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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 18, 2021?

15 free events take place on Monday, October 18 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 18 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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15 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 18, 2021

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Discussion | Should We Ban Fashion Advertising? (online)


One of the main issues stopping clothing from becoming “sustainable” is the rate of consumption. Consumption has overtaken population growth as the biggest threat to the planet; people are buying more and more, as new fashion products are aggressively marketed to people on and offline. In light of the climate crisis, is it time to ban fashion advertising? In this panel discussion, we will explore this question by looking at what a world without fashion advertising would look like. Could this wean people from fast fashion and the planned obsolescence so virile within the contemporary fashion landscape? What would happen to the skills people have in this space? What would the media landscape look like? How would people develop their style when given space away from relentless marketing?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Club | Cookbook Group: One Tin Bakes by the Winner of Great British Bake Off (online)


The group will be cooking recipes from One Tin Bakes by Edd Kimber--the first ever winner of Great British Bake Off.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Physical Therapy-Based Workout


Join a workout with a physical therapy based approach. The objectives are injury prevention, pain reduction and sustainability for the knees, hips, shoulders, ankles, elbows and spine. You will leave class sweaty, energized, and feeling amazing. Also great for people looking to improve their cardiovascular stamina, strength, flexibility, mental focus and concentration in a holistic environment. Bring your own mat. Proof of vaccination and face masks required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Performance | Muck Studies Dept N.O. Stars Found: Performance Art


Artist and musician Geo Wyeth presents this live performance, transmitted over the internet, including segments of a large-scale poem and theater piece that is currently under development. During the performance, Wyeth will move in and out of character, exploring the boundaries around the poem's key figure as well as the meeting point (and potential clashes) between theater and video as modes of engagement. The performance is a constellational body employing inherited diasporic/American funk and folk poetics, and techniques of investigative journalism. The project connects mud, water, metal, gas, ass, rocks, coins, extractive industry, deep coloniality, and sensual expression of belonging to that flood. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artist.  Geo Wyeth (b. 1984, NYC) is an artist and educator, working in the realms of music, performance, narrative sculpture, and video who lives and works in Rotterdam. Wyeth has shown work at the New Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MoMA PS1 (Greater New York 2016), Dutch National Opera, Triangle France, Anthology Film Archives, The Kitchen, TENT (Rotterdam), Arsenic (CH), Biquini Wax (CDMX), LA MoCA, New York Live Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Boston ICA, La MaMa Theatre, Human Resources, The Pyramid Club, Joes Pub, and many others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Fitness Workout


Hit the pavement and push your body to new limits. For ages 18+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Forum | Writing for Children and Young Adults Forum (online)


Meghan McCullough and Elizabeth Dunn-Ruiz sit down with Caron Levis, writing for children and young adults coordinator at the Creative Writing program. Meghan Maria McCullough is an Associate Editor at Levine Querido. Previously, she was an Editorial Assistant at Arthur A. Levine Books, and imprint of Scholastic. Prior to joining Scholastic, she worked in marketing at Penguin Random House. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from The New School. Elizabeth Dunn-Ruiz holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, an MS in Urban and Multicultural Education from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, and a BA in English Literature from Hunter College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Zumba in a Park


This socially-distanced class features aerobic training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body. Sneakers are recommended. Every Monday until Oct 25, 2021. Check-in begins at 5:30 pm. Masks are required. Must sign a waiver before participating. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Registration opens every Tuesday at 10:00 am for the class the following week.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present and Future Through Its Place-Names (online)


A talk on New York place names by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Focusing on the Upper West Side, he will recount the fascinating history behind the naming of our streets, neighborhoods, parks and water bodies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Composer Francesco Corteccia (1502 - 1571): Weaver of New Musical Textures (online)


Explore the music of Francesco Corteccia (1502 - 1571) with an ear toward the innovative music textures he fashioned. Corteccia's choices convey color, mood and meaning with an expressive directness of which Puccini would have approved. This is a music listening and discussion group. Francesco Corteccia was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher. Not only was he one of the best known of the early composers of madrigals, and an important native Italian composer during a period of domination by composers from the Low Countries, but he was the most prominent musician in Florence for several decades during the reign of Cosimo I de' Medici.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Mother/land: Award-Winning Poems of Motherhood and Immigration (online)


A poetry reading to celebrate Ananda Lima's new collection which engages in the themes of language and legacy through mutli-lingual lyricism. Winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, the book is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker's relationship to place, others and self. It investigates the mutual and compounding complications of these two shifts in identity while examining legacy, history, ancestry, land, home, and language.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with an Actor-Activist (online)


Reynaldo Piniella is an actor, writer, educator and activist from East New York, Brooklyn. He is an Advocacy Leadership Institute Fellow with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). He currently serves on the Council of the Episcopal Actors’ Guild, a nonsectarian charitable organization that provides food and financial assistance to actors in need.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | A Filmmaker and a Dancer in Conversation (online)


Welcome award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans and dance artist and educator Kayla Hamilton. Currently, Evans is a Ford/Mellon Disability Futures Fellow. Hamilton appears in a segment of Vision Portraits, Evans’ 2019 documentary which highlights the lives and creative journeys of low-vision artists. They will present and discuss a clip from the film along with other materials.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism (online)


In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. That protest redirected the course of his life, and a week later, Staley found his way into a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power—ACT UP—in the West Village. His new memoir is the untold story of his journey from closeted Wall Street bond trader to one of the leading AIDS and LGBTQ rights activists of his generation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Other | Spooky Open House


• Free Food • Music and Games • Free Raffle Prizes from Casse/Cou Chocolates, Random Gifts & Accessories, Flower Power, and more • Meet and Mingle With Artists This is a Halloween-inspired event, and costumes are optional. See link for COVID protocols.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Tour | Las Vegas: Fremont Street of Downtown (livestream)


See the best sights in Downtown Las Vegas on this walking tour of where Las Vegas all began in 1905 - Fremont Street! You will witness the history of Las Vegas collide with the technological and artistic present of modern day Fremont. Your guide will take you on a 100+ year journey of Las Vegas from its beginnings as a small desert railroad town during the Wild West years through the glitz and glamor of the Mobbed up mid-century heyday, the transformation to the Fremont Street Experience with the construction of the world's largest big screen Viva Vision, all the way to the contemporary public art commissions and revitalization of the East Fremont District.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:15 pm
Free
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