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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 18, 2023?

28 free events take place on Sunday, June 18 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 June 18 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 June . 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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28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, June 18, 2023

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Historic Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour
free events nyc Egg Rolls, Egg Creams, and Empanadas Street Festival
free events nyc Dudu Fisher in Concert for Israel's 75th (online)
free events nyc To a Garden Luxuriously Verdant (Enameled with Countless Flowerings): A Juneteenth Celebration with Poetry, Dance and Music
free events nyc Richard III: Shakespeare Outdoors
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Workshop | Tai Chi Sunday


Silvana Pizzuti leads tai chi, a slow moving martial art with health benefits for all fitness levels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Birdwatching | Let's Go Birding Together


Celebrate Pride Month with NYC Audubon on our Let's Go Birding Together (aka "LGBT") bird outing. This event in the park welcomes members of the queer community and allies alike. Anyone who is interested in discovering and enjoying the birds of NYC, regardless of experience level, is encouraged to join. Explore the park's Lake, Ramble, and Turtle Pond in search of songbirds, raptors, waterfowl, and whatever other surprises might show up to greet us. The group will meet at the park entrance on
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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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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Festival | Juneteenth Celebration in the Park


A family-friendly celebration of Black wellness through dance, music, art-making, comedy, self-care, and more. Seneca Village provides a compelling setting to explore the widespread and longstanding connections Black New Yorkers have with wellness and nature. This Juneteenth weekend, celebrate these traditions with us in Seneca Village's landscape as we tap into the longstanding power of Black wellness practices to rejuvenate our mind, body, and spirit. Imagine how Seneca Village's residents might have utilized this very land to cultivate wellbeing through art-making with The Studio Museum in Harlem, Sugar Hill Children's Museum, and Shanequa Benitez; self-care and movement with Harlem Yoga Studio, Asase Yaa, and Emotions Physical Theatre; contemplative reflection with music from Mother Zion Church and jazz virtuosos IAMKHEMESTRY; and laughter from renowned comedians Seaton Smith, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Ethan Simmons-Patterson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Brooklyn Waterfront Walk


Docents leads a tour to learn about the history of the Brooklyn waterfront, the park's's sustainable design, and how the park came to life. Wear comfortable shoes, as these tours traverse the beautiful park landscape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Historic Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour


Join a professional guide on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City's most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse, and the famous Flatiron Building. Rain or shine. Every Sunday at 11 am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Tree Wonder: Draw Manhattan's Oldest Tree


A gathering to wonder and draw the English Elm, the oldest tree in Manhattan. Sundays, April 30-June 25, 2023
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Festival | Egg Rolls, Egg Creams, and Empanadas Street Festival


Embrace the spirit of New York's Lower East Side and Chinatown through music, dance, foodways, and more. The annual festival is a celebration of the diverse traditions that give the Lower East Side and Chinatown its identity. Enjoy a day filled with a medley of Jewish, Chinese, and Puerto Rican tastes, sights, sounds, and crafts for folks of all ages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Kayaking in the Park


Glide along the water this summer and fall! Kayaking is offered throughout the summer. All levels are welcome including first-time kayakers – life vests and all equipment provided, as well as instruction. Children under 18 must have an adult guardian present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Hike | Nature Meditation Hike


Urban Park Ranger hiking guides will introduce you to the hidden gems of New York City and places often off-limits to the general public. On our hikes, you can learn new things, or just take time to unplug from the world. Take a stroll through Crotona Park and immerse yourself in tranquility. This hike will take you through some quiet areas inside the park and allow the participant to disconnect from stress and clear their mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Hike | Tree ID Hike


Trees have a special place in our environment. The Urban Park Rangers will be leading a hike to help you learn how to identify native and non-native species of trees that call our city home.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Festival | 2nd Annual Juneteenth Arts Festival


There will be local artists exhibiting their art, including poetry readings and acoustic music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Dudu Fisher in Concert for Israel's 75th (online)


Singing in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, internationally renowned Dudu Fisher will perform Israeli songs, Yiddish songs, and musical numbers, including "Adon Olam," "My Yiddishe Momme," "Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)," and more. Fisher is an artist of film, television, stage, and song, whose career spans over five decades in venues worldwide. The child of Holocaust survivors, Dudu Fisher is widely known for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables on Broadway. Fisher has performed with many of Israel's leading artists. Baltic Truth, Fisher's Holocaust documentary, was released on April 21, 2023. He currently stars in the Netflix series Rough Diamonds. Fisher has released over 25 albums, with songs in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. In 2020, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Authority for Yiddish Culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Organ Works by J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and More at a Beautiful Church


Anthony Rispo, organ. Program J.S. Bach (1685-1750), “Little” Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 Mendelssohn (1809-1847), from Sonata No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 65,  3. Allegretto and 4. Allegro maestoso e vivace Louis Vierne (1870-1937), from 24 Pièces en style libre, Op. 31, 14. Scherzetto César Franck (1848-1890), from Trois Chorals pour Orgue, 1. Choral in E Major
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Dance Performance | duel c: Outdoor Dance Performance


duel c has a relationship to Charles Gaines’ piece Moving Chains, a public sculpture on the island. duel c is a performance where care and violence commingle, stirring toward undoing. A dance of entanglement, duel c aims to inhabit an illogic, sentience, and perpetual movement that isn’t funded by empathy, guilt, nor the labor of the captive.   Created and Performed with Ley Gambucci Dramaturgy by Elaine Carberry
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Jazz | Acoustic Jazz Music in the Garden


Cheryl Pyle and the Beyond Flute group will be performing acoustic jazz music. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Live Music in the Garden


Featured musicians: Beccs Peter Baldwin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Jazz and Classical Works by Saint-Saens and More


MAP Chamber Orchestra & MAP Jazz Ensemble will perform Saint-Saens' (1835-1921) Carnival of the Animals, Cherokee by Ray Noble (1903-1978), Short Story by Kenny Dorham (1924-1972), and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:30 pm
Free

Jazz | Haitian Jazz in a Garden


Featuring Eddy Bourjolly, Gashford Guillaume, and Mozayik
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Let's Dance


Learn to dance like a pro at these Salsa, Cha-Cha, and Bachata lessons and group social dances led by master teachers from the Piel Canela Dance and Music School and featuring DJ Ray Colon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Play | The Lady of the Camellias: Tragic Love Story of a Courtesan and a Young Bourgeois


A new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's story combines dialogue from Dumas’ novel (considerably different from Dumas’s stage play) with text and structural concepts from the libretto of the opera “La Traviata.” The fully-realized production is performed inside the open-air walls of the venue. Set in mid-19th century France, a courtesan suffering from consumption named Marguerite (and nicknamed “The Lady of the Camellias" because she wears a red camellia when she is indisposed, and a white camellia when she is available to her lovers), and Armand, a young bourgeois, fall in love. After Armand convinces her to leave her courtesan life to live with him in the countryside, their plan is interrupted by Armand's father Georges Duval who is concerned with the scandal created by the illicit relationship that will destroy his son’s future. Marguerite agrees to sacrifice herself for Armand’s family and leaves him. When Armand shows up at her deathbed thinking she left him for another man, he pledges to love her even after her death.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Play | Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: Classic Farce


Oscar Wilde's farcical comedy is a classic favorite and a gorgeous period piece set at the country seaside.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Video | Beaut: Her Blood Ran Cold (The Silent Lizards) (online thru Jul 9)


An online video premiere. Concept, script, lizard sightings and drawings by Marti Wilkerson to accompany the photographs in her exhibition and originally performed live by Beaut on October 9, 2022. Vocals and Lyrics: Marti Wilkerson Guitar: Paul Twinkle Technical Director and Video Editor: Itziar Barrio Cameras: Isaiah Davis, John Brattin, Itziar Barrio Lighting Design: Marti Wilkerson DMX Programming: Kai Sundermann WILDBLUR Master Audio Recording: Adam Wolcott Smith Production Manager: Marbles Producer: Lia Gangitano After Dark Director: Itziar Barrio After Dark Technical Associate: Caroline Mills
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Play | Richard III: Shakespeare Outdoors


Richard III may be Shakespeare's evilest character... See an ensemble of seven female and gender-fluid performers tackle his rise to power in a story filled with familial manipulation, egregious murder, and political deceit. Featuring Delaney Feener--a performer with a disability--as Richard. Audience members physically follow the actors from place to place throughout our Central Park venue, entering the world of the play and becoming mobile participants in the story unfolding around them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | Ficciones: Concerto for Electric Violin and Orchestra (online thru Sep. 1)


Ficciones is an immersive concert film experience featuring Roberto Sierra's newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin and Orchestra, which presents a mixture of Sierra's Latin-influenced ideas and modern compositional techniques through the voice of electric violinist Tracy Silverman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | To a Garden Luxuriously Verdant (Enameled with Countless Flowerings): A Juneteenth Celebration with Poetry, Dance and Music


A site-specific evening-long multicultural performance commemorating Juneteenth. Curated, conceptualized, and executed by the singular creative force that is Carl Hancock Rux, To a Garden Luxuriously Verdant (Enameled with Countless Flowerings) is a multi-genre, experiential celebration of the fight for a more free America on the eve of the 158th anniversary of Juneteenth Independence Day. This year's work, inspired by the eponymous verse by Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camoes and Harriet Tubman's self-described recurring dream, embraces the transformative intensity and power of both color and nature. Rux's performance, featuring guest appearances by Alicia Hall Moran, Aaron Diehl, Martha Redbone, Morley and Chris Bruce, and Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber with special guests Vernon Reid & DJ Logic, will be presented amidst awnings of flowers across the space and a wave of petals atop the Hearst Plaza pool; and the audience will witness modern dance by Ronald K. Brown's EVIDENCE. The concert will blend traditional spiritual songs, European opera, and Scottish folk songs in an exploration of salvation through floral rapture. Costumes, visual art and production design for this event are courtesy of the acclaimed installation artist Dianne Smith, with hair and makeup by Bernard Giles. Followed by a silent disco at 9:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Play | Hamlet: A Riveting, Present-Day Take on Shakespeare


Director Kenny Leon commands the stage with a nine-week, tour-de-force production of the Bard’s masterpiece, a riveting, contemporary present-day take on Shakespeare’s classic tale of family and betrayal, as enduring as the stars above the park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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