Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 8, 2010?
77 free events take place on Thursday, July 8 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 July 8 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 July . 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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77 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, July 8, 2010
Fitness in the Square begins at 7:00 AM with "The Basics of Running 101" followed by "Open Level Yoga" at 8:00 AM, both presented in partnership with lululemon athletica. Then at 9:00 AM join "Brooklyn Bridge Bootcamp" for a full body aerobic workout.
Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center. Classes are for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
Free and open to all skateboarders and roller bladers, weather permitting. WARNING: This is an unsupervised facility. Enter the skatepark at your own risk. You must wear a helmet at all times.
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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
Yes, you can fish in the Hudson River! They provide rods, reels, bait and instruction. So come on down and try your luck at fishing while enjoying the warm sun and cool breezes.
A hike through the National Historic Landmark District.
Behind the façade of the island’s military structures lie hidden courtyards and stately grounds resounding with echoes from the past. Join a National Park Ranger for this 1.5 hour, 1.5 mile walking experience and discover how the role of the island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
New York City's best and funniest walking tour. This high-energy tour will take you through the heart of the Lower Manhattan, entertaining you, your friends and family with stories, hidden secrets and relevant information about the Big Apple. The USA’s first capital city, a center of global finance and a tribute to over two centuries of immigration and the American experience - New York City's history is the history of America. And on every step of our tour, expert guides - part professors, part performers - will explain why.
This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Learn about threats to computers and their users, such as viruses, hackers, and spam, and solutions to minimize them.
Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
Leave the lunchbox at home and get your fill as restaurants serve up signature items including Au Mandarin’s famous pork dumplings, P.J. Clarke’s always popular mini-cheeseburgers, Devon & Blakely’s delicious soups and Patisserie Financier’s irresistible desserts.
Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
HellGate Love Letter is an imaginary landscape by Bessie Award-winning choreographer and designer Alice Farley that combines sculptural costuming, circus arts, dance, puppetry and illusion. A lost history of New York and its waterfront, HellGate Love Letter takes its name from the old Dutch name for the East River Strait: “Hellegat”, meaning Bright Passage or, alternatively, Gate to Hell. New York stories come alive through the words of Frederico Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman, and the music of noted American composer, Peter Garland.
Mighty Sparrow, aka Slinger Francisco, is the official calypso king of Trinidad, having won the island’s standard-setting Calypso Monarch competition 11 times. An eight-time winner of the island’s Carnival Road March competition as well, Sparrow is best known for the song “Carnival Boycott” and for the outspoken 1956 hit “Jean and Dinah,” both of which perfectly personify the laid-back island spirit while never forgetting calypso’s courageous political roots.
Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci, a recent graduate of the Institute for Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School, has already recorded six records for the Japanese label, M & I Jazz. These recordings garnered Dominick the “International New Star” Award from Swing Journal Magazine (Japan) in 2003... an honor that has been previously awarded to Christian McBride and Diana Krall, among others.
LeDonne came to New York in the late 70's and has had the unique experience of playing with a wide variety of jazz masters. Everyone from Benny Goodman to Milt Jackson and Sonny Rollins picked him to be in their bands. Oscar Peterson called him "incredible, one of the most talented pianists of this era"
Designed to provide visitors with an overview of the exhibition's themes as well details about each artist and the works included, the tour will visit each of the ten figurative sculptures on view and last approximately 30 minutes.
Statuesque brings together a dynamic group of six international artists--Pawel Althamer, Huma Bhabha, Aaron Curry, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, and Rebecca Warren--whose work reinvigorates the tradition of figurative sculpture. This exhibition marks the New York debut of each work included and is also the first time this international group of artists has been shown together.
Good Trip Ibantu (2000, 28 min. documentary) Brazilian teenagers visit a Krahô Indian village in northern Brazil and participate in a ceremony that welcomes them as ibantu (nephew).
Thank You, Brother (1999, 19 min. documentary) This profile of a Xavante videomaker working in his community also documents video's important role in recording cultural practices and language for future generations.
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
A hike through the National Historic Landmark District.
Behind the façade of the island’s military structures lie hidden courtyards and stately grounds resounding with echoes from the past. Join a National Park Ranger for this 1.5 hour, 1.5 mile walking experience and discover how the role of the island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
HellGate Love Letter is an imaginary landscape by Bessie Award-winning choreographer and designer Alice Farley that combines sculptural costuming, circus arts, dance, puppetry and illusion. A lost history of New York and its waterfront, HellGate Love Letter takes its name from the old Dutch name for the East River Strait: “Hellegat”, meaning Bright Passage or, alternatively, Gate to Hell. New York stories come alive through the words of Frederico Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman, and the music of noted American composer, Peter Garland.
New York City's best and funniest walking tour…..and it’s Free! Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories is just waiting to be peeled away.
With Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin and Chris Sarandon.
In a modern-day vignette, a grandfather tells his resistant 10-year-old grandson the story of "The Princess Bride." The viewer is transported to the medieval make-believe land of Florin where the flaxen-haired beauty, Buttercup, loves her handsome servant boy, Westley. Seeking his fortune across the sea, Westley promises to return, but word arrives that he has been killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts.
98 min.
Good Trip Ibantu (2000, 28 min. documentary) Brazilian teenagers visit a Krahô Indian village in northern Brazil and participate in a ceremony that welcomes them as ibantu (nephew).
Thank You, Brother (1999, 19 min. documentary) This profile of a Xavante videomaker working in his community also documents video's important role in recording cultural practices and language for future generations.
Have you ever wanted to sell a product on your website? Do you want your website to actually make money instead of costing you money? They’ll show you how to use PayPal to easily add a shopping cart to your website. They’ll explain how to use website statistics to track how people are coming to and using your site. Lastly, they’ll show how to place ads onto your popular pages to make additional income.
The Tenant Services staff invite you to an art event at a historical landmark. Molly Kerwin, a Tenant Services Assistant, says "At our residence, we have a very successful Art Program in which tenants of all artistic levels participate and create beautiful and impressive works of art with the guidance of a contracted professional art instructor."
Enjoy breathtaking views of NYC while kayaking on the Hudson River. Completely free. Must know how to swim. A changing room and shower and hose to rinse off with are available. They have a limited number of locks available. Please bring your own lock.
Set to a newly commissioned score from downtown composer John King, Chuma brings her inimitable adventurous sensibility together with a team of remarkable collaborators to produce a signature spectacle.
An exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud and inspired by Richard Price's 2008 novel of the same title. Lush Life includes 60 artists, including Jackie Saccoccio, Jessica Dickinson, Matthew Weinstein, Dani Leventhal, Rashid Johnson, Claudia Weber, Jose Lerma, Kai Schiemenz, Iris Fluegel, Robert Beck, Robert Melee, Tommy Hartung, Nina Lola Bachhuber, Cynthia Lin and Amy Longenecker-Brown.
Have you ever wanted to sell a product on your website? Do you want your website to actually make money instead of costing you money? They’ll show you how to use PayPal to easily add a shopping cart to your website. They’ll explain how to use website statistics to track how people are coming to and using your site. Lastly, they’ll show how to place ads onto your popular pages to make additional income.
A collective of musicians that blend funk, soul, rock and world music styles to create original tunes and put their own spin on music from other artists.
A group exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini, featured by eight artists from Japan, the United States and Italy. With Misa Aihara, Masaki Asakawa, Alberto Baccari, Amy Cohen Banker, Elena Brambilla, Michela Ianese, Giovanni Marinelli, and Fabio Usvardi.
Bring your technology questions and get one-on-one assistance. Pre-register with librarian at the Information Desk. If you have your own laptop you can also bring it to the class.
A stunning show of more than 50 drawings produced by the Iranian painter over the past year. In the project space, Dehghan will present a photographic triptych from the series The Day I Became a Woman by Newsha Tavakolian (b. Iran, 1981).
The four artists in the show offer contrasting and compelling visions. Rachel Barrett's series Bolinas reflects on the interconnectedness of place, atmosphere and people in a specific "off-the-grid" community in coastal Northern California. Erin O'Keefe's photographs of still life and snapshot set-ups ponder tensions surrounding empty rooms, spaces in transition and the idealized versus the functioning artist's studio.
The Hale Kula series of photographs by Juliane Eirich highlights the reduction of an everyday but unique space (Hawaiian schoolhouses at night) to horizontal bands of color, while also exploring the relationship between the manmade and the natural. The photographs of Selena Salfen's series Exposure in Vivo confront the effects that untreated war-related trauma have had on three generations of her family by depicting reconstructions of painful episodes in her relatives' histories.
A walking program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Parks hired trained walking instructors who will keep participants active, exercising and having fun.
With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts.
A neurotic New York comedian falls in love with ditsy would-be singer.
93 min.
Music by DJ Ursula 1000 starts at 6pm; film starts at sunset.
lululemon athletica provides free yoga classes for all ages and levels. Awaken the body’s potential with revitalizing movement, stretching, breathing, and poses. Some of yoga’s benefits include weight loss, deeper sleep, release from pain and arthritis, and a more youthful appearance. Wear comfortable clothing that allows easy movement. Mats are provided. In case of rain, please call.
Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large nose; portraits suggest that he did have a big nose, though not nearly as large as described in this outdoor theater performance.
Frank Bruni was born into an Italian family that equated food with love. As a child, he dieted with his mother; as a college student, he became bulimic. Before, in between and after, he gobbled crummy processed food, sleep-ate, and eventually pigged his way into size 42 relaxed khakis and no love life. Born Round is the hugely praised bestseller of The New York Times' former chief restaurant critic.
Euripides’ earliest dated extant tragedy contains elements not encountered in any other tragedy. Because it was originally submitted as the fourth part of a tetralogy, the fourth work usually being a Satyr play, it uses a tragicomic tone, making it unique in that it is a tragedy with, surprisingly, a happy end. Presented by American Thymele Theatre.
Welcome Jazzmobile to July's installment of the monthly Social Hour. Plenty of time for mingling with like-minded people over complimentary refreshments. For adults.
With Jack Feldstein, a scriptwriter and filmmaker. Do you want to write a play, film or TV script but are stuck? Or don't know how to begin? The internationally acclaimed, instructional and entertaining neon animation, "The Fantastical World Of Scriptwriting" and a visual lecture about "how to write a script" will be presented. Learn the basics of dramatic writing in a humorous and encouraging session and then use that knowledge when you write your own script.
Ambroise was born in Haiti. He was drawn to the saxophone at a young age, experimenting with the instrument as a high school student in Brooklyn, New York during the 1970s, a fertile period for both Haitian music and American Jazz. His passion for jazz music led him to study with Jazz legends such as Frank Foster, Jimmy Owens, and John Lewis.
He then performed in New York City with various small groups for more than 20 years, playing usually Haitian Konpa music or Jazz. Ambroise has worked with many notable Haitian groups in the New York metropolitan area. He recorded with Ayizan, a landmark avant-garde Rara ensemble. He also led the band Freefall which included world renowned Latin percussionist Bobby Sanabria (currently leader of the group Asuncion and the former drummer in Mario Bauza’s big band).
Duane Hampton celebrates the illustrious career of one of the nation's most admired interior decorators, her husband, Mark Hampton. Called "an icon of American style" by The New York Times and "First Decorator" during the administration of President G.H.W. Bush, Hampton famously combined his love of historical precedent with his own intuitive sense of design, refusing to be pigeonholed into a trademark style to create backgrounds for living that ranged from sleek modernism to English country and beyond.
Robert Wosnitzer's talk will address the question of how is the financial reform legislation framed, and how might that
frame be imagined to perform the market.
Also, “Cultural Economies,” a discussion with Jackie McAllister and Axel John Wieder. McAllister is an artist and writer, living and working in New York. Wieder is artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. This part of the evening will discuss the work of the New York-based collective Art Club 2000 and Berlin-based initiatives from the early 1990s that investigated the changing relationship between art and economy. The two cities Berlin and New
York will be used to discuss cultural economies within the changing urban landscape and the post-fordist condition.
A reading and book signing with Jennifer Egan, a 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Fiction. She will read from her new critically acclaimed book. The lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, are explored.
The music of King Changó is an exhilarating cultural whirlwind that sweeps from Argentina to the Arctic, recognizing no national or musical borders along the way. Switching from Latin Ska to African funk to bluesy rock and beyond, King Changó makes people jump the world over.
Bronx-based Pacha Massive (pictured), a creative collaboration between Dominican-born Nova (keys/guitar /writer/producer) and Colombian born Maya (writer/bass), perform a funky bilingual fusion of traditional Latin rhythms including Colombian cumbia, Dominican palo, reggae, dancehall, dub, and electronic music.
As noted by NPR, Madeleine Peyroux became famous, in part, for putting her idiosyncratic touch on time-tested standards. With a repertoire that extends from personal, original songs to a breadth of rare classics from a bygone era, Madeleine Peyroux's standards are anything but standard.
Neshat, internationally acclaimed photographer, videographer, and filmmaker, discusses the works in her new monograph. Neshat first came to prominence in the mid-1990s when she exhibited her series The Women of Allah, an extraordinary body of work exploring women in Islamic culture. Since then, the Iranian-born artist has continued to explore difficult subjects: the boundaries between East and West, men and women, the sacred and the profane, exile and belonging. The book includes an essay by art critic Arthur C. Danto, a forward by Marina Abramovic, and commentaries for each series of work by Neshat herself.
Hazmat Modine creates inventive music with the scratchy soul of an old blues record and the high energy of a brass big band. They keep one foot firmly planted in the blues while conjuring up unusual, celebratory music. Their critically acclaimed debut CD Bahamut seamlessly mixes reggae, klezmer, country and Gypsy influences.
Discover the Rochester City Ballet, acclaimed as one of the best regional ballet companies in the United States making its New York City premiere appearance. RCB's repertoire features award-winning contemporary works and classic story ballets.
Set to a newly commissioned score from downtown composer John King, Chuma brings her inimitable adventurous sensibility together with a team of remarkable collaborators to produce a signature spectacle.
Featuring Burkina Electric. Former “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage, who has choreographed for everyone from Baryshnikov to Michael Jackson, “is always pushing the limits of possibility, spectacularly deconstructing the body with a diabolic flair" (Le Nouvel Observateur, France). Her company shares the stage with the West African band Burkina Electric to create a haunting amalgam of dance and live music that combines ballet and African dance, electronica and ancient rhythms—a uniquely modern synthesis of new and old, pop and tradition.
King Leontes is undone by his own jealousy in this classic directed by Michael Greif. With Gerry Bamman, Francois Battiste, Linda Emond, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Bill Heck, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Byron Jennings, Heather Lind, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Nyambi Nyambi, Matthew Rauch, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Richard Topol, and Max Wright.