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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, September 21, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Workshop | Tai Chi Outdoors
Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide ... more >> a serene background for the ancient flowing postures. Tai Chi results in strength and focus of body and mind. An ideal choice for participants of all ages. Instructor: Alex Hing Fridays, September 7-28, 2018.
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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 ... 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
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10:00 am
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Festival | International Day of Peace Party
10:15 AM- SuPaulo dulcimer during set up, calming affect 10:30 AM- Al Smith Medley of Songs Wilson Picket ... more >> and more, Aretha Franklin Medley with Cherette White 11:00 AM-PEACE VIGIL PER CESSION. Then Reverend Paul Sladkus shares Claire Diab International Yoga Teacher, Deepak Chopra Centers Meditation and Grounding 11:10 AM- Kristen Hoffman and Kaeshi Chai Original Dance & Music 11:20 AM- Russell Daisey & Choir Tower of Light, Stand Up for Peace 11:30 AM- Marlene Dietrich performed by Cindy Marinangel sings, Where Have all the Flowers Gone 11:38 AM- Proclamations & Tributes – Manhattan Borough President Brewer, Brooklyn Borough President Adams, Former UN Secretary- General Kofi Annan Tribute, New York Governor Cuomo invited and NY Mayor Bill de Blasio invited, All Fallen Soldiers & Civilians from WAR & VIOLENCE (WAR & VIOLENCE PLEASE BE OVER – Create PEACE & HARMONY) 11:40 AM- JOIN THE PEACE CIRCLE EVERYONE, Senthia McLeod Dancers PERFORM ON STAGE AND IN THE PEACE CIRCLE, everyone joins in at the circle with Senthia/DANCE 11:50 AM- PEOPLE CONTINUE GETTING INTO THE CIRCLE. Major Carter. Song. Stop The Violence at Home, Work, School And Play 11:55 AM- Paul Sladkus Set up Movie & Moment of Silence, EXPLAIN THE CIRCLE. with Juma Sultan – Jimmy Hendrix Drummer & Children of Woodstock who performed in 1989 20th Anniversary Times Square Woodstock Next Generation 12:00-12:01 PM- Moment of Silence 12:02 -12:06 PM- Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love & HOPE Movie trailer Billboard above McDonalds and Moment of Silence 12:06 PM - Tori Feinstein Broadways Matilda Performing Taking Wing…. BULLYING 12:10 PM- Elisa Brown Performs “Wiggle Your Toes” from NEW WORLD CE – Campaign Against Drugs 12:15 PM- NYNW Debra Cook & McKinslee Mitchell, 6, “The Good Fight Hallelujah,” from Jilted to Perfection, A MorMom’s Love. Audience participation and NYNW community comes on stage. 12:20 PM- Seqway into Its a Small World, One Love – Marley, What a Wonderful World/Armstorng, Do, Re, MI, Audience’s Participation Sing and Dance, Peace Parrots, Whole Times Square to Sing 12:40 PM- Giorgia Fumanti Sharing International Award Winning Opera – 2 songs 12:50 PM- Spanish Group Inma Heredia – Flamenco and Song 1:00 PM – Legendary Intruders- Cowboys & Girls, I Love My Moma… 1:15 – 2:00 PM- TBD DANCE & SING ALONG
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts take ... more >> place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour
Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ... more >> 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 historians Peter Laskowich and Madeleine Levi. This tour takes place every Friday.
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12:30 pm
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Film | Oscar-Nominated Flight (2012) with Denzel Washington: Unstable Pilot
An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, ... more >> but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling. Director: Robert Zemeckis. 138 min.
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Piano in the Park: Ragtime, Stride, and Jazz
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy... so swing on by for toe-tappin’ performances by New York’s ... more >> finest, playing ragtime, stride, and jazz to your heart’s delight. Yuka Aikawa is a jazz pianist, composer, and accompanist.
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12:30 pm
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Film | The Party (2017): British Black Comedy
Janet is hosting an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension, ... more >> while her husband, Bill, seems preoccupied. Janet2s acerbic best friend, April, arrives and others follow, some with their own dramatic news to share, but an announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that gradually unravel the sophisticated soiree. Director: Sally Potter. Starring Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy. 71 min.
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1:00 pm
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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 ... more >> 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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
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Classical Music | Piano works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and more
Misha Galant, piano. Program Beethoven (1770-1827) Sonata op. 109 Franck (1822-1890) Prelude, Chorale ... more >> et Fugue Chopin (1810 - 1849) Preludes op. 28 #1-4, 13-18 Liszt (1811-1886), Volodos (b.1972) Hungarian Rhapsody #13 About the Musician Pianist Misha Galant has performed with the Fort Worth, Rochester, California Youth symphony orchestras. Currently, he studies at the Juilliard School and at Weber State University in Utah.
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Pipes at One Organ Recital
Organist Donald R. Meineke serves as Cantor at The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity where ... more >> he oversees the musical life of the Parish, conducts the Holy Trinity Parish Choir, curates an extensive concert series, and is Artistic Director of Bach Vespers featuring the renowned Bach Choir and Players. Weekly recitals showcasing the new organ, featuring New York City's leading organists.
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Fencing Workshop
Learn the basics with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. Must be 16 or older to participate.
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Film | Far From Heaven (2002): a drama starring Julianne Moore
An affluent 1950s wife and mother's idyllic world is shattered by a shocking discovery about her husband's ... more >> forbidden love affair. She also gives the town gossips something to talk about when her friendship with the family's black gardener deepens. Director: Todd Haynes. 108 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Rampage (2018): Big Meets Bigger
When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist ... more >> team up to stop them from destroying Chicago. Director: Brad Peyton. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman. 115 mins.
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Handmaid's Tale (1990): based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel
In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account ... more >> of her now rare fertility. This is the original film version of this story. Directed by Volker Schlondorff. Starring Robert Duvall, Natasha Richardson. 110 min.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Art Express: Fashion Collage
Actualize your ideas and inspirations into one-of-a-kind art pieces. In recognition of Hispanic Heritage ... more >> Month this workshop will explore the contributions of Hispanic and Latino American fashion designers to the creative world. Be inspired, show off your unique style and create a fashion-forward collage that can be made into a bookmark, postcard, or wall art. All materials are free and will be provided. Feel free to bring your own art materials. Upcoming dates and themes for Art Express: Vision Board, Friday, October 19, 2 PM. Holiday Slider Greeting Cards, Friday, November 16, 2 PM.
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2:00 pm
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Book Club | Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican
When I Was Puerto Rican is a 1993 autobiography by Puerto Rican native Esmeralda Santiago. It is the ... more >> first of three installments, followed by Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. This first book begins by describing Santiago's life in Macún, Puerto Rico. It details the circumstances that led to her mother bringing her and her siblings to New York. The second part of the book describes Santiago's initial adjustment to life in America. The memoir closes with Santiago's audition to New York's Performing Arts High School. Esmeralda Santiago's writing career evolved from her work as a writer of documentary and educational films. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in national newspapers including the New York Times and the Boston Globe, and in magazines like House & Garden, Metropolitan Home, and Good Housekeeping. Upon publication of her first book, When I was Puerto Rican, she was hailed as "a welcome new voice, full of passion and authority," by the Washington Post Book World. Please read the book before arriving at the book discussion.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Adult Coloring Club
Come in, relax, color and meditate! This program is not a structured program; draw and color at your ... more >> leisure. All materials will be provided.
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3:00 pm
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Film | Aronofsky's Oscar Nominee Requiem for a Dream (2001): Drugged-Out Lives
Harry, his best friend Tyrone, his girlfriend Marion, and his mother all struggle with drug addiction ... more >> against a backdrop of the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island. With Ellen Byrstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly. 102 min.
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Riveruse: Water, Gender, and Resource in Early Modern France
This talk explores the relationship between a figurative language about rivers and a new science of hydrology ... more >> in early modern France and the French Americas. How did the residents of riverbanks - from nymphs to washerwomen - navigate the significance of the river and its multiple resources? Speaker Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and Caroline de Jager Fellow in French at Trinity College, Oxford.
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5:00 pm
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Dancing | Square Dance in the Park
Come on down for live music, dancing, countrified lawn activities (including cornhole and trick-roping ... more >> lessons), plus beer and wine and tasty grub curated by Hester Street Fair (for purchase). Dave Harvey of NYC Barn Dance is coming back to serve as the featured caller, backed by live boot-stomping bands. We will offer a free bag check, so you can keep your hands free to swing your partner. You’ll meet loads of people, and we’ll teach you the steps. No partner or experience is necessary. Dust off that festive country attire and check out a midtown hoedown like no other.
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Bingo in the Park
BYO food and beverages to this all ages, free to enter, B-I-N-G-O night. A mix of music plays as the ... more >> numbers roll out and each game winner receives a prize. Fridays, September 7-28, 2018.
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5:30 pm
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Dance Performance | 3 Site-Specific Dance Acts in the Heart of the City
This event is three site-specific commissions by luciana achugar, Laurie Berg, and Full Circle Souljahs ... more >> (Ana "Rokafella" Garcia & Gabriel "Kwikstep" Dionisio). The artists will explore strategies for perception, amplification, and activism within the cacophonous landscape of the city. In New Mass Dance, achugar creates a site-specific procession inspired by the New Dance Group, a 1930s modern dance collective that taught classes near Times Square promoting social change through movement. In scape, Berg overlays a landscape of information over live performance via 3-D glasses, exploring Times Square as not just a place of spectacle and traffic but of visual messaging. Full Circle Souljahs' Behind the Groove is an homage to street and club dance trends from the '70s to today, giving visibility to an underground dance community long associated with Times Square. These three new works will be presented back-to-back so that audience goers can experience all three works on one evening or over the course of the weekend. 6pm: Laurie Berg 7pm: luciana achugar 8pm: Full Circle Souljahs Thursday-Sunday, September 20-23, 2018. Admission: Free
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Author Reading | The Extreme Gone Mainstream? Commercialization and Far-Right Youth Culture in Germany and the U.S.
A talk by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, professor of education and sociology at American University in Washington, ... more >> DC, and former fellow of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, about her recent book). The talk will be followed by a conversation between Miller-Idriss and Hanjo Berressem, professor of American literature and culture at the University of Cologne.
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Concert | A Celebration For The International Day Of Peace
Combo Nuvo's unique blend was created using instruments like the chromatic harmonica & blues harp, acoustic ... more >> guitar, cello, Middle Eastern percussion, piano & synthesizers, jaw harp, penny whistle, flutes, clarinets and saxophones. Around the globe the band has appeared with international orchestras such as the Costa Rica Sinfonica Nacional, Peru National Symphony, the United Arab Emirates Philharmonic in Abu Dhabi, among others.
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Contemporary Photography in a Digital Society
With photographers Ramón Rick Singley, Marzia Gamba, Doug Dogsky, Pierre Sherman, John Mazlish. Moderator: ... more >> Debbie Dickinson
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Discussion | Secrets of Publishing
New School professor Susan Shapiro and author/activist Renee Watson meet in a conversation about the ... more >> secrets of publishing and will celebrate their new books, The Byline Bible and Piecing Me Together, respectively. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on ... more >> the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. Locke also received a cosmopolitan, aesthetic education through his travels in continental Europe, where he came to appreciate the beauty of art and experienced a freedom unknown to him in the United States.
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | BlackGirl Mansion: Feminist Poetry
Poet Angel Nafis's work has appeared in The BreakBeat Poets Anthology, MUZZLE, The Rumpus, Poetry, and ... more >> elsewhere. With Morgan Parker, she runs The Other Black Girl Collective, an internationally touring Black Feminist poetry duo.
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Movie in a Park | Men in Black (1997): Oscar-Winning Action with Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino
A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions ... more >> on Earth. Director: Barry Sonnenfeld 98 min.
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Film | The Karate Kid (1984): Oscar-Nominated Drama
A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager. Director: John G. Avildsen Stars: ... more >> Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue 126 min.
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Film | Toy Story (1995): Animated Adventure with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles -- Outdoors
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy ... more >> in a boy's room. Director: John Lasseter 81 min. You should arrive before 7:00 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on. Bottled waters are OK, but no glass.
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Lecture | Constructing a Legend: Irish ‘Wild Geese’ in Louis XIV’s Army 1689-1714
A talk by Pádraig Lenihan of National University of Ireland/Galway.
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Antigone in Ferguson: Sophocles and Choral Music
Antigone in Ferguson was conceived in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014, through a collaboration ... more >> between Theater of War Productions and community members from Ferguson, Missouri. Translated and directed by Bryan Doerries and composed by Phil Woodmore, the project fuses a dramatic reading by leading actors of excerpts from Sophocles’s Greek tragedy with live choral music performed by a choir of activists, police officers, youth, and concerned citizens from Ferguson and New York City. The performance is the catalyst for panel and audience-driven discussions on race and social justice, the core component of the event. This multifaceted production will offer a glimpse not only into the effects of the tragedy in Brown’s local community, but also the trauma of police violence and racial injustice in communities of color in New York and across the nation. Local stakeholders and community leaders will participate as panelists, assisting in opening up dialogues with audiences. These guided discussions, which aim to promote healing and bridge the growing divide between law enforcement and local communities, will focus on the impact of racialized violence against communities of color, and the legacies of the tragic deaths of Michael Brown, as well as Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Saheed Vassell, and numerous other victims. The presentation will feature a rotating roster of acclaimed actors, including Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale), who will reprise the role she portrayed in the premiere of Antigone in Ferguson presented on the stage of Michael Brown’s high school in Ferguson in 2016. Other cast members include: Paul Giamatti (Billions), Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU), David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck), Adepero Oduye (12 Years a Slave), Frankie Faison (The Wire) and Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Each week will feature a different group of actors. Tuesdays through Saturdays, September 13-October 13, 2018.
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Comedy Club | An Evening of Standup Comedy
A standup comedy show featuring comics who have appeared on NBC, TruTV, Comedy Central and more.
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Concert | Melding Afro-Caribbean Rhythms, Jazz, and Salsa
Latin Grammy Award–winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Charlie Sepulveda and his stellar band, ... more >> The Turnaround, have played alongside Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Hilton Ruiz, Steve Turre, Dave Valentin, Danilo Pérez, Jon Secada, and Paul Simon, Sepulveda has released 12 albums as a bandleader, including 2017’s Mr. EP: A Tribute to Eddie Palmieri. Tonight, he draws on Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz, and salsa in all its forms for a night that’s guaranteed to keep people moving.
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