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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 29, 2013?

37 free events take place on Wednesday, May 29 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 May 29 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 May . 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, May 29, 2013

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Workshop | Sunrise Tai Chi Class


With ith Robert Martinez, certified Tai Chi Instructor. Try something new. Suitable for all levels. Wear comfy clothing and bring water. Rain and weather/air advisory cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
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Other | Grape-Nuts “What's Your Mountain?” Rock Climbing Event


Start your day by summiting a 30-foot climbing wall in Herald Square in celebration of Post Grape-Nuts’ role in Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent up Mt. Everest 60 years ago. Each participant will be given a purple flag to declare a goal, or “mountain”, in their life they would like to conquer, which they will stick to the highest peak they reach on the urban mountain. Commuters will also have the opportunity to begin their morning with a free sample of Grape-Nuts Fit, the brand’s newest addition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
Free

Workshop | Catch & Release Fishing


Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

City Walk | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing


Enjoy drawing nature in the parks and gardens with an artist/educator. Materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Park Pétanque


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   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. 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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Author Reading | Ben Mezrich discusses his book Straight Flush


Hosted by actor, comedian and writer John Fugelsang. Another sure bet of a book by the bestselling author who dealt us The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Jazz | Larry Ham, Jazz Pianist


Jazz pianist and composer Larry Ham tours and records with many of today's top jazz artists, and has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and in Japan, Russia, and West Africa.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Author Reading | Robert Hagstrom discusses his book Investing: The Last Liberal Art


Hagstrom explores basic and fundamental investing concepts in a range of fields outside of economics, including physics, biology, sociology, psychology, philosophy and literature. He discusses, for instance, how the theory of evolution disrupts the notion of the efficient market and how reading strategies for literature can be gainfully applied to investing research. Building on Charlie Munger's famous "latticework of mental models" concept, Hagstrom argues that it is impossible to make good investment decisions based solely on a strong knowledge of finance theory alone. Talk will be followed by book signing. Feel free to bring your lunch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5

Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks” Tour


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Screening | Dance on Film: Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloe


David Vaughan, archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and author of Merce Cunningham/65 Years and Frederick Ashton and His Ballets, will introduce and screen Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloe.
   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

City Walk | 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
Free

Workshop | Figure Al Fresco


Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Dance on Film: Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloe


David Vaughan, archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and author of Merce Cunningham/65 Years and Frederick Ashton and His Ballets, will introduce and screen Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Film | Darnell Martin's Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005): Based on Zora Neale Hurston's Novel


Starring Halle Berry, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Mel Winkler. A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. 113 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


Join Free Tours by Foot as they stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Wild by Cheryl Strayed


A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis


This monthly book discussion series explore some of the questions raised above as well as religions in literature that you've been meaning to study more of and discuss with others interested in learning about other faiths. Participants should read each title before the discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Lecture | Food, Places, and Names: Local Food, Global Trade, and the Future of Rural Communities


With Fabio Parasecoli, Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Food Studies Program at the New School. Geographical indications, a form of intellectual property designated by considering principally the place of origin of food products, have become a hot topic among producers, activists, economists, and politicians worldwide. Commercial and legal issues related to them have generated complex negotiations in international organizations and national institutions, while their cultural aspects have stimulated debates about the impact of global trade on local identities. Is this model, widely applied in Europe and other parts of the world, viable in the USA? Could geographical indications become a valid tool to implement community-based, sustainable, and quality-oriented agriculture?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Musical Theater Workshop & Teen Acting Performance


Children sing, improvise & perform original musicals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Sherapy, an Interactive Performance


The popular therapist Sherry Vignon will bring her Sherry Truck to conduct 30-minute Sherapy sessions with visitors at the space. The Sherry Truck is a mobile boutique, a cafe, a therapy office, and a flexible performance platform. The Sherry Truck can traverse the social, political, and geographical restrictions of the art worlds and allow Sherry to help people who often do not have access to help. Sherry and her helpers serve pink lattes, offer manicures and pedicures, individual or couples Sherapy sessions, performance relics, and much more. Sherry also invites other artists and artisans to display their works in collaboration with her. Sherapy sessions are free of charge and will be scheduled on a first-come first-serve basis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Bloodworks 2013 Play Reading


Youngblood's annual reading series features 23 new full-length plays from the members. Tonight's playwrights: 7pm - Krista Knight 9pm - Cory Finley
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Classic Italian Cinema: Federico Fellini's City of Women (1980)


The seventeenth film written and directed by Fellini. Snàporaz, played by Marcello Mastroianni, is a man on a train who voyages through dream-like imagery of male and female spaces toward a confrontation with his own attitudes towards women and his wife. 139 min. In Italian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mark Cohen discusses his book Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman


The first biography of the singer/parodist explores his unique brand of Jewish comedy and the genesis of such hits as “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” and the “Hava Nagila” spoof “Harvey and Sheila.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mitchell Zuckoff reads from his book Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II


Mitchell Zukoff, the author of Lost in Shangri-La, delivers an astonishing true account of endurance and bravery in the Arctic wilderness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Outdoor Theater: Anton Chekhov's The Seagull


New York Classical Theatre presents the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | The Seventh Annual Truth Be Told Documentary Film Festival


Over three evenings, short documentaries made by students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. The films are the products of a year of study in documentary history, theory, and production. Deanna Kamiel, a faculty member at the School of Media Studies, leads a Q&A with the filmmakers each night following the screenings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Opera Excerpts Concert


Under the direction of Susan Caldwell, this semester-end performance will feature opera excerpts presented by the Extension Division opera class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Brian Sweany reads from his book Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer


This debut novel has already received early praise, with Hunter S. Thompson's biographer calling it “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Leave It to Beaver.” Added New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, “Brian Sweany writes like an American Martin Amis.” Cupcakes, beer and wine courtesy of The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare Under the Stars: The Comedy of Errors, with Jesse Tyler Ferguson


This new production concerns two sets of identical twins who were separated as children and now live as master-servant pairs in rival neighboring cities. When one pair crosses the border to find the other, so begins an exquisitely enjoyable mess of mistaken identity, wrongful imprisonment, questionable flirting and general mayhem. Directed by Daniel Sullivan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free

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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