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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on August 12, 2011?

34 free events take place on Friday, August 12 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 August 12 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 August . 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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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, August 12, 2011

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Concert | The American Idol Top 11


The top finishers from this year's edition of the Singing Contest That Won't Die. Catch them now before you forget who they are.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Concert | Zac Brown Band, Country Hitmakers


The Georgia-based country band broke through in 2008 with their album The Foundation. They continued their success with last year's You Get What You Give.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary! Hing also teaches Tai Chi at the China Institute. He has practiced martial arts for over 25 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
Free

Park Walk | Fitness Walk NYC


This free fitness walk is one hour long and led by experienced Instructors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Workshop | Fitness Fridays: Health & Race Walking


Join coach Lon Wilson for a moderate to brisk low-impact walk that is perfect for getting into shape, building muscle tone and strength, and increasing cardiovascular health all while enjoying the Park's beautiful landscapes. Ages 18+ of all ability levels welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Other | Bridge Club for Advanced Beginners


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players only. Join the fun and meet new friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

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
$6

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: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Concert | Donald Lawrence, Grammy-Winning Gospel Artist


The creatively righteous mind of Grammy Award-winning producer, composer and recording artist Donald Lawrence has set the standard for excellence in the gospel music field over the last two decades with signature #1 radio smashes such as "Back II Eden," "Encourage Yourself" and "The Blessing of Abraham" which spent 18 weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's Hot Gospel Songs radio chart. On his third solo and latest masterwork, YRM (Your Righteous Mind), Lawrence blends the classicism of traditional gospel music and retro soul grooves with uplifting, messages of self-affirmation and daily How-To-Faith lessons on the fourteen-track set.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


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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Jazz | Jon Weber, Jazz Pianist


Jazz pianist Jon Weber has recorded and toured all over the world, winning numerous accolades for performance and composition - and scoring extensively for television since 1987. Gary Burton, Roy Hargrove, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, and Avishai Cohen have all recorded Jon's music. His newest critically-acclaimed release, Simple Complex, rose to #1. Jon lives in New York City.
   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
$6

Festival | Float: Field of Dreams, Artworks and Performances


Float is a biennial series of ephemeral and interactive artworks and performances. Featuring Chris Verene: The Self-Esteem Salon with Jessica Grable, "The Self-Preservation Series" - New York artist Chris Verene presents a new installation of his ongoing, live-action performance artwork cycle, The Self-Esteem Salon, established in 1996. For Socrates Sculpture Park, Verene teams up with friend, performance artist and sculptor, Jessica Grable, to create the largest version of the performance ever staged entitled The Self-Esteem Salon with Jessica Grable: The Self-Preservation Series. Verene and Grable are working together to build an ensemble of plant life and costumes emphasizing the human need for self-preservation, a custom topiary garden made from cultivated invasive plant species, a 40-foot yurt sanctuary to help strangers/participants make a sincere and lasting change in their lives. The project is something like a day spa, a short time spent in therapy that will have positive results on one's personal life. The artist and his staff of "Group Facilitators" welcome visitors, clients and audience members throughout the duration of the piece, offering a variety of public and private experiences including cognitive therapy, massage (touch and non-touch), costume construction, audio therapy, and other activities that the artist has found to raise clients' self-esteem over the past thirteen years of practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour of Fünf Räume, an Exhibition of Emerging Austrian Artists


A gallery talk and walkthrough of the new exhibition. Fünf Räume presents new, site-specific works by emerging Austrian artists, each transforming a distinct space in the gallery. All participants, despite their success and renown in Europe and elsewhere, have for the most part not yet been shown in the U.S. Fünf Räume (German for 'Five Rooms') allows viewers to experience something unique and original while at the same time providing a glimpse into each artist's pluridisciplinary practice, primarily within painting, sculpture and installation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Russian Comedy-Drama: Nikita Mikhalkov's Oblomov (1979)


A comedic drama about a member of the landed gentry of nineteenth-century Russia whose indolence destroys his life. 142 min. In Russian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | All About Computers: Saving and Backing Up Data


Hands on using wireless laptops. Develop strategies for saving regularly and learn how to back up data using flash drives and other methods.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Volleyball Skills Workshop


Learn volleyball basics in a free skills clinic for children and adults. The clinic will feature instructors who will review the fundamentals of beach volleyball, as well as teach more advanced techniques, including serving, spiking, passing and ball control, and diving and rolling drills. Two sessions: 4:00pm - 5:30pm for children 5:30pm - 7:00pm for adults
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lesson | Coffee “Cupping” Class


Cupping: Learn the professional way to taste and evaluate coffee.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | extraordinary CAAC Martial Arts Society demonstrates the breathtaking virtuosity


On the ground and in the air, the extraordinary CAAC Martial Arts Society demonstrates the breathtaking virtuosity and explosive athleticism of traditional Chinese sword, spear, and knife fighting. In the near-miraculous traditional Face Changing style, as one face or mask disappears, another rises up to replace it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Friday Evening Drumming Circle


Improvise on African, Latin and Caribbean rhythms at the drumming circle. The gatherings are led by master drummers MAGUETTE CAMARA, PETER HAWES, MARY KNYSH and PAMELA PATRICK. After beginning with the teaching of traditional drumming patterns, and establishing a steady heartbeat pulse, participants are then asked to contribute their own rhythmic patterns as part of a call-and-response chanting and drumming.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | Outdoor Theater: The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare


The Bard's story of the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Performed by Hudson Warehouse.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Forces of Nature Dance Theatre / The DASH Ensemble


Founded in 1981, Forces of Nature Dance Theatre has become a major player in the dance world, having produced numerous high quality ballets and performing around the world. With a creative matrix centered between the African and American cultural diaspora, its aesthetic has been critically acclaimed as thought provoking and creatively brilliant. By utilizing a unique blend of performing arts including contemporary dance, traditional West African dance, ballet, house, hip-hop and martial arts, the company has been at the forefront of redefining the experience of African-American dance. The DASH Ensemble founded by artistic director Gregory Dolbashian, is a diverse company of dance artists with a shared commitment to expanding the physical and theatrical boundaries of contemporary dance in the twenty-first century. The company has performed at venues all over New York including The Skirball Center, Dance Theater Workshop, and Symphony Space to much critical and audience acclaim. The DASH Ensemble will present several works including an excerpt from their thrilling debut work, “SUNDOWNING” and highlights from their newest work, “Like the Eagle.” Also, a Master Class: A fun, energetic, and easy to follow dance workout fused with hip-hop, funk, and the latest dance moves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Talk | Intelligent City, a Talk by Columbia's Saskia Sassen


Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, questions notions of comfort and "cityness" in the global city of New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name and A Bag O’ Chips Comedy/Variety Show


With: Carolyn Castiglia (NBC's Last Comic Standing, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Marilyn Torres ("Maid In Manhattan," "Flight of the Conchords"); Aladdin (The Funniest South Asian in the Nation) and a few surprises, Now in its 12th year, the show will also feature the funky sounds of "No Name" house band The Summer Replacements.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Sunset on the Hudson with Guitarist David Ippolito


Enjoy the gorgeous sunset and mellow sounds of New York’s acclaimed Guitar Man David Ippolito from this spectacular grass-covered pier that stretches 900 feet into the majestic Hudson River.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Waterfront Workouts: Hip-Hop Dance Aerobics


A cardiovascular workout using urban upbeat Hip Hop music. This class teaches step by step movements with fun choreography, so you can get your feet moving and your heart pumping.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Asian American International Film Festival: Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words (2010)


Transcending the silent era into sound film, the legendary Anna May Wong co-starred with the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Douglas Fairbanks. The first Chinese American movie star is captured in this documentary through rich archival footage, interviews with studio colleagues, commentary by filmmakers, scholars and re-enactments of her letters and diary by actress Doan Ly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | The Metropolis Ensemble: The Martial Arts Trilogy


A chamber orchestra dedicated to rendering classical lyricism in its most contemporary forms, the Metropolis Ensemble turns its attention to the kinetic music of Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun, who will conduct his Martial Arts Trilogy, a multimedia concert culled from music inspired by three popular Chinese films: Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Yimou’s Hero, and Feng Xioagang’s The Banquet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Film | Mike Mitchell's Shrek Forever After (2010): Ogre of a Sequel


With the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz. Rumpelstiltskin tricks a midlife crisis-burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpel rules supreme. 93 min. Free popcorn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: As You Like It


Pulse Ensemble Theatre's seventh Harlem Summer Shakespeare production is a multi-ethnic, open-air production of William Shakespeare’s comedy. As is the tradition with Pulse Theatre Ensemble’s Harlem Summer Shakespeare, this production keeps Shakespeare’s language intact whilst updating the world in which the characters live. In this contemporary version of As You Like It, Frederick is a millionaire in the image of Hugh Hefner or Donald Trump. He believes money rules the day. Duke Senior and his followers, on the other hand, live a rustic, free-spirited life somewhere between the 1960’s hippies and the Hari Krishna followers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: Hamlet


The Drilling Company will present Hamlet directed by Hamilton Clancy. In an unusual interpretation, the production is intended to illuminate the modern dysfunctional family unit. The cast includes Alessandro Colla as Hamlet, Amanda Dillard as Ophelia , McKey Carpenter as Laertes, Paul Guskin as Polonius, Karla Hendrick as Gertrude, David Sitler as Claudius, Bill Green as The Ghost, Jennifer Fouche as The Player Queen, Jed Q. Peterson as Guildenstern, Miguel Govea as Marcellus, Graciany Miranda as Horatio, Andrew Markert as Rosencrantz, Kate Garfield as Bernadine and James Butler as Osric.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Other | Stargazing in the Park


You do not need to bring a telescope. They will provide a 15" Obsession Telescope to look through. It is an amazing view of the heavens. You'll see planets, stars and nebulae! Weather permitting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Chicago Invasion! Comedy Show


Three Harold teams from iO Chicago are invading New York this weekend. Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husbands. They're going to smash in your windows and steal your ideas then weave them into a munchable and crunchable improv show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
$5
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