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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 4, 2021?

21 free events take place on Thursday, November 4 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 4 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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21 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, November 4, 2021

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Classical Music | Songs by Schubert, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dyland and More (online, streaming through Nov 9)


"Classical meets rock star duo" (Wall Street Journal) of pianist Peter Dugan and violinist/vocalist Charles Yang is joined by Grammy-winning barotine John Brancy and mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan for the festival of song with a repertoire from Schubert to Stevie Wonder, emerging composer Leonardo Dugan to the iconic Bob Dylan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 am
Free

Museums | Folk Art: Diverse and Rich


The museum's collection includes more than eight thousand works of art from four centuries and nearly every continent--from compelling portraits and dazzling quilts to powerful works by living artists in a variety of mediums. Proof of vaccination, ID, masks are required. Museum is open Wednesday - Sunday, 11:30 am - 6:00 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Discussion | What Makes a Great Korea Analyst? (online)


A discussion of the latest developments on and around the Korean Peninsula and thoughts on how media, members, and analysts current and aspiring might best hone skills and insights on Korea. As premier analysts with unique insights, the guests speak to tropes, prejudice and generalizations that stymy sound analysis and suggest ways to approach Peninsular affairs anew. With: Council on Foreign Relations Director of the Program on US-Korea Policy Scott A. Snyder, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Markus Garlauskas, Stimson Center nonresident fellow Rachel Minyoung Lee, Senior Director Stephen Noerper, Policy Director Jonathan Corrado.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Midtown Music


Accomplished musicians playing live music in a pop-up performance. Linger and listen for a song or two, come across an unexpected soundtrack during lunch or on your commute home, and be surprised by the melodies of midtown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Classical Music | Baroque Music For Pardessus De Viole, Basse De Viole And More (In Person and Online)


Tina Chancey, pardessus de viole; John Mark Rozendaal, basse de viole; Webb Wiggins, harpsichord. A repertoire of sonatas and suites inspired by the 1759 pardessus arrangements. About The Performers Tina Chancey has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall and the Kennedy Center, and has released five pardessus recordings, most recently Fetes Galantes. Tina directed an International Pardessus Conference at the 2017 Boston Early Music Festival. John Mark Rozendaal specializes in teaching and performing stringed instrument music from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. He has performed both solo and continuo roles with many period instrument ensembles, including the Newberry Consort, Orpheus Band, and the King's Noyse. Webb Wiggins has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestr and more. He has given concerts, classes, lectures, and coachings to students at the Shanghai Music Middle School and at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Quito Ecuador. Program Marais Marin (1656-1728) Suite in D Major Johan Schenk (1660-1717) Suite IX from Scherzi musicali Froberger Johann Jakob (1616-1667) Partita in D Major Marais Marin (1656-1728) Couplets de Folies D'Espagne Vaccination Card required. Masks required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Concert | Brass Music in Midtown


Come and ‘cut a rug’ on the plaza with NYC’s finest brass bands party drawing on the Jazz heritage of New Orleans to bring you songs from the seventies, numbers from the noughties, and something for everyone in-between.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Considering Unknow Know With What Is, And: Paintings on the Human Footprint


A presentation of work by Chris Johanson featuring ten new paintings on recycled canvas. Over the last five years, Johanson has made a significant departure from previous bodies of work. Reflecting on life and the material footprint that humans leave behind, Johanson has abandoned wood substrates for discarded drop cloths and clothing stretched over found stretcher bar materials, creating slow and meticulous paintings reminiscent of ancient frescoes or mandala paintings. A deliberately measured and thoughtful method, Johanson considers his work on these paintings to be a meditative process. He contemplates themes of impermanence, fluidity and the overall fleeting nature of existence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Divination: Contemporary Art, Ancient Traditions


Qiu Xiaofei’s latest solo exhibition focuses on the artist’s explorations in painting since 2019. Deriving its title from a famous chapter of the ancient Chinese poetry anthology The Songs of Chu, this show includes new and recent works that reveal how the artist pursues and evokes a contemporary impetus for painting in more ancient traditions of art history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Immortal Reflection: Subversive Paintings


A literary genre developed in 18th century France later known as the libertine novel. From the mid 1750s until the French Revolution, writers such as Denis Diderot, Cyrano de Bergerac and Choderlos de Laclos created narratives that were deeply rebellious. Their work balance seduction and the erotic with a resistance to the structures of the establishment. Genieve Figgis’s subversive paintings share the same sensibility. Her work is innately libertine, exuding pleasure and satire, sensitivity and subversion in equal measure.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Normal Fault: An Installation of Paintings


An exhibition of new work by Roxy Paine. Comprising an installation of thirteen relief paintings and one of the artist’s Dioramas, the works extend Paine’s epistemological investigations into the interconnected structures that constitute both the natural world and the systems humanity has imposed on it. Roxy Paine’s work is the subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide including Roxy Paine: Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor at Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, OH, 2016–17; Natura Naturans at Villa Panza, Varese, Italy, 2015–16; and Roxy Paine: Scumaks and Dendroids at Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO in 2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Peter Berlin: One of a Kind: Hand-Painted Photo Self-Portraits


An exhibition of the artist’s hand-painted photographic self portraits from the 1970s and 1980s, along with other work. In his early 20s while still living in Germany, Peter Berlin began designing and sewing skin-tight clothing which he would wear as he cruised the parks and train stations of Berlin, Rome, Paris, New York, and San Francisco. After several long-term stays on the east coast of the United States, he eventually settled in San Francisco in 1969 and became a fixture on the streets with his signature look and perpetual posing. Trained in photography, Berlin would shoot self portraits in order to document his favorite outfits. By the 1970s, as he became increasingly well known, these photographs grew into a mail order business. However, often in the excitement of a shoot, the artist would inadvertently underexpose some frames of film. Not wanting to waste any of the prints, Berlin began taking a brush with acrylic and oil paint to enhance and beautify the compositions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Spheres and Lenses: Translucent Sculptures


Artist Helen Pashgian’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1969. This exhibition will feature a series of new lens and sphere sculptures, expanding on the bodies of work for which she is best known. Born in 1934 in Pasadena, Pashgian is widely recognized as a pioneer and leading member of the 1960s Light and Space movement in Southern California, which explored Minimalism with a close eye toward the interaction between light and space. Over the course of her career, Pashgian has produced an extensive oeuvre of innovative sculptures―vibrantly colored columns, discs, and spheres―that engage light, color, and form in wholly unique ways.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Toma: Paintings by a Haitian-Born, Miami-Based Artist


Tomm El-Saieh’s dense and rhythmic paintings derive inspiration from myriad sources, ranging from the history of international abstraction to Haitian Vodou traditions, such as trance-induction and percussive music. Obsessive markings—notations, shapes, scratches, and erasures—saturate the surfaces of his canvases, creating fields of bursting, complex color. The synesthetic, all-over compositions that El-Saieh produces through his meticulous process are at once sublime and sensual, mystical and direct, chaotic and restrained. While firmly planted in the realm of abstraction, El-Saieh’s paintings also suggest complex networks, sprawling cities, or molecular structures. Within the clustered code of his brushwork, figurative associations emerge and recede.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Smoke Signals (1998): Native American Family Dynamics (online)


Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family. Director: Chris Eyre Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard 89 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Solid Ivory: Oscar-Winning Director James Ivory Discusses His Memoir (online)


A carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career as one of the most influential directors of his time. At times, he touches on his love affairs, looking back coolly and with unexpected frankness. From first meeting his collaborator and life partner, Ismail Merchant, at the Indian Consulate in New York to winning an Academy Award at age eighty-nine for Call Me by Your Name; from seeing his first film at age five in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to memories of Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, The New Yorker magazine’s film critic Pauline Kael (his longtime enemy), Vanessa Redgrave, J. D. Salinger, George Cukor, Kenneth Clark, Bruce Chatwin, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Merchant—Ivory writes with invariable fluency, wit, and perception about what made him who he is and how he made the movies for which he is known and loved.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime: Emotional Photographs (online)


Love stories during the Holocaust are as inspiring as they are remarkable. In photographer Max Hirshfeld's new book Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime, he offers an intimate look at one of these stories through powerful photographs, a series of emotional love letters between his parents, and the narrative of a son's pilgrimage exploring his origins. This is a program exploring Hirshfeld's work with the photographer and Jacqueline Kott-Wolle, a fellow artist and daughter of Holocaust survivors. Hirshfeld and Kott-Wolle will explore different forms of love, expression, and the idea that Jewish trauma and hardship did not end after the war.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Art of Revision: The Last Word (online)


Peter Ho Davies returns for another deep dive into the art of revision, this time for the launch of the fifteenth volume of the Art of series. Davies contributes his insights on the often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject of revision in the writing process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with Congressman Antonio Delgado (online)


Delgado is serving his second term representing upstate New York’s 19th Congressional District. During his time in office, Representative Delgado has held 63 town halls and passed 12 bills into law under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Most recently, he authored legislation that provided COVID-19 economic recovery funding to every unit of local government nationwide, irrespective of its population size. He is one of Congress's most bipartisan Members, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Lugar Center. The Congressman serves on the House Committees on Small Business, Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure. He speaks with Scott Rechler.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artists in Conversation (online)


A conversation between Spandita Malik and artist Eileen Quinlan about Malik’s show, Vadhu: The Embroidered Bride 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Lure: Dystopian Graphic Novel (online)


Cartoonist Lane Milburn launches of his debut science fiction graphic novel, a scintillating, close-to-home dystopic parable rendered in haunting and kaleidoscopic detail. In a questionably distant future, the world’s elite use the ocean planet Lure as a luxury vacation hub—but when climate change threatens Earth’s long-term habitability, many of those who can afford it move to Lure for good. When artist Jo Spartz is invited to Lure to collaborate on a large-scale public art installation, it seems like the chance of a lifetime until she stumbles across a nefarious plot by her corporate benefactors and feels compelled to go public.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Singer-Songwriter Who Weaves in African Rhythms


This artist blends the sounds and rhythms of her upbringing in her songs. Her writing may lean towards that of singer-songwriter, but she weaves in rhythms of her African heritage and loves to use percussive elements in her playing. If the three main building blocks of music consist of melody, harmony and rhythm, then rhythm is the least complex in popular American/European music. But a variety of music from the African diaspora have a heavy emphasis on the rhythmic element. The artist's intention is to bring more gravity towards rhythmic feel as well, whilst still being true to the traditional song-form of the tradition of the great singer-songwriters.ammy-nominated soul singer Musiq Soulchild, and acclaimed German soul singer Joy Denalane, and has worked with US musicians/producers Kelo Saunders and Chris Sholar, to name a few.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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