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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 25, 2024?

26 free events take place on Monday, March 25 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 25 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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26 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, March 25, 2024

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free events nyc Garment District Tour: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More
free events nyc The Revenant (2015) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy
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Workshop | Morning Meditation


Start your day by balancing your mind, body, and spirit during instructor guided meditation. This renowned practice lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 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
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10:00 am
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Tour | Garment District Tour: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More


Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

Lecture | Defending the Nation: Soviet Writers’ Activism During Glasnost


During the Gorbachev era, “writer-activists” became key figures in the emerging world of Soviet politics. This talk will analyze the activism of Soviet writers around environmental and language issues during this crucial period in Soviet history. In 1985, Russian Village Prose writers’ public advocacy for environmental issues became the harbinger of Gorbachev’s new policy of glasnost’. Intellectuals in the non-Russian republics, emboldened by activism of Russian writers and galvanized by the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, began to champion their own environmental causes. Events in the republics began to spiral out of control, however, when intellectuals also began advocating for cultural issues like the status of non-Russian languages. The national Writers’ Unions, founded in the Stalin era to channel national sentiment towards the Soviet state, became hotbeds of nationalist political organizing. This talk argues that writers’ Gorbachev-era activism hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by delegitimizing Communist Party rule and presenting the nation as a morally superior alternative to the crumbling USSR. Speaker Erin Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Russian History at the University of Colorado Boulder.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Symposium | Ida B. Wells Symposium: Celebrating Her Life, Work and Legacy


This event will commemorate the life and journey of Ida B. Wells,  aiming to honor her contributions to journalism, the civil rights movement, and American history. This unique event will bring together distinguished thought leaders throughout the journalism industry, scholars, Columbia Journalism School alums, faculty, students, and other practitioners to explore the ongoing opportunities and challenges facing the journalism industry around representation, inclusion, and equity. The crown jewel of this event will be the unveiling of a bust of Ida B. Wells, celebrating her iconic status and cementing her as a pillar of journalism.
   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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Discussion | A Talk with Writer/Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield (online)


Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s most recent books are Toward Antarctica and the anthology Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and The Sun, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry and a Stegner Fellowship.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Film | Richland (2023): Normalizing Extraordinary Violence


A U.S. nuclear company town stakes its identity on its little-known atomic origin story in this timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. Director: Irene Lusztig 93 min. Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Colonialism, Racism, and the Arab Israeli War of 1948 (online)


In 1947, a two-thirds majority of the members of the United Nations, an organization which took its name from the term for the Allies fighting against Nazi Germany, voted to establish an Arab, and a Jewish state on what had been British Mandate Palestine. Supporters of the Jewish state, and the Zionists themselves, viewed that project as an anti-colonial, anti-racist, and as a continuation of the anti-fascist passions of World War II. The Arab opponents, at the time and since, denounced the establishment of Israel as precisely the opposite, that is, an example of colonialism, racism, and in Soviet era propaganda even a form of Nazism. Historian Benny Morris has written extensively about the causes and nature of the war of 1948, and the controversies that have surrounded it ever since. Historian Jeffrey Herf has examined the international politics surrounding Israel's establishment. In conversation, Morris and Herf will explore these issues and the way they influence contemporary discussions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Creative Writing Workshop


A weekly writing session led by 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 | Furlough's Paradise: Three Days Off from Prison


In a.k. payne's play, on a three-day furlough from prison, Sade stays with her only cousin, Mina. On a brief reprieve from her life in the West Coast, Mina returns to her hometown for her aunt's funeral. The cousins try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship as time ticks towards the correctional officer's arrival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | How the Page Informs Performance: A Consideration of Passages from Bach to Schoenberg


A lecture by Professor Steven Laitz (The Juilliard School). Prof. Laitz is a well known pianist and pedagogue. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Music Theory Department at The Juilliard School. He previously served as Chair of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. His textbook, The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening, is currently in its fifth edition and in use at universities across the U.S., China, and Europe. Prof. Laitz serves as Director of the gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Theory Pedagogy, and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy." He is Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory, and had an eight-year tenure on the piano faculty at the Chautauqua Institute.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | What the Taliban Told Me: A Soldier's Memoir


A memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people's most intimate conversations over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan--Taliban and otherwise--the war, and himself. Fritz's fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Film | The Revenant (2015) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy


While exploring the uncharted wilderness in 1823, frontiersman Hugh Glass sustains life-threatening injuries from a brutal bear attack. When a member of his hunting team kills his young son and leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back to civilization. Grief-stricken and fueled by vengeance, the legendary fur trapper treks through the snowy terrain to track down the man who betrayed him. Director: Alejandro G. I??rritu Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work in biographical and period films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. As of 2019, his films have grossed over $7.2 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors. Tom Hardy is an English actor, producer, and screenwriter. He made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001). In 2015, he starred as "Mad" Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Revenant. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Dunkirk (2017). He has since starred as Eddie Brock/Venom in the film Venom and its 2021 sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
Free

Discussion | The Future of U.S. Soft Power


Professor Michael F. Oppenheimer and Dr. Hendrik Ohnesorge from Bonn University have a discussion of how America’s supply of soft power is in decline, whether American soft power can be restored, and the consequences for the U.S. and international politics if the decline is permanent. Soft power, as defined by Professor Joseph Nye, is a state’s ability to generate support from other states through non-coercive means and has been considered by many to be central to America’s global leadership. There are now multiple indications that America’s supply of soft power is in steep decline, as our social and political performance deteriorates, and the world becomes at once more authoritarian and nationalistic, and more conflictual. Can American soft power be restored? If not, what are the consequences for the U.S. and international politics?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | Russian Opera Today


Unlike Tchaikovsky’s, Mussorgsky’s, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas, the contemporary Russophone opera remains relatively obscure for the world much like its American or French counterparts. This is unfortunate since a cohort of avant-garde composers have emerged in the post-Soviet years, and their compositions resonate more strongly with Western audiences, especially as many of them now reside in emigration. Nonetheless, Russian opera theaters continue to stage productions that offer a glimpse into contemporary musical expressions. Noteworthy examples include Desyatnikov’s Rozental’s Children, Shchedrin’s Lolita, Wustin’s Devil in Love, as well Alexander Zhurbin’s operatic adaptation of Sologub’s Petty Demon. All of these and other operas will be introduced by Zhurbin. This event will feature video presentations of these operas, accompanied by expert commentary from the composer. Alexander Zhurbin is one of the most important Russian composers of his generation. His music is widely performed all over the former Soviet Union, Europe, Canada and the United States. He composes in a wide range of forms and styles: from symphonies to pop music, from chamber music to “new wave,” from operas and ballets to movie scores and music for the theater.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Colloquium | Sexuality, Gender and Climate Vulnerability in the Caribbean


The Caribbean is extremely vulnerable and highly exposed to the adverse impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Certain groups of people in the Caribbean are particularly exposed to these ever increasing vulnerabilities, because of institutionalized poverty; living in sub-standard housing, informal settlements, and/or disaster-prone areas; the lack of opportunity for them to earn a liveable wage; and their lack of autonomy to find relief from the consequences of extreme weather. These factors make women and the LGBTQ+ community particularly vulnerable and less able to adapt as they experience the climate crisis. This panel presents experiences, scholarship and innovations to confront and seek justice in the face of these circumstances. This is a panel discussion with Yemi Knight, (AnchorBridge Environmental Inc. - Barbados), Orisha Joseph, (Sustainable Grenadines Inc (SusGren).- Grenada) and Natalia M. Villarán-Quiñones (Out for sustainability - Puerto Rico).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Transcending Gender and Self in Odissi Dance


Dancer Bijayini Satpathy will take you on a journey of transformations through performed excerpts from Odissi dance. She will reflect on gender conventions in Odissi, and on the freedoms, limits, and paradoxes they pose in her own work in conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works from Eastern Europe


Trio Fadolín performs works from Eastern Europe, including the works of Yehiel Goyzman, Vasyl Barvinsky, and Ljova, as well as other selections from the trio's unique and rich repertoire. Registration required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from Ottoman Constantinople


In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the German House, in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn, subjects of the emperor found food, wine, shelter, and good company―and left an incredible collection of albums filled with images, messages, decorated papers, and more. Robyn Dora Radway's book offers a complete account of this early form of social media, which had a profound impact on later European iconography. Revealing a vibrant transimperial culture as viewed from all walks of life―Muslim and Christian, noble and servant, scholar and stable boy―the pocket-sized albums containing these curiosities have never been fully connected to the abundant archival records on the German House and its residents. Radway not only introduces these objects, the people who filled their pages, and the house at the center of their creation, but she also presents several arguments regarding chronologies of exchange, workshop practices, the curation of social networks and visual collections based on status, and the purposes of these highly individualized material portraits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:10 pm
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Book Discussion | Green Frog by Gina Chung 


Writer Gina Chung discusses her new book, Green Frog, with fellow author Jinwoo Chong. Equal parts fantastical—a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy, a fox demon contemplates avenging her sister's death—and true to life—a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter falls unexpectedly pregnant, a woman reexamines her father’s legacy after his death—the stories in this collection are hopeful and heartbreaking, full of danger and full of joy. Chung is a master at capturing emotion, and her characters—human and otherwise—will claw their way into your heart and make themselves at home.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Club | The Mad Girls of New York by Maya Rodale


A compelling novel based on the story of fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who was determined to prove that a woman’s place is on the front page.  Step back in time to 1887 New York City, when Nellie Bly had ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages. We will follow along on her assignment to infiltrate Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum for women, an audacious endeavor that unfolded against the backdrop of swirling rumors about the deplorable conditions within the institution. For months, rumors swirled about deplorable conditions at Blackwell’s but no reporter was able to get in until Nellie feigned insanity, getting herself committed for ten days in the asylum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Cardio Dance


This creative and fun workout fuses dance and aerobics to improve cardio fitness and tone the body. Instructor: Masayo Kado
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Graphic Novel Book Club: Anais Nin: A Sea of Lies by Leonie Bischoff


In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Anais Nin, one of the best-known authors of women's erotica in the 1920s and '30s Comic books and graphic novels have long been popular with a wide range of readers and influential for many in creative endeavors. These graphic works have become an important means of artistic and literary innovation, while gaining long overdue scholarly and academic attention. Over the past few decades, the popularity of comic books and graphic novels has significantly risen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Memory Piece: A Novel of Friendship, Art, and Ambition


Lisa Ko offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life? In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity. By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet’s early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves. Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Israel's Artistic Revival: Navigating Trauma and Renewal (online)


Exploring the resurgence of Israel's art scene since October 7th. Following a hiatus in the Israeli art scene after the October 7th massacre, there is now a resurgence, as public art institutions, private galleries, and independent artists endeavor to paint, mold, and display art again. Our discussion will delve into ongoing exhibitions and initiatives across the nation, addressing projects previously paused and reflecting on the potential and significance of art amidst the recent traumas and political upheavals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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