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

10 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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10 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, August 18, 2024

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

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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Workshops, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Tai Chi on the River

Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tours, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many

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
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11:00 am
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Tours, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Historic Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour

Workshop | Over, Under, Through: Basics of Parkour


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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Workshops, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Over, Under, Through: Basics of Parkour

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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Workshops, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Sun Gazing

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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Poetry Readings, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Poetry in the Garden

Concert | Video Music Box 40th Anniversary


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
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5:00 pm
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Concerts, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Video Music Box 40th Anniversary

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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Plays, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's Shipwrecked Stranger -- in the Park

Discussion | 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
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6:30 pm
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Discussions, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Language City: Five Nights, Five Boroughs

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


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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Concerts, August 18, 2024, 08/18/2024, Funk Flex Birthday Party with Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh. & More
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Film | Sci-Fi Thriller

Regular Price: $By invitation only
CFT Member Price: $0.00

Play | A Play by a Pulitzer Prize Winner

Regular Price: $35
CFT Member Price: $0.00
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