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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 23, 2019?

25 free events take place on Saturday, March 23 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 March 23 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 March . 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 Saturday, March 23, 2019

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free events nyc Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today
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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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Gallery Talk | T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the 20th century, T.C. Cannon embodied the activism, cultural transition and creative expression that defined America in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn how Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary. Start times: 10 a.m., 11 a.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Discussion | Discussion On American Women Artists Working Before 1945 


American women artists working before 1945 had to navigate societal expectations of women’s domestic roles with their drive to be  professionals. These artists often faced difficult choices–-sacrificing in their personal lives or in their careers. Despite evident talent and success, most fell into obscurity with their death. In this interactive session, you can discover and closely examine works by women artists who collectively paint a picture of a changing America. Host Rena Tobey’s greatest passion is making art accessible, invigorating, insightful, and fun. She taught art history at Connecticut State University. Now, she teaches at the 92nd Street Y, conducts lively tours of museum collections, and provides talks on American art for community organizations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Yoga For Beginners


In this session you will learn simple but powerful yoga postures to balance and stabilize your system.  No prior experience with yoga is necessary. Yoga Can relieve chronic ailments. Can relieve back pain, stress, anxiety and tension. Strengthens the spins. Takes only 5-10 minutes to practice daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Garden


Judy Fox pioneered painted figuration in the 1980’s, transposing iconic images from various cultures into finely rendered body portraits. Her nudes in mythological poses and period coiffure probed the complex relationship between individuals and the roles they play.  Ethnically specific body portraits, they diversified the concept of ideal character and beauty.  Her approach to human imagery has remained consistent even as shifts in culture and politics provoke new readings of her work. Since the 2007 grouping “Snow White and the 7 Sins”, thematic installations have included surrealist creatures, in order to probe the depths of a subject in both a biological and psychological sense.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Staged Reading | Instant Shakespeare: The Two Gentleman of Verona


The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and motifs with which he would later deal in more detail; for example, it is the first of his plays in which a heroine dresses as a boy. The Instant Shakespeare readings are set up to make Shakespeare accessible. The readings are usually without rehearsal, but they are on-your-feet instant staged readings where the actors move around as much as they feel comfortable.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn All About The Mutual Funds


Learn about mutual funds and how they can help you create a professionally managed, diversified portfolio, as well as specific attributes to consider when shopping for a mutual fund. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will be explored as well: how they resemble mutual funds and how they are different. Also the newer, smart Beta ETFs and the changing ETF landscape will be discussed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Film | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018): An Intimate Look At America's Favorite TV Host


Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." 94 min. Director: Morgan Neville. Starring: Joanne Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Bianculli. The movie has grossed $22 million, making it the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | A Simple Favor (2018): Comedy Drama Based On A Novel


Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate. 117 min. Director: Paul Feig. Starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding. The movie is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell. As of January 6, 2019, A Simple Favor has grossed $53.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $43.5 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $97.1 million, against a production budget of $20 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018): Sixth Of The Series Starring Tom Cruise


Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. 147 min. Director: Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames. It is the sixth instalment in the Mission: Impossible film series, and the second film to be directed by McQuarrie following the 2015 film Rogue Nation. Mission: Impossible - Fallout was a box office success, grossing $791 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2018, Cruise's highest-grossing film to date, and the highest-grossing film in the franchise, surpassing Ghost Protocol. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Art Talk With Visual Artists


Conversation with Constantina Zavitsanos and Hannah Black. Hannah Black is a conceptual visual artist and writer. Her work spans video, text and performance and draws on communist, feminist, and afropessimist theory, autobiographical fragments, and pop music Hannah Black’s video installation, Beginning, End, None, takes the cell, the building block of all living organisms, as its starting point. Questioning the classic analogy of the cell as “factory,” Black explores the ideological aura of this comparison, which implicitly naturalizes the factory and commodifies the cell. Using found, personal, and laboratory footage, Black explores the leakiness of metaphoric and real transmissions between concepts of biology and society. Constantina Zavitsanos is a conceptual feminist artist. Her works are organized around themes of planning, contingency, debt, dependency and care. Zavitsanos is a part of disability community as a care provider and recipient. She is a recipient of the 2015 Wynn Newhouse Award presented to disabled artists. At The New Museum between March and September 2015, she curated a series of collaborative events with artists Reina Gossett, Park McArthur, Caroline Key, and Soyoung Yoon, and academics Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Denise Ferreira da Silva.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Artist Talk: Dire Jank


Artist Tabitha Nikolai makes mutant artifacts from cosplay, video games, and suburban occult--fragile teen rites to summon, after years of heartache, herself. In an informal artist talk, Nikolai will endeavor to address the ineffability in her piece "Ineffable Glossolalia" which is as part of the exhibition, Dire Jank.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Creative Writing Class


Attendees will discover the value of their own stories. Registration is required. Participants are requested to commit to attending all sessions if possible.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today


Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, and Truman Capote are just a few of the thousands of accomplished artists, writers, radicals, and performers who made their way through Greenwich Village. This tour, primarily focusing on the 1950s onward, visits the hangouts that have defined legendary people and the spirit of this iconic neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money (1986): Oscar Winning Drama Starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise


Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback. 119 min. Director: Martin Scorsese. Starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. The movie also has three Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Art Direction (Set Decoration), Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: The Map and the Territory


The concept of representation has intrigued many great thinkers. Artists, too, have long investigated the real and representational in their work. The Map and the Territory—Tony Ingrisano’s third solo exhibition with the gallery—explores the relationships of these arrangements and focuses on this disconnect between reality and representation.   Most maps prioritize readability at the expense of accuracy; perspective drawings offer a framework for creating an illusion of reality but get erased as the drawing advances. They tell us as much about how we imagine a place as they do about the geography they are meant to describe. Encoded into them are a culture’s preconceptions, the fraught perceptual distortions of a location within the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Classical Music | Mendelssohn, With Words And Without: Adventures On String


The New York Classical Players continue the Library for the Performing Arts’ Felix Mendelssohn celebration! See a display of Mendelssohn’s hand-written letters before enjoying performances and enjoy recitations of Mendelssohn’s tender correspondence to family and friends, plus a mid-concert conversation with the performers. Program Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 Mendelssohn Variations Concertantes Mendelssohn String Quartet Op. 80. The New York Classical Players Members Soyeon Park piano, Harriet Langley violin, Amelia Dietrich violin, Jordan Bak viola, Madeline Fayette cello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Stained Glass Cliff


A new series of paintings by Jackie Gendel. Casting a sense of peril and irony upon Gendel’s occasional play with planar and divisionist models of painting, the exhibition's title refers to “glass cliff.” The term, coined in 2005 by British professors Michelle K. Ryan and Alexander Haslam, describes a common practice in which women are only promoted to positions of power in times of crisis and risk. Gendel’s usage charges the expression, suggesting an invisible precipice that mirrors the angularity, transparency, and fragmentary quality found in many of her paintings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Bottle Painting


On recycled bottles students will learn to draw and transfer their image to glass. This mixed media bottle painting class will focus on basic painting technique, the use of space and dimension, shapes and patterns, and visual storytelling. This time students will be specifically taught how to paint a Birch Tree Trunk on paper and then transfer it to glass. At the end of the course there will be an exhibit to celebrate the students' works of self-expression. Please note that students should bring their own recycled bottle for this workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Carnegie Hall Citywide: works for mezzo-soprano and piano


Mezzo-soprano Siena Licht Miller’s versatile operatic career—she has sung roles by John Adams, Britten, Ravel, Mozart, and Puccini—is coupled with noteworthy performances on concert and recital stages. A 2016 Marilyn Horne Rubin Scholar, she has sung in master classes led by Ms. Horne, Renée Fleming, and Plácido Domingo. She is joined by Cameron Richardson-Eames, an award-winning chamber musician and collaborative pianist who has accompanied master classes led by such singers as Dame Felicity Lott and Dame Sarah Connolly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Grammy Nominated Composer And More


An afternoon of great 20th and 21st century music for strings, featuring music by Michael Torke, Anna Clyne, Benjamin Britten and Erich Korngold. Featuring:  Strings of the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra; Chris Whittaker, conductor. About the Program The music of Michael Torke has been called "some of the most optimistic, joyful and thoroughly uplifting music to appear in recent years" (Gramophone). Hailed as a "vitally inventive composer" (Financial Times) and "a master orchestrator whose shimmering timbral palette makes him the Ravel of his generation" (New York Times), Torke has created a substantial body of works in virtually every genre. Anna Clyne is a Grammy-nominated composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Described as a "composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods" in a New York Times profile and as "dazzlingly inventive" by Time Out New York, Clyne’s work often includes collaborations with cutting-edge choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, and musicians worldwide. Benjamin Britten’s importance in post-War British cultural life was enhanced by his founding of the English Opera Group in 1946 and the Aldeburgh Festival two years later. His career as a composer was matched by his outstanding ability as a performer: he was both a refined pianist and a spontaneous and fluent conductor – his Mozart was particularly highly esteemed. Erich Korngold’s music theatre works made him the most popularly performed German-speaking opera composer between 1910 and the 1930s alongside Richard Strauss. The opera Die tote Stadt (1916-1919) today continues to be included in the regular music theatre repertoire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Afternoon Organ Meditations


Diverse programs of music celebrating the great repertoire of the organ. Takes place every Saturday and Sunday from September 9, 2018 to May 26, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | World of One: Surreal Self-Portraiture


World of One is a surreal and cinematic exploration of how identity is developed through self-portraiture. By juxtaposing actions within the same frame, Tang welcomes us to question our thoughts, actions and emotions that truly define us. Is it our habits, the things we do subconsciously? Or is it our spectacular one offs, such as the one time we were brave? Or is it that one time we were not? Johnny Tang is an emerging fine art photographer who has exhibited domestically and internationally in cities such as: New York, Miami, Seoul and Hong Kong. Tang describes his working process as “the balancing between eye candy and mind candy.” Adding that, “Just as we use photography in science to better understand our physical world, I use photography to better understand our emotional one.”  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: A Discussion Among Writers


In the summer of 2018, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network invited writers from the US, Canada, Australia, France, and Indonesia to California to participate in a writing residency, foster the Vietnamese literary community, and stage a series of conversations. This spring, in New York, those conversations continue in front of a live audience. Featuring Amy Quan Barry, Matty Huynh, Violet Kupersmith, Thanhha Lai, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vu Tran, Monique Truong, and Ocean Vuong. Moderated by Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Mimi Khúc, and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | From the Capoeira and Bossa Nova to Jazz


Musician and actor, Carlos Dias has led a remarkably eclectic international career. He has appeared in many of Brazil’s highest-rated novelas (soap operas) and musical productions imported from Broadway; sung pop-jazz at top New York venues; worked as an acrobatic dancer; and recorded several CDs of dance music and American standards. In his performance “The living room”, Carlos Dias as a soloist, travels through his Brazilian roots from the Capoeira and Bossa Nova to Jazz. Playing his Berimbau, the pandeiro and the guitar, he talks about his music influences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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