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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 5, 2014?

47 free events take place on Friday, September 5 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 5 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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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, September 5, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Usher, Pop/R&B Superstar
free events nyc Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour
free events nyc Tai Chi Outdoors
free events nyc World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial Tour
free events nyc A Musical Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
        

Concert | Usher, Pop/R&B Superstar


The Dallas-born vocalist has had nine #1 singles since 1998, including "OMG," "Yeah!," and "Burn." His new CD is entitled UR. Attendees are advised to arrive early.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Workshop | Tai Chi Workshop


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary! Hing has practiced martial arts for over 30 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
Free

Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


City Hall Park, Broadway, New York, NY, United States (map) DescriptionFree Tours by Foot is partnering with Visit New York Tours in offering a tour of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo. This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Central Park Photography Tour


Ready, set, shoot! Whether you possess a professional camera or an Iphone, join a Central Park Photography Tour like no other. Two professionals will guide you around Central Park’s most scenic spots. A licensed guide will explain all there’s to know about your surroundings. A gifted and talented photographer will educate you on how to make your trip memorable and improve your photography. These two-in-one tours are fun for all ages, camera type, and levels of photography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | MS Excel 2010 For Beginners


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Experience Fort Jay: An Island Star


About 30 minutes. Fortify your mind! Tour one of the best examples of classic star-shaped fort design anywhere in the country, including the oldest structure on the island. Tours on the half hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Tour | Explore Castle Williams Tour


Explore Castle Williams and get some history in the round at the best-preserved circular fortification in the nation. Tours on the half hour. About 30 minutes long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | North Woods Tour


View tumbling cascades, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools in the "Manhattan Adirondacks." Route involves many hills and stairs. 75 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibit Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Join a 45-minute docent-led tour of the ABC of It exhibition. Start times: 12:30pm, 2:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


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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Concert | Piano in the Park: Frank Owens


Frank Owens has had a career in virtually all aspects of the music profession. His television credits include the First David Letterman Show in 1980 and It's Showtime at the Apollo. He has worked with an array of singers and received a gold record for his Rhythm Concept of Tony Orlando and Dawn's Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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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. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Fencing in the Park


Take a stab at the modern sport of fencing with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. No prior experience needed and equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Peter Weir's Oscar Winner Dead Poets Society (1989): Inspirational Teacher


Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke. English teacher John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day. 128 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | The Estrangement Principle: On the Problems with Labeling Art 'Queer'


In The Estrangement Principle, Ariel Goldberg thoroughly examined the problems around labeling art 'queer.' Can one interrupt the labeling of their art in the process of making it? Does all naming stand eerily at the border of commodification in a postcapitalist society? This book-length-essay has grown to become a historical and literary research project focusing on writers and artists who enact a form of conflicted resistance to labels in their work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon


Part of the Seated Stage series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Hike | Hike through History


About 90 minutes. See the whole history of the island in one go. The most comprehensive program takes you to nearly every highlight in the historic district. Visitors should be prepared to stand for a full 90 minutes and walk a distance of about 1.5 miles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | MS Access 2010 Workshop


Learn how to create a database from scratch using Microsoft Access 2010. Topics include tables, queries, forms, and reports.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Yard: Recent Paintings by Adam Normandin


Each of the nearly dozen new paintings features freight trains covered with graffiti, some in motion. When the trains are depicted in motion, the precision of Normandin’s technique is contrasted with the blur of the speeding trains.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Party Game Social


Join and meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. The Party Game Social is perfect for large groups and individuals looking to meet other players. With Apples to Apples, Taboo, Scattergories and Menu Mash-Up, these games are sure to get the fun started. Drop in anytime, as many party games allow for late additions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Tai Chi Outdoors


With the Chinatown YMCA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Concert | Triboro, an Acoustic Vocal Trio


Triboro hails from the boroughs of New York, but looks beyond the Hudson to other places and other times for songs and inspiration. They are an acoustic vocal trio that applies fine three-part harmony to an eclectic mix of musical genres, including old-time, new-time, country, Western, bluegrass and beyond.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | 2-Person Exhibition: Weight of Happiness


Featuring artworks variously inspired by Buddhism, folklore, dreams, the artists’ cultural heritage (Italy and Japan), symbolism and spirituality as interpreted by Rima Fujita and Michela Martello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Weight of Happiness, a Two-Artist Show


This show displays artworks variously inspired by Buddhism, folklore, dreams, the artists’ cultural heritage (Italy and Japan), symbolism and spirituality as interpreted by Rima Fujita and Michela Martello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Art Installation: The Cave Collective


Music by DJ Rose. Open Bar by Svedka Drinks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Lower Section


Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Richard Chisholm's Cafeteria Man (2011)


A story of positive movement that shows what's possible in our nation's schools. It's about the aspiration of activists and citizens coming together to change the way kids eat at school. It's about overhauling a dysfunctional nutritional system. And, it's the story of what it takes, and who it takes, to make solutions happen. 65 min. 6:00pm: A tasting of "school food made delicious" 7:00pm: The film
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Opening Reception | Exhibition Breyer P-Orridge and Pierre Molinier


Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) was a postwar artistic renegade born into belle époque France, a shape-shifting and iconoclastic self-fetishist, too bold and strange and self-directed an artistic visionary to fit perfectly at home among even the Surrealists, who were his closest radical ilk and his most sympathetic admirers. As a young artist, Molinier established himself as a painter of landscapes, but moved quickly to daring erotic collage and ultimately embarked on a now-legendary project of photomontage self-portraits of himself as a transvestite. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (then known as Neil Megson) first encountered Molinier as a schoolboy in a book about surrealism, which was given as an award for “initiative” by the oppressive English public school that s/he attended on a scholarship. S/he has resisted and ruthlessly dismantled the strictures and brutal complacencies of that institution wherever s/he has encountered them in the fifty years since. One of the most rigorous and relentless agents of the postwar Anglo-American vanguard, BREYER P-ORRIDGE has interrogated the meaning and substance of identity in a peerless half-century program of willful reincarnation and shape-shifting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Mixed Media Works by Roger Hiorns


The first New York solo exhibition by the London-based artist Roger Hiorns. Hiorns’ work generates and inhabits interstices between dissentient ideas: construction and destruction; the theological and the technological; temporality and permanence; authoritarian control and organic spontaneity. His objects are threaded with an unease that ties them, and our experience of them, to the amorphous, unrelenting global anxiety which suffuses our everyday understanding and reality. The upcoming exhibition will be comprised of recent object work in a variety of media.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Monika Sosnowska's Tower, a Blending of Architecture and Sculpture


A mammoth new work that conjoins architecture and sculpture in order to explore the politics and poetics of space. Known for large-scale, site-specific installations, Sosnowska creates psychologically charged art rooted in existing structures and influenced by the built environment. She manipulates forms – collapsing, twisting, and squeezing steel – into disorienting configurations that not only alter perceptions of physical space but challenge our certainties about memory and our assumptions about societal structures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Monochrome Paintings by Henry Codax


Working for the first time in an iridescent hue, Codax’s third show features thirteen 7 x 7 foot silver paintings that seamlessly line the walls of the gallery.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Fahamu Pecou's Pursuit of Happiness


Fahamu Pecou has been featured in several solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad. Museum shows include the upcoming "State of the Art" exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, and the "GRAV-I-TY" solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Park Walk | The High Line Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Daniel Kehlmann reads from his book F: A Novel


A reading by Daniel Kehlmann's new novel and a moderated conversation between the author, his translator Carol Brown Janeway, and Eric Banks, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life (1991): At Heaven's Door


Stars: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn. In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage. 112 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Author Reading | Fiction and Memoir Reading: Kseniya Melnik and Brando Skyhorse


Kseniya Melnik’s debut collection of stories, "Snow in May," was published in May 2014. Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, "The Madonnas of Echo Park," received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award; his new memoir, "Take this Man," was released by Simon & Schuster in June 2014.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Randall Munroe reads from his book What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions


From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial Tour


On this tour you not only learn about some of the most significant acts of heroism and the people who sacrificed their lives to save others, but you also discover the history of the World Trade Center (WTC), starting with the strategies in the 1950s that were put in place to build it, how it was designed, constructed, how it came down, and the new buildings that are redefining the center today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Journey to the Stars


The Amateur Astronomers Association of NY will guide your eyes across the sky as you discover the wonders of the universe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Theater | A Musical Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale


The Public Theater will begin free performances for the community-based Public Works production of Shakespeare’s THE WINTER’S TALE, conceived and directed by Obie Award winner Lear deBessonet, with music and lyrics by Todd Almond, and choreography by Chase Brock. Featuring more than 200 New Yorkers from all five boroughs performing alongside professional actors and The Public’s community partners, Public Works’ THE WINTER’S TALE brings Shakespeare’s tale of mystery and magic to life as never before. Featuring Public Works’ signature blend of professional actors, community members, and special guests, this musical adaptation will explode with authentic performances that come together to tell Shakespeare’s beloved fable of hard-won joy and the promise of renewal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Film | Chris Columbus' Adventures in Babysitting (1987):


Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan. When a frantic friend needs her help, a quiet evening turns into a wild expedition for a teen babysitter. With her three young charges along for the ride, she heads to Chicago for a trip that they'll never forget. 102 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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