47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, October 4, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, for a Boot Camp in the park. Rotations through ...
more >> exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back--and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high-fives encouraged. Rain or shine. Every Wednesday.
6:30 am
free, no reservation required
7:00 am
free, no reservation required
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for ...
more >> 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.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World ...
more >> Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded ...
more >> urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, ...
more >> 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.
10:00am-11:00am: Screening of The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery Part 1: Search -- Followed ...
more >> by a brief Q&A session. Park Ranger Jesse Ponz 11:00am-12:00pm Screening of The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery Part 4: Analysis -- Followed by a brief Q&A session. Park Ranger Derrick Head 2:00pm-3:00pm Screening of The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery Part 2: History -- Followed by a brief Q&A session Dr. Sherill Wilson 3:00pm- 4:00pm Screening of The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery Part 3: Politics -- Followed by a brief Q&A session. Sherill Wilson
Renee Rosenberg, in this interactive, content-rich, fun session, shares seven important steps to an effective ...
more >> job search process no matter what age. Attend this presentation to review important tips to conduct a more positive and rewarding job search or career change. (Note: these strategies will work for both those under 50 and over 50.)
On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory ...
more >> Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Join an enjoyable walking tour of the park, and discover how they successfully transformed "Needle Park" ...
more >> of the 1970s into Manhattan's Town Square of today. The guides are loaded with expertise on the park's rich history, award-winning design, distinct amenities, and ongoing maintenance efforts. Every Wednesday.
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ...
more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This talk by David L. Phillips, Director, Program on Peace-building and Human Rights, Institute for the ...
more >> Study of Human Rights, will focus on Phillips' work in his recent report "Implementation Review of the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue.". The report is based on extensive interviews with current and former U.S., EU, Republic of Kosovo, and Republic of Serbia officials, as well as civil society including Kosovo Serbs (July/August).
12:00 pm
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.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
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Drawing from an elaborate installation of acoustic instruments—pendelstrings, hardwood and granite ...
more >> stone rows, viola, voice, soprano timpani, cymbals and a variety of tube, metal and snare drums—dancer Limpe Fuchs will transform her Prismatic Park stage into a sanctuary for sound. Through a series of spontaneous improvisations and studied compositions, interactive demonstrations of her instruments and scheduled workshops for players both trained and untrained, her presence will foster a fertile web of feedback between different people and musicians in contact with their own instruments or with hers.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte Germaine Tailleferre Arabesque for clarinet ...
more >> and piano Miklos Rozsa Toccata Capricciosa, Op. 36 for solo cello Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 Featuring the clarinet rio of Alec Hone, Tim Diovanni and Harvey Wu.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, ...
more >> French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan ...
more >> 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.
Many people are challenged when trying to draw the human figure. This workshop offers everyone a chance ...
more >> to improve their skills through a wonderful outdoor figure drawing class. Meets each Wednesday afternoon from May 6 through October 28, 2017.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Drawing from an elaborate installation of acoustic instruments—pendelstrings, hardwood and granite ...
more >> stone rows, viola, voice, soprano timpani, cymbals and a variety of tube, metal and snare drums—dancer Limpe Fuchs will transform her Prismatic Park stage into a sanctuary for sound. Through a series of spontaneous improvisations and studied compositions, interactive demonstrations of her instruments and scheduled workshops for players both trained and untrained, her presence will foster a fertile web of feedback between different people and musicians in contact with their own instruments or with hers. Workshop limited to 10.
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America ...
more >> in the last 50 years having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas. It is also a rare example of a cultural product that has travelled through Latin America, leaving a lasting impact for several decades.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Comedy writers don’t see the world quite the way the rest of us do. Take Charlie Peters (Three Men ...
more >> and A Little Lady). He was pitching a project to the head of Paramount Studios. The first question the executive asked was, “What do you think the opening weekend will be?” Most of us would make a guess about how the movie would do at the box office. Charlie met the question with: “Probably be cloudy, maybe like 60, 65 degrees.”
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An educational talk on gynecologic cancers. Presenter: Ana I. Tergas, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics ...
more >> and Gynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Refreshments will be served.
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Joanne Hyppolite, Jerome Grant, and Jessica B. Harris of the National Museum of African American History ...
more >> and Culture get together for a dialogue on curating, programming and serving up food in the museum space. Food Studies alumna and adjunct faculty member Jasmine Nielsen will serve as moderator for the discussion. A wine and cheese reception immediately follows the event. .
This moving and inspirational collection of personal essays and poems explores what life is like after ...
more >> the diagnosis of cancer. The anthology is written by those who have been affected by cancer firsthand, whether directly or through someone they love. Crafted by those who participated in the Write Treatment Workshops, the anthology not only shows the diversity of New York city but also the diversity of experiences of those touched by a life-threatening diagnosis.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
How did these artists start by self-publishing and grow to international success? Zep, a comics phenomenon ...
more >> in Europe, presents his debut graphic novel in English, A Story of Men, joined by his French compatriot Pénélope Bagieu (California Dreamin') and homegrown comics DIY-heroine Julia Wertz , with her new ode to NYC, Tenements, Towers and Trash.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Impact investment is the trillion-dollar trend most people have never heard of — the support of social ...
more >> and environmental projects with a financial return. It has become a hot topic amongst people who care about social change, and is growing exponentially: in the next decade, it is poised to eclipse traditional charitable aid by a factor of ten to one. Yet for all the excitement, there is work to do to ensure it actually realizes its potential.
A night of $1 slices from 50+ of the city’s top pizzerias. Curated by Scott’s Pizza Tours and benefiting ...
more >> The Sylvia Center and City Harvest. Slice Out Hunger is a NYC-based nonprofit focused on supporting hunger relief and prevention organizations through the American pizza community. 100% of proceeds benefit NYC hunger relief organizations, The Sylvia Center and City Harvest
Bruce Handy is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he was formerly deputy editor, and the author ...
more >> of a forthcoming book, Wild Things, about the pleasures of reading children’s literature as an adult. He has also worked as a writer-editor at Time and Spy and contributed journalism, reviews, and humor pieces to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, New York, and The New Yorker.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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The new essay collection features original contributions from 23 leading feminist writers. Its co-editors ...
more >> and two of its contributors come to discuss this landmark new book. Featuring: Kate Harding, co-editor of Nasty Women and founder of Shapely Prose Samhita Mukhopadhyay, co-editor of Nasty Women and Editorial Director of Identities at Mic Kera Bolonik, Editor-in-Chief of Dame Magazine Zerlina Maxwell, Director of Progressive Programming for Sirius XM Moderated by Anna Holmes, founder of Jezebel and Senior Vice President of Editorial at First Look Media
A talk by curator Clara Bargellini on the exhibition she co-curated at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
more >> followed by a conversation with Niria Leyva-Gutiérrez, PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and ...
more >> how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism. 90 min.
Learn about HI Hostels around the world, across the US, and in NYC. Featuring HI NYC’s Community ...
more >> Engagement staff, Emily Gallagher, Manager, and Ben Puterbaugh and Indigo Goodson, Coordinators. Pam Tice, former Executive Director of HI NYC, and volunteer historian, will add building history from the days when it served as the Association Residence for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Made for German television in 1972, this rare film documents Anima-Sound (duo Limpe and Paul Fuchs) as ...
more >> they caravan across Europe in a homemade trailer pulled by a tractor, intermittently setting up outdoor performances for—often bewildered—bystanders. The film simultaneously captures the nascent countercultural energies of post-1968 Germany, detectable in the Fuchs’ otherworldly improvisations, and the day-to-day of living on the road as the couple tends to their two young children. In German with English subtitles. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Limpe Fuchs and Blank Forms artistic director Lawrence Kumpf.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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In a conservative society, a woman forces herself into a marriage of convenience, only to discover that ...
more >> her true passion lies with her past lover – a passion that drags her down like a river – bringing together a marriage between Love and Death. The College of Performing Arts' School of Drama Directing Festival presents this play by Federico García Lorca, translated by Caridad Svich, directed by Andrés López-Alicea.
This event celebrates the US launch of Adam Pendleton’s Black Dada Reader. Begun as an in-studio spiral ...
more >> bound publication in 2011, the Reader has evolved into a hardcover collection of texts and documents that elucidates Pendleton’s conceptual framework, “Black Dada.” Black Dada—Pendleton’s term for a broad conceptualization of blackness—is the animating force of his work in painting, video, sculpture, and performance. Published by Koenig Books, the Reader brings a diverse range of cultural figures into a shared cultural space, including Hugo Ball, W.E.B. Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, Joan Retallack, and Gertrude Stein, as well as artists from different generations, such as Joan Jonas and William Pope.L. It also features essays written for the the Reader by Adrienne Edwards, Laura Hoptman, Tom McDonough, Jenny Schlenzka, and Susan Thompson. The event will highlight the book’s contents through readings and performances by the edition’s editor, Stephen Squibb; poet and John Cage scholar, Joan Retallack; a New Orleans-style brass band (SugarTone Brass Band); and Adam Pendleton.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Reggie Wilson is Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer and Performer of Reggie Wilson/Fist & ...
more >> Heel Performance Group. His work draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas, and is combined with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he calls "post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances."
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This celebration of Fraser's work will also feature a panel consisting of Richard Bernstein, Eli Zaretsky, ...
more >> and Johanna Oksala. Going beyond conventional disciplinary distinctions and narrow debates, all the contributors to this project share a commitment to critically understanding the connection between capitalism, exploitation, and the viable roads for emancipation.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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From the explosion of fake news to the challenges of the 24 hour news cycle, legendary journalist Bob ...
more >> Schieffer examines political journalism today and those who practice it. Based on interviews with over 40 media leaders, Schieffer provides an inside look at the changing role of media and asks whether today's citizens are more informed or just overwhelmed. Restrictions may apply. Call store for details
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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In many ways an animating spirit and catalyzing agent of the NYC underground film scene from the 1980s ...
more >> to the present, Bradley Eros' radical, sumptuous expanded cinema works stand at the forefront of a movement to redefine our understanding of film as an art form. For his experimental lecture, Eros will “attempt to dismantle a few beliefs, by prying history loose, not nailing it down." His lecture will take the form of a series of questions, interrupted by quotations, collaborations, expanded and contracted cinema, jokes & aphorisms, music, poetry, and surprise. Eros will talk on the nature of process, the immaterial, unfixed forms, hybrid works, resistance, desire and its discontents. Eros works in myriad media, in addition to film, including video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, and installation. His conceptual framework includes: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics, subterranean science, erotic psyche, cinema povera, poetic accidents and musique plastique.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This collection spans a decade of writing, and depicts a complex and diverse cast of characters through ...
more >> different eras in American history, from the early days of electrification to an imagined future of perpetual light.
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among African-American women but their stories often ...
more >> go unheard. This is a reading featuring the works of June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton and other black women poets and essayists who have faced this disease. Featuring readings by Morgan Jerkins (Writer and Contributing Editor, Catapult), Kaitlyn Greenidge (Author, We Love You, Charlie Freeman), Diamond Sharp, and Evette Dionne.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude (improvisation) Toccata in D Major, BWV 912 Capriccio on the ...
more >> Departure of his Beloved Brother, BWV 992 English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903 Improvisation for Harpsichord Partita in Three Movements Concerto in the Italian Style, BWV 971 With: Raymond Erickson, Faculty
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
It’s 2013, Obama has just been re-elected, and The Republican Party finally realizes it has a problem ...
more >> with race. In an attempt to win the 2016 presidential election, the GOP backs a candidate who is a mixture of every race on earth. Christopher Chen's wild and surreal comedy skewers all political parties to the point it becomes indiscernible of what is satire – and what is today’s frightening reality. This production is part of The College of Performing Arts' School of Drama New Visions Directing Festival.