40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, January 25, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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.
After performances in Hamburg, Moscow and Hong Kong, the 2018 Bachauer Competition Preliminary Round ...
more >> continues in New York City with 42 international pianists presenting 30-minute concerts. Schedule: 12-5 pm & 7:30-9:30 pm
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack. Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames ...
more >> his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina. 122 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
This class provides an overview of the major social security provisions. It reviews the basics that you ...
more >> need to know and what resources are available to help you understand when and how to apply for your Social Security Retirement Benefits.
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
From Telemann’s touching and introspective Fantasie to the expansive Sonata in C major by Bach, this ...
more >> program explores the range and expressive depth that instrumental music in the first decades of the 18th century had reached. Theresa Salomon received her musical education in her native Germany, the Netherlands and in Austria. Since 1991 she has been a member of the Goldberg Ensemble of Vienna and has toured with the string quartet of the Ensemble in Austria, Germany, France and Italy. She was awarded the Lion's Club "Forderung junger Kunstler" Award and played in the Lion's Club Young Artists Concerts in Weisbaden, Germany.
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
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A screening and Q&A with Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Canemaker, exploring his personal perspective ...
more >> on aging.
Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts. A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family ...
more >> of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. 127 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at ...
more >> St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950's medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose 92 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest ...
more >> mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
2:00 pm
Free plus subway...
Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton. In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has ...
more >> been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate. 89 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts. A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family ...
more >> of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. 127 min.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Rosa Li, Collaborative Piano 4:00PM Chener Yuan, Violin 6:00PM Candace Chien, Collaborative Piano ...
more >> 6:00PM Max Oppeltz, Cello 8:00PM Angela Kim, Violin 8:00PM
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Quito's first subway line, currently under construction, will offer citizens reduced travel times, reduced ...
more >> travel costs, safer, and a more reliable mode of transportation. The Metro stations along the corridor are likely to catalyze a polycentric model of urban redevelopment on this city that has seen one of the most accelerated rates of sprawl in the region. Quito's municipality has recently begun a planning and urban regulation initiative to foster compact, mixed use, and dense urban development in the influence areas of the Metro stations. Speaker Jacobo Herdoiza is Secretary of Territory, Habitat, and Housing at the Metropolitan Municipality of Quito, Ecuador.
Violinist James Buswell taught at New England Conservatory from 1987 through 2014. Buswell has performed ...
more >> as a solo violinist with virtually all of the major orchestras in North America, and throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia as well. In this capacity, he has appeared in over one hundred solo works for violin and orchestra.
4:55 pm
free, no reservation required
Featuring short presentations highlighting work by students, faculty, and alumni, as well as a panel ...
more >> discussion between representatives of community-based organizations and foundations.
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5:45 pm
free, no reservation required
A special presentation with artist and former alumni Arnaldo Morales as he activates his kinetic works ...
more >> from the exhibition May Contain Moving Parts.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom. Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to ...
more >> save the Princess Andromeda. 118 min.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Story of a group of homeless New Yorkers who set out to renovate an abandoned tenement building. Overcoming ...
more >> bureaucracy, skepticism and lack of money, this ethnically diverse group eventually attains a decent, affordable place to live. 59 min.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
As part of the Bernstein centennial celebration, the library reconsiders the question “What is American ...
more >> Music.” After listening to a historic WNYC recording of Bernstein and his contemporaries, a diverse quartet of contemporary music makers, including Vijay Iyer (pictured), Gabriel Kahane, Tania Leon, and Julia Wolfe, gather around the piano to discuss a new definition for what is American.
Representations of violence abound in ancient Egyptian art and texts, where the figure of the smiting ...
more >> king is one of the longest enduring images. Trampling the nine bows with every step or recounting his victories in far away territories, the king is featured as a victorious conqueror who defeats Egypt’s enemies with vigor and violence. Many of these representations belong, however, to the royal sphere, and this paper will explore New Kingdom tomb art, autobiographical texts, stelae, and other objects to consider the image of the violent king among the elite and its own concepts of violence. Speaker Niv Allon received his PhD in Egyptology from Yale University in 2014. That same year, he joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an assistant curator in the Department of Egyptian Art.
Brisk but sane. About seven miles.This is a regular series in which explore Central Park by foot as the ...
more >> work week winds down and then grab something to eat afterwards. After quickly entering the park, head North, across and back down again to Central Park South. They will aim for about a 3mph pace. Please bring a flashlight as it is getting late earlier this time of year.
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6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
In 2014 Benjamin Millepied, French Choregraph and dancer, is named director of the National Opera de ...
more >> Paris, a crucial position in the French cultural landscape. His youth and innovative eye, his fame and notoriety are meant to bring a fresh renewal to this old institution. Through his creative choices and specific way of working with the young ballet dancers, he will revolutionize Classic Ballet dance codes. Reset tells the story of the creative process of Millepied’s new ballet, "Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward," a vivid journey full of energy. 110 Min. In French with English subtitles.
Featuring the Ike Sturm Ensemble. Come and hear the World Premiere for Voice, Vibraphone, Guitar, Bass ...
more >> and String Quartet. This program will explore Psalm 19 and the expression of God’s glory in the firmament.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A heart-wrenching alternative history that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, ...
more >> sentient elephants.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the ...
more >> 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence — an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant dreams, and Wall Street greed.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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A special discussion about music and the ghosts of America’s racial past featuring two highly acclaimed ...
more >> authors. A murder mystery, a ghost story, and two cultural tourists collide in Hari Kunzru’s spellbinding novel White Tears, which connects contemporary cultural appropriation and white hawkers of black music with the history of racism and the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues. Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Margo Jefferson’s classic work of cultural criticism, On Michael Jackson, a complex and tender portrait of the King of Pop, reckons with child stardom and the specter of racial ghosts that shaped his celebrity. She’ll read from her evolving work on Michael Jackson and current writing on jazz singers. Moderated by Kevin Nguyen, editor at GQ.
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation...
A “live-taping” where a dozen of New York’s finest comedians will take the stage to perform their ...
more >> best original characters and stand pp sets for a chance to join the ranks of Montreal’s Just for Laughs Showcase.
The acclaimed Focus! festival returns for its 34th season featuring a series of concerts exploring the ...
more >> music of composers in China, including seven new commissions by Chinese composers born after 1980.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Lylit spent the last year working on her debut album that is going to be released in 2018. For this evening ...
more >> she will give her audience a preview of these new songs accompanied by two of her favorite musicians: producer and drummer Andreas Lettner and guitarist Christian Neuschmid.
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Program: Mozart: Quartet in A major, K.464 R. Murray Schafer: Quartet No. 2 (“Waves”) First-prize ...
more >> winner of the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, this ensemble of “astonishing harmonic maturity” (Calgary Herald) makes its venue debut in a performance of stylistic verve and impeccable musicianship.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
An essay film that documents the life and professional career of Martin Elsaesser (1884-1957), architect ...
more >> and chief city planner in Frankfurt (Germany) from 1925 to 1932. The controversial acquisition of the Frankfurt Central Market by the European Central Bank is the ostensible occasion to weave the building's turbulent history into Martin Elsaesser's biography, his wife Liesel’s liaison with notable landscape architect Leberecht Migge, and the director’s own family history.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A “live-taping” where a dozen of New York’s finest comedians will take the stage to perform their ...
more >> best original characters and stand pp sets for a chance to join the ranks of Montreal’s Just for Laughs Showcase.
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.