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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 11, 2016?

39 free events take place on Thursday, February 11 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 11 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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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 11, 2016

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

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. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | iMovie for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics of using Apple's entry-level video editing program iMovie by working through a simple project. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

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. This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

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. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free

Author Reading | Gillian Tett discusses her book The Silo Effect


In her recent book, award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett from the Financial Times examines how our tendency to create functional departments hinders our work. During this lunch seminar, Tett will discuss the silos’ effects on profitability and innovation in Japan and elsewhere.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Lunchtime Organ Recital


Take a 30-minute break for your soul. Organist: David Hurd.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Discussion | Persian Lithographs of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries


Dagmar Riedel, associate research scholar, Columbia University, in conversation with Guy Burak, subject librarian for Middle Eastern Studies, will discuss the large collection of Persian lithographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Film | The St. Peter's Collegiate School Senior Choir


The St. Peter's Collegiate School Senior Choir, visiting from United Kingdom, will perform. Director: Toby Barnard.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Concert | Baroque Chamber Music: Telemann and more


The lyrical characteristics of the bassoon, as well as its virtuosic capabilities, are on full display in these works by Telemann, Fasch, Corette, and Schaffrath. Performers:  Stephanie Corwin, bassoon Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord David Walker, theorbo
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Talk | Artist Talk: Jorge Luis Rodríguez


Artist Jorge Luis Rodríguez will meet with residents of El Barrio, the neighborhood where one of his monumental sculptures, "Growth," has been on display at Harlem Art Park since 1985. He will talk about the significance of public art and the scope of his art works, projects and documentation spanning over 40 years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | George Roy Hill's The Sting (1973): Winner of 7 Oscars


Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw. In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker. 129 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Get Photoshopped! Brush Basics


Learn to use Photoshop's powerful brush tools to enhance your digital painting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Michael Gordon's Oscar Winner Pillow Talk (1959): Hate-Love Relationship


Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall. A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised. 105 minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Morningside Heights Book Discussion Group


They will be discussing KINDRED by Octavia Butler.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recitals


5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Stephanie Johnson, soprano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Jon Oskar Stenmark, jazz trumpet 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Alexandra Beliakovich, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Women in Theatre: A Panel Discussion


A panel discussion led by Carey Purcell about women's role in theatre and the current political and socio-economical climate facing them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Phantom Structures: New Work by Liam Gillick


An exhibition of new work by Liam Gillick. This exhibition consists of two bodies of work in which Gillick demonstrates the disparities and harmonies between the abstract and conceptual investigations at the core of his practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Black Light: Tom Lloyd, Lorraine O’Grady and the Effect of Art Historical Disappearance


Art historian Krista Thompson examines the work of Tom Lloyd, a black artist among the first wave working with light and electronic technologies in the 1960s. Lloyd’s early role in the mainstream art world of 1960s New York is belied by the bare archival and material traces that remain of his work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Emerging Voices: Transforming Models and Practices


Celebrate alumni and past and present faculty featured in the recently published Thirty Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance, which will be on sale at the event. Following an introduction by Anne Rieselbach, the event will feature a Pecha Kucha with faculty and alumni included among the previous thirty years of Emerging Voices, and a panel conversation on emerging disciplinary and hybrid models of practice with recent graduates and current students, moderated by Alan Brake, US Editor of Dezeen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Suzanne Treister's HFT The Gardener


An exhibition of new work by Suzanne Treister will feature artworks created by the fictional character Hillel Fischer Traumberg, a banker turned 'outsider artist'.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Insecta


The earth is teaming with microcosms of millions upon millions of crawling and flying insects, each building their own worlds while inhabiting ours. The artists reveal to us a bit of the lives of these miniature neighbors of ours who exist and flourish. Their daily routines are explored through intense examination, detailed focus and, alas, the effect of humanity’s intrusions upon them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mierle Laderman Ukeles reads from her book Seven Work Ballets


Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles' work ballets - a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel - which took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, New York, Pittsburgh, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi, Japan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Moving for Life Dance Exercise: A Fun and Gentle Path to Health and Fitness


With: Martha Eddy, PhD. This dance/exercise program created by Martha Eddy, a recognized leader in fitness, dance and somatic education, is a holistic and gentle approach to fitness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | Songs of Women in Love: Doomed Love and Universal Love


Presented by Duo MezzoPiano, featuring Zelia Chueke, piano; and Sophia Chueke, mezzo-soprano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recitals


Patrick Doane, Violin 6 p.m. Mika Sasaki, Piano 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Valerio Ciriaci's If Only I Were That Warrior (2015): Documentary on the Italian Occupation of Ethiopia in 1935


Following the recent construction of a monument dedicated to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani, the film addresses the unpunished war crimes he and others committed in the name of Mussolini's imperial ambitions. 72 min. Followed by a Q+A with director Valerio Ciriaci and producer Isaak Liptzin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | African American Footprints Leading to the Future


A discussion with Celia Ipiotis, creator and producer of the television series “Eye on Dance”; Julie Malnig, professor and dance historian; and Michael Dinwiddie, professor, playwright, and cultural historian of African American life. Performance by Chafin Seymour, dancer/choreographer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Shahpour Pouyan


Shahpour Pouyan, artist in in the exhibition Global/Local, will discuss his work with Murtaza Vali, a Brooklyn-based art historian, curator, and critic whose writing has appeared in Artforum, ArtReview, Art India, Bidoun, and ArtAsiaPacific.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Tour | Central Park Sunset Photography Tour


Sunsets are a special time and what better place in New York City to experience and photograph the setting sun than the Middle Section of Central Park. This tour takes place Thursdays at 6:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | John D. Williams Jr. discusses his book Word Nerd: Dispatches from the Games, Grammar and Geek Underground


This illustrated lecture explores anagrams, palindromes, the highest-scoring Scrabble plays of all time, the birth of the World Scrabble Championship, as well as many of the more colorful figures that inhabit this subculture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Healthy Delights: An Interactive Cooking and Nutrition Workshop


An interactive cooking and nutrition workshop dedicated to the creation of chocolate-based healthy snacks led by Denisa Musilová. Nutritional advice: Julie Fishkin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Idra Novey reads from her book Ways to Disappear


The launch of poet and translator Idra Novey's much-anticipated debut novel. In conversation with Nell Freudenberger.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Minh-Ha T. Pham discusses her book Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging


Rumi Neely. Susie Bubble. BryanBoy. East Asian personal superbloggers dominate the Internet. Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian diasporic bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Writers in Conversation: Samantha Hunt / Christopher Sorrentino


Samantha Hunt is the author of The Invention of Everything Else, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, and Mr. Splitfoot, published in January. Christopher Sorrentino’s novel Trance was a National Book Award Finalist. His new novel is The Fugitives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Dover Quartet performs works by Schumann, Shostakovich


Program: Schumann: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1 Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A major
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Faculty Recital - Michael Oelbaum, piano


A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Advanced MS Word for Mac Workshop


Learn the more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac, a word processing program you can use to create documents. Topics include creating tables, using text boxes, headers and footers, as well as footnotes and endnotes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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