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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 12, 2024?

22 free events take place on Friday, January 12 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 12 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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22 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, January 12, 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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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

Gallery Talk | Spotlight Tour: Charles Dickens (online)


Docents take a close look at the 1843 manuscript of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It has been a holiday tradition for many years to display the original manuscript in the Morgan’s library. This is a virtual look at this beloved object as well as a discussion of Dickens’ life and the history surrounding the book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Film | BlackBerry (2023): biographical comedy-drama


BlackBerry explores the incredible growth and tragic collapse of the world's first smartphone and how it smashed huge enterprises before surrendering to Silicon Valley's fiercely competitive companies. Director: Matt Johnson Cast: Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Rich Sommer, Michael Ironside, Martin Donovan, Michelle Giroux, SungWon Cho, Mark Critch, Saul Rubinek, Cary Elwes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Gangs of New York (2002) Directed by Martin Scorsese, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz


Amsterdam Vallon is a young Irish immigrant released from prison. He returns to the Five Points seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Amsterdam's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people in 1860's New York. Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Brendan Gleeson Martin Scorsese is an American film director who emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of many major accolades, including an Academy Award, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work in biographical and period films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. As of 2019, his films have grossed over $7.2 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors. Cameron Diaz is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including nominations for four Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award. As of 2018, her films have grossed over $3 billion in the U.S., making her the fifth-highest-grossing actress at the domestic box office. Diaz's roles in comedies and romances cemented her as a sex symbol and a bankable star, and she was named the highest-paid Hollywood actress over 40 in 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation


Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Film | The Sea Inside (2004) with Javier Barden


Ramón Sampedro is a Spanish ship mechanic and part-time poet who is left a quadriplegic after a diving accident. This film tells the true story of Sampedro's 30-year battle for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramon manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest. Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo Javier Bardem is a Spanish actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers' western drama film No Country for Old Men (2007). Bardem has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer in Biutiful (2010), and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Leading Guitarist Who's Worked with Dave Grohl and Sean Penn


Kaki King’s career has spanned over twenty years, and continues to be at the forefront of leading guitarists and performance-makers. Kaki King has collaborated with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, toured with Natalia Lafourcade, contributed music to Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (which won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score), and performed in spaces as diverse as the Kennedy Center, Mass MoCA, the London Jazz Festival, NYUAD Arts Center, and beyond.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:45 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts (online)


Music featured reflects the spirit of self-taught art on view at the museum. Hosted by Lara Ewen. Featuring: 6:00 pm: Cordelia Stephens 6:30 pm: Justin Golden 7:00 pm: Matthew Bloem
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Amy Brener: Servers


Entering the exhibition the viewer is met by large-scale hanging works, rendered in a variety of translucent hues: candy colors, ethereal pastels, earthen melange. Upon first glance, these objects resemble tapestries, kites and giant paper dolls. Each work possesses a distinct character and orbits its own compact universe. Their forms range from overtly figurative, to semi-architectural, to organic amorphism. Up close, each server has its own internal logic; objects are obsessively ordered in some and gesturally scattered across others. Both methods of placement lead to encrusted surfaces of Brener’s signature disposable knick-knacks: flossers, q-tips, straws, plastic cutlery, paper clips, junk electronics and other dollar-store miscellany. Dried plants and flowers flank or encircle these objects, as though commemorating them. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Build what we hate. Destroy what we love.: 3 Artists on Venezuela's Displaced


As of October 2023, nearly 8 million Venezuelans have been forced to leave their homeland in the last decade. This displacement accounts for over a quarter of the country’s population, making it one of the largest migration crises in recorded history.  This show aims to amplify the stories of Venezuelan migrants through an exploration of social and material elements that make part of this massive exodus. The title emerges as a paradoxical interplay between the creation and dismantling of harmful systems (political, social, economic, belief…) and a reckoning of the nuances of everyday actions by everyday people, necessary to sustain what oppresses us, only to provide us with a fragile stability in return.  The exhibit brings together the work of 3 artists whose ideas about migration, belonging, and connection among an atomized nation give way to a visual repertoire of Venesporan contemporary realities. The works span photography, video, archival intervention, word-based installation, textile, and are accompanied by an array of contextual literature and personal testimonies that enrich the overarching narrative. Together, they navigate language and what the curator calls Objects of Embodied Memories, unraveling the bonds between material possessions and the emotional resonance that linger in their absence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Constanza Schaffner: Leones, Flores, Constanzas


An exhibition of new paintings by the Argentine, New York-based artist Constanza Schaffner. Schaffner is interested in the often-contradictory forces that reside within the individual psyche, and the tensions that can arise between poetic and rational approaches to understanding and experiencing the world. In her doctoral dissertation on comparative literature, she focuses on strategies to “re-enchant” the contemporary world, which she sees as largely disconnected from the mythical, the magical, and the sacred – an investigation that permeates her artistic practice as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Artists in Conversation


A conversation between painters Katharine Kuharic and Kurt Kauper in conjunction with Kuharic’s ongoing solo exhibition, The Foliated Room. Moderated by artist TM Davy, the conversation will explore both artists’ distinct approaches to image-making, shared affinity for multilayered symbolism, and interest in cultivating open-ended narratives through figurative painting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Alice Sadie Celine: A Woman's Affair with Her Daughter's Best Friend


An event celebrating the critically acclaimed novel Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, a steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one woman’s affair with her daughter’s best friend, testing the limits of love and ambition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time


Sheila Liming in a discussion of her newest book, showing what we have lost to the frenetic pace of digital life and how to get it back.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Jefferson Davis Takes a Train: Railroad Infrastructure and the Civil War (online)


Independent historian, defense analyst, and wargame designer Dr. Albert Nofi in a discussion of "Jefferson Davis Takes a Train", analyzing the state of Southern Rail Roads during the US Civil War and the impact of railroad infrastructure on warfighting. Dr. Nofi is an author and editor of over thirty books on military history, including The Blue and Gray Almanac and The Gettysburg Campaign. He was an Associate Fellow of the U.S. Civil War Center for many years, and a founding member of the New York Military Affairs Symposium.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Dvorak, Debussy, Granadoes and More for Voice and Piano


Alexandra Nowakowski, Soprano; Michal Biel, Piano. Program Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Je suis encore tour etourdie from Manon Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Ah! Douce enfant from Cendrillon Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), Uwoz, mamo from Piesni kurpiowskie (Kurpie Songs) Eduard Toldra (1895-1962), La zagala alegre"from Seis canciones Eduard Toldra (1895-1962), Madre, unos ojuelos vi from Seis canciones Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Nana Fernando Obradors (1897-1945), Con amores la mi madre"from Canciones clasicas espanolas Fernando Obradors (1897-1945), Chiquitita la novia from Canciones clasicas espanolas Dvorak (1841-1904), Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55, No. 4 Debussy (1862-1918), Quatre chansons de jeunesse Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Mira que soy nina Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Lloraba la nina Enrique Granados (1867-1916), No lloreis ojuelos
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Art und Weise: Raphaela Vogel & The Better People of Szechwan


Based on past music, Juliane Liebert, Daniel Roth, and Raphaela Vogel present new and existing lyrics and melodies for both ears. The performance will be interluded by an interview-style exchange between Raphaela Vogel and Elisa R. Linn. Raphaela Vogel and The Better People of Szechwan - that's Juliane Liebert, Daniel Roth, Raphaela Vogel and guests (Elisa R. Linn and Diedrich Diederichsen). They preserve the nearly lost work of the Jewish-German author Erich Hopp (Miss Germany Tango) and venture into the dubious humor of the of the end-punk band, Die Kassierer. In Procession 33b, they hiss outrageous chansons, clatter piano clusters, and reveal horrendous half-truths by and about grown-up men singing backwards, all accompanied by a harmonium and a large thunderous brass object (stolen from the Einsturzende Neubauten). Brutally pedagogic Brecht ballads and a waterproof world view give the band a unique status in Berlin's unsettled cultural life. Who else would you trust to sing the rhyme Amazon Should go Bankrupt to the tune of Urmel aus dem Eis? This performance and talk coincides with Raphaela Vogel's (ex-The Fistfuckers) New York debut at Petzel Gallery, featuring a poly-retrofuturistic temple of countless cameras referring to themes by Erich Hopp.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Mongolian Folk Music That's Also Modern and Unique


A bold fusion of Tuvan and Mongolian folk music, the trio Tuvergen Band, brings a modernistic and unique sound to the stage. Representing the Eastern members of Tuvergen Band ("galloping" in Mongolian), Tamir Hargana and Naizal Hargana--both playing the morin khuur or "horsehead fiddle" and providing vocals--originate from Inner Mongolia, while the ethnomusicologist and ex-Cirque du Soleil performer Brent Roman--on percussion and vocals--hails from Chicago. The group also employs the wild array of instrumental and vocal styles unique to the Central Asian steppe's sound palette, including the doshpuluur and tovshuur lutes, and the extraordinary, overtone-rich throat singing technique, khoomei. In tandem with Roman's introduction of the Australian didgeridoo and a hybrid drum kit of over twenty global instruments, Tuvergen Band plays what they call "modern nomadic music": incorporating bluegrass, blues, rock, and more into their repertoire of Mongolian and Tuvan folk songs and originals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 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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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Troupe Performs Repertory Highlights


See Time Lapse Dance perform repertory highlights during the Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference. The visually-captivating program, exploring human entanglement with nature, highlights the climate-engated collaboration between choreographer Jody Sperling and composer Matthew Burtner. The company's signature style employs the use of body-extending costumes that amplifies and abstracts human movement into elemental and organic forces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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