28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, January 15, 2015
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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See the Park’s northernmost highlights on this walk from Conservatory Garden along the Harlem Meer ...
more >> and past the North Woods. Route easy to negotiate, a few stairs. 45 minutes.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Discover genealogical resources at the New York Public Library. This class offers an introductory exploration ...
more >> of passenger lists and naturalization records, their history, and the history Castle Garden, Ellis Island, and the Port of New York as a site of immigration to the United States.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ...
more >> choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> 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.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
This season’s performers were chosen competitively by jury and are among the finest early music artists ...
more >> and ensembles from the New York area and beyond.
Today:
Dorian Baroque present a selection of sonatas by Pandolfi, Castello, Fontana, and Bertali. The music is vividly rhetorical, characterized by unpredictable shifts in mood, contrasting dynamics and short irregular phrases meant to leave the listener stirred and unsettled.
Performers: Marina Fragoulis, baroque violin; Margalit Cantor, baroque cello; Magdalena Baczewska, harpsichord
1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation
Monthly book discussions to explore titles you've been meaning to read, or reread, and discuss with other ...
more >> lovers of literature. Participants should read each title before the discussion.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson.
A seven-year-old girl draws her divorced parents ...
more >> back together.
97 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn how to use Apple's popular iMovie software. Create your own short movie clip by editing different ...
more >> clips from videos and add a sound track to fit your movies feel.
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley.
Life changes in an instant for young Mia ...
more >> Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.
106 min.
Join us for free Pilates class with a certified instructor. Begin the process toward a building flexibility, ...
more >> muscle strength, and endurance for strong and comfortable body. Wear something comfortable, and don't forget to bring your exercise mat, or a large beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in.
5:45 pm
free, no reservation required
This is Marc Séguin's third solo show with the gallery. The title references Joseph Beuys' definitive ...
more >> 1974 performance where Beuys spent three days in a room with a coyote after being transported from the airport while blindfolded and not once touching American soil. This experimental sentiment is echoed in Séguin's recent painted snapshots of America, reflecting on the prerogatives of our cultural empire and the right of individuality we use as a defense for our actions.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Featuring new works by Hannah Chalew, Teresa Cole, Margaret Evangeline, Jeffrey Forsythe, Rashaad Newsome, ...
more >> Christopher Saucedo, and Dan Tague.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The first career retrospective in the United States dedicated to this extraordinary artist, beginning ...
more >> with Ungerer's childhood drawings depicting the Nazi invasion of Strasbourg, through his work in New York and Canada, and concluding with his most recent political and satirical campaigns as well as his illustrations for the 2013 children’s book Fog Island.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A solo exhibition of new sculpture, painting, and digital work that boldly parodies art consumption at ...
more >> the massive supermarket-like art fairs held annually in dozens of cities internationally. Through interactive bronze and wooden mobiles, free digital downloads, sculptural furniture and tools, paintings, hand crafted color pigments, and extravagant Chinese knock-offs of Harley Davidson motorcycles, Shi Jinsong extends the boundaries of artistic creation while mocking and reflecting the current state of art collection.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Did you learn how to use iMovie? Come put your skills to use in our Digital Story Telling class. Create ...
more >> a movie that explores a topic using pictures, video clips and sound.
This discussion sets out to explore how manufacturing occupies space in the city today by asking: when ...
more >> demand for space is so high, where does manufacturing fit in? And in the age of globalization, when you can make something anywhere, why make it here?
Panelists: Brian Coleman, Director, Greenpoint Manufacturing & Design Center; Adam Friedman, Director, Pratt Center for Community Development; Tod Greenfield, Vice President, Martin Greenfield Clothiers, and Board President, EWVIDCO; Nina Rappaport, Curator and Project Director, Vertical Urban Factory; and Barika Williams, Deputy Director, Association for Housing and Neighborhood Development. Discussion moderated by Miquela Craytor, Director of Industrial & Income Mobility, NYCEDC.
Admission is free, but reservations are required.
For this event, Mark Beasley, curator of Performa, offers a lecture responding to a 2010 performance ...
more >> by artist Regina José Galindo titled Looting, which involved a dental procedure performed in part at a clinic in the artist’s native Guatemala, and in part at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. (Looting has since been presented in the form of photography, video, and sculpture, and takes the last form here in an installation.) Accompanying this lecture, musician Arto Lindsay will perform an original soundtrack. A numbing beverage will be served.
Starring: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.
A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob ...
more >> Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco.
115 min.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Join Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz for the second installment of Hey Ladies LIVE! This time, the ...
more >> holidays remain stressful for some fearless women. Jen and Brad are "trying for a baby," SOMEONE goes home and sleeps with their old HS gym teacher and Nicole's only asking Santa for gift cards to Forever 21 that can be bartered for bottomless brunch. Ali just wants a bike (but like a cute one, guys are into bikes!) and Katie is "working on a novel" about her basic friends (fictional, obv).
They'll be reading some old stuff, some new stuff, and YOUR submissions of real Hey Ladies emails, and guess what? THE SAME CAST IS BACK. Thanks Taylor, Chantal Strasburger, Molly Mulshine, Veronica De Souza, Jessie Guy-Ryan, Alison Griffin Vingiano, and Brendan O'Connor.
Bring your Ladies, bring your boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, roommates and children.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Program:
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E Major (WAB 107)
Wagner - Overture to Tannhäuser, WWV 70 ...
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Wagner - Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” and updated with new music ...
more >> and lyrics composed by Jill Sobule, Yentl tells the story of a young girl in 19th century Eastern Europe forbidden to pursue her dream of studying Talmud. Unwilling to accept her fate, she disguises herself as a man. But when she falls in love, Yentl must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect her identity. Invigorated with a bracing klezmer/pop/rock score by Jill Sobule (the original “I Kissed a Girl,” “Supermodel”), Yentl asks up-to-the-minute questions about gender and sexuality.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
PROGRAM:
Oliver Schneller Clair/Obscur (US Premiere)
Jesse Jones Threshold (NY Premiere)
Gustav ...
more >> Mahler, arr. Arnold Schoenberg/Michel Galante Das Lied von der Erde
The Argento Chamber Ensemble is a virtuoso ensemble dedicated to innovative musical performance. The group’s international reputation has resulted from its critically renowned history as a chamber ensemble, the technically demanding repertoire it performs around the world, and its commitment to rigorous interpretation and artistic direction.
7:30 pm
Free tickets required
Program:
SCHNITTKE String Trio
Improvisation and Reflection on American Themes
SCHOENBERG Verklarte ...
more >> Nacht, Op. 4 for String Sextet
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.
8:00 pm
Free tickets required
Editor's Pick
Guitarist and composer Ian Williams has been a member of some of the most influential American progressive ...
more >> rock groups: the ‘90s math-rock innovators, Don Caballero; the experimental rock trio, Storm and Stress; and currently the powerhouse pioneers, Battles. He has undoubtedly expanded the aural lexicon of rock and roll through his virtuosic technique and innovative compositional voice. Williams joins Mantra Percussion, hailed by Time Out New York as both “forward thinking” and “superhuman,” for a full evening of intensely driving percussion, guitar and electronics that intersects Williams’ music at its core
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required