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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 18, 2025?

19 free events take place on Tuesday, February 18 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 18 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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19 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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Workshop | Mah Jongg & More


A dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets, cards, and games provided, or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Mah Jongg & More

Workshop | Adult Zumba


Featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography. Work on your balance, coordination and range of motion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshops, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Adult Zumba

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
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Workshops, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, 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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12:20 pm
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Concerts, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Book Club | Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah


Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are com­peting for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Clubs, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Film | Harlem Nights (1989) Directed by Eddie Murphy, Starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor


Towards the end of the Prohibition, Sugar Ray and his adopted son, Quick, run a speakeasy called Club Sugar Ray. Soon, gnagster Bugsy Calhoune learns that Club Sugar Ray is pulling in more money than his own speakeasy, the Pitty Pat Club. So Calhoune pays Phil Cantone, a corrupt cop, to shut Club Sugar Ray down. Meanwhile, Quick has fallen for Calhoune's gun moll, Miss Dominique La Rue. Director: Eddie Murphy Cast: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor Eddie Murphy is an American actor, comedian, and singer who shot to fame on Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest comedians of all time. Murphy received a Grammy Award and an Emmy Award. In 2015, Murphy was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and in 2023 the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Richard Pryor was an American stand-up comedian and actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most important stand-up comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Harlem Nights (1989) Directed by Eddie Murphy, Starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor

Workshop | Mah Jongg Social


First developed in southern China during the 1800s, Mah Jongg is now popular around the globe and well known for the devoted communities that form around it. This is a great opportunity for Mah Jongg mavens to come, socialize, and sharpen their skills.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Mah Jongg Social

Film | A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) with Lupita Nyong'o


New York City is under attack from an alien invasion, and a group of people try to find their way to safety. They soon discover that the myesterious creatures are drawn to even the slightest sound, so to stay safe, they must remain absolutely silent. Director: Michael Sarnoski Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou Lupita Nyong'o is an actress who has won an Academy Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Films, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) with&nbsp;Lupita Nyong'o

Workshop | Drop-In Chess


Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. Chess improves concentration, problem solving, and strategic planning -- plus it's fun. For ages 5 and up.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Drop-In Chess

Lecture | The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal: Embedded Modes of Independent Culture under State Socialism


In the Soviet Union and socialist Eastern Europe, literary journals enjoyed remarkable popularity. They not only provided access to sensational works of literature but figured as visually appealing objects and social events in everyday life. Against the background of the supposedly isolated and monolithic cultures of twentieth-century state socialism, they are often described through metaphors such as “windows to the world,” “islands of freedom,” or sites of “permitted dissent.” But what if this cultural form and institution is not an exception within its larger context but, rather, an essential and firmly integrated element? The methodological lens of periodical studies—the combined analysis of visual, literary, and social dimensions of journals—reveals socialist culture from an alternative angle. The synthetic mode of analysis, including the distant reading of the journals’ data, offers a different vision of freedoms and limitations in cultural production. This lecture focuses on several case studies from the 1960s and 1970s in the USSR and Czechoslovakia, especially the two journals Inostrannaia literatura (Moscow) and Světová literatura (Prague). Inasmuch as these periodicals continue precedents from the early 20-th century, the lecture argues, they provide models for independent and participatory modes of cultural production and reception that are an essential feature of East European socialism. Speaker Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal: Embedded Modes of Independent Culture under State Socialism

Film | Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) with Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch


Career woman Alex Greville is recently divorced and begins a romantic relationship with Bob Elkin, a glamorous and mod artist. At the same time, she's fully aware that Bob is also intimately invovled with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, Bob represents a break with their repressive pasts, and even though they both know Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings into their lives. Director: John Schlesinger Cast: Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft Glenda Jackson was an English actress and politician who received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award. A member of the Labour Party, she served continuously as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 23 years. Peter Finch was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. One of British cinema's most celebrated leading men of the time, Finch won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role five times, and won a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) with&nbsp;Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch

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 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Learn Juggling in the Park

Book Discussion | And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison's Life


A reading with author Andrea Pinkney as she sits down with Caron Levis to discuss her new work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison's Life

Book Discussion | Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries (online)


Author Davida Siwisa James leads readers through four centuries of the storied New York neighborhood where George Washington headquartered in 1776, Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, young Norman Rockwell learned to draw, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Her history focuses on the vibrant people and the beautiful architecture of today's landmark district, touching on The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as artists and luminaries who called it home, such as Thurgood Marshall, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton&rsquo;s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries (online)

Workshop | Cardio Dance Workout


This creative and fun workout fuses dance and aerobics to improve cardio fitness and tone the body. Instructor: Masayo Kado
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Cardio Dance Workout

Lecture | Psychoanalysis and Feminism (in-person and online)


The urgent need to overturn the patriarchal orientation of psychoanalysis is becoming ever stronger. Speaker Silvia Lippi tries to contribute by introducing the concept of sorority into psychoanalytic clinic and theory, for too long obsessed by fraternity and the murder of the Father. She will try to unfold the elements of a sororal psychoanalysis that enables us to think differently about the articulation of the intimate and the political, the psychic and the social, the unconscious and the collective. Silvia Lippi is a psychoanalyst. Trained as a philosopher, she holds a PHD in psychology and is a hospital psychologist at the Établissement Public de Santé Barthélémy Durand in Étampes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Psychoanalysis and Feminism (in-person and online)

Book Discussion | Elegy, Southwest: A Novel of Collapses, Environmental and Otherwise


Madeleine Watts presents a timely and urgent novel following a young married couple on a road trip through the American Southwest as they grapple with the breakdown of their relationship in the shadow of environmental collapse. For fans of Rachel Cusk and Sigrid Nunez.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Elegy, Southwest: A Novel of Collapses, Environmental and Otherwise

Classical Music | Chamber Works by Janacek and More (In Person AND Online!)


Westside Chamber Players; Oriana Hawley, viola. Program Geli Li, Sleeping Light Sofia Ouyang, Burst Janacek (1854-1928), Mladi Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Rex Noster Promptus Est Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), Terra Memoria
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Chamber Works by&nbsp;Janacek and More&nbsp;(In Person AND Online!)

Classical Music | Ensemble Works


Tactus Ensemble;  Erin Rogers and Matt Ward, Co-Artistic and Administrative Advisors; Carrie Frey, viola; and Hunter Lorelli, bassoon, perform works by Stephen Rush (b. 1958), Erin Wubbels (b. 1980), Hannah Kendall (b. 1984), Igor Santos, and Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 18, 2025, 02/18/2025, Ensemble Works
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Musical | A Musical with Broadway Actors and Choreographer

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Jazz | Multiple Grammy Winning Jazz Musician at a Renowned Venue

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