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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 27, 2015?

34 free events take place on Friday, February 27 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 February 27 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 February . 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, February 27, 2015

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Conference | On Strangeness and the Factory of Life: Viktor Shklovsky Then and Now


A one-day international conference that will explore Viktor Shklovsky’s intellectual legacy. In the 1910s and against the background of cataclysmic political events, Shklovsky articulated a theory of art under the rubric of “making strange” that has proven remarkably influential in later thinking about the intersection of art and politics. Almost a hundred years after Shklovsky’s first publications, this conference will assess his vast contributions to literary history and theory, cinema and media studies, as well as his wider role in the politics and culture of the last century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan, Chinatown, Little Italy and SoHo Tour


A multi-neighborhood tour of the Lower Manhattan area. The tour begins on Wall Street, where you will see the New York Stock Exchange and Trinity Church before moving on the the World Trade Center and City Hall. Then move on by subway to visit the largest Chinatown in the United States. Following Chinatown, the tour will continue on through Little Italy and on to SoHo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union


Traditionally scholars of Russia have paid little attention to race, either as a historical phenomenon or as an analytical category. Race, it would seem, does not matter in the Russian case. Only recently have some begun to challenge this long held view that has affected our understanding of Russia’s past no less than its present. But important questions remain. Why has race in Russia been so difficult to analyze? Do race and racism mean the same things in Russia as they do in “classical” racial regimes such as Germany or the United States? In what ways does Russia challenge the category of race as it has been developed in other contexts? Can we talk about the particularity of race in Russia without falling into Russian exceptionalism?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | MS Word 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics features of Microsoft Word 2010, a word processing program you can use to create documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Learn 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. Lessons are weather permitting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


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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Film | Clint Eastwood's Oscar Nominee The Bridges of Madison County (1995): Based on the Novel


Cast: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley. Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s. 135 minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Lasse Hallström's The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014): Restaurant Rivalry


Starring Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal. The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery. 122 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Translation-Machination: Translation as a Language Technology


This event explores the changing circumstances of linguistic exchange and considers the implications of translation as a language technology from a media theoretical perspective. It aims to render discernible the materialities of translation as they shape and are shaped by the contours of politics of economies of language and culture. Questions to be investigated will include machine translation, machine language, Global English(es), untranslatability, and translation in media history and theory. With: - Emily Apter, Professor, Departments of French and Comparative Literature - Dean Jansen, Data & Society fellow, co-founder of Amara.org, and executive director of the Participatory Culture Foundation - Xiaochang Li, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication - Mara Mills Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication - Christine Mitchell Research Fellow, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication - Rita Raley Associate Professor, Department of English, UC-Santa Barbara - Luke Stark, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Symposium | Digital Projects in Music Research


Bringing the Songs Home: Music Repatriation Projects at the Center for Ethnomusicology - Aaron Fox will discuss the Center for Ethnomusicology's ongoing projects to repatriate recordings of traditional and indigenous music (most from the 1930s and 1940s) to their source communities, and to return control over the publication of these archives, which includes the development of digital interfaces with these recordings and associated materials, including photographs and transcriptions, being developed in collaboration with indigenous elders, performers, educators, activists, and scholars. Using motion-capture technology to study musical experience - Mariusz Kozak will present ways in which motion-capture technologies can be used to study how musicians, listeners, and dancers experience music through movement. Marenzio Project - Mauro Calcagno (University of Pennsylvania), Giuseppe Gerbino, and Laurent Pugin (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales, Switzerland) will present the digital edition of the secular music of Luca Marenzio (MODE), one of the most important composers of the European Renaissance. The Computer Music Center and Music Technology at Columbia - CMC Director Brad Garton will present an overview of current and past work done at the CMC to support and enhance the Music Department's technological work. J-DISC, a tool for searching and exploring jazz recordings - Tad Shull (Center for Jazz Studies) will present J-DISC, a relational database that integrates rich information about jazz recording sessions, artist biographical information, compositions, and the production and dissemination of jazz recordings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | French Cinema: Louis Mallle's Viva Maria (1965)


Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton. The daughter of an Irish anarchist is on the lam in Mexico circa 1910, hiding with a touring carnival troupe, where she meets a French singer at the head of an armed peasant revolt. 119 Minutes. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Friday Chess


Open to all players and skill levels from beginner to expert. Anyone who wants to play!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Symposium | Destroying Radical Icons: Mexican Muralism and the New York Left


This symposium includes a gallery conversation by Julia Pelta Feldman, Graduate Curatorial Assistant, and two panel discussions. Panel 1 speakers include Finbarr Barry Flood, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History; Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Jodi Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York; and James Wechsler, Consultant, Boris Lurie Foundation, New York. Panel 2 speakers include Pedro Diego Alvarado, artist and Diego Rivera’s grandson; Anna Indych-Lopez, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, City College of New York; and Susana Pliego, author of Man at the Crossroads: Diego Rivera’s Mural at Rockefeller Center (Trilce, 2013). 4:00–5:30 pm: Panel 1 5:30–6:00 pm: Break 6:00–7:30 pm: Panel 2 and Q&A
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


Julia DeRosa, Oboe 4 p.m. Rueben Allen, Jazz Piano 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Keynote for Mac Workshop


Get acquainted with Apple's powerful presentation software that gives you everything you need to create slideshows and videos that look dazzling, bring your ideas to life, and let you work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices, as well as with colleagues, friends, and family who use Microsoft PowerPoint.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:45 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


Lindsey Nakatani 5:00 pm Boya Wei, soprano 8:00 pm Yuval Gilad, piano 8:00 pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poets Read: Carmen Gimenéz-Smith / David Tomas Martinez


Carmen Gimenéz-Smith’s books include “Milk and Filth” (University of Arizona Press, 2013). David Tomas Martinez’s collection “Hustle” appeared from Sarabande Books in 2014.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Connecting to the Cloud Workshop


Learn all about the Cloud, what it is and how you use it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Conference | AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination


What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds. In AfterTaste 2015 we draw inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new. Designers and thinkers who cultivate the imagination conjure futures, thinking beyond problem solving to that which has not existed before. What is the spark that creates new possibilities? How can we promote and develop imaginations that can envision and create interiors for an unknown future, rather than being beholden to the past? How can we cultivate the unknown in a culture increasingly defined by big data and digital devices of distraction? Imagination alchemists, designers and experts gather to think and enact new possibilities and alternative paths through the interior of the imagination.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Magnificent Strangeness: An Evening with Yoko Tawada and Rivka Galchen


A reading by Yoko Tawada, currently the DAAD Distinguished Chair in Contemporary Poetics in the Department of German, followed by a conversation between Yoko Tawada and the Canadian-American writer Rivka Galchen, introduced by Alys George, Assistant Professor at the Department of German. Yoko Tawada will read from Fremde aus der Dose in German, and from her poetry in English translation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Author Discussion: Gayle Forman / Libba Bray / E. Lockhart


Forman, the bestselling author of If I Stay and Just One Day, is joined by E. Lockhart (We Were Liars) and Libba Bray (The Diviners) in conversation, moderated by Maria Russo (New York Times Book Review).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Collaboration in Interactive Cinema


Artist-in-Residence Toni Dove will talk with collaborators, past, present and future to discuss the dynamics involved in creating experimental media installations and performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Friday Night Fiction Group


Join the staple Friday Night Book Group for their discussion of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Please read the book first.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise's West Side Story (1961): Winner of 10 Oscars


Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. 152 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Neutron Stars: The Fossil Remnants of Massive Stars - Plus Stargazing


With Slavko Bogdanov. Lecture: 7:00-7:30 PM Observing (weather permitting): 7:30-9:00 PM Astronomy Q&A / Slideshows: 7:30-9:00 PM
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Parthenia Viol Consort performs music from 17th-century England and living local composers


Parthenia, a consort of viols, with mezzo-soprano Hayden DeWitt and baroque violinists Dana Maiben and Vita Wallace, perform this concert inspired by Margaret Cavendish’s 17th-century science-fiction novel The Blazing World. The program is the first of the 2015 season, which is entitled Creating Worlds Together. It will include the world premiere of a new work by Robinson McClellan exploring old and new tuning systems and musical videos by Jay Alan Zimmerman, as well as music by William and Henry Lawes and Mary Dering (the first Englishwoman to publish her own songs).
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Jazz | College Jazz Recital


7:30 PM - 9:45 PM MSM Concert Jazz Band, Jazz Student Composers' Big Band Concert
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | The Moirae Ensemble: Supporting Women through Chamber Music


The Moirae Ensemble is a nonprofit chamber music organization that focuses on classical contemporary music while simultaneously raising worldwide awareness and support for women’s issues. Soprano Catherine Hancock, flautist Fiona Kelly, harpist Caroline Cole, and violinist Sarah Koenig-Plonskier present a premiere of newly commissioned works by Marie Incontrera and Gity Razaz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Drue Davis: Hip-Hop Meets Blistering Guitar Rock


Hip-hop meets blistering guitar rock firepower in the music of Drue Davis. A frontman who channels the explosive energy of James Brown, Davis has opened for superstars like Erykah Badu, Common, and Talib Kweli, and has been featured in The Source’s taste-making “Unsigned Hype” column. On stage, he and his band deliver propulsive anthems bursting with raw emotion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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