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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 24, 2012?

44 free events take place on Tuesday, January 24 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 January 24 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 January . 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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Other | 2012 Wellness Days


Start the new year off right. Visit for demonstrations, samples and tips from participating retailers on how to stay healthy in the new year.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Knitting and Crochet Group


Bring your current project, your questions, your needles and your yarn to the Knitters' Table every Tuesday. Beginners and experienced knitters are welcome - crochet, too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Open Computer Lab


Hands on using wireless laptops. Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Curious about Twitter? Bring Technology questions and get one-on-one assistance!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
Free

Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring you all your old favorites and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free

Concert | Piano Works by Debussy, Bach, and Chopin


Program: BACH Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911 BACH Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, Book I CHOPIN Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 DEBUSSY Poissons d'or LIEBERMANN Gargoyles With Juilliard pianist Zhenni Li.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Workshop | Find Your Database Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. An introduction to NYPL databases and basic search techniques. Learn different database access points through the NYPL website, using Academic Search Premier and Reference USA as examples.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Master Class - Marcus Thompson, viola


An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist of today discusses and critiques performances by outstanding artists of tomorrow at a world-renowned conservatory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Screening | Native American Films


Featuring films by and about Native Americans. At 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | U.S. Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


A free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Join a free Stay Well exercise session designed for seniors. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Call or stop by for further details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A 45-minute in-depth look at the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dragon Dance!


Dragon Dance, featuring the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Youth Program! If you're lucky, you may even be selected to feed the Dragon!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free

Theater | Rx, a New Comedy by Kate Fodor


Romance in the age of prescription drugs… Meena Pierotti's job is making her unhappy. Luckily, there's a pill for that. With Michael Bakkensen, Marylouise Burke, Marin Hinkle, Stephen Kunken, Paul Niebanck, and Elizabeth Rich.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Master Class | Pepe Romero, Guitar Master Class


   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Shanghai 2011


An exhibition of photography by participating artists in the Arts Abroad 2011 Shanghai Digital Photography Residency.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Culture as State and State of Mind


In a world where people migrate more often and ideas and goods move faster than ever before, this lecture series examines the resulting cultural fusions and collisions as a source of new insights rather than just a catalyst for conflict. After an introduction to cultural theory, we explore the ways design and art critique and influence culture in the context of globalization. This lecture is presented by Susan Yelavich, associate professor and director, MA Design Studies, School of Art and Design History and Theory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Stephen Fry reads from his book The Fry Chronicles


The multi-award-winning comedian and actor presents the latest installment of his autobiography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Behind the Scenes: The Lower East Side and the Hebrew Technical Institute


Founded in 1883, the Hebrew Technical Institute offered education in the industrial arts to young Jewish boys living in NYC. Director of Curatorial Affairs & HTI Research Fellow, David Favaloro, will discuss the relationship between HTI and the immigrant experience on the LES.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Jerry Sigler: A Reading of Selected Poetry


Jeremy Sigler is the author of three full-length collections of poetry including Crackpot Poet (Black Square Editions, 2010), Mallet Eyes(Left Hand Books, 2000) and To and To (Left Hand Books, 1998), as well as a digital book, Math. A senior editor at Parkett and a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Sigler was recently awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas. He is a lecturer in the sculpture department at Yale University. Presented by the BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Winifred Gallagher discuss her book New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change


This visual talk explores our unique human genius for responding to the new with curiosity and creativity and shows us how to embrace our changing world while living a fuller, saner life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Herschel. Destroys. Herschel.


We built cities for your enjoyment and burned them for ours. Come see Herschel bend the rules of time and space in a exciting display of self-destruction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Reading | Contributors read from PAJ 100


Several contributors to PAJ 100 will present their response to important themes in the issue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Czech Cinema: Matej Minac's All My Loved Ones (1999)


The horrors of the Jewish Holocaust are revisited in this drama. The film opens with the upwardly mobile Silberstein clan led by Jakub (Josef Abrham), as he buys a villa in the countryside just before Hitler overruns the country. His blind faith in family unity ironically keeps a number of his relatives in the country to be victimized by the Nazis. Meanwhile, British humanitarian Nicholas Winton (Rupert Graves) tries to rescue hundreds of Czech children and get them out of the country. 91 min. In Czech with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Sharon Salzberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Discussion | Varieties of Performance Experience


A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Shannon Jackson, joined by Pablo Helguera, André Lepecki, Frazer Ward, and Marianne Weems. Protagonist? Irruption? Squatter? Successively celebrated, rejected, ignored, and rediscovered, performance as a term and practice is a vexed and provocative domain within a number of fields. The publication of two new books — Shannon Jackson’s Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics and Judith Rodenbeck’s Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings — provides the opportunity for a conversation about the possibilities and perils of performance as an aesthetic and social practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor, discusses his book Strategic Vision: America And the Crisis of Global Power


In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerable—to domestic and international decline and unregulated greed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Composer Sarah Weaver conducts Mahler-inspired work


New York-based composer and conductor Sarah Weaver will be presenting a double quartet multimedia piece influenced by Gustav Mahler’s seminal composition Song of the Earth (1909). Weaver will perform with a quartet of musicians from the Manhattan New Music Project in this concert dedicated to polyphony, heterophony, plurality, nodality, improvisation, and cultural diversity. She will stream environmental sound and video from geographically diverse places via the internet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Richard Leacock, DA Pennebaker & Albert Maysles's On the Pole with Eddie Sachs (1960)


A rarely seen Drew Associates direct-cinema film first broadcast on CBS, the documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race from his perspective, starting from a week before the race through the day after the big event. You can feel the fervor and anticipation build (*pay close attention to the scaffolding that collapses with too many people on it during the race) as Eddie prepares to keep his place, "on the pole." 58 min. Following the screening there with be a Q&A with producer Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles as well as a reception sponsored by the New York Film/Video Council. Also playing is the short film Rendezvous (9 min., 1976) by Claude Lelouche, a mesmerizing view of an eight-minute drive through Paris at 5:30am shot in a single take.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Master Class | Grigory Kalinovsky, Violin Faculty Recital


Program: MOZART Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, K. 305 PROKOFIEV Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major, op. 94 FAURÉ Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, op. 13 With Heasook Rhee, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Comic Book Club


Iron your capes, unplug the Bat Signal and set your decoder rings on awesome: the Comic Book Club is in session! The Comic Book Club is a weekly comic book talk show featuring the best comedians in New York talking shop with industry professionals from all corners of the comic book world. Hosted by Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben. The show is sponsored in part by Midtown Comics!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Lady Luck is a Whore


Lady Luck is a Whore follows Leanne’s journey from Waukegan, Illinois to Vegas, baby! Doesn’t every woman want to move to Vegas, sell guns and get married a few times? It would be completely made up if it weren’t totally true.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Grammy Winner Joe Lovano & the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra


Grammy and Downbeat award-winner Joe Lovano is one of today's leading tenor saxophonists. The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra is: James Burton, III, Conductor; Jordan Pettay, Andrew Olson, alto saxophones; Morgan Jones, Chase Baird, tenor saxphones; Adison Evans, baritone saxophone; Joseph Boga, Alphonso Horne, Gabriel Medd, Riley Mulherkar, Enrique Sanchez, trumpets; Nicholas Finzer, Joseph McDonough, Andrew Clausen, Javier Nero, trombones; Graham Keir, guitar; Kristopher Bowers, piano; David Baron, bass; Joseph Saylor, drums.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play Reading: One Quarter by Christine Jean Chambers


Part of the 2012 Fire This Time Festival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recital - Zheng Wang, piano


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Open Mike | Penny’s Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
$3

Performance | Comedy: Righteous Kill


Righteous Kill is the name of the power-house comedy showcase driven by hosts Joe DeRosa and Jared Logan. Every show not only features the hardest-hitting stand-up comics in New York, but is also crammed with vaudevillian routines, improvisation, bits, skits, blood, guts and honor. Come see the show Timeout NY said is “set to become one of the city’s best and most spirited events.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
$5

Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Bring It!


Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic every Tuesday at 11pm. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win “joke of the night” and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday. This show is free for all audiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Study Hall


STUDY HALL is an opportunity for students of all levels [and all schools] to get more time on stage to do what’s being taught in their classes. Just bring your student IDs and something to work on. Hosted by Lucas Hazlett.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
$5
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