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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 22, 2024?

23 free events take place on Friday, March 22 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 22 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 Friday, March 22, 2024

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
free events nyc Chamber Works by J.S. Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and More
free events nyc Ebony It Girls: Black Womens Fashion of the 1920s (in-person and online)
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Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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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
10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Adult Zumba


Exercise in disguise! Join in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion. Bring your friends and come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Book Discussion | New Books 2024


This event introduces the latest publications by faculty in a three-part collective reading event, starting with a performance and reading by Ahmed Abdullah, author of A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra. The event celebrates recent publications by university faculty, centers, and institutes, across all five colleges. Curated around thematic clusters, nearly twenty authors assemble for a three-part series of readings and exchanges around a range of topics. Arriving from different fields and programs, they demonstrate the interdisciplinary and public-facing nature of scholarship. Participants include Ahmed Abdullah, Ujju Aggarwal, T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso, Ana Isabel Baptista, Ben Barry, Katayoun Chamany, Camonghne Felix, Alan McGowan, Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela, Marisa Morán Jahn, Kirstin Munro, Dmitri Nikulin, John Reed, Jennifer Rittner, R. Trebor Scholz, Helen Schulman, and Kelly Walters. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Poetry Reading | Everything Indicates: Award-Winning Poetry


A poetry reading and discussion with Petr Hruška. Petr Hruška (b. 1964) is a Czech poet and literary historian who lives in Ostrava. His poetry has won numerous national and international awards, including the Czech State Award for Literature, in recognition of his collection Darmata (To No Travail, 2012), and the Magnesia Litera, the most prestigious annual literary award in the Czech Republic, for his newest collection, Spatřil jsem svou tvář (I Caught Sight of My Face, 2022), an extended meditation on Magellan’s voyage around the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Master Class | Adult Community Choir


Come and experience the joy of singing! This beginner, non-auditioned group welcomes all who love to sing. You will learn healthy singing habits, warmups, and how to find your own voice as you sing with a group. The class will sing and study music of many styles and genres like jazz, Latin, soul, choral, gospel, folk, and music from around the world. Everyone is welcome; no experience necessary!  The class will culminate with a final public performance.  Classes will meet Fridays, March 1st - May 10th from 12pm-1:15pm. The final performance date is May 17th at 12pm. Registration is required, and class size is limited. Participants should plan to attend all sessions. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They’re a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Marrying Sun Yat-senism and Turanism: Leveraging Ancestral Nationalism in Interwar Sino-Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy (online)


The collapse of the Qing and Habsburg empires in the 1910s enabled an unprecedented opportunity for interactions between China and the East-Central European countries. These successor states in both postimperial regions wanted to integrate into the world of international diplomacy as equal peers. In the interwar, treaties of commerce and amity were considered important milestones; however, unlike its post-Habsburg neighbor Austria and Czechoslovakia, Hungary never established formal ties with the Republic of China. Those Hungarians and Chinese wanting to promote such an accord used cultural diplomacy as a PR means to achieve their desired politico-economic end: consular representation of their expatriates, boosting trade and expanding the number of friendly countries through mutual diplomatic recognition. This talk introduces a case study of a rogue Kuomintang diplomat diving deep into a frustrated nationalist subculture in an attempt to recruit Japanese-leaning Hungary as an ally of China. Although He Zhenya ultimately failed to convince his government to exploit Hungary’s Turanist quasi-ideology of Eastern orientation, his involvement in the birth of Hungarian academic Sinology in the 1930s and his manifold activism in Budapest and Nanjing proved to be an important milestone for postimperial China’s first diplomatic entry in Central Europe. Speaker Mátyás Mervay is a Ph.D. Candidate who completed and will defend his dissertation in Spring 2024 at New York University’s History Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | Noted Jazz Saxophonist Discusses Black Aesthetics and Spiritual Practice


A conversation with Immanuel Wilkins, saxophonist and composer, who will present his work centered around 'the vessel'--a model that sits at the intersection of black aesthetics and spiritual practice, the two core pillars on which he builds his work. The subject of "the vessel" invites an interdisciplinary reading of Immanuel's practice and reflects his interests in cross-fading and blurring the lines between various arts practices. Immanuel Wilkins burst onto the musical scene in 2020 with the release of his Blue Note recording debut, Omega, featuring his longstanding quartet of Micah Thomas, Daryl Johns, and Kweku Sumbry, which The New York Times named the #1 Jazz Album of 2020. In 2022, he released his sophomore album on Blue Note, The 7th Hand.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Writing the Jewish Mediterranean: 2 New Books (online)


This event will celebrate the recent publication of two books on Jewish Mediterranean literature from the Medieval times to the twentieth century by putting their authors in conversation. Isabelle Levy, author of Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean, and Dario Miccoli, author of A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean, will interrogate each other and discuss questions of what it means to think and write the Jewish Mediterranean.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Film | Paint (2023) with Owen Wilson


Carl Nargle (a fictional character based on Bob Ross), a local treasure with a soothing whisper of a voice, hosts his own painting show on Vermont public television. His art has attracted the attention of many women over the years, especially those who work at the station. However, when a new painter gets hired to revitalize the channel, Carl's own fears regarding his talents as an artist are brought to the forefront. Director: Brit McAdams Cast: Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Ciara Renée, Stephen Root, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Lucy Freyer, Lusia Strus, Michael Pemberton Owen Wilson is an American actor. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011) as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Chamber Works by J.S. Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and More


Sarah Hong, Ben Wolstein, Xiaozhou Xu, Anthony Lee, Alicia Lee, Yunah Kwon, and Johnson Tang, perform works by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Bottesini (1821-1889), Franz Doppler (1821-1883), Chopin (1810-1849), and Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Percussion Master Class


Percussion Master Class with Marc Damoulakis, Principal Percussion for the Cleveland Orchestra
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation


Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Conference | Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism


This conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s. At the height of struggles for anti-colonial independence in the African subcontinent and diasporic communities during the 1960s and 1970s, the praxis of Black feminist alliances proved to be foundational to global anti-racist and anti-imperial radicalism. We aim to consider how Black feminist solidarity was forged across a broader geopolitical frame that includes the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, strengthening local mobilizations and generating new transnational liberatory possibilities. We will also chronicle the evolution of transnational Black feminism since then, and how the shift from anti-colonialism to neoliberalism impacted the radical possibilities embedded in attempts at self-determination and collaboration across geographic divides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Ethnography in the Badlands: Capturing a Volcano’s Aftermath


A lecture by Dr. Sandra Rozental, El Colegeio de Mexico.   
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
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Book Discussion | Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales


There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. Author Marta McDowell explores the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and shows how this passion came to be reflected in her work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | If Shadows Could Shine: Group Show


Shadows affirm presence in our world, the exhibition delves into traumas, histories, and memories that saturate the lives of marginalized communities, residing in a shadowless void. The three featured artists in this exhibition guide this artistic exploration, reimagining these removed and erased narratives to challenge the prevailing world order. Sa'dia Rehman attempts to construct a mobile mosque symbolizing climate devastation, tracing their family's displacement in 1974 from an area along the Indus River in Pakistan due to the construction of the Tarbela Dam. Dan Jian navigates the intersection of spaces and self-contemplation, blending dream-like recollections of Chinese cultural symbols to create landscapes filled with imagination and mystery, frozen in a shadowless, timeless liminal space. Nayeon Yang probes the impact of global capitalization on migrant labor exploitation within and beyond South Korea, problematizing the entangled relationships among nations, labor, capital, and the arts. In tracing family, cultural, and historical lineages, the artists assert value and disrupt hegemonic narratives, both materially and metaphorically. As we collectively unearth the elusive and obscure, If Shadows Could Shine beckons each of us to look closer into both the world at large and what lies immediately around us.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Ebony It Girls: Black Womens Fashion of the 1920s (in-person and online)


An "It Girl" is a woman who defines the fashion, culture, and beauty of an era. During the early twentieth century, popular Black stage and screen performers defined Black women as fashion symbols. From Josephine Baker's banana skirt to Florence Mills's perfectly shaped bob, the Black female performer embodied sensuality, elegance, and beauty despite widespread anti-Blackness that had stripped these women of their humanity only decades prior. Black female performers were propelled to the status of celebrity by way of prioritizing and valuing fashion and dress. This hybrid event will discuss the most notable performers of the 1920s and '30s who set out to define Black womanhood as assertive, beautiful, and sensual. Speaker Es-pranza Humphrey is a historian of Black studies and museum educator based out of New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Put It On Record: A Memoir-Archive (in-person and online)


An evening woven of word, song, and dance with Sokunthary Svay, Anthony Lanni, and allia abdullah-matta in a celebration of Cambodian author and opera librettist Sokunthary Svay’s Put It On Record: A Memoir-Archive. This collection of essays and photographs explores the past present and future of Cambodian literature. Rejoice in this incredible book with an evening woven of word, song, and dance. Featuring esteemed guests Anthony Lanni and allia abdullah-matta.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Guitar Concert


Jamie Fox, guitar, and his band will perform a program of original music, including premiering new music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Violin, Viola, and Cello Works


JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman,violin; John Pickford Richards, viola; Jay Campbell, cello. Program Johnny Macmillan, Songs from the Seventh Floor Christopher Otto: Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles Elliott Carter (1908-2012), String quartet no. 1
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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