44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 6, 2016
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.
A lecture by General Denis Mercier, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, NATO.
Established ...
more >> in 2003, the Supreme Allied Command Transformation of NATO is in charge of inventing the future of the Alliance and leading its transformation. SACT focus on strategic foresight, capability development, education and training and partnerships’ development. Challenges have never been so numerous: the emergence of new threats (Islamic State), as well as the re-renewal of old ones (Russia) lead to deep evolutions of warfare (combination of conventional, irregular and cyber warfare) in a context of strong pressure on military budgets. This discussion will touch on the ways of facing these challenges on conceptual and practical levels to meet the Alliance’s ambition
Watch as the Tibetan Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery create a magnificent mandala sand painting ...
more >> created with millions of grains of colored sands.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
View tumbling cascades, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools in the "Manhattan Adirondacks." Route involves ...
more >> many hills and stairs. 75 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Andrés Rovira is a sophomore in Columbia College from Atlanta, Georgia. He was selected as Georgia’s ...
more >> All-State Jazz Band pianist for three years, and went on to win several state and national awards for jazz performance. After studying with Atlanta natives Phil Sims and Kevin Bales, Rovira is now a student of Bruce Barth while he pursues a degree in Economics-Mathematics.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Padma Lakshmi is the host of the Emmy Award-winning, top-rated Bravo series Top Chef, and the author ...
more >> of two cookbooks. The first internationally successful Indian supermodel, she has appeared in numerous fashion spreads and has walked the runway for designers Ralph Lauren, Emmanuel Ungaro, and Alberta Ferretti, and starred in campaigns for Versus and Roberto Cavalli. She lives in New York City with her daughter.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A presentation by Stephen Blank, Senior Fellow for Russia, American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, ...
more >> D.C. The talk will be accompanied by commentary from Jonathan Caverley, Research Associate, Security Studies Program and Political Science, MIT.
Developing your leadership voice as a woman of color can be challenging, but it can also be a rewarding ...
more >> journey of self-discovery with the potential to create meaningful impact. Please join an honest discussion with Melody Barnes, Vice Provost of Global Student Leadership Initiatives, and Diahann Billings-Burford, Executive Director of Corporate Responsibility at Time Warner Inc.
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ...
more >> choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Featuring the Tibetan Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery.
This event takes place April 4-8.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 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.
Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
This event recurs on April ...
more >> 6, 11, 20 and 25.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts throughout ...
more >> the season.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
From Asheville, NC. Choral works and arrangements by Antonio Lotti, Alfred Schnittke, Cesar Alejandro ...
more >> Carrilo, Ola Gjeilo, Brad Holmes, Brad Ellingoe, and Henning Sommerro
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A week-long series of contemporary indigenous-focused dance master classes comes to #MANAhatta and celebrates ...
more >> Lenapehoking as a site of cultural activation. The masterclasses are led by Jack Gray (A/P/A Institute at NYU Artist-in-Residence) and guest professional artists from Alaska (Emily Johnson), Philippines (Sammay Dizon), and Aotearoa (Louise Potiki Bryant, Jasmin Canuel, and Bianca Hyslop).
The guest artists will showcase the very latest advancements and developments in contemporary indigenous dance, and share a range of diverse practices and innovations during each two-hour session. Suitable and open to all range of mobilities and experience levels.
This event takes place April 4-8.
2:00 pm
$5 suggested donation...
Get acquainted with Apple's powerful word processor that gives you everything you need to create documents ...
more >> that look beautiful, read beautifully, and let you work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices, as well as with colleagues, friends, and family who use Microsoft Word.
Diana Soviero is one of the most recognized American opera singers of the twentieth century. More than ...
more >> merely a vocalist, Soviero was a singing actress who lived her roles intensely on the stage. As her lyric soprano voice blossomed into a spinto with vivid colors, Soviero became a compelling interpreter of the verismo repertoire. She created a gallery of unforgettable operatic portraits in performances at leading international opera houses.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
"First, Do No Harm" is a responsibility that flows in one direction - from physician to patient. A physician ...
more >> must take the patient's well-being into consideration when determining his or her treatment plan. A physician must honor the patient's request about what treatment he or she desires.
Yet some disagree, most notably those who believe that patients have an obligation to accommodate their doctor or hospital's religious beliefs even when the patient will suffer. Apparently, their mantra reads "Do No Harm Except When My Religion Says So." This line of thinking predominates in Catholic Hospitals, which now operate one out of six hospital beds in the country. Each day, hundreds of thousands of individuals are patients at these hospitals and have no idea that their treatment plan is being governed by religious doctrine, rather than medical standards.
A talk by Brooke A. Tucker of the ACLU Michigan.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Natasha Brodsky is among the cello faculty at The Juilliard School and New England Conservatory.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:45 pm
free, no reservation required
Every city is the site of radical disconnections between classes, neighborhoods, interest groups and ...
more >> political factions. Radical economic inequality is the most visible of these disconnections. How media project and transform these disconnections; how the latter are woven back into social processes, and with what implications for social justice, are questions of the greatest interest for media studies.
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Denis served as a New York State Assemblyman (1997-2001). ...
more >> He has written for the New York Daily News, Newsday, the New York Sun, and Harvard Political Review.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
So far, capital has been resistant to the regulation of time. Rather than balance the demands of work ...
more >> and life, US capitalism was dependent on the hidden subsidy of the American wife, a behind-the-scenes, stay-at-home fixer of what economists call market failures.
When women left the home—out of desire and necessity—the old system fell apart. Families and the larger economy have yet to recover, and employers' demands for more of their employees’ time is a growing reality in US capitalism.
Economist Heather Boushey, an outside advisor to the Hillary Clinton campaign, delivers the lecture.
Thomas R. Pryor's work has appeared in The New York Times, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, A Prairie Home ...
more >> Companion, New York Press, Underground Voices Magazine, Opium Magazine Online, Our Town, The West Side Spirit and Ducts. His short stories are published in Thomas Beller's, "Lost and Found: Stories from New York," Larry Canale's, "Mickey Mantle - Memories and Memorabilia," and Three Rooms Press' “Have A NYC 2.”
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Patricia Pimentel Selassie, a lifelong eczema sufferer, went to naturopathic medical school to find a ...
more >> cure, and now she gets compliments on her skin all the time. She’ll systematically teach you the program that worked wonders for her. It’s not about miracle creams, but rather about working from the inside out, because the skin reflects the health of the entire body.
A powerful novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his ...
more >> coastal Japanese village.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A lecture-performance/artist talk/poetry reading with Roman Osminkin, radical poet and artist from St. ...
more >> Petersburg, Russia.
In this presentation, Osminkin will deliver a lecture — interrupted in the most awkward moments by readings from his poems, demonstrations of his videos, musical interludes, and citations of the work of his friends—about the external objectives of poetry and its evolutionary development beyond the page.
The event will be in English and Russian with projected translations and subtitles.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:15 pm
free, no reservation required
A panel discussion featuring Simona Colarizi, historian (author of Novecento d'Europa); Federico Rampini, ...
more >> writer and journalist (La Repubblica); and David Usborne, journalist (The Independent).
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
An emotional portrait, a social critique, and a passionate plea for human equality, this film is a vérité ...
more >> feast. Without using narration, the film allows Baldwin to tell his own story: exploring what it means to be born black, impoverished, gay and gifted - in a world that has yet to understand that "all men are brothers."
87 min.
Q&A with director Karen Thorson, James Baldwin's nephew and Harlem's own Trevor Baldwin to follow the screening. More speakers TBA.
Dale Peck is the author of the novels Martin and John, The Law of Enclosures, Now It's Time to Say Goodbye, ...
more >> Body Surfing, Shift (with Tim Kring), and The Garden of Lost and Found; the novel-cum-memoir What We Lost; the memoir Visions and Revisions; the children's novels, Drift House and The Lost Cities; the young adult novel Sprout; and a collection of literary criticism, Hatchet Jobs.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
This illustrated lecture explores our justice system that has delivered the ultimate punishment nearly ...
more >> one thousand times since 1976, though it cannot guarantee accurate convictions.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Yiddish theater stars Shane Baker, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Yelena Shmulenson present an evening of the ...
more >> rib-tickling, heart-rending tales of the most beloved Yiddish writer of all time. Did a nudnik ever buttonhole you and chew your ear off? Did you ever realize you were in the wrong place at the wrong time? Did you ever wish you had words to tell someone what you really thought of them? Sholem Aleichem did all of this and more a hundred years before we did.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street joins the Trinity Movement Choir in performing a dance ...
more >> oratorio dramatizing the Biblical Job’s challenge to God.
Under the direction of Julian Wachner, the highly disciplined classical choir performs the powerful questions raised by Job and explores the libretto taken from the King James Bible. The Trinity Movement Choir, with movement based on intense, dreamlike aspect of Butoh, will also enact the story of Job.
6:45 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Cameron Diaz follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, The Body Book, with a personal, practical, ...
more >> and authoritative guide that examines the art and science of growing older and offers concrete steps women can take to create abundant health and resilience as they age.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This spring marks the 70th anniversary of Camus’s one and only trip to the United States. From March ...
more >> to May 1946, he delivered lectures at universities, spoke of the French resistance to Nazi occupation, and acted as a critical observer of American society. Outside of intellectual and literary circles, the young author was scarcely known when he arrived. But he would be. During the course of his visit, his novel The Stranger was published in English for the first time.
With: Alice Kaplan (John M. Musser Professor of French, and Chair of the French Department, Yale University), Alban Cerisier (Secretary-General at Editions Gallimard, Camus’ French publisher) and Morris Dickstein (Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY, Graduate Center).
Come meet debut novelist Jessica Knoll and find out why her instant New York Times bestseller is "completely ...
more >> unputdownable" (Entertainment Weekly). With a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome, rich fiancé, Ani FaNelli's seemingly perfect life begins to unravel as she confronts dark secrets from her past. Will the truth finally set Ani free or destroy everything she's worked for?
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high-impact yet neglected threat. Why do leaders and decision makers ...
more >> keep failing to address obvious dangers before they spiral out of control? Drawing on her extensive background in policy formation and crisis management, as well as in-depth interviews with world leaders, author Michele Wucker shows how to recognize and strategically counter looming threats.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Young Hoo Kim, jazz double bass
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Liang Qian, composition
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Based in Vienna the two musicians Judith Ferstl and Lucia Leena embrace the liberating possibilities ...
more >> of double bass and vocals. In between songwriting and improvisation they set poetry to music, develop poetic soundscapes with spherical electronics and compose lyrical melodies. Their approach is patience while creating - always with the possibility to form and change the music moment-to-moment.
Editor's Pick
Program:
Edvard Grieg Aase's Death from Peer Gynt Suite #1
Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto (Movement ...
more >> 1)
Igor Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947 version)
Editor's Pick
Sarah Kandelshein is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman. When her abusive husband refuses to grant her a ...
more >> religious divorce, she must choose between her freedom and her faith – that is until a “gangster” rabbi offers his services to help “change her husband’s mind.”
This event occurs April 6-9.
Are you a Mac, PC... or neither? Learn about the differences between Apple's Mac computers and Windows ...
more >> PCs by exploring the advantages and limitations of each platform.
Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). ...
more >> The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required