38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 4, 2015
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Energize your day with a workout before work. Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, ...
more >> for a Boot Camp. Rotations through 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.
6:30 am
free, no reservation required
In this class you will use the Photoshop to modify digital images. Learn how to use the clone stamp tool, ...
more >> duplicating backgrounds and much more.
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, ...
more >> food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ...
more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ...
more >> choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
12:20 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.
In 1977, Romare Bearden (1911-1988) created a cycle of 20 collages and watercolors (miniature variations ...
more >> of his collages) based on Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden’s “Odysseus Series” created an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African-American culture. The works conveyed a sense of timelessness and the universality of the human condition, but their brilliance was displayed for only two months in New York City before being scattered to private collections and public art museums.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts on ...
more >> Wednesday afternoons throughout the season.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. ...
more >> The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Department of History, University of California Irvine.
How has ...
more >> the Chinese Communist Party stayed in power so long after similar organizations fell in Eastern and Central Europe? Are the strategies that it has been using to deal with protest since 1989 still effective? What makes Xi Jinping similar to and different from his immediate predecessors? These are the sorts of questions the speaker will address, focusing in part on the different sorts of dreams that inspire hope and nightmares that cause anxiety among various groups within the People's Republic of China, from officials in Beijing, to students in Hong Kong, from migrant workers in Dongguan to Uyghurs in Urumqi.
2:10 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn what a blog is, see examples of blogs, learn how to blog and to create your own using Blogger/Word ...
more >> Press.
Learn the basics features of Microsoft Word 2010, a word processing program you can use to create documents. ...
more >> Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
A panel discussion featuring the contributing authors to the book We Shall Overcome: Essays on a Great ...
more >> American Song, edited by Professor Victor V. Bobetsky, Director of the Teacher Education program in Music. The discussants will address topics ranging from the origins and ancestry of "We Shall Overcome," Pete Seeger's role in the popularization of the song, music of the Albany, Georgia freedom movement, the role of arts education for adolesecents, developing a middle school lesson plan focusing on the history of "We Shall Overcome," a discussion of several published choral arrangements of the song, and the legacy of the freedom movement.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn what you need to know before buying or selling an old book. In this class, you will examine an ...
more >> old book, look to see who else owns a copy, and review the sale records and current booksellers’ catalogs to learn about its value. Along the way attendees will learn about the tools and resources that the antiquarian community uses to value a book.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Book Discussion Group will meet to discuss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Young Francie ...
more >> Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the ...
more >> suburban American dream even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished. How do class anxieties play out amid such disconcerting cultural, political, and economic changes? In this incisive ethnography set in a New Jersey suburb outside New York City, Rachel Heiman takes us into people’s homes; their community meetings, where they debate security gates and school redistricting; and even their cars, to offer an intimate view of the tensions and uncertainties of being middle class at that time.
Stephen Kotkin in conversation with David Remnick.
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Stephen Kotkin is the John P. Birkelund ...
more >> Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he directs the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program. He is the author of several books, including Uncivil Society, Armageddon Averted, and Magnetic Mountain. Kotkin’s Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 was published by Penguin in 2014.
David Remnick is editor of the New Yorker. In 1988, he started a four-year tenure as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1993).
The riveting New York Times bestseller about a young man who built more than 200 schools around the world ...
more >> — and the steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Is working with food an art? Are chefs and growers artists? Can artists be chefs and growers? Can anyone ...
more >> making food call it art?
Take a closer look at these questions with a conversation between cookbook author Shelley Boris, curator Amy Lipton, artist Elaine Tin Nyo and writer Linda Weintraub. They discuss ways that artists think about the food they eat, the art of cooking and the art of living on the earth. The discussion also includes information and advice for cooking, raising, producing, procuring and understanding food.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in ...
more >> almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into the writer of the vast and visionary Commedia.
6:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
A very fashionable evening with Emmy Award-winning stylist and faculty member David Zyla. The stylist ...
more >> to the stars will share fashion wisdom from his new book, HOW TO WIN AT SHOPPING, and impart Style Reads on creating your individual wardrobe and how to shop smartly. The presentation will be followed by a reception and book signing where Zyla will offer personalized style readings for attendees.
This performance presents works by Alexis Bosch, Dafinis Prieto, Earl McIntyre and Arturo O’Farrill, ...
more >> including four compositions, Guajira Simple, Triumphant Journey, Second Line Soca/Bruddah Singh and Vaca Frita recorded in December at Havana’s Abdala studios for the Orchestra’s fifth album, Cuba: The Conversation Continued. The performance will be followed by a conversation with Arturo O’Farrill and Tania León.
A conversation with Jennifer Young, PhD candidate in Hebrew & Judaic Studies, who will focus on American ...
more >> Jewish topics in the exhibition The Left Front, including the International Workers Order.
The Left Front highlights the work of American artists who took to their brushes amid the economic and social devastation brought on by the Great Depression. Joining forces in the John Reed Club and its successor, the American Artists’ Congress, a group of intellectuals and artists—among them Isabel Bishop, Louis Lozowick, John Sloan, and Raphael Soyer—tackled themes ranging from class struggle, labor organizing, unemployment, civil and workers’ rights, immigration, socialist mysticism, and utopian communities to the Spanish Civil War.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
This illustrated lecture presents the first definitive biography of Bob Hope, featuring exclusive and ...
more >> extensive reporting that makes the persuasive case that he was most important entertainer of the twentieth century.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Two extraordinary 9-year-olds separately immigrate to America from the former Soviet Union. Each has ...
more >> crafted his unique experience into a breathtaking story.
Books:
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka by Lev Golinkin
A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Mary Pat Kelly, a frequent contributor to Irish America magazine, award-winning documentarian, historian ...
more >> and novelist introduces her latest novel, whose protagonist struggles for Ireland's freedom amid the great figures of her time.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw ...
more >> as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Don’t just play them, learn with them. Reward and exercise your brain the fun way. Master your strategy ...
more >> skills with Chess or Go. Learn about finance with Monopoly and The Game of Life. With many games to choose from, it’s not all just fun and games.
Juliette was unsure about moving to this Parisian suburb, where all the women are in their forties, with ...
more >> children to raise and houses to keep. Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school, and the noose of domestic obligations is slowly tightening around her neck.
93 min. In French with English subtitles.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Chris Landis, cello
A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement ...
more >> of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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