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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 4, 2014?

40 free events take place on Tuesday, March 4 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 4 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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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 4, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Olaf Breuning: Clouds, a Public Art Exhibition
free events nyc Mira Schendel, Landmark Artist of Postwar Brazil
free events nyc David Goldhill discusses his book Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - and How We Can Fix It
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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
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Opening Reception | Olaf Breuning: Clouds, a Public Art Exhibition


Join Public Art Fund for hot beverages and sweet treats as it celebrates Olaf Breuning and the unveiling of his major new work, Clouds. The 35-foot-tall piece features six large, childlike clouds of polished blue aluminum mounted on seemingly makeshift scaffolding and expands on an earlier staged photograph by the artist. Blending reality with fiction and refined forms with a do-it-yourself sensibility, this whimsical addition to the Midtown Manhattan skyline represents Breuning's largest public art installation in the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn 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. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   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
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Film | Richard Weise's Harold of Orange (1984): Comedic Short Film


The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world. 35 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jessica Alexander discusses her book Chasing Chaos


The author's new book is a memoir of her experiences as an aid worker. Over the past 12 years, Alexander has worked in humanitarian operations for the UN and various NGOs. She has been part of operations in Rwanda, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Sudan, Pakistan, Haiti and the Horn of Africa. Alexander is a Fulbright Scholar who received the award to research child soldiers in Sierra Leone in 2006. Her research there was used as expert evidence in the case against Charles Taylor, former President of Libera.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:10 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Music with a Vue


With students from NYU's Program in Piano Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Film | Richard Weise's Harold of Orange (1984): Comedic Short Film


The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world. 35 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | A New Balkans? Challenges of Democratization in the Former Yugoslavia


A panel discussion on the Balkans. Participants: - Dario Čepo is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Harriman Institute and a senior research assistant at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Law. - Anna DiLellio is a Professor of International Relations at GPIA, The New School, and the Department of Politics, NYU. - Tanya L. Domi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Harriman Institute. - Jasmin Mujanović is a Visiting Scholar at Harriman Institute and a PhD candidate in Political Science at York University, Toronto. - Moderator: Alan Timberlake, Director, ECEC
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn 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. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Concert | Ekmeles, A Cappella Vocal Ensemble


The New York-based vocal ensemble Ekmeles brings a program of contemporary a cappella works to the stage, with a variety of permutations from solos and duets to full-ensemble sextets. Featuring an all-star cast of singers, Ekmeles (which takes its name from the Ancient Greek word describing complex musical tonalities “not appropriate for musical usage”) promises to push the boundaries of vocal performance and unleash a torrent of new and exciting sound in the process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Surroundings


Landscapes real and imagined, internal and external.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Italian Cinema: Valeria Golino's Honey (2013)


Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she's a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele ("Honey"), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. 96 min. In Italian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Mira Schendel, Landmark Artist of Postwar Brazil


This is the gallery's debut exhibition of works by one of the most significant Latin American artists of the 20th century. Spanning two decades of the artist's career, from the 1960s to the 1980s, works on view reveal the artistic, intellectual, and spiritual development of a woman who, with her contemporaries Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, reinvented the language of European Modernism in Brazil.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Paintings by İrfan Önürmen


The exhibition will feature never-before-seen canvas oil paintings. Also exhibited will be a series of 18 tulle panels based on found images—gleaned from Instagram. Önürmen continues in his signature style: stripping his subject down to its fundamental shapes and forms, and then configuring it into something new—an image that serves to mirror our contemporary identities. İrfan Önürmen was born in Bursa, Turkey, in 1958. Önürmen has exhibited extensively throughout Turkey and in Europe, including the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Museuo Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Polignano a Mare, Italy; Akadamie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Kulturdezernat der Stadt, Frankfurt, Germany, and others. Önürmen lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Teaching Pakistani History/Teaching Pakistanis History


Pakistani history has been a contentious topic, especially in Pakistan, where different sets of narratives give differing accounts of what Pakistani history is, and hence, how one imagines Pakistan. Given the eventual partition of British India into two states, some historians have claimed that Pakistan was created in 712 AD when an Arab invader came to an area which is now part of Pakistan. This event is incorrectly seen as the first Muslim contact with what is now called South Asia, yet it supports one of the many official narratives of when Muslim "consciousness" and identity were created in this region. Featuring: Manan Ahmad (History); Sana Haroon (University of Massachusetts, Boston); Tahir Kamran (University of Cambridge); Vazira Zamindar (Brown University).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Cannabinoid Medical Science and Political Ecology: Psychoactive Substances and Mental Distress


There is little information available describing the health-related quality of life among medical cannabis users. This presentation provides a portrait of chronic pain management in medical cannabis-using patients as well as their mental distress levels related to being targeted by drug law enforcement. Drawing on research conducted in Washington State, a political ecology of health framework is presented which can help inform our understanding of other contraband psychoactive biota of social and therapeutic import. With Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | David Goldhill discusses his book Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - and How We Can Fix It


This talk explores the myth that Medicare and insurance coverage can make care cheaper and improve our health, and shows how efforts to reform the system, including the Affordable Care Act, will do nothing to address the waste of the healthcare industry, which currently costs the country nearly $2.5 trillion annually and in which an estimated 200,000 Americans die each year from preventable errors. The author proposes a completely new approach, one that will change the way one thinks about one of our most pressing national problems.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | New Frontiers for the Art Fair Format


Panelists: Jade Niklai, Gh Hovagimyan, Raphaele Shirley, Tamas Veszi, Deborah Zafman, Joro De Boro - Reception following the panel with music by DJ Joro-Boro. The panelists will talk about current formats of art fairs, addressing what works and what doesn't, and how art is represented (or not) within these formats. What are some potential new perspectives? What is Section106 and what can it bring to the table? Can an art fair be transformed into a social statement? Is there a contradiction inherent in this new hybrid format?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Operating in Multiple Realities: Video Screening


Introduction and conversation between Başak Senova and Director Anne Barlow regarding Senova's recent projects including UNCOVERED (the Cyprus Project), the Project Biennial D-0 Ark Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as well as the upcoming Helsinki Photography Biennial and the Jerusalem Show. SCREENING PROGRAM: Inci Eviner, "Nursing Modern Fall" (2013) Fatma Bucak, "Blessed Are You Who Come" (2012) Ahmet Öğüt, "Things We Count" (2008) Adel Abidin, "Three Love Songs" (2010) Annika Eriksson, "I am the dog that was always here" (2013)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Forum: Amy Lawless / Roberto Montes


Amy Lawless is the author of two collections of poetry: My Dead and Noctis Licentia. She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011. Roberto Montes is the author of I Don’t Know Do You and the chapbook, How to Be Sincere in Your Poetry Workshop. His work has appeared in The Best of the Net 2011 Anthology; Forklift, Ohio; Sixth Finch; ILK; and elsewhere.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5

Lecture | Architect Frank Barkow discusses his craft


In 1993, Barkow and Regine Leibinger founded their practice in Berlin. Their interdisciplinary, discursive attitude allows their work to expand and respond to advancing knowledge and technology. Their work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Heinz Architecture Center, Pittsburgh, and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Matthew Thurber


Multimedia artist and cartoonist Matthew Thurber will be the speaker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Bestselling author Patricia Volk discusses her work


Patricia Volk is the author of Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me, the memoir Stuffed; the novels To My Dearest Friends and White Light; and two collections of short stories: All it Takes and The Yellow Banana. She has published stories, book reviews, and essays in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and was a weekly columnist for Newsday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Dave Barry signs copies of his book You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About


Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry returns to explore the mysteries of parenthood and families.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Drew Perry reads from his book Kids These Days


In the spirit of Jonathan Tropper and Kevin Wilson, Drew Perry takes aim at the two sides of a man’s impending fatherhood—abject terror and unconditional love.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Edmund White reads from his book Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris


The latest installment of White’s life story finds the celebrated author of City Boy in Paris in 1983. In the eternal mists and the half-light, White found a serenity he had never known, and he fell headily in love with the city and its cultural history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


These introductory meditation classes were featured in New York Magazine’s top picks (4 stars).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Reading | No Name presents Super Storytellers


The long-running No Name Comedy/Variety Show brings New York's best established and upcoming authors and storytellers including Colin Dempsey, Dawn Fraser and Daisy Rosario for a their new monthly series. Curated and hosted by author/storyteller Michele Carlo ("FISH OUT OF AGUA: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks"), the show will include a "Magic Hat open mic" where audience members can sign up for a chance at four minutes of stage time to tell their story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Peniel Joseph discusses his book Stokely with Cornell West


Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for “Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael would stand for the rest of his life at the center of the storm he had unleashed that night. In Stokely, preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Percussion Master Class: Raquy Danziger


Raquy Danziger gives a master class in the Turkish Darbuka.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Emmy Winner Jason Samuels Smith and Owen 'Fiidla' Brown's Quartet


Emmy Award–winning tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith teams up with musicians of Owen “Fiidla” Brown’s quartet in a new work exploring the African American experience, from the dance and percussion on slave ships of the Middle Passage through the jazz, be-bop, and hip-hop eras. Set to score commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation, the piece brings together Western and traditional African instruments in a multitude of musical styles, revealing points where history and art converge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro read from their book The Bosnia List


Co-authors Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro discuss the poignant, searing memoir chronicling Trebincevic's escape from the former Yugoslavia and his reluctant visit back as grown man with painful memories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Talea Ensemble presents Inside Out: Billone, Neuwirth, Gander


Program: Bernhard Gander's Die Orpheus Akte II (U.S. premiere) Pierluigi Billone's Mani.Matta Olga Neuwirth's In Nacht und Eis Inside Out: Billone, Neuwirth, Gander is the first of two programs by the Talea Ensemble devoted to three trailblazing composers who have made Vienna their musical home. All three composers will be in attendance and will participate in a Q & A session during intermission.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Open Mike | The Open Mic Downstairs


Hosted by Dan Ricker, Mike Milazzo and Kaitlyn O’Connor. Sign-ups get seven minutes to try anything in one of the most supportive rooms in New York. Whether it be a performance art piece, comedy, music, storytelling, dance, something entirely off the top of your head, or you just would like to have a drink and watch the show, you'll find a home in the welcoming community every Tuesday night.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
$3
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