Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 30, 2013?
44 free events take place on Thursday, May 30 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 May 30 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 May . 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, May 30, 2013
Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
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.
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers, Edward Everett Horton.
A budding romance between a ballet master and a tap dancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they're already married.
109 min.
Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional"
Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
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. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
Jazz pianist and composer Larry Ham tours and records with many of today's top jazz artists, and has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and in Japan, Russia, and West Africa.
Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
Share your passion for Checkers, Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, or your favorite board game. There will be a demonstration of Boggle. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and join us for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome.
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
An introductory Chess group which welcomes new players. Other strategy games also played. Come and refresh your chess game or learn anew and enjoy some other strategy games as well.
“After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” Maintenance is the ever-present activity that upholds our infrastructure, our society and our lives. Yet it remains largely unseen and undervalued. Bringing these operations into view exposes the social and economic forces at work as well as the constant struggle against entropy and decay that underlies our daily existence.
Curated by Nina Horisaki-Christens, Andrea Neustein, Victoria Rogers and Jason Waite, Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Independent Study Program.
The ten large-scale color photographs, produced between 2009 and 2012, are based on panoramic photographs taken by Garcia from culturally symbolic watchtowers in the twenty-seven capitals of the European Union, such as the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Acropolis in Athens, St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
Chalda Maloff's Search Engines: New Digital Paintings is dedicated to our most basic and
timeless need: the search for personal insight, clarity, and meaning.
Irina Sheynfeld's Wandering Stars: Portraits in Pastel is a series of pastel drawings by the Russian-born artist.
Join on Thursday evenings for open-level yoga with a certified instructor. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat or a beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
Curator Jonathan Kalb discusses why marathons are the slow food of theatrical art, the precious antidotes to the maddening and corrosive “hurry sickness” of the media age, with its ubiquitous pressure to abbreviate, compress and trivialize absolutely everything. He will discuss why even the best theater marathons aren’t for everyone, but everyone could learn something from them about why theater endures and is still, despite everything, necessary and irreplaceable. Kalb will read from his award-winning book.
For this series, Tinari returns to her roots, presenting lively paintings, drawings, and installations inspired by, and in some cases directed by, her family.
In this exhibition of black and white and color photographs, Ellen von Unwerth dazzles with a parade of girls who run the gamut from innocent to naughty. Sex is in the forefront: fetishistic, humorous, romantic, decadent, and erotic. Fashion and fantasy are combined in von Unwerth’s vision of girls having fun: with us, with each other and with the unseen viewer who they tease, taunt, and provoke.
With Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black.
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior?
109 min.
Poet, practitioner and founder of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith responds to the exhibition as part of Writers and Artists Respond, a series of discussions and performances in the Museum's galleries.
With Marci Alboher, author of "Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life," and Katherine Lanpher, a veteran public radio host.
This lecture is a guide to finding passion, purpose and a paycheck in the second half of life. The author explores how to find information about how to plan the transition and talks about how much you need to make, the pros and cons of going back to school, when to volunteer, and when to intern; how to network effectively and harness the power of social media; who’s hiring and for what jobs, and presents an encore hot list of 35 viable careers.
Featuring: The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead; The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey; The Moon & More by Sarah Dessen; Invisibility by Andrea Cremer; and Prodigy by Marie Lu.
You Are One of Them is a taut, moving debut about the ways in which we define ourselves against others and the secrets we keep from those who are closest to us. In her insightful forensic of a mourned friendship, Holt illuminates the long lasting sting of abandonment and the measures we take to bring back those we have lost.
New York Classical Theatre presents the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor and creative consultant Stella Kramer has worked with such top publications as The New York Times, Newsweek, People, Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly. Her presentation will focus on practical advice for sharpening your vision and producing a portfolio and website that bests represent your work.
Readers of Williams’ iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them.
Over three evenings, short documentaries made by students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. The films are the products of a year of study in documentary history, theory, and production. Deanna Kamiel, a faculty member at the School of Media Studies, leads a Q&A with the filmmakers each night following the screenings.
A night spotlighting four talented musicians in two distinctly different settings. Four unique artists will bring songs and stories of their everyday stomping grounds, the downtown club scene, to a new audience as they perform selections of their work in a showcase hosted by WFUV radio personality Rita Houston. The following night, all four artists will return to their Lower East Side roots with full performances at Rockwood Music Hall.
This new production concerns two sets of identical twins who were separated as children and now live as master-servant pairs in rival neighboring cities. When one pair crosses the border to find the other, so begins an exquisitely enjoyable mess of mistaken identity, wrongful imprisonment, questionable flirting and general mayhem. Directed by Daniel Sullivan.
What do you do when your father owns a strip club, and your mother works there? BECOME A DENTIST! Mike King's One-Man-Show "The Fifth Dentist" is a hilarious true story by America's funniest dentist, cutting-edge comedy from one of New York's brightest comics...has been seen on Comedy Central and has opened for Ray Romano!
See this work-in-progress before it's off-Broadway production.
"Exceptional story!" - Eric Hansen, Producer of the Montel Williams and Whoopi Goldberg show.