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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 6, 2023?

23 free events take place on Monday, March 6 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 6 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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23 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, March 6, 2023

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free events nyc Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors
free events nyc The Heart Sellers: The Asian Immigrant Experience
free events nyc Finding Paradise at One of the Major NYC Theaters
free events nyc Just Tell No One: The Human Consequences of War (featuring material from Ukrainian playwrights)
free events nyc Works by Robert Schumann, Beethoven, and More for Piano (In Person AND Online)
        

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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Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend 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 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Start times: 10:30am, 12pm, 1:30pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

Book Discussion | The Connections World: The Future of Asian Capitalism


Simon Commander and Saul Estrin discuss their book. Asia’s development model has depended on industrial policy to support new sectors along with a common reliance on large and powerful business groups. These groups use close and highly transactional connections with politicians to acquire assets, secure financing and other preferential treatment. Not only does the resulting economic firepower of these business groups allow them to dominate the various markets in which they operate, but it also allows them to achieve significant scale relative to the economy as a whole. This has been matched by a parallel and rapid accumulation and concentration of wealth. In their recent book, Commander and Estrin call this the Connections World. Although it has, for the most part, supported Asia’s extraordinary growth, problems with this model, and the configuration of economic and political power that it has enabled, are mounting. Demographics challenge reliance on extensive growth while the attenuation of competition holds back productivity growth, limits the number of high-quality jobs and, most significantly, stands in the way of Asia shifting to greater reliance on innovation. New policies for corporate governance, taxation and the design of competition policy will be needed. Failure to come to grips with the Connections World will impair the brightness of Asia's future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Abattoir, U.S.A.!


Artist Aria Dean joins Brooklyn Rail contributor McKenzie Wark for a conversation. The event concludes with a poetry reading by K Allado-McDowell.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Memoir Writing Workshop


A writing session led by author Jon Curley. Taking inspiration from life events, participants will be encouraged to use reflection as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Finding Paradise: Dreaming of Egypt


In this staged reading of a musical cabaret by Aya Aziz follows the El-Bayoumi family through a ten-course meal to their wildest dreams, heartbreaks, and new beginnings. When Egyptian immigrant Yousef El-Bayoumi is hospitalized in Queens, his wife Hadia files for Voluntary Departure back to Egypt on behalf of the family. Over an elaborate dinner, Hadia strives to get everyone dreaming about Egypt before she breaks the news.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Staged Reading | The Heart Sellers: The Asian Immigrant Experience


For new Americans Jane and Luna, life in the USA has left them feeling isolated and invisible - until a chance encounter brings them together on Thanksgiving. Giving voice to the Asian immigrant experience in the wake of the Hart-Celler Act, a funny and deeply moving new play about connection, friendship, and home. Written by Lloyd Suh.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Russia’s Muslims at War (in-person and online)


Since February 2022, the Russian state has attempted to mobilize its Muslim citizens—and Islam—as pivotal elements in support of the invasion of Ukraine. In turn, the war has confronted Muslim communities in Russia with a host of challenges. This talk explores the spectrum of responses that key Muslim elites have offered in adapting to the Kremlin’s agenda in Ukraine and assesses the role of Islam in shaping the course of the war and the politics of the region. Speaker Robert Crews is professor of history at Stanford University, where he writes and teaches about global history and politics, focusing on Russia, Afghanistan, Central Asia, South Asia, and Islam.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Film | Non-Aligned (2022): Nations on Their Own


The film retraces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc, examining how cinema gave expression to a global dream of political emancipation. This new documentary diptych of two feature-length films that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World Project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito. Director: Mila Turajlić 100 min. In Serbian and French with English subtitles. Followed by a discussion:
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | A Lenapehoking Anthology: The Myth of the Purchase of Manhattan (In Person AND Online)


Contributors to A Lenapehoking Anthology explore the personal journeys of people seeking welcome in their ancestral homeland while pushing back against their erasure. Before New York City, there was Lenapehoking, the ancestral land of the Lenape people. Forcibly displaced by European settlers, their land was stolen to create settler states. Now, in an act of reclamation, A Lenapehoking Anthology, recently published by the Lenape Center and the Brooklyn Public Library, contends with subjects ranging from the myth of the purchase of Manhattan to the self-curation of indigenous art and culture. Lenape Center co-founders and co-directors Joe Baker, Curtis Zunigha, and Hadrien Coumans will join each other in conversation. About the Speakers Joe Baker is an artist, educator, curator and activist who has been working in the field of Native Arts for the past 30 years. He is an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma and co-founder executive director of Lenape Center in Manhattan. He serves as a board member for The Endangered Language Fund, Yale University and on the Advisory Committee for the National Public Art Consortium, New York and cultural advisor for the new CBS series Ghosts. Baker has guided in his capacity as executive director for Lenape Center partnerships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (his work is currently on exhibit there), Brooklyn Museum of Art, American Ballet Theater, Moulin Rouge on Broadway, The Whitney Museum of Art, and others. Hadrien Coumans is co-founder and co-director of Lenape Center, and an adopted member of the WhiteTurkey-Fugate family. Curtis Zunigha is co-founder and co-director of The Lenape Center, based in New York City, which promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people (also known as Delaware Indians) through the arts, humanities, social identity, and environmental activism. His multimedia experience includes writing, producing, directing, acting, narrating, and composing/performing traditional music. Zunigha is an accomplished public speaker, workshop facilitator, and panel moderator. He is known throughout Indian Country as a master of ceremonies at cultural performances and event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Hedy Lamarr: Actress. Inventor. Viennese.


The installation pays homage to the famous Austro-American actress Hedy Lamarr by specifically stressing her groundbreaking achievements as an inventor. It was only years after her famous screen career had ended that Lamarr achieved recognition for pioneering the technology that would become the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems. The exhibition will feature professional and private photographs of Hedy Lamarr, which were taken throughout her life. In addition, personal letters and documents, drawings, ephemera and even a dirndl from her personal collection will be on display. To highlight Lamarr’s achievements as an inventor, her legendary torpedo defense drawings, which are considered the precursors of today’s Bluetooth technology, as well as various awards will be integrated into the elaborate installation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Here To Stay: Uncovering South Asian American History


A book talk with journalist and author Geetika Rudra about her book. South Asians are a rapidly growing demographic in the U.S., comprising nearly 2 percent of the population. But, there was a time in the not-too-distant past when the country was far less hospitable to South Asian immigrants. Rudra, a former journalist, takes readers on a journey across the U.S. to unearth the little-known histories of earlier generations of South Asian Americans. In conversation with her will be member and frequent writer on all things Asian American pop culture and literature, Lakshmi Gandhi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Black Disability Politics Now (online)


Sami Schalk and Vilissa Thompson have a conversation about their lives and work as Black disabled women writers in the disability justice movement. They will talk about themselves, their work, and the key issues they see for disability justice work in the future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Finding Paradise at One of the Major NYC Theaters


In this staged reading of a musical cabaret by Aya Aziz follows the El-Bayoumi family through a ten-course meal to their wildest dreams, heartbreaks, and new beginnings. When Egyptian immigrant Yousef El-Bayoumi is hospitalized in Queens, his wife Hadia files for Voluntary Departure back to Egypt on behalf of the family. Over an elaborate dinner, Hadia strives to get everyone dreaming about Egypt before she breaks the news.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Club | Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (in-person and online)


The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. Unfortunately, he can't decide how to refer to his subject: Titian, le Titien, Vecellio, Titian Vecellio so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spends his summer still not writing his book, he is haunted by television, from the video surveillance screens in a museum to a moment when it seems everyone in Berlin is tuned in to Baywatch. One of Toussaint's funniest antiheroes, the protagonist of Television turns daily occurrences into an entertaining reflection on society and the influence of television on our lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | The Widow: Looking for a Husband Online


In Ruth Apolonia Zamoyta's play, Cece, a childless widow, finds memories and words slipping away, one by one. With limited funds and no safety net, she goes online to find a husband while she still has looks and wits. When the men she finds turn vile and abusive, she uses her chemistry skills to dispatch of them, one by one. Inspired by the true story of serial-killer Isao Kakehi (the "Black Widow" of Japan), The Widow explores a woman's desperate attempts to avoid aging alone.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Flowers of Buffoonery: Aftermath of a Failed Suicide


For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human. The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age—is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes, and trying to make each other laugh.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Art and Basketball Meets Culture


Rod Benson spent twelve years as a professional basketball player before retiring to become a full-time fine artist. After an incident of police brutality, Benson had his first solo show with the idea that dark is vibrant, not dangerous. He challenged the idea of “blackness” by presenting images with only neon colors. He explores colors and textures that represent the societal expectations of the Black community and the courage, anxiety, and depression that comes with creating despite those expectations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists Featuring: Anh Vo, Anabella Lenzu, Julia Antinozzi
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Driven to Abstraction: 3 Artists in Conversation (online)


Doug Sheer is the only child of two painters who were WPA artists, Artist Union members and Hans Hofmann students in NYC and Provincetown and he grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. He was educated in NYC including Rhodes School where Pop artist Jim Dine was his art teacher and at Rhode Island School of Design. David Anselm Turner was born on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico and grew up in the USA and Europe. He earned a BA in Art at Middlebury College where he studied Japanese. He was then awarded a scholarship to study at Kansai University. Here he discovered Japanese theater, film and the dynamic work of Kazuo Shiraga. He then set up a studio in Hong Kong where he earned his living painting murals and designing film and theatre sets. Heidi Lanino was born in New York City and raised on the south shore of Long Island. As one of four recipients of a full-tuition merit scholarship, Lanino studied drawing and painting at Pratt Institute. For several years she worked as an art director for L’Oréal. She is also a passionate educator of the arts, who understands the importance of bringing art and the creative process to young people and the community at large.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Premiere Presentation of a Play 


The Colorado New Play festival commemorates its 25th annivarsary with the premiere of Bill Martin's Martin-X, followed by a Q&A session with the playwright and cast. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Just Tell No One: The Human Consequences of War (featuring material from Ukrainian playwrights)


A site-specific, multi-media staged reading featuring material from Ukrainian playwrights Natal'ya Vorozhbit and Oksana Savchenko as translated by Sasha Dugsdale and John Freedman with Natalia Bratus. Just Tell No One reveals the human consequences of war. The piece illuminates a part of the world where an incomprehensible set of rules is at play, and people struggle to make sense of the complexity of one another with life and death consequences. This reading immerses the audience in these human stories using dark humor, intimate moments, and images of conflict so exquisitely painful they can no longer be perceived as real.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Classical Music | Works by Robert Schumann, Beethoven, and More for Piano (In Person AND Online)


Chaeyoung Park, piano. Program Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Arabeske, Op. 18 (1839) Tal-Haim Samnon (1986-present), Memory and Variations (2019) Beethoven (1770-1827), Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" (1818)
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free
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