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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 18, 2015?

39 free events take place on Wednesday, 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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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 18, 2015

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Workshop | Park FitClub: Boot Camp with The Rise NYC


Energize your day with a workout before work. Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, for a Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back - and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high-fives encouraged. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
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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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10:00 am
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Workshop | MS Word 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics features of Microsoft Word 2010, a word processing program you can use to create documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Author Reading | Times columnist Frank Bruni discusses his book Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania


Frank Bruni, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since June 2011, joined the newspaper in 1995, and has been both a White House correspondent and the chief restaurant critic. In his columns, which appear every Sunday and Wednesday, he reflects on diverse topics: American politics, higher education, violence in football, gay rights and his own life as a gay man in a close-knit family. He is the author of two best-sellers: a 2009 memoir, Born Round; and a 2002 chronicle of George W. Bush’s initial presidential campaign, Ambling into History. An audience Q&A and book-signing will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Other | Dance and Theater Studio Showings


For four weeks in March, the center hosts seven artists and companies who will work concurrently in all of the center's's studios. Residents will have dedicated time and space to develop projects and collaborations, as well as opportunities to exchange with other artists across disciplines. This is a series of informal work-in-progress showings open to the public. 12PM / Studio 4B Ain Gordon / Theater Project: Secret Project/Last People I know, a non-fiction ode to a cabal of cultural/political/personal icons impacting latter 20th century America 1PM / Studio 6A Big Dance Theater / Dance / Theater Project: A performance comprised of short-form dance-based works; and This Page Left Intentionally Blank, an audio tour / movement score for museum visitors 2PM / Studio 4A Beth Gill / Dance Project: I’m not supposed to be here, a performance in the round for five dancers 4PM / Studio 6A Liz Santoro / Dance Project: For Claude Shannon, utilizing lexical structures present in both movement and text to reveal underlying processes of communication in performance
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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
12:00 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.
   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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Jazz | Crossover Jazz


Featuring Jazz Vocal & Popular Music Combos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midday 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

Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | eBook Help Hour: Get Started with eBooks


Need help getting started with eBooks? Bring your laptop, eReader, tablet or smart phone to eBook Help Hour. Get assistance loading electronic library books on your Kindle, create your free Adobe ID, learn about 3M Cloud Library, and so much more. Make sure you bring your library card and any necessary access passwords for your devices so they can help you as quickly as possible.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Joy In Singing


Art song master class with Paul Sperry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Old Books, Rare Books: Learning About the Value of Your Books


Learn what you need to know before buying or selling an old book. In this class, you will examine an old book, look to see who else owns a copy, and review the sale records and current booksellers’ catalogs to learn about its value. Along the way attendees will learn about the tools and resources that the antiquarian community uses to value a book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Ya-Fei Chuang, Prize-Winning Pianist


Prizewinner at the Cologne International Piano Competition at age 18, Chuang has appeared at festivals that include the Beethoven Festival (Warsaw) with Christoph Eschenbach, the European Music Festival (Stuttgart), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Shannon Festival (Ireland), Oulu (Finland), Ravinia, Sarasota, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Celebrity Series in Boston, and Tanglewood (USA).
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Concert | Don Witter, Classical and Spanish Guitarist


Explore the influence that Spain and Latin America has had on the guitar and music in general through the centuries. Don Witter, Jr. will be performing various works and styles to showcase the flexibility of the classical guitar. Witter started musical life at 4 trained as a classical pianist and 1st performed in public at the age of 5 at Carnegie Recital Hall. He appeared on the "TED MACK AMATEUR HOUR" and graduated from the high school of Music and Art where he was known as an accompanist for the High School Chorus and Vocal Students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Big Read: Book Discussion


"The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears" by Ethiopian-born writer Dinaw Mengestu. This novel of the immigrant experience and neighborhood change is a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Imprecise Measures, Installations by Joan Lurie


Joan Lurie's work explores ways of building structural forms with ceramics. While the forms are inspired by architecture, the inherent quality of the clay brings the work back to forms more reminiscent of biological and natural things.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Feel Big Live Small


Featuring work by: Matthew Albanese, Citizen Brick, Thomas Doyle, Joe Fig, Idan Levin, Kendal Murray. Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, Serial Cut, Tracey Snelling, Daisy Tainton
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mike Lydon discusses his book Tactical Urbanism


In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Anthony Flint discusses his book Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow


A riveting biography of the most important architect of the twentieth century Le Corbusier — a man who invented new ways of building and thinking. Modern Man is a penetrating psychological portrait of a true genius and constant self-inventor, as well as a sweeping tale filled with exotic locales, sex and celebrity (he was a lover of Josephine Baker), and high-stakes projects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Facebook Basics


Learn about the online social network Facebook.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Queer Genealogies


In conjunction with the release of Aperture's "Queer" issue, Richard Meyer, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, will moderate a panel discussion that explores how contemporary photographers have cast their attention backward to draw upon and engage the visual record of gay, lesbian, trans, and non-normative sexualities. Panelists to be announced.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Renee Watson reads from her book This Side of Home


Watson will be in conversation with Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature on Wednesday. The event will be a night of prose and poetry, readings from both artists’ latest works and a book signing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Richard Price reads from his book The Whites


Cops, criminals, and NYC—award-winning author Richard Price, returns to these themes in his new book. Dennis Lehane wrote, "Whether you call it a crime novel or a mystery novel or a giraffe with polka dots is largely irrelevant--The Whites is, simply put, a great American novel." Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers, discusses his new detective story with Henry Chang, author of an acclaimed series of Chinatown-based crime novels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Speaking Portraits: A Conversation with Stolen Lives and Families


Cases of police brutality are continuing to alarm the nation. But how often do we hear the stories of the victims and their loved ones? For the past ten years, Fay Chiang has been paying tribute to the victims by painting their portraits. Chiang welcomes Kathie Cheng, coordinator of the Stolen Lives Project, along with Iris Baez, Hawa Bah, Nicholas Heyward Sr., Andree Smith, and Juanita Young — whose sons were killed by police — to share the Stolen Lives Project and their stories. Representatives from other organizations like Cop Watch, People's Justice, and Center for Constitutional Rights will be present to speak to guests about their causes and the opportunities for volunteer work with these issues.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Liz Magic Laser


Liz Magic Laser is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University (2003) and an MFA from Columbia University (2008); and she attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2009).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | James Hannaham reads from his book Delicious Foods


Bill Tipper interviews author James Hannaham about his southern Gothic novel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jill Ciment reads from her book Act of God


Jill Ciment’s books have been hailed as “stunning,” “powerful,” and “provocative.” Alice Sebold has called her works “beautifully written.” Now the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page.” —Ann Patchett; “Brave, generous, nearly perfect.” —Los Angeles Times) has given us a contemporary noir novel that starts out a comedy of errors and turns darker at every hairpin turn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Mark Rosenthal reads from his book Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit


Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were an explosive couple. He carried a pistol. She carried a flask. He romanticized Detroit. She rejected it. But what they shared was a belief in communism, a thirst for tequila and a passion for each other.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: An Inferno by Sylvia Khoury


When terrorists strike a five-star hotel, four American guests seek a way out. In this dark comedy, Luke and his friends struggle to understand their mortality as they move from room to room – and encounter stranger and stranger hotel characters.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry: Cathy Linh Che / James Allen Hall


Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James, 2014), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, a Publishers Weekly Pick, and a Library Journal eagerly anticipated book. She has received awards from Poets House, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Jerome Foundation, and her work has been published by the Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers, and on the Best American Poetry blog. She currently lives in Brooklyn. James Allen Hall's Now You're the Enemy won awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His lyric essays and poetry have recently appeared in Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Story Quarterly, and AGNI. The recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, he is an associate professor of English at Washington College in Maryland.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Stacey Radin reads from her book Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to Become Powerful Leaders


After years of research as a psychologist, Stacey Radin brings us an empowering guide to cultivating confident, passionate and powerful young leaders during the most formative stage of life: the middle school years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | College Jazz Piano Recital


7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Mina Yu, jazz piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | SR Socially Relevant Film Festival


SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York is a non-profit film festival showcasing socially relevant films and stories in response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms of storytelling.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | College Piano Recitals


Zuguang Xiao and Shuang Yu, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


David Raschella, French Horn 8 p.m. Helene Werner, Cello 8 p.m.
   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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