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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 20, 2025?

20 free events take place on Thursday, February 20 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 20 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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20 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 20, 2025

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Film | Mahogany (1975) with Diana Ross


A poor girl grows into a success when she becomes a world-famous fashion model and designer. But at the same time, she yearns for her boyfriend back home.Directed by Berry Gordy With Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Beah Richards. 109 Min. Diana Ross is an American singer and occasional actress. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They remain the best-charting female group in history, with a total of twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100. Ross was named the "Female Entertainer of the Century" by Billboard in 1976. Since her solo career began in 1970, Ross has released 25 studio albums, numerous singles, and compilations that have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. She is the only female artist to have had number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist, as the other half of a duet, as a member of a trio, and as an ensemble member.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Films, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Mahogany (1975) with Diana Ross

Museums | Family Fun at a Historical Site: Valentine Like a Sailor


Enjoy interactive activities and engagement stations for visitors of all ages. Incorporate 19th-century maritime craft traditions into your handmade Valentine’s Day cards and unique trinkets for the holiday. You will also learn the history of Sailors' Valentines—symbols of love and friendship. You can also browse galleries and learn about ships, life at sea and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Museumss, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Family Fun at a Historical Site:&nbsp;Valentine Like a Sailor

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 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, 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 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Classical Music | Early Music for Viole, Voice, Bagpipe, Lute, and More (In Person AND Online!)


Tina Chancey, viol, vielle, rebec, kamenj; Barbara Allen Hill, soprano; Daniel Meyers, recorders, bagpipe, flutes, sackbutt, percussion; and Cameron Welke lute, perform a program spotlighting the largest surviving collection of instrumental pieces before 1450, the Faenza Codex. The concert will feature performances of ten of the original French, Italian and English original pieces, their ornamented Faenza versions, and the musicians' own improvisations in Faenza Codex-style. The Faenza Codex is a 15th-century musical manuscript containing some of the oldest preserved keyboard music along with additional vocal pieces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free
Concerts, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Early Music for Viole, Voice, Bagpipe, Lute, and More (In Person AND Online!)

Film | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954): musical


After a brief courtship, Milly, a pretty cook in the 1850s, marries Adam, a grizzled woodsman. When the two go to live at Adam's farm, Milly is shocked to discover his six ill-mannered brothers all living there as well. She begins teaching them proper behavior and how to court a woman. But when the brothers kidnap six local girls in town, a group of angry villagers tries to track them down. Director: Stanley Donen Cast: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954): musical

Museums | Film and Television Industry: History, Artifacts, Interactive Displays


This museum is dedicated to the art, history, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It houses a diverse collection of industry related objects, including cameras, scripts, costumes, production materials, as well as interactive displays, and themed installations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Film and Television Industry: History, Artifacts, Interactive Displays

Discussion | Rethinking Allyship: Asian American-Jewish Coalitions Against Hate (online)


A dynamic conversation with Daniel Tam-Claiborne and Helen Kim, who will explore the intersection of Asian American and Jewish solidarity in combating antisemitism, shedding light on race, identity, and the power of cross-community allyship.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free
Discussions, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Rethinking Allyship: Asian American-Jewish Coalitions Against Hate (online)

Museums | Photography: From the Early 19th Century to Today


This renowned institution hosts a variety of exhibitions showcasing the work of both established and emerging photographers. The collections encompass the full range of the photographic medium, including the first techniques of the early 19th-century to modern technology and digital displays. Last entry is at 7:15 pm. Each third Thur admission is free 5 pm - 8 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Photography: From the Early 19th Century to Today

Lecture | "All Geography Is Within Me": Following in Zora Neale Hurston's Travel-Dusted Tracks


Speaker Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She is the author of eighteen books, including, most recently, the essay collection We're Alone. Q+A to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, "All Geography Is Within Me": Following in Zora Neale Hurston's Travel-Dusted Tracks

Discussion | Architectural Imagination: A Conversation on Materialized Space


Embark on a night of discovery and examine how civic planning and ideas of utopia meet the works of architectural imagination within the built environment, as well as on television and film. In celebration of the exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, enjoy a panel discussion that brings together designers from the real and imagined worlds. Take a deep dive into unbuilt architectural visions and their imagined impact on our daily lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussions, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Architectural Imagination: A Conversation on Materialized Space

Workshop | Cardio Circuit Blast Workout


This high-energy total body workout will keep you moving with challenging yet fun bodyweight circuits. Cardio Circuit Blast is a heart-pumping, high-intensity class that is open to all levels and the perfect way to increase your overall endurance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Cardio Circuit Blast Workout

Talk | From Joan Mitchell to the Guerilla Girls: 20th Century Downtown Women Artists (online)


This event celebrates Joan Mitchell's centennial and shines a light on other boundary-breaking women artists, both known and unknown, who have been at the forefront of the New York art scene. Speaker Loretta Howard is the Co-Founder and Executive of On This Spot NYC: Stories of Pioneering Women Artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talks, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, From Joan Mitchell to the Guerilla Girls: 20th Century Downtown Women Artists (online)

Lecture | Louise Dupin’s Work on Women and the Forgotten Feminist Enlightenment


In the 1740s, Louise Dupin embarked on a project that would never see the light of day. Her “work on women,” as an heir later labeled it, would be the French Enlightenment's most important, and most neglected, feminist analysis of inequality. On the one hand, Dupin analyzes the mechanisms of men’s dominance. "Masculine vanity," she claims, aggrandizes men, diminishes women, and distorts all realms of knowledge, such that modern scientists incorporate old notions of women's weakness into new understandings of the body; historians denigrate female rulers or erase them altogether; legal scholars disenfranchise women through self-serving interpretations of Roman law; boys learn entitlement in school and men assert superiority in conversation. On the other hand, Dupin endeavored to bring to light evidence of women’s natural equality to men, of power exercised by queens and regents the world over, of self-determination once enjoyed by whole communities of French nuns, and of property rights once held by married women.  Dupin’s research assistant for this project was none other than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His hand covers hundreds of pages of drafts and notes, and was the draw for the dozen or more archives and collectors across the United States and Europe who acquired parcels of Dupin’s papers at auction in the 1950s–the last time Dupin’s thousands of papers would be in one pile. Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin reconstructed Louise Dupin’s Work on Women through extensive archival research. Their edition of translated selections, annotated and contextualized for general and specialist audiences, was published in the New Histories of Philosophy series of Oxford University Press (2023). 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Louise Dupin&rsquo;s Work on Women and the Forgotten Feminist Enlightenment

Discussion | The Evolution of Choreography, from Classical Ballet Pantomime to Today


Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world's largest student ballet scholarship competition and dance network, designated by the U.S. Senate as America's National Youth Dance Competition. As the number one source of talent for the world's dance schools and companies, YAGP's mission is to support and develop world-class dancers of all economic, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds - ensuring the future of dance by traveling the world and auditioning more than 15,000 talented young dancers annually for scholarships, performance opportunities, and other educational programs. As part of its ongoing educational initiatives, YAGP presents a talk on the evolution of choreography--from classical ballet pantomime to contemporary works--featuring YAGP alumni from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and other esteemed companies. The artists will also share about their journeys with YAGP, from young participants to stars of some of the world's leading dance companies, illustrating YAGP's impact on the dance world and how it has propelled emerging young dancers' careers worldwide. Registration required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free
Discussions, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, The Evolution of Choreography, from Classical Ballet Pantomime to Today

Book Discussion | George’s Daughter: Remembering a Controlling Father


A complex story of contradiction, disillusion and love, Carol Becker's George’s Daughter is a memoir/essay about a daughter’s attempt to live in accordance with her own values, in spite of conflicts with her controlling father whom she nonetheless adores. Ultimately, her defiance of him — by refusing to end a romantic relationship of which he does not approve — leads to emotionally catastrophic consequences for them both. These themes will resonate with anyone whose family has come undone when a member refuses to adhere to conventional expectations, whether around gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, politics or culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, George&rsquo;s Daughter: Remembering a Controlling Father

Jazz | Jazz Orchestra


MSM Jazz Composers’ Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Jazz Orchestra

Concert | Voices of a People’s History: A Musical and Spoken Word Celebration


The works of Brooklyn-born author and historian Howard Zinn (1922–2010), particularly the classic bestsellers A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States, continue to shine a light on the extraordinary history of those engaged in struggles for freedom and justice in America. Featured artists present a vital reimagining of Zinn's subjects through a musical and spoken word celebration of dissent, change, and civic growth. Using the words of the rebels, dissenters, and visionaries of our past and present as a blueprint, this evening will inspire us all to take collective action to shape our future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Voices of a People&rsquo;s History: A Musical and Spoken Word Celebration
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Concerts, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Works by Schubert, Brahms, and More for Chorus and Piano

Classical Music | Works Inpsired by Stravinsky for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano


Zodiac Trio performs contemporary works inpsired by Stravinsky’s (1882-1971) A Soldier’s Tale.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, February 20, 2025, 02/20/2025, Works Inpsired by Stravinsky for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
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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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