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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 14, 2022?

35 free events take place on Thursday, July 14 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 July 14 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 July . 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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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, July 14, 2022

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Tour | Garment District: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More


Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Pick Up Pickleball


An exciting fusion of badminton and tennis, pickleball has been proven to strengthen muscles, boost cardiovascular health, and enhance brain function. BPCA is proudly working with NYC Pickleball to offer beginner pickleball classes to the community. All equipment will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Financial Lit 101


Managing your money doesn’t have to be a mystery. Financial Lit 101 offers free workshops in basic finance topics that should have been taught in school, but wasn’t. Let instructors give you the basic tools you need to begin your journey to financial freedom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Lunchtime Jazz


Come down to the park for lunch and let the students from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music provide the soundtrack to your afternoon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Piano in the Park


New York City's finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists perform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Juggling in the City


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in Midtown Manhattan. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Yoga: Calm Your Mind and Body


Calm your mind and nervous system with a very beginner-friendly yoga class that focuses on therapeutic movements and simple yet powerful breathing techniques. Flexibility is not a prerequisite to joining the class. The only requirement is an open mind and willingness to try! Please bring your own yoga mat for this class. All participants must sign an Exercise Release Form prior to attendance. Instructor Siewli is a bodyworker who specializes in using embodied practices to help others feel more connected to their bodies, health, and well-being. She believes that movement and feeling good in our bodies is a birthright and that everyone should have the opportunity to explore and enhance their relationship with their bodies through movement, breath, touch, and stillness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2022 National Competition Winners


Featuring photographers Mercedes Jelinek and Sally Chapman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Mattias Sellden and Thaddeus Wolfe: Art, Craft, and Design


A joint solo exhibition of work from Mattias Sellden and Thaddeus Wolfe, two artists whose practices converge at the intersection of art, craft, and design. Working with ancient materials, Sellden and Wolfe each pair traditional process methods and radical, out-of-the-box approaches to create one-of-a-kind, angular, geometric forms that defy easy categorization. Embracing the happenstance irregularities of their chosen mediums—emphasized by an explorative and playful application of color that is layered and contrasted to either highlight or occlude form—both artists elevate their respective material beyond preconceived ideas of what form they should take. With no formal urgency to be pushed into any typological category, both artists’ work presents an opportunity to renegotiate value systems in the field.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Philip Akkerman: Decades of Self-Portraiture


A solo exhibition of paintings by Dutch artist Philip Akkerman, featuring selections from his decades-long project of self-portraiture. Although the works are comparable in their intimate scale, Akkerman’s variety of styles, colors, and compositions reveal the infinite possibility within his chosen genre.   Akkerman has exclusively been painting self-portraits since 1981. Confounded by the enigma of existence, he turned to self-portraiture as a means of comprehending. His inclination was validated by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who professed that existence demands examination, and that “the more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Public Private: Group Show


An exhibition of work by five MFA Art Practice students, curated by the program’s Director of Operations and faculty member Jacquelyn Strycker. Artists are tasked with simultaneously looking inward and outward, of translating and transforming seemingly personal experiences into something greater. In this exhibition, the artists—all members of the MFA Art Practice class of 2023—eloquently intertwine life and art, using private moments, inner monologues and identity as catalysts for creation. The private is broadcast, made public as a way to tap into a greater collective consciousness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Subway Art Legends: Group Show


A group exhibition featuring some of the most legendary subway artists coming together for a legendary show. Cope2, an icon of New York’s graffiti underground scene during the subway era of the late 1970s and early 1980s, curated this inspirational and timely summer group exhibition. This eclectic collection consists of predecessors and peers that rocked the trains that created a visceral iconic steel monster canvas that are forever captured in the books and narratives of recall the raw summer of that era of single slice pizza, Double Dutch games, and open fire hydrants on hot sizzling New York summer days.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Tom McFarland: MESH


A solo show by Brooklyn-based artist Tom McFarland, featuring his string paintings and his mesh works. McFarland's string paintings diagram the way thoughts interact with ideas and memories. Instead of canvas, the string material is wound around points on the stretcher bars. It crosses the surface of the painting, linking many thousands of points until the “canvas” is created.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Afro Dance Lesson


Enjoy a free outdoor dance class in the heart of Midtown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Bernd and Hilla Becher and the Photographic Afterlife of Heavy Industry


Artists Bernd and Hilla Becher focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their photographic typologies of industrial architecture can be seen as, among many other things, a memorial to places of modern industry and the monoliths it imposed on the landscape. Scholars and writers have a discussion about interpreting these photographs in the present day and how they might be perceived in the future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Caribbean Dance Fitness


A fun and exciting workout that uses easy to follow dance steps to maintain cardiovascular health. This class is created for all levels and you do not need any prior dance experience to participate!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dancing | Swing Dancing with Live Music


Celebrate Bastille Day with the NYC debut of France's Hot Sugar Band. Bringing endless energy and talent to the stage, their sound is a mix of Django Reinhardt big band works, John Kirby's sextet, and Duke Ellington classics. Armed with tunes from their new release Eleanora - the early years of Billie Holiday, be prepared to dance the night away. Dance floor opens at 6:00 pm Dance lesson at 6:30 pm Live music at 7:30 pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | Top Latina Guitarist and Grammy-Nominated Funk


Touted as one of the top Latina guitar players in the world, Eljuri is a genre-fusing artist that blends the sounds and rhythms of her life experiences into her song-writing and guitar playing. The infectious music and dazzling stage show of Grammy-nominated Cha Wa has been described as "funk with feathers" - a sound rooted in traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian music mixed with funk and soul, creating a non-stop groove machine. 6 PM - Susan Z. Anthony (DJ Set) 6:30 PM - Eljuri 7:30 PM - Cha Wa
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | By His Side: The Story of George Washington and His Enslaved Valet William Lee (in-person and online)


In this lecture, Jinny Berten will discuss the research behind her historical fiction novel By His Side, which considers the relationship between George Washington and William Lee, the last three days of Washington’s life, his changing views on slavery, and the concerns those enslaved at Mount Vernon had for Washington’s last will and testament.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Play | Emma: Jane Austen Adapted to 1950s Newport


Based on the novel by Jane Austen and adapted by Susane Lee, this production of Emma is set in 1950s Newport, Rhode Island in this new, comedic adaptation about a young, spoiled woman whose greatest amusement is playing matchmaker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Dancing | Everybody Tango!


Enjoy introductory Argentine Tango lessons, music, and dancing in the open air with Strictly Tango NYC. Lessons are held at 6:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. with social dance time between lessons. Thursdays, July 7 - 28, 2022
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Yoga on the River


From guided meditation and refreshing yoga to high-intensity workouts and weekly run clubs, there’s something for all skill levels to enjoy this summer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Fellowship Point: Women's Lives and Class Differences


Alice Elliott Dark's novel reads like a classic 19th-century novel in its beautifully woven, multilayered narrative, but it is entirely contemporary in the themes it explores; a deep and empathic interest in women’s lives, the class differences that divided us, the struggle to protect the natural world, and, above all, a reckoning with intimacy, history, and posterity. ..........................................
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Man­i­festos 4: The Dred and Har­ri­et Scott Deci­sion: Performance Art


Con­tin­u­ing Charles Gaines’s Man­i­festos series, and specif­i­cal­ly build­ing upon his Man­i­festos 4 com­po­si­tion with the cre­ation of a new vocal arrange­ment, this per­for­mance trans­forms the orig­i­nal text of the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred and Har­ri­et Scott his­toric deci­sion, which decreed that peo­ple of African ances­try were not U.S. cit­i­zens and there­fore could not sue for their right to free­dom. Fea­tur­ing a wood­wind quin­tet, piano and tenor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Peep: Primal, Magical Stories


Danielle Blau's debut collection invites you into a world so strange it is utterly familiar, a world from our ancient past that could also be the future--or a twisted version of the present. It is a mirror world where the husk of our culture shows starkly, and yet it is lit by joy, in the words, the verses themselves. Peep is uncanny, primal, magical, capturing hopelessness, gridlock, our impact on the environment and those around us, questioning progress and the language we use to speak to each other, each little peep a little life desperate to not pass unnoticed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Play | The Winter's Tale: Rarely Staged Shakespeare Drama


The Drilling Company returns with this unique offering or ourdoor Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale is a rarely-produced curiosity of the Shakespearean canon. Director Hamilton Clancy is re-envisioning the story of kings who are cruel without cause into a modern-ish tale of a highly dysfunctional dynasty in Manhattan and upstate New York. Clancy has couched the play in the modern world to reflect the tensions of our time. Jealous King Leontes, the play's central character, cannot accept truth that is self-evident and issues of probity and deception dominate the play, as in America today. Clancy asks, "What proof do you need to know something is a lie? And how easily will we accept a lie if it suits our expectations?" He asserts that the January 6 Committee's hearings made this aspect of the play impossible to ignore.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Titan of Tehran: Spotlight on Antisemitism (online)


Award-winning journalist Shahrzad Elghanayan talks with Robert Reid about her new book. Telling the story of Elghanayan's grandfather, Habib Elghanian -- a prominent Jewish businessman and philanthropist from Iran, and the first civilian executed during the 1979 revolution following trumped-up charges that he was a Zionist spy -- Titan of Tehran is a richly researched, personal chronicle of family, loss, and notions of belonging to a country as a Jew.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Video | Dance on Film: Vitruvian (online)


A solo performance by Jerron Herman, Vitruvian explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. This video work shares allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses multiple hemispheres.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$6

Performance | CANCELED***Behind the Scenes of Deaf Broadway (online)***CANCELED


Deaf Broadway actors and members of the creative team in an open rehearsal for their upcoming American Sign Language production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Learn how an ASL musical theater production comes to life. The open rehearsal will be followed by a town hall discussion with deaf youth interested in pursuing careers in the performing arts. The conversation will focus on how a production like this is put together, as well as how deaf theater professionals navigate a largely hearing theater industry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | The Queen of Traditional Colombian Music


Hailed as the Queen of the Bullerengue, a traditional musical genre and dance from the Caribbean Region of Colombia, Ceferina Banquez boasts an impressive musical career spanning decades. The singer-songwriter, who is now almost 85 years old, has toured around the globe to much acclaim, sharing the Afro-Colombian traditions of her region with the world through cumbia-based rhythms. This summer, Ceferina brings her determined lyrics, inspired by her 18-year experience of being displaced for one special night of drums and joy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Play | Richard III: Shakespeare Drama Outdoors


Tony Award nominee Robert O'Hara (Slave Play, The Public's Barbecue) brings his sharp wit and storytelling genius with a bold new production of Richard III. One of Shakespeare's most indelible villains, Richard is determined to be King. Following his lust for power and the throne, he manipulates, kidnaps, and kills all who stand between him and his throne, using brilliant words and dark charm to conceal his dismantling of government and justice. This masterful dive into the muddy middle between political genius and violent power grab arrives with piercing relevancy and electrifying drama.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Bomb Shelter Comedy Show


Bomb Shelter is a free weekly comedy show in New York City where you’ll find some of the best comedians performing. Expect free pizza.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Comedy Show Outdoors


Jonathan Randall is hosting a comedy show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Movie in a Park | The Bourne Identity (2002): Spy Thiller with Matt Damon


A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory. Director: Doug Liman Stars: Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper 119 min. Doors open at 6pm and the movie begins at sundown (around 8:30pm).
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free

Play | Twelfth Night: "Afrofuturistic" Take on the Shakespeare Classic


Shakespeare’s classic gets an “Afrofuturistic” makeover. This interpretation will engage with the global conversation around equity and inclusion. It features a majority-Black creative team including director Carl Cofield, Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Associate Artistic Director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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