34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 21, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Three strangers, each with a serious problem ...
more >> in their lives, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol. 92 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:15 am
free, no reservation required
Dave Keyes has done extensive work w/American Roots artists such as Popa Chubby, Ronnie Spector, Odetta ...
more >> and gospel artist Marie Knight among many others . The Dave Keyes Band has toured Europe numerous times and his just released 6th CD “The Healing,” features 10 originals and Dave’s trademark rocking keyboard and vocal work. Dave has also worked extensively on Broadway as the long time conductor for the Grammy winning hit Smokey Joe’s Café.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:30 am
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Juilliard students share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts ...
more >> on Wednesday afternoons throughout the season.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Featuring Gabe Soileau, Erik Helstrom, Dylan Delguidece, and Conner Duke, ...
more >> Balkan folk band
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside ...
more >> Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
New York City, NY; NYC
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Featuring John Colianni Big Band Midday Jazz Midtown is an ongoing jazz program for the midtown community. ...
more >> Concerts are presented by Midtown Arts Common. Ronny Whyte is the producer.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Stars: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young. A thirty-something square falls in love with ...
more >> a hippie and decides to "drop out" himself. 92 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through ...
more >> the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Bill Wurtzel is a renowned guitarist with the experience to play jazz that fits any event or venue. He ...
more >> has performed worldwide with many great jazz artists. Wurtzel's groups have played for countless private affairs featuring mainstream jazz and the Great American Songbook. He is a member of local 802 and is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn what you need to know before buying or selling an old book. In this class, you will examine an ...
more >> old book, look to see who else owns a copy, and review the sale records and current booksellers’ catalogs to learn about its value. Along the way attendees will learn about the tools and resources that the antiquarian community uses to value a book.
New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
New York City, NY; NYC
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Álvaro Pierri (born 1953 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a classical guitarist. He is a professor at the ...
more >> Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Andi Zhang, Violin 4:00PM Thomas Steigerwald, Piano 6:00PM Joan Hofmeyr, Soprano, and Jessica Niles, ...
more >> Soprano 6:00PM Viola Chan, Flute 8:00PM Mishael Eusebio, Tenor, and Luke Sutliff, Baritone 8:00PM
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire ...
more >> and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. 106 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at New York University. She is co-editor ...
more >> of the volume Spatial Violence. Her research concerns spatial politics, urbanism, and modernist culture and discourses, based primarily in East Africa and South Asia. She received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and practiced architecture in Bangalore, Philadelphia, and New York.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Governments in the Global North have developed increasingly elaborate techniques to keep asylum seekers ...
more >> away from territories where they can ask for sanctuary. Many of these policies comply with the letter of domestic and international laws against returning people to face persecution while violating the spirit of those laws to avoid their perceived costs. A medieval landscape of domes, buffers, moats, cages, and barbicans prevents the unwanted from finding refuge. In this lecture, David FitzGerald uncovers how these policies are constrained by courts, transnational advocacy networks, and foreign policies that vary sharply by country. FitzGerald is the Theodore E. Gildred chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, professor of sociology, and codirector of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A lecture by Joyce Dubensky, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, New York.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address ...
more >> the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for happiness, girlfriendship, and intimacy. Through their encounters with Jamaicans, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED In the course of the 20th century, Italy was able to become the worldwide ...
more >> point of reference for fashion, in spite of the historical dominance of Paris and London.This book traces the history of this success that contributed to the spreading of a new and positive identity of Italy on the international stage. In English.
New York City, NY; NYC
Editor's Pick
An exploration of the background and day to day lives of the Jews of Sewfi Wiawso. At the same time, ...
more >> it shows the importance of connections, as we see the Sefwis try to reach out to other Jews worldwide and withness their ongoing struggle for acceptance and growth. Their leader, Alex Armah, tells us his dream is to see his congregation achieve official status, and to know and understand their history. But what is their history? Could they be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel? 84 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
Justin Spring chronicles the lives of Americans in mid-century Paris— including Julia Child, M.F.K. ...
more >> Fisher, A. J. Liebling, and Alice B. Toklas—who changed the way we think about food, cooking, and wine. Spring, a National Book Award finalist, speaks with Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times about his new book.
New York City, NY; NYC
Challenging the normative paradigm that school readiness is a positive and necessary objective for all ...
more >> young children, this book asserts that the concept is a deficit-based practice that fosters the continuation of discriminatory classifications.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Over the course of a century of rapid urban growth, sociopolitical upheavals and cultural transitions ...
more >> reshaped the architectural landscapes of major cities in Latin America. Focusing on six capitals—Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile—this show presents the colonial city as a terrain shaped by Iberian urban regulations, and the republican city as an arena of negotiation of previously imposed and newly imported models, which were later challenged by waves of indigenous revivals.
New York City, NY; NYC
Editor's Pick
Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband Charlie lead a charmed life. Then a terrible incident ...
more >> shakes the neighborhood, and her enviable dead-end block turns into a potent symbol of a divided city. With an acute eye that captures the snap crackle of modern life, bestselling author Anna Quindlen explores what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a woman at a moment of reckoning. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This stunningly beautiful and poetic film chronicles three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds ...
more >> who struggle to keep their ancient trade alive in the face of modernity. It is a story about pitiless daily labor that knows no weekends, about a harmonious world that has been lost in our search for comfort, about the childhood that is left behind when one takes on the role of an adult. In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required