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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 14, 2025?

26 free events take place on Friday, February 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 February 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 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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26 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, February 14, 2025

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free events nyc Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) with Javier Bardem
free events nyc Modern Art: From The 19th Century to the Present Day
free events nyc Valentine's Day Silent Disco
free events nyc Fly Love Songs: Hip-Hop and Love
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Museums | Asian Art and Culture Museum


The museum features a diverse collection of artworks, including traditional and contemporary pieces from various Asian cultures. 2 pm: guided tour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Asian Art and Culture Museum

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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Screenings, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, NY Indigenous Animation Celebration

Classical Music | Concerto Competition: Piano Finals


   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Concerto Competition: Piano Finals

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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Workshops, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Learn Juggling in the Park

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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Concerts, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Film | It Ends With Us (2024) with Blake Lively, Jenny Slate, and Hasan Minhaj


Lily Bloom moves to Boston to open her own business, which has long been a dream of hers. When she meets charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid, the two form an intense connection and fall deeply in love. But as time passes, she sees sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents' relationship. Then suddenly, Atlas Corrigan, Lily's first love, re-enters her life, and her relationship with Ryle begins to unravel. Lily must make an impossible choice. Director: Justin Baldoni Cast: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Brandon Sklenar Blake Lively is an American actress who had her breakthrough role in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and its 2008 sequel. Lively achieved recognition for her portrayal of Serena van der Woodsen in the CW teen drama television series Gossip Girl (2007–2012). Jenny Slate is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer. Slate's breakout role came with her leading performance in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Obvious Child (2014), She also appeared in the critically acclaimed science-fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once. Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host. Much of his comedy involves Indian culture and the modern American political landscape through the use of satire, observational comedy and dark comedy. His Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj won an Emmy Award, and in 2019, he was listed in Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, It Ends With Us (2024) with&nbsp;Blake Lively,&nbsp;Jenny Slate, and Hasan Minhaj

Film | Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) with Javier Bardem


Florentino Ariza falls in love immediately when he sees Fermina Daza through a villa window. Although he has modest means, Florentino is a skilled poet, and his words awaken the same passion in Fermina. But Fermina's father disapproves of the romance, and he does all he can to keep the two apart. Fermina later marries a rich doctore, and they move to Paris, but Florentino still loves her and waits for a chance to be with her again. Director: Mike Newell Cast: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo Javier Bardem is a Spanish actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers' western drama film No Country for Old Men (2007). Bardem has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer in Biutiful (2010), and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021).
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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Films, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) with Javier Bardem

Gallery Talk | Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets: Exhibition Tour (online)


Curators lead a virtual tour of the first American retrospective of the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt (Vitória da Conquista, 1912–Petrópolis, 1976, Brazil). Devoted to a trailblazer but underrecognized figure of Brazilian art, it features over 40 densely-composed paintings and intricate embroideries representing scenes of pastoral life, urban landscapes as well as human, celestial and ornamental figures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talks, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets: Exhibition Tour (online)

Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation


Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation

Book Discussion | Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi


How can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk will examine Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Showa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, covering the novel’s early inspirations, conceptual development, research, fieldwork, archives-building, story conception, and writing process. The program will be conducted partially in Mandarin with interpretation. Taiwan Travelogue tells the story of two women, one Japanese and one Taiwanese, who grew up in different cultural backgrounds during the Japanese colonial period in 1938. Through a coincidental opportunity, they embark on a gourmet journey along the railway, exchanging culture and ideas. Yang Shuang-zi uses food and drink as metaphors, allowing readers to glimpse the contradictions between the Japanese empire’s treatment of colonial Taiwan, mainland Japanese people, and Taiwanese locals, as well as the differences in fate between men and women at that time. As independent individuals, women aspire to have independent professional identities and thoughts, but they face various difficulties and challenges. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships, with the writer-translator relationship mimicking Japan’s colonial rule of Taiwan. And like many travel memoirs, the protagonist undergoes self-reflection while roaming an unfamiliar land.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Taiwan Travelogue by&nbsp;Yang Shuang-zi

Museums | Tour - Arts and Cultural Heritage of Spain and Portugal: Goya, El Greco and Others


Explore the best items this museum has on display with this guided tour. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, antiquities, and more by world-famous artists.
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Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitons: Seeing Through / The Dreamers


Xiao Wang: Seeing Through Wang’s hyperrealistic paintings depicting intimate social gatherings and sumptuous still lifes combine scenes of enjoyment with the sheer pleasure of looking, inviting audiences into immersive, dream-like worlds that offer voyeuristic and vicarious indulgence. Bold, geometric patterns, lush foliage, saturated colors, and glossy surfaces add to the visual grandeur of his canvases, further anchored by stylized displays of cut fruit, a succulent roast, cocktail shakers, and candlelight. While Wang sets the stage for a night of exuberant consumption, he carefully eschews from a bacchanalian-esque narrative. By offsetting the soothing and seductive with the strange and uncanny, his compositions appeal to maximalist desires while preventing a complete state of abandon. Alyssa Klauer: The Dreamers Alyssa Klauer’s vivid and layered works invite viewers into an ethereal world of color and meaning, where the boundaries between reality and dream, time and space, are blurred. The artist’s practice explores the concept of “Queer Time,” a term that speaks to the non-linear, often fragmented experiences of time felt by Queer individuals—particularly those who come out later in life, navigating a second adolescence of sorts. These works delve into the intimate yet collective understanding of time as fluid, personal, and deeply transformative. Through her use of oils and acrylics, Klauer captures this delicate passage, using vibrant hues and transparent layers that evoke a sense of spectral presence, as if the figures in her paintings are caught between moments, suspended in a liminal space of both self-discovery and self-affirmation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, 2 Exhibitons: Seeing Through / The Dreamers

Film | Eastern Front (2023): Documentary on Medical Battalion in Ukraine


On February 24, 2022, Yevhen, together with his friends, volunteered to join “The Hospitallers,” a volunteer medical battalion operating on the front line of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. They provided life-saving support and evacuation of the wounded. This film reveals the experiences of these young men for six months full of drama, despair, fear, hatred, bitterness, love, and, most importantly, faith in victory. Directors: Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko 98 min. Followed by a discussion with the directors
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Eastern Front (2023): Documentary on Medical Battalion in Ukraine

Opening Reception | Screen Memories: Group Exhibition


This exhibition considers the experience of mass media in the Arab world for a generation of artists who grew up in the early 2000’s, at the tail end of network television's popularity. Using video and sound, artists Yara Asmar, Mona Benyamin, and Huda Takriti reference and reimagine the media they grew up with in new forms.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Screen Memories: Group Exhibition

Museums | American History and Artifact Collections


Enjoy a stroll through galleries of an extensive collection of American art, learn about the history of New York and the USA. Last admission is at 7 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, American History and Artifact Collections

Museums | Modern Art: From The 19th Century to the Present Day


Experience the exhibits in the museum galleries which include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Modern Art: From The 19th Century to the Present Day

Workshop | Friday Games Social


While Blood on the Clocktower is the spotlight event, they do offer in rotation other social deduction titles such as Ultimate Werewolf, Avalon, Bank Heist, Feed the Kraken, Night of the Ninja, etc. If the social deduction theme doesn't interest you, there are a variety of other popular games such as Azul, Codenames, The Crew, Inside Job, Splendor, Ticket to Ride, Werewords and much more. For the adventurous, there are new and work in-progress games available for testing. Be part of some memorable moments and entertaining stories. They welcome and accommodate players of all skill levels.
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Workshops, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Friday Games Social

Film | Three Seasons (1999): Four Stories of Ho Chi Minh City


Although the hearts and goals and desires are different for everyone in a culturally-shifting Ho Chi Minh City, the stories of four separate individuals paint a vivid picture of the past, present, and future of a city eking into a new era. Director: Tony Bui Stars: Ngoc Hiep Nguyen, Ngoc Minh, Phat Trieu Hoang 104 min. Screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker Tony Bui, a Sundance award-winning writer, director, and producer.    
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Films, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Three Seasons (1999): Four Stories of Ho Chi Minh City

Dancing | Valentine's Day Silent Disco


A Valentine's Day Silent Disco extravaganza. Bring your Valentine sweetheart for a night of dancing and request the song that makes you feel most loved by your special person for a special shout out.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Dancings, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Valentine's Day Silent Disco

Film | Bye Bye Tiberias (2023): Returning to Vanished Places


Leaving her village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women. Director: Lina Soualem 82 min. In French and Arabic with English subtitles Screening followed by a Q&A with Director Lina Soualem  
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Films, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Bye Bye Tiberias (2023): Returning to Vanished Places

Talk | Marine Corps Professional Military Education from Its Founding in 1920 to the 21st Century (online)


Speaker: Dr. Donald Bittner, Professor Emeritus of Military History at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College
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Talks, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Marine Corps Professional Military Education from Its Founding in 1920 to the 21st Century (online)

Concert | Percussion and Trumpet Music


Oscar Thorp and Scott Still invite everyone to go on a bizarre percussion and trumpet adventure.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Percussion and Trumpet Music

Workshop | RISE UP Circuit Training


This bodyweight circuit will help you R.I.S.E UP: Reach new heights, inspire, strengthen your inner self, and elevate your fitness. Unlock your ultimate potential. Please bring a mat. Instructor: Detona Grant
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Concert | The Songs We Write: Original Music


Sit back and enjoy original live music! Featured performers are a mix of local songwriters and composers. Each artist will be performing music they have written.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dancing | Fly Love Songs: Hip-Hop and Love


From the early days of Whodini and LL to The Pharcyde and Tribe, from Lil' Kim and Mary J., all the way up to J. Cole and Drake, Hip-Hop and love songs have gone together like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Many of the genre's toughest artists--50 Cent, Notorious B.I.G., Big Pun--scored some of their biggest hits with seductive tracks such as "21 Questions," "Loving You Tonight," and "I Don't Want to Be a Player No More." Give in to the beat, grab your steady shorty, and roll out for an all-night DJ dance set of modern R&B and classic rap love songs, curated by the Mixtape Assassin J.PERIOD playing Cupid on the wheels of steel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Dancings, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Fly Love Songs: Hip-Hop and Love

Classical Music | Vocal Ensemble (In Person AND Online!)


Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble performs Karlheinz Stockhausen's (1928-2007) Stimmung.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 14, 2025, 02/14/2025, Vocal Ensemble&nbsp;(In Person AND Online!)
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