49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience ...
more >> levels. Classes are rain or shine.
7:30 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
Expert instructors, provided by lululemon athletica, lead all levels of yogis. Mats are provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel ...
more >> 2003. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
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.
Savor some of the best food in town at Dine Around Downtown, an annual tradition showcasing the finest ...
more >> restaurants in Lower Manhattan. Sample signature menu items for $3 to $7 while enjoying live entertainment throughout the day.
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
Get an up-close visit with exotic birds from the Arcadia Bird Sanctuary and Education Center. Sanctuary ...
more >> Director, Terri Jones, and her sociable, people-friendly birds can be found every Tuesday this summer, weather permitting. Stop by to watch, ask questions, interact with the birds, or just take pictures.
11:30 am
free, no reservation required
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. ...
more >> Tour will be approximately one hour.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Writers and journalists struggle and connive in 1880's London. Discussion led by Lorin Stein, editor ...
more >> of The Paris Review.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes ...
more >> Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID.
12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Junior Mance is an international jazz musician who has performed with jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, ...
more >> Dinah Washington, and Lester Young. He was inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997. When not traveling, Mance can be found every Sunday performing at Cafe' Loup in NYC.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program:
DEBUSSY Sonata in G Minor, L 140
FRANCK Sonata in A,/br>
GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess selections, ...
more >> arranged by Jascha Heifetz
RACHMANINOV Elegie Op. 3, No. 1
WAGNER-LISZT :Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde,/br>
With Janey Choi & Jung Lin.
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
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the ...
more >> wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Phones aren’t just phones anymore. Learn about the latest cutting-edge ...
more >> smartphones, their various operating systems, the required data plans, and the many available applications (apps!) that can turn a good smartphone into a great one.
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Now celebrating its 33rd year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine. Over 1.5 million ...
more >> people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception. Festival attendees can visit nine of New York City’s finest cultural institutions open free to the public throughout the evening. In addition, several of the participating museums offer outdoor art activities for children.
The Museum Mile Festival’s opening ceremony takes place at 5:45 pm at Neue Galerie New York (Fifth Avenue at 86th Street). Traditionally, the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and other city and state dignitaries open the Festival.
Participating institutions: El Museo del Barrio; The Museum of the City of New York; The Jewish Museum; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Academy Museum & School; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Neue Galerie New York; Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
5:45 pm
free, no reservation required
In 1947, John Ford went to Mexico to film Dudley Nichols's adaptation of Graham Greene's anti-anticlerical ...
more >> novel The Labyrinthine Ways (aka The Power and the Glory). The Fugitive was the first postwar undertaking of the director's independent production company. Drawn by the Mexican film industry's recent artistic and commercial development (as well as the country's peoples and scenery), Ford considered permanently locating his company, Argosy Pictures, south of the border. In fact, The Fugitive was a transnational production that combined Hollywood and Mexican talent in front and behind its cameras: the famed Mexican filmmaking team of director Emilio "El Indio" Fernández and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, respectively coproduced and photographed Ford's film; Mexican actors Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río (who had begun her movie career in Hollywood) joined Henry Fonda as the film's leads; Ford shot and processed The Fugitive at Mexico City's Estudios Churubusco, co-owned by RKO, which distributed the film internationally.
The possibilities for a transnational motion-picture culture between Mexico and the United States that attracted Ford had been nurtured during World War II, when Hollywood, Washington, and Mexico City cooperated to expand Mexican moviemaking to serve the anti-Axis cause in the Americas. The Fugitive's international history -- on and behind, in front of and around the screen -- reveals how antifascist ideology metamorphosed into anticommunist ideology, and how the Second World War paved the way for the Cold War between Mexico and the United States.
Seth Fein's book, Transnational Projections: The United States in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema will be published by Duke University Press. He is also working on a collection of essays, The Idea of the Western Hemisphere, and producing a documentary, Our Neighborhood, from his own research about Washington's use of television to wage Cold War in Latin America during the 1960s.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Tonight, Lama Surya Das, founder and spiritual director of the Dzogchen Foundation, and author of the ...
more >> national bestseller Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Modern World, discusses his new book.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The author of Biography of a Tenement offers a sneak peak of an upcoming tour, which will examine the ...
more >> various layers--paint, wallpaper, linoleum--of 97 Orchard Street.
The author, an organizational psychologist and the founder of Dattner Consulting, a workplace consulting ...
more >> firm based in New York City, gives essential advice on escaping the dangers of rampant blaming and unfair credit-grabbing that turn so many offices toxic and sink so many careers.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before, to find that all has changed.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? ...
more >> Curious about Twitter? Bring Technology questions and get one-on-one assistance!
Enjoy music from Bach to BeBop as students from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and from ...
more >> Mannes College The New School for Music perform on one of the Park’s most beautiful piers.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Join author Carmela Ciuraru and Paris Review contributing editor Sadie Stein for a conversation about ...
more >> Ciuraru’s new book, a unique literary history and a penetrating examination of identity and self-creation, revisiting the enduring question—what’s in a name?
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A dance at the village inn and the enchantment of a midsummer´s night - Alois falls madly in love with ...
more >> Marie. That puts an end to his passionate affaire with Rosa, the innkeeper. An odd flash of lightning ends Marie’s life. Alois is now alone with his four-year-old son Loyzik. On the day of the funeral he resumes his early relationship with Rosa. Their exuberant wedding feast is cut short by Rosa´s fall from a carriage, and the advent of her primitive servant Peppina casts a fateful shadow over the farm.
114 min. In Czech with English subtitles.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The first retrospective exhibition of Richard Serra's drawings is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through ...
more >> August 28. Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective traces the crucial role that drawing has played in Richard Serra's work for more than 40 years. Although Serra is well known for his large-scale and site-specific sculptures, his work has also changed the practice of drawing. The award-winning artist, who was named a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Academy in 2008 and was decorated with the Order of the Arts and Letters of Spain, will discuss his work, the Met exhibition and sign copies of his book.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Organist Mark Bani, Director of Music, performs works by Buxtehude, Bach, Dupré, and Vierne.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free-will offering
Tonya Foster is the author of poetry, fiction, and essays that have been published in a variety of journals ...
more >> from Callaloo to The Hat to Western Humanities Review. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art. She is currently completing a cross-genre piece on New Orleans, and Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A recipient of a number of fellowships, notably from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and City University of New York.
Sebastian Junger, bestselling author (The Perfect Storm), journalist and documentary filmmaker with the ...
more >> late photographer Tim Hetherington (Restrepo), debuts the paperback version of his collection of his Afghanistan war dispatches.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars ...
more >> of today.
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A mixture of East and West Indian mythology that follows the lives of two brothers (one human, one a ...
more >> deity) through a series of events which have the power to destroy the world of the spirits, trap the world of the gods, and free the world of humans.
CantoMundo is a writers' retreat for Latina/o poets. This reading features J. Michael Martinez, Deborah ...
more >> Paredez and Carmen Tafolla.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The Fitness Guru returns with Pilates Mat classes overlooking the New York Harbor. Join Guress Lawson ...
more >> Harris and her team as they teach you to properly activate the muscles of your abdomen and back to create an incredible amount of stability in your torso. Pilates is designed to restore the natural curvature of the spine while rebalancing the muscles around the joints.
Registration begins at 6:30pm. A limited number of mats are available for rental for free (with valid ID). In the case of rain, classes are held in the tent located in the Tobacco Warehouse. Classes are open to 16 years old and older. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated ...
more >> interpretation of the Indian epic the Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita earns its tagline as the "Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
15-year old Cari is tired of her accent making her as the butt of jokes. As she and her dead mother work ...
more >> diligently to correct it, Cari discovers a painful family secret everyone has kept from her.
What does it take to let go of certain habits, and move on in life? Why do people enjoy watching people? ...
more >> Kurt is escaping from his past on a train. Next to him we find an unanimated "being". Donald, the train conductor, does his job in a rather peculiar way. Through the encounter of these characters we learn about Kurt's staggering past and present.
When Porter’s father kidnaps her son, she must go back to the woods of East Tennessee to find him, ...
more >> where she is distracted by a mysterious firebird. Textured with poetry and grit, this play follows the plight of women in Appalachia and the disappearance of the working class.
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Upon her recent, spontaneous move to New York City (from Texas), Denitia Odigie is ever pushing onward ...
more >> into a funky, soul gumbo, joining her cool sensibility with her open-heart delivery. Prince and Funkadelic stew in the air around her ears as she digs into her Les Paul a little harder. A horn section has found its way into her band and Denitia Odigie is expanding and expounding.
A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of ...
more >> Manhattan.
Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, ...
more >> Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win "joke of the night" and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday.
11:00 pm
free, no reservation required