42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, June 3, 2011
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Teenaged girls once squealed for these two now-reformed vocal acts. New Kids had hits like "You Got ...
more >> It (The Right Stuff)" and ""Hangin' Tough." Backstreet Boys hit with "I Want It That Way" and "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)."
7:00 am
free, no reservation required
The all-woman band is back together performing their hits including "We Got the Beat," "Vacation" and ...
more >> Head over Heels."
7:00 am
free, no reservation required
Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert ...
more >> 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.
8:30 am
free, no reservation required
9:00 am
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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
An expert leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm ...
more >> -3pm.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players ...
more >> only. Join the fun and meet new friends!
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ...
more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
Test your skills at state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
A panel discussion on film distribution. Part of a special daylong inaugural for the film festival. The ...
more >> EHIFF provides a platform for established and promising filmmakers whose compelling work will offer unique entertainment and bring greater attention to the diversity and culture of East Harlem.
12:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish admission policy
A free, behind-the-scenes walking tour of Times Square. Visit historic theatres, new sites, and the best ...
more >> of the neighborhood during this walking tour through the Crossroads of the World.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Pianist/singer/songwriter, Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical ...
more >> style which blends her Brazilian roots and her sensuous, alluring voice with her impressive instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills. Her new album features four compositions written or co-written by Elias herself and also includes covers of familiar works by songwriters as diverse as Jim Morrison and the Doors, pop icon Stevie Wonder and jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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 explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Todd Robbins plays Ragtime and classic Tin Pan Alley songs. He is often heard on Monday nights playing ...
more >> piano with Woody Allen's Jazz Band and has recorded two albums with that group.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ...
more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Get ready for Summer Reading 2011! Whether you’re already a lover ...
more >> of speculative fiction or want to try a different genre, here’s where to find your next great science fiction or fantasy read. Explore the Fiction Connection database and lots of great websites that will connect you to books you’ll love.
Editor's Pick
(ski mask, glitter glasses, knee socks, love letter...) begins with an exchange of gifts: an essay that ...
more >> meanders from hotel rooms to diners to forsaken landscapes, cardboard glasses covered in eyes and glitter that one cannot see through, a photograph shot in a bathroom of a face obscured by a ski mask overwritten with the words "more or less safe." The accumulation and transformation of these gifts - objects, movements, images, gestures, stories - creates the content for the public performance lecture. Structured as a series of precarious situations within the gallery space, Heather Kravas and Jenn Joy negotiate the risks of desire, memory, inscription, and dysfunction.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A romantic comedy about three young, working-class, country girls who go to Moscow in 1958 to seek work, ...
more >> men, and success. The story then jumps forward twenty years to look at the results of their expedition.
150 min. In Russian with English subtitles.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A two-day exploration, through conversation and performance, of the roles that the arts play in mental ...
more >> health.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
This documentary shows the period from 1969 through the organization's demise in 1976. The Young Lords ...
more >> represented another cycle of militancy, write Andres Torres and Jose Velasquez in The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices From the Diaspora, a collection of personal narratives from activists of the period. Through on-camera interviews with former members, archival footage, photographs and music, the documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords' political vision and actions, and the organization's legacy.
3:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish admission policy
Often treated as an area where people pass through to and from work, some of New York's most storied ...
more >> and magnificent buildings can be found in and around City Hall, such as the Woolworth Building, Tweed Courthouse, One Centre Street, and of course City Hall itself, now 200 years old. The area once served as the city's first entertainment district and later the buildings on Park Row once housed many of the city's major newspapers including the New York Times. Heading uptown, skirt the edge of what was once the Five Points neighborhood featured in the film Gangs of New York. Rediscover the courthouse district and reflect on lower Manhattan's early history at the African Burial Ground. The city's first major shopping and textile district is also here–A.T. Stewart opened the nation's first department store in 1846 at a building that still stands. End the tour in nearby Tribeca, one of the city's most transformed neighborhoods over the past 20 years.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
With Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown.
A female rookie in the police force engages in a ...
more >> cat-and-mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
102 min.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
In a moderated discussion Collective Arts Think Tank (CATT) will verbally reveal the ideas and baby steps ...
more >> they each took toward in- creased financial security and professional empowerment for art- ists and arts workers. Based on their recent blog post, "Follow up letter to the field: small steps and current issues," CATT aims to provoke dialogue and action so that the artistic sector can be vibrant and healthy. CATT is artists, presenters and administrators including Morgan von Prelle Pecelli PhD, Carla Peterson, Aaron Landsman, Vallejo Gantner, Jennifer Wright Cook and Brian Rogers.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed ...
more >> to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
This exhibition investigates various forms of contemporary slavery—from human trafficking and the sex ...
more >> trade; to the exploitation of farm and domestic workers, immigrants and prisoners; to sweatshop, bonded, and child labor—through a bombardment of images taken by leading photojournalists documenting this issue.
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation...
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the ...
more >> streets of inner-city Dublin.
80 min.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Roam through the Park with the actors as you enjoy this delightful comedy presented by the New York Classical ...
more >> Theatre. With: Brian Cheng, Will Gallacher, Lindsey Kyler, Drew Lewis, Lauren Margaret Nordvig, Nick Plakias, Nick Salamone, and Courtney Alana Ward.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
PROGRAM:
GERSHWIN Lullaby for string quartet
BARBER Adagio from String Quartet, Op. 11
DVOŘÁK String ...
more >> Quartet No. 12 “American”
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble is: Eriko Sato, violin; Mayuki Fukuhara, violin; David Cerutti, viola; and Rosalyn Clarke, cello.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Don't be shy! Raise your voice and join singer/guitarist Terre Roche as the sun sets over the Hudson ...
more >> River for enchanting evenings of folk songs, rounds and chants. Novice and experienced singers of all ages are welcome.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The audience is the chorus in this presentation of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Scores, soloists, ...
more >> accompanist and conductor provided. Includes post-concert reception with the performers.
7:30 pm
$5 suggested donation
Empire Viols (Martha McGaughey and Carlene Stober, viols; Arthur Haas, harpsichord; with guests Nathan ...
more >> Bontrager and Leya Rennert-May, viols). Works by Simpson, Gibbons, Jenkins and Purcell.
8:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Editor's Pick
During a month-long residency, Gallim Dance is further developing Wonderland, which premiered at The ...
more >> Joyce Theater in August 2010, into an evening-length piece. With support from the Princess Grace Foundation, artistic director Andrea Miller and the dancers will work with British artist Jon Bausor on stage design to continue to redevelop the design for the piece, and also collaborate with Jakub Kiupinski and Cristina Spinei of Blind Ear Music to develop a more richly textured sound score.
This stage concert of Shakespearean proportions includes lyrics by, purportedly by or outright stolen ...
more >> by William Shakespeare with music by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Thomas Campion and others. Shakespeare's songs speak of universal truths - of love's messes, life's heartbreaks and the laughter that sees us through.
Performed by:
Erika Lloyd - Soprano
Tiffany Bizup - Soprano
Christopher Preston Thompson - Tenor
Garald Farnham - Baritone, Lutes
Conceived by Garald Farnham and Alane Marco
Staging and Text Adaptation by Katherine Harte-DeCoux
8:00 pm
$20 suggested donation...
With Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey.
An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of bank ...
more >> robbers who may be surfers.
120 min.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
With Charlotte Rampling.
A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, ...
more >> where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.
102 min. Movie starts at dusk.
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Levinson, a native of the Garden State, has spent many years excelling in dance, theatre and voice. While ...
more >> proficient in all three areas, Jodie gravitated toward singing and spent high school and college developing her skills. In the summer of 2009, Jodie met producer Matt Pendergrast (Mary J. Blige, Britney Spears and Ciara). Together, they recorded Jodie's first single, "Matter of Taste." A year later, Jodie began working with hit composer/producer Lisa Ratner (Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams and Dolly Parton) on her first album, In the City, an up-tempo blues-and-jazz-influenced pop record.
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required
This is a live archive of performance scores, documents, writing, video and live performance. The show ...
more >> explores ideas of history, archive, and distribution through the selection of historical performance.
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
A tight, four-piece band blessed with palpable chemistry and magnetism, The Pedrito Martinez Group play ...
more >> Latin jazz with remarkable clairvoyance. The group’s leader, Havana-born percussionist and singer Martinez, is a star in his own right, having performed on six Grammy nominated records and collaborated with everyone from Latin legends Los Muñequitos de Matanzas and Eddie Palmieri to pop icons Sting and Bruce Springsteen. Martinez’s latest group is a streamlined take on the Cuban dance band, offering a transparent sound perfect for letting incisive vocals and percussion shine through.
Los Angeles-based, intergalactic cabaret duo Lady Mercury (Meg Swertlow) & Lady Boron (Rebecca Leib) ...
more >> are taking their sexiness global -- to the streets of NYC! Mustaches & Mai Tais is a cabaret act of cosmic proportions with magic tricks, hula hoops, costume changes, a sexy raffle, and a bevy of original songs. With original itunes hits like "Bubonic Disco Plague," "Sex Horse" "Liar, Liar, Liar Pants Are on Fire" "Let's Go to the Aquarium and Have a Blood Bath," the cabaret act wows the crowd with its lively and totally unusual show. Completely outrageous, fabulously sexy, vaguely European and all woman (or are they?), Mustaches and Mai Tais, hosted by supreme beings Lady Mercury and Lady Boron, is a unique show and not to be missed! With special guests Selena Coppock, Rebecca Vigil and more!
who are lady mercury & lady boron?: www.funnyordie.com/videos/3e41bbdf8d/mustaches-mai-tais-promo