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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 18, 2011?

28 free events take place on Friday, March 18 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 18 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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28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, March 18, 2011

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

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
Free

Lecture | The Peoples of the Plains


Learn about the peoples of the Plains with Laura Browarny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Supervised Resumé Lab


Hands-on using wireless laptops. Use this supervised lab time to create and save a resume in Microsoft Word. Assistance with document formatting and proofreading will be available. Please bring a written draft of your resume and a USB drive to save and print your resume. (Please note: This is not an instructor led class or a career advisement session.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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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11:00 am
$6

Workshop | In the Loop Knitting & Crocheting Club


Are you a crafter? Join this knitting and crocheting club, led by teacher and designer Ina Braun of Tante Sophie Knitting Studio, to create garments for charitable organizations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

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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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

Screening | Daily Screenings: Infinity of Nations | Celebrating the Pacific North Coast


With: The Story of Priest Point and Laxwesa Wa: Strength of the River. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Featured Library Database: History in Context


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore United States history and 5,000 years of world history through a wide variety of documents, including primary sources, reference articles, full-text journals, country and era overviews, maps and more. (Database formerly known as History Resource Center.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free

Film | Anthony Mann's Railroaded! (1947): Murder Rap Noir


With John Ireland and Hugh Beaumont. A detective attempts to clear his girlfriend's brother of a murder rap and find the real killer. In the process he uncovers the hidden workings of the city's seedy underworld. 74 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn ESOL Using Online Resources


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore websites that will help you improve your English language reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This class is for non-native speakers of English who have basic (or higher) proficiency in English, as well as mouse and keyboard skills.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Staged Reading: Walter Stepp's Mark Twain's Blues


Mark Twain dreams that an older Huck Finn and Jim (the slave Huck helped to escape) "return" to bawl him out for betraying them at the end of his so-called masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Now older and wiser, Huck and Jim come back to help Twain face his demons by re-writing the book as it was meant to be written -- and giving everybody the better ending they deserve. The lyrics of this new musical are based on Mark Twain's own words.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Reading | I Am The Archive: An Evening of Readings, Performance and Display


Archives are both repositories and wellsprings of creativity, serving as sources for reclaiming the lives and texts they harbor back to life. Join Ammiel Alcalay, writer, and translator; writer, choreographer, and teacher Kate Tarlow Morgan; and their publishers Queensborough Professor and poet Bill Marsh of Factory School Press and Ugly Duckling Presse editor Anna Moschovakis for a three-dimensional evening celebrating the generative power of the archive. The authors will read from recently published reclamation projects neither wit nor gold and Circles and Boundaries, followed by a performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | “Painting Installation” by Qin Feng


In honor of New York's Asian Contemporary Art Week and Asia Week, a unique one-week special painting installation by Qin Feng. Qin Feng is widely recognized as one of the top contemporary Chinese painters and recently was featured in "Fresh Ink" at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The artist will be in attendance. Born in 1961 in Xinjiang, China, Qin Feng graduated from The Academy of Applied Arts in Shandong in 1985. The artist then spent several years living and working in Germany where he lectured at “Hochschule der Kunste.” Qin Feng has established many art groups including the well noted art association Blue in 1987 and staged solo exhibitions in Vienna, Prague, Lisbon and Germany between 1991 and 1993. Since 1984, his works have been collected by many museums and other institutions including the New York Metropolitan Museum Art, The Culture Museum in Shandong, The National Palace of Culture and the US Embassy in Beijing, The National Library of Austria and The Hui Feng Bank in Hong Kong.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Slide Lecture | The Gates of Hades: Cycling the Southern Peloponnese


Join bike tour designer and leader, Yorgos Paraskevopoulos, in his presentation of a newly designed cycling tour, that begins and ends in Kalamata, Greece, his hometown, and focuses on the unexplored, myth-ridden region of Mani, known for its rugged terrain, endless coasts, Byzantine churches and Frankish castles. During the slide show, you will be read excerpts from the book Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor, an insightful masterpiece that proved to be the inspiration for this tour. You will be able to sample some of your host’s favorite traditional recipes along with copious amounts of his own olive oil and Kalamata olives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
Free

Lecture | Astronomy Topics: Stars of Our Spring Skies


The seminar prepares us for skywatching in the spring months of March through May. When we say a star is a 'spring', 'winter', which ever, star we mean it is in the south part of the heavens during evening hours in the particular season. It can be inspected in other seasons at some other hour of the night. The exception is when the Sun is near it. Then there is a gap of several weeks to a month when the group is veiled from view in daylight.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Mary Pat Kelly discusses her book Galway Bay


Galway Bay is based on Kelly's own family history beginning five years before the Great Starvation and continuing through the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The main character is a magnificently courageous woman, Honora Keeley, who keeps her family alive and together through one of the most tragic events in world history and manages to bring them to America, where they eventually thrive.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | New York Classical Theatre presents The Rover by Aphra Behn


In The Rover, everyone dresses up in costume during the festive days of Carnevale (Mardi Gras). Hidden behind their masks, the men drink and draw their weapons at the slightest provocation,while the women are given the freedom to say and act as they please. Aphra Behn, the first professional female playwright in the English language, lets us see what happens when women are freed from societal conventions to live their lives on their own terms without consideration of social class or fortune! New York Classical Theatre, the company that brought William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark to life last season, presents The Rover in their signature staging style, panoramic theatre, transforming the space into the wild world of Carnevale in 17th-Century Naples, Italy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free

Performance | No Name and A Bag O' Chips Comedy Show


No Name and A Bag O' Chips continue their reign as "New York’s Best Damn Comedy/Variety Show". According to producer / host Eric Vetter, the fun begins with a special Women’s History Month show. As always, “No Name” house band The Summer Replacements featuring Alex “The Assassin” de Suze and Carl (Baby Freak) Fortunato, will keep things funky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | RAD Recording Artists Development Night


4 great acts on one bill. Marc Raphael 7-8 Peter Braun 8-9 Thomas Amelio 9-9-30 Heather Edwards 9:30-10:00 Hosted by Luanne Surace with Evan Ginzburg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Don't Touch Me There Comedy Show


Sketches, standup, live music, and surprises! Hosted by Pat Stango & Blaine Perry with guest Julian McCullough (Comedy Central Presents).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Faculty Performance: Neal Kirkwood, piano


Artist faculty are superb instructors AND world-class performers! From classical, to jazz, to world music, Third Street's Artist Performance Series presents some of the city's best artists in an intimate and acoustically beautiful environment. This concert features: Neal Kirkwood, piano, performing works by Kirkwood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Gregory Greene's The End of Suburbia (2004): Sustaining the American Way of Life


As we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. 52 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | International Clarinet Choir


The International Clarinet Choir conference, hosted by the Traumerei Clarinet Ensemble, is directed and organized by Seungho Choi, who is a resident clarinetist in the New Jersey area. The conference will include various interactions with performers from Korea, Japan, United States and France. The international group consists of performers from Kansai Clarinet Society,Japan, Professor J.David Harris, from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor Timothy Phillips, from Troy University, Alabama and Professor Hideaki Iwai of Sin-a and Osaka University of Art, who is also the director of Kansai Clarinet Society. Other performers of the concert are Korean students who study in the states and France. These highly trained and professional clarinetists will be gathering to perform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital - Katherine Noble, violin


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital - Yoori Hong, piano


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Ursula Knoll's The Road to Happiness, a Dark Comedy about Relationships


US premiere. Taking cues from Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, The Road to Happiness follows four characters caught up in personal quandaries on their very own roads to happiness – in search of success, beauty, purpose, and fulfillment. This staged reading offers American audiences a glimpse of Austrian mentalities at work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Liliana Araújo, Brazilian Music


Hearing the rural Brazilian music forró is like discovering that cool spot just beneath the surface of the sand. If its better-known samba and bossa nova cousins are sultry and urbane, forró is crisp and cathartic, brought to life by little more than accordion, triangle, and a quirkly little drum called the zabumba. Rising Brazilian star Liliana Araújo offers a shining example of the genre, coming to prime the dance floor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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