- ABOUT
- CONTACT
- FAQ
- REVIEWS
- GIVE A GIFT OF CFT!
-
Join the Club!
free things to do in New York City
Join the Club!
Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
33 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 2, 2016
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Discussion | The Crisis in Teacher Preparation: A Look at the US, England, and Spain
Teacher education is in crisis around the world. More critics are questioning how best to prepare teachers than at any time in the past. While 25 years ago almost everyone who wanted to be a teacher in the United States or Europe went to a university-based program, this is no longer true.
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
9:00 am
Free
Free
City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
This tour takes place every day at 10am.
Lower Manhattan,
Join the Club!
10:00 am
Free...
Free...
Workshop | Computer Safety and Maintenance Workshop
Learn how to protect your computer from viruses and perform regular maintenance functions to keep it running smoothly.
Midtown,
Join the Club!
10:30 am
Free
Free
Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour
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.
Midtown, New York, NY
Join the Club!
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Film | Wesley Ruggles' I'm No Angel (1933): Mae West Romp
With: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff.
Tira performs some questionable business maneuvers to escape jail. She attracts the attention of the wealthy Kirk Lawrence and begins a complicated romance.
88 mins.
Lincoln Square, New York, NY
Join the Club!
11:15 am
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Talk | Feminist to the Core
Feminist to the Core puts feminists in conversation with the Columbia Core, inspiring new ways of seeing and thinking about the texts that are at the heart of the Columbia Experience.
Ellie Hisama, Professor of Music, came to Columbia in 2006; she specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, post-tonal theory, American music, popular music, gender and feminist studies, critical studies of music and race, and the social and political roles of music.
Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Jazz | Kira Daglio-Fine, Jazz Saxophonist
Talented jazz saxophonist Kira Daglio-Fine, along with Daniel Mesko (drums), Andres Rovira (piano), and Jack Aylor (jazz bass), will be performing. Program TBA.
Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting.
This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays.
Midtown,
Join the Club!
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Talk | Freedom Fighters: Martha Graham and Ronald Reagan Celebrate Berlin’s 750th Birthday, 1987
A talk by Victoria Phillips, Lecturer in History at the European Institute and Associate Faculty at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
12:15 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Concert | Bach at Noon
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
Lower Manhattan,
Join the Club!
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international 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.
Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
Lower Manhattan,
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
Free...
Free...
Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups
Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
This event recurs on March 2, 9, 16 and 30.
Midtown,
Join the Club!
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Mac Computers for Beginners
Learn the basics of using a Mac computer.
Midtown,
Join the Club!
2:30 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Riverside Book Discussion Group: The Black Count by Tom Reiss
The author of the bestselling The Orientalist traces the story of the mixed-race swordsman and father of novelist Alexandre Dumas, discussing his rise to the French aristocracy, his military triumphs and the adventures that inspired such classics as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Lincoln Square, New York, NY
Join the Club!
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Concert | Eden Prairie High School Choirs
Choral works and arrangements by F.A. Gevaert, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, William Dawson, René Clausen, and Stacey Gibbs
Midtown, New York, NY
Join the Club!
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Lecture | 'The Pacific Solution': Historical and Literary Perspectives on Australian Refugee Detention
With: Jini Kim Watson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of Undergraduate Honors for English.
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Format Neon: A 3-Person Exhibition
Featuring paintings by Eric Helvie, Martine Johanna, and Mark Knoerzer.
Midtown, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Author Reading | Artist Mindell Dubansky discusses her exhibition Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren't
Mindell Dubansky will speak about her current exhibition at the Grolier Club. The exhibition has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in The New York Times. This presentation will feature a history of book-shaped objects with
examples and an overview of her show.
Midtown, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Flows and Shocks: Migration Networks and Economic Cycles in Latin America
President Nestor Kirchner (PNK) Spring 2016 awardees Monica Salmon Gomez (Mexico) and Laneydi Martinez (Cuba) present their respective research as well as the advances they made in research during their two weeks in New York.
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Himalayan Happy Hour: Spiral Music
A free concert with artists specializing in music from the Himalayas and South Asia. Featuring Anjana Roy and Polash Gomes.
Spiral Music occurs every Wednesday.
Midtown, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Author Reading | Mierle Laderman Ukeles discusses her book Seven Work Ballets
Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles' work ballets - a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel - which took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, New York, Pittsburgh, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi, Japan.
Midtown, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
Free
Free
Screening | NYCHA Then and Now: Short Films on Public Housing
An evening featuring starkly contrasting visions of public housing in New York City. It begins with a short, funny, and optimistic view of public housing in the Queens in the 1950s and 1960s as featured in the film Pomonok Dreams. Next on the bill will be a series of new short films exploring public housing in the Bronx today and the many challenges faced by residents living there.
The filmmakers and producers of both films will be on hand for a short Q+A after the screenings.
East Harlem, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Discussion | Stateless Democracy in Syrian and Turkish Kurdistan: Origins, Inspiration and the Man Thing
This panel discussion is inspired by student and faculty interest in political and social transformation in the MIddle East in light of recent developments, particularly the Syrian Civil War.
Faculty presenters include: Nazan Ustundag, Bogazici University; Bulent Kucuk, Bogazici University; Deniz Boyraz, Bogazici University; Michael Taussig, Columbia University; and Narges Erami, Yale University.
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Lecture | Why being over 50 is not the end of your career
Those over 50 are taking longer to find a job and yet their overall unemployment rate is the lowest for any age group.
You will learn how to:
- Turn questions about age to your advantage
- Seek opportunities where experience is an advantage
- Connect with and convey your desire to work
- Deal with small things that get in the way
Midtown, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Performance | Bedtime Story and A Pound on Demand: Two One-Act Plays Written by Sean O'Casey
Presented by Break A Leg Productions.
BEDTIME STORY- A respectable Catholic bachelor invites "a gay lass" back to his room in a Dublin boarding house. Terrified that his landlady and a fellow lodger may discover his indiscretion, he tries to get the girl quietly out of the house in the middle of the night.
A POUND ON DEMAND- An inebriated customer and his layabout companion attempt to withdraw money from the local post office with hilarious results.
Midtown,
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Film | Iranian Cinema: Bahram Beyzaie's Bashu, The Little Stranger (1989)
Lost and left behind in a foreign country after running away, a little boy whose family have been killed during the war is saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
120 min.
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Memories of the Revolution: Locating Lesbian Culture in the Age of Queer
A panel discussion in conjunction with the publication of Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater, a new anthology of scripts, monologues, photos and interviews from the first decade of feminist and queer performance venue WOW (Women’s One World) Café.
Host: Karen Finley; Moderator: Ann Pelligrini; Panelists:
Alexis DeVeaux, Alisa Solomon, Carmelita Tropicana, Eileen Myles, Gwendolen Hardwick, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron.
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Join the Club!
6:30 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | 2015 Discover Award Finalists Reading
The 2015 Discover Award Finalists Mia Alvar (In the Country), Angela Flournoy (The Turner House), George Hodgman (Bettyville), Jill Leovy (Ghettoside), Sophie McManus (The Unfortunates) and Amy Ellis Nutt (Becoming Nicole) read from their acclaimed works.
Upper East Side,
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Book Discussion | Great Books Discussion Group
For this month, "Origin of Government" by Thomas Hobbes and "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith.
Lincoln Square, New York, NY
Join the Club!
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation
$5 suggested donation
Dance Performance | FAB x TCS: Dance Block Salon
For the first Dance Salon of 2016, Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) partners with the CURRENT SESSIONS to establish new connections, share perspectives and explore potential between dance makers.
FAB x TCS is a free performance and networking event. FAB x TCS is a collection of works-in-progress by emerging dancemakers exploring the pleasures, failures and the spontaneity of the unknown. How does one’s patterns and processes of dancemaking unfold in the new season and reflect the changing climate we exist in?
Alphabet City, New York, NY
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
Free
Free
Concert | The Foyle-Stsura Duo performs works by Mozart, Brahms, Franck, Lutoslawski
This New York debut promises to be splendid violin and piano concert presenting masterpieces.
Lincoln Square, New York, NY
Join the Club!
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Create Your Own Website
Create your own website using Google Sites. Learn how to use templates to create a site or create a site from scratch.
Midtown,
Join the Club!
8:30 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show
Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
Lower East Side, New York, NY
Join the Club!
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Join the Club!
Today's Events
All 1097 Events
Free Events This Week
Free Events This Weekend
Contact FAQ Reviews About Terms of Use Privacy Policy
All events are free unless otherwise stated. All programs subject to change. Please confirm before going.Contact FAQ Reviews About Terms of Use Privacy Policy
© Copyright Club Free Time. All rights reserved.