34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 13, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
A think tank, designed to bring community, families, parents, and professionals together to address timely ...
more >> and pertinent areas of concern related to child welfare. Moderated by Aarin Michelle Williams, Senior Staff Attorney at National Advocates for Pregnant Women Panelists include: -Dinah Ortiz, Parent Advocate Supervisor at The Bronx Defender Services -Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance -Emma Ketteringham, Managing Attorney of the Family Defense Practice at The Bronx Defender Services
Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with ...
more >> Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility. Everybody is welcome, no previous knowledge of Yoga is necessary. Please bring a Yoga mat and possibly a blanket and a shawl.
9:30 am
free, no reservation required
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend ...
more >> 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 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Today, Gracie Mansion is occupied by the de Blasio family, which has opened its doors in the spirit of the administration's motto: one city, rising together. In keeping with that theme, Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray have introduced a new art installation, titled “Windows on the City: Looking Out at Gracie’s New York.” Tours take place at 10am, 11am, 2pm, and 3pm.
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Stars: Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo. A driven, idealistic defense attorney, finds himself ...
more >> in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a crisis and the necessity for extreme action. 122 min.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Mike Olbinski will present his inspirational story about taking a passion for storms and turning it into ...
more >> a photography business. He will follow that with some great, basic guidelines about photographing storms, lightning, and even some time-lapse tips thrown in the mix.
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
Introduces basic investment terms and concepts such as risk and reward, IPO’s, p/e ratios, and relative ...
more >> p/e ratios. Ways to approach the investment decision and alternative stock investments such as mutual funds and ETF’s are discussed.
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
This film explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, ...
more >> and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. 85 min.
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins. 1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want ...
more >> to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. 134 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Here’s your chance to experience the ballerina in each of us. Learn basic ballet steps and experience ...
more >> the joy of dancing in a class that combines ballet and exercise specifically for older adults. You’ll have fun as you dance and see for yourself the benefits of ballet for good balance, agility and grace. Wear comfortable clothes and be ready to have fun. Come for the whole month or just drop in. No experience necessary. About the instructor: Jennifer Grambs, trained in both ballet and exercise for older adults, will show you how ballet helps us feel fit, not only in class, but everyday as we travel the sidewalks of New York City.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Geri Allen, Jessie Bailey, Jane Ira Bloom . The untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists ...
more >> and their journeys from the late 1930's to the present day. 81 min.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
William D Loveless, French Horn 4:00PM John Noh, Tenor 6:00PM Manami Mizumoto, Violin 8:00PM Paul ...
more >> Frucht, Composition 8:00PM
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Economics professors Teresa Ghilarducci and Darrick Hamilton discuss two versions of a controversial ...
more >> solution to wealth and risk inequality – assets for the poor, middle class, and the dispossessed. Baby Bonds and Guaranteed Retirement Accounts are superficially financialization of welfare programs. However, they argue that wealth accounts – baby bonds and guaranteed retirement accounts – reduce risks to families of living in capitalism, redistribute risk, and promote productive lives.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Speaker Katherine Stewart's most recent book, The Good News Club, is about a range of initiatives by ...
more >> the Religious Right to infiltrate and undermine public education in the U.S. She writes about the growing influence of religious extremism in America’s politics, policy, and education.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 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
Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist who transformed the definition of art, especially the ...
more >> discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, and the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.
A conversation with Austrian artist Erwin Redl and author Lawrence Weschler. Moderated by Madison Square ...
more >> Park Conservancy Senior Curator Brooke Kamin Rapaport. Erwin Redl’s Whiteout is a magnificent public art project commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy and is on view in the park through March 25, 2018. The work is comprised of hundreds of transparent white spheres, each embedded with a discrete, white LED light and suspended from a square grid of steel poles and cabling. The orbs are opportunistic, gently swaying with the wind currents from their positions of one foot above the ground plane.
The 1960s were a turbulent time of foment and change. Foremost among the events of that decade that altered ...
more >> our cultural and social landscape was the Vietnam War. Author Sam Oglesby, reads from two of his books that dealt with his time in Vietnam reflecting on that experience which includes both tragic and funny events. His talk will be illustrated by gripping images of the war.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Some U.S. historians have become increasingly visible, vocal, and even radicalized in response to today’s ...
more >> political climate, the implications of U.S. Government policy shifts, and the decisions of their peers to speak out, or remain silent, on current affairs. What is the ethical and responsible role of historians in public discourse, particularly when “alternative facts” have become commonplace and history itself is called into question?
A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all ...
more >> stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. Featuring: Elizabeth Dashiell Morgan S Siegfriedt Bjorn Lee Varella
7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation
This is an introductory meditation classes were featured in New York Magazine’s top picks (4 stars). ...
more >> Each session is intended to stand alone, attendence at previous sessions is not required. Room is set up with both meditation floor mats and traditional western chairs with back support. No special clothing or equipment is necessary.
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, ...
more >> these nine Irish men and women not only became American but helped make our nation what it is today.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Pamela Paul is also the host of the weekly podcast, Inside The New York Times Book Review. She is the ...
more >> author of several books, including her memoir My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, which was described as an “absorbing, delightful amalgam” and “a paean to reading” by Meg Wolitzer.
In a lecture celebrating different forms of sequential storytelling, Tim Soter will discuss the connection ...
more >> between comic books, graphic novels and still photography. Fumetti, fotonovellas and fine art photographers who have incorporated writing with photography – these are all part of a thread that leads back to the hero comic books which influenced him the most as a child. Tim Soter is a NYC-based photographer/artist who is currently working on photo biographies and books which match pictures and text, often with a dry sense of humor.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
When two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi in 1990, law enforcement pursued ...
more >> and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in the state’s notorious Parchman Farm penitentiary before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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A program honoring Robert Martin featuring recent works for winds by the distinguished New York composer ...
more >> who celebrates his 65th birthday this season.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Amber Evans, contemporary voice 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Ruoting Li, piano 8:30 PM - ...
more >> 10:00 PM Wooyoung Yoon, tenor
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required