54 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, June 28, 2011
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Editor's Pick
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.
Meet with traditional pottery artist Josephine M. Seymour, currently featured in the documentary GRAB ...
more >> by Billy Luther. Starts at 10am and 1pm.
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. Discover free computer tutorials on the web. Search NYPL's Catalog for ...
more >> books, DVDs and eBooks to help you learn computer programs and concepts on your own. Find resources on Word, Excel, Office 2007, the Internet, typing and other topics.
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
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
Ayako Shirasaki is a virtuoso pianist who performs in and around the New York City area. Her techniques ...
more >> range from a "tender touch" (like the late Tommy Flanagan) to "brisk runs" (like Bud Powell) - which can be heard on her recent solo CD Falling Leaves - Live in Hamburg.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Famous stories from the grandfather of horror writing. Led by James Gleick, award-winning author, editor ...
more >> and reporter.
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
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
At 21, jazz piano prodigy Emmet Cohen plays with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned veteran. ...
more >> With astonishing technique and an innovative harmonic palate, Emmet shares a deep musical bond with his audience. He has shared the bandstand with a plethora of jazz luminaries including Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, Patti Austin and Maceo Parker.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Program:
THIELEMANS Bluesette
JOBIM Corcovado
RICHMAN Sometimes
WILDER I’ll Be Around
MONK Blue ...
more >> Monk
FAIN I’ll Be Seeing You
RICHMAN Get Off My Back
ELLINGTON Prelude to a Kiss
GERSHWIN Someone to Watch Over Me
With jazz pianist Joshua Richman.
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. Explore the vast Associated Press image archive of current and historical ...
more >> photos. You can also listen to radio news clips dating back to the 1920’s and search the AP print graphics and text archives.
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
Hands on using wireless laptops. Find out what you need to get started reading eBooks. Get an overview ...
more >> of devices, software and formats, and explore NYPL's eBook website.
Ivan Mesek (Croatia, b. 1971) uses performance, intervention, and constructed situations to reexamine ...
more >> notions of gesture, perception, and social communication. Often using his own body as a stage or site, Mesek's work explores the space between art and the everyday, the area between the private and the public, and the pressing, essential questions of social and human relations. By subverting ordinary situations, Mesek inverts the traditional relationship between spectator and subject, examining how temporary dislocation can showcase the complex meaning inherent in our day-to-day life. Mesek has created a series of performances, each an insertion into the everyday urban milieu. This is the rare opportunity to experience one of these works live.
Homesick (2011) takes an ordinary scene from another landscape and transposes it into a new terrain. Staged in both industrial North Brooklyn and in the streets of Manhattan's vibrant Chinatown, Homesick is a public intervention: an unexpected action in a place inscribed with different expectations. This contradictory transfer of meaning directs attention to the forms our social exchanges take, allowing for a reexamination of the relationship between performance, gesture, and everyday practice.
Ivan Mesek has performed and exhibited at venues including; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb; Multimedia Center Luka, Pula and The Croatian Art Society, Varazdin. This will be Mesek's first performance in the United States.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A demonstration of Shout, Ghanaian, and Gospel traditions in Harlem. Featuring Ed Babb of the United ...
more >> House of Prayer; Gabreyesus Tesfaye of the Ethiopian Orthodox Medanialem Tewahedo Church; and Kwame Afrita of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in New York. Moderated by Deirdre Hollman of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
At once similar and different, each has their supporters and detractors. In this session, you will begin ...
more >> to learn whether to choose one, the other, or both.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
During the 19th and the early 20th century, Latin American intellectuals and writers revealed vital concerns ...
more >> about Latin American identity and the future of the newly independent nations after 400 years of Spanish colonial rule. Within the political discourse we find women’s voices which proposed a revolutionary future for the continent in essays and fictional texts. Not only did they help define the nation, but also conceived a radical strand: Anarchism as a new system for Latin America.
From Juana Fernandez Ferraz to Luisa Capetillo, this event will analyze the contribution of these women to the process of national and continental identity at a time where women’s writings had no place in the current political debate. They will discuss the textual strategies they used to convey their messages as well as fundamental elements in their anarchist, feminist and pacifist discourse.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Green Team of volunteers provides critical park care on Tuesdays all summer long. Get your hands ...
more >> dirty by weeding and mulching flower beds, and cleaning the shoreline. Beautiful sunsets and incredible views included!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Feeling frustrated about sending resumes online and not getting responses? Thinking there must be a better ...
more >> way? There is. Career coach Renee Lee Rosenberg demonstrates researched strategies to create a more effective job search.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
To mark the 30th anniversary of the first documented case of HIV/AIDS, three oral historians play interview ...
more >> clips and talk about their interviews with AIDS doctors and activists. Speakers include Jim Hubbard, Co-Director of the ACT UP Oral History Project and Columbia Professors, Ron Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer, co-authors of AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic and Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic. An open dialogue with the audience will follow their presentations.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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
Francisco Aragón is the author of Glow of Our Sweat and Puerta del Sol. Ron Drummond's first collection ...
more >> of poetry is titled Why I Kick At Night. Tom Healy has written What the Right Hand Knows.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist ...
more >> Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she has written and received. Much of this correspondence is published here for the first time, providing an epistolary history of Schneemann and other figures central to the international avant-garde of happenings, Fluxus, performance, and conceptual art. Schneemann corresponded for more than forty years with such figures as the composer James Tenney, the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, the artist Dick Higgins, the dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, the poet Clayton Eshleman, and the psychiatrist Joseph Berke. Her “tribe,” as she called it, altered the conditions under which art is made and the form in which it is presented, shifting emphasis from the private creation of unique objects to direct engagement with the public in ephemeral performances and in expanded, nontraditional forms of music, film, dance, theater, and literature.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
A Czech family tries to deal with their own crises as their country struggles through political turmoil ...
more >> between 1968 and 1989 in this gentle, bittersweet comedy. Olga is the teenage daughter of a poet from the Ukraine who is trying to find a place for her in the State University. However, a petition that circulated at one time suggests she would not be a fit student, so the writer prepares a petition of his own urging the school to admit her. After several years, the document bears 150 signatures, mostly from friends and family from the Ukraine who make annual shopping trips in their Czech village. Meanwhile, Olga and her friends find themselves growing up against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia's "Normalization" campaign.
100 min. In Czech with English subtitles.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Journalist Katherine Lanpher interviews author and songwriter Josh Ritter, who will perform songs and ...
more >> read from his new novel.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Two incredible female writers will read from their latest books. Kathleen Ossip's The Cold War creates ...
more >> "borderless poems, poems of chaotic beauty", according to Dominic Luxford of The Believer. The chapbook The Cows by Lydia Davis is all about three cows that live across the road from her. "You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Bilingual Writers Workshop hosted at Mano a Mano and led by Mary Ellen Sanger from the NY Writers ...
more >> Coalition is celebrating its 3rd anniversary this summer. Come join the writers who have been part of the workshop throughout the years as they share their work.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Join New York City Opera singers, pianist Kevin Murphy, and the great singer/songwriter and opera composer, ...
more >> Rufus Wainwright, who hosts a performance featuring excerpts from his opera Prima Donna (which receives its New York premiere at New York City Opera in Spring 2012) and a selection of his favorite arias. Wainwright will also perform excerpts from a selection of songs inspired by his love of opera.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In Good Morning America and Dateline NBC writer Lorna Graham's fiction debut, The Ghost of Greenwich ...
more >> Village, a young woman moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement, only to find that her apartment is haunted by the ghost of a cantankerous Beat Generation writer in need of a rather huge favor.
Daphne Uviller, former Books/Poetry Editor at Time Out New York and author of Hotel No Tell, once again takes us on a hilarious and fun ride, with sassy sleuth Zephyr Zuckerman (introduced in Uviller's debut novel Super in the City) at the wheel, through the lively West Village-where mysteries lurk around every corner.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Come down to the park and play for fellow visitors! Sing for Hope, a NYC-based non-profit, will place ...
more >> 88 pianos in parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs from June 18 - July 2. A symbol of Sing for Hope's commitment to make the arts available to everyone, the Pop-Up Pianos will unite and engage diverse communities throughout the city. After their public residency, each piano will be donated to local schools, hospitals, and community centers to be enjoyed for years to come.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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
Goyang City, which is more beautiful than flowers and exists for people, has a choir that was established ...
more >> in November 2003. Goyang Civic Choir is a cultural icon of Goyang City and holds more than 70 concerts per year, which include subscribed concerts and visiting concerts with outstanding technique and brilliant harmony. They continuously program various styles of visiting concerts or new style concerts and they perform their best for their citizens. And now they are putting their heart and soul into performing for their citizens with Mayor Choi Sung, elected in 2010.
Join acclaimed story telling organization, The Moth for a summer night of stories hosted by comedian ...
more >> and writer Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker) with stories by Pam Grier (“Foxy Brown,” “Jackie Brown”) and other special guests.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Inspired by the letters of the playwright’s grandfather from New York to Puerto Rico in the ‘50’s, ...
more >> Zoetrope is an irreverent reconstruction of two love stories: Severino and Inés, a perfect couple doomed by exile; and Francisca, a lesbian-looking existentialist finding love in the least expected of places. An epic romance in two parts, the play spins between four decades, two cities, multiple couples, the personal and the political.
Hot fun in the summertime? Sure, why not?
Every funny person in New York with the last name Glazer ...
more >> or Glaser (so...five!) is uniting for the first ever.
Featuring Aaron Glaser, Nikki Glaser, Eliot Glazer, Ilana Glazer, and Jon Glaser!
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Measure for Measure sweeps from the corridors of national power to the intimate confines of the bedroom, ...
more >> and from the convent's chapel to the executioner’s block. It is Shakespeare at his grittiest: a bracing and bawdy glimpse of what happens when those in power allow their basest human impulses to range unchecked. Directed by David Esbjornson.
A collection of home movie inspired short films, including a special sneak preview of IFC's new show ...
more >> "Rhett and Link: Commercial Kings."
For decades people have been making home movies; capturing what they feel are important times in their lives. Home movies are made up of personal and special moments that someone wanted to document and never forget—and most of the time they rarely get seen again. But it's a pleasure to watch them, to peek into someone else's life, to feel a little voyeuristic. "Home Movies" draws inspiration from the tradition of the home movie, but builds off the tropes of self-documentation to create accomplished works of art, and honoring the life and death of a town, paying homage to wrestling fathers and grandfathers unknown, and giving voice to boozy family members who make you laugh and truly scare you at the same time.
The Films:
MY BIG RED PURSE (Giancarlo Iannotta | Chicago, IL | 4 min.)
GRANDPA LOOKED LIKE WILLIAM POWELL (David Levy | Brooklyn, NY | 4 min.)
WRESTLING WITH MY FATHER (Charles Fairbanks | Lexington, NE | 5 min.)
FAMILY NIGHTMARE (Dustin Guy Defa | Salt Lake City, Utah | 9 min.)
FOR HOME VIEWING (Mikhail Zheleznikov | Russia | 29 min.)
WEE REQUIEM (Jenn E. Norton | Canada | 7 min.)
WELCOME TO PINE POINT (Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons of The Goggles | Canda | 14 min.)
COMMERCIAL KINGS (Todd Cohen | USA | 23 min.)
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Honor your Mother and Father. Never take the Lord's name in vain. Leave room for the holy spirit. Be ...
more >> a good little girl because God is always watching. Don't ask questions about things that don't concern you. What's that strange feeling in my body? Keep your hands to yourself. Where do babies come from? You'll learn about it someday. Cut to someday. Bless This Mess is a one woman show that shows the hilariously messy journey of becoming a woman through the veil of a strict Catholic upbringing.
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