23 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, March 7, 2020
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> 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
In this symposium, poets will explore the symbol of water, and its many ramifications in their lives. ...
more >> Water, both ephemeral and timeless, carries with it its own history. It connects us to our ancestors and to our future. Most importantly, it is a form that is intrinsically connected to poetry, with poetry’s watery and associative, fluid, electrified, and occult properties. During this daylong event, we will consider: What is a poetry of water? What does a world look like without water? How can poets save the planet? With: Jordan Abel, Abigail Chabitnoy, CAConrad, Timothy Donnelly, Matthea Harvey, Douglas Kearney, Luna Miguel, Shane McCrae, Celina Su, Cecilia Pavon, Phillip B. Williams, and Lynn Xu.
New York City, NY; NYC
This meetup is designed to help anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art. ...
more >> Themes can provide an effective structure for engaging with art. Meetup participants receive a pass to MoMA to continue the conversation in MoMA’s galleries. This event takes place every other Saturday from 12:30 to 2:00 pm.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Drop-by and explore activities led-by teaching artists. Today’s session focuses on basic figure drawing. ...
more >> Sessions repeat every thirty minutes from 12:30-2:30pm. All are welcome and materials are provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
You can prepare and file your tax return electronically with some help from a tax assistant...all for ...
more >> free. To participate in this free program, you must: Have a valid e-mail address and basic computer skills Bring all necessary documentation and information
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's ...
more >> 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. 123 min. Director Nora Ephron. Starring Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina. Julie & Julia won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The movie was Ephron's last film before her death in 2012.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel. 109 ...
more >> min. Director: Marielle Heller. Starring Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper. Hanks was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A two-person exhibition of new work by Julia Bland and Michelle Segre. Fiber is the commonality: yarn ...
more >> is wrapped, stretched, and intertwined over and around metallic structures in Segre's sculptures, while Bland's sewn, woven, burnt and dyed works exist somewhere between painting and three-dimensional tapestry.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
In Hong Kong, the ambassador returning to America meets the Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, ...
more >> who decides to hide in his cabin. Director: Charles Chaplin. Starring Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin. The film's theme song, "This Is My Song", written by Chaplin and performed by Petula Clark, became a worldwide success, topping the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium, while reaching number three in the United States and number four in Canada.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Take a walking tour to see five of Sardinian-born artist and sculptor Costantino Nivola's New York public ...
more >> artworks.
New York City, NY; NYC
Editor's Pick
A recital of Bowles' songs and solo piano works, interspersed with recitations of selections from Bowles' ...
more >> letters and memoir, plus other texts by his literary friends including Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson. Wikipedia: Paul Bowles was an American migrant composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel The Sheltering Sky (1949), set in what was known as French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931. In 1947 Bowles settled in Tangier, at that time in the Tangier International Zone, and his wife Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Ceylon during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles' home for the remainder of his life. He came to symbolize American immigrants in the city.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A book signing with Dan Colen to celebrate the publication a catalogue of his Desert Paintings (2015–19).
New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Artist Jackie Saccoccio discusses her recent body of work with artist and writer Alexi Worth.
New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, the curator of the greatly anticipated 34th Bienal de São Paulo opening in ...
more >> September, will present on his vision and curatorial concepts behind the Bienal. Visconti is based in São Paulo. He curated the Pavilion of the Republic of Cyprus at last year’s Venice Biennale, as well as the Brazilian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
New York City, NY; NYC
Diverse programs of music celebrating the great repertoire of the organ. Takes place every Saturday ...
more >> and Sunday from September 7, 2019 to May 24, 2020.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
At this monthly event, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment, including ...
more >> dynamic performances and participatory experiences.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Manzoni's brief career was one of the most radically inventive of the twentieth century, producing a ...
more >> body of work that continues to challenge definitions of artistic sovereignty and virtuosity. A conversation on Piero Manzoni with Urs Fischer and curator Francesco Bonami to celebrate the English-language release of Flaminio Gualdoni's biography of the iconic Italian Conceptual artist.
New York City, NY; NYC
Tucker Robbins, a pioneer in the sustainability movement, has a conversation with Alex Ulam, a journalist ...
more >> who focuses on sustainability in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning issues, and housing. We will discuss practical examples of sustainability in the modern world. Sustainability is about people living in harmony with the environment.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Record release for Otis Houston Jr.'s America featuring performances by Otis Houston Jr., Dean Spunt ...
more >> and Frederick Weston Sound & Vision provides a platform to artists working with both visual art and music in contemporary art, visionary art, and the space in between. For this special closing event, organized with Gordon Robichaux, Otis Houston Jr., Dean Spunt, Frederick Weston will perform short overlapping sets.
New York City, NY; NYC
A romantic comedy about persistence and plants. It's a love story where everything goes wrong from the ...
more >> start, a survival story about a plant that blooms despite adversity, and a death-defying tale of stab wounds and migraines and broken bones. Written by Isabella D’Esposito.
New York City, NY; NYC
The JACK Quartet celebrates the release of their newest album. Program Sky Macklay Many Many Cadences ...
more >> Cenk Ergün Celare Oscar Bianchi The Pathos of Distance Cenk Ergün Sonare Hailed by The New York Times as the “nation’s most important quartet”, the JACK Quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected groups performing today. JACK has maintained an unwavering commitment to their mission of performing and commissioning new works, giving voice to underheard composers, and cultivating an ever-greater sense of openness toward contemporary classical music.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
free, reservation required
Polish performer and intermedia artist Kuba Falk describes the ideas behind his performance: "This performance ...
more >> is a mourning for loss. An action to embody something as abstract as issue of climate change. It is a lamentation. To acknowledge feelings of grief and despair. They need to be experienced in order to move on, to transform, heal, change - within spiritual frame." Falk studied in Krakow at the Intermedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts; Stage Directing and Stage Acting at the Academy of Theatre Arts and Comparative Religion Studies at the Jagiellonian University. He creates body-based works built out of personal rituals and spiritual practice with strong presence of themes of healing through facing shadows and inconvenient truths of self delusion. His poetry, video and sound works are often incorporated into his performances creating complex actions.
New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
$5 donation requested
Jean Ramirez Trio. Jazz vocalist Jean Ramirez muses from Molly Holm, Ken Helman, Audrey Howitt, Anita ...
more >> Wardell, Jay Clayton, Andrea Wolper, and others. She integrates her love of beautiful melodies, lyrical expression, and strong rhythmic sensibilities in interpreting the Great American Songbook, jazz standards, Bossa Novas, and World Music. Jean regularly performed all over the San Francisco Bay Area and she played with musicians such as Keith Saunders, Grant Levin, Ben Stolorow, Larry Chinn, Adam Gay, Ollie Dudek, Mark Lee, and many others.
New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required