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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, November 10, 2026
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Workshop | Learn to Juggle in the Park
This juggling class is ideal for a quick lesson, an extended practice session, or just enjoy watching jugglers 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.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Classical Music | Organ Works by J.S. Bach in a Beautiful Church (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.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Film | Smoke Signal (1998): Coming-of-Age Comedy-Drama
Stoic Victor and eccentric storyteller Thomas journey from an Idaho reservation to Phoenix to retrieve Victor's estranged father's ashes. Director: Chris Eyre Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal
Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Elevate Your Content, Build Your Audience, & Create Videos To Stand Out on Social Media
Pro-filmmaker Matthew Sutherland hosts a hands-on workshop designed to help you turn high-quality filmmaking into viral social media content. Whether you're creating for TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube Shorts, you'll learn how to blend cinematic storytelling with platform-specific strategies to grab attention and boost engagement. What You'll Learn: - How to adapt pro filmmaking techniques for short-form content - The secrets to viral visuals-framing, lighting & cinematic camera moves - Optimizing content for different platforms (aspect ratios, pacing & trends) - Sound & music hacks to make your content hit harder - Editing tricks & engagement strategies to keep people watching Who Should Attend? Whether you're a Professional Filmmaker, film student, content creator, photographer looking to level up, or social media addict, this workshop will help you elevate your content, build your audience, and create videos that stand out.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
free, registration required
free, registration required
Museums | Art from All Over The World in the Most Amazing Museum
Explore the premier collections of modern and contemporary art in one of the world's most iconic architectural landmarks. Tickets for Pay-What-You-Wish hours are available online only and released at 10 am the morning of the event.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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4:00 pm
$1 min pay-what-you-wish,...
$1 min pay-what-you-wish,...
Concert | Folk Singer-Songwriter Celebrates Her New Album
An evening with Diana Silvers to honor the release of her upcoming record, ‘Daughter of Sorts.’ The evening will include an acoustic performance and Q&A from Diana, in addition to other activities surrounding the album. ‘Daughter of Sorts’ is a luminous and unflinchingly personal collection of songs that are at once achingly intimate and quietly infinite, the album is an exquisitely rendered study of loss, grief, and the reckoning that is growing up.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:00 pm
free, RSVP required
free, RSVP required
Classical Music | Guitar Works by Robert Schumann, J.S. Bach, Haydn, & More (In Person AND Online!)
Suvan Agarwal, guitar. Program: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (arr. Suvan Agarwal) Kinderszenen Op. 15 Joseph Hétu (1938-2010) Suite for Guitar Op. 62 William Walton (1902-1983) Five Bagatelles for Guitar Kohei Kondo (1965-) Wandering and Running in the Hills Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) Dos Preludios J.S. Bach (1685-1750) (arr. Suvan Agarwal) Selections Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (arr. Suvan Agarwal) Sonata Hob. XVI:28
Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Learn to Juggle in the Park
This juggling class is ideal for a quick lesson, an extended practice session, or just enjoy watching jugglers 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.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Zumba Rhythms Workout in the Park
Participants dance, sweat, and have a great time with friends and fellow Zumba enthusiasts. No experience is required, just come with a positive attitude and be ready to move your body to the rhythm of the music. Weather permitting. Please arrive 10 minutes before class begins.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:30 pm
free, registration required
free, registration required
Classical Music | "A Prime Mover of Piping Hot 21st-Century Repertoire" Peforms Contemporary Chamber Works
Hub New Music performs a program of bold, recent works. Program: Christopher Cerrone Barnes Dances Elijah Daniel Smith Stagnation Blues Dai Wei How the Stars Vanish… Christopher Cerrone New Addresses
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Unreal: Solo Painting Exhibition Incorporating Humanistic Observation & Sly Humor
New paintings by Julie Curtiss. Curtiss’s stylized figures are positioned so their faces remain obscured, while the paintings’ cropped compositions of isolated body parts construct an overarching narrative of humanistic observation and sly humor. Set in a metropolitan fever dream of intimate apartment interiors, laundromats, bodegas, and a fortune teller’s window, this body of work examines life in New York City, reflecting on identity, gender, and aging with a pervasive feeling of unreality. “Nothing feels real right now,” Curtiss observes. “It’s not even surreal, just the feeling that nothing can be trusted. We are bombarded with fake everything, AI everything, infiltrating our lives and our sense of reality.”
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Book Discussion | Art Historian Shares His New Book on an Iconic Modern Artist (+ Signing)
James Cahill celebrates his book, The Beverly Hills Housewife: Hockney's Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool. He will be in conversation with Patrick Monahan, followed by a signing.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Contemporary Works for Piano & Cello (In Person AND Online!)
An evening of music from two releases on the elsewhere label by Laura Cetilia, performed by Jack Yarbrough, piano, Hannah Soren, cello, and Laura Cetilia, cello. Works included: "laminae" for solo piano, "becoming of shadows" for cello and piano, and "soil + stone" for two cellos.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Debut Novel Celebration: The Squatters
Saba Brelvi shares her new book. About the book: Two families collide in Saba Brelvi’s The Squatters, a gripping debut that offers a piercing exploration of female friendship, particularly the kinds of bonds forged through proximity, motherhood, and social performance. Emotionally incisive, and morally unflinching, The Squatters explores the limits of compassion, the cost of solidarity, and interrogates the hidden boundaries of empathy within even the most intimate communities, revealing how quickly generosity can collapse when stability, property, and belonging feel under threat.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
free, RSVP required
free, RSVP required
Book Discussion | Ecologist Shares His New Book, Before New York (In Person AND Online!)
Eric Sanderson in conversation with Michael Kimmelman. In Before New York, Eric W. Sanderson invites readers on a breathtaking journey through the evolution of New York City—its natural features, inhabitants, and geography—from long before Henry Hudson's arrival in 1609 up to the present day. This monumental work is the culmination of more than 25 years of research, featuring 75 original maps, 200 color illustrations, and nearly 4,000 detailed descriptions of streams, wetlands, rocks, plants, animals, and Indigenous settlements. An epic expansion of Sanderson's bestselling and critically acclaimed book Mannahatta, this atlas and gazetteer brings to life the lost world of Welikia, land we now describe as the five boroughs of New York City, revealing what has vanished, what survives, and what could be restored with vision and care.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Origami Group Meet-Up
This event is for people to come together and share in the beautiful art of Origami--an ancient art of folding various mediums, most commonly paper. The word comes from the combination of the Japanese verb oru (to fold) and the noun kami (paper). Other materials often folded are fabric, wire mesh, sheet metal, tissue, thin plastic, cardboard, and straws.This group meets to teach each other new models and share paper, books, and tips. This meeting is free and open to all level of folders from beginner to advanced. There will be free paper available to share. You may choose to bring your own paper and books and just show up and fold! If you have models you would like to learn, or teach, let the organizers know, and they will try their best to accommodate.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
free, registration required
free, registration required
Party | Play Bridge in a Stress-Free Environment
The card game of Bridge requires four people to play: two teams of two people. Join the group with your bridge partner, or you will be matched with someone to play as a pair. If you would like to learn how to play bridge, organizers can offer some instruction, and you can observe others.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Filmmaker Roundtable Discussing Themes of Migration, Identity, & the Quest for Belonging
Three powerful documentaries recently screened at the 2025 Queens World Film Festival: Home by Johanny Mota; Soñando America by Judit Angle; and Safari by Seyeon Bang. Katha Cato, Executive Director, Queens World Film Festival, and the filmmakers will be present to discuss the films. These three films explore migration, identity, and the quest for belonging from different corners of the world. Home centers on the Dominican immigrant experience and the meaning of “home”; Soñando America follows undocumented immigrants from Mexico striving for a better life; Safari tells the story of a North Korean defector whose escape and survival lead her toward a dream of freedom. Together, these films reveal shared themes of hope, resilience, and the human cost of seeking safety and opportunity.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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free, registration required
Talk | New York Times-Featured Photographer Shares Her Journey & Craft
A talk by New York City-based commercial, editorial, and fine art photographer Emma Rose Milligan. Milligan is an Eddie Adams Workshop XXXVII alumnus. Her editorial writing and visual commissions have appeared in Bloomberg, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Zeit, and other publications. She is an American Photography 40, 41, and 42 chosen and selected winner; an ADC 104 Merit and Bronze Cube winner; and an ADC 105 Bronze Cube winner. Her personal work has been published internationally by Paris-based magazine Courrier International, as well as London-based book publisher Hoxton Mini Press. Her commercial work focuses on product, lifestyle, and brand activations for clients like MOSCOT, Sotheby’s, Vestiaire Collective, Warby Parker, and more.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Trust & Safety: Selection of Censored Works
A screening and conversation addressing the challenges faced by organizations entrusted with preserving artworks that test cultural, technological, and institutional limits. Artists and independent media organizations have long developed their own channels of circulation in response to cultural and institutional barriers. Histories of queer experimental media are especially bound up with these challenges. Artists created alternative networks for engaging sexuality, identity, and desire at moments of stringent cultural suppression. Today, commercial platforms apply standardized moderation systems to material whose meaning requires crucial historic context. The program features a selection of works from the collection by Peggy Ahwesh, Alex Bag, Ellen Cantor, Barbara Hammer, and Muntadas. The works were selected in relation to Vimeo’s content moderation policies and the limitations those policies pose for an archive of challenging media. Following the screening, Rebecca Cleman and Michael Connor will discuss the formation of alternative systems for distribution and access. Trust & Safety considers how arts organizations build and maintain their own technological infrastructure, and how federated systems such as PeerTube might support new networks for the circulation of challenging work.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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free, RSVP required
Talk | MoMA-Featured Photographer Discusses His Approach to Art
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is joined by Associate Curator Phil Taylor of the George Eastman Museum, to discuss the role of order in the context of his practice as both an artist and a critic.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
free, registration encouraged
free, registration encouraged
Classical Music | Poetry Brought to Life through Chamber Music by J.S. Bach
An hour-long performance bringing together Bach’s music and the unpublished poetry of Czech writer and Holocaust survivor Arnošt Lustig, featuring Grammy winner Paul Bogaev. Lustig’s poem, The Breaking of the Vessels, written in exile, is heard alongside Bach’s cantata Ich habe genug (BWV 82). Drawing on Jewish mystical tradition, the performance explores memory, hope, and the resilience of humanity in a shattered world. Mezzo-soprano Marie Kopecká Verhoeven performs with Czech chamber ensemble Barocco sempre molto giovane, under the artistic direction of Josef Krečmer. Grammy and Emmy winner Paul Bogaev, Nancy Petschek-Kohn, and Samuel DeMuria bring Lustig’s words to life.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
free, RSVP required
free, RSVP required
Book Club | Read & Discuss Book Prize Shortlisted Author's Classic Novella
A lively and engaging discussion of The Girls of Slender Means. The meeting will start with a short audio clip or recording of an interview with the author. Plan to discuss the book for 90 minutes. About the book: “Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions,” begins one of Muriel Spark’s most charming and wittiest novels, a portrait of young ladies living at the May of Teck Club, a London hostel in the postwar days of 1945.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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free, RSVP required
Book Discussion | Sociologist & Legal Scholar Discuss Their Books on the Economic Ecosystem
Ho-fung Hung, author of Greenback Empire, and Will Bateman, author of The Fiscal Fed in conversation. Greenback Empire: A critical history of the US dollar’s dominance in the world economy—and what has kept China’s currency from overtaking it. The dollar is the primary currency of the world economy. With China now rivaling the United States on the world stage, a critical question hangs in the balance: will the Chinese renminbi challenge the status of the dollar and, in doing so, deprive America of its “exorbitant privilege”? The Fiscal Fed: A revelatory history of how the Federal Reserve finances American power. Central banks, we are told, are economic superpowers that must remain independent of modern democratic governments. The US Federal Reserve’s presumed insulation from politics affords it autonomy and credibility to control inflation and promote economic stability—or so the story goes.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Wind Works by Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, & More (In Person AND Online!)
Camerata Nova Wind Ensemble. Program: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Symphonies of Wind Instruments John Barry (1933-2011) Hard D David Lang (1957-) streetdr Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Einleitung und Allegro from Symphonie für Bläser
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
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free, no reservation required
Classical Music | Viola Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, & More (In Person AND Online!)
Maya Takeda Ridenour, Viola da Gamba. Program: J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 1029 Marin Marais (1656-1728) Pieces de Viole Livre II Troisième Suite en D Majeur J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) (arr. O. Bassani) Cara la vita mia Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Concerto for Recorder and Viola da Gamba in A Minor TWV 52:a1
Manhattan, New York, NY
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8:00 pm
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