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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 19, 2014?

43 free events take place on Wednesday, November 19 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 November 19 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 November . 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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43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, November 19, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Discussion of the Exhibition Ernest Cole, Photographer
free events nyc Glenn Rolnick discusses his book Carmine's Celebrates: Classic Italian Recipes for Everyday Feasts
free events nyc Pop Music and Performance Art
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Workshop | Park FitClub: Boot Camp with The Rise NYC


Energize your day with a workout before work. Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, for a Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back - and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high-fives encouraged. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
Free

Park Walk | Central Park Tour


Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | iMovie on the iPad Workshop


Learn how to use Apple's popular iMovie software. Create your own short movie clip by editing different clips from videos and add a sound track to fit your movie's feel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | MS Excel 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Richard Ford, Pulitzer-winning novelist, reads from his book Let Me Be Frank With You


Richard Ford is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel Canada, as well as The Bascombe Novels, the story collections A Multitude of Sins and Rock Springs. His books have been published in more than twenty-five countries, won many prestigious international awards and been widely anthologized. He lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife Kristina Ford.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Juilliard Chamber Music Concert


Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts on Wednesdays afternoons throughout the season.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midday Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Enjoy free live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | MS Excel 2011 for Mac for Beginners


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac. Topics include using formulas and functions, data sorting and conditional formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Old Books, Rare Books: Learning About the Value of Your Books


Learn what you need to know before buying or selling an old book. In this class, you will examine an old book, look to see who else owns a copy, and review the sale records and current booksellers’ catalogs to learn about its value. Along the way attendees will learn about the tools and resources that the antiquarian community uses to value a book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Voice Master Class: Craig Rutenberg


Craig Rutenberg studied with Pierre Bernac and Geoffrey Parsons before working at the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and l’Opéra-Comique de Paris. He has been accompanist for Frederica von Stade, Erie Mills, Sumi Jo, Olaf Bär, Stanford Olsen, Roberta Peters, and Régina Crespin. Craig Rutenberg has served as head of the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera and on the faculty of Yale University. He currently holds an appointment as Music Supervisor of the Opera Institute at Boston University; he remains active in giving masters classes at the Chautauqua Institute, the Santa Fe Opera, the Wolf Trap Opera, and l’Ecole d’Art Lyrique de la Bastille, Paris.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Artist Talk: Maya Hayuk


Explore Maya Hayuk's new site-specific mural, part of her Chem Trails series, now on view in the lobby of Columbia's Miller Theatre. The evening begins with an intimate talk with the artist about her process and influences, moderated by Gallery Director and Chief Curator Deborah Cullen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: harlem is...THEATER


The exhibition was developed with youth and Harlem community members. The event is part of a year-long citywide focus on the development of black theater and its impact.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Camera Crazy: Analog Photography


Exploring the role of toy and novelty cameras in contemporary photography, this panel uses them as a point of entry into a broader discussion of analog photography as it exists today in the digital landscape. Featuring panelists Christopher Salyers, Buzz Poole, Michelle Bates, Christopher Bonanos, Paul Kwiatkowski, Christian Polt, and J. K. Putnam, who have deep knowledge of these types of cameras – from Lomography to Polaroid – and the photographers who use them. The discussion ranges from the marketing of photography to fine art and collector culture. The panel is moderated by Arezoo Moseni.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Clarinet Recital


Miao Zhao, Clarinet
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Domna Stanton discusses her book The Dynamics of Gender: Women Writ, Women Writing in Seventeenth-Century France


Domna Stanton discusses her new book that examines shifting notions of gender in 17th-century France and probes the specifics of conformity and resistance to gender norms from a feminist perspective. Her conversation with Madeleine Dobie will also expand to consider differing French and American perspectives on gender studies in the present day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Dvorak's New York


New York Philharmonic archivist and historian Barbara Haws and cultural historian Majda Kallab Whitaker discuss highlights of Dvorak's New York residency, including the premiere of the 'New World' Symphony in 1893. Dvorak chamber music performance by ArtsAhimsa String Quartet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Gender, Power and Leadership: Aládurà Church Women in Nigeria and the U.S.


Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome examines women’s strategies of empowerment, both spiritual and material, in the Aládurà church in the Nigerian homeland and 
its immigrant communities in 
the United States, especially since the 1980s. Scholars agree that women’s roles in these churches are circumscribed by prohibitions against menstruation and women in the immediate postpartum period. Yet Okome shows how, despite these formal restraints, Aládurà women find ways to exercise significant power in practice and why this is more pronounced in Nigeria than in the U.S. immigrant churches.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | An Evening with Stephen Horne, Silent Film Accompanist


Stephen Horne has long been considered one of the leading silent film accompanists. Based at London's BFI Southbank, but playing at all the major UK venues such as the Barbican Centre and the Imperial War Museum, he has recorded music for DVD releases, BBC TV screenings and museum installations of silent films. Although principally a pianist, he often incorporates flute, accordion and keyboards into his performances, sometimes simultaneously. He regularly performs internationally and in recent years his accompaniments have met with acclaim at film festivals in Pordenone, Telluride, San Francisco, Cannes, Bologna and Berlin. He has performed his score for A Cottage on Dartmoor at many venues, including New York's Lincoln Centre and Washington's National Gallery of Art. In 2011 and 2012, he was commissioned to compose ensemble scores for the London Film Festival Archive Galas of The First Born and The Manxman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Discussion | 50 Shades of Noir: Is Noir the New Black?


What determines how dark or light a mystery is? With moderator Lokke Heiss, and panelists Jillian Abbott, Larry Light, Ed Lin, and S.A. Solomon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Authors Christina Baker Kline and Kate Manning discuss their work


Authors Christina Baker Kline and Kate Manning come together to talk about how the events of the 19th century inspired their respective work. Kline's Orphan Train is the story of a child sent to the Midwest on an orphan train, but now grown up is uncovering the mystery of her past. Manning's My Notorious Life fictionalizes the life of a midwife who became powerful, wealthy, and controversial in her practices of supporting women's reproductive rights.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Discussion of the Exhibition Ernest Cole, Photographer


A conversation with Pato Hebert, Associate Arts Professor of Art & Public Policy; Refilwe Nkomo, South African performer, community organizer, and theater producer; and Robert Sember, South African anti-apartheid worker and current producer in the New York queer house and ball scene.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Get Photoshopped! Photo Retouching


In this class you will use the Photoshop to modify digital images. Learn how to use the clone stamp tool, duplicating backgrounds and much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Hospitals and Healing History in the Bloomingdale Neighborhood


The story of remarkable medical institutions that developed in this area over the last 125 years. Presentation by Jim Mackin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Persiana Pompa da Anima Toscana: The Medici's Persian Magi, Merchants and Cavalieri


A lecture by Mahnaz Yousefzadeh. This talk traces the transmutation of the image of Persia, from that presented by the Magi to that cast by the knights of the early modern Tuscan court. Through a reading of diplomatic letters exchanged between Shah Abbas and the Medici Grand Dukes, as well as documents that emerge from the cultural and artistic patronage of Francesco I and Ferdinand I, the study reveals a privileged relationship between the Medicis and Persia, one that extends far beyond public ambassadorial missions, and that discloses covert and fundamental mercantilist alliances. In ENGLISH.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Twitter Basics Workshop


Learn about the online social network Twitter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Rochelle Feinstein


Rochelle Feinstein’s works often weave together her own subjectivity with historical and vernacular associations, an expansive painting lexicon, and the mythologies and matter of popular culture. The result is an a-stylistic yet deeply personal body of work, each gesture deliberate and vacillating between earnestness and irreverence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: The Photographer's Playspace


The Photographer’s Playspace features twenty photographers who have created new works in response to a recently published compilation designed to inspire fresh perspectives in a photographer’s creative process. Using assignments selected by Christopher McCall, director of Pier 24 Photography, the photographers produced works that both reflect a continuation of established practices and represent new directions in making pictures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Fiction Reading Group


Join the long-running fiction reading group for a discussion on The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Please read the book first.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Glenn Rolnick discusses his book Carmine's Celebrates: Classic Italian Recipes for Everyday Feasts


No reservations are necessary for the sumptuous new cookbook written by Glenn Rolnick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Pop Music and Performance Art


Writer Diedrich Diederichsen and curator Stuart Comer will talk about the relationship between pop music and the visual arts, aesthetic experience in the cultural industry, and the special role of performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Talk | Quick and Dirty: Early News Images for the Masses


Michael Leja, professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, studies the visual arts in various media (painting, sculpture, film, photography, prints, illustrations) in the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily in the United States. His work is interdisciplinary and strives to understand visual artifacts in relation to contemporary cultural, social, political, and intellectual developments. He is especially interested in examining the interactions between works of art and particular audiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Timothy Shriver discusses his book Fully Alive


In an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how his teachers have been the world’s most forgotten minority: people with intellectual disabilities. In conversation with Martha Beck. Event space seating will open at 5:00 pm on 4th floor. Priority seating with book purchase is limited.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Brain Games


Don’t just play them, learn with them. Reward and exercise your brain the fun way. Master your strategy skills with Chess or Go. Learn about finance with Monopoly and The Game of Life. With many games to choose from, it’s not all just fun and games.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | College Jazz Room Series


Student combos present a rich variety of music, from Brazilian, Indian, and electronic to straight-ahead and exploratory jazz
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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