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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 18, 2014?

41 free events take place on Friday, April 18 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 18 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, April 18, 2014

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free events nyc All-in-One Downtown Tour
free events nyc The Kaganovskiy Duo performs works by Handel and others
free events nyc Dzieci Theatre's A Passion: A Dramatic Choral Liturgy Not Bound by Any Single Religion
free events nyc The Orion String Quartet, One of the Most Sought-After Ensembles in the United States
free events nyc Oscar Peñas, Catalan-Born Jazz Guitarist
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour


On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Fencing in the Park


Take a stab at the modern sport of fencing with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. No prior experience needed and equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Pen to Paper 2014: The Repercussions of Truth


With writers Gordon Cox, John Dower, Tyler Meason, Justin Weinstein, Sam Cullman, and Jennifer Grausman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Ron Howard's Oscar Winner A Beautiful Mind (2001): Brilliance and Madness


Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris. The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. He seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he makes a remarkable advancement in the foundations of "game theory," but evidence suggests his perceptions of reality are tenuous. 136 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | The Kaganovskiy Duo performs works by Handel and others


Program: George Friedrich Handel Chaconne Johan Halvorsen Sarabande con Variazion on The Theme de Handel Ignatz Pleyel Grand Duo No.2 Allegro, Theme with Variations Jean-Marie Leclair Sonata No.1 for Violin and Viola Riccardo Joshua Moretti 2 Jewish Songs Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia The Kaganovskiy Duo: Artur Kaganovskiy (Violin); Eszter Szilveszter (Viola).
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Jean-Marc Vallée's Oscar-Winning Dallas Buyers Club (2013): Defying AIDS


Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner. Biographical drama centering on the story of Ron Woodroof, a Texas electrician who was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986, and who subsequently devoted his life to providing fellow HIV patients with non-FDA-approved drugs and supplements during an era when doctors were still struggling to understand the devastating disease. 117 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Orchestral Performance Master Class: Don Liuzzi, Timpani


Don Liuzzi was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and completed high school at the Franklin Learning Center in Philadelphia. Before joining The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989, Mr. Liuzzi was a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony percussion section from 1982 to 1989. While in Pittsburgh he taught percussion and conducted the percussion ensemble at Duquesne University, was assistant conductor of the Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra, and appeared on PBS’ nationally syndicated Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, performing marimba and percussion solos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Myungjin Oh, Piano 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Elizabeth Chang, Soprano 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Jimin Baik, Voice 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Shang Jin Khor, Piano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Josep Viader-Coma, tenor 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Myung Hye Kwon, Violin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


4pm Christine S. Lee, Cello 4pm Levi Jones, Double Bass 6pm Ben Laude, Piano Lecture 6pm Hannah Ross, Viola 8pm Caitlin Kelley, Violin 8pm June Moon Kyung Hahn, Percussion 8pm Lukas Gabric, Jazz Tenor Saxophone
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | A Literary Reflection on the House and Ballroom Scene


Authors of recently published books from and about the House and Ballroom Scene converse: Dominique Jackson (Icon Tyra Allure Ross), entertainer and model, Gerard Gaskin, photographer, Douglas Says, designer, and Marlon Bailey, Gender and American Studies scholar; moderated by Edgar Rivera Colon and Frank Roberts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Reading: Cathy Linh Che / Sally Wen Mao / Jamaal May


Readings by Cathy Linh Che (“Split,” 2014), Sally Wen Mao (“Mad Honey Symposium,” 2014), and Jamaal May (“Hum,” 2013). This event is hosted by executive director Carey Salerno.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Tunga: An Exhibition of New Work


This marks the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and includes sculptures and drawings conceived over the past few years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Work-in-Progress: Jon Kinzel


The Studio Series offers an opportunity for research and development in a creative residency format, providing resources of time, space and a commission. The Studio Series is a research laboratory for physical explorations and new movement investigations with a focus on process, not final performance/product. The “performances” are intended to be informal public showings to share ideas with an audience in the intimate working space of the studio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
$5

Opening Reception | New Artworks: Jory Rabinovitz's Eighty Three


In 1983, the U.S. government began minting pennies with a ratio of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper—an inverse of the previous formula of 95% copper and 5% zinc. The coin had become increasingly more valuable as a commodity of copper than as the molecule of a fiat currency. This decision would ensure to repress speculative desires to hoard, melt and debase the coin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Open Friday Figure Drawing Workshop


Each Friday, the Illustration Department presents an Open Figure Drawing Session.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | The High Line Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Aesthetics, Space and Architecture


A conversation between curator Florence Ostende and artist Franz Erhard Walther.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibit: Index of the Disappeared


To mark the opening of two site-specific installations at NYU, Index of the Disappeared: Watch This Space and Index of the Disappeared: Parasitic Archive, Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani present their final talk as the 2013-14 Artists-in-Residence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The Black Body in Ecstasy


Jennifer C. Nash, assistant professor of American studies at George Washington University, rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Nash's innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 1980s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography, focused on black women's pleasures in blackness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Dana Ward reads from his book The Crisis of Infinite Worlds


Dana Ward’s collection was published by Futurepoem Books in 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Dzieci Theatre's A Passion: A Dramatic Choral Liturgy Not Bound by Any Single Religion


Dzieci is an international experimental theatre ensemble dedicated to a search for the “sacred” through the medium of theatre. Utilizing techniques garnered from such theatre masters as Jerzy Grotowski and the Polish Theatre Laboratory, Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, ritual forms derived from Native American and Eastern spiritual disciplines, and an ethic based securely in Humanistic Psychology, Dzieci aims to create a theatre that is as equally engaged with personal transformation as it is with public presentation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Party | Larry Litt discusses his book Chasing Chattering Monkeys


A major collaborative performance at Cecilia and Carlos' performance party. They'll be wildly celebrating the publication of Litt's newest art rant chapbook, accompanied by composer Lorin Roser. Free high grade beer and maybe a shot of good bourbon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: The House Itself Does Not Burn by Molly Haas-Hooven


In the desolate landscape of a North Dakota boomtown, where oil flows and space is limited, residents and roughnecks struggle to live, love and break even.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


With Liam McEneaney (Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend”), alt-folk singer-songwriter Jessica Delfino ("Good Morning America") and sketch comedy collective Kokomo (Upright Citizens Brigade).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | The Truth of Poetry


Poetry reading by Casey Smith followed by a screening of the short film The Truth of Poetry, a tale of two poets having a falling out over poetry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Around the World in 80 Years, a One-Woman Show by D'yan Forest


D'yan Forest celebrates eight decades of wine, women and song (and a man or two stuck in there). Come on her global journey with heartfelt French songs, including touching international favorites at the piano, comedic parodies with her ukulele and some tantalizing tales.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | The Orion String Quartet, One of the Most Sought-After Ensembles in the United States


The Orion String Quartet is one of the most sought-after ensembles in the United States. Since its inception, the quartet has been consistently praised for the fresh perspective and individuality it brings to performances, offering diverse programs that juxtapose classic masterpieces with notable works by living composers. With over fifty performances each year, the members of the Orion String Quartet - violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips (brothers who share the first violin chair equally), violist Steven Tenenbom and cellist Timothy Eddy remain on the cutting edge of programming and serve as Artist Members of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The program for this concert will include Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Theatrix! A Festival of Short Plays and Musicals


From students in the Program in Educational Theatre.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Oscar Peñas, Catalan-Born Jazz Guitarist


Oscar Peñas brings a distinctive Spanish flavor to his seductive original compositions. A recipient of the prestigious ASCAP Plus Award, he’s joined onstage by an ensemble of bass, drums, and violin. Collectively, they weave intricate harmonies that are cool and contemplative one minute, infectiously upbeat and energetic the next.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: The Old Forever New Things by Dan Kitrosser


When a traffic-cop accidentally spills a cup of coffee on a grad-student’s laptop, their disparate New York lives are twisted together in this comedy of manners, magic and missed connections.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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