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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 13, 2015?

32 free events take place on Tuesday, January 13 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 13 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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32 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, January 13, 2015

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Workshop | Bridge Club


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best plays. Join the fun and meet new friends. All players welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | iMovie for Beginners


Learn how to use Apple's popular iMovie software. Create your own short movie clip by editing different clips from videos and add a sound track to fit your movies feel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Jennifer Pascual, Organist


Dr. Jennifer Pascual was appointed Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. Patrick in New York City in 2003. She is the first woman to hold this position, one of the most prestigious sacred music appointments in the United States. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she studied with David Higgs and taught undergraduate theory courses.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
Free

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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | U.S. Custom House Tour


Join a Museum Ambassador for an in-depth look at the unique architecture and exquisite beauty of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the museum. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1907, the Custom House is a National Historic Landmark. The building’s interior splendor includes an elliptical rotunda with a 140-ton dome skylight designed by Valencia-born engineer Raphael Gustavino and murals by New York painter Reginald Marsh, as well as monumental marble arches and columns. Tours include a visit to the Collectors Office, not normally accessible to the public. The Collectors Office features woodwork by Tiffany Studios and can be seen on Boardwalk Empire and in films like Spike Lee’s Inside Man.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Thomas Hardy's Autobiography: Shaping a Writer's Life


Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of the most accomplished and prolific writers of both the Victorian and Modern eras. Although Hardy may be best known today as a novelist, his nearly one thousand poems have contributed significantly to his popular perception, as has the controversial biography alternately attributed to his second wife, Florence, and to Hardy himself. Hardy's apparent ghost-authorship of The Early Life of Thomas Hardy and The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (published together as The Life of Thomas Hardy) has become accepted as part of his history, so much so that the portions written by Hardy himself, rather than Florence, have been excerpted into their own book, The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy, compiled by Michael Millgate. In this presentation, Gillian Steinberg, Associate Professor of English at Yeshiva University, will explore the ways in which this complex biographical history has shaped contemporary readings of Hardy's work and explore how Hardy aimed to separate his life from his art, an effort that has largely been foiled by today's emphasis on biography in literary interpretation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Workshop | Falun Dafa Exercise Class


Practice of meditation and slow-moving exercise. Eliminate stress, enjoy peace of mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | iPad Basics Workshop


This course will cover some basic features of the iPad. Learn the hardware, some settings and app navigation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw


Join a Museum Ambassador for a guided tour through the temporary exhibition. This exhibition presents the work of Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw, who documented life in rural Oklahoma from the 1920s to the 1960s. The tour will discuss Kiowa pictorial traditions, the formation of Oklahoma, Native participation in the U.S. Armed Forces, and the American Indian Exposition, as documented by Poolaw.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Authors Read: Nelson George / Bernice L. McFadden / Arthur Nersesian


Nelson George has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is most recently the author of “The Lost Treasures of R&B," the third novel in his D Hunter Mystery Series. Bernice L. McFadden is the author of nine novels, including "Gathering of Waters" (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012) and the recently reissued "Loving Donovan." Arthur Nersesian’s debut novel, the Lower East Side cult classic "The Fuck-Up," was also the first title published by Brooklyn-based independent publishing company Akashic Books, which has since published seven of his novels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Future Histories: A Showcase of New Composers from China


About the performances: Sam Wu is a self-taught 18-year-old wunderkind whose award-winning chamber music compositions have been described as "warm, sincere, and characteristic of a compassionate 21st-century metropolitan youth." His chamber composition dolphin song is a lamentation on the recent extinction of Yangtze River "baiji" White Dolphins, played by the violin, the viola, the cello, the piano, the bamboo flute, and percussion. He is currently studying at Harvard University. Qin Yi is a contemporary electronic music pioneer who has created Mirror Mind, a crossover experiment combining dramatic performance, live percussion, interactive multi-channel electronic music, and new-media visual arts. Mirror Mind explores the multilayered nature of human existence with a "pan-acoustic" narrative approach. Zulan is an internationally recognized composer who created a special new music piece based on the prize-winning play Death and the Maiden, using music to describe the "Six Desires of a Human Being" — a Buddhist concept which describes the six sensory pleasures derived from the eyes, ears, nose, body, and mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Discussion Group


Book: Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | No Entrance, No Exit: A 3-Artist Show


Artists Anna K.E., Alina Tenser, and Viola Yeşiltaç have personal relationships with performance, which possesses varying degrees of presence within—and relevance to—their respective practices. The works created for this show gesture toward an in-between space shared by art with audiences, one which is freed from the designations of beginning and end, instead suspending an implied or inherent performance in time, and collapsing the physical states of objects, bodies, and surfaces onto a single plane.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Maximizing Your Tax Return


While Americans may disagree on how their taxes are spent, at tax time most of us are looking for ways to pay no more than we owe, or even boost our tax refunds. Jean Joseph, CPA, discusses five of the best strategies that go beyond the obvious to give you tried-and-true ways to reduce your tax liability.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Medieval Maps


A lecture by noted author/map expert Chet Van Duzer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | David Smiley reads from his book Pedestrian Modern


David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption — stores and shopping centers — informed emerging modernist tenets. Tracing the history of architecture’s relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Pedestrian Modern expands and qualifies the making of American modernism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934): Winner of 5 Oscars


Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Walter Connolly. A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. 105 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Advice from an Emergency Room Pediatrician: Basic First Aid and Beyond


Did you ever wish you could sit with a pediatrician and ask questions about first aid before your child had an emergency? Do you have questions about how to prevent accidents? Would you like to know more about what you should do in the event your child does get injured? Keeping our kids healthy is one of our most important (and overwhelming!) responsibilities as parents. Having more information about what we can do to prevent and/or react to emergencies is crucial. Meet David Listman, MD, Director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital. He and his colleague Katie Keown, MD, will talk about pediatric emergency care, will answer your questions and will also give you information about the Pediatric Emergency Room at NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. With: Kelly Bond & Melissa Krodman, Lindsay L Benedict, Brittany Elizabeth Sylwestra
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This introductory meditation class was featured in New York Magazine’s top picks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Screening | Jazz on Film: The Inimitable Clark Terry


Hosted by Loren Schoenberg. The subject of the recently released and widely acclaimed documentary, trumpeter/educator/bandleader Clark Terry personifies the very best that jazz represents. Tonight, trace his career from his earliest days with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, right through to the present day with a series of films that capture the joy and sheer light he radiates every time he plays or sings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Jonathan Horn reads from his book The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History


Former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn reveals how Robert E. Lee, the officer most associated with George Washington, went to war against the union that Washington had forged.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Kurt Masur conducts a rehearsal of works by Bruckner and Wagner


Program: Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E Major (WAB 107) Wagner - Overture to Tannhäuser, WWV 70 Wagner - Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Miranda July reads from her book The First Bad Man


From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author, a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny, that readers will be blown away.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Start an Essay in One Evening


Would-be writers of all ages (teenagers on up) are welcome in this free workshop where you will learn to jump start your essay so it’s clear and compelling. With Sally Koslow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Stewart O'Nan reads from his book West of Sunset


Stewart O'Nan reads and signs his new novel about the last three years of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life, including his days at MGM and his romance with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Winter Poetry Night


Salon features readings by five notable poets — Diana Whitney, Adam Penna, Sarah Gutowski, Jared Harel, and Jennifer Michael Hecht — followed by discussion on the balance of active family life and creative career moderated by novelists M. M. De Voe (founder of Pen Parentis, Ltd) and Christina Chiu (2015 Pen Parentis curator).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | ChamberFest: Andriessen, Smetana, Mozart


Program: ANDRIESSEN Hout SMETANA Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 15 MOZART Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581 ChamberFest showcases students who work during their final week of winter break in a unique chamber music intensive, with unlimited rehearsal time and daily coachings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Flute Ensemble Concert


This informal recital features ensembles from the chamber music class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Future Histories: A Showcase of New Composers from China


About the performances: Sam Wu is a self-taught 18-year-old wunderkind whose award-winning chamber music compositions have been described as "warm, sincere, and characteristic of a compassionate 21st-century metropolitan youth." His chamber composition dolphin song is a lamentation on the recent extinction of Yangtze River "baiji" White Dolphins, played by the violin, the viola, the cello, the piano, the bamboo flute, and percussion. He is currently studying at Harvard University. Qin Yi is a contemporary electronic music pioneer who has created Mirror Mind, a crossover experiment combining dramatic performance, live percussion, interactive multi-channel electronic music, and new-media visual arts. Mirror Mind explores the multilayered nature of human existence with a "pan-acoustic" narrative approach. Zulan is an internationally recognized composer who created a special new music piece based on the prize-winning play Death and the Maiden, using music to describe the "Six Desires of a Human Being" — a Buddhist concept which describes the six sensory pleasures derived from the eyes, ears, nose, body, and mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free
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