Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 9, 2014?
25 free events take place on Sunday, March 9 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out March 9 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of March . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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25 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, March 9, 2014
Experience the park as a precious bird habitat and learn how to spot our feathered neighbors on a walk with a bird expert from NYC Audubon. Binoculars available to borrow; space is limited. Please arrive early to sign in. Ages 5+.
Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.
5 mi, slow pace. From Penn Station walk west to the north end of the High Line, walk south on the High Line, then southwest on Gansevoort St. to reach the Hudson River shore path, to end at either the Atrium of the World Financial Center (good place for lunch), Battery Park, or Bowling Green Park. Bring lunch; food can be bought, but doing so is expensive and time consuming. No go in rain, snow, or if excessively cold and windy; call if weather doubtful.
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45-minutes.
The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world.
35 min.
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
Senga Nengudi's "RSVP" series was originally made in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Made of pantyhose and attached to the wall, the works were originally activated by Nengudi and artist Maren Hassinger who moved through the composition and explored the materiality of this flexible yet restrictive material. Highlighting ideas of transference and memory, this new work in the series is activated by Rashaun Mitchell, Regina Rocke and Marýa Wethers, who participated in an intensive workshop with Nengudi and Hassinger to build the work.
CINEMABILITY - Jenni Gold, Documentary, 98 min, USA, 2013
From the early days of silent films to present day, the portrayal of disability on screen is ever changing. Through exclusive interviews and archival clips with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, this dynamic film questions media’s role and responsibility in transforming society’s perception of disability and in encouraging inclusion.
International relations and South Asia scholar T.V. Paul explores Pakistan’s geopolitical struggles and the crippling effects of foreign aid that have caused its unique inability to progress, as he puts the concept of a “geostrategic curse.”
Yael Ben-Zion considered the meaning of "normal life" in her homeland of Israel, Ben-Zion now fixes her camera on another personal, yet politically charged theme: intermarriage.
Mexican-born pianist Juan Pablo Horcasitas will host a CD Release Party for first solo album. The event features a performance by Horcasitas followed by a conversation with producer Juan Pablo Mantilla, composer Samuel Zyman of The Juilliard School, and Caterina Toscano of the Mexican Cultural Institute.
The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world.
35 min.
Celeste Mann, mezzo soprano, with Gary Madison, pianist in a recital of Spanish music.
Celeste Mann has a warm, rich voice and a personality to match. She will be presented in recital along with pianist Gary Madison in a recital she first performed in 2013 in Freehold, NJ and now in New York with Empire Opera.
The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
Program:
Johann Christoph Bach Aria Variata
Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata No. 4 in e minor, BWV 528
Dieterich Buxtehude Toccata in d minor, BuxWV 155
Program:
BERG Adagio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano from Chamber Concerto
BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
An exciting collective of young professional musicians, Ensemble ACJW has been called “fun, fearless, and effing great” by Time Out New York. The ensemble has earned praise from critics and audiences for the quality of its performances, as well as its fresh and open-minded approach to programming.
Curated by Christopher Zimmerman-Director of Music and Performance at the ACFNY, this one-day festival features a host of Austria's foremost creative improvisers. The program also includes a continuation of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York series "In the Absence of" focusing on the oeuvre of Anton Webern. The series creates a framework in which creative musicians conceptualize and perform a program focused on a particular canonic composer-except that none of the music is heard in the way intended by that composer.
Program:
Charles-Marie Widor, from Symphonie IV, Op. 14 No. 4: Final
Johann Sebastian Bach, Fugue a la Gigue, BWV 577
Nicolas de Grigny, Premier livre d’orgue: Veni Creator Spiritus
Paul Halley, Outer Hebrides: A Fantasia on Three Celtic Melodies
Henri Mulet, from Esquiesses Byzantines
Patrick Scott, Improvisation on ‘Hanover’
Organist PATRICK A. SCOTT is Associate Director of Music and Organist at Myers Park United Methodist Church, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Jenice Matias shares her personal stories about misguided liaisons, lovers gone wild, and breakup insanity, set to music, multimedia, movement and song...looking for love can be a comedy.
A special outdoor screening of Jacolby Satterwhite's video works: Forest Nymphs (2009) and Reifying Desire 2 (2011), as well as portions selected from his latest piece, Reifying Desire 6 (2014). A live performance on the opening night will feature the artist as a fully fleshed avatar, enacting a movement piece that mimics his perpetual animations of the figure.
The Urban Park Rangers will be your guides to the solar system, discussing the science, history, and folklore of the universe. Fall and winter are the best times to observe meteor showers, the phases of the moon, and many planets of the Milky Way. Night Sky programs highlight the history and folklore of the solar system, using the naked eye to locate stars and planets.
1 in 7 of us will experience some kind of deafness in our lifetime. So what would happen to the music you love, if your hearing was lost? Made by a partially deaf filmmaker after the future of her own hearing was called into doubt, Lost and Sound is a moving and fascinating documentary that follows music critic Nick Coleman, dancer Emily Thornton and pianist Holly Loach over 2 years, as they journey deep into sound and silence to rediscover music after deafness.
76 min.
Also playing: Sounds for Mazin by Ingrid Kamerling, 2012, 19 min. - In this documentary short, the Sudanese-Dutch Mazin is deaf from the day he was born. But now he faces an operation that is supposed to make him hear.