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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 30, 2011?

37 free events take place on Friday, September 30 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 September 30 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 September . 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, September 30, 2011

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Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary! Hing also teaches Tai Chi at the China Institute. He has practiced martial arts for over 25 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Park Walk | Fitness Walk NYC


This free fitness walk is one hour long and led by experienced Instructors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Other | 9/11: A Uniform Response, a Photography Exhibit Honoring the NYPD


To mark the 10th anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, The Associated Press and the Museum have collaborated on an exhibition of 30 compelling photographs drawn from the AP archives. 9/11: A Uniform Response pays tribute to the New York City Police Department and all first responders, honoring their role on and after Sept. 11. Poignant images taken by award-winning AP photographers depict the morning of the attacks, the courageous response in the days and weeks afterward, the long road to recovery, and the building of 1 World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, the rising symbol of rebirth at Ground Zero. In addition, the show features a brief documentary film offering interviews with AP photographers represented in the exhibit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Talk | Learn about the Peoples of the Plains


With Laura Browarny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint 1 Workshop


Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Bridge Club for Advanced Beginners


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players only. Join the fun and meet new friends.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | MS Excel 1 Workshop


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2003. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Workshop | Petanque in the Park


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Ping Pong in the Park


Test your skills at state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge to all skill levels. Sign up with an attendant in the park to play.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Lesson | Juggling Lessons in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Yuka Aikawa, Award-Winning Jazz Pianist


Pianist and composer Yuka Aikawa began playing piano at the age of five in her native country, Japan. She studied at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where she received her M.A. in jazz performance under the guidance of Sir Roland Hanna and Jimmy Heath. During this time, she received the prestigious Michael Feinstein Award for "Outstanding Talent." You can see her at various Jazz clubs in and around the New York area, including the Blue Note, Kitano Hotel, and Birdland Jazz Club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Daily Screenings: Mother Earth in Crisis | Indigenous Lands and Forests


With: Los Derechos de la Pachamama/The Rights of Mother Earth and Sisa Ñambi Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Ellis Island: The Golden Door


The Institute for Retired Professionals presents this program of free events on timely topics for IRP members, friends, and all members of the New School community. Tom Bernardin began his association with Ellis Island in 1978 as a national park ranger giving tours of the island before its restoration. In a lecture illustrated with authentic photographs of the immigrants passing through the facility, he reveals many little-known aspects of the immigration process and of Ellis Island then and now, after its restoration as a national monument.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Luis Buñuel's Oscar Nominee That Obscure Object of Desire (1977): Obsession from Afar


Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalized him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her. 102 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | French Film: Michael Haneke's Cache (2005)


A talk-show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy. 118 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Talk | Learn About The Buffalo


Learn about the importance of the Buffalo to Nations of the Plains with William Chimborazo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Polish Film: Andrzej Wajda's A Generation (1955)


With Roman Polanski. Wajda’s debut film is interesting for its understandably uncritical stance toward Poland’s Soviet occupiers (in dramatic contrast to his Katyn, made a half-century later). 85 min. In Polish with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Other | Game Night


Come play your favorite classic games or try a new one at the monthly game night! They've got checkers, Scrabble, Taboo, Battleship, Monopoly and current crowd pleaser, Apples to Apples.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Free Music Fridays


Featuring Jo Kroger, Alec Gross and Karen Dahlstrom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Marina Goldovskaya's A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)


In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. An investigative journalist for Moscow's liberal Novaya Gazeta, she was often the only spokesperson for victims of the Chechen War. Hers was a lonely voice, yet loud enough for the entire country to hear. It was too loud. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job. This documentary is based on Anna's conversations with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, Anna's former university professor and personal friend. Shot over a period of 20 years, this exclusive footage creates an incredible story of a woman who consciously gave her life for her convictions. 85 min. Followed by a Q&A session with Goldovskaya.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | Twilight Nature Observations


Join naturalists observing birds, insects, and other wildlife that become active just before nightfall.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | New York Is Where We Are, a Retrospective of German Artist Sabine von Oettingen


A comprehensive retrospective of the work of Sabine von Oettingen, one of the former GDR’s most extravagant underground-performers and founding member of the fashion performance group „CCD – chic charmant und dauerhaft“ (chic, charming and durable). Jürgen Hohmuth’s documentary photo exhibition will be accompanied by a fashion show in the courtyard. Sabine von Oettingen grew up in East Berlin, the capital of the former GDR. After 10th grade she became a professional fashion designer, and has since lived and worked as an artist and fashion designer. She is a founding member of CCD, an East Berlin underground-fashion-performance ensemble, created in 1983 and has staged over 70 performances in Germany and abroad. Since 1991 she has produced under the Label Sabine von Oettingen – TAKELAGE.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Screening | 3rd Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival: The Freedom Archives


Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the founding of the BPP. The Freedom Archives (2000, 40 min. excerpt) - Albert 'Nuh' Washington passed away April 28, 2000, at the Regional Medical Unit at Coxsackie Correctional Facility. Nuh (the Arabic form of Noah) was a committed member of the Black Panther Party and was arrested on August 28, 1971 in San Francisco. This film is based on an interview done with Nuh Washington in 1988 by Fiona Boneham and Paper Tiger TV in March, 2000.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested admission

Colloquium | Common Currency, Divided Nations: The Euro and Its Future


With: JEANNE LAZARU, Sociology, CNRS; CHRISTIANE LEMKE, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies; GEORGE W. ROSS, Université de Montréal. Other participants TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Food Network's Alton Brown discusses his book Good Eats 3: The Later Years


The Food Network star returns for the latest companion book to his cult series Good Eats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Lydia Davis, National Book Award winner, reads from her Collected Stories


The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was released by Picador in 2010. Davis’s previous book, Varieties of Disturbance: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) won the National Book Award.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Rico Gatson's Three Trips Around the Block, a 15-Year Retrospective


Brooklyn-based Rico Gatson was born in 1966 in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Riverside, California. His work generates collective memory through the exploration of symbols and images culled from popular culture and the mass media, questioning issues of identity, racial intolerance, and the status quo. Three Trips Around the Block is a survey of Gatson’s sculpture, painting, video, drawings, and installations, including several new pieces created for the exhibition. The title of the retrospective stems from a powerful experience Gatson had with his brother who, after spending fifteen years in prison, reconnected with the artist by taking a long walk around the block. The conversation that occurred during their “trips around the block” inspired Gatson to creatively explore their own disparate lives – a personal excavation made public in this poignant and provocative exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Bolarm Kim, Pianist



   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Visual/Invisual: Do Words Produce Art?


The organizers of the Biennale de Paris argue that words that are being used in art today are insufficient to describe their practice and propose a new vocabulary: the invisual, non-artistic-art, etc. After defining those key words for the public, the panelists will address the question whether such “dematerialization” threatens art to turn into a dry intellectual exercise or if it elevates art to new levels of significance. Panelists include: Alexandre Gurita, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Jean-Baptise Farkas, and Marek Bartelik (moderator).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Polish Film: Andrzej Wajda's The Revenge (2002)


With Roman Polanski. Aleksander Fredro’s Molière-like play was a success in Poland, and Polanski plays his comic role—a devious courtier caught up in aristocratic intrigues—to the hilt. 100 min. In Polish with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Screening | 3rd Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival: 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers


Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the founding of the BPP. 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers (Gregory Everett, 2010, 120 min.) - The first part in a documentary series that follows the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party from its Black Power beginnings through to its tragic demise. This film contains interviews with former Black Panther Party members along with archival footage detailing the history of racism in Los Angeles, including the Watt's uprising from the perspective of the participants who engaged with the L.A.P.D. 41st & Central also gives the viewer an eyewitness account of Bunchy and John Huggins murders at U.C.L.A. in 1968. Post-screening Q&A with Roland Freeman, original member of the BPP and co-producer of 41st and Central, Harold Taylor (San Francisco 8), Bullwhip Innis, Cleo Silvers, BJ Johnson, (all Original BPP members).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$10 suggested admission

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Mother's Day by Jennifer Fell Hayes


Inspired by the true story of the Brown Sisters, Sally and Margaret, who were separated in childhood and reunited nearly 50 years later.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Party | funk-jam-rockers keep you in a trance while making your feet dance


The New York funk-jam-rockers keep you in a trance while making your feet dance on their debut self-titled LP release. With Dave (guitar) and Teddy (vocals) from theinfamous downtown group Rolling Bones. You're free to spin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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