17 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, May 29, 2021
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Crafted from firsthand interviews with New York City medical first responders during the first wave of ...
more >> COVID-19 pandemic, the play cuts through the media and political noise to reveal the lived experiences of frontline medical workers in New York and their battle to save lives in a system built to serve the bottom line. Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen Directed by Jessica Blank Starring Santino Fontana; Arjun Gupta; John Ortiz; Alison Pill; Nicholas Pinnock; Jamey Sheridan; Lorraine Toussaint Streaming is available until Jun 21.
12:00 am
free, no reservation required
Search for hidden gems as you browse antiques, vintage goods, architectural salvage and collectibles. ...
more >> There is also a selection of food vendors from Smorgasburg. Face covering is required. Rain or shine.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Caregivers and children of all ages are invited to take part in this fun-filled, hands-on community workshop. ...
more >> Veteran traditional Haitian dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist Nadia Dieudonne will guide families through the fundamentals of Haitian movement and music.
The market offers socially-distanced experience of food, shopping, family-friendly activities and entertainment: ...
more >> music, accessories, clothing, jewelry, pet supplies, beauty products, pottery and much more. Every Sat and Sun, 10 am - 5 pm. Visitors must wear face coverings at all times and observe social distancing.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
One of the largest collections of art and Jewish culture in the world, it focuses both on artifacts of ...
more >> Jewish history and on modern and contemporary art. Works in the collection are presented as distinctive creative expressions and as bearers of the stories of those who made, owned, used, preserved, and sometimes transformed them. The exhibition speaks of the vast range of Jewish experiences across the globe and over time, made tangible through artistic expression. It is both a mirror of Jewish identities and an inspiration for the formation of new ones.
11:00 am
free, reservations required
Wavertree is a historic iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1885, now the largest wrought iron sailing ...
more >> vessel afloat. Guests will visit the open-air portions of the ship. Access to the main deck and quarter deck. Learn how people worked and lived aboard a 19th century cargo sailing vessel, from the captain to the ship's officers, cooks, and crew. Then visit the cargo hold and stand atop the viewing platform and enjoy the view as you look out across New York Harbor and the Brooklyn Bridge. In addition, view an outdoor exhibition on the Pier. The series of panels and window graphics will celebrate the people of all backgrounds who lived and worked in this historic district, and the many businesses that created the foundations for New York to thrive and become the business and culture mecca it is today.
11:00 am
free, registration required
Shop for antiques, decor items, sustainable and vintage clothing, collectible objects and more. In addition, ...
more >> Smorgasburg food vendors will offer brunch and lunch options.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
This Brooklyn park provides such a superabundance of wild foods as mid-spring approaches, it's hard ...
more >> to cover them all in just one tour. You'll begin with spicy hedge mustard, corn-flavored chickweed, and spinach-flavored lamb's quarters. Then, you'll come across stands of goutweed, an herb that tastes like parsley, carrots and celery. Nearby, you'll find munch on sweet-sour redbud flowers, then check out the asparagus-flavored Devil's walkingstick trees that grow next to sour-flavored Japanese knotweed shoots. You'll also find sour-flavored curly dock leaves, wild bay leaves, and wintergreen-flavored black birch, peppergrass, poor man's pepper, common blue violets, jewelweed, plus the roots of burdock, wild carrots, and much more. The tour will last for about 4 hours. Please wear a mask and observe social distancing.
11:45 am
$20 suggested donation,...
David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band is inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, ...
more >> Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and more. The band breathes life and passion into America's own great art form.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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JPA's outdoor cultural program "Dance, Music & Kimono" this year introduces 10 different variation of ...
more >> Japan's performances, lectures and workshops. Some performance programs are designed to enjoy stage shows, and others welcome participants to join. The perfect green environment on Governors Island provides the perfect setting to engage in exercise activities with Japanese music and dance. Programs currently planned: Dance to Japanese Pop Songs Frisode Kimono Dressing Demonstration Enka Band Performance Yukata Casual Summer Kimono Workshop Awa Odori (Dance), Gujo Odori (Dance), Nihon Buyo (Traditional Japanese Dance) Traditional Japanese Hair Dressing Demonstration Furoshiki Wrapping Workshop Having Fun with Traditional Japanese Toys and more. May 22-23, 29-31, 2021.
Works by NICOLE PHUNGRASAMEE FEIN. "Each work is an object of contemplation, coming to life as the artist ...
more >> adds one layer after another until the image resolves. It may be an eclipsing color wheel or a circle emerging as a mirage-like planet born from a drop of water. It may be a pinwheel-like form of varied colors or a square created with thin speckled washes which live and breathe at the edge of the image as secrets that lie beneath what appears to be green, russet or blue. The droplets intermingle on the paper, creating rich fields and dense composites of color."
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Saxophonists and clarinetists Peter and Will Anderson will be joined by Joe Boga on trumpet and Alex ...
more >> Raderman on drums. They will play classic American repertoire from the songbooks of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and more.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The New York Philharmonic is in Queens this weekend. That's right. The oldest symphony orchestra in the ...
more >> entire United States (founded in 1842) will perform Bandwagon 2 .The three-hour show will unfold on a mobile, 20-foot shipping container with a foldout stage and LED video wall, as well as integrated lighting, a video control system, and a state-of-the-art Meyer Sound Spacemap Go system. The Antoinette Montague Experience and tap dancer AC Lincoln go first on Saturday at 5 pm. Then, Soprano Laquita Mitchell, The Harlem Chamber Players, and NYP String Quartet are second before the Queensboro Dance Festival with curator Karesia Batan and some NYP musicians close the night. May 28-30, 2021
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Plays, musicals, cabaret, film, over one hundred artists and theatre groups. Come with proof of vaccination ...
more >> or a negative Covid-19 test, and you will see the most multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-talented incredible array of creativity.
A bible-thumping shark makes a deal with a gullible mark. Mix in money and power, fleshly sins by the ...
more >> hour, and call it Moliere in the Park! If ever a play, written back in the day, knew exactly with what we'd be dealing. It's 17th century fare, but the story is truly... revealing. Moliere in the Park presents a staged reading of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur's translation of Moliere's Tartuffe, directed by Moliere in the Park's Founding Artistic Director Lucie Tiberghien. May 26-30, 2021
8:00 pm
free, RSVP required
Come celebrate APA Heritage Month with this returning popular production. These curated short films will ...
more >> wow you with the animators' creative digital art and storytelling talents. The shorts are selected from the top of several hundred submissions. They showcase wide-ranging life experiences in masterful art direction, storytelling, animation, production quality and sound design.
Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi have been incorporating Piano, Accordion, Organ, Percussion and several ...
more >> other acoustic instruments with electronics to do live performances around the world. Their music is based on both composition and improvisation. Their mission is to integrate all the possibilities of musical elements accessible to them. They music has been described as "almost visible to the listener."