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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 5, 2014?

39 free events take place on Wednesday, March 5 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 5 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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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 5, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Grassroots Politics from Brooklyn to the White House
free events nyc Dish: A Sumptuous 3-Course Feast of Readings
free events nyc Hisham Aidi reads from his book Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture
free events nyc Works for Clarinet and Piano by Dvorák and Others
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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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Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour


On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
   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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Jazz | Voices of Freedom: Celebrating Jazz Pianist Marion McPartland


“Voices of Freedom” is a lunchtime jazz concert series honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Each performance in February will showcase exciting pairings with a pianist and celebrated musicians from New York City's jazz scene. March 5: Emily Bear (piano) and Peter Slavov (bass).
   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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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

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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Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two. Featuring the stories of Alice Munro.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Enjoy free live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Joy in Singing


Art Song Master Class with American tenor Paul Sperry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour: Sky High and the Logic of Luxury


Director and curator Carol Willis will lead a tour of the current exhibit SKY HIGH & the logic of luxury.
   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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Talk | Math Encounters: Modeling the Melt


Discover what math can tell us about the disappearing polar ice caps. The precipitous loss of Arctic sea ice has far outpaced expert predictions. Ken Golden, known as the Indiana Jones of mathematics, will explore the mathematical underpinnings of this and take attendees (via video) on an Antarctic expedition. He will be introduced by Anousheh Ansari, co-founder & CEO of Prodea Systems and the first civilian woman in space.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Florian Thomas / Gus Heinze


Gus Heinze (born May 1, 1926 in Bremen, Germany) is an American photorealist painter. Florian Thomas is an impassionate story-teller. Most of his realistic, photography-based paintings show people: Men and women, children and grown-ups in trivial or also mysterious situations that challenge the viewer to dip into the story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Regional, National, and Global Trends in the Indian Film World


A lecture by Amit Khanna, a media leader on Indian television and cinema, has been the Chairman of the Board of Reliance Entertainment. He has had a long career as a film and television director and a journalist. He currently plays a major role in debates about media policy, regulation and markets in India and in global markets for Indian media content.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Signing | Jo Frost signs copies of her book Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behaviour


Global parenting expert Jo Frost – known worldwide for her hit TV show ‘Supernanny’ – embarks on a national book tour to support her new book which outlines her amazingly simple five-step program of Toddler Rules to help parents tame tantrums, prevent bad behavior, and create long-term peace and stability in the home.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Moods: Young Austrian Photography


This show features work by young Austrian photographers including Carmen Brucic, Irina Gavric, Severin Koller, Anja Manfredi, Anita Schmid, and Andreas Waldschütz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | David Itzkoff discusses his book Mad as Hell: The Making of 'Network' and the Angriest Man in Movies


New York Times Culture Reporter David Itzkoff discusses the extensive research he pursued while writing his new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Meditation, Concentration and Breath


With Thomas Amelio. For thousands of years, breathing and concentration techniques, along with the profound practice of meditation, have proven to be powerful means to purify the body and mind to more fully express our fullest human potential. In this class you will experientially learn how breath practices calm the mind and nervous system, enabling a sparkling clarity that makes easier our capacity to hold our attention as we engage in various techniques of concentration. Further, you will experience how breath and concentration practice naturally enhance our practice of meditation— allowing for deep absorption in our true nature as peace, clarity and joy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Policy and Practice for Inclusion: Brazil and Colombia


Two lectures: Productive Inclusion: Decent Work as a Right and Not an Obligation with Fernando Kleiman of Brazil, a Sociologist and Special Advisor to the Minister of Social Development in Brasilia. He specializes in issues of productive inclusion, job creation, and income generation in Latin America, specifically Brazil. Meaningful Experiences and Art Mediation Research Laboratories with María Villa Largacha of Colombia, who holds a Master's Degree in Philosophy, with a focus on politics and ethics in contemporary democracies. She is currently working on a public policy approach and implementation plan for an art pedagogy program in public venues exhibiting contemporary art. The event will be in English.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Duality of Science and Hermeneutics: Past, Present and Possible Futures


With John Mohr, University of California at Santa Barbara. What are cultural meanings? In what ways can we use quantitative measures to capture meanings? How have social scientists changed their approach to measuring meanings over the years? In this talk, Professor Mohr will address the conceptual problems and the historical progress of the social scientific approach to quantifying the study of cultural meanings and address the questions of where the field stands today and where it is headed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Deadly Companions: Animals, Contagion and Education from Boccaccio to Fracastoro


A lecture by Eleonora Stoppino, University of Illinois.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Elinor Carucci


Carucci’s photographs delve into the fissures and camaraderie of family. In an early series, Comfort, Carucci turned the lens on her parents, describing the hereditary aspects of her own identity. Another series, Closer, depicts a marriage fraught with infidelity and addiction. Carucci’s recent publication Mother (2013) documents the lives of her children, in a collection of images wrought using Carucci’s characteristic tactility with delicately personal subjects. Elinor Carucci (born in Jerusalem, 1971) received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel, in 1995, after which she relocated to New York City. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York; Gagosian Gallery, London; James Hyman Gallery, London; and group shows at Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Photographers’ Gallery, London, among many others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Artists Ann Hamilton and Jane Hammond in Conversation


Artists Ann Hamilton and Jane Hammond converse with Siglio publisher Lisa Pearson about the myriad and fascinating ways in which their works and practices engage language and the literary. Both artists contributed works to It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Works by Women Artists & Writers, and the conversation begins by delving into those works, the shape of the stories they tell, and the process of “translating” them to be read and experienced on the page.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Grassroots Politics from Brooklyn to the White House


No, Bill de Blasio hasn't announced his candidacy for president...yet. But the same type of grassroots politics that gave Mayor de Blasio his start and propelled him to the mayoralty helped turn a little-known, freshman senator from Chicago's South Side into the President of the United States. Learn how from Mitch Stewart, who, as Obama's 2008 Iowa caucus director and 2012 battleground states director, helped oversee the campaign's field operations in its most critical contests. Stewart will be joined by leading New York City strategists who are managing local efforts to achieve universal per-kindergarten and public campaign financing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | Math Encounters: Modeling the Melt


Discover what math can tell us about the disappearing polar ice caps. The precipitous loss of Arctic sea ice has far outpaced expert predictions. Ken Golden, known as the Indiana Jones of mathematics, will explore the mathematical underpinnings of this and take attendees (via video) on an Antarctic expedition. He will be introduced by Anousheh Ansari, co-founder & CEO of Prodea Systems and the first civilian woman in space.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | Photographer Harvey Stein discusses his book Harlem Street Portraits and Beyond


New York street photographer Harvey Stein will show and discuss images from his critically acclaimed new book. He will talk about his motivations for photographing in Harlem for over 23 years, and his attraction to the neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | 2013 Discover Awards Finalists


The finalists and winner of the 2013 Discover Great New Writers discuss their truly fantastic works: NoViolet Bulawayo, Anthony Marra, Domenica Ruta and Justin St. Germain.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Odili Donald Odita


Odili Donald Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and lives and works in Philadelphia and New York. Odita is currently an Associate professor of Painting in Philadelphia at the Tyler School of Art / Temple University since 2006; from 2003-2005, Odita was a Visiting Critic in Painting at Yale University School of Art; from 2000-2006, Odita was an Associate Professor in Painting at the Florida State University, Tallahassee; and from 2002-2003, Odita was a Visiting Associate Professor in Painting at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Yehuda Duenas


A member of the National Theatre of the United States of America, Yehuda Duenas is the director of The Ascent, a live-action performance installation that allows participants to levitate 30 feet in the air through interactive sound and lighting via their own brainwaves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Dish: A Sumptuous 3-Course Feast of Readings


Hosted by David Gutowski and Kimberley Wetherell. This month's featured guests: Bridget C. Firtle, owner and master distiller of Owney's NYC Rum will share her story and sample Bushwick's premier small-batch rum; DINNER: Noah Fecks & Paul Wagtouicz will share the stories behind their best selling cookbook, The Way We Ate, based on their wildly popular Tumblr of the same name; DESSERT: Luke Barr will read from and discuss his new book Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, which recounts the summer that iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Frances-Marie Uitti, Pioneering Cellist


A recital by pioneering cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, the leading proponent of music by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988). Preceding her performance, she will speak with Franco Sciannameo and Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini, editors of the 2013 collection Music as Dream: Essays on Giacinto Scelsi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Hisham Aidi reads from his book Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture


In his analysis, Hisham Aidi explores the emergence of secular and religious movements from Muslim youth to counteract the war on terrorism and how it affects their daily lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Works for Clarinet and Piano by Dvorák and Others


Program:: Ondrej Kukal (b. 1964): Clarinettino for clarinet and strings Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900): Selanka (Pastorale), for clarinet and piano Jan Kalivoda (1801-1866): Morceau de salon, Op. 229, for clarinet and piano Otmar Mácha (1922-2006): Rhapsody for clarinet and piano Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818): Rondo from Concerto for clarinet and orchestra Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904): Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 46, in g minor, for clarinet and piano Clarinetist George Stoffan, U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the Czech Republic, performs music of the 20th and 21st centuries inspired by Bohemia. Stoffan is joined by the pianist Maria Sicilano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Film | Robert Salyer's Sludge (2005): Documentary on a Coal Waste Disaster


Shortly after midnight on October 11, 2000, a coal sludge pond in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine below, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge into the rivers and creeks below. Sludge is a documentary that investigates this coal waste disaster and examines the role of federal regulatory agencies in the coalfields. 45 min. Q&A with filmmaker to follow with screening of footage of more recent coal spill disasters.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Distinguished String Faculty Recital


With: Cyrus Beroukhim, Violin; Wendy Law, Cello; Justin Hines, Percussion; Stephanie Baer, Director, Program in String Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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