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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 2, 2019?

34 free events take place on Saturday, November 2 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 November 2 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 November . 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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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, November 2, 2019

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free events nyc Brooklyn Bridge Walk
free events nyc The Wolves: A New Drama
free events nyc Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13
free events nyc Korean Folk Songs
        

Workshop | Morning Fitness


One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can't be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Conference | Political Origins of Health Inequities: Technology in the Digital Age


Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence have the potential to address and even transform global health problems. These innovations are not neutral, however; their social impacts raise a number of challenges including reproducing and deepening inequalities.  Whether technological innovations produce opportunities or constraints depends fundamentally on what technology is developed, for whom, by whom, and for what purposes. This conference seeks to examine the global governance challenges to harnessing digital innovation for the public good, in order to avoid harmful consequences and combat the political origins of health inequity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | DrawNow! Workshop


People of all ages are invited to take part in an interactive event that will explore drawing and writing as witnessing. Guided by teaching artist Ada Pilar Cruz and creative writing teacher Jamie Maleszka, participants will collaboratively engage with the personal and cultural histories of the drawings on view in The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings By Incarcerated Artists, as well as works generated by the Words Uncaged writers, who are currently detained at the Calipatria Correctional Facility in California.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Monuments Tour of the Park


A monuments tour of the park, an Olmsted gem and one of New York City’s Scenic Landmarks. A guided walk along Riverside Drive highlights the park’s development as well as its historic and commemorative monuments. Tour is approximately 1.5 miles and involves some walking up hills. Wear comfortable shoes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge Walk


Distance: 4 miles. Walk over the bridge, through part of Brooklyn Heights and along Atlantic Ave. Lunch will be at a local restaurant. You must call to confirm that walk is on.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
$3

Conference | Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations


The conference will gather an international array of scholars to discuss the diverse ways that Ukrainian culture has been stirred by the recent war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas. It will present and analyze the vibrant and varied reflections of the war marking today’s Ukrainian culture. It will explore the different, novel ways that Ukrainian literature, film, music, and visual art have attempted to perceive, interpret, and express war in the country. Among the questions that will be treated at the conference are: How has this culture changed as the war has endured? How have language, memory and displacement been treated by this culture? How has this culture been disseminated in Ukraine and beyond its borders? How does this culture reflect the identity of today’s Ukraine?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Discover The Beautiful Voice Inside You


Are you terrified to sing? Inside Voice will offer you a joyful space to discover the beautiful voice that has been inside you all along. Whether you are a seasoned professional, a proud shower singer, or someone who has never opened their mouth to sing, Inside Voice allows singers and "non-singers" alike to uncover the power and beauty of their full 5-octave range while developing a deep, emotive connection to their own unique sound.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Talk | Modern Art Meetup


This meetup is designed to help anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art. Themes can provide an effective structure for engaging with art. Meetup participants receive a pass to MoMA to continue the conversation in MoMA’s galleries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Play | J Ceez AKA Julius Caesar: A Shakespeare Adaptation


A new adaptation in Modern English of the Bard's classic drama. Presented by the Hudson Guild Theatre Company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966): Oscar Nominated Musical 


When an average Joe achieves fame and success, the results are quite comic 100 min. Director: Philip Saville. Starring Tony Tanner, Millicent Martin, Leila Croft.  Stop the World: I Want to Get Off was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Music Scoring.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Play | The Wolves: A New Drama


A student production of a drama by Sarah DeLappe. THE WOLVES won the American Playwriting Foundation's inaugural Relentless Award, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Yale Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Play | Tough: A Troubled Teen Boot Camp


The troubled teen boot camp Crosswinds sells itself to parents as a behavior modification program that will help their daughters straighten out. The girls who have been sent here, however, learn it is a place of ever-changing rules, harsh punishments, and ever-increasing desperation. When they hear a rumor that the program will be shut down if a camper dies, the girls plan their escape - by whatever means necessary. A student production. Written by Margot Connolly.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Cartographic Visions of New Netherland and New Amsterdam


Ian Fowler will take you on an exploration of the history of the shifting populations of Manhattan Island, from the Lenape, through the Dutch, and onto modern times, using maps representing the land as interpreted by these groups and also the way these groups have been represented in the cartographic record.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Creative Writing Class


Attendees will discover the value of their own stories. Participants are requested to commit to attending all sessions if possible. This is an ongoing session taking place every Saturday at 2:00 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians And Icons From The 1950's To Today


Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, and Truman Capote are just a few of the thousands of accomplished artists, writers, radicals, and performers who made their way through Greenwich Village. This tour, primarily focusing on the 1950s onward, visits the hangouts that have defined legendary people and the spirit of this iconic neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die (2019): Horror Comedy With Bill Murray, Adam Driver And Tom Waits


The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. 104 min. Director: Jim Jarmusch. Starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Featuring: Julie Morrissy and Cathy Linh Che
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13


Ludwig van Beethoven's favorite book was C.C. Sturm's Reflections On the Works of God, and His Providence Throughout All Nature, an almanac of daily essays on natural and scientific wonders. His String Quartet No. 13 with "Grosse Fuge" explores an equally wondrous variety of musical worlds. The New York Classical Players perform this late period masterwork, preceded by recitations from the Library's rare 19th century copy of Beethoven's favorite book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Selected Readings of The Book of Songs


Dated from the 12th century to the 7th century B. C., The Book of Songs is the fountainhead of Chinese literature, and the oldest collection of poetry in world literature. It is an anthology of 305 poems edited by Confucius (551-479 B. C.). The collection remained a required reading for the literati for more than 2,000 years in China, and not until the turn of the 20th century did it cease to be read as scripture and begin to be appreciated as a collection of poetic compositions. Though straightforward and natural in style, typical of ancient literature in terms of the immediacy of imagery and pervasive musical quality, The Book of Songs is by no means simple in its modes of expression. The poems are rich in metaphors and similes, both indirect and direct, as well as narrative display. At this lecture, Ben Wang, Senior Lecturer and the Co-Chair of the Renwen Society, will select four of the best poems and offer an in-depth analysis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Featuring: Jane Clarke and Michael Dickman
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Performance | A Famine of Hearing: Performance Art


Sarah Zapata invites artists Amelia Bande, Stephanie Acosta, and Camille Hoffman to activate A Famine of Hearing (her installation of handwoven, hand-tufted, and sewn textiles amassing as a textured, excess-relishing fantasy of queered tradition) with their varied practices. As viewers exist in, move through, and interact with Zapata’s work in an un-choreographed manner, artists whose work is largely movement-based will provide contrasting deliberation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Author Reading | American Dreamer: A Wall in the Desert


Antoine Vigne as he presents his latest novel. Juan is a young, undocumented Mexican man who lives in El Paso. Passionate about science and astronomy, he decides to pursue academia, but due to his clandestine status, he is forced to flee and take refuge in Arizona. The adventure brings him to the roads of California, then to the remotest regions of Mexico, where he attempts to regain control of his destiny. To do that, though, he must return to the United States, cross the border, and confront the wall being built in the desert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Concert At The Coolest Classical Music Concerts Location In NYC


Classical music on a boat with an intimate and romantic setting and beautiful view of New York City. Followed by a Q & A session with the musicians. Program and musicians TBA. Doors open at 3:45 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Museums | Museum Programs of Art, Performance, and Participation for All


At this monthly event, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment, including dynamic performances and participatory experiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Featuring: Martina Evans and Tina Chang, with opening reading by Ned Denny
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Tenant: Minimal Ceramic Sculptures


In Roman Polanski’s film The Tenant, a man moves into an apartment previously inhabited by a witch, and finds a tooth buried in the wall. She eventually begins to enter his psyche, transforming his identity until he begins to wear her clothing and her tormented persona. Polanski, removing the fang buried in the wall’s interior, unlocks the wilderness, teeming with its illogical constructions and desires, and brings it into his home. For her first solo exhibition in New York City, sculptor Priscilla Fusco presents an arrangement of ceramic objects which suggest coral-like living creatures or the diatomaceous sedimentary remnants of their bodies. Many of the individual pieces can be fitted to the human hand or wrist so that the wearer might enter the imagined natural world from which the forms originate, leaving behind intellectual rigor and and other human controls imparted upon the non-human. Priscilla Fusco creates minimal sculptures in clay and other materials, which seek to channel the complexity of organisms and human mythologies in order to lower humanities awkward place in the natural order. Her recent work in ceramics has focused on concepts of Arthurian folktales, wherein she designs pieces that seemingly have grown their own forms, dagger and stone-like shapes, enthroned in chairs. She also has used a variety of natural found materials in her sculptural installations, which also may include sound and performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Play | Tartuffe: Molière's Hypocrite


Blinded by admiration, Orgon, a property-owning veteran of the armed forces, offers his home as shelter to the poor and pious Tartuffe. Soon, to the dismay of his entire family, he arranges for his daughter to marry him. All are opposed to this union and attempt to have Tartuffe thrown out, but the authoritarian Orgon, is duped by Tartuffe's religious fervor and refuses to see what's what in front of his eyes, no matter how farcically obvious it is. A student production.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | LIFT/UPLIFT: A World-Premiere Dance Performance


An extraordinary dance celebration: LIFT/UPLIFT serves as a climactic conclusion to the feature-length documentary, LIFT, directed by Academy Award nominee David Petersen. Eight years in the making, the film follows a group of remarkable children from underprivileged backgrounds who embrace the discipline, passion, and beauty of ballet to step from the street to the New York stage. The FREE dance performance celebrates the 30th anniversary of LIFT, founded by Diana Byer, artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet, and includes a new work by Steven Melendez (who was director of LIFT for 2 years), performed by Victor Rosario and the dancers of LIFT. Guest artist, Alicia Graf Mack, will perform a world premiere of a dance she especially created for the celebration, and dancers of New York Theatre Ballet will perform other works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Play | The Wolves: A New Drama


A student production of a drama by Sarah DeLappe. THE WOLVES won the American Playwriting Foundation's inaugural Relentless Award, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Yale Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Korean Folk Songs


A Joyful and Exuberant Evening of Korean Traditional Music and Dance. The master performers of Jindo National Gugak Center, one of the foremost Korean traditional performing arts groups of Korea, is coming to New York. Along with the New York Korean Performing Arts Center, they will present an exciting curation of Korean folk music and dance that present the powerful dynamism and deeply established traditions of the Namdo (southern provinces) region of Korea.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Play | J Ceez AKA Julius Caesar: A Shakespeare Adaptation


A new adaptation in Modern English of the Bard's classic drama. Presented by the Hudson Guild Theatre Company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Folk and Jazz


Rauh/Mizell Duo presents spontaneous song stories that combine elements of Americana, various folk influences, and jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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