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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 15, 2022?

25 free events take place on Friday, July 15 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 15 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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25 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, July 15, 2022

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Early-to-Mid-1900s American Music
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Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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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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Film | Shrek Forever After (2010): Shrek's Adventures Continue


In the fourth installment of the animated franchise, Shrek must win back his wife and save his friends after he's catapulted into an alternate version of Far Far Away where ogres are hunted and Rumpelstiltskin rules the land. Director: Mike Mitchell Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, and Julie Andrews Wireless listening device are needed to hear the film. Rating (PG) Runtime: 93 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Festival | Harlem Bazaar


A monthly series in the heart of Uptown NYC. It brings artists, merchants, creators, inventors, designers, and visionaries together in one space where they can share the goodness with the thriving community and anyone from the greater New York area that wants to soak in the cool. Expect the most banging flavors, the hottest merchandise, incredibly crafted items, dope art, fresh designs, and much more. This largest arts and culture fair in uptown aims to give female, POC, LGBTQIA, and immigrant vendors an opportunity to showcase their chops.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 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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City Walk | Business Core Walking Tour


This tour covers the middle zone of the commercial core with its 1980s skyscrapers of the original World Financial Center by architect Cesar Pelli, as well as the expansive North Cove Marina and its public realm. This walk investigates how the planning concept of public-private partnership was both the principle and economic engine of the Battery Park City project and how the goal of opening the waterfront to public access and recreation was realized over three decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Early-to-Mid-1900s American Music


The Dennis Lichtman Duo performs early to mid-1900s American music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | 2 Art Books: River’s Dream / Contact High


River’s Dream is Curran Hatleberg’s complete realization of the series exhibited at the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Hatleberg is known for traveling America, guided by intuition, to create scenes of American life and landscape. Working collaboratively with the people he meets, he recounts intimate stories of family and community. Here, Hatleberg centers his narrative on the dog days of summer. Sweltering heat, dripping humidity, lush vegetation, and screaming insects– River’s Dream is a pulsing and episodic hallucination of life lived outdoors. In these sixty-five photographs, we move through swamps and groves, front yards and junkyards, encountering moments of haunting mystery and beautiful impermanence. Heightened by formal repetition, echo, and refrain, everyday scenes take on surreal, allegorical qualities. In the end, Hatleberg leaves us with the impression of memory, where the past is never gone, but appears and reappears endlessly, as in the flickering of a dream. Contact High by D’Angelo Lovell Williams offers an expansive engagement with the visualization of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives, picturing them as sitters, lovers, caregivers, or shadows. Williams’s work is guided by their life experience and an interrogation of their own perspective, as well as wider questions around the representation of race, class, sexuality, gender, and intimacy. The title Contact High references the importance of touch and gesture in Williams‘s work, and alludes to heightened senses and intuitive movement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Francine Hsu Davis: Past, Present, Future


A solo exhibition of recent work by Francine Hsu Davis whose large-scale oil paintings emerged during the pandemic. In her recent work, Francine captures the rawness of the reality during lockdown and quarantine by peeling back the layers unlike in her heavily layered older paintings. From isolation to over-saturated togetherness, Francine’s experience of lockdown is portrayed through the fibers of her painting brushes and the verticality of motion, which is the artist’s translation of increased family members’ hair grooming needs. As a whole, the repetition of the pandemic routine along with abrupt disruptions emanate through gestures onto the canvas. Rooted in the exploration of culture and place, the marks she made are the ones that are “underneath” this moment in time. With each series of paintings, Francine works to catalog a certain cultural experience, whether it represents a specific time or place, a familiar color palette, or energy of movement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Bone That Sings Was Mine: Nine Artists


This show presents nine artists whose work is deeply rooted in the body, transmogrifying bones and flesh. The Bone That Sings Was Mine takes it’s name from a dissident poem by Lisel Mueller which broaches the question - who was I and what will I leave behind? The idiosyncratic, discordant and confusing experience of having a body and attempting to navigate the world is all preamble to this striving. We learn to tell stories, sing songs, make pictures and objects, and hope they capture the tone, the mood and the indescribable mixture of feelings we feel because we hope it will connect us to our fellows in this life. Likewise, we want to be known to each other, even after death.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Harlem Moves Dance


The world-renowned Limón Company dancers as they teach the energetic and ease-filled Limón Technique, accompanied by live music. No experience necessary; class is open to all levels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942): Oscar-Nominated Drama


The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. Directors: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello 88 min. Tickets available on a walk-up basis at day of the film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Dancing | Silent Disco: Afrobeat


Get on your feet and groove to the beat as Afrobeat's rhythmic log-drum driven baselines mesh with the soulful piano melodies of Amapiano. Top mixers DJ Mohogany, AQ, and Sydney Love grace the event with their expert selections. An all-night silent disco, this African music dance party is for all ages and everyone, including those looking for a sensory friendly event. Need a refresher on moves? Join us earlier in the evening for an Amapiano dance instruction led by Lindiwe Rose. Dance floor opens at 6:00 pm Dance lesson at 6:30 pm Silent Disco at 7:30 pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

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
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Meditation 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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Workshop | Sunset Jam on the River


Rhythm and grooves fill the air at this Friday evening program. Follow the lead of professional drummers as they guide you through the pulsating beats of traditional African drumming techniques and methods. Drums provided, dancing welcome!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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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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Concert | CANCELED***Sunset Concert on the River***CANCELED


The sounds of summer brought right to the park with established and emerging NYC-based artists across a wide range of genres. There's no better way to kick off the weekend than with an evening of spectacular live music and signature sunsets right on the riverfront. From brass to choral, bass and more - there is something for everyone. Featuring: Neffy
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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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
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Concert | Enchanting Blend of Jazz, Folk and Musical Humor


The platinum-selling Squirrel Nut Zippers never fail to get feet moving with their irresistible blend of hot jazz, swing-revival playfulness, folk storytelling, and off-kilter musical wit. Their latest album, Lost Songs of Doc Souchon, is "inspired by all of the mysterious characters from the history of New Orleans jazz music," says bandleader Jimbo Mathus. Exploring this universally beloved music while embracing the personable figures who give it such character is, in a nutshell, what makes this ensemble such a vital force and ongoing audience favorite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Les Ballet Afrik: Vogue, Afrobeat, Modern Dance and More


Founded by the late Taiwanese-American Na Ni Chen, cross-cultural Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company brings unique movement and choreographic styles that bridge the grace and splendor of the Chinese cultural tradition with New York's modern dance spirit. Sharing the evening is the ALL ARTS' "Past, Present, Future" festival which partners with choreographers and filmmakers to explore what past, present, and future mean to them and their work. This installation will feature Les Ballet Afrik, founded and led by Omari Wiles, a legend within the ballroom community, whose mission is to represent dance styles from Africa and the United States, with an emphasis on West African, Afrobeat, House, and Vogue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Jazz | One of New York's Best Jazz Pianists


In a jazz world brimming with brilliant and adventurous pianists, Marc Cary stands apart by way of pedigree and design as one of New York's best jazz pianists. None of his prestigious peer group ever set the groove behind the drums in Washington DC go-go bands nor are any others graduates of both Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln's daunting bandstand academies. Cary hails from a musically literate family--his mother is a cellist; his great grandmother was an ivory-tickler in silent movie houses back in that day who also rocked barrelhouse and stride duets with Eubie Blake. Ellington trumpeter Cootie Williams was a cousin of Cary's grandfather.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 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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Movie in a Park | The Class (2008): Students Challenge Teacher


Francois and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in Paris. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement and difficulties in the classroom stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Neither stuffy nor severe, Francois' extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics and his resolve are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods... Directed by Laurent Cantet With Francois Begaudeau, Louise Grinberg, Esmeralda Ouertani 128 min. In French with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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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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Play | Drama with Broadway Actors

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Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue

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