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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 12, 2025?
31 free events take place on Wednesday, February 12 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 12 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 12, 2025?
31 free events take place on Wednesday, February 12 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 12 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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
31 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 12, 2025
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Boot Camp Workout in the Park
An early-morning core body 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 welcome.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
Free
Free
Master Class | Jazz Composition Master Class
Jazz Composition Master Class with Mike Holober and Rob Horsting.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Museums | New York City: History, Architecture, Social Movements, Cultural Diversity
This museum holds over 1,5 million artifacts, including photographs, paintings, decorative arts, costumes, and documents that tell the story of New York's development and its inhabitants. Explore the galleries and discover the rich history and vibrant culture of New York City!
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Screening | NY Indigenous Animation Celebration
The museum's Animation Celebration! features eight creative Indigenous animated films that offer colorful stories of magical tales, humorous encounters, and hidden histories. Screenings of this 60-minute program will begin at 11 AM, 1 PM, and 3 PM.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Book Discussion | InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top (online)
Author Barbara “Bobbi” Kurshan discusses her book. Kurshan is a business executive, innovator, academic, and board director who leads disruptive transformation through the development and commercialization of digital learning products for wide-ranging audiences. She brings a 35+ year career of leadership roles and a robust network across EdTech companies, for profits, non-profits, PE firms, and educational institutions.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Signs and Wonders: 12 Prisoners on a Barge (online)
An insightful conversation between acclaimed author Melvin Jules Bukiet and renowned artist David Stern, marking the 25th anniversary of the publication of Signs and Wonders. Published in 1999, Bukiet’s novel tells the story of twelve prisoners on a barge in the late 20th century, freed by a violent storm and embarking on a symbolic pilgrimage through Germany as the millennium approaches. As their journey unfolds, their leader, Ben Alef, is seen by some as the next Messiah—invoking powerful themes of hope, identity, and transcendence.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park
Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | The Feminization of History in 19th-Century Culture: Russian Art and the Polish Vector (online)
In 19th-century Europe, writers, artists, and composers became increasingly fascinated by female characters from the national past. In her book, Maria Chernysheva focuses on visual representations of women as historical figures in the Russian Empire, particularly in the Kingdom of Poland. Maria Chernysheva explores how these representations conveyed various meanings and values related to national identities. By comparing Polish and Russian history paintings, she demonstrates that while they were often inspired by French models and shared common elements, they played different roles in Polish and Russian cultures. What became a significant and widespread trend in Poland remained rather uncommon in Russia. Speaker: Maria Chernysheva, Bard College Berlin and Smolny Beyond Borders
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Tour of New York City Hall
One of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Downtown Beats Chorus
Directed by Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to sing! Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | 42 (2013) with Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford
Branch Rickey, the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers manager, defies major league baseball's color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to the team in 1946. This puts Rickey and Robinson in the firing line of the public, the press, and the other players. Despite the open racism he faces from all sides, Robinson demonstrates his courage and restraint by not reacting, and he lets his massive talent silence the critics instead. Director: Brian Helgeland Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Andre Holland, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Ryan Merriman Chadwick Boseman was an American actor who received multiple accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination. Harrison Ford is a leading man in films of several genres and is regarded as an American cultural icon. His films have grossed more than $5.4 billion in North America and more than $9.3 billion worldwide. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an Honorary Cesar, and an Honorary Palme d'Or, in addition to an Academy Award nomination.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Figure Drawing
Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. Artists/ educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Rethinking Allyship: LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Antisemitism and Solidarity (online)
Corinne E. Blackmer, Professor of English and Director of Judaic Studies at Southern Connecticut State University, brings a personal and unique perspective on LGBTQ+ solidarity with the Jewish community in the fight against antisemitism.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Bouncing Around: The Language of Billiards in Polygons
How many ways can a billiard ball bounce around a polygonal table? This seemingly simple question opens the door to some surprisingly deep mathematics. It turns out we don’t know much about mathematical billiards in polygons, even though they are very simple models of Newtonian mechanics. Jayadev Athreya, Professor of Mathematics and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, will share some very new mathematics as he explores the intriguing dynamics at the intersection of geometry and motion.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Symposium | From Lima to Canton and Beyond: The Ethnographic Art of Pancho Fierro and His Contemporaries
A symposium following the humanities-led scientific study of Peruvian Costumbrista watercolors (as well as Chinese and Philippine ones).
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free
Free
Book Club | Poetry discussion: The Book of Nightmares by Pulitzer Prize Winner Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) was a MacArthur Fellow and state poet of Vermont. In 1982 his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For many years he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University, as well as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For 35 years—from The Book of Nightmares to Mortal Acts and, most recently, Strong Is Your Hold—Galway Kinnell enriched American poetry, not only with his poems but also with his teaching and powerful public readings.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Future School/Future Museum: Toward a 21st Century Academy
An ambitious exhibition that seeks to question and redefine the role of contemporary museums and art academies. The exhibition aims to challenge and transform our understanding of arts education, exhibition practices, and the frameworks that facilitate them through the exploration of five key principles integral to the future of both schools and museums: Pedagogy, Representation, Collaboration, Dialogue, and Community.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Roman Year: A Memoir from Author Andre Aciman
A reading with author Andre Aciman as he sits down with J. Mae Barizo to discuss his new work. André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, Homo Irrealis, Roman Year, and Find Me. He’s the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | so I told him, “come here and live with your grandma,” - otherwise known as Migratory Patterns: Group Exhibition
Humans have always exhibited the tendency to migrate, be it through culturally nomadic lifestyles or as a result of imperialistic violence such as war, climate crises or ideological persecution. If these spaces that enclose us are only temporary, how does the home persist? Through the things we carry with us? Or heirlooms and possessions. Our tokens of sentimentality? Is home culture and tradition? Perhaps home can be the memories we hold closely with intent to pass down to our children; a foundation for the homes they’ll need to build. Here we see the deconstruction of the home. Nivia Hernandez both blends the photographic image into furniture and sculpts from household cleaning products. Cristina Loukopoulos creates collage-like paintings rendering small tokens of sentimentality with herself, while Ruby Perkins explores how the ancestral home may follow us. And to look into Madjeen Isaac’s painting is to look out to the community as the heart of the home. The title is a quote from The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a 1955 novella written by Langston Hughes, accompanied by photographs of Roy DeCarava. The story describes life during the Harlem Renaissance, a direct result of the Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to metropolitan areas of the midwest and northeast United States.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Acknowledging NYC's History of Slavery: Exploring Church Archives
A panel discussion examining First Presbyterian Church’s 2022 report Old First and Slavery. The First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York City, founded in 1716 on Wall Street, moved in 1846 to its current location on Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. Over the congregation’s long history, several accounts of its early period have been written, but none have mentioned the congregation’s intersection with slavery and the slave trade. As several major universities and religious institutions have recently researched their histories related to slavery, a small group of First Church members were inspired to write a report on the congregation’s connection to the institution during the 18th and 19th centuries. The result is the report, Old First and Slavery. Completed in 2022, it covers the period of the church’s founding through the end of the Civil War. This panel discussion will include members who collaborated on the report and they will present and discuss the archival resources and research methodology used during the drafting process.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Artist and Photographer in Dialogue
A conversation between artist Alice Proujansky and photographer Kelli Connell on the occasion of Proujansky’s exhibition, Hard Times are Fighting Times. The conversation will revolve around both artists’ photographic practices and relationships to the medium.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | There's No Turning Back: Eight Women in Rome
Translator Ann Goldstein presents Alba De Céspedes's coming-of-age novel that is as relevant today as it was nearly ninety years ago. There’s No Turning Back centers on eight women with radically different backgrounds who attend the same college in Rome. Some are there to study, others to escape a scandal, or keep a secret, and during their time there, they experience the challenges of love, work, and emancipation. Considered experimental and revolutionary at the time, this novel established Alba de Céspedes as a powerful new voice in the 20th century.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5
$5
Book Discussion | To Save the Man by John Sayles
Film director and author John Sayles discusses his new novel, To Save the Man, with historian Jerry W. Carlson. In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, To Save the Man sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the cultural genocide experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In September 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle school, a co-educational military-style boarding school in Pennsylvania for Indians founded and run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, who considers himself a champion of the country’s rapidly dwindling Native population. His motto, “To save the man, we must kill the Indian,” is enforced in both classroom and dormitory: speak only English, forget your own language and customs, learn to be white. As the students navigate survival, they begin to hear rumors of the “ghost dance” moving its way through their home reservations on the Plains—tribal people dancing and chanting and reporting visions, all in the desperate belief that their efforts will cause the Creator to return the buffalo to the Plains, raise the Indian dead, and destroy all the white people with fire or flood. The yellow press hype the story with exaggeration and falsehood, spreading panic among local whites and forcing the deployment of federal troops onto Lakota land, a situation almost certain to end in slaughter. When news reaches Carlisle that legendary medicine man Sitting Bull has been killed by native police working for the government that holds them as “wards of the state,” each student, no matter what their tribe, must make a choice: to follow the white man’s path, or to be true to a way of life that may hold no future.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Walkthrough: Power of the Spin
A unique conversation and in-person exhibition walkthrough of Power of the Spin with artist Ericka Beckman and curator Claire Gilman as they look at and discuss the genesis and process of drawing specific to Beckman's work. Ericka Beckman is a filmmaker who came to prominence in the late 1970s and is considered a key figure of the Pictures Generation. She is distinct from many artists working in the medium in that she courts an emphatically hand-made approach, making her own props and sets, and elaborate drawings for her films. Her work deals with game playing and systems, and how these rules and conventions structure our lives. Often, she adopts and subverts classic fairytales or fairytale tropes in order to challenge societal norms.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out (in-person and online)
Feeling overwhelmed by America’s division? Want to take action in uniting us again? Author La June Montgomery Tabron can relate. She shares her journey — from her childhood in 1960s Detroit to her historic role as the first female and first African American leader of the Kellogg Foundation — and shares how the transformative practice of racial healing has guided her life. Through interwoven stories, Tabron illustrates how simple conversation, both in and outside of the workplace, can help us find our shared humanity, innovate in our communities, and improve each other’s lives.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images
Race Stories features a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. The book examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combating racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York Times Lens blog, Berger’s incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Screening | Black History Month Short Film Festival
Honor Black history and celebrate the future of Black cinema and filmmakers. Featuring short films from film students.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Bouncing Around: The Language of Billiards in Polygons
How many ways can a billiard ball bounce around a polygonal table? This seemingly simple question opens the door to some surprisingly deep mathematics. It turns out we don’t know much about mathematical billiards in polygons, even though they are very simple models of Newtonian mechanics. Jayadev Athreya, Professor of Mathematics and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, will share some very new mathematics as he explores the intriguing dynamics at the intersection of geometry and motion.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Violin Works by Bach and Others
Violinist Pala Garcia invites you to join her on an exploration of solo violin repertoire from Bach to the present day, framed by narratives of personal and cultural memory. Drawing on a love of early solo violin works as well as contemporary works inspired by those traditions, Garcia invites listeners to imagine this music in the context of memory: the performer's, as well as the instrument's.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works for Violin, Viola, Percussion, and Piano
Leah Asher, violin and viola; Dennis Sullivan, percussion; Christopher Goddard, piano. Program Lewis Nielson (b. 1950), clang clash roar Anahita Abbasi (b. 1985), Situation IV/lo E iO Leah Asher, open. Open. Michael Hersch (b. 1971), the wreckage of flowers
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
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