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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 9, 2024?

27 free events take place on Wednesday, October 9 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 9 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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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, October 9, 2024

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Workshop | Boot Camp Workout - Outdoors


An early-morning core body Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back, and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high fives welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Boot Camp Workout - Outdoors

Workshop | Outdoor Yoga


Move, stretch, and start your morning off right with this open-level vinyasa class. Please bring your own yoga mat, and they recommend a bottle of water and towel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Workshops, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Outdoor Yoga

Tour | NYC Walking Tours: A Variety of Neighborhoods - Choose One Tour Or Many


These tours take place at various times. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. See link for details: scroll down to find the daily scheduled tours at $4 (more costly tours are listed on top). Daily tours may include: Brooklyn Bridge SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Lower Manhattan Harlem Downtown Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Graffiti and Street Art Tours
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
$4
Tours, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, NYC Walking Tours: A Variety of Neighborhoods - Choose One Tour Or Many

Master Class | Orchestral Performance Master Class


Orchestral Performance Master Class with Bing Wang, violin, Associate Concertmaster, Los Angeles Philharmonic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Concerts, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Orchestral Performance Master Class

Master Class | Orchestral Performance Master Class


Orchestral Performance Master Class with Tom Hooten Principal Trumpet for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Orchestral Performance Master Class, Violin


Orchestral Performance Master Class with Bing Wang, Associate Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Orchestral Performance Master Class, Violin

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshops, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Learn Juggling in the Park

Workshop | Learn to Play Petanque


Interested in learning to play petanque? Stop by the petanque courts for free lessons and casual play. Members of La Boule New Yorkaise (one of the oldest petanque clubs in the U.S.) have been playing in the ark since the 1970s, and will be staffing the courts with expert instructors who are eager to share pétanque with you. Petanque is an outdoor bowling game, similar to bocce, that was developed in the south of France early in the 20th century. It’s a game accessible to varying physical abilities and ages, can be played on more or less any patch of dirt, and is extremely easy to learn. Despite that simplicity, it is a technically and strategically stimulating game that is easy to fall in love with.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Learn to Play Petanque

Lecture | The Enigma of the ‘Narod’-Sphinx: Stories about Peasants and Their Socio-Cultural Functions in Pre-Emancipation Russia (online)


Alexey Vdovin lectures on the depiction of peasants in 19th-century Russian fiction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, The Enigma of the &lsquo;Narod&rsquo;-Sphinx: Stories about Peasants and Their Socio-Cultural Functions in Pre-Emancipation Russia (online)

Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concerts, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Classical Music | Works by J.S. Bach, Handel, and More for Orchestra and Harpischord


Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Avi Stein, harpsichord, perform works by Handel (1685-1759), Jean-Fery Rebel (1666-1747), Rameau (1683-1764), and J.S. Bach (1685-1750).
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free
Concerts, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Works by J.S. Bach, Handel, and More for Orchestra and Harpischord

Film | Firestarter (1984) with Drew Barrymore and Martin Sheen


As youths, Andy McGee and his future wife, Vicky, participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie, begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop." Director: Mark L. Lester Cast: David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Freddie Jones, Heather Locklear, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott, Art Carney, Louise Fletcher Drew Barrymore is an American actress, producer, talk show host, author, and businesswoman. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she has received several awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for nine Emmy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. Martin Sheen is an American actor. In a career spanning six decades he has received numerous accolades including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free
Films, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Firestarter (1984) with Drew Barrymore and Martin Sheen

Book Discussion | Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World


Erik R. Scott's book is a history of defection as a worldwide phenomenon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Discussion | Global Mental Health


This seminar will focus on the integration of mental health and economic interventions in humanitarian settings and will feature a case example presented by members of HIAS, a global non-governmental organization that provides humanitarian assistance to refugees, who will be visiting from Ecuador and Jordan. Following the 1-hour seminar, stay for a reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussions, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Global Mental Health

Book Club | Poetry discussion: Charles Bukowski's Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1955-1963)


Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking, and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life. Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, in1994, at the age of 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Clubs, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Poetry discussion: Charles Bukowski's Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame&nbsp;(1955-1963)

Book Discussion | Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program


The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is a lottery that awards winners from underrepresented countries the chance to apply for legal permanent residence in the United States. Most lottery winners think of themselves as lucky, viewing the win as an opportunity to pursue better lives for themselves and their families. Sociologist Onoso Imoagene uses immigrants’ stories to show that while the visa program benefits many recipients, the program’s design can also lead to exploitation in their countries of origin and reduced potential once they are in the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program

Lecture | Living in a Culture of the Past: The Life and Work of a Scribe in Hellenistic Uruk


The scribe is crucial to understanding ancient Mesopotamian culture. Historians depict an overall portrait of the Mesopotamian scribe, but what about the actual persons? Speaker: Abigail Hoskins
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Living in a Culture of the Past: The Life and Work of a Scribe in Hellenistic Uruk

Workshop | Wellness Wednesdays


Curated by Sputnik Yoga, Wellness Wednesdays will offer a variety of fitness and wellness themed classes on a weekly basis. Bring your own yoga mat or blanket.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Wellness Wednesdays

Birdwatching | Birding in the Midtown Greenway


Discover the the Esplanade through the newly opened greenway!  Join NYC Bird Alliance guide Andrew Reiter and expect to see many water birds swimming in and flying over the East River.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Birdwatchings, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Birding in the Midtown Greenway

Film | Our Body (2023): Women's Healthcare in France


This documentary follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France. Director: Claire Simon 168 min. In French with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Our Body (2023): Women's Healthcare in France

Book Discussion | The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom


Author Sarah Gronningsater's exhaustive archival research reveals the far-reaching impacts of the cradle-to-grave experiences of a generation of black New Yorkers. Born into precarious freedom after the American Revolution and reaching adulthood in the lead-up to the Civil War, this remarkable generation ultimately played an outsized role in political and legal conflicts over slavery’s future, influencing both the nation’s path to the Civil War and changes to the US Constitution. The Rising Generation shows how, as the children of gradual abolition reached adulthood, they took the lessons of their youth into midcentury campaigns for legal equality, political inclusion, equitable common school education, and the expansion of freedom across the nation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom

Concert | Flamenco, Classical, Brazilian Styles, and More for Guitar


Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a special musical performance mixing flamenco, classical, Brazilian styles and more by Spanish guitarist Salvo. Salvo is a Spanish guitarist and songwriter. With funky Spanish rumba rhythms and Latin grooves, he plays a mix of Flamenco, Classical, Brazilian, Latin and World Fusion. He has played at many private events and festivals as a solo act and with the band Salvo and Hugo. He released his second album entitled Solo - a one-man project composed, performed, recorded, and mixed in quarantine. His debut album with the band Salvo and Hugo is called About Time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free
Concerts, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Flamenco, Classical, Brazilian Styles, and More for Guitar

Master Class | Master Class with Met Opera Stars


New York Chamber Music Festival presents Love Duets, a Showcase Masterclass with Met Opera Soprano Carole Farley. Among the participating singers are MET Opera artists tenor Errin Duane Brooks, baritone Daniel Sutin (a Metropolitan Opera artist since 2001), as well as the award-winning sopranos Roseanne Ackerley, Zhanna Alkhazova, Leah Crowne, Sangeetha Ekambaram, Alexia Mate, Solene Le Van and Amanda Zory, mezzos Madison Marie McIntosh and Caroline Tye, tenors Jeremy Brauner and Steven Andrew Murray, bass-baritone Andrew Richardson. Collaborative pianist is Craig Ketter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free
Concerts, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Master Class with Met Opera Stars

Lecture | Three Challenges Facing the Japanese Economy


A lecture by Prof. Takatoshi Ito.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Three Challenges Facing the Japanese Economy

Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Biota


In conjunction with her exhibition on view, Andrea Blum will speak about her work from the 1970s to the present. The presentation will cover works for the public space throughout the United States and Europe, as well as more recent works including sculpture, video, and digital images. The talk will be followed by a conversation with guest curator Jenny Jaskey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talks, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Artist Talk: Biota

Talk | Green Infrastructure in the City, With Harvard Professor and Landscape Expert


Visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and professor at the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University, Nina-Marie Lister is an expert in landscape architecture. Lister will examine how ecological design, informed by biodiversity science, can help reconnect urban residents with nature. For ages 21+ only.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free
Talks, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Green Infrastructure in the City, With Harvard Professor and Landscape Expert

Workshop | Learn Swahili, one of Africa's Most Widely Spoken Languages


A Swahili language experience taught by the Swahili Cultural Institute. This is an immersive event. Pupils will also gain insights into Swahili-speaking traditions, and customs. First of seven sessions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, October 09, 2024, 10/09/2024, Learn Swahili, one of Africa's Most Widely Spoken Languages
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Musical | Award-Winning Comedy at One of the Major NYC Theaters

Regular Price: $64
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Performance | A Play About Resilience of the Human Spirit and More

Regular Price: $40
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Staged Reading | Tony Nominee in A Daring Play

Regular Price: $By invitation only
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