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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 12, 2010?

40 free events take place on Sunday, September 12 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 12 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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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, September 12, 2010

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Workshop | Kayaking on the Hudson


Enjoy breathtaking views of NYC while kayaking on the Hudson River. Completely free. Must know how to swim. A changing room and shower and hose to rinse off with are available. They have a limited number of locks available. Please bring your own lock.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Other | Kayaking on the Hudson


Join 20-minute instructional paddles, then explore the Hudson River firsthand. Please wear a bathing suit or shorts and a t-shirt, and know how to swim. Weather permitting. Daily Weather Status: 1-646-613-0740.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | 3rd Annual New York Motorexpo


The hottest new vehicles and motorcycles. Vehicles will be showcased throughout the indoor lobbies and outdoor areas. Attendees are invited to check out the latest vehicles and sit behind the wheels of the latest models from across the automotive spectrum. From ultra high-end exotics to the latest alternative fuel vehicles, this annual event showcases all that is hot on two and four wheels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Festival | Howl! Festival 2010


JACKIE FACTORY producers CHI CHI VALENTI and JOHNNY DYNELL will present their fourth annual LOW LIFE to crown the 2010 HOWL! FESTIVAL. LOW LIFE is the free and fabulous Sunday evening climax to HOWL! - a two hour spectacular inspired by East Village decades past. Each year's theme is served up in a lavishly costumed production starring dozens of downtown's finest. This year's LOW LIFE 4: BEAT GIRL pays homage to homegrown fifties beatnik culture and the BOWERY BEATS - the rebel painters, poets and performers drifting east from Greenwich Village. The show also sheds light on the Women of the Beat Generation, often overlooked, and their influence on 50's Burlesque.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Ping Pong


Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair



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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


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11:00 am
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Other | “Adoptapalooza” Pet Adoption Celebration


Adoptapalooza is back. Meet wonderful cats and dogs for adoption, including pure breeds. This public event will also feature activities and entertainment, including a cool raffle, pet fashion show, art exhibit, training demonstrations, TTouch massages and mini-makeovers for dogs, pet photographers, Ask-the-Vet, Ask-the-Trainer, and other fun activities for the whole family — two- and four-legged.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Concert | 19th Annual Broadway on Broadway Concert


Hosted by Kelsey Grammer. It’s the hottest shows on the coolest street! This free outdoor concert kicks off the new Broadway season with star performances from new shows and long-running favorites, accompanied by a live 30-piece orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Fair | Street Fair


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11:30 am
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Workshop | Many Hands Make Light Work: Community Collograph


A special collaboration with The Laundromat Project, a community-based non-profit arts organization committed to making art more accessible. Using abstract forms and colored inks, this workshop teaches participants how to make collagraph prints. Led by teaching artist Rosemary Taylor, participants make their own printing plate and then collaborate with other participants to create and display a large-scale printed banner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Other | Outdoor Art Exhibit


The exhibit consists of oils, pastels, watercolors, mixed media, graphics, photography, sculpture, and crafts including fabric, jewelry, glass, wood, and ceramics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble”


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Fair | 8th Annual West Side County Fair


Enjoy a little country right here in Manhattan and celebrate the change of seasons with carnival rides and games, music, square dancing, sideshow performers, a petting zoo, greenmarket and more! Visit the “Green Acre” environmental corner, with hands-on activities for kids about environmental awareness, green living, and animal care.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Daily Screenings: Constructive Thinking


A showing of the short films Aboriginal Architecture and Living Architecture. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Park Walk | Natural History Walk


Explore the unique solution to the water pressure problem in Northern Manhattan during the late 1800s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Park Walk | Walking Tour of the Park


Discover the history and horticulture of the Park. A member of the horticultural staff conducts a free walking tour of the Park. Learn about John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s most generous gift to New York City and about the Olmsted Brothers creative genius. All tours include the Heather Garden.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | History of Governors Island Walking Tour


Join a National Park Ranger for this 45- to 60-minute walking tour experience and discover how the role of Governors Island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:25 pm
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Opening Reception | 2010 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition


Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Across Brooklyn Bridge-“Vistas, Views and History” Tour


Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, and smell the air, see the sights and hear the history about the bridge and its surroundings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Columbia Klezmer Band


Young musicians playing the spirited old music of Eastern European Jews for weddings, holidays, and love.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Theater | Crystal Field's Gone Fission, or Alternative Power, An Operetta for the Street


The award-winning Street Theater Company opens its 34th annual tour with Gone Fission, or Alternative Power, an Operetta for the Street. The rip-roaring production will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds. The production, free to all New Yorkers, will have book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field and musical score composed by Joseph Vernon Banks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Melissa Young & Mark Dworkin's Good Food (2008)


Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest: small family farmers are making a comeback. They’re growing much healthier food, and lots more food per acre, while using less energy and water than factory farms. For decades Northwest agriculture was focused on a few big crops for export. But to respond to climate change and the end of cheap energy, each region needs to produce more of its own food and to grow food more sustainably. Producers, farmers’ markets, distributors, stores, restaurants and public officials who are developing a more sustainable food system are interviewed. 73 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | “A Road Once Traveled”


Holding the Park's northern highlands was key in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 because armies could see their enemies approach as they sailed down the East River. History buffs will love this tour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Floating World


Works created by the visual artists-in-residence in the inaugural session of Swing Space. Each of the artists who participated in this residency session has been influenced by their time on the Island, as well as the daily voyage there and back. The collection of works presented in Floating World will reveal the artists’ diverse processes from photography to video to sculpture and installation. Some work directly interprets aspects of the landscape, the seascape, the architecture, topography, and history of the Island, while other work demonstrates the exciting response to an intense period of time in-residence on this “Floating World.” Featuring: Jae Hi Ahn, Rachel Bacon, Jessica Bruah, David Colosi, Jessica Feldman, Jenn Figg, The Friendly Falcons and Their Friend the Snake, Moo Kwon Han, Wojciech Gilewicz, GH Hovagimyan, Intake Manifold/Ouida Biddle, The Shining Mantis, Sungmi Lee, Sunghee Pae, Birgit Rathsmann, Larry Shea, Hidemi Takagi, Work Progress Collective, Chin Chih Yang, and Maeung Gyun You.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Dancing | Sundae Sermon


Harlem's #1 family afternoon of soulful house music, classic & AfroBeats. Bring your picnic basket & dance under the sun!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Tribeca Film Festival Selection: Bruce Broder's Documentary Chops (2009)


Enjoy a screening of this Tribeca Film Festival selection. Broder trains his camera on a crop of talented young musicians as they play their way through the Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition. Sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center, the prestigious contest gives the kids the chance to rub shoulders with legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis–and put their budding improvisational skills to the test. 88 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Tour | History of Governors Island Walking Tour


Join a National Park Ranger for this 45- to 60-minute walking tour experience and discover how the role of Governors Island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
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3:25 pm
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Concert | Argento Chamber Ensemble performs Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire Book 1


Program: Gérard Pesson The light has not the arms to carry us for piano Joshua Fineberg Tremors for piano Beat Furrer Invocation VI for bass flute and singer Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire Book 1 Tristan Murail La Barque mystique for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello Pierre Boulez Improvisé pour le Dr. K for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello Roberto Sierra Cancionero Sefardi for mezzo-soprano, flute, piano, violin, and cello Argento New Music Project is pleased to present a new weekly concert series titled Lunar Movements: A Constellation of Contemporary Music Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire. Throughout Fall 2010, five monthly programs are slated for the superb acoustic space of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in midtown Manhattan. First performed in 1912, Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire is a seminal work whose instrumentation came to define the prototypical late twentieth century chamber ensemble. As we near the 100th anniversary of the premiere, the Lunar Movements series presents compositions that highlight and reflect on three different approaches to writing found in Pierrot Lunaire. There will be a post-concert discussion: What is music about music? Using Schoenberg’s Valse de Chopin as a starting point, the discussion will explore the subject of modern composition through historical references. They will play examples of the Sephardic Jewish folksongs in Cancioniero Sefardi, and discuss the overall use of vernacular music using Gérard Pesson’s The light has not the arms to carry us as a focal point. The Argento Chamber Ensemble is the performance arm of the Argento New Music Project. Founded in 2000 to perform compositions embodying pressing concerns in Western music, Argento consists of 9 core members and regularly expands to up to 30 musicians. Argento has toured widely in the US and abroad, and has worked closely with leading contemporary composers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Tour | Guided Tour of Farmhouse


Join a staff member for a guided tour of the farmhouse and grounds and learn what life would have been like on a Manhattan farm and how the neighborhood transformed from farm to city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Sunday Afternoon Organ Meditation


The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Alumni perform works by Handel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Elgar, and others


Program: George Frideric Handel: TBA for piano Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano (1945) Edward Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor, op. 82 Percy Grainger: TBA (arranged by Elliot Finkel) Egon Wellesz: Suite for clarinet, op. 74 (1956) Joaquín Turina Three Pieces for violin and piano Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, op. 34 (arranged by Ian Finkel) With: Elliot Finkel, piano; Ian Finkel, xylophone; and Joseph Rutkowski, clarinet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Concert | In-Store Gig: The Serious Trio


Featuring: STEVE SWELL - Trombone; GARRISON FEWELL - Guitar; ANDREW RAFFO DEWAR - Sax.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting & Photography: Bianca Beck & Josh Brand's I Live My Thoughts


n exhibition of new work by Beck and Brand, and a selection of “Memory Jugs” by various unknown artists. The objects in the exhibition — paintings, photographs, and vessels — can be thought of as recording devices. One can see them as instruments for recording feelings, perceptions, memories, bodies, times, and actions. Some of the objects are made in ways that conflate thought and action, abstraction and representation, memory and imagination, bodies and things.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting: Alex Olson's As a Verb, As a Noun, In Peach and Silver


Each of these paintings has a story to tell of its making, and they are here to share them. They are swapping tales of texture and text, mark making as both material and as sign, exteriors and ideographs, supports and surfaces. They are exchanging gestures between canvases, stretching them off on tangents and burying them beneath new assertions. Some of these paintings are more declarative than others, some more articulate, and some more discreet. Some still think that grids are where it’s at, while others argue for more displacement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Song Learning and Song Culture from Songbirds


Ofer Tchernichovski, Professor of Biology, focuses on quantitative analysis of developmental learning, using vocal learning in the songbird as a model.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Timothy Scott Harris' Sterling Time


A reading followed by a discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Emmy-Winning Documentary: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage


Screened under the evening sky, the Emmy Award-winning PBS television series based on the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan will enchant and fascinate all ages. Bring a picnic blanket and prepare to be dazzled. Orion telescopes will be provided and the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York will be on-hand to help you locate stars and planets in the night sky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | The Kondabolu Brothers Standup Comedy Show


The Kondabolu Brothers (of the Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project) return to host a new monthly standup comedy show. Hari (Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live) and Ashok (Dap from "Das Racist") welcome some of NYC's finest comedians and storytellers for a fun and ridiculously affordable Sunday evening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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