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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 29, 2011?

37 free events take place on Friday, July 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 July 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 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, July 29, 2011

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Concert | Debbie Gibson and Tiffany, 80s Pop Stars


Debbie Gibson charmed big-haired teens everywhere with songs like "Foolish Beat," "Lost in Your Eyes" and "Shake Your Love." Tiffany (pictured) made music to go to the mall by, including "I Think We're Alone Now," "Could've Been" and "I Saw Him Standing There."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Concert | Journey, 70s/80s Rock Act


"Don't Stop Believin'," "Separate Ways" and "Faithfully" were just some of the hits that made this arena-rock group popular back in the day. These days, a sound-alike lead singer fronts the aging musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary! Hing also teaches Tai Chi at the China Institute. He has practiced martial arts for over 25 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Park Walk | Fitness Walk NYC


This free fitness walk is one hour long and led by experienced Instructors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Other | Bridge Club for Advanced Beginners


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players only. Join the fun and meet new friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Festival | Korea Day!


Sorea, a six-person pop band that mixes modern and Korean traditional music, will perform during the opening ceremony followed by several other Korean pop and rap star performances. Guests can then enjoy FREE food samplings from a Korean Food Exhibition that will offer an array of culinary Korean specialties such as Galbi (grilled meats), Jabche (stir fried noodles with vegetables), Jun (Korean scallion pancake), and of course the staple Korean condiment, Kimchi. For the more curious culinary diner, there will be a chance to experience ‘dduk-mea chi-gi’, the process of making dduk, Korean rice cake. Attendees will also have a chance to win a free round-trip ticket to Korea by competing in the first ever K-POP Contest and showing-off their singing and dancing skills. Korea Day is going to be a colorful canvas of fashion, food and music -- a truly engaging cultural experience
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Searching Bloomberg


This hands-on class demonstrates the Bloomberg menu driven system. The class will learn search methods for information on companies, and how to find securities that match investors’ criteria. Also, we will retrieve some market and economic data available on Bloomberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Concert | Lunchtime Sounds: Lucky Chops Brass Band


Enjoy the ambient acoustics. Pack a bag of yummies and drink in the reverberations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | Dona Carter, Jazz Pianist


Pianist, composer, music educator, and mentor to students of all ages, Dona Carter has directed a variety of ensembles, large and small, composing and arranging many original pieces. She has performed in a variety of venues, in the United States and abroad - often sharing the stage with other outstanding musicians and singers. She performs the third Friday of each month at '449 LA' with her band.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Melissa Elledge, Accordionist


Enjoy a taste of Paris in the park at lunchtime with musette style accordion music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Japanese Film: Jean-Pierre Limosin's Tokyo Eyes (1997)


While Tokyo is in panic with serial gun killings, a 17-year-old girl finds herself falling for the killer, a sweetly androgynous teenage boy. 100 min. In Japanese with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to eBay


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basics of buying and selling items on the online auction site eBay, and discover library material that can help you take advantage of all the site's features.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Other | Intergalactic Retro Gaming


Come play your favorite classic games or try a new one at the monthly game night! In the spirit of summer reading, add a Sci-Fi twist to your game if you like. They’ll be playing (Sci-Fi) Scrabble, Battleship (Galactica), Checkers, Taboo, (Intergalactic) Monopoly and other fun, low-tech games.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Ballets with a Twist performs Happy Hour


Choreographer Marilyn Klaus’s clever, sumptuous suite celebrates cocktail culture with an irreverent, pop sensibility. Music composed by Stephen Gaboury. Costumes created by Catherine Zehr.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Guitar Ministry


Come jam with the Guitar Ministry. Come together in the spirit of community to play and learn from each other. All skill levels are welcome as are all ideas. If you would like to learn to play guitar, someone will be on hand to teach you basic chords.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival with James Blood Ulmer and Vernon Reid - two of the most influential guitarists in jazz and rock


James Blood Ulmer and the Memphis Blood Blues featuring Vernon Reid – two of the most influential guitarists in jazz and rock bridge the gap with a genre-bending collaboration that draws on a shared passion for traditional blues. Also performing: • The Growlers – The Growlers overlay a SoCal foundation with myriad other influences ranging from ‘60s psychedelia to African rhythms to gypsy music to reggae to garage rock. • The Beauties – The Beauties have risen to the top of Toronto, Canada’s thriving indie-rock scene with their uncompromising take on blues and roots music, touring with artists such as Broken Social Scene, Ron Sexsmith, and Jason Collett.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Young Dancemakers Company, featuring Teen Performers from NYC Public Schools


Choreography created and performed by NYC teens selected from NYC public high schools. A company of 16 exuberant, ethnically diverse high school dancer/choreographers, under the watchful eye of director Alice Teirstein, will once again gather for the 16th year of Young Dancemakers Company, and perform their own works. Both themes and music are wide-ranging, usually covering subjects from love to war. In addition to their original dances, the group always learns a work by an established choreographer - Mark Morris, Merce Cunningham, and Bill T. Jones in past concerts. This year's participants are fortunate to learn and perform an excerpt from Jose Limon's "Psalm," taught by Mary Ford and Francisco Ruvalcaba. All performances end with the lively and popular "Dance With Us," in which audience members are invited onto the stage for some post-concert improvisation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Friday Evening Drumming Circle


Improvise on African, Latin and Caribbean rhythms at the drumming circle. The gatherings are led by master drummers MAGUETTE CAMARA, PETER HAWES, MARY KNYSH and PAMELA PATRICK. After beginning with the teaching of traditional drumming patterns, and establishing a steady heartbeat pulse, participants are then asked to contribute their own rhythmic patterns as part of a call-and-response chanting and drumming.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Gospel Music with The Invaders


New York’s leading “shout” gospel brass band, The Invaders, led by Harold Taylor, are known in the streets and in House of Prayer churches throughout the country for their high-spirited and joyful noise.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | Outdoor Theater: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov


The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. Performed by Hudson Warehouse.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Book Club: The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble


Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back to receive honorary degrees from a new university there—Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying—they take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait of English social life in the latter half of the twentieth century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Raging Triumph Comedy Show


What if the two worst actors on the planet taught a workshop? And what if they were totally fucking crazy? Join Livia Scott as Collette Priester, "The Empress Of Dinner Theater," and Sean Crespo as Rodney DeGiles, self-described as "A younger, sexier Gary Oldman with more range" as they take you through a free audit of The Gold Star Acting Workshop. With special guests. Prepare to be traumatized and like it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Concert | Sunset on the Hudson with Guitarist David Ippolito


Enjoy the gorgeous sunset and mellow sounds of New York’s acclaimed Guitar Man David Ippolito from this spectacular grass-covered pier that stretches 900 feet into the majestic Hudson River.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Lesson | Waterfront Workouts: Belly Dance


A dance movement class that focuses on the core muscles, emphasizing muscular isolations. Dance to Middle Eastern rhythms while learning traditional movements and combinations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | African & Arabic Sounds: Oumou Sangaré / Bassam Saba


The Malian singer OUMOU SANGARÉ, “the most celebrated performer in West Africa,” (New York Magazine) has brought the enchanting tribal rhythms of her Wassoulou homeland to the global stage with a captivating presence and a voice of pure gold. The Arabic music savant BASSAM SABA “weaves together Lebanese and Arabic folk music with Turkish Gypsy styles and Russian motifs, playing oud, flutes, violin and buzuq…surprisingly funksome stuff.” (Time Out NY)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Don Byron New Gospel Quintet


Eclectic clarinetist Don Byron visits the hall of American spiritual icons when his New Gospel Quintet interprets the work of Thomas A. Dorsey, the father of black gospel music. Burnt Sugar / Danz conjures up spirits from other dimensions; Gabri Christa’s all-star company of dancer-choreographers form a freewheeling improvisational band with theorist-conductor Greg Tate’s funky hoodoo ocrhestra. As a finale, an expanded version of Byron’s group joins forces with the dancers in a new look at the intersection of gospel and contemporary dance in the world premiere of R Glitch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Oscar-Nominated Documentary: Steve James' Hoop Dreams (1994)


The remarkable true story of two American dreamers. Portraying an intimate reflection of contemporary American urban culture while following two ordinary young men on the courts of the game they love. It's about success and failure not just on the court, but in school, at home, and ultimately, in society. 170 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Film | Lee Unkrich's 2-Time Oscar Winner Toy Story 3 (2010): Blockbuster Sequel


With the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack The toys are mistakenly delivered to a daycare center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home. 103 min. Free popcorn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: As You Like It


Pulse Ensemble Theatre's seventh Harlem Summer Shakespeare production is a multi-ethnic, open-air production of William Shakespeare’s comedy. As is the tradition with Pulse Theatre Ensemble’s Harlem Summer Shakespeare, this production keeps Shakespeare’s language intact whilst updating the world in which the characters live. In this contemporary version of As You Like It, Frederick is a millionaire in the image of Hugh Hefner or Donald Trump. He believes money rules the day. Duke Senior and his followers, on the other hand, live a rustic, free-spirited life somewhere between the 1960’s hippies and the Hari Krishna followers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: Hamlet


The Drilling Company will present Hamlet directed by Hamilton Clancy. In an unusual interpretation, the production is intended to illuminate the modern dysfunctional family unit. The cast includes Alessandro Colla as Hamlet, Amanda Dillard as Ophelia , McKey Carpenter as Laertes, Paul Guskin as Polonius, Karla Hendrick as Gertrude, David Sitler as Claudius, Bill Green as The Ghost, Jennifer Fouche as The Player Queen, Jed Q. Peterson as Guildenstern, Miguel Govea as Marcellus, Graciany Miranda as Horatio, Andrew Markert as Rosencrantz, Kate Garfield as Bernadine and James Butler as Osric.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: Measure for Measure


Measure for Measure sweeps from the corridors of national power to the intimate confines of the bedroom, and from the convent's chapel to the executioner’s block. It is Shakespeare at his grittiest: a bracing and bawdy glimpse of what happens when those in power allow their basest human impulses to range unchecked. Directed by David Esbjornson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Water, a Dance Performance by Eiko & Koma


Uniquely interdisciplinary choreographer-dancers Eiko & Koma perform the world premiere of Water with two-time Grammy Award–winning Native American flutist-composer Robert Mirabal. Inspired by their 1995 piece River, this site-specific work is a significant part of Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project, a multiyear, multifaceted examination of the duo’s 40 years of artistic collaboration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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