Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 6, 2013?
47 free events take place on Thursday, June 6 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 June 6 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 June . 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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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, June 6, 2013
Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
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 just waiting to be unveiled.
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.
Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
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"
Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
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. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
Representing Russia’s Siberian region, The New Names make their US debut with a program of contemporary and classical works by Russian, European, and American composers as well as traditional Russian folk songs. Among its numerous honors, the award-winning children’s choir has been selected to perform at the 2014 Olympic games. Their youthful energy and heartwarming sincerity inspire audiences to look beyond national lines and relish the warmth of young voices.
Todd Robbins plays Ragtime and classic Tin Pan Alley songs. He is often heard on Monday nights playing piano with Woody Allen's Jazz Band and has recorded two albums with that group.
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.
Share your passion for Checkers, Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, or your favorite board game. There will be a demonstration of Boggle. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and join us for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome.
With K. Kevayne Baar.
Shortly after graduating from Oberlin College in 1847, abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Lucy Stone remarked, “I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.” Three years later she was on a national stage at a conference on women’s rights that included noted abolitionists.
Stone understood the necessity of a fight that brings rights to all peoples. There were those who felt she and some of the other women present were dupes of the abolitionists. History would unfortunately prove this correct, for when African-American men were given the vote through the 15th Amendment, the abolitionists felt their work was done. It would take another 50 years before women would be granted the right to vote.
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
Starring Robert Taylor, Richard Todd and Dana Wynter.
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
106 min.
Discover genealogical resources at the Library. Uncovering your Family History, the second installment, explores passenger lists and naturalization records.
With Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston.
A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.
120 min.
Hannelore Hahn, who directed the International Women's Writing Guild for 37 years, hosts a monthly informal women’s writing & discussion group. Non-writers are also welcome to join the discussion.
Today's featured styles: Klezmer, Classical, Bluegrass, Balkan, Jazz, and French.
With:
Uri Sharlin
Mayumi Miyaoka
Dan Weschler
Michael Spudic
Jacob Garchik
Nicole Renaud
Accordionists will be stationed throughout the park to surprise and delight passers-by.
Join on Thursday evenings for open-level yoga with a certified instructor. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat or a beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
The Fabulous Sabicas documents the vital professional development of the guitarist Agustín Castellón, Sabicas. Sabicas symbolizes the figure of the flamenco concert guitarist. He came to represent an era, performing and renovating the music to which he dedicated his life. This film brings together the testimony of important flamenco artists and scholars, friends and his children, along with a selection of performances by the maestro.
82 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Critical Condition seeks to shake us out of our slumber by bringing together four artists whose work shines a spotlight on the artifices threatening to overtake us. Discussing the hypocrisy of modern warfare, the hypnotic methods of advertising and the mindless acceptance of the status quo, these artists provoke viewers to confront the corporate power structure while proposing new ways of seeing.
Artists included: Paco Cao, Scott Goodman, Andrew Graham, Taylor Shields, Paul Hunter Speagle, Billy Rennekamp, Joshua Weibley.
It's in the Cards is an unusual exhibition that touches all of us by appealing to our playfulness, our relationship to rules, our imagination and our childhood experiences. This exhibition establishes a dialogue between seven upcoming artists who have created a body of work using cards as medium and as subject.
The 2013 winner of the Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators is Alta Price of Long Island City. Price’s winning translation was chosen from over two dozen submissions of an English sample from Dea Loher’s 2012 novel, Bugatti taucht auf (Bugatti turns up), published by Wallstein Verlag in 2012 and nominated for the German Book Prize. The Gutekunst jury was comprised of book critic and translator Tess Lewis, author and translator Damion Searls, and Scribner editor Paul Whitlatch.
The show is a reflection of Liu Bolin's multifaceted and complex view of contemporary society and culture. The critically acclaimed and internationally renowned artist will release the first works of a new series, Hiding in California. He will also showcase new works from his famed Hiding in New York series, including an image in front of the harbored aircraft carrier-the Intrepid, as well as his collaboration with French artist JR.
Chrisa Biddy turns to Facebook and other social networks for inspiration for his oil and watercolor paintings. His subjects are self-represented, captured via their smart phones or digital cameras, and observed within the context of their respective lives. Biddy uses these vernacular images to transport the subject from its original common state--a snapshot, to a pared down representation of our current social media zeitgeist.
Susane Lee, Hudson Warehouse’s Assistant Artistic Director, will direct the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, a tireless trio of actors who cavort and careen their way through the Shakespeare canon in 90 minutes including tackling Hamlet in under one minute. This madcap take on the classics will surely delight.
This visual lecture explores the history behind coffee and cola, tempting the audience with secret plots, the true story behind coca-cola, and what coca-cola had to do with Prohibition (quite a bit, actually). It is a gloriously illustrated tale of hypocrisy and intrigue.
Enjoy an evening of salsa dancing and music as the sun sets. The best instructors from NYC lead a free lesson from 6:30pm-7:30pm, followed by open dancing from 7:30pm-9:00pm.
Enjoy an evening of salsa dancing and music as the sun sets. The best instructors from NYC lead a free lesson from 6:30pm-7:30pm, followed by open dancing from 7:30pm-9:00pm.
An artist talk with Gongsan Kim as she discusses her work and its relation to the many North Korean refugees scattered throughout China and neighboring countries.
Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winning Let the Great World Spin calls Southern Cross The Dog, “An incredibly daring and powerful debut. Not only does Bill Cheng set the language on fire in Southern Cross the Dog, but he creates a whole new territory of story-telling. One of the great literary enterprises is the ability to understand ‘otherness,’ and Cheng proves masterful in his ability to dwell in another era and place, while still remaining rooted in the landscape of the human heart. Cheng, almost literally, writes out of his skin.”
Manhattan launch party for Jami Attenberg's novel of food, Jews, and one very large mother: The Middlesteins. With stories from:
Jason Diamond (Vol 1. Brooklyn, Flavorpill)
Ophira Eisenberg (Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy)
Rachel Fershleiser (Tumblr, Six-Word Memoirs)
Emily Gould (And The Heart Says Whatever)
Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210)
Beth Lisick (Everybody Into the Pool, Helping Me Help Myself)
Rosie Schaap (The New York Times Magazine “Drink” columnist, Drinking with Men)
Bex Schwartz (VH1)
Free drinks while they last.
New York Classical Theatre presents the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.
Brooklyn-native Lora-Faye is a singer and multi-instrumentalist with a deep understanding of the power of the strange and the idiosyncratic in American rock and folk traditions. With songs that run completely on raw and untethered emotion while retaining an intellectual and political bent, Lora-Faye draws from such disparate sources as Gillian Welch and Jeff Buckley, Etta James and Anais Mitchell, Harry Smith and Andy Warhol.
Young Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder and bassist Thomas Morgan join forces with drummer Jim Black for their latest project-an unconventional approach to the classic piano trio setting. Exploring new musical territory, the trio's sound lives somewhere at the intersection of acoustic improvisation, swing rhythms, and jazz structures.
The acclaimed North/South Consonance Ensemble under the direction of its founder Max Lifchitz performs for the first time in New York City four works by composers from Canada and the US.
The featured composers are Zosha Di Castri, Daniel Kessner, Mei-Fang Lin and Jonathan Russell. They are expected to be present and will introduce their music to the audience.
The performers for the evening include flutist Lisa Hansen; clarinetist Richard Goldsmith; violinist Claudia Schaer; cellist Marisol Espada; pianist Helen Lin; and percussionist Jared Soldiviero.
This new production concerns two sets of identical twins who were separated as children and now live as master-servant pairs in rival neighboring cities. When one pair crosses the border to find the other, so begins an exquisitely enjoyable mess of mistaken identity, wrongful imprisonment, questionable flirting and general mayhem. Directed by Daniel Sullivan.
What do you do when your father owns a strip club, and your mother works there? BECOME A DENTIST! Mike King's One-Man-Show "The Fifth Dentist" is a hilarious true story by America's funniest dentist, cutting-edge comedy from one of New York's brightest comics...has been seen on Comedy Central and has opened for Ray Romano!
See this work-in-progress before it's off-Broadway production.
"Exceptional story!" - Eric Hansen, Producer of the Montel Williams and Whoopi Goldberg show.