25 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, January 13, 2022
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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
Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) presents pop-up lunch time concerts. While program for specific dates ...
more >> to be decided, potential repertory works to be performed include; Arctic Memory, by award-winning dancer/choreographer Jody Sperling which is an environmentally conscious creation. Arctic Memory had its genesis in a 43-day polar science mission north of the Arctic Circle in which Ms. Sperling was the first, and to date only choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker. Imagine by Kate Mangiardi in which she is in a demonstration of fancy figures into graceful edge movements to the music of "Imagine" composed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and recorded by Eva Cassidy. When Atoms Embrace is an acclaimed solo choreographed and costumed by original John Curry Theatre of Skating member, Lorna Brown. Ms. Brown is an artist with a deep interest and knowledge in science. The piece is set to Music by Arvo Part's "Spiegel im Spiegel" and was inspired by a poem Ms. Brown wrote herself. ITNY performers include Olympian Kaitlyn Weaver, ITNY Ensemble members Armen Agaian, Danil Berdnikov, Sarah France, Valerie Levine, Liz Schmidt, and young ice dance apprentices Oona and Gage Brown.
12:40 pm
free, no reservation required
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John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba; Andrew Appel, harpsichord. Harpsichordist Andrew Appel and violist ...
more >> da gamba John Mark Rozendaal offer an eclectic selection of esoteric and idiomatic solos for their instruments as well as a dynamic duo. Featured composers are Alfonso Ferrabosco, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, and Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Andrew Appel, harpsichordist and Artistic Director of the Four Nations Ensemble, is an acclaimed performer, educator, and writer. He has performed in Europe and the United States as a soloist in many festivals and as a recitalist at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, as well as halls from the Music Academy of the West to the Smithsonian in Washington DC. John Mark Rozendaal teaches and performs music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras and performs as a member of Trio Settecento, Brandywine Baroque, and LeStrange Viols. John Mark has performed with Chicago Baroque Ensemble, City Musick, Basically Bach, Newberry Consort, Orpheus Band, King's Noyse, Boston Early Music Festival, Second City Musick, and Hesperus, and records on the Cedille and Centaur labels.
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state. ...
more >> 107 min. Director: Jim Jarmusch. Starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
How much do you know about London's two most famous bridges? And do you know the difference between them? ...
more >> Join Charley as she takes you along the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, unveiling the best secrets and stories on the way.
2:00 pm
free, tip-supported, booking...
In this gripping thriller, the disappearance of a young woman leaves her best friend reeling and an NYPD ...
more >> homicide detective digging into her own past in this twisty mystery about the power of female friendships.
The artists in this show have been brought together by their affinity for the artistic and conceptual ...
more >> strategies of surrealism, using them to articulate a feminist perspective grounded in personal experience. While not surrealists themselves, they are a part of its legacy, taking up surrealism - which produced more important women artists than any other modernist movement - in its ability to tap into the unconscious. The paintings, drawings, films, sculptures, and performance photographs on view - by Betsy Damon, Brenda Goodman, June Leaf, Jeanne Liotta, Caitlin Keogh, Anne Minich, Elizabeth Murray, and Elaine Stocki - play with a private symbolism that merges elements of subjectivity with dream imagery and references to mass media. Seen together, the works in this show display a biting wit in the visceral quality of both their images and materiality. See link for COVID protocols.
Featuring moving image artworks by six National Academicians – peter campus, Elizabeth King, Mary Lucier, ...
more >> Christian Marclay, Shahzia Sikander, and Carrie Mae Weems – each of whom has pioneered innovative practices in film and video. The exhibition includes iconic media-based artworks that each artist has contributed to the Academy’s permanent collection – one of the largest collections of American Art in the United States – in a tradition that dates back to the National Academy’s founding in 1825.
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This museum of fine art was open to the public in 1935. Its permanent collection features masterpieces ...
more >> by major European artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Exhibitions also include sculptures, furniture, porcelain items, textiles and more. Covid protocol applies. Children under 10 are not admitted.
4:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish, advanced reservation...
The stories of places lie in their names. Nowhere is this more true than in the names of the streets, ...
more >> parks, neighborhoods, and boroughs themselves of New York City. Author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro explores the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place. From Bowery to Brooklyn, Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, Revolutionary war heroes, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city's map.
A new exhibition by Elliott Puckette (b. 1967) will debut the artist's sculpture, alongside several new ...
more >> large-scale paintings and a suite of works on paper. Together, they represent a significant development in Puckette’s dedicated explorations into the nature and limits of linear abstraction.
This solo exhibition by Golnar Adili is a formal investigation of language, spanning 14th-century Persian ...
more >> poetry, didactic Iranian texts, and the artist's own family archives. Featuring artist books, photographic and textual prints, and an installation of modular wooden sculptures, the exhibition embodies a multidisciplinary exploration of diasporic identity. Born in Virginia, Adili migrated with her family to Tehran as a young child in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Her father, a leftist writer and activist, was forced into exile soon after their arrival, and eventually escaped back to the U.S. in 1981. Adili remained in Iran with her mother, whose multiple attempts at immigration were unsuccessful. Forced to live apart for many years, they kept in touch through letters and photographs sent back and forth - materials that now make up a vast archive of separation and longing. By reactivating these materials in layered prints and artist books, Adili transforms distilled memories into living artworks. See link for COVID protocols.
A major touring exhibition of paintings by the British artist Leon Kossoff (1926-2019). The exhibition, ...
more >> which includes sixteen paintings that span the breadth of the artist's career and represent his most celebrated subjects, has been organized in concert with the publication of Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings.
Dove Allouche's exhibition works with photographic processes, but also with drawing, printmaking, and ...
more >> scientific means, to bring light to natural phenomena that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. Throughout his work, he has created a "syntax of reproducibility" in which he masters and reinvents various mechanical processes, parsing them out step by step or slowing them down for examination. The means of representation become subjects in themselves, poetically intertwined with what is happening within the images.
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There is a wondrous system of energetic centers and pathways in the human body that allows us to experience ...
more >> and express ourselves as creative beings. This energetic anatomy is subtle and, at times, mysteriously complex, but understanding this system is essential to maximizing our potential. Unlocking its secrets can open doors to deeper levels of healing and empower our ability to manifest changes in our lives. Lorraine Goldbloom, a deeply experienced healing arts practitioner, leads this experiential workshop which offers a map of our energetic anatomy, exploring its centers (chakras) and pathways (meridians).
There is a wondrous system of energetic centers and pathways in the human body that allows us to experience ...
more >> and express ourselves as creative beings. This energetic anatomy is subtle and, at times, mysteriously complex, but understanding this system is essential to maximizing our potential. Unlocking its secrets can open doors to deeper levels of healing and empower our ability to manifest changes in our lives. Lorraine Goldbloom leads this experiential workshop which offers a map of our energetic anatomy, exploring its centers (chakras) and pathways (meridians).
Norman Desmarais will discuss recent discoveries about the Count de Rochambeau’s army that counter ...
more >> popular assumptions—focusing primarily on the recently published diary of the Count de Lauberdière, which includes details that are not covered in any other French diaries. Serving as an aide-de-camp on General Rochambeau’s staff, the young and well-educated Lauberdière provided a unique perspective of the war, including descriptions of the French army’s camp in Newport, the long march to Yorktown, the siege and capture, and a fascinating examination of the people and their distinctive colonial culture.
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During the last year of her life, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sat down with Moment editor-in-chief ...
more >> Nadine Epstein to discuss the Jewish women she found inspiring. In Epstein's new intergenerational book, she profiles the women Ginsburg identified and reflects on each of their stories. The trailblazers in the book, like Ginsburg herself, each fought to forge a better world rather than accepting it as it was.
Delinquent Riff Randell battles it out with the strict new principle of Vince Lombardi High School with ...
more >> help from the Ramones. Director: Allan Arkush Stars: P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard 93 min.
Cartooning instructor Tom Motley leads a series of drawing dares derived from his classes, Cartooning ...
more >> Basics, Figure Drawing for Cartoonists, and his new course on Short Form Comics. This time, he’ll generate doodles and develop them into comic sequences. You'll need pencils, pens, an eraser, and paper.
Join for an informal discussion devoted to James Joyce's Ulysses. Episode (Chapter) 13: Nausicaa. This ...
more >> will be the thirteenth in a series of monthly book discussions, and different chapters of Ulysses will be covered at each meeting. Participants can share their discoveries in an open discussion.
7:00 pm
free, registration required
Author Hannah Lillith Assadi presents her debut novel, an elegiac, haunting story of a woman reflecting, ...
more >> through the scrim of a fading memory, on a life replete with secrets and betrayals. At the height of WWII, Elle Rainer leaves New York City to raise a family with her new husband Simon on a mysterious Southern island off the coast of Georgia, where generations have been tempted by strange blue offshore lights and the rumor of elusive minerals lurking beneath the surface. Fifty years later, Elle struggles against the attrition of Alzheimer’s to confront the tangle of questions, secrets, that now compose her life’s story.
Speaker Michael German is a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security ...
more >> Program. A former special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he served as the policy counsel for national security and privacy for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office.
Appearances in NYC included Cornelia St. Cafe, Kitano, Zinc Bar, Mezzrow, Birdland, and she has been ...
more >> a recipient of grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for the last 4 years.
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Lukas Sommer likes to explore beyond the boundaries of classical music, melding the stylistic strands ...
more >> of ethno, jazz, and classical music. He has written pieces for prestigious festivals, such as the Prague Spring, Opera Barga, Festival delle Nazioni, Concerto Bohemia, Concentus Moraviae, Znojmo Music, and others. He draws on the deep tradition of European composition, which he augments with unorthodoxapproaches. This concert takes place after his Carnegie Hall performance.
8:00 pm
free, registration required