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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 20, 2010?

35 free events take place on Saturday, March 20 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 March 20 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 March . 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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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Video | Creative Time's 44 1/2: Video Art on an Outdoor Screen.


At 44 1/2, Creative Time’s presentation of video art on MTV’s outdoor, gilded screen, will showcase the work of groundbreaking performance artist Marina Abramovic. Opening concurrently with her retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time’s presentation includes Light/Dark (1977), Rest Energy (1980) and Dissolution (1997). Ambramovic has influenced other artists for more than three decades. One of the videos will play at the top of the hour, every hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 am
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Hike | Greenwood Lake Walk


A road walk around Greenwood Lake. With a mountain on one side and the lake on the other, walk past some log homes and marinas. Bring lunch. Distance about 6 miles at a relaxed pace. Bus leaves Port Authority Bus Terminal at 7:30am and arrives approximately 9:15am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
$3 plus bus...

Hike | Garrison Circular Hike


10 miles at a moderate pace, with climbs. Forested rolling hills along generally unimpeded trails. Excursions on the Appalachian Trail, Curry Pond Traverse, and a return from the Arden Point river overlook of West Point. Bring lunch and water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:25 am
$3 plus train...

City Walk | Walk: Historic Public School Buildings Near Brooklyn’s Old Waterfront


Look new waterfront developments and at Progressive-Era schools designed by Charles B. J. Snyder in Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Sunset Park, and Bay Ridge. Cover about 10 miles, with frequent drop-off points. Bring or pick up a lunch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Hike | Oakwood Heights-Staten Island Mall Hike


6-1/2 miles, moderate hike in SI Greenbelt on white and yellow trails with variety of scenery. Bring lunch & water, most of the hike is in the woods, last part in urban areas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:15 am
$3 plus Metrocard

City Walk | Fort Tryon-to-Fort Lee Walk


5 or 8 miles, on pavement with some hills. Starting from Dyckman St., walk up to the Cloisters then past sites of Fort Tryon and Fort Washington, then over the George Washington Bridge to The Fort Lee Historic Park, which has a small museum. Plan to eat lunch overlooking the Hudson. The 5-mile walk will end at the bus stop in Fort Lee. If conditions are good those who wish may continue to the Shore Path - a steep down - to the Englewood boat basin and up to get a bus from Englewood Cliffs. Rain, snow or high winds cancel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
$3

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

Workshop | Knitting Circle


Knitting instructor: Mary Isham Keith Chapter, D.A.R., Fort Worth, Texas. Knit, purl & crochet. Bring your knitting and crocheting needles and yarn to join the circle. All are welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom”


Take a walk around the lands dominated by Belvedere Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | New York Opera Forum performs concert version of Bizet’s Carmen


New York Opera Forum performs the complete opera by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). In 19th century Seville, the cigarette girl, Carmen seduces a naive army corporal, Don Jose, who abandons his career and comrades for the love of this fickle gypsy woman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

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
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Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade”


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks”


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Marc Lawrence's Did You Hear about the Morgans? (2009): Marriage Undercover


With Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker and Mary Steenburgen. Two successful New Yorkers are at their wits’ end on how to solve their strained marriage. When they enter a witness protection program, they have to survive the weather, bears, fresh air, and forced time with one another if they want to make it out alive. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Ralph Bakshi's The Streets


A reception for Bakshi and his altogether new series of fine art paintings. This bold series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of Bakshi’s youth in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Ralph Bakshi is a legend in the world animation. His controversial and cutting edge films have secured a place in the historical archives of many museums, including the Whitney and MoMA, because they raised a generation’s social consciousness with the raw, creative and artistic genius that was larger than life on the big screen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Performance | Remembering Miriam Makeba with Tony Award Nominee Tsidii


Tsidii from the hit Broadway musical The Lion King shares intimate moments of South African Singer Miriam Makeba's life in words and song. Also, Escape to Freedom: The Resurrection of Harriet Tubman, a riveting one-woman portrayal of Tubman's life on the Underground Railroad. Melissa Waddy-Thibodeaux brings Tubman to life with a performance infused with a love of reading, helping to re-direct young people to freedom through knowledge. And, Dindga McCannon of the Weusi Artist Collective leads a visual arts workshop. She who is featured in the pioneering exhibit Weusi Revisited: 2010.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Union Square: Crossroads of New York


The tour explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood through discussions of the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. You’ll hear how Union Square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on “The Metronome” sculpture and so much more!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Views from the Past”


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | An Artist Dialogue with Christian Erroi and Evan Mirapaul


Mirapaul, contemporary art collector and former musician, will join Erroi to discuss his site-specific Art in the Windows exhibit Leads and Traces and to talk about art and life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Opening Reception | How Does a Bird Imagine? What Does a Tree Know? An Exhibition of Community-Created Poetic Spaces


For all ages, this exhibition documents the creation of poetic spaces by a public school community in response to images of landscape and shared journeys—a bird, a tree, a labyrinth. Also showing: The Green Man, a series of paintings by British-born poet and painter Basil King depicts the Green Man, the pre-Christian archetypal figure of creation and the earth, emerging in the guise of British historical figures, from Guy Fawkes to Walter Raleigh.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Filmmaking: And the moral of the story is... (Part 2)


An extract from the eponymous non-stop film program that took place Feb. 4-7, 2010, as part of the year-long Morality project at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. With films/videos by: Guy Ben-Ner, Olaf Breuning, Sunah Choi, Martha Colburn, Joost Conijn, Stefan Constantinescu, Chto Delat, Cyprien Gaillard, Ivan Grubanov, Renzo Martens, Valerie Mrejen, Ciprian Muresan, Chim Pom, Julika Rudelius, Deborah Stratman, Pilvi Takala, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Wendelien van Oldenborgh.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Literature Criticism


This exploration of the most up-to-date tools for literary research covers specialty resources in poetry and fiction, essential databases of literary criticism, and online literature archives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Author Reading | Photographer Bill Jacobson discusses his book A Series of Human Decisions


Jacobson (born 1955) is widely known for his blurry black-and-white portrait photographs of the 1980s, which referenced the AIDS epidemic in their implications of fleeting presence and human fragility. A Series of Human Decisions presents a new body of work as sharp as his previous work was immaterial, and signals a whole new approach to similarly melancholic imagery. Here, crystal-clear renderings of vacated, somewhat lonesome spaces, both private and industrial, inside and outside, intimate and alienating, convey the extreme constructedness of what surrounds us.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 3-Person Exhibition: Debris


The work of Sarah Frost, Portia Munson and Aurora Robson in a three-person exhibition. Each artist will contribute a major installation consisting entirely of mass-produced plastic refuse transformed into fantastical art environments. Though connected by choice of material, each project is completely independent.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Installation: Heather Rowe & Kevin Zucker's SD Studio Dynamics 57UMSTRA1 “STRATA #1,”


This first-time collaboration between Rowe and Zucker expands the artists’ recognized practices and engages a diverse public. It takes its name from a black-and-white starburst effect studio backdrop incorporated into a site-specific series of three freestanding wooden shelving structures. Serving as the primary focus of the installation, the shelving apparatus is replete with angled panels, cut-glass mirrored panes, and fragmented sheer black scrim that absorb, reflect, and refract a series of theatrical lighting effects replicating the studio backdrop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Theater | Magic & Comedy for those over 21!


   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Regular: $30
Member: $0
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Talk | Libertarian Socialism for the 21st Century


Through his writing and work with the legendary pacifist, labor activist, and historian Staughton Lynd, Andrej Grubacic offers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Join Grubacic for a discussion about bringing together anarchist and Marxist traditions. Grubacic is an anarchist dissident and most recently edited From Here To There: The Staughton Lynd Reader.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Performance | Beyond the Machine 10.0: InterArts - Multidisciplinary Performances


The annual festival of multidisciplinary performances featuring advanced technologies and electronics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Z. Randall Stroope Invitational Choral Festival


Program: Sitivit Anima Mea, G. P. Palestrina Prelude, Ola Gjeilo Come Sweet Death, J. S. Bach I Will Greatly Rejoice, Knut Nystedt “Fanfare” from Cantus Natalis, Z. R. Stroope “Movement III” from Hodie!, Z. R. Stroope The Conversion of Saul, Z. R. Stroope Danny Boy, Z. R. Stroope I Will Lift Up My Eyes, Z. R. Stroope Omnia Sol, Z. R. Stroope Homeland, Gustav Holst, arr. Z. R. Stroope Music Celebrations International is pleased to announce the inaugural Z. Randall Stroope Invitational Choral Festival in New York City. This festival, designed to feature compositions of America’s foremost composers, will bring together specially invited choirs by the maestro himself from across North America to sing. The program will also feature instrumentalists of the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | After Dark Comedy Show


The first half is a swinging variety show featuring the best mix of club and alternative stand-ups, and sketch characters. Then a storytelling jam session featuring all of the nights performers telling real life funny tales of triumphs and failure based on audience suggestions. Hosted by Harry Terjanian with comedians Lou Katz, Charlie Kasov, Eric I, Danny Jolles, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Floating Kabarette


Hosted by Olga & Bjorn. With: Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies: Bawdy Dance Stars Broadway Brassy: Singer Extroardinaire Calamity Chang: Master Juggler Max Darwin: Aerial Temptress Madame Rosebud: Exotic Burlesque Bombshell Lisa Natoli: Aerial Beauty Free Haircuts by LB all night
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 pm
Free

Performance | Floating Kabarette


Hosted by Olga & Bjorn. With: Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies Broadway Brassy Julie Atlas Muz Minnie Tonka Lisa Natoli Ambrose
   New York City, NY; NYC
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