8 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, July 30, 2020
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Featuring bandleader, pianist and composer who moves with remarkable ease between Brazilian, jazz, and ...
more >> classical music Deanna Witkowski. This piano concert series, showcasing ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists, takes place Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (12:30 to 2:30 PM) Audiences are encouraged to wear masks and practice social distancing.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Stjepan Hauser, a member of 2Cellos, has performed in more than 40 countries and appeared at London's ...
more >> Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Hauser has worked with the most revered cellists such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Bernard Greenhouse, Heinrich Schiff, Frans Helmerson, Arto Noras, Ralph Kirshbaum.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Judy Collins burst onto the music scene in the 1960s and has not stopped since. Along with Grammy-winning ...
more >> singer Shawn Colvin, singer-songwriter, producer Steve Earle, and Grammy-winning singer Jimmy Webb, Collins leads a candid conversation about the larger community of singer-songwriters who continue to shape the musical landscape decades into their respective careers. Rounding out the afternoon, Tony Award winner Alan Cumming (Cabaret), joins Collins to discuss musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim, who penned “Send In the Clowns”—arguably the biggest hit of Collins’s career.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The book's author, Jerry Mikorenda, will give an interactive presentation, followed by Q&A. In 1854, ...
more >> Elizabeth Jennings desegregated NYC's transit system 100 years before Rosa Parks in an era of few civil rights victories. Her father Thomas, a resolute abolitionist, was praised by Fredrick Douglass as a "bold man of color," and was the first African American to receive a US patent. The Jennings family saga spans the history of New York City and the struggle for human rights. During this presentation, you'll learn about the sights, people, and landmarks of old New York as her momentous battle with the Third Avenue Railroad unfolded on the streets of Manhattan and in Brooklyn's Supreme Court. The freedoms that she won underpin of the civil and gender rights movements that are still a battlefront today.
5:00 pm
free, registration required
24 galleries in this NYC neighborhood will be open to celebrate their current exhibitions. Please ...
more >> wear a mask and observe social distancing.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A mash up of two cultures on one stage! With Zikrayat, playing a wide repertory of Egyptian music ranging ...
more >> from exciting bellydance numbers to virtuosic improvisations, and the Agoci Band combining hip-hop, roots, and calypso flavors with Haitian compas.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
One of the world’s oldest ballet companies, the Royal Danish Ballet, performs excerpts from A Folk ...
more >> Tale (pas de sept), La Sylphide (pas de deux), Kermesse in Bruges (1st act, pas de deux), Giselle (2nd Act), and Napoli (pas de six and tarantella). Pre-Show Talk by Jacob’s Pillow Director of Preservation Norton Owen; Post-Show Talk with Artistic Director Nikolaj Hübbe.
7:00 pm
free, RSVP required
When a retired hit man is forced back into action by a brutal Russian mobster, he hunts down his adversaries ...
more >> with the ruthlessness that made him a crime underworld legend. Directed by Chad Stahelski. Watch the movie while in your car.
8:30 pm
free ticket required