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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 29, 2025?

29 free events take place on Tuesday, April 29 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 April 29 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 April . 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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29 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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Birdwatching | Morning Birding Tour


Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season, with guided tours led by environmental educator and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. The park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Birdwatchings, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Morning Birding Tour

Workshop | Ribbon Dancing Workshop


Combine cardio with artistry as you wave long ribbons in the air to create rainbows, waterfalls, dragons and ocean waves. Ribbon Dancing is as visually stunning as it is fun and easy to learn. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Ribbons will be available to borrow, but participants may also bring their own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Ribbon Dancing Workshop

Workshop | Adult Zumba


Featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography. Work on your balance, coordination and range of motion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Adult Zumba

Talk | Curator Talk on Early American Photography, Featuring Pieces by Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton Watkins, Alice Austen, and More


Explore a bold new history of American photography, from the medium's birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. The exhibition features significant works by lauded artists such as Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton Watkins, and Alice Austen, shown in dialogue with extraordinary photographs by obscure or unknown practitioners made in small towns and cities from coast to coast. Free with museum admission (advance registration is required). Please note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Talks, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Curator Talk on Early American Photography, Featuring Pieces by Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton Watkins, Alice Austen, and More

Tour | Verbal Description and Touch Tour of Museum Gallery Featuring Works by Madalena Santos Reinbolt (for Vision Impaired Visitors)


Gallery guides lead a public tour of an exhibition on artwork by Madalena Santos Reinbolt. Reinbolt was a Brazilian painter and textile artist who created art depicting rural scenes based on her childhood. Individuals who are blind or have low vision are invited to explore the exhibition through verbal description, touch, and music. In advance of the program at 10:30 am, there will be an optional reception for coffee and Brazilian pastries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tours, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Verbal Description and Touch Tour of Museum Gallery Featuring Works by Madalena Santos Reinbolt (for Vision Impaired Visitors)

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Learn Juggling in the Park

Talk | Artist Talk on Reimagining Mythologyical Archetypes to Confront Dominant Narratives


This event is an in-depth conversation with artist Rosana Paulino and curators as they discuss Paulino's artwork, The Creation of the Creatures of Day and Night. The conversation will delve into Paulino's practice, process, imagery, and personal iconography, exploring themes of memory, ancestry, and feminism. It will also examine how her work engages with broader discussions on the lasting effects of colonialism and the threats facing not only Brazil's biome, the Amazon rainforest, and Indigenous ways of life but also the significance of bringing this dialogue to an international audience in New York City. Paulino's work confronts Brazil's colonial past and its enduring impact on Black and Indigenous communities. The Creation of the Creatures of Day and Night, expands on her Mangrove series, which portrays tree-women as mythological archetypes and symbols of the Brazilian biome. Paulino draws parallels between mangroves and Brazil's Black and Indigenous people, both of whom have been historically mistreated and exploited. Reimagining mythological archetypes, the artwork places Black and Indigenous figures at the center of a new cosmology. Through her work, Paulino challenges dominant narratives, creating space for reflection and resistance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talks, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Artist Talk on Reimagining Mythologyical Archetypes to Confront Dominant Narratives

Classical Music | Scandinavian Music for Violin and Piano


Violinist Susan Olsen Maren and pianist Claudia Dumschat play Scandinavian tunes composed by Svendsen, Grieg, Alfven, and Halvorsen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Scandinavian Music for Violin and Piano

Film | Brewster's Millions (1985): Comedy Film with Richard Pryor


A minor league player inherits hundreds of millions... if he can spend $30 million in 30 days in this madcap remake starring Richard Pryor and John Candy! Director: Walter Hill Cast: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Hume Cronyn Richard Pryor was an American comedian and actor who's recognized as one of the greatest and most influentialt stand-up comedians of all time. Over the course of his career, Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammys. He was ranked first in Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free
Films, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Brewster's Millions (1985): Comedy Film with Richard Pryor

Lecture | The Intolerance of Monotheism: Towards a Religious History of Antisemitism (in-person and online)


Because of their minority status in Medieval Islamic and Christian societies, Jews became the persecuted other who justified Christian and Muslim belief in their own supersession or replacement theology. Even in the modern, more secular era, baked-in religious prejudices informed the dynamics of racial antisemitism. The Nazis freely drew upon Christian imagery in their propaganda. Similarly post-Holocaust Islamic and Western antisemitism today still rely on these notions of religious superiority. Perhaps the only hope for an end to this 2500-year hatred is for each monotheism to renounce the intolerance inherent in their religious traditions and truly appreciate each other's value. Speaker Bruce Ruben was raised in Portland Oregon. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music (1975) and a Master's in Religion (1978) from Indiana University. He went on to the Jewish Theological Seminary where he became a cantor in 1981. A year later he began a twenty-four-year tenure at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City. While serving as the congregation's cantor, Cantor Ruben earned a Ph.D. in history from thae Graduate School of City University. He has taught Jewish history at Hunter College from the early 1990s. He continues to teach Jewish history at Hunter and serves as the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am in Parsippany New Jersey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free
Lectures, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, The Intolerance of Monotheism: Towards a Religious History of Antisemitism (in-person and online)

Workshop | Mah Jongg & More


A dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets, cards, and games provided, or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Mah Jongg & More

Staged Reading | Ravage: Vampire Hunter Seaches for Sister


Yuli, a self-described teenage vampire hunter, moves from California to New York after what she believes was a run-in with a powerful vampire, who has kidnapped her sister. As Yuli learns to open up again, she is haunted by visions of her sister and embarks on a quest to seek revenge—only to instead come face-to-face with the fractured remnants of her past. Written by Nina Ki.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Readings, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Ravage: Vampire Hunter Seaches for Sister

Workshop | Drop-In Chess


Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. Chess improves concentration, problem solving, and strategic planning -- plus it's fun. For ages 5 and up.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Drop-In Chess

Book Discussion | By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine (in-person and online)


A book talk by Danielle Leavitt. In February 2022, after years of saving money, Vitaly opened a coffee bar in a Kyiv suburb. But his dreams of owning a coffeeshop came to naught when, three weeks later, a convoy of Russian tanks plowed through town and rockets destroyed the coffee bar and split his apartment building in two. Meanwhile, across the country, eighteen-year-old Anna drops out of police academy and begins a tumultuous relationship with a soldier she met online. Nearby, a family copes with the aftermath of a brutal train station bombing. Across the world, Polina abandons her career in fashion and returns home to Ukraine to organize relief efforts. Over the past three years, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has shaken the world order. But Europe’s largest land war in seventy-five years has also affected countless individual lives. Danielle Leavitt goes beyond familiar portraits of wartime heroism and victimhood to reveal the human experience of the conflict. As battle lines shift, her subjects’ relationships, livelihoods, and loyalties are put to new and dramatic tests. How do you keep living when your home is destroyed, when your family is separated, when your body is wounded, or when the enemy lives a few doors down? Can you believe in the future while destruction rages on? To illuminate the complex and contested resurgence of Ukraine’s national spirit, Leavitt also tells the story of Volodymyr Shovkoshitniy—a nuclear engineer at Chernobyl who led a daring campaign in the late 1980s to return the bodies of three Ukrainian writers who’d died in a Soviet gulag.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine&nbsp;(in-person and online)

Film | Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950): Film Noir 


Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. Will Dixon's vicious nature get the better of him? Director: Otto Preminger Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950): Film Noir&nbsp;

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Learn Juggling in the Park

Poetry Reading | I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living (online)


This first collection of poetry from Josie Balka evokes themes of nostalgia, love, envy, and hope, speaking to the universal longings that live deep in our souls.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Readings, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living (online)

Film | No (2012): Historical Drama


An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. Director: Pablo Larraín Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers 118 min.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, No (2012): Historical Drama

Workshop | Mat Pilates


A strengthening and lengthening exercise that focuses on conditioning your core muscles while also training your arms and legs. This class incorporates key Pilates principles such as postural alignment, breathing, strength, controlled movement and flexibility. This class is perfect for beginners but intermediate and advanced movers will also benefit. Bring your own mat.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Mat Pilates

Book Club | Mystery Book Club in an Art Gallery: Give unto Others by Donna Leon


What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon’s splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. The discussion is led by the book club founder Gloria Sampson Knight. Ticketed attendees may also join an a la carte dinner after the discussion. No reservation for dinner required separately (although dinner is not free)! Continue the conversation of all things mystery over good food and company. To miss this would be a crime.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Clubs, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Mystery Book Club in an Art Gallery:&nbsp;Give unto Others&nbsp;by Donna Leon

Workshop | Painting with Words: Writing Class


Writers and artists gather to read and discuss their writing in a supportive, relaxed and nurturing environment. Leading the group will be Harold Slazer, founder of the creative writing and acting programs at Middle Collegiate Church, as well as a playwright, screenwriter, poet, and NYFA City Artist Corps grant recipient. Carol Wierzbicki, the editor of Sunday, Middle’s literary magazine, will help you fine-tune your work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Painting with Words: Writing Class

Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera with Conductor Corrado Rovaris


The eighth and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features the conductor and Music Director of Opera Philadelphia Corrado Rovaris.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussions, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Adventures in Italian Opera with Conductor Corrado Rovaris

Poetry Reading | Alliance for Positive Change Poetry Reading & Collection Debut


Award-winning poet January Gill O’Neil is joined by the winners of the 2025 Yeats Poetry Prize to celebrate their work. Please arrive by 6:30PM in order to secure your seat in the event space. Late arrivals may only have access to standing room.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Readings, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Alliance for Positive Change Poetry Reading & Collection Debut

Book Discussion | Love, Money, Duty: Stories of Care in Our Times


Rachel E. Adams presents her new book. From birth to death, we care and are cared for by others. Yet we rarely acknowledge care except when it fails. In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams examines the stories we tell about care, those who do the work, and those who depend on it. These narratives, she argues, help us better understand our complicated feelings about care and the obligations that come with it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Love, Money, Duty: Stories of Care in Our Times

Staged Reading | Ravage: Vampire Hunter Seaches for Sister


Yuli, a self-described teenage vampire hunter, moves from California to New York after what she believes was a run-in with a powerful vampire, who has kidnapped her sister. As Yuli learns to open up again, she is haunted by visions of her sister and embarks on a quest to seek revenge—only to instead come face-to-face with the fractured remnants of her past. Written by Nina Ki.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Warsaw Testament: Memoir of a Yiddish Literary Community Before the Holocaust (in-person and online)


Born in Lanowitz, a small village in rural Podolia, author Rokhl Auerbach was a journalist, literary critic, memoirist, and a member of the Warsaw Yiddish literary community before the Holocaust. Upon the German invasion and occupation of Poland in 1939, she was tasked by historian and social activist Emanuel Ringelblum to run a soup kitchen for the starving inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto and later to join his top-secret ghetto archive, the Oyneg Shabes. One of only three surviving members of the archive project, Auerbach’s wartime and postwar writings became a crucial source of information for historians of both prewar Jewish Warsaw and the Warsaw Ghetto. After immigrating to Israel in 1950, she founded the witness testimony division at Yad Vashem and played a key role in the development of Holocaust remembrance. This is a lecture by historian Samuel Kassow about Auerbach’s memoir, Warsaw Testament, which paints a vivid portrait of the city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community and of its destruction at the hands of the Nazis. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Book Discussions, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Warsaw Testament: Memoir of a Yiddish Literary Community Before the Holocaust (in-person and online)

Classical Music | Argentine Guitar Quartet Performs International, Contemporary Works


Nuntempe Ensamble, hailing from Argentina, showcases contemporary pieces by emerging composers from Argentina, Colombia, and the United States. The group will perform new works for acoustic and electric guitars by Georg Friedrich Haas, Douglas Boyce, Agustina Crespo, Cecilia Pereyra, and Eblis Alvarez.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Argentine Guitar Quartet Performs International, Contemporary Works
7:30 pm
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Concerts, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Violin Pieces by Schubert, Bartok and More

Workshop | Stargazing in the Park


Immerse yourself in the wonders of the night sky. The friendly team from the Amateur Astronomers Association will be there with high-powered telescopes, ready to reveal the secrets of the cosmos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, April 29, 2025, 04/29/2025, Stargazing in the Park
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Musical | A Musical with Broadway Actors and Choreographer

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Play | Love Drama

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