38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, October 7, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
This two-day conference will feature a variety of speakers, including the Heilbroner Center's own Julia ...
more >> Ott and New School History faculty Aaron Jakes. The keynote address, "'To make ourselves the masters and possesors of nature': Dutch Capitalism and the World-Ecological Revoluton of the Long Seventeenth Century," will be presented by the luminary Jason W. Moore.
Distance: 12-14 miles In this walk we will start at the northern tip of Red Hook, Brooklyn and follow ...
more >> the shoreline up to Queens ending at Queensboro Plaza. Approximately 12-14+ miles. Brisk, steady pace at 3+ mph. Rain cancels. Bring lunch and water.
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for ...
more >> over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World ...
more >> Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> 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.
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, ...
more >> 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.
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ...
more >> The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky. Weekly guided 75-minute walking tours led by knowledgeable ...
more >> volunteer guides will offer you an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape. Takes place Saturdays May 2 -October 31 2017.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
This conference brings together scholars of French literature, music, and history, alongside sound artists ...
more >> from France and the Francophone world, to explore the place of sound in sensation/making sense. Talks and roundtables are organized around a series of performances which include a concert featuring compositions of Michaël Levinas, a performance at the Park Avenue Armory of Boulez’s Répons by IRCAM’s Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the innovative production by Roland Auzet of Bertrand-Marie Koltes’s play In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields. Levinas; the director of IRCAM, Frank Madlener; and Auzet will participate in discussions around their work.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ...
more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through ...
more >> the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
11:30am-12:15pm: Dance and drumming performance- Universal Dance and Drum Ensemble 12:00pm- 1:30pm Dr. ...
more >> Patricia Leonard- Interactive Lecture 1:30pm-3:00pm: Several stations will be set up outside including: Libation Ceremony - Cyril Innis Jr. Drumming Gregory Anderson - Egungun Masquerade w/ entourage musicians- Vicki Freemont: Visitors will create African masks or Wire dolls Christina Williams- Andrika symbol face painting Christina Williams Tamika Albertini- Tribal Face Adornments Schomberg Center-Information related to the Schomberg Events/Programs NPS Table-10th anniversary giveaways, Junior Ranger program, writing competition Flyer to be distributed Cumbe- Dance/Drum/Storytelling Workshop –Where? Lobby and Outdoor Audience? Children and Adults 1:00pm-3:00pm: Spoken word performances by Robyn Baxter & Verbal Artisan followed by the Youth Forum: Speak Up, Speak Out-30th Floor 3:00pm-4:00pm- Fusha Dance Performance
About 6 miles in Queens, level and moderately paced. Tour Sunnyside Gardens (the first example of a planned ...
more >> community in the U.S.), then cross the train yard to Northern Boulevard, where you'll visit (and lunch at or near) a rooftop farm at the edge of Astoria. After lunch, continue walking in Astoria (with Kaufman-Astoria Film Studios, Athens Square Park, and other points of interest en route) to Welling Court, where you'll see this year's selection of many colorful murals. Bring lunch, water, snacks. Steady rain cancels.
Celebrating Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse and in the tradition of Parks Commissioners before ...
more >> him, NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver will join fans of the Little Red Lighthouse at the 25th Annual Little Red Lighthouse Festival to read the book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge. This festival celebrates Manhattan’s beloved lighthouse.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This event brings together the work and voices of activists, artists, cultural critics and public intellectuals ...
more >> to consider how art and activism are shaping one another as visual materials that are recontextualized and recirculated at increasingly accelerated rates.
The Instant Shakespeare Company readings are set up to make Shakespeare accessible. The readings are ...
more >> usually without rehearsal, but they are on-your-feet Instant staged readings where the readers/actors move around as much as they feel comfortable. Readers are encouraged to share with their fellow readers and the audience so that the plays can exist as words and thoughts communicated through space, not just words on the page.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Including authors Gregory Edwards (Civil War Generals McLellan and Lee: The First Two Years of the War) ...
more >> and Joseph Rose (Grant Under Fire: An Expose of Generalship and Character in the American Civil War).
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Traditional German “beer hall” celebration and entertainment. 1 – 4pm: Arts & Crafts for kids ...
more >> + kidults with Creatively Wild 2 – 4pm: Street Beat Brass, a New Orleans inspired brass band, play traditional German, Polka, and Oompah hits. 5 – 9pm: Enjoy a high energy Oktoberfest performance complete with costumes, tubas, accordions, and more by Melina and the Oompahs. Melina’s musical act is drawn from inspiration from the original Oktoberfest in Munich, where she was previously featured.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ...
more >> from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick. Tour takes place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World ...
more >> Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
The National Writers Union welcome all to read their poetry. Poets who are members of the union will ...
more >> also participate by reading from their works.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Highlights: Schermerhorn Row, The Titanic Memorial , Meyer's Hotel. The Richard Haas Mural "Bridging ...
more >> the Gap," and The Joseph Rose House.
The tour explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood through discussions ...
more >> of the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. You’ll hear how Union Square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on “The Metronome” sculpture and so much more! This tour takes place every Saturday.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The Inamori Art Project Group was established by Naariko Inamori, a housewife with a progressive and ...
more >> incurable disease with the desire that we should hand over a peaceful future to children all over the world. Inamori Group, a volunter group of actors, singers, and dancers keeps alive that dream with theatrical plays music and live arts. They believe the message they bring will reach people's hearts and that the planet will be come a more peaceful world. They will perform "Prayer of Love and Peace" and "Nagasaki Miracle."
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Forty-five minute organ meditations celebrating the diverse repertoire of the pipe organ. The program ...
more >> features the great repertoire of the organ on the 101-rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor and Boody Organ Builders. Takes place every Saturday from Sept. 9, 2017 to May 27, 2018.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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At the monthly First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment, including ...
more >> dynamic performances and participatory experiences.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Linnea Vedder's recent paintings depict pregnancy, engaging the longstanding analogy between birth and ...
more >> creative genesis (see, for instance, Courbet's L'Origine du monde). Vedder takes up art's classical themes, engaging layering as both process and historical or conceptual content: gravid bodies are overlaid with semi-sheer floral patterns—signifying growth as well as interior decoration—or ensnared in an grid of broad, dark brushstrokes.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Lara Lev has earned a reputation as a fine virtuoso, but she also has some even more rare traits. She ...
more >> has always had a special interest in seldom-heard, unjustly neglected masterpieces, as well as in new music. Already while in the USSR, she took an active part in the "Sojuz Kompositorov" society for contemporary music, giving first performances of several new works. While in the USSR, she often performed as soloist with top-level chamber orchestras ("Moscow Virtuosos", "Moscow Soloists") and with several symphony orchestras. She also worked as a soloist of the Odessa Philharmonia, and as the First Violin of the Odessa Conservatory Quartet.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Soulful Sounds consist of college-educated young males having a passion for playing music. The group ...
more >> started out as a duo of the saxophonist and the keyboardist. However, over the years the band has expanded into a five-piece smooth ensemble. Soulful Sounds focuses on providing smooth live entertainment.
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An hour-long pre-concert discussion led by musicologists and scholars as they discuss the Hudson’s ...
more >> music and legacy, taking an in-depth look at their contributions to the genre. This discussion looks at the music and career jazz luminaries: drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Larry Grenadier, keyboardist John Medeski and guitarist John Scofield of the new supergroup Hudson.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Inamori Art Project Group was established by Naariko Inamori, a housewife with a progressive and ...
more >> incurable disease with the desire that we should hand over a peaceful future to children all over the world. Inamori Group, a volunter group of actors, singers, and dancers keeps alive that dream with theatrical plays music and live arts. They believe the message they bring will reach people's hearts and that the planet will be come a more peaceful world. They will perform "Prayer of Love and Peace" and "Nagasaki Miracle."
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the ...
more >> sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway.
Join guitarist Matt Wolfe and vocalist Lainie Munro for a night of great music- celebrating standards ...
more >> from the worlds of jazz, pop, and Broadway. Matt and Lainie enjoyed a packed house at their Don't Tell Mama show in NYC this summer, and were standing room only for all their shows on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines in 2016.