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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on August 18, 2024?

21 free events take place on Sunday, August 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 August 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 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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21 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, August 18, 2024

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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Workshop | Tai Chi on the River


Silvana Pizzuti shows how to practice tai chi, a slow moving martial art with health benefits for all fitness levels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Tour | 9 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. See link for details. Scroll down to the middle of the page to find the daily (and almost daily) scheduled tours. Tours: SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Graffiti and Street Art Tours
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
$0-$4

Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Historic Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour


Join a professional guide on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City's most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse, and the famous Flatiron Building. Rain or shine. Every Sunday at 11 am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Festival | House Fest 2024: Arts Celebration on the Island


House Fest is a free festival celebrating the arts community on the Island. It will bring togeth­er more than two dozen cul­tur­al part­ners for a week­end-long cre­ative cel­e­bra­tion in and around the his­toric for­mer mil­i­tary hous­es, fea­tur­ing free dance and music per­for­mances, out­door instal­la­tions, inter­ac­tive work­shops, open stu­dios, pan­el dis­cus­sions, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Over, Under, Through: Basics of Parkour - Outdoors


The Movement Creative leads a 6-week series to learn the basics of parkour. Build your strength, agility, coordination, and mobility with fun drills, partner exercises, and games to learn jumping, vaulting, swinging, and how to put it all together. Have a blast while getting strong!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Parade | India Day Parade


The world's largest India Day Parade! Performances, food, merchandise booths, giveaways and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Hike | Mushroom ID Hike


Prepare to be amazed by the wonders of the forest and the incredible diversity of mushrooms waiting to be discovered. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with nature, expand your knowledge, and make lasting memories.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Hike | Geology Rocks Hike


New York City is the site of ancient earth-shaking and earth-shaping events. The bedrock that anchors the city’s skyscrapers tells a story of a place going back more than a billion years. The island of Manhattan is built on three strata known as Manhattan Schist, Inwood Marble, and Fordham Gneiss. Hike and learn about why Manhattan rocks!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Percussion Workshop in the Street


As part of Open Streets, the percussion artist JoJo Soul will lead a worshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Sun Gazing


The Amateur Astronomers Association help you observe sunspots and solar prominences through safe telescopes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Musical | The Socialization of a Social Worker or The Fight for Social Justice: Outdoor Musical Theater


A rip-roaring original musical which tells a story of a humanitarian case worker learning to overcome despair and find strength for today’s challenges through people power. Book, lyrics and direction are by Crystal Field. The musical score is composed and arranged by Peter Dizzoza. In the play a social worker, transferred to a New York City hospital, burns with hope that he will help make things better for the growing immigrant population which is being cast upon New York. But he is surrounded by red tape in every direction. He is tempted to give up when he meets a bunch of New York City activists who are campaigning for the future of homeless children. They show him that even among the homeless population there is power for change, but that no one can do it alone, and that the power to instill change lies within our neighborhoods. They lead him through an odyssey of homeless life in the subways, the horror and terror of the January 6 insurrection, the heroism of the DC Police, and the causes of women’s rights, abortion and affordable housing. He learns that politicians are not perfect, even the good ones, and that they can be swayed by collective people power. Ultimately, he learns that change is driven by civil society mobilization. This means that every day is a new day and that everyone must vote when election time comes, learn the lessons of January 6, and not succumb to the hatred and resentment.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz in the Park


Berta Indeed presents “Let the Music Play”, community jazz concerts featuring an array of local musicians and vocalists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Party | NYC's Longest-Running Reggae Day Party


NYC's longest running reggae day party arrives in Brooklyn! Host Ma Cherie & DJ Jam Central lead for an afternoon of Studio One, Lovers Rock and dancehall. Come with friends, or come alone -- these afternoons are an opportunity to relax, lay out, and do not too much of anything, while a rotation of DJ's do their thing in the background. Create moments for good vibes and good people. Food and drink will be available for sale by Fornino.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Poetry in the Garden


A bi-weekly poetry program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Video Music Box 40th Anniversary - Outdoors


This Uptown party in honor of "Uncle" Ralph McDaniels celebrates NYC OG who's made significant contributions to hip-hop. McDaniels is the long-time host of the public television show Video Music Box (since 1983!) and helped introduce Nas and the Wu-Tang Clan to the world, directing their first official music videos. Reporting from the clubs and the streets, he helped bring hip-hop to the masses without cable television--reaching an audience untapped by the nascent music channel MTV.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Film | Midnight's Children (2012): Indian Drama Based on Rushdie Book - Plus a Discussion of the Novel


A pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain grow up in the country that is nothing like their parents' generation. Director: Deepa Mehta Stars: Rajat Kapoor, Vansh Bhardwaj, Anupam Kher 146 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Play | Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's Shipwrecked Stranger -- in the Park


This lush production pulls on the heart strings when a young woman is shipwrecked on a strange land and must disguise herself as a man to survive. It’s a story of loss, identity and, finally, love hard won. There’s also music and singing! With the Hudson Classical Theater Company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Language City: Five Nights, Five Boroughs


A performance about the past, present, and future of the world's most linguistically diverse city. Each show will explore a different New York City borough, led by speakers of endangered, Indigenous, and minority languages speaking about their communities in their own words and in their own languages, alongside poetry, music, and movement, with texts based on the Ross Perlin's Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. A multilingual soundscape will draw on ELA's digital language archive, with its recordings in over a hundred languages, as well as visual elements from languagemap.nyc and creative translanguaging translation strategies. Conceived by Ross Perlin, Daniel Kaufman, Michael Leibenluft, the Endangered Language Alliance, and Gung Ho Projects. Directed by Michael Leibenluft.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Concert | Funk Flex Birthday Party with Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, & More - Outdoors


Funk Flex is a New York City hip-hop radio institution. For decades, he's been a champion of the culture and the artists that create it, debuting countless classics with his signature bomb drop and deep well of enthusiasm. This year he'll celebrate his birthday with eyepatch connoisseur and British MC Slick Rick--a pioneer of the art of storytelling; Rick's fellow Kangol crew member, the comedic MC Dana Dane; the Human Beat Box Doug E. Fresh, whose two most famous collaborations with Rick--"The Show" and "La Di Da Di"--are iconic entries in the hip-hop canon; and DJ Maseo of De La Soul, the massively influential hip-hop trio that helped establish a new direction for the nascent Event Type in the late '80s and early '90s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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