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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 13, 2019?

31 free events take place on Monday, May 13 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 13 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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31 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, May 13, 2019

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Workshop | Pilates Workshop


Monday morning Pilates, presented by the Pilates Initiative and Return to Life Center. Mats are provided by Balanced Body and are available to the first 30 attendees at each class. Mondays, May 6-August 26, 2019
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Workshop | Park Birding Tour


Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided tours. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hot spot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
Free

Discussion | Women Leaders in Transportation


A panel discussion on the role of women in transportation. Learn from and celebrate the exceptional careers of four women holding major leadership positions in transportation in New York. Discuss the panelists’ paths to leadership positions, how they achieve meaningful change, and explore effective approaches to tackle career challenges. This event will include a breakfast reception followed by a panel discussion. The event’s panelists are: --Jamey Barbas, Executive Director for the Tappan Zee Bridge Project, New York State Thruway Authority -- Meera Joshi, Visiting Scholar, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation; Former NYC Taxi & Limousine Commissioner -- Midori Valdivia, Chief of Staff to the MTA President, Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Veronica Vanterpool, Deputy Director, Vision Zero Network, and Board Member, MTA -- Moderator: Sarah M. Kaufman, Associate Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 am
Free

Workshop | Morning Meditation


Balance mind, body, and spirit in this Primordial Sound Meditation led by an instructor. Work with a personal mantra, a specific sound or vibration. Take part in a regular meditation practice that lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system. Mondays, May 6-July 8, 2019
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Film | Holmes & Watson (2018): Comedy Version Of The Classic 


A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. 90 min. Director: Etan Cohen. Starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Ralph Fiennes. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Screening | Digital Theatre And Matinee: The Comedy of Errors


Do you love theatre? Monday mornings you have an opportunity to watch a handful of the finest theatre productions from over the pond. One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, The Comedy of Errors is a fast-paced farce exploring mistaken identities and relations lost and found.  The Comedy of Errors (87 min.) was devised specifically for schools and families by the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with critically acclaimed theatre company, Told by an Idiot. Directed by Paul Hunter, it features a cast made up from the RSC’s ensemble and uses a pared down script, props, live music and physical comedy to convey the story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Workshop | Spanish Class


The park speaks Spanish with instruction by inlingua. Learn a new language in these standalone beginner classes. Classes are not cumulative, so you may attend any class throughout the season without needing to play catch up.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:45 am
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Tour | Mindful Scents Walking Tour


As an American Public Garden, the park invites you to celebrate our blooming spring gardens with an array of free lunchtime programs. Stop and smell the flowers on a guided meditation walking tour of our fragrant horticulture led by noted meditation teacher and guide Jeff Cannon.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach Plus One Concert


The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor. This season, Bach at One evolves into Bach + One: featuring one Bach cantata each week paired with a complementary work from composers early to modern. Trinity’s presentation of Bach’s entire monumental output of vocal sacred music has been praised by The New York Times for its “dramatic vigor.” Program Johann Sebastian Bach Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10 Johann Friedrich Fasch Concerto in D for Trumpet, Two Oboes and Strings, FaWV L:D1 Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term ‘baroque’ has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was ‘maestro di capella’ at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today’s music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi’s advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Classical Music | Organ Performance


Cathedral organists provide a 30-minute break for mind, body and spirit on Mondays at 1 pm with an entertaining and informative demonstration of the Cathedral’s unparalleled Great Organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$8

Workshop | Resume Help


Need help with resume writing? Not sure how to edit it? Get one-on-one assistance with writing your resume. Please bring a hard copy of your resume or a USB flash drive to save and edit it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Crafting the Collection Workshop: Stonewall Uprising


Create a collage inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Participants will re-create the “Riot” by Gran Fury. Winter & Spring Crafting the Collections workshops explore collage. Collage techniques build an artwork by assablaing different mediums to create a completed new. Often these different mediums include glue, magazine or photographic images, paint and texts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sly Bang: Alter Ego Against Serial Killers


A literary celebration of poet and novelist Larissa Shmailo's latest work, Sly Bang. Shmailo will be joined by several of her peers, including Anna Halberstadt, Elizabeth L. Hodges, Regina Khidekel, Irina Mashinski, Alexander Veytsman, Anton Yakovlev, and Andrey Gritsman, as they read from and respond to her new novel. Sly Bang is an experimental science fiction non-linear novel, including prose and poetry, that pits Shmailo's alter ego, “Larissa Ekaterina Anastasia Nikolayevna Romanova, tsaritsa of all the Russias,” against an “army of serial killers, mad scientists, and ultrarich sociopaths.”  Larissa Shmailo is known for her literary translations from Russian to English, particularly her translation of Victory over the Sun and the anthology, Twenty-First Century Russian Poetry. Shmailo's poetry collections are Medusa's Country (2017), #specialcharacters (2014), In Paran (2009) and the chapbooks A Cure for Suicide (2006) and Fib Sequence. She has another novel named Patient Women (2005).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Dance And Sculpt


Move your body to the beat! Have fun while you exercise! Bring a towel or an exercise mat. Come in comfortable clothing. This workshop takes place every Monday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | How To Do Podcasting


A podcast is a creative, on-demand audio show for sharing information, engaging audiences with stories, participating in community conversations, and much more. You can learn the basic recording techniques you need to get started and tips for building your own podcast. In this session;  Intro to podcasting & podcasting platforms, how to get started with recording Tips for researching and structuring a show How to get the most out of an interview: inviting interview guests, preparing & researching, choosing engaging questions and managing your interview will be covered. Devices will be provided. However, you can use your personal smartphone or tablet in the workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | How To Prepare For Retirement


Want to understand how to prepare for retirement? A good chance to learn how you want to retire, how much money you will need to retire, when the right time is to retire, who to share your retirement income with, what the greatest risks to your retirement plans are, and how you should invest for retirement. Refreshments will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Talk | Living Authentically Post Stonewall: The Changing Trans Cultural Movement


A conversation with Elizabeth Marie Rivera and Kristen Lovell from the WRRQ Collective. They will tell stories about the old days, the stroll, Sylvia Rivera's legacy, historical erasure of trans women of color, trans tipping points, movement leadership, and also will evaluate current situation as well. Moderated by WRRQ co-founder Quito Ziegler. WRRQ is a multi-racial, intergenerational, cross-class, all-gender collective of artists and activists that have been collaborating since 2013, though some relationships date much farther back. An intersectional mix of queer and transgender sex workers, formerly homeless, people with disabilities, HIV+, indigenous, immigrants, first gen, survivors and accomplices, WRRQ makes art and food for visual resistance and community healing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Orange World and Other Stories: A New Book By the Pulitzer Prize Finalist Karen Russell


The best-selling author Karen Russell's new short story collection bends reality with uncanny imagination and unmistakable heart. Alongside the alligator wrestlers and prescient seagulls of her previous books, the tornado farmers, beloved bog girls, and breastfed devils in Karen Russell's new collection, Orange World and Other Stories, are right at home. Widely embraced for her earlier works Swamplandia and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell returns with a new collection of eight short stories as funny and inventive as they are memorable. Here she explores territory as common as first love, new motherhood, and the fight for a better life with the fantastical and phantasmagoric flair we have come to anticipate and admire in her work. Russell, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, will speak about her unique brand of storytelling and navigating plots that take us to the edge of reality and beyond. She will be joined in conversation by novelist Téa Obreht.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Augusta Savage and Icons of the Harlem Renaissance


Art historians, curators, and artists will discuss the life and work of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962). Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller, author of New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934, presents an illustrated lecture on the two best known works by Savage.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Life of David Hockney: A Hybrid of Novel and Biography


British painter David Hockney is known for openly following his own desires — he was a realist during the heyday of abstract painting and an advocate for gay figures when homosexuality was still a crime in the English courts — and for rigorously exploring the ways art and life feed each other, visually and emotionally. In Life of David Hockney, a compelling hybrid of novel and biography, French novelist Catherine Cusset has drawn a meticulously researched, yet intimate and moving portrait of the most famous living English painter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke: New York Times Best Selling Writer Talks With Ambassador Samantha Power 


George Packer talks with Ambassador Samantha Power about his new biography, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. Packer delves into the life of Richard Holbrooke, the force behind the Dayton Accords, which ended the Balkan wars, illustrating how his story is also that of America during its era of supremacy: its strength, drive, and sense of possibility, as well as its penchant for overreach and heedless self-confidence. George Packer is a staff writer at the Atlantic and the author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, which was a New York Times best seller and winner of the 2013 National Book Award. His other nonfiction books include The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize, and Blood of the Liberals, winner of the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Ambassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. From 2013 to 2017 Power served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as well as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Club | Three Daughters of Eve: A Love She Tried to Forget


The stunning, timely new novel from Elif Shafak, the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground—an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past—and a love—Peri had tried desperately to forget.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Trust Exercise: Young, Gifted, and In Love


In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed―or untoyed with―by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. With author Susan Choi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War


The award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning, Stephanie McCurry challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic stories revealing women's transformative role in the American Civil War.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Sunset Dance Performances: Gibney


Gibney brings their lower Manhattan performing arts center to the park. Join them for sunset performances set against the Manhattan skyline. Gibney's dance-mobile is an annual series of free outdoor performances in parks throughout the city. By 'making space for dance' in outdoor public spaces, Gibney Dance Company hopes to make the power of movement accessible to all. Tonight: 2nd Best Dance Company
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Comedy Club | The Mosquito Comedy Variety Show


Actress and Emmy award-winning commentator Nancy Giles (CBS News Sunday Morning) hosts this fast and furious monthly variety show with stand-ups, sit-downs and music. Giles, who starred on ABC's China Beach" and Delta series will be joined by a rotating cast of regulars who have in the past included: Pat Candaras, Cynthia Kaplan, Peri Gaffney, Kathryn Rossetter, Sheila Head, Susan Burns, Sue Giles, Nancy Shayne and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join each season in performing at the historic church. Featuring: Malcolm-x Betts Nana Chinara Leslie Cuyjet Kyli Kleven
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Talk | Speaking of Shakespeare with Oscar-Winning Actor F. Murray Abraham


Although he is best known for his award-winning work in film and television, F. Murray Abraham is also a classically-trained stage actor who has appeared in a number of Shakespeare productions, including a Central Park performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice. Welcome him for what promises to be a delightful conversation about his career and passion for Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Works By Mozart, Handel And Brahms For Violin


Yeri Roh, violin. Program George Friedrich Handel Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in A Major, Op.1, No.3 George Friedrich Handel Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in A Minor, Op.25 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Duo for Violin and Viola No.1 in G Major, K.423 Johannes Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in D Minor, Op.108
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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