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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 10, 2024?

18 free events take place on Wednesday, January 10 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 10 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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18 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, January 10, 2024

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Talk | Contemporary Antisemitism in the UK (online)


Speaker: Dr. Dave Rich, Director of Policy, Community Security Trust (CST), London, UK
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

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
Free

Workshop | Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School of Music, the chorus is open to all who love to sing. Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Film | Spaceballs (1987) Directed by Mel Brooks, Starring Rick Moranis, Joan Rivers, and More


In a distant galaxy, planet Spaceball has depleted its air supply, leaving its citizens reliant on a product called "Perri-Air." In desperation, Spaceball's leader President Skroob orders the evil Dark Helmet to kidnap Princess Vespa of oxygen-rich Druidia and hold her hostage in exchange for air. But help arrives for the Princess in the form of renegade space pilot Lone Starr and his half-man, half-dog partner, Barf. Director: Mel Brooks Cast: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Joan Rivers Mel Brooks is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 18 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. Rick Moranis is a Canadian actor, comedian, musician, songwriter, writer and producer. He appeared in the sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s and several Hollywood films, including Strange Brew (1983), Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Spaceballs (1987), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, and its 1992 and 1997 sequels), Parenthood (1989), My Blue Heaven (1990), and The Flintstones (1994). Joan Rivers was an American comedian, actress, producer, writer, and television host. She was noted for her blunt, often controversial comedic persona that was heavily self-deprecating and acerbic, especially towards celebrities and politicians, delivered in her signature New York accent. She is considered a pioneer of women in comedy. She received an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award, as well as nomination for a Tony Award.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Book Club | Poetry discussion: From From by Monica Yuen


NY Times notable book of 2023, From From: Poems by Monica Youn. In her fourth collection, Youn—a National Book Award finalist for Ignatz and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for Blackacre—incorporates historical figures and cultural tropes as she explores identity and the search for self. The title comes from the question so often asked of Asian Americans, "Where are you from…? No—where are you from from?" 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Repose in the Metropolis: The Private Gardens of New York City


Design historian Lisa Zeiger reveals the private gardens of New York City. This book goes where few have gone before, into 14 very different gardens belonging to residents of New York City. These private worlds are the work of 10 major landscape designers, who brilliantly balance visual pleasure with ecological sustainability in challenging urban settings. Zeiger tells lively stories about the designers and their plants, bringing to their work her eye for historical precedent and contemporary aesthetics. Readers will appreciate their individual ways of highlighting plant life with architectural structures, natural stone and repurposed woods, old and custom vessels, and carefully curated furniture. Although the gardens are high-end by definition, they are all respites in which nature transcends luxury. They answer to the lives of plants, and to the residents' desire for private outdoor space that enhances quiet time and social life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet


Marina Harss presents the first biography of celebrated ballet choreographer Alexei Ratmansky. In The Wall Street Journal, Moira Hodgson calls the book "[a] spirited, engaging biography" and "a deeply researched portrait," continuing, "Ms. Harss analyzes each of Mr. Ratmansky's ballets, skillfully describing them in such vivid detail that you can almost see them." Harss is a dance writer, journalist, and critic based in New York City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries: Exhibition Tour


Director Gabriel Goldstein gives for a guided tour of the exhibition, illuminating the life and impact of the multifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage across continents and cultures through rare manuscripts and books. Exhibition highlights include manuscripts in Maimonides’s own handwriting, a carved 11th century door to the Torah ark from Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue, and beautifully illuminated medieval manuscripts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever


The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art. Now, for the first time, Prudence Peiffer pays homage to these artists and the unsung impact their work had on the direction of late twentieth-century art and film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Wacław Szpakowski: In Continuity


An intergenerational encounter between Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973) and Paul Pagk (b. 1962), two artists using the language of abstraction. Their practices envision a world in which everything—from our everyday walking routes to architecture, the sounds of music, and weather phenomena—is conceived as an intricate interplay of lines and rhythms. The starting point for this dialogue is five drawings created by Wacław Szpakowski between 1924 and 1943. The Polish pioneer of geometric abstraction was born in Warsaw and moved to Riga with his family in 1897, where he pursued architecture at the Riga Polytechnical Institute (now Riga Technical University). Alongside his studies, Szpakowski meticulously documented his interests in carefully archived notebooks, which now serve as a key to a deeper understanding of his work. His notes reveal an interest in the typology of architectural styles, as well as reflections on ornamentation. Drawings and sketches are interwoven with reports from his travels, spanning from neighboring cities such as Vilnius to as far as Arkhangelsk, and records of atmospheric phenomena, including cyclones and storms. Some pages contain reading lists including books on historic and folk architecture, archaeology, and engineering. Studies of clouds, atmospheric currents, and carbon dioxide were grounded in Szpakowski’s personal observations and readings from scientific journals. Wacław Szpakowski’s drawings also evoke comparisons to musical scores, and indeed, they served this purpose for the author himself, who would play them on the violin. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Residential High-Rises in NYC: Past, Present, and Future (online)


David West of the architectural firm Hill West has spearheaded the design of over 150 multifamily projects. His talk will cover the history of residential high-rise design from the postwar years, explaining developments such as the significance of reinforced flat-plate construction and the impact of zoning and regulatory environments on housing production. The catalog of Hill West's work including recent projects such as Bankside, 11 Hoyt, 363-365 Bond Street, and 130 William illustrate the range of development solutions in the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | J Jan Groeneboer: Selected Views


J Jan Groeneboer's new multi-channel video installation Selected Views takes the singular view from the artist’s studio in Brooklyn as a starting point for a durational study of the politics of viewership. To create this work, Groeneboer undertook over three years of preparatory research, photography, and writing about the view, after which he began a daily practice of filming over the subsequent two-and-a-half years. By training his attention on the unfolding repetitions and rhythms of weather and industries, the artist creates space in Selected Views to reflect on how elements of the cityscape indicate relationships between democracy, global capitalism, the prison-industrial complex, and environmental crises. Conceived as a site-specific video installation for The Kitchen’s loft at Westbeth—a setting defined by a row of windows overlooking the Hudson River—Selected Views highlights the interconnections between the waterway visible outside the gallery and the bays that are central to the artist’s own view.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Pioneers of Public Art: New York in the 1980s and 90s


An extraordinary evening with artists Mary Miss, Ned Smyth, and RM Fischer who transformed Manhattan’s downtown riverfront and the emerging neighborhood built on landfill, Battery Park City, into an internationally renowned public art collection and destination. A conversation with the influential artists follows the premier of documentary shorts about their work: Smyth’s Upper Room, Miss’ South Cove, and Fischer’s Rector Gate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Living Colour's Time's Up: An Artistically Challenging Album


Kimberly Mack in a discussion of her newest book, an exploration of the creation and reception of this artistically challenging album, while examining the legacy of this culturally important and groundbreaking American rock band — along with an audience Q&A and book signing. She will be joined in conversation by musician Vernon Reid.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Why Surrealism Matters: A Movement Continues to Resonate


Mark Polizzotti presents an elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate. Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers of art, literature, and culture. Polizzotti shows how many forms of popular media can thank Surrealism for their existence, including Monty Python, Theatre of the Absurd, and trends in fashion, film, and literature. While discussing the movement’s iconic figures—including André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Man Ray, and Dorothea Tanning—he also broadens the traditionally French and male-focused narrative, constructing a more diverse and global representation. And he addresses how the Surrealists grappled with ideas that mirror current concerns, including racial and economic injustice, sexual politics, issues of identity, labor unrest, and political activism. Why Surrealism Matters provides a concise, engaging exploration of how, a century later, the “Surrealist revolution” remains as dynamic as ever.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Out-FRONT! Fest 2024: A Radical Queer Art + Dance Festival


The 2024 festival features performances by Arthur Aviles and Collaborators, Joey Kipp with Pioneers Go East Collective, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Jason Anthony Rodriguez, Paz Tanjuaquio, Ogemdi Ude, and Annie MingHao Wang, as well as films by Fana Fraser, Omega X, and Tourmaline.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Out-FRONT! Fest 2024: A Radical Queer Art + Dance Festival


The 2024 festival features performances by Arthur Aviles and Collaborators, Joey Kipp with Pioneers Go East Collective, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Jason Anthony Rodriguez, Paz Tanjuaquio, Ogemdi Ude, and Annie MingHao Wang, as well as films by Fana Fraser, Omega X, and Tourmaline.
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