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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 31, 2015?

41 free events take place on Tuesday, March 31 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 31 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Master Class | Master Class: Yarn/Wire Ensemble


Yarn/Wire is a quartet of two percussionists and two pianists. This instrumental combination allows the ensemble flexibility to slip effortlessly between classics of the repertoire and modern works that continue to forge new boundaries. Founded in 2005, Yarn/Wire is admired for the energy and precision they bring to performances of today's most adventurous music. The results of their collaborative initiatives with genre-bending artists such as Two-Headed Calf, Pete Swanson, and Tristan Perich point towards the emergence of a new and lasting repertoire that is "spare and strange and very, very new." (Time Out NY)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Mac Computers for Beginners


Learn the basics of using a Mac computer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Protecting Your Privacy and Security


This course will cover how important it is to be safe when providing your information on the internet as well as ensuring your computer is safe from those that want to hack it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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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
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
Free

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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Concert | Mannes Downtown Chamber Music Concert


The Ernst C. Stiefel Chamber Music Series presents Mannes College chamber music ensembles in a series of free lunch-time performances. The program for this concert will be announced a week before the performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Lecture Performance: Four Romantic Composers


A new Daytime Lecture Performance Series offers month-long lecture series on a variety of musical topics. Each week’s presentation features a musical performance and/or instrument demonstrations as well as an educational lecture placing the music in context. Presented by Laura Sharpe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | MS PowerPoint 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
Free

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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Concert | College Recitals


Madeline Fayette, Cello 4 p.m. Alex Kinmonth, Oboe 4 p.m. Benjamin Zannoni, Viola 6 p.m. Paul-Edouard Senentz, Cello 6 p.m. Meredith Treaster, Viola 8 p.m. Wyatt Underhill, Violin 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | David Ayer's Fury (2014): WW2 Adventure


Stars: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman. April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened Army sergeant commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. 135 minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

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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5:15 pm
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Talk | Actor Jordana Brewster discuss the film Furious 7


Join actor Jordana Brewster for a moderated conversation about the seventh installment in the popular Fast and Furious franchise. She returns as Mia Toretto — sister of elite street racer and ex-convict Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and wife of LA cop Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker). She’ll talk about the movie and take questions from the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Citizen Cartography: Building a Virtual Atlas of New York


Help NYPL build the geospatial library of the future! This workshop will get you oriented with the set of tools the Library has developed that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps by overlaying digital images of historical maps onto a contemporary digital map through a process called georectification, or "warping" maps. This means overlaying digital images of historic maps onto a contemporary digital map (similar to Google Maps), transforming them into tiles of a virtual atlas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Carlo Nero's Bosnia Rising (2014) - Followed by a Discussion with Academy Award-Winning Actress Vanessa Redgrave


A film produced by Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave and explicative of the February 2014 protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Redgrave and Dr. Damir Arsenijevic, editor of Unbribable Bosnia: The Fight for the Commons, an edited volume of scholarly analysis on the uprising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Exhibition: Display of the Centuries: Frederick Kiesler and Contemporary Art


Save the date for a veritable homecoming of Frederick Kiesler’s avant-garde ideas curated by Peter Bogner. The new exhibition continues Kiesler's holistic approach to design and demonstrates the lasting vibrancy of his projects in the cutting-edge location of this exhibition, its composition, and the combination of the artists it features.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness — Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Paige McKenzie discusses her book The Haunting of Sunshine Girl


Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Advanced MS Excel 2010 Workshop


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include using formulas and functions, data sorting and conditional formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera: A Conversation with Legendary Soprano Renata Scotto


The sixth and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season will feature legendary soprano Renata Scotto, who was one of the greatest artists to grace the Met stage, gave unforgettable and inimitable performances in the entire Italian repertory as well as memorable portrayals by works of other composers. In addition to her singing, she also is one of the finest actresses in opera and has recently turned her attention to stage direction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | David Smiley reads from his book Pedestrian Modern


This illustrated lecture reveals how the design for places of consumption informed emerging modernist tenets. It traces the history of architecture’s relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opera | Discover Opera!: Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel


Libretto by Adelheid Wette. English adaption by Tony Amato.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Faith and Tolerance: Extending Interfaith Dialogue to the LGBT Community


Hardly a day goes by when religion is not in the news – sadly, often to report on discrimination or violence by one faith group against another or against LGBT communities. Yet faith traditions may not be part of the problem – they may be the solution. This panel brings together experts on Muslim/Jewish/Christian relations in Europe, Latin America, and the US, and LGBT relations with the Abrahamic faiths. They will discuss interfaith dialogue as a way to look at discrimination and cooperation among faith groups and towards LGBT persons.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Korean Film: Yoo Won-sang’s Guardian (2013)


In his first feature film, and also graduation project at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, director YOO Won-sang delivers an interesting take on the thriller genre. A former firefighter, Jeon-mo (KIM Su-hyeon), runs a flower shop and lives happily with his wife and two children. His world is turned upside down after his young daughter gets kidnapped, and he starts receiving instructions to follow from the abductor. One of the instructions is for Jeon-mo to kidnap another child, and then trade him for his daughter. The moral ripple effects of resulting actions will drive the narrative to a dramatic, unexpected conclusion. 90 min. In Korean with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | Nonfiction Forum: Brando Skyhorse


Brando Skyhorse is the author of two books, Take This Man, A Memoir, and The Madonnas of Echo Park, his debut novel. Madonnas received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The book was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. He has been awarded fellowships at Ucross and Can Serrat, Spain.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | The Dodd String Quartet performs Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ


The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross (German: Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze) is an orchestral work by Joseph Haydn, commissioned in 1785 or 1786 for the Good Friday service at Cádiz Cathedral in Spain. The composer adapted it for string quartet in 1787. The seven main meditative sections—labelled "sonatas" and all slow—are framed by an Introduction and a speedy "Earthquake" conclusion, for a total of nine movements. Formed in 2007, The Dodd String Quartet is one of the very few quartets today performing on period instruments. Focusing on the 100 years that saw the birth and subsequent evolution of the string quartet, the Quartet enjoys exploring rarely performed works along side the glorious mainstays of the quartet repertoire. Performers: The Dodd String Quartet Claire Jolivet and Theresa Salomon, violins Jessica Troy, viola Lindy Clarke, cello
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Master Class | Alessandra Belloni, Singer, Percussionist, Folk Dancer


Alessandra Belloni is the Artistic Director, Founder and Lead Performer of "I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA", an Italian Music, Theatre and Dance Ensemble who is Artists-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St.John the Divine in New York City. She is also the designer of a line of signature series Italian tambourines made by Remo, and of special brushes for tambourine with Regal Tip. She is the only woman in the U.S. and in Italy who specializes in traditional Southern Italian folk dances and percussion combined with singing that she learned in Southern Italy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Contributors read from Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids


Meghan Daum hosts the launch of her provocative new collection of essays. With several of the book's contributors, TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. With: Sarah Lass, Launch Movement Experiment, Polyphony Co
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This introductory meditation class was featured in New York Magazine’s top picks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Nicholas Megalis reads from his book Mega Weird


A collection of hilarious short stories from twenty-five year old Internet sensation Nicholas Megalis on his distinctively weird life and childhood, fully illustrated by Tom Megalis, his celebrated artist and animator dad.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | NPR's Scott Simon discusses his book Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime


Award-winning NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon discusses his memoir.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Rock Hall of Famer Richie Furay performs from his CD Hand in Hand


Founding Buffalo Springfield and Poco singer/guitarist Richie Furay brings us his first album in eight years. With new tunes and a couple of updated versions of songs by his old groups, this is a performance you do not want to miss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Marc Levin's Freeway: Crack in the System (2015)


Freeway: Crack in the System tells the true story behind the crack scourge, featuring exclusive interviews with characters who lived it. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Intro Class: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction


With: Amy Gross Learning to be mindful—to pay attention in the moment without resistance or judgment-—can shift the course of our lives. Instead of being driven by our fears and hopes, we learn how to listen to ourselves and others, to pause and respond wisely. In this course practice MBSR’s tools for living: the body scan, sitting meditation, mindful yoga and walking meditation, all of which increase self-awareness and empathy, connect us to our intuition, weaken unwholesome mental habits and replace struggle and stress with ease and relaxation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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