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30 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, October 6, 2019

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free events nyc Lower East Side Pickle Day
free events nyc Dockapella: The Finest College A Cappella Groups
free events nyc To Life: Meet the Rosens
free events nyc Trios written for oboe, bassoon and piano
free events nyc Days Go By: A Large-Scale, Site-Specific Performance About the Lost Moments of Our Days
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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 more 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 less
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the more 20th century, T.C. Cannon embodied the activism, cultural transition and creative expression that defined America in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn how Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary. Start times: 10 a.m., 11 a.m. less
   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.
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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10:00 am
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Festival | The Festival of New


Since 1919, The New School has been home to scholars, creators, and activists who challenge convention more and boldly make their mark on the world. To celebrate this groundbreaking legacy, they are opening our doors to the public for a weeklong festival of dozens of innovative performances, talks, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, and more.  Taking place October 1–6, 2019, the festival reflect on a century of world-changing ideas and together imagine a new kind of future. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central and South America demonstrates more the breadth of the museum's renowned collection and highlights the importance of many of these iconic objects. Start times:, 11 a.m., 1 p.m. less
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11:00 am
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Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour


A journey through the vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City’s most notable landmarks, including more the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building. Tour guides: Miriam Berman, historian and the author of Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks and New York in Words and Images, a book of New York postcards. Fred Cookinham, historian, author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World. Mike Kaback, a native New Yorker, has an unquenchable enthusiasm for everything about this city. No advance registration is required. This tour repeats every Sunday. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Screening | Animation Nights New York's Best Of Fest


Animation New York is thrilled to present the fourth annual Best of Fest! The two-day annual festival more and conference will feature animation screenings, a fine arts exhibit, VR workshop presentation, XR showcase, professional panels, and industry events. less
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Community Rowing


Village Community Boathouse provides free, no experience necessary Community Rowing on the Hudson River. more After a brief orientation, participants will be split into crews with an experienced coxswain to steer the boat and a mixture of experienced and new rowers. The boats, Whitehall Gigs, are stable, traditional working boats for four rowers and a coxswain. Please note: Rows will last between one and three hours, dependent on weather, tides, and destination. Participants are expected to help launch, retrieve, and clean the boats each session. Community rowing is open to all, although some physical agility is required. The focus of the program is teamwork and recreation in a safe and respectful environment. Each participant must sign a waiver. Life jackets are provided. Expect to be out in the hot sun for several hours - bring water and sunscreen! Sundays, May 26-October 27, 2019 less
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12:00 pm
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Festival | Harvest Festival


A family-friendly celebration of fall! Activities: • Live musical performances • Pumpkin decorating more • Face painting • Kite making • Meet the chickens • Crafts, games, and more!     less
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12:00 pm
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Festival | Lower East Side Pickle Day


Fall is upon us, and with that is one of New York's most relished traditions, Lower East Side Pickle more Day! The festival is a slice of the city's history, reminiscent of when the streets of the Lower East Side were lined with pushcarts peddling their goods and wares for sale to a neighborhood of immigrants from far and wide. Lower East Side merchants and Picklers from up and down the east coast will be lining Orchard Street, delivering the divine scent of brine. These vendors are offering cucs on sticks, ice cream churned with dill, and pickle chips fried to perfection. Attendees can also sample bites from the new Essex Market and taste of what's ahead with shops and eateries from the forthcoming Market Line. Pickle Day is a kid and kid-at-heart friendly event with free activities like giant games, coloring tables, and more. Dance all day to tunes by DJs from Louie & Chan! Snap a photo with friends in the free photo booth or strike a pose with our giant pickle mascot, Mr. Pickle himself! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Dance Lesson | Dance Sunday Community Classes


Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Sunday Community Classes are open and free of charge.  Sundays, September more 29-December 8, 2019 less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central and South America demonstrates more the breadth of the museum's renowned collection and highlights the importance of many of these iconic objects. Start times: 1pm, 2pm less
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Dockapella: The Finest College A Cappella Groups


An autumn celebration of intricately woven harmonies along the Hudson River. Get inspired by the vocal more stylings of the finest college a cappella groups in the Northeast. Six ensembles will showcase their pitch-perfect vocal renditions from a diverse mix of musical genres. Bring a blanket, a picnic lunch and enjoy the music with New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty as backdrop. FEATURED PERFORMERS: THE N'HARMONICS THE NOR'EASTERS New York University Northeastern University NOTES AND KEYS OFF THE BEAT Columbia University Univerity of Pennsylvania THE OPPORTUNES PITCH SLAPPED Harvard University Berklee College of Music less
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Talk | Stories Survive: A Holocaust Survivor Remembers


At this monthly Stories Survive Speaker Series, hear Holocaust survivors share their life stories in more their own words. Steve Hess was born in Holland in 1938. He was deported to Westerbork Transit camp with his parents and twin sister, Marion. They were eventually deported to Bergen-Belsen and imprisoned there for a year. They emigrated to the United States in 1947. less
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the more 20th century, T.C. Cannon embodied the activism, cultural transition and creative expression that defined America in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn how Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary. less
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1:30 pm
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Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour


Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, information about architect Cass Gilbert more and viewings of the Collectors Office with its Tiffany woodwork, Reginald Marsh murals and the 140-ton rotunda dome, designed and built by Rafael Gustavino. less
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Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House Tour


Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, information about architect Cass Gilbert more and viewings of the Collectors Office with its Tiffany woodwork, Reginald Marsh murals and the 140-ton rotunda dome, designed and built by Rafael Gustavino. less
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Public Art and Garden Tour: Park Landscape as Art


Landscape architect and horticulturist Nancy Seaton leads a thought-provoking tour investigating how more landscapes are often the receptacle of art- the context within which sculpture is placed. Explore how the landscapes of the park is the art. Discuss how basic principles of design and conceptual thinking transcend media, and the phenomenal elements that are especially well expressed through landscape. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Jazz | The Manhattan Jazz Combo


The timeless jazz favorites of the twentieth century played by a talented group of young musicians in more a beautiful setting just above the river. Led by the talented vocalist, Anthony Marsden, this band of musicians presents jazz standards, favorites from the Great American Songbook. The music and the setting just over the Hudson combine to make this a sweet Sunday in the Park.   less
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2:00 pm
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Play | To Life: Meet the Rosens


The Rosen family, battered and blessed, celebrates Jeffrey's life as their hearts lie gasping on the more floor. Backs are turned and accusations hurled as the Rosens come together and fall apart, bound by heartbreak and humor. Nobody escapes a good kick in the tuchas as they expose their foibles, confront their fears, and cling to their fragile connection amidst the chaos. The story is both elegy and eulogy to the death of a family and reminds us that we're not alone. Written by Eve Lederman. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
$5

Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour


Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, information about architect Cass Gilbert more and viewings of the Collectors Office with its Tiffany woodwork, Reginald Marsh murals and the 140-ton rotunda dome, designed and built by Rafael Gustavino. less
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3:00 pm
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Dance Performance | ShowDown: Dance Works-in-Progress


ShowDown is a performance and feedback series for works-in-progress. The program provides emerging and more mid-career dance artists an opportunity to show unfinished work in an informal, welcoming setting, with a feedback session following the performances facilitated by a noted guest choreographer. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Discussion | Moving Movements: Women in Philanthropy


A dynamic, diverse and national convening. Recognizing that women are leading this shift and the history more of women philanthropists like Vera List, after whom the Center is named, this program considers how a distinctly intersectional feminist perspective, when it plays out through philanthropy, can transform our cultural organizations into more social justice-driven, inclusive and resilient spaces that boldly assert their civic roles. As a way to advance this urgent discussion, we look at the precious and formidable resources represented by women's leadership and advocacy in philanthropy. Panelists: -- Cecilia Clarke, President & CEO, Brooklyn Community Foundation, New York -- Michelle Coffey, Executive Director, Lambent Foundation, New York -- Andrea Fraser, artist, Los Angeles -- Pia Infante, Co-Executive Director, The Whitman Institute, San Francisco -- Hali Lee, Co-Director, Donors of Color Network; founder, Asian Women Giving Circle, New York -- Moderator: M. Bryna Sanger, Deputy Provost, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, The New School less
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Trios written for oboe, bassoon and piano


Sundance Trio was formed in 2005 to explore and perform trios written for oboe, bassoon and piano. The more Trio has a repertoire of over 50 works and actively seeks to encourage new compositions. Together, the Trio has performed throughout the United States and the United Kingdom at colleges, chamber music series and at conferences. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Organ Recital


Organist Sebastian Heindl is the winner of the 2019 Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition more Pierre S. du Pont First Prize, Audience Choice Prize, and AGO Philadelphia Chapter Prize. Heindl received his fundamental musical education as a chorister in St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig, and contributed as a youngster organist to the BBC TV documentary Bach: A Passionate Life with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the famous Trost organ in Altenburg less
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5:15 pm
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Opening Reception | Notations: An Artist's Signature Nail Paintings


Notations brings together new large-scale nail paintings with a selection of watercolors from series more made by Gunther Uecker (b. 1930, Wendorf, Germany) during his global travels over the past three decades. The exhibition is the first to juxtapose these disparate bodies of work, which together provide deeper insight into Uecker’s practice and the sociopolitical concerns that have informed his artistic efforts over the past 60 years. less
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6:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Days Go By: A Large-Scale, Site-Specific Performance About the Lost Moments of Our Days


Monica Bill Barnes & Company brings attention to the otherwise lost moments that add up into our days more with their new show, Days Go By. The world -premiere of this large-scale, site-specific performance is set amongst the bustle, inviting the audience to take a closer look at the heartwarming, painstaking, heroic events happening to and around us each and every day. Audience members will receive a pair of headphones to tune into a narration that explores the depths of our ideals, the hilarious heartbreaks, and the disregarded moments that add up into a day. Performers embedded throughout the space transform the surroundings into a symphony of movement and interactions. Set to a soundtrack of forgotten tracks and one hit wonders, Days Go By blurs reality with the theatrical and places big-hearted dancing alongside the everyday comings and goings of life in a city. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality


Northwestern professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes will discuss her new book for which she interviewed over more 100 HIV+ women over a decade about the effects of their disease. What she found was remarkable: for many of these women, contracting HIV/AIDS gave them a new lease on life, in large part because their diagnoses gave them access to the social safety with the help of activists. less
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Dependency Graph 4: Performance Art


Dependency Graph 4 continues the performative collaboration between Black Rain and video artist Philip more Vanderhyden. Black Rain's Stuart Argabright and Vanderhyden were introduced in 2012 while Vanderhyden was curating the exhibition Gretchen Bender: Tracking the Thrill. Their collaboration began with Argabright supplying sound for Vanderhyden's multi-channel video installations, leading to ongoing collaborations with Argabright and co-band member Soren Roi. The group will stage the most recent iteration of the 30-minute long set, employing a 12-channel bank of monitors and sound equipment to create a theatrical tableau in the gallery. Black Rain's post-industrial meta-music offers an improvised response to Vanderhyden's videos which explore themes of financial anxiety, developmental psychology, virtual reality and sexual gratification in a dreamlike, hypnotic tableau. less
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