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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 14, 2010?

45 free events take place on Tuesday, December 14 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 December 14 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 December . 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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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, December 14, 2010

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free

Workshop | Internet 2: Searching the Web


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to find information online using search engines and subject directories.
   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

Concert | Tavern and Its Green Tour


Discover the sheepfold that became a world famous restaurant, a parade ground that became the Sheep Meadow, the Children's District, The Mall including its statues.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen


Dixieland jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Concert | A capella Holiday Music with the Big Apple Chorus


Festive music from the delightful Big Apple Chorus. This popular NYC ensemble will perform a cappella versions of your favorite holiday tunes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Organist Polo Guardiani of Turin, Italy


Part of the free Prism Concerts Organ Series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Concert | Works by Mozart, Beethoven and Penderecki


Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563 Krzysztof Penderecki String Trio (1991) Ludwig van Beethoven Serenade in D Major for violin, viola, and violoncello, Op. 8 Featuring: Juilliard artists Trio La Belle (Areta Zhulla, violin; Molly Carr, viola; & Jacqueline Choi, cello).
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
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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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: Clay Beings and With the Grain: The Life and Art of Willard Stone. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Library Database: In Motion


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn about the African-American migration experiences that transformed history using maps, illustrations, photographs and text from the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Jazz | Linear Composition Ensemble


Directed by Jane Ira Bloom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Workshop | Sacred Adornments Workshop


World cultures and their religions are profoundly connected through the medium of wearable art. Professional jewelry designer and teacher Chaya Adler leads a hands-on workshop in making jewelry infused with historic and spiritual meaning, using traditional beads.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Peter Godfrey's Romantic Comedy Christmas in Connecticut (1945): Lies of the Season


With Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Shayne and Sydney Greenstreet. A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas. 102 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Teach Yourself Using Online Resources


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore Library databases and free websites that will help you learn a variety of skills and subjects. Prepare for many academic, civil service and professional licensing exams using LearningExpressLibrary, available from home with your library card.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Discussion | Former Times reporter Chuck Sudetic on Serbia


Director Andreas Stadler will be joined for a discussion by writer and former journalist Sudetic, who has focused on the former Yugoslavia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Disconnection Between Aggregate Demand and Employment


An Economics Department Seminar with Deepankar Basu and Duncan Foley.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist


A discussion of this story of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Holiday Crafts Workshop


Get into the holiday spirit by creating beautiful holiday crafts. For adults 19 and up.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Book Signing | Basketball superstar Walt Frazier signs copies of his book Rockin’ Steady


For millions of basketball fans in the 1970s, Walt “Clyde” Frazier defined the word cool.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Jazz Voices


Directed by Joan Stiles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Legendary photographer James Hamilton discusses his book You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen


Legendary photographer Hamilton is first opening his extensive archive of materials, containing 30 years of photos from his time as staff photographer at publications such as Village Voice and Harper's Bazaar, in this publication with musician Thurston Moore's newly founded Ecstatic Peace Library. Moore hosts this conversation with James Hamilton about some of his experiences covering the New York film, art and music scenes of the last several decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Yoga is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue is facing us - frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness - Sahaja Yoga Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment. Classes are taught by experience volunteers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Resume Renovation


In this special lecture format, John Crant will show to how to increase the value of the items on your resume, and how to make the cuts necessary, to be seen as a stand-out during your job search.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | We Built This City: How Art, Graphics, and Design Policy Take Shape for New Yorkers


Former design critic Victoria Milne will discuss the gory and glamorous process of developing art and design projects for the City of New York. Her responsibilities range in scale from the design of event name tags to developing policy for architecture. Milne is Director of Creative Services at NYC's Department of Design and Construction (DDC), where she manages percent for art projects for DDC, runs an in-house graphic design team and is involved in policy projects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein discusses his book Kvetch as Kvetch Can: Jewish Cartoons


Krimstein shows how his little scribbles with strange words answer everything from what you feed a gefilte fish to what to call that green thing mixed marriage couples bring into their overheated apartments during this time of the year.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga


Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Poetry Forum with Timothy Donnelly


Donnelly is the author of The Cloud Corporation (forthcoming) and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit and is a poetry editor of Boston Review. He was recently named “It Poet” on Entertainment Weekly’s annual “It List.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5

Poetry Reading | Readings from Rainer Maria Rilke's The Inner Sky


A recently published and highly praised selection of works by Bohemian-Austrian author Rainer Maria Rilke, who is widely considered one of the greatest lyric poets of 20th century German Literature. The editor and translator of the volume, Damion Searls, will discuss issues of translation and read excerpts from the book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | The Pen Parentis Literary Salon


With Ann Hood, Léna Roy, and Liz Rosenberg. Ann Hood is the author of nine novels including the bestsellers, THE RED THREAD, THE KNITTING CIRCLE, and SOMEWHERE OFF THE COAST OF MAINE, a collection of short stories, and two memoirs. Her most recent memoir, COMFORT: A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and named one of the top ten non fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Léna Roy was raised in New York City, in the cloistered environs of a theological seminary, with extracurricular education provided by Manhattan's club scene. She worked as a bartender, an actor, and as a therapist with at-risk adolescents before finding her voice as a writer in Young Adult fiction. When not writing and spending time with her family, she is teaching creative writing workshops for kids and teens from 8-18 with Writopia Lab in both NYC and Northern Westchester. Liz Rosenberg is an award-winning novelist and poet as well as a prize winning children's book author. Her books include Home Repair, Nobody, Demon Love, and This is the Wind. Her forthcoming novel, A YEAR WITHOUT MAKEUP, will be her eighth published book. She has been a professor of English at SUNY Binghamton for more than twenty years, and is a visiting writer, faculty, or guest lecturer at writing colonies and conferences around the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$20 suggested donation

Talk | Writer Pete Hamill talks immigration


An intimate evening with a New York legend. The journalist, novelist, and son of Irish immigrants makes an impassioned plea for common sense on the issue of undocumented immigration, arguing that America needs these new waves of immigrants as much as they need us and that we must welcome them with decency and grace.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Czech Director Jaromil Jireš's Double Role (1999): They Saved Louisa's Brain


A surgeon and a scientist have been secretly trying to transplant the brain from one hog into another. Soon after their first success, they have a golden opportunity to save a human: a 70-year old professor of history is mortally injured in a car accident, but her brain is unhurt; a 25-year-old has severe head trauma, but is otherwise unscratched. The professor, Louisa, awakes in hospital inside the body of Yvette, the youth. She realizes immediately that the scientists have not thought through what her life will be like. 110 min. In Czech with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Inner Geography: Recent Spanish Experimental Cinema


This film series highlights the variety of approaches in recent Spanish experimental cinema. Featuring: • Forth and Back and Forth (2007, 3') by Albert Alcoz • My tears are dry (2009, 4') by Laida Lertxundi • Body Theory (2004, 5') by Isaki Lacuesta • The Fence (2005, 12') by Ricardo Iscar & Nacho Martin • The Sea (2010, 22') by Víctor Iriarte • Les variations Dielman (2010, 12') by Fernando Franco • First Person (2008, 8') by León Siminiani Total runtime: 66 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Miles Neale.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Jazz | Jazz Voices


Directed by Janet Lawson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Michael Wolraich discusses his book Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies About the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual


Wolraich, founder of the popular political blog dagblog.com, discusses his new book and his view that the right is largely responsible for spreading paranoia across the nation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Panel of the Exhibition Help Me


Panelists include Luc Sante, William Hunt, and Leslie Grant. Moderated by Megan Cump. Each will present excerpts from their collections of found photographs and related projects while addressing the resonance, subversive possibilities, and relevance of found and vernacular photography, including themes from the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pheobe Hoban reads from her book Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty


Bestselling author Hoban chronicles Alice Neel's colorful and chaotic life, from her turn-of-the-century upbringing through her later years as an artworld outsider when, with the help of the feminist movement, she was finally given her rightful place as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. Educated at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Alice was drawn to the darker and edgier side of painting in an era when abstract expressionism reigned supreme. Considered a quintessential Bohemian and complex genius, Alice Neel was a wife, lover, reluctant mother, long time Communist, raconteur, and painter. In Pheobe Hoban's captivating biography, the great Alice Neel lives again.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Mendelssohn Glee Club's Winter 2010 Holiday Concert


The program will pay homage to both Robert Schumann, in this bicentennial of his birth, and Stephen Sondheim, who turned eighty in 2010 – but close the evening out by vocalizing some appropriate, infectiously familiar seasonal music. Guest artists: Joyce El-Khoury, soprano; and Natalia Katyukova, accompanist. They sing in white tie and tails, so business attire is expected.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Theater | Corporate Personhood Play Festival


Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can now donate unlimited funds to politicians because they are entitled to the same rights as private citizens. Subjective Theatre Company’s Corporate Personhood Play Festival will present nine 10-minute plays inspired by this ruling. Tonight: Seward, Kansas Written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach. The soil is toxic, food is scarce, and corporate forces have taken control of all Kansas farms after a nuclear disaster. One farm in remote Seward may be the exception to the rulers. Light Sweet Crude Written by Melisa Tein. A snapshot of how great events affect small people, an illustration of the invisible connections we share with others, and a meditation on the responsibility of the corporation versus the responsibility of the individual. SP/Lochner Written by Julia Holleman. A comedic melodrama about how two scrappy young corporations in the 1880s persuade the Supreme Court to believe in their humanity using the only means at their disposal - passion, conviction, and, let's not forget, money. They Think Our Favorite Color Is Green Written by Patricia Ione Lloyd. Menthol cigarettes, buff black men and corporate America’s racism; or just another day in the U.S. of A. What have we learned from the world's leader of incarcerating its residents? How target advertising maximizes corporate profits, to laugh at tragedy, and how to get killer abs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | NewMusicMannes Fall 2010 Concert


Under the direction of Madeleine Shapiro, NewMusicMannes concerts feature solo and chamber works of new music performed by students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Opera Workshop Performance


A student recital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Voices


Directed by Janet Lawson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Open Mike | Penny's Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
$3
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