art critic and, from Berlin, created the Abroad column, covering politics and culture across Europe and the Middle East. He has reported from more than forty countries and founded Headway, a nonprofit journalistic initiative focused on global challenges and paths to progress. A native New Yorker, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, he is the author of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa and Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Adventure in Italian Opera: Met Conductor Michele Gamba (in-person and online)


The conductor will discuss his Metropolitan Opera debut leading Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Performance | One-Act Play Festival


Life, it seems, often feels like a series of one-acts. We all have experiences that play out like short dramas. And that is, perhaps, why the one-act dramatic form is so popular. For the fourth annual One-Act Play Festival, a series of short, compelling, meaningful works that reveal heightened interactions among people--not only for the characters involved in the story, but also for all of us out there in the audience. A good one-act play tells a story as appropriate to the stage as it is to real life, our lives. Why do we fall in love with people not available to us? How can strangers help us live better lives? What effect do chance encounters have on us? Come take a seat to see stories unfold in ways that matter to us all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Book Discussion | How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America


#1 New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith examines the legacy of American slavery in this presentation of his latest book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists Featuring: Pablo Munoz Ponzo, Audre Wirtanen, jaamil olawale kosoko, Levi Gonzalez
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | How Did a Baptist Minister Come to Own Hundreds of Edward Hoppers? (online)


Art historian, biographer, curator, and artist Gail Levin, widely acknowledged as the expert on husband and wife artists Edward and Jo Hopper, will be interviewed regarding the controversy over the Whitney Museum use of Hopper materials provided by the Rev. Arthayer R. Sanborn family. Levin will be interviewed by Douglas I. Sheer regarding her accusations against the Whitney Museum and its director, Adam D. Weinberg, for what she describes as a scandalous misrepresentation of the Sanborn portion of the Hopper estate, which makes up part of the Edward Hopper exhibition currently on view at the museum through early March. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Animal Magnetism: 18th-Century Farce on Men Controlling Women's Bodies (online thru Jan. 29)


Elizabeth Inchbald’s 18th-century farce is a brilliant riff on the art of performance and a hilarious and all too relevant takedown of some men’s insistence that they own and control women’s bodies. The Doctor - a quack - keeps his beautiful young ward, Constance, under lock and key, and is determined to force her into marrying him. But Constance is determined to get free and the Marquis, who loves her, offers an escape route. When Le Fleur, the Marquis's servant, arrives at the house under the guise of an expert in mesmerism, the scene is set for the Doctor to get his comeuppance. Presented by the Red Bull Theater.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Tactus: Contemporary Chamber Music (In Person and Online)


Margaret Kampmeier, Artistic Director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Violin Works by Mozart, Robert Schumann, and More (In Person and Online)


Ria Honda, Violin. Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Violin Sonata No. 22 in A Major, K. 305 Rodion Shchedrin (1932 - ) Gypsy Melody Eugene Ysaye (1858 - 1931) Caprice d'apres l'etude en forme de valse de Saint-Saens Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Classical Music | Works By French Composers Performed by String Ensemble


Granted the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2018, the "astonishing" Calidore Quartet (LA Times) plays with "the kind of sublimity [for which] other quartets spend a lifetime searching." For this performance they'll be joined by charismatic harpist Bridget Kibbey ("blazing power and finesse", NY Times), for a captivating program of French works. Calidore String Quartet: Jeffrey Mays, violin; Ryan Meehan, violin; Jeremy Berry, viola; Estelle Choi, cello; Bridget Kibbey, harp. Program: Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) Danses Sacree et Profane; Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) String Quartet; Andre Caplet (1878 - 1925) The Mask of the Red Death. Attendees MUST arrive 10 minutes before event begins AT THE LATEST.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Musical | Interactive Musical Comedy in an Off-Broadway Theater


A crew of everyday people leave normal jobs and families to live as pirates. Setting off to find the hidden treasure left behind by Captain Toothy, a pirate famous for pirating DVDs in the early 2000s, (and shutting down Blockbuster Video stores worldwide) the crew encounters a wild series of events, and ends up learning a little something along the way. With Book & Lyrics by Brayden Martino, and Music by John-William Gambrell, Toothy’s Treasure is a boisterous interactive theatrical experience that brings fresh life to the New York stage.  Dir. Brayden Martino With Anneke Angstadt, Jordan William McKinney, Cait Winston, Chloe Gardner, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by J.S. Bach, Brahms, and More for Double Bass (In Person and Online)


Nina Bernat, Double Bass. Program: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 Libby Larsen (1950 - ) Up, Where the Air Gets Thin Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 38 Leo Delibes (1836 - 1891) Flower Duet from Lakmé
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Chopin and More at a Landmark Venue

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