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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 18, 2009?

34 free events take place on Friday, September 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 September 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 September . 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 Friday, September 18, 2009

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Lesson | Tai Chi


Learn the ancient Chinese Martial art with an expert. No experience necessary. Taught by Alex Hing, who has practiced martial arts for over 25 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with the Tai Chi grand master William C.C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 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. Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Other | The 2009 Conflux Festival


This three-day art and technology festival employs a user-generated open format. Workshops are chosen from submissions. Participants organize, promote, and host their own activities and events. Sept. 18 and 19 are devoted to the workshops. Examples include Sharilyn Neidhardt's human-scale chess game and an "Urban Disorientation Game." Sept. 20 is devoted to "ConfluxCity" events taking place citywide. Call for details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | “Spreadsheet Basics with MS Excel 2003”


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the features of Excel 2003. Topics include entering text & formulas, moving & copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   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
$6

Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Performance | The New Island Festival


The best of what outdoor theatre festivals in the Netherlands has to offer, including site-specific performances and art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | “Email 1: Basics”


Sign-up for a free email service, obtain an email address, send and receive email.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Knitting and Crocheting Club


Crafters sought to join this knitting and crocheting club, led by teacher and designer Ina Braun of Tante Sophie to create garments for charitable organizations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Times Square Tour


Learn about history of world-famous neighborhood with its 40 miles of neon supersigns, prominent theaters, and multiple megastores. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | Larry Ham , Jazz Pianist


Ham tours and records with many of today’s top jazz artists, performing throughout the United States, Europe, and in Japan, Russia, and West Africa. He is also a noted composer, and leads his own bands with a "crisp, swinging and lyrical" style at the piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon: Organ Works


Features the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Workshop | “Advanced MS Word”


Learn to create documents and reports using this word processing program. Topics include: mail merge (Word 2003), text boxes, columns, styles, tables, headers & footers, footnotes & endnotes, etc. Introduction to MS Word is a prerequisite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), Winner of 2 Academy Awards


With Alec Guinness. In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth. Based on the Dickens novel. 118 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | “Learn ESOL: Using Online Resources”


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore websites that will help you improve your English language reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This class is for non-native speakers of English who have basic (or higher) proficiency in English, as well as mouse and keyboard skills.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | “Clues from Family Photographs”


Would you like to learn more about your old family photographs? The best clues are often found in the images themselves. This class introduces techniques for dating images as well as resources for researching photographs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Screening | Short Films and Commercials of Swedish Director Roy Andersson


The following films, all in Swedish with English subtitles, will be screened. Härlig är jorden (World of Glory) (1991) The opening scene is hard to forget, as Andersson reconstructs a brutal forerunner of the gas chamber: vans in which gas from the motor was piped into the storage compartment. Andersson explores the tragedies of recent history, where the most inhumane of events are portrayed with the most humane of approaches. 14 min. Någonting har hänt (Something Happened) (1987) Commissioned by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare as an educational film on AIDS for Swedish schools, Something Happened was then rejected for being too dark for the Board’s tastes. First and foremost a biting critique of Western society’s response to the disease—largely focusing on fruitless efforts to place blame on someone, somewhere—the film is also surprisingly funny, as Andersson finds unexpected humor in the paralyzing apathy that follows crises. 24 min. A Program of Selected Commercials. 30 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Film | Stanley Kubrick's Award-Winning A Clockwork Orange (1971)


With Malcolm McDowell. In the Britain of the distant future, a charismatic delinquent is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem. 137 min. Nominated for 4 Oscars and named the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Picture of 1971.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Dance Lesson | Broadway Dance Studio


Broadway performers teach the hottest Broadway dance steps. Come strut your stuff in the heart of Times Square. All levels of experience welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Concert | Listen to “The Auerglass,” a two-person pump organ


The Auerglass is a two-person wooden pump organ designed by the artist Tauba Auerbach with her friend Cameron Mesirow of the band Glasser. The instrument cannot be played alone. It requires two people to play. One player has to pump in order for the other to play and vice versa. There is a four-octave scale that is divided so that each of the two players plays every other note. Auerbach and Mesirow will play a composition written specifically for the instrument. It combines music that Auerbach wrote as a child, songs from Glasser and new material. Ida Falck Øien, who creates the costumes for Glasser, has created special costumes with shifting states for the Auerglass players to wear.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Who explored this region before Henry Hudson?


Join historians Jack Putnam and Michael Lord for a chat and visit the new exhibit, Island at the Center of the World.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Light In Motion, a Kinetic Art Exhibition


A group exhibition curated by Yuko Suzuki and featuring work by Erik Guzman, Diane Landry, and Daniel Wapner. The artists assemble action, shape, and texture in Kinetic Art. They depict light and shadow evolving in space. Each artist has their own theme and process to explore the relationship between light and motion. Making this exhibition an exercise of continuous automation, changing the environment around the works, illuminating different perceptions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Yoga in the Park


Vinyasa Yoga for Intermediate and Advanced levels. Please bring your own yoga mat and water bottle.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Bob Byington’s Slacker Comedy Harmony and Me (2009)


A hilariously deadpan slacker film for the cellphone generation takes place in independent film capital Austin, Texas, where a voluble young lyricist refuses to let go of the heartbreak caused when his girlfriend became his ex. Although his depression annoys his tough mom, his friends, as oddball and eccentric as he, seem perfectly cool with his cultivation of misery. 75 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Documentaries and Shorts Powered by the Sun


Watch outdoor documentary features and shorts that are solar-powered, including Burning in the Sun, Addicted to Plastic, A Killer Bargain, and more. Topics include water pollution and safety, solar energy potential, the problems inherent in the plastic and textile industry and much more. Also, popcorn, trivia, and the "Cookie Competition."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | “Mama Storytelling Salon”


With Kerry Cohen, Vikki Law, Maegan Ortiz and Jennifer Silverman. Kerry Cohen is the author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity and has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Vikki Law is author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and has been a contributor to Off Our Backs. Queens’ Maegan Ortiz is the managing editor of VivirLatino and has appeared in The New York Daily News and on National Public Radio. A recovering journalist and lifelong agitator, Jennifer Silverman has written for a variety of publications, including Off Our Backs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Puppet Show: Ralph Lee's Beyond the High Valley


One-of-a-kind puppet and mask maker Lee presents his Mettawee River Theatre Company in this New York premiere adapted by Lee from a folk legend of the Quechua people of Peru. A giant condor kidnaps a lovely young maiden as she tends her family's llamas, but she is saved by a very crafty little hummingbird. Five actor/singers act and control the puppets, and original music is played live. Lee has been at the top of his profession for years - he is recipient of a 1975 OBIE, awards from UNIMA (the international puppetry organization), a NY State Governor's Arts Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama, to name a few. He creates small detailed puppets to larger-than-life figures for his own company, Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Shari Lewis and many more - even Saturday Night Live.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10/$5 for seniors

Concert | Works by Chopin performend by Josu De Solaun, one of Spain’s most exciting young musicians


Program: Frederic Chopin: Introduction & Rondo in E-flat Major, Op. 16 Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62 No. 1 Etude in E Minor, Op. 25 No. 5 Etude in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 12 Ballade Nr. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Impromptu in F-sharp Major, Op. 36 Scherzo Op. 39 Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61 The acclaim accorded to pianist Josu De Solaun by audiences and critics alike confirms his status as one of Spain’s most exciting young musicians. This past summer, the 27-year-old native of Valencia was named First Prize winner of the First European Union Piano Competition held in the Czech Republic. The prize includes a cash award and a string of performances with orchestra and as a recitalist in the USA, Austria, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Spain and France.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Performance | Witness Uganda, Music and Drama


In the summer of 2005, Griffin Matthews journeyed to Uganda to volunteer at a village orphanage. Six weeks later, he returned to the US with a story unlike any other. Using personal journal entries, letters, and interviews, this show of music, drama and dance tackles the complexities of operating a grass roots nonprofit organization. Created, conceived and directed by award-winning composer Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews. Music and lyrics by Matt Gould, art installation by Kelly Finlaw.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Screening | Charlie Chaplin Movie Night


This benefit for Books Through Bars will show the following Chaplin films: 8:00pm - The Gold Rush (1925, 95 min., pictured) The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more. Nominated for 2 Oscars. 10:00pm - Modern Times (1936, 87 min.) The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. Midnight - Monsieur Verdoux (1947, 124 min.) A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards. Nominated for an Oscar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
$5

Concert | Read-n-Rock-n-Roll YA Variety Show


Come hear Frank Portman, author of widely acclaimed King Dork and singer in the Berkeley punk band Mr. T Experience, read and sing from his new book Andromeda Klein. Special guests include: MC Chris, Paul Ford (an editor at Harper’s Magazine), Brooklyn’s Mr. Dream, Bennett Madison (The Blonde of the Joke), Natalie Standiford (How To Say Goodbye In Robot) and more to be announced. Prepare for a fun evening of read-n-rock-n-roll.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | GAME Rebellion, Hip-Hop-Punk Hybrid


Brooklyn-based GAME Rebellion has been electrifying the New York music scene for three years with their unique blend of hip-hop, punk, metal, and skank. Their intelligent lyrics, attention to history, culture, and politics, and the inherent fun and energy of their music makes them vital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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