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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 21, 2013?

39 free events take place on Monday, October 21 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 October 21 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 October . 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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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 21, 2013

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free events nyc BeBrasil Pop-Up Festival
free events nyc Award-winning American theatre and opera director Anne Bogart discusses her book Conversations with Anne
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Workshop | Fitness Bootcamp


Start the week off right. A Group Exercise Instructor will wake up every muscle in the body through drills, strength training and sweat. Staff will be on hand to provide free fitness assessments in addition to other giveaways. .
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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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., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Festival | BeBrasil Pop-Up Festival


BeBrasil is a pop-up festival that will introduce Brazil’s innovations to the world by celebrating new creative products and services developed through inspiring and collaborative work. During the week of October 15-22, 2013, the creativity of Brazil will take over New York. The weeklong festival will bring together Brazil’s most creative professionals and innovative companies from the following sectors: Fashion, Architecture, Design, Food and Beverages, Plastics, Cosmetics, Film, Music, Aerospace and Technology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Brian May, guitarist for Queen, signs copies of his book Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell


May is one of the world's foremost collectors of Victorian stereo cards. The subject of this first book from the London Stereoscopic Company is amongst the most famous sets of stereo cards ever published - the Diableries ("Devilments"), which were originally published in France around 1860.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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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Concert | The Ibstock Place Singers from London


The Ibstock Place Singers are all students at Ibstock Place School, an independent day school for children aged 3 – 18. The school has a thriving music department and the choir is visiting New York. The choir will perform music including Jerusalem (Parry); The Lord is my Shepherd (Goodall); Brightest and Best (Archer); Rise Heart (Vaughan Williams); Magnificat (Dyson); the Mass for New York (Janz).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Northern Exposure: Revisit the 90s Comedy-Drama Series


Whether it's a snowy nude sprint down Main Street, the mysterious appearance of a long-lost relative, or the improbable death of yet another of Maggie's boyfriends, life's never dull in the remote hamlet of Cicely, Alaska. Colorful characters and quirky plots propelled Northern Exposure into the hearts of millions of viewers, earning the CBS "dramedy" series seven Emmy awards between its 1990 debut and its demise six seasons later.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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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.
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Clarinet Master Class with David Shifrin


One of only two wind players to have been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize since the award's inception in 1974, Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Tour | 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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2:00 pm
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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
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Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults


Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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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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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Violin Master Class with Mark Steinberg


As first violinist of the Brentano String Quartet, Mark Steinberg has had an active career both in the U.S. and abroad since 1992. The quartet has won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the first Cleveland Quartet Award, Lincoln Center’s Martin Segal Prize, and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award. The group is also quartet-in-residence at Princeton University. With a repertoire that spans from the Renaissance to the music of today, the quartet has been involved in numerous commissions and special projects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Playwright Theresa Rebeck in Conversation


A Conversation with Theresa Rebeck, hosted by John Weidman. Smash creator Theresa Rebeck opens up about her career and the release of her fourth volume of collected plays with a book signing to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Love Affairs: Marriage, Romance and Early American Jews


A lecture by Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman on how the notion of marriage changed among early American Jews during the colonial era through the early 19th century. Leibman is the award-winning author of Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life, recipient of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Jewish American Studies and the Jordan Schnitzer Award of the Association of Jewish Studies in the Cultural and Media Studies category.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line Night 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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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Award-winning American theatre and opera director Anne Bogart discusses her book Conversations with Anne


Award-winning American theatre and opera director Anne Bogart will discuss her newest book. As part of SITI Company's 20th Anniversary Season, Anne brings one last interviewee to the stage: herself. Ben Cameron of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation will ask Anne a series of questions posted by the book's interviewees. Hear Anne speak on the current climate of theatre, the next generation of artists, and the legacy of a 20-year old ensemble theatre company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | James W. Ziskin reads from his book Styx & Stone


"In Ziskin's version of the classic 'noir' novel, the scene of the crime is a trendy Manhattan high-rise rather than a dive in LA or 'Frisco.' What's more, his murder victims are learned academics rather than crooks, so they cross the infernal river just once without first going up the creek. Most surprising for our expectations in the noir genre is that Ziskin's protagonist is not a boozy, disheveled, and raunchy has-been, but a beautiful, chic young woman and raunchy wannabe." - John Freccero
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jeff Rosenfeld discusses his book Unassisted Living: Ageless Homes for Later Life


Boomers will not be flocking to retirement communities, or other types of senior housing anytime soon. They are opting instead for unassisted living: homes and communities which celebrate independence, creativity, and ongoing social connection in later life. Unassisted living is actually shorthand for 5 distinctive Boomer lifestyles. Learn more about these intriguing lifestyles; and about ageless homes being designed by Boomers on the cusp of retirement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poets Patrizia Cavalli and Rosanna Warren read their work


Patrizia Cavalli was born in Todi, Umbria in 1949. She has written six collections of poetry: Datura (Einaudi, 2013); Pigre divinità e pigra sorte (Lazy Gods, Lazy Fate) (Einaudi, 2006); Sempre aperto teatro (The Forever Open Theater) (Einaudi, 1999); Poesie 1974–1992 (Poems) (Einaudi, 1992); L’io singolare proprio mio (The All Mine Singular I) (Einaudi, 1992); Il cielo (The Sky) (Einaudi, 1981); and Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo (My Poems Will Not Change the World) (Einaudi, 1974). Rosanna Warren born in 1953 in Fairfield, Connecticut. She is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her most recent books of poems are Ghost in a Red Hat (2011) and Departure (2003), both from W. W. Norton.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | 1960s Avant-Garde Film


A lecture by curator Jens Hoffmann.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Allan Gurganus signs copies of his book Local Souls


Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Aaron Beebe


Aaron Beebe is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Engaged Lives: Activist and Author Paul Loeb


Paul Loeb is an accomplished author, researcher, lecturer, and alumnus. He has spent over thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment--asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jonathan Grimwood discusses his novel The Last Banquet


An evening of storytelling, lively literary conversation, and bizarre culinary tastes. Join novelist Jonathan Grimwood and special guests at a celebration of food, obsession, and literature. Dishes prepared especially for the occasion by The Works executive chef Emily Casey and inspired by The Last Banquet will be served. (You have been warned.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Simon Winchester reads from his book Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible


Historian Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) introduces the story of the explorers, thinkers and innovators who created the greatest nation on earth.
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Author Reading | Terry Teachout reads from his book Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington


Terry Teachout is drama critic for The Wall Street Journal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Trumpet Player Sean Jones and His Quartet


Whether he’s exploring the emotional depths of a ballad or tearing it up in a high-tempo cooker, Jones is one of the most exciting trumpet players on the jazz scene. The former lead trumpet player of Wynton Marsalis’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jones plays the instrument with tremendous expressive power. The critics agree: The All About Jazz website said of his dynamic quartet’s new recording, “At times breathtaking, No Need for Words is an album of exceeding beauty.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Film | Joel Calmettes' Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa (2011): Colonizing a Continent


In 1885, representatives from the Great Powers of Europe came together in Berlin to set up guidelines for the division, colonization and economic exploitation of the continent of Africa. No African representatives were invited. Central to the negotiations of the "Berlin Conference on Africa" was the establishment of Congo as a free trade zone under the personal rule of Kind Leopold II of Belgium. Rich archival and scholarly material, plus dramatic reenactments based on transcripts of the Conference proceedings provide an insightful window into the events that would launch the Scramble for Africa and a turning point for millions by the hands of a few. 84 min. In French with English subtitles. Followed by post-screening discussion with special guests TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress: Christina Houle / Kai Kleinbard / Belinda McGuire Dance Projects / Veleda Roehl


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 artists-in-residence and international guests each season in performing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Nicolas Roeg's The Witches (1990): Animated Adventure


With Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher. A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse. 91 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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