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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 29, 2025?

23 free events take place on Wednesday, January 29 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 29 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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23 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, January 29, 2025

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc 27th Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival
free events nyc Tour of Historical House of The Distinguished American President of the Early 20th Century
free events nyc Branding Modernity: Marinetti, Futurism and the Invention of the Avant-Garde
free events nyc Songs Commemorating 80 Years of Auschwitz Liberation
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Workshop | Boot Camp Workout in the Park


An early-morning core body Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back, and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high fives welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Boot Camp Workout in the Park

Museums | New York City: History, Architecture, Social Movements, Cultural Diversity


This museum holds over 1,5 million artifacts, including photographs, paintings, decorative arts, costumes, and documents that tell the story of New York's development and its inhabitants. Explore the galleries and discover the rich history and vibrant culture of New York City!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Museumss, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, New York City: History, Architecture, Social Movements, Cultural Diversity

Festival | 27th Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival


The Better Chinatown Society's annual New Year's celebration is hosted in the park with firecrackers, cultural performances, and much more. Arrive early to claim a spot.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free
Festivals, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, 27th Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Learn Juggling in the Park

Museums | Tiffany Glass and Other Exhibitions


The museum is dedicated to showcasing the history, art, and culture of its area with a permanent collection of 10,000 items. One of the exhibitions includes famous Tiffany's leaded glass objects and a valuable insight into the development of the inuctry in the US at the turn of the 20th century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Tiffany Glass and Other Exhibitions

Museums | Tour of Historical House of The Distinguished American President of the Early 20th Century


This historic site honors the early life of a renowned American figure. The restored brownstone reflects late 19th-century architecture and offers insights into the family's daily life. Learn about various exhibits and artifacts that showcase the cultural and historical context of the era, providing a glimpse into the formative years of this visionary leader-to-be. First-come, first-served; this guided tour may reach capacity before your desired tour time, so please be sure to arrive early. Tour duration: 45 minutes. This tour takes place at 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free
Museumss, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Tour of Historical House of The Distinguished American President of the Early 20th Century

Tour | Tour of New York City Hall


One of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tours, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Tour of New York City Hall

Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation (in-person and online)


The sessions are non-denominational and will focus on the basics: meditation to quiet the mind, to focus the quiet mind, using the focused mind for analysis, and using the focused mind to create and uphold a positive vision of and outlook on the world. Other more specific uses of meditation may be discussed however the class is meant for all, beginners and those with a regular practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Workshops, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Lunchtime Meditation (in-person and online)

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
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Concerts, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Workshop | Downtown Beats Chorus


Directed by Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult 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
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Workshops, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Downtown Beats Chorus

Film | The Color Purple (2023): musical period drama


After being torn from her sister and children, Celie faces an abusive husband and other hardships. When a stranger named Shug Avery comes to her aid, along with her stand-her-ground stepdaughter, Celie finds strength in the unbreakable bonds of a new kind of sisterhood. Director: Blitz Bazawule Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., Halle Bailey, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Fantasia Barrino
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, The Color Purple (2023): musical period drama

Book Discussion | Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned: Dressing New York


Author Tim Allis looks at Henri Bendel's remarkable journey from a humble upbringing in late-nineteenth-century Louisiana to the pinnacle of high society. Starting with a small hat shop in Greenwich Village in 1896, he eventually redrew the map of fashion retail, turning then-strictly residential Fifty-Seventh Street into "the Rue de la Paix of New York." He introduced discerning clients to such influential designers as Schiaparelli, Molyneaux, and Chanel, and he outfitted Astors, Vanderbilts, and stars of stage and screen. Tim Allis was a senior editor at In Style for twelve years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussions, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned: Dressing New York

Workshop | Cardio Circuit Blast Workout


This high-energy total body workout will keep you moving with challenging yet fun bodyweight circuits. Cardio Circuit Blast is a heart-pumping, high-intensity class that is open to all levels and the perfect way to increase your overall endurance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Cardio Circuit Blast Workout

Discussion | Facing Climate Change as Urban Gardeners (online)


Face climate despair head-on in this peer-to-peer meet-up. Meet other community gardeners and land stewards to learn and exchange tips for gardening with climate change and workshop community preparedness in your neighborhood.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussions, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Facing Climate Change as Urban Gardeners (online)

Film | La Palisiada (2023): Ukrainian Police Drama


Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Director: Philip Sotnychenko Stars: Andrii Zhurba, Novruz Hikmet, Valeria Oleinikova 100 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, La Palisiada (2023): Ukrainian Police Drama

Lecture | Branding Modernity: Marinetti, Futurism and the Invention of the Avant-Garde


Speaker Luca Somigli is Professor and Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published extensively on various aspects of Italian and European modernism and avant-garde, including the volumes Legitimizing the Artist. Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885-1915 (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free
Lectures, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Branding Modernity: Marinetti, Futurism and the Invention of the Avant-Garde

Concert | Songs Commemorating 80 Years of Auschwitz Liberation


Shira Karmon and Alexander Vounelakos are both classical and jazz artists. With "Shira", Hebrew for song or poetry - they offer a variety of songs from Shira's classical Gramola music Albums: ,,Spirit of Hope", and ,,Little Cakewalk" commemorating 80 years to the liberation of Auschwitz with songs by Viktor Ullmann and Szymon Laks who were prisoners in this concentration camp. The music styles in this recital take us on a journey through classical, romantic, Viennese songs, and jazzy flair where the artists interpret pieces by Beethoven, Bernstein, Weill, Leopoldi and Hiller a.o. Thus, Ullmann and Laks are liberated from the title: ,,Music from Auschwitz". The concert will end with the lighter side of Jewish hits, leaving the audience with a spirit of hope!
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free
Concerts, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Songs Commemorating 80 Years of Auschwitz Liberation

Book Club | Intermezzo by Sally Rooney


Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Clubs, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Poetry Reading | Soon and Wholly: Poems for an Extreme Era


Idra Novey's first collection in a decade brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era. The poems juxtapose sweltering days raising children in a city with moments from a rural childhood roaming free in the woods, providing a bridge between those often polarized realities. Novey's spare, contemporary fables move across the Americas, from a woman housesitting in central Chile, surrounded by encroaching fires, to a man in New York about to give birth to a panda.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | This Is a Burial, Not a Resurrection (2019): Resettlement Drama from Lesotho


When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community. Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Stars: Mary Twala, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele 120 min. There will be a giveaway of 10 vinyl copies of the film's soundtrack.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, This Is a Burial, Not a Resurrection (2019): Resettlement Drama from Lesotho

Film | UnBroken (2023): Daughter Explores Family of Holocaust Survivors


In this documentary, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother and her six siblings who, as mere children, escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their own youthful bravado and the kindness of German strangers. Director: Beth Lane 97 min. Followed by a panel discussion with the film’s director, producer, and writer Beth Lane and subject (Beth’s mother) Ginger Lane.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, UnBroken (2023): Daughter Explores Family of Holocaust Survivors
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Plays, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Broadway Star in a Play About Lifelong Friendship
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Concerts, January 29, 2025, 01/29/2025, Singing Show with a Special Guest
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Play | Broadway Actress in a True Crime Story

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Play | Tony Nominee in a Play About Lifelong Friendship

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Jazz | Multiple Grammy Winning Jazz Musician at a Renowned Venue

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