42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 7, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for ...
more >> over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
Don't have enough time to take all of the tours? Prefer to experience Manhattan with a smaller group, ...
more >> but a private booking is out of reach? Then consider our All-in-One New York Tour. This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, the World Trade Center, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown, Little Italy, Chelsea Market and the Highline Park.
Risto-Matti Marin was the winner of the first prize in the Kuopio Piano Competition in 1996 and the Helmi ...
more >> Vesa Piano Competition in 1999, Marin was awarded the third prize in the Weimar International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in 2003. He has been soloist with the Kuopio Orchestra, The Weimar Staatskapelle, the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä and other orchestras. Risto-Matti Marin has released a number of highly acclaimed solo CDs.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
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The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier ...
more >> on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Public speaking is an essential skill in today's workplace and a valuable ability to have to further ...
more >> your endeavors in whatever you're doing. The Toastmasters present a continuing series held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, is led by experienced public speakers in a supportive environment. All materials for this workshop are provided and there is no need to joing the Toastmasters to attend.
12:15 pm
free, no reservation required
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The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ...
more >> choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
This program is intended for creative and relaxation purposes only. It’s early in the week and you ...
more >> are looking for something relaxing to do; and lucky for you, the library has just the thing to help you get through the rest week. Join a relaxing afternoon of art therapy, as you work together to create something beautiful.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Need help getting started with eBooks? Bring your laptop, eReader, tablet or smart phone to eBook Help ...
more >> Hour. Get assistance loading electronic library books on your Kindle, create your free Adobe ID, learn about 3M Cloud Library, and so much more. Make sure you bring your library card and any necessary access passwords for your devices so they can help you as quickly as possible.
Dr. Robert Goldfarb, Fellow, ASHA, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Adelphi University ...
more >> and Emeritus Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, has published extensively in the areas of adult aphasia, the language of dementia, and the language of schizophrenia, and is also co-author of two tests: The Stocker Probe for Fluency and Language (1995) and Time-Altered Word Association Tests (TAWAT, 2013).
1:45 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern. A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche ...
more >> neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love. 144 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
Talented students perform solo and chamber works at a concert supporting the center's Fund for Music ...
more >> Education, which ensures that talented children can access outstanding education programs, regardless of their financial means.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Yoshikuni Igarashi will discuss his recent publication, Homecomings (Columbia University Press, 2016), ...
more >> explaining how he uses the concept of belated return to question the postwar narrative of Japan’s swift recovery from the Asia Pacific War. To illustrate the book’s critical engagement with postwar Japan’s history, the talk examines the dramatic return of the soldiers who spent more than twenty-five years hiding in the South Pacific jungles.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Anthropologists go to “the field” to find knowledge. Historians go to the archive. Really? Of course, ...
more >> this simplistic dichotomy fails to capture the complexity of the research practices of anthropologists and historians, let alone interdisciplinary scholars. Still, what does the anthropologist do in the archive? (How) is that different from what historians do? Anthropologist and oral historian Amy Starecheski will use the research for Ours to Lose as a case study to explore these questions. Starecheski started her research with oral histories and papers archived at the Tamiment in the Squatters Rights Collection and she when she was done she archived all of the oral histories she conducted there. In this multimedia event, Starecheski will play some audio from the oral histories and share some key documents from the collection, showing how she put archival research and oral histories in conversation to make sense of one particularly dramatic story: that of how a group of squatters in five buildings on East 13th Street mobilized their labor and their history to make a precedent-setting adverse possession claim on their buildings in the mid-1990s.
Russia’s “hybrid war” against Ukraine caused more than a million refugees to flee from the Crimean ...
more >> peninsula and Donbas region. Artists were among them. While coping with the challenge of unbelonging to a new social environment with a failed state system unprepared to embrace them, some of the refugee artists used this situation to fuel their creativity and explore quite new and unusual forms of expression. Some examples include the Izolyatsia (Isolation) group evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, now occupied by Russia-backed fighters, who figured out a way to fight back by staging a mock occupation of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2015. Based on interviews with Ukrainian refugee artists, this lecture explores the change in their creative approaches caused by the experience of displacement and war. Speaker Nazar Kozak is a senior research scholar at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has also taught art history in the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. His current research focuses on post-Byzantine iconography and contemporary activist art. Presently, he is a Fulbright scholar in the Ukrainian Museum in New York.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn how to enhance photos using the number 1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. ...
more >> In this class you learn the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to manipulate images to your desire. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Leah Carroll launches her heart-wrenching memoir. She will be in conversation with Domenica Ruta, author ...
more >> of With or Without You.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Maddalena Fasano of the US Department of Labor discusses what you need to do and how to protect yourself ...
more >> and your dependents to make sure you have the level of health care coverage you need at every stage of your life.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling and Philippe Leroy. In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker ...
more >> Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to recreate their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime. 118 min.
Program: Steve Lehman New violin work (2017) world premiere Michael Hersch the weather and landscape ...
more >> are on our side (2016) Aaron Jay Kernis A Dance of Life (2010) Huang Ruo Four Fragments (2006) Aaron Jay Kernis Aria-Lament (1992) Miranda Cuckson returns with a solo concert. A favorite of audiences for her great range of repertoire and styles, she’s become one of the most sought after performers of contemporary music. Cuckson is passionate about the role of the performer/interpreter in the creative process, which she has proved at concert halls and festivals, galleries and informal spaces alike. Her Pop-Up Concert offers several new violin works by important contemporary voices, including a premiere by Steve Lehman. All concerts start at 6 p.m. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis, and doors open at 5:30 p.m. Performers Miranda Cuckson violin Repertoire
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The gallery is proud to present its annual Krappy Kamera exhibition, including the winners of the 2017 ...
more >> International Competition, a group show by gallery artists and a show of Anne Arden McDonald's dreamlike images. The Krappy Kamera Competition originated 19 years ago and is one of the gallery's high points of the year.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience ...
more >> of inner silence, calm, and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness—Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment .
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Claire of the Sea Light (a New York Times ...
more >> notable book); Brother, I’m Dying (a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist); Breath, Eyes, Memory (an Oprah Book Club selection); Krik? Krak!, (a National Book Award finalist); The Farming of Bones (an American Book Award winner); and her latest, The Dew Breaker, which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa ...
more >> J. Fuentes, author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with a runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of women’s punishments. In the process, she interrogates the archive to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women. Fuentes, Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and History at Rutgers University, will be in conversation with Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University.
Stars: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr. A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a busload of ...
more >> middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. 125 min.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Participants: *Jordi Guixé | Founder director of the European Observatory on Memories of the University ...
more >> of Barcelona. *Luis Martín Cabrera | Director of the Spanish Civil War Memory Project. University of California, San Diego.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Reverend Vivian Nixon will discuss the historic complexities of America’s systems of punishment and ...
more >> its links to race, class, gender, political suppression, and religion. It will then explore how access to higher education can not only deter crime and have rehabilitative impact, but also spark the kind of political and social awareness that leads to true freedom.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Participants: Justine Larbalestier is the author of eight novels. Her works include My Sister Rosa, ...
more >> Razorhurst, How to Ditch Your Fairy and The Magic or Madness. She edited a scholarly collection of feminist science fiction in the twentieth century, Daughters of Earth, and wrote a scholarly tome, The Battle of The Sexes in Science Fiction. Scott Westerfeld is the author of young adult books including The Uglies series, The Leviathan Trilogy, and the forthcoming graphic novel Spill Zone.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Organist David Ball, Christ Cathedral Organist and Assistant Director of Music, presents a thrilling ...
more >> solo recital on the Mighty Möller Pipe Organ.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Helene Cooper presents the harrowing, but triumphant ...
more >> story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the first democratically elected female president in African history.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This introductory meditation class was featured as a New York Magazine top pick. Room is set up with ...
more >> both meditation floor mats and traditional western chairs with back support. No special clothing or equipment is necessary.
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Années folles, ...
more >> when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them—one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Join Mary McAuliffe and David Garrard Lowe as they delve into a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This monthly show is curated and co-hosted by author/storyteller Michele Carlo. This month's theme is ...
more >> PARANORMAL (V7.0) - stories that are paranormal, metaphysical, freaky deaky, out-of-this-world or just plain out there.
7:00 pm
Free, donations welcome
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Award-winning WABC-TV morning news anchor Lori Stokes represents her late father U.S. Congressman Louis ...
more >> Stokes in the presentation of his autobiography. She will be in conversation with her brother Detroit TV news executive Chuck Stokes. The Gentleman from Ohio chronicles Louis Stokes' life, from his boyhood in Cleveland's projects to his 30-year career in Congress.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required