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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 11, 2022?

24 free events take place on Friday, November 11 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 11 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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24 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 11, 2022

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free events nyc 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
free events nyc Works by Chopin, Liszt, and More Performed in an Intimate Venue
free events nyc The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin
free events nyc Piano Works by Mozart, Beethoven and more
free events nyc Orchestral Works by Bartok and Grammy-Winning Jennifer Higdon
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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

Lecture | How to Break the Colonial Paradigm of Culture? (online)


Speaker Krzysztof Czyżewski is a practitioner of ideas, writer, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, editor. President of the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland, a director of the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations”, and a visiting professor of University of Bologna.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Symposium | Material Evidence: Assessing Risk in Museum Collections (online)


Mercury, arsenic, and other harmful substances were routinely included in the production processes of many 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century textiles, fashions, and accessories. The Material Evidence Virtual Symposium highlights and considers the risks posed by museum collection objects tainted with hazardous substances. Speakers include the following conservation professionals: Jamie Casbon, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Ann Coppinger, The Museum at FIT; Anna Rose Keefe and Bri Turner, RISD Museum; Cheryl Podsiki, in private practice; Sarah Scaturro, Cleveland Museum of Art; and Dr. Melissa A. Tedone, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

Conference | The Re-Appearing Pheasant: An Encounter of American and Italian Poets and Critics (in-person and online)


11:00am Welcoming Remarks Stefano Albertini, NYU Luigi Ballerini, UCLA Emeritus 11:30am Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University Emerita On Italian Poetry in Today's America 1:00pm Andrea Cortellessa, Università Roma 3 The Legacy of the Neo-Avant-Garde / 1 1:30pm Poetry Reading with: Charles Bernstein, Brooklyn, NY Antonella Anedda, Rome Peter Gizzi, UMass, Amherst Marco Giovenale, Rome Tommaso Ottonieri, Università di Roma, La Sapienza 4:00pm Chris Mustazza, UPenn, Philadelphia The Experience of Pennsound 4:30pm Fabrizio Bondi, Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples The Interactive Wunderkammer of Contemporary Italian Poetry 5:00pm-7:00pm Round Table The Logics of Poetry with: Paul Bové, University of Pittsburgh Franca D'Agostini, Università di Milano Tom Huhn, SVA, New York Achille Varzi, Columbia University Chair: Luigi Ballerini, UCLA Emeritus In English
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Opera | Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War (Online)


This new work gives voice to American, British, European, Asian, African and Caribbean women affected by WWI through a series of vignettes that share their responses to the war -- from enthusiasm to resignation; support to opposition; the war's beginning to its end. Combining contemporary music with excerpts from women's writings on both sides of the conflict, Letters tells the story of the Great War as experienced by the women who lived through it. Composed by Kirsten Volness Libretto by Kate Holland and Susan Werbe CAST Maria Maxfield, Soprano (Woman 1) Jessica Sandidge, Soprano (Woman 2) Sarah Beckham-Turner, Soprano (Woman 3) Caitlin McKechney, Mezzo-soprano (Woman 4) Tesia Kwarteng, Mezzo-soprano (Woman 5) Tharanga Goonetilleke, Soprano (Woman 6) QUINTET Andie Tanning, Violin I Sunny Sheu, Violin II Tia Allen, Viola Titilayo Ayangade, Cello Eleonore Oppenheim, Double Bass
   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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Lecture | Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500 (online)


Dr. Peter Wilson, the Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, discusses his book, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before the rise of Prussia and the world wars.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Desert Star: Latest Thriller from New York Times Bestselling Author Michael Connelly (online)


In what may be Connelly's most gripping and profoundly moving book yet, LAPD detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch's "white whale"--a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Potions: From Poisons to Panaceas - the Secret Life of Botanicals (online)


Led by Lauren Burke of Sacred Vibes Apothecary in Brooklyn, this herbal workshop features the properties of various botanicals, some of which are included in the exhibition. Sacred Vibes Apothecary presents an exploration of medicinal plants, antidotes and the ethnobotanical history of the Aloe, Ackee and Soursop plants of the Caribbean.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Works by Copland and More for Trumpet (In Person and Online)


Patrick Smithers, Trumpet Program Andre Jolivet (1905 - 1974) Air de Bravoure Jacques Ibert (1890 - 1962) Impromptu Henri Tomasi (1901 - 1971) Triptyque Cait Nishimura (1991 - ) Golden Hour Brandon Ridenour (1985 - ) Music for Trumpet and Djembe Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) Quiet City Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (1708 - 1780) Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat Major
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Openings: 1950s: Spirit and Substance / A Liquid Belonging


Richard Pousette-Dart's 1950s: Spirit and Substance—which spotlights Pousette-Dart’s paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and journals from the 1950s, a pivotal decade of the artist’s career—is curated by Joanna Pousette-Dart, the artist’s daughter. The presentation offers an unprecedented, in-depth look at a protean period in which Pousette-Dart’s painterly investigations were directed toward the extremes of color, light, and physical density. A Liquid Belonging ,Torkwase Dyson's upcoming exhibition of new site-specific sculptural installations and paintings, invites viewers into spatial and perceptual practices that affirm improvisation, indeterminacy, and migration. This forthcoming presentation will mark Dyson’s first solo show at our New York gallery.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts (online)


The museum’s critically acclaimed performance series returns. Music featured thematically reflects the spirit of self-taught art on view at the museum. Featuring: 6:00 pm Shlomo Franklin - Indie folk country 6:30 pm Ganessa James - Soulful global folk 7:00 pm Melissa Czarnik - Poetic folk jazz  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Alien Artists Collective: Everywhere and Nowhere


Everywhere and Nowhere features the works of 12 immigrant artists that met through the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. This group show explores themes of home, identity, and belonging through various media such as painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media, and performance art. There are 9 different countries represented including Uzbekistan, Japan, South Korea, Dominican Republic, Turkey, France, Ireland, Lebanon, and Israel. Influenced by their specific backgrounds, this community of international immigrant artists came together with the desire to create a collective exhibition that celebrates diversity and interconnectedness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Philip Taaffe: Recent Paintings


The presentation of new work will feature intimate kaleidoscopic panels realized in monotype and collage, and rooted in a process recently developed by the artist. Expanding on Taaffe's celebrated ability to build complex compositions, the paintings cull from a wide variety of sources, from illuminated manuscripts to historical natural science materials.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Children's Books of Bruno Munari


Curator Steven Guarnacchia is joined by Meagan Bennett, Seymour Chwast, and Ulla Warchol to discuss the children's books of Bruno Munari, celebrating the exhibition Bruno Munari: The Child Within, now open at the Center for Italian Modern Art. Bruno Munari (Milan, 1907– Milan, 1998) was one of the most independent and influential figures in the history of twentieth-century international art, design, graphics, and film. Associated with the second wave of the Italian Futurist movement, and one of the founders of the Italian movement for concrete art—Movimento Arte Concreta, his multifaceted practice allowed him to contribute to all fields of the visual arts, as well as literature, poetry and teaching. He is considered one of the protagonists of programmed and kinetic art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin


Humane, thought provoking, and moving, Kirsty Bell's hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city's theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Bell--a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties--becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house's various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city's familiar narratives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Hillary and Clinton: Presidential Ambitions


A woman named Hillary is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Losing ground to her charismatic young opponent, she turns to her husband, Bill, for help. Lucas Hnath has set this story in an alternate universe. That means all bets are off. Starring C.K. Allen, Arthur Aulisi, Susanna Frazer, and Mark Hofmaier. Directed by Katrin Hilb. After the play will be an open discussion exploring the ethical issues raised by the play. Produced by Patricia Bruder Debrovner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Film | The Case You (2020): Abused Actors


Just how far is it acceptable to push actors in the name of cinema? And at what point do you cross the boundary where acting becomes sexual assault? These are the questions raised by the testimony of six young women, including guest Isabelle Bertges, who were manipulated and sexually abused during an audition. They knew beforehand that the film they were auditioning for was about incest, and they were familiar with the director’s controversial work, but during the audition, without prior discussion, they were groped, beaten, and forced to undress. These traumatizing experiences resurfaced when a few years later it transpired that the footage of the auditions had been made into a documentary. Director: Alison Kuhn 80 min. In German with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | A Celebration of Chopin


Jakub Kuszlik, piano Program Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849) Mazurkas op. 50 Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849) Scherzo E-major, op. 54 Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849) Ballade in F major op.38 Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860 - 1941) Polonaise B-dur, op. 9 nr 6 Frederic Francois Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20. Thereafter he gave only 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by giving piano lessons, for which he was in high demand.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Baritone and Soprano from Haiti


Haitian singers Jean-Bernard Cerin and Melissa Joseph follow the trajectory of a baroque melody through the Caribbean. Baritone Jean Bernard Cerin and soprano Melissa Joseph, joined by Stephen Gamboa-Diaz on harpsichord and piano, present a program based on Cerin's research which explores the tale--across centuries and continents--of "Lisette quitte la plaine," an enduringly popular song from Haiti that provides an uncanny pathway to highlight classical music by and about people of African descent.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Piano Works by Mozart, Beethoven and more


Jan Loffler, piano; Juliet Kim, violin; Sharon Harms, soprano; William Anderson, guitar Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Sonata for Two Pianos Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Violin Sonatas Songs from the Mascha Kaleko Project - a consortium of contemporary composers exploring the poetry of Mascha Kaleko (1907 - 1975)
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Orchestral Works by Bartok and Grammy-Winning Jennifer Higdon


The Mannes Orchestra led by The Conducting Studio of David Hayes. Program Bela Bartok (1881-1945) Concerto for Orchestra Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) All Things Majestic Known for their bold and adventurous programming, the Mannes Orchestra has been hailed by The New York Times as an orchestra whose quality is "a revelation"," and for their "intensity of focus." Proof of up-to-date vaccination, including a booster when eligible, requied. Masks are required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free
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