15 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 8, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided ...
more >> tours. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hot spot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> 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
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
A 45-minute tour of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central and South America demonstrates ...
more >> the breadth of the museum's renowned collection and highlights the importance of many of these iconic objects.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Cathedral organists provide a 30-minute break for mind, body and spirit on Mondays at 1 pm with an entertaining ...
more >> and informative demonstration of the Cathedral’s unparalleled Great Organ.
A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the ...
more >> 20th century, T.C. Cannon embodied the activism, cultural transition and creative expression that defined America in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn how Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary.
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Enjoy nutrition information, preparation demonstrations and tastings. Includes helpful research findings, ...
more >> healthy recipes, portion planning and shopping tips for the reason. Nutritionist Lauren C. Kelly offers creative twists on cuisines of many cultures, fermenting food for better health. Mondays, September 24-October 29, 2018.
Move your body to the beat! Have fun while you exercise! Bring a towel or an exercise mat. Come in comfortable ...
more >> clothing. This workshop takes place every Monday.
5:30 pm
free, reservation required
An ordinary Connecticut couple follows their dream to adopt a little girl from Russia. They soon find ...
more >> themselves trapped in a story which has all the elements of a Hitchcock thriller. This dark and disturbing true story takes the audience on a 90 minute One Act ride through the streets of Moscow and into the hinterlands of Siberia. The authors have written a show which is both witty and terrifying at the same time.
Shobha Rao's short story collection focuses on the lives of women and children during the 1947 partition ...
more >> of India and Pakistan.
At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television were placed ...
more >> on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence. But in truth these women were, by nature of their diversity and ambition, a threat to the traditional portrayal of the American family on the airwaves. Through original archival research and access to FBI blacklist documents, The Broadcast 41 details the blacklisted women’s attempts in the 1930s and 1940s to depict America as diverse, complicated, and inclusive. With author Carol Stabile.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
1000 singers from across New York will come together for the first-ever performances of The Mile-Long ...
more >> Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock. A sweeping choral work will immerse audiences in the personal stories of hundreds of New Yorkers about life in this rapidly changing city. The conversations, centered on the meaning of 7:00 pm, reveal a vast spectrum of feelings and perspectives—and, by extension, represent the diverse character of the city’s inhabitants and their individual experiences. Conceived by composer David Lang. "David Lang has established himself as a master of powerful, large-scale public music through ambitious projects like “the public domain,” for 1,000 voices at Lincoln Center, and “symphony for a broken orchestra,” for hundreds of broken school instruments in Philadelphia." - New York Times
7:00 pm
free tickets required
Comedian and the star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt delivers a hilarious and uplifting ...
more >> collection of essays about one pale woman’s journey from Midwestern naïf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In the summer of 1933, in Paris, an 18-year old woman poisoned her parents and the crime became a great ...
more >> cause célèbre of the interwar era. This talk will present a new interpretation of a famous French patricide and further explore the writing of history from a judicial case: the social imaginary and its mechanisms as revealed through micro-history. Speaker Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini is Professor of History at University of Paris 13 and the author of Violette Nozière, la fleur du mal: Une histoire des années trente (2017). Talk in French with English translation.
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held ...
more >> in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join each season in performing at the historic church. Featuring: Han Yu True Wells Theatre Em Papineau and Sofia Engelman Kevon Simpson Nicole Wolcott
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required