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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 29, 2014?
48 free events take place on Thursday, 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 29, 2014?
48 free events take place on Thursday, 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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, May 29, 2014
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Park Tai Chi
Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
Free
Free
Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & 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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10:00 am
Free
Free
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
$6...
$6...
Film | Robert Stevenson's 5-Time Oscar Winner Mary Poppins (1964): Children's Favorite
Starring Julie Andrews, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke.
A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family.
139 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Board Game Social
Join an all-new weekly Game Social to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. The Board Game Social features games in their classic form with a board, special pieces and a little bit of competition. Try classics like Sorry, Clue, Monopoly, or Life.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Jazz | Dandy Wellington and His Band
Inspired by the Big Band Era of Jazz, Dandy Wellington and his Band have taken the sounds of the 1930’s and 40’s and created a world of well dressed music. With a passion for obscure songs steeped in the Jazz tradition, Dandy Wellington has assembled a catalog of music that invokes an atmosphere of class. From the golden age of cinema, to the bounce of New Orleans, each song is hand selected and played to perfection by a band cut from the cloth of elegance.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Guided Tour: Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes
Join a Museum Ambassador for an engaging tour through the exhibition. Tour highlights include discussion of underwater panther and thunderbird, figures in Anishinaabe cosmology; and an in-depth look at artists such as Norval Morriseau, George Morrison, and Keesic Douglas.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
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
Free
Free
Talk | Bears Make Headlines, Bulls Make Money: My Favorite Maxims, Legends and Worldly Wisdom from Wall Street
Mark Skousen, editor of Forecasts & Strategies, has been collecting ancient proverbs, rare financial books and pearls of Wall Street wisdom since he started writing his award-winning newsletter in 1980. Now in its new third edition, his classic work, The Maxims of Wall Street, is full of hard lessons and biting humor of financial gurus, brokers, plungers and peacocks of today and yesteryear. Dr. Skousen's favorite tales and sayings of J.P. Morgan, Ben Graham, Joe Kennedy, Hetty Green, J. Paul Getty and Jesse Livermore, as well as modern-day legends Warren Buffett, John Templeton and Jack Bogle, will make history come alive in this delightful reminiscence down Wall Street.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5
$5
Jazz | Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats featuring Jim Seeley
Jim Seeley plays trumpet and flugelhorn, and is a composer/arranger based in NYC. Jim studied at Berklee College of Music and has toured, recorded, and performed with Ray Charles, Chucho Valdes, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Louis Bellson, Maynard Ferguson, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, The Machito Orchestra, Greg Allman and Friends, and has been a long standing member and featured soloist with The Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Piano in the Park: Joel Forrester
Joel Forrester is a contemporary two-handed piano player, essaying the stride, boogie-woogie, and trance styles. He wrote the theme to NPR's Fresh Air, studied composition with Thelonious Monk, co-founded the Microscopic Septet, and did music for the early films of Andy Warhol.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
Free
Free
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
$6...
$6...
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: 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Gallery Tour: Self-Taught Genius
A Closer-Look Tour of the exhibition led by the museum’s gallery guides.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Song and Story: The Early Years of Broadway
Broadway musicals of the 1910s and 1920s in abridged concert format.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | The Discerning Reader: Sylvia Townsend Warner the Essayist
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a wideranging writer, a novelist and poet who is perhaps best known for her short stories (almost 150 appeared in The New Yorker) but who is also admired for her lifelong political and feminist commitments. Almost no attention has been paid to her essays and reviews, principally because of the lack of an edition of her non-fiction. This talk will discuss the subject matter and style of her essays.
Lecturer Elizabeth Powers is a literary scholar and writer who lives in New York. Besides being the author of two novels and many literary essays, she is the editor of the collections Pilgrim Souls: A Collection of Spiritual Autobiographies, and Freedom of Speech: The History of an Idea.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free
Free
Concert | The Vast Musical Riches of the Court of the Sun King
In this concert, Corda Nova explores the music of the court of Louis XIV. Under his patronage, composers such as Leclair, Lully, and Marais created a quintessentially French musical idiom which influenced composers across Europe in the century to follow.
Performers: Edmond Chan, baroque violin; Amy Domingues, viola da gamba; Anthony Harvey, theorbo.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation
$10 suggested donation
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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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Richard Thorpe's The Sun Comes Up (1949): Woman Bites Dog
Starring Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman Jr.
A widowed concert singer blames Lassie, her son's pet, for the tragic loss of her teenage son.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Subway Art Tour
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public.
Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Park Walk | The High Line Tour
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Staged Reading | Play Reading: Bob Larimer and Stuart Ross' 999 B.C.
A musical comedy that brings a humorous twist to the famous bible story of Jonah and the whale.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Sharpe James, ex-Newark Mayor jailed for corruption, discusses his book Political Prisoner
Sharpe James served sixteen years as a councilman and twenty as Mayor of Newark while simultaneously serving nine years as a state senator. He continues to live in Newark.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | 50 Years Later: The O'Neill Developmental Path to Theater Production
The O’Neill Center in Waterford, CT was created at the dawn of the regional theater movement to support the development of new theater. Through trial and error, the Center invented the signature “O’Neill process”: a four week retreat for top theater professionals, culminating in public readings of early draft plays. Join a discussion about The O’Neill’s development process with artists and O’Neill leadership past and present.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Zero:One, a College Computer Art Exhibition
An exhibition of works by MFA Computer Art students showcasing graduates’ unique approaches to the themes and modes of creative self-expression.
All thesis projects incorporate a variety of media, materials and technologies to address a broad range of topics, including a story of a rock band, with four puppet characters animated in stop motion, by Xiaoxiao Tang; a mixed-media installation that combines video projection mapping and sculpture, by digital fine artist Harsha Biswajit; and a short story about two dolls coming to life at night in a toy shop, by 3D animator Chun Wei Kuo.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Brooklyn Heights Tour
Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Drawings and Sculpture: Kimberley Hart's Great Rewards
Through drawings and sculpture, Hart attempts to reconcile her daily struggles between an ideal and the reality of being a grower in upstate New York.
Kimberley Hart received her MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. Since then, she attended Skowhegan, McDowell Colony, and McColl Center for Visual Art, and spent two years at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | National Juried Exhibition
The accepted work consists of photography, painting, drawing and sculpture. Submissions came from all over the United States with one artist entering from France. Drawing, with pieces in charcoal, pastel, oil on paper and pencil, makes a comeback in this year's exhibition. Photography ranges from simple to altered with cutting and/or mixed media additions.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: John Wonnacott's The Jardine Matheson Commission and City Views
John Wonnacott (b. 1940) is one of Great Britain’s leading figurative artists, closely associated with the loosely affiliated group known as the School of London. After graduating from the Slade School of Art in the early 1960s, he has never deviated from a working method focused exclusively on direct observation whether the subject be portrait or landscape.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Workshop | Park Yoga
Downward dog under the trees with YogaWorks instructor Heather Seagraves, whose classes are spirited and dynamic, fun and strenghtening. Mats are provided by Athleta.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Photography: Bianca Sforni's Trees from the Pacific Shores
The first public exhibition of seven photographic prints dedicated to the artist's earlier black-and-white tree series. The trees in this series are isolated against a velvety black background, revealing the naturally ephemeral character and fantastical qualities inherent in their awe-inspiring physical forms.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Photography: Debbie Rasiel's Picturing Autism
A new exhibition featuring large-scale photographs that display tender moments in the Autistic community.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Elaine Stocki's The Palms
Through her unique and formally eloquent images, Stocki highlights the tenuous connection between photography and reality. While invitingly cerebral and layered with art-historical references, the work also resonates on a fundamentally emotional level.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Tony Orrico's Petrified Acts, an Exhibition of Performances, Artifacts and Drawings
Since 2008, Tony Orrico has been exploring his own anatomical symmetry, combining his experience as a dancer and visual artist to inform the demanding durations and actions of his work. In Petrified Acts, Orrico will complete three performances in the gallery using his body as a vehicle, guided by inherent impulses, to create work through timed manipulation of graphite, a surface and space.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Workshop | Central Park Circuit Workout
Reach your fitness goals in the world’s most beautiful outdoor gym – Central Park! Get fit with innovative exercises designed by top trainers to utilize the Park’s best natural features: rocks, trails, stairs, hills, and gorgeous open lawns. A variety of in-Park classes will help you to maximize your strength and agility, as well as increase flexibility and muscle tone. Ages 18+.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
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Screening | Documentary: Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
A screening of the film will be followed by a conversation between architect Steven Holl and producer Michael Blackwood.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
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Slide Lecture | We're All Mad Here: The Marx Brothers in Context
As part of Marxfest, a month-long celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of the nicknaming of the Marx Brothers, Trav S.D., an author and stage performer, gives this visual presentation exploring the vaudeville origins of the Marx Brothers, introducing the audience to the many performers who inspired them and paved the way for their unique style of performance. Among their mentors were Weber & Fields, the Avon Comedy Four, Smith and Dale, and the team of Gallagher and Shean (one whom was the Marx Brothers’ uncle, Al Shean). The talk will also feature many comedians and teams who were contemporaries of the Marx Brothers in films including Clarke and McCullough, Wheeler and Woolsey, Eddie Cantor, and others.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Carl Unegbu discusses his book Comedy Under Attack: The Golden Age and The Headwinds
A provocative new book about the hot controversies in the comedy industry today, written by Carl Unegbu, blogger & managing editor, at Comedybeat.
7:00 PM: Reception & Refreshments
7:30 PM: Panel Discussion
8:30 PM: Book signing, ending reception
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
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Author Reading | Nancy Sharp reads from her book Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss and Bold Living
Author and Huffington Post blogger Nancy Sharp talks about the day she delivered premature twins and found out about the return of her husband's cancer in her memoir.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
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Talk | Robert McNeely, Former White House Photographer
Photographer Robert McNeely spent six years in the White House as President Clinton’s personal photographer. He has been twice listed in American Photographer Magazine’s “One Hundred Most Important People in Photography.”
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Theater | Shakespeare's As You Like It: An Outdoor Performance
New York Classical Theatre creates and reinvigorates audiences for the theatre by presenting free and accessible productions of popular classics and forgotten masterpieces in non-traditional public spaces throughout New York City.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | The Drilling Company presents an outdoor production of Shakespeare's Hamlet
In an unusual interpretation, the production is intended to illuminate the modern dysfunctional family unit. Gertrude is an alcoholic mother; Ophelia is manic depressive; Claudius is overworked, power-obsessed and success-oriented. Everyone but Hamlet and Horatio are suffering from one of the maladies that we identify in modern culture as a problem for human development.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Screening | Truth Be Told Documentary Festival
Over three evenings, short films made by this year's students in the graduate certificate program in Documentary Media Studies are screened for the public. Media Studies faculty members Deirdre Boyle and Deanna Kamiel conduct Q&A sessions with the filmmakers following the screenings each night. These works are the product of a year of intensive study of documentary production, history, and theory.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
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Concert | James Germain, Haitian-Born Singer
James Germain blends his passion for traditional voodoo songs with touches of opera and gospel from his classical and jazz training in France.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
Park Walk | The Haunted High Line Tour
The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. Join a journey to the creepier side of New York City’s most unique park. On this tour you’ll hear tales of the strange eccentric who lived below the tracks and saved them from demise, the curse of a West Side Cowboy who fell to his death from the elevated track, and the children who haunt the street formerly known as Death Avenue. If the moon hangs right perhaps you’ll witness the spectacle of a ghostly ship floating down the Hudson River; is it the long forgotten crew of Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon warning sailors not to go to sea? Or is it Captain Kidd protecting the treasure he buried on Liberty Island? Venture at your own risk through the dark side of High Line.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
Concert | CANCELLED: Madame Please, Classic Rock Cover Band
This band of New Yorkers, all around 50 years old, perform for the sheer pleasure of performing. They have been together for 5 years. They cover classic rock songs with a few blues tunes thrown in.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Tour | Manhattan Night Tour
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline.
NOTE: THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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