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50 free events take place on Thursday, March 10 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 10 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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50 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 10, 2016
With Nick Wilding.
We are accustomed to reading about art forgeries, counterfeit antiquities, pirated pharmaceuticals, even fake racing bikes. Until recently most people assumed that it was not possible to forge rare books, and that any such attempts would be easily detected. Using the Library’s unrivaled collection of forgeries and facsimiles, investigate the surprisingly long and complicated history of techniques and technologies deployed in forging.
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.
This tour takes place every day at 10am.
Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan.
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
116 min.
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.
This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays.
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
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.
This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
This workshop takes place Tuesdays and Thursdays from March 1 to March 31.
Program:
Alberto Ginastera Sonata, for violoncello and piano, Op. 49
Ludwig van Beethoven Twelve Variations on Handel's "See, the Conqu'ring Hero comes," WoO 45
Richard Wilson Motivations for cello and piano
With: Jeffrey Zeigler, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, piano
The music of Scotland and Ireland was highly fashionable in Britain at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. Publications such as the Scots Musical Museum (1787-1792), The Hibernian Muse (c.1770), and O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (1804-1810) helped bring this music, and the instruments upon which it was played, to an aristocratic audience of both listeners and amateur musicians.
Performers: Christa Patton, harp, Scottish smallpipes, and flute; Peter Walker, uilleann pipes, highland bagpipe, and voice.
Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald.
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
113 min.
Stars: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner.
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
115 minutes
Our resumes are given the impossible task of conveying our entire experience and our total value. In many circumstances it is the only way people know us. Let your resume speak in ways that serve you, to convey what it needs to and to sell you.
Career coach, Win Sheffield will focus on the essentials of the resume, so you can get on with your career.
Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy.
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6.
127 min.
Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government’s support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war crimes tribunals) and then analyzing six historical case studies, Dr. Kaufman evaluates why and how the United States has pursued particular transitional justice options since World War II.
Stars: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo.
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
121 minutes
After falling off a boulder while climbing and breaking his neck, Jay Cramer rebounds from injury to win the Los Angeles Funniest Comic competition. While in rehab, he meets and falls in love with Katy Sullivan, a world-class double above-the-knee amputee sprinter.
91 mins.
Join us for a panel discussion and book presentation on the Latin American and Caribbean integration efforts from Simon Bolivar to the present with special guest Lic. Miguel Mejia, Minister for Regional Integration Policies, Dominican Republic.
Join Kara Nicholas, archivist at the legendary Cone Mills, denim industry veteran Andrew Olah, Professor Jeffrey Silberman, and Emma McClendon, curator of the exhibition Denim: Fashion’s Frontier, for a panel discussion on the current state of the denim industry and where it is heading in the 21st century.
Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. In 1985, together with Viktor Neborak and Oleksandr Irvanets, he founded the popular literary performance group "Bu-Ba-Bu" (Burlesque-Bluster-Buffoonery). He has published four poetry books — Sky and Squares (1985), Downtown (1989), Exotic Birds and Plants (1991, new editions 1997 and 2002) and The Songs for A Dead Rooster (2004).
Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff - today, their music is among the most loved of their respective eras: Baroque, Classical and Romantic. All three were performers of the keyboard at the highest level. Cellist Enrique Orengo and pianist Sayuri Iida present an exciting tour through music history.
An exhibition of mid-century paintings and works on paper by this preeminent figure of the American postwar period.
Hedda Sterne began her “Machines” series in 1947 after encountering farming machinery on a trip to Vermont. The result: Anthropographs, abstracted machines with a humanlike nature. Sterne, a recent emigre from Romania, was deeply affected by the cultural and aesthetic shift she discovered in the United States.
As the light shifts in the gallery, one begins to notice that James Austin Murray's compositions visually shift from concave to convex. It is odd to speak three dimensionally about a two dimensional surface, but Murray is the only artist we have ever shown where the viewer is transfixed by the surface of the painting, following the brushstroke across the canvas, only to approach the piece and look at the piece from its side as their brain is not convinced as to what their eyes see.
Suzanne McClelland is drawn to language and semiotics. Since the early 1990s her paintings, drawings, videos and installations have utilized fragments of text and data drawn from a wide variety of political and cultural sources.
History becomes as fresh as today’s headlines when veteran women’s studies professor and author Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner takes the stage or podium. The historic struggle of activists to create a just and free society resonates anew, enlightening and inspiring audiences of all ages to carry on the work.
As the scope of reproductive technologies expands, individuals with specific reproductive desires are capitalizing on new ways to create families, policymakers are scrambling to regulate practices locally and internationally, and researchers are making use of the “leftover” bioresources to support biomedical research.
Join a panel of scholars to discuss the societal and legal dimensions of reproductive and stem cell technologies that involve and invoke bodies, labor, and care.
Learn how to use a brush pen to write Chinese calligraphy with an experience instructor. No Chinese language knowledge required. Library will provide supplies.
This class repeats Thursday evenings in March and April.
Join conceptual artist Aaron Taylor Kuffner for a one-night live performance with his gamelatron (sonic kinetic sculpture with Indonesian gamelan instruments), which is featured in the Louise Despont: Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture installation.
Unemployment stands above 10% in France today, and is even higher for people who are young (25%), or unqualified, and for those living in the banlieues outside Paris and other big cities. This documentary observes the inner workings of an employment agency in Seine-Saint-Denis, a working class Parisian suburb, told from the perspective of 40 agents who try to find work for 4000 unemployed men and women.
78 min.
Followed by Q+A with director Nora Philippe.
A lecture by Silvia Valisa, Florida State University.
In 1875, a high profile crime brought together Italian newspaper journalism, legal courts, prominent political figures and a rising family of publishers in unexpected ways. On the evening of February 6, during the Roman Carnival, Raffaele Sonzogno, the director of the daily La capitale, was brutally assassinated at the newspaper’s headquarters.
This illustrated lecture showcases the Georgia native's classic Southern personal favorite recipes, informed and updated by newly discovered ingredients and different cultures.
The bestselling author of The Doctor's Wife presents her newest literary thriller. All Things Cease to Appear combines noir and the gothic in a gruesome murder mystery with no shortage of suspects--both real and supernatural. Part family drama, part love story, part ghost tale, All Things Cease to Appear uncovers the secrets of an impoverished small town where behind one crime lies another.
Niki Singleton works in drawing, painting, digital art, found material sculpture, installation, video and performance. Some of her recent projects include a PDF sent to people occupying abandoned houses in New York, a gay tragic/comic strip series on Facebook and a found object installation and live painting performance on the subject of gentrification.
Author Paul Russell writes a timely, immersive novel exploring gay identity and sexuality. Country boy Tony is seduced by a smooth-talking pornographer, who brings the young man to New York to star in and recruit younger boys into a string of increasingly violent sex films. An escape, a marriage and a murder follow the story's cinematic arc of innocence, betrayal, redemption and revenge.
Renowned actor, activist and playwright Anna Deavere Smith continues the conversation begun at the 2016 conference “Listen for Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice."
Anna Deavere Smith is a professor at New York University and founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue. In addition to her work in television and film (known to audiences as Nancy McNally on The West Wing and Gloria Akalitus on Nurse Jackie), Smith is said to have created a new form of theatre that blends theatrical art, social commentary, and reverie.
With Al Jaffee, Dennis O'Neil, Brendand Burford, and Danny Fingeroth.
75 years ago, in 1941, although busy with the Sunday supplement Spirit section (launched the year before) and other work, Will Eisner was offered the holy grail for cartoonists of his generation: the opportunity to do The Spirit as a daily strip. Eisner leapt at the offer, and The Spirit syndicated comic strip launched on October 13, 1941.
There is no better way to honor St. Patrick, patron of the Cathedral and the Archdiocese of New York, than with an evening of traditional and contemporary Irish music. Celebrate Irish Heritage at a time and place where everyone is Irish.
Alexander Chee is the author of the award-winning novel Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, out in February from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Angela Flournoy’s debut novel The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) was a 2015 National Book Award finalist.
Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals was selected by Brenda Hillman for the Ottoline Prize and collects notes from Szymaszek’s journals, locally sourced from her life in Brooklyn and the East Village. Of her work, the poet Etel Adnan writes that “each poem is what I am looking for: a resonance with a particular location, an intelligence unafraid of its humanity, a sort of desperate adequacy with the people or objects that Szymaszek encounters.”
In Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2, Legault attempts to recall each of the poems in John Ashbery’s book, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, from memory. Douglas Crase (author of The Revisionist) calls it “an audacious homage that is also a course of freedom—brilliant, replenishing, and right on time.”