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35 free events take place on Friday, September 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 September 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 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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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, September 9, 2022

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free events nyc Afrobeat, Jazz, Funk with a Musician Who Performed with Diana Ross, Shakira, Rod Stewart
free events nyc The Metaverse Revolution
free events nyc Enthusiast Extraordinaire: Theater Critic William B. Harris and Lower Manhattan in the Late Twentieth Century (online)
free events nyc King of Soca: Biography of a Caribbean Music Legend (online)
free events nyc Space Jam (1996): Bugs Bunny Meets Michael Jordan
free events nyc Funky Latin Jazz Trio from San Francisco
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Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Sonia Louise Davis: resonant frequencies, blossoming tones: Artist's Walkthrough


A new body of large-scale, immersive work from Davis' emergence series that the artist calls “soft paintings.” For these paintings, Davis explores how a radical sonic framework for improvisation can inform an embodied practice for object-making. Using industrial tufting machines as drawing instruments, Davis creates abstract, richly-hued compositions with yarns that are threaded together for their ability to make new tones and textures. Invoking the vocabularies of sight, sound, and movement, Davis pushes the formal potential of yarn and the materiality of painting alike. Through sensations of texture, sound, and sight, the softness of Davis’s paintings when in chorus with craft and song suggest an expanded potential of form and their abilities to hold memories and emotions. Works such as sundance, in homage to Jeanne Lee, and sweet earth flying—named after Marion Brown’s album of the same name—gesture towards avant-garde traditions of Black musicians who pushed limits of their forms as liberatory praxis. The emotional and energetic compositions in the emergence series insist on abstraction’s ability to resist overdetermination, the political and formal entanglement of Black musical improvisation, and the relational arrangement of the ensemble.
   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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Fair | Art Fair


Focused solely on empowering independent artists, Clio Art Fair returns for its 13th edition in New York. Stop by for a public viewing of works on display by both independent artists and already affirmed creative minds.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Unpacking “Traditional Values” in Russia’s Conservative Turn: Gender, Sexuality, and the Soviet Legacy (online)


In the decade before Russia’s most recent invasion of Ukraine, scholars had been marking a conservative turn in Russian policy and practice through the lens of gender and sexuality. In a recent project, Valerie Sperling, Alexandra Novitkskaya, Janet Elise Johnson, and Lisa Sundstrom examined these dynamics in two decades of Putin’s annual speeches to domestic audiences and original Russian public opinion data from 2021, finding differing degrees of sexism and LGBTQ-phobia among Russia’s state leader and the public.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | One Hundred Years of James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Exhibition Tour (online)


Docents host an interactive visual discussion of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for 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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12:30 pm
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Film | The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2021): Action Comedy for the Whole Family


The story follows flightless birds—Red, Chuck, Bomb, and Mighty Eagle—who team up with scheming green pigs—Leonard, his assistant Courtney, and tech genius Garry. Together, they will fight against a new threat invading their island. Aggressive birds from an ice-covered island are ready to attack and end peace. Director: Thurop Van Orman Starring: Omar Sy, Emmanuel Garijo, Michel Papineschi, Juliette Poissonnier, Edwige Lemoine Rating (PG) Runtime: 97 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The September Issue (2009): Documentary on Fashion


A documentary showing Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the Fall fashion issue of 2007. Director: R.J. Cutler Starring: Anna Wintour, Andre Leon Talley. Runtime: 1 hours, 30 minutes. Rating PG-13
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Residential Rising: Lower Manhattan Since 9/11: Curator's Tour


Beyond the boundaries of Ground Zero, the most significant change in the lower Manhattan skyline since 9/11 has been the new growth of residential skyscrapers. The southern top of the island has sprouted a bevy of conspicuous, competitive, and highly individualistic towers. Very tall and generally slender, as befits the development strategy of luxury condos, many are designed by acclaimed architects whose celebrity adds marketing value. Eclectic in form and facades, there is no consistent style that marks them of their moment – yet their very presence on the skyline connects them to the monumentally significant events of 9/11. Downtown's evolution into a mixed residential neighborhood has doubled the population without drastically altering the historic urban fabric. A key dynamic of change has been the conversion of older office buildings into apartments – ranging in character from iconic landmarks such as the Woolworth Building and One Wall Street to back-office glass boxes of the 1960s and 70s. In the wake of 9/11, lower Manhattan faced daunting challenges of rebuilding and reinvention that were met through adaptive reuse, government incentives for density, and historic preservation, as well as new construction – a hopeful model of transformation of our COVID-recovery era.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Love and Letters in the Renaissance


The amorous correspondence between Maria Savorgnan and Pietro Bembo (1500-1501) has reached us in two different versions. Whereas Bembo revised and rewrote his own letters for publication as part of his opera omnia when he was already a cardinal, Maria Savorgnan’s letters have reached us in their original versions. They offer us therefore a valuable testimony of the ways in which poetry and love intertwine, and of the ways in which the Petrarchist code and the fascination with portraits play an important role in the narration of the passions. A lecture by Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa / NYU.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Marti Wilkerson: The 4th Golden Cadillac


A mix of formal portraits and verité documentary photography by Marti Wilkerson, showcasing vintage prints alongside newer works. Featuring subcultural subjects and neighborhood places, including Tompkins Square Park, Howie Pyro, Terence Sellers, Heather Litteer, Jayne County, and Blacklips Performance Cult.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Afrobeat, Jazz, Funk with a Musician Who Performed with Diana Ross, Shakira, Rod Stewart


Electric and acoustic bassist, composer, and bandleader Michael Olatuja has performed and recorded with Diana Ross, Spike Lee, Shakira, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, and many more. He's racked up a starry resume playing bass in Broadway musicals such as Frozen, Motown: The Musical, The Color Purple, and Moulin Rouge, and collaborated on original movie scores, including Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tick, Tick ... Boom! in 2021. For this concert, Olatuja and a full band perform music from his recently released album Lagos Pepper Soup in an evening of high-energy Afrobeat, jazz, and funk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Birdwatching | Park Birding Tour


Spot a wonderful diversity of birds that visit the park during migratory season with guided tours by NYC Audubon. Located in the heart of Midtown, our park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Bingo in the Park


BYO food and beverages to this all ages, free to enter, B-I-N-G-O night. A mix of music plays as the numbers roll out and each game winner receives a prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Birdwatching | Park Birding Tour


Explore the park on a family-friendly bird walk. Who knows what birds you’ll discover while taking in views of the Hudson River.
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


The museum’s critically acclaimed performance series continues via Facebook Live. Music featured thematically reflects the spirit of self-taught art on view at the museum. Hosted by Lara Ewen. Featuring: 6:00 pm: Roxanne de Bastion 6:30 pm: Hilary Hawke 7:00 pm: Jordi Baizan
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9: Group Exhibition


This exhibition will feature a range of works, the sale of which will benefit Performance Space. The artists include: Math Bass, Katherine Bernhardt, Judith Bernstein, Kerstin Brätsch, Cecily Brown, Theresa Chromati, Patricia Cronin, Nicole Eisenman, Hadi Fallahpiseh, Rochelle Feinstein, Keltie Ferris, Wade Guyton, K8 Hardy, Jamian Juliano-Vilani, Deborah Kass, Jutta Koether, Nick Mauss, Marilyn Minter, Willa Nasatir, Jonny Negron, Lorraine O’Grady, Laura Owens, John Sandroni, Dana Schutz, Katja Seib, Josh Smith, Ryan Sullivan, Mickalene Thomas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Betty Tompkins, Stewart Uoo, Charline von Heyl, and Ambera Wellman, among others.
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Opening Reception | Jameson Green: With Regards, Without Regrets


In this show, Green explores the tail end of boyhood and the process of becoming a man. What does that mean—to be a man—to obtain this power of adulthood and independence? Where can that road lead for one who is misguided? Some boys may become doggish, like Green’s ubiquitous wolf men, chasing after only momentary pleasure and living off impulse. Some boys do not make it to manhood at all. With steady guidance and some luck, some may end up like the blue man, strutting across the canvas in a style reminiscent of old cartoons, each movement accompanied by the flutter of a flute. His squashed form and raised foot build anticipation, as a yellow cloud blowing in from the right, drags us along with him on his journey. It’s almost as if we can see the steps he has taken and has yet to take, as he balances, frozen within the bounds of the canvas. This man has already grown from a boy, but he still has long to go in his pursuit of power, stuck in perpetual motion.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | King of Soca: Biography of a Caribbean Music Legend (online)


Welcome Elizabeth 'Lady' Montano, the book's author and mother of its namesake. Machel Montano is a legend and a giant of soca music, a genre birthed from Africa and East Indian sonic elements in Trinidad and Tobago. Lady, as she is universally called, will share what she calls the 'ultimate insider' information charting how her son became the biggest name in soca music and how that international journey began in Brooklyn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Urs Fischer: Denominator


Urs Fischer mines the potential of materials—from clay, steel, and paint to bread, dirt, and produce—to create works that disorient and bewilder. Through scale distortions, illusion, and the juxtaposition of common objects, his sculptures, paintings, photographs, and large-scale installations explore themes of perception and representation while maintaining a witty irreverence and mordant humor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Enthusiast Extraordinaire: Theater Critic William B. Harris and Lower Manhattan in the Late Twentieth Century (online)


William B. ("Billy") Harris was a freelance dance and drama critic covering the downtown avant-garde for the SoHo Weekly, Village Voice, and other papers from the mid 1970s to his unexpected death in 2000. He left behind an extraordinary archive, which his family and friends placed in the care of Marymount Manhattan College. His papers have much to say about theater history, the changing downtown neighborhoods, and the advent of AIDS in the community. Speaker Mary Elizabeth Brown works at the Center for Migration Studies of New York and at Marymount Manhattan College teaching and archiving.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Discussion | History and Heroism


Jessica DuLong, historian and author of Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift, and Robert Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, have a conversation exploring the complexities of how historians, artists, and the public define “heroes” and how that perception can shift over time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Metaverse Revolution


Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality are emerging as powerful new operating platforms for human interaction. The fear surrounding this new technology is understandable. Yet, we're still at the cusp of this revolution, which means that those inhabiting these environments first will have an outsized impact on their development. What is the metaverse for? Can it be sacred, sustainable, a place of empathy? Can these alternate realities exist in a way that's productive for humanity? Or, are we in danger of repeating the mistakes of history - racism, violence, colonialism, blind extraction - in the digital world? Speaker: Maya is the Senior Director of the Innovation Center and XR, AI, and Quantum Labs at The New School. She leads a team driving innovation focused on immersive storytelling, spatial computing, AI, Quantum Computing, future interfaces, and design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Movie in a Park | 1971 (2014): Burglary Reveals FBI Abuses


The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau's numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed. Director: Johanna Hamilton Stars: Bonnie Raines, John Raines, Bob Williamson 79 min. Heidi Boghosian, former director of the National Lawyers Guild and author of Spying on Democracy and I Have Nothing to Hide, will speak. Also showing: Still We Ride (2005) This documentary covers a crucial time period during the growth of bicycling and non-polluting transportation when group bicycle rides were under attack from the NYPD. 37 min. Speakers include Time’s Up founder and MoRUS director Bill DiPaola and director Chris Ryan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Paul Rouphail: A Nearer Sun


With clouds that billow and flags that waft, the kinetic potential of paintings by Paul Rouphail refuse to sit squarely within the category of still lifes. Without overdetermined messages, the images are unwilling to serve as future premonitions, while furthermore, they are also not didactic illustrations of the past. Rather, the scenes bear witness to phenomenons from within an elongated present moment — depicting subtle warning signs of natural and political threats that churn. Suggesting an advancement toward looming catastrophes, viewers are trapped in suspended moments, anxiously awaiting an approaching verdict. While the works offer a chance to pause and meditate on the weight of such political realism, time closes in on opportunities to conceptualize possible escapes. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Game Night


Grab your friends for bingo, quiz shows, and more, with prizes for winners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Rising Jazz Trumpter and Her Sextet


Jazz at Lincoln Center is proud to bring a rising star in the jazz world: the 20 year old trumpeter Summer Camargo, playing with her Sextet. Camargo studies at the Juilliard School, where she majors in Jazz Studies and is a part of the Jerome Greene Fellowship. Born and raised in Hollywood, Florida, Camargo has been a member of the prestigious Grammy Band, Next Generation Women in Jazz Combo, Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and was named a National YoungArts Foundation Merit winner, and Honorable Mention in Jazz Trumpet, as well as a Merit winner in Jazz Composition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Lecture | Rome: An Empire's Story (online)


With: Professor Greg Woolf, UCLA, Ronald J. Mellor Distinguished Professor of Ancient History
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Movie in a Park | Moana (2016): Family Fare from Disney


In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall Stars: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House 107 min.
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Movie in a Park | Space Jam (1996): Bugs Bunny Meets Michael Jordan


In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion Michael Jordan. Director: Joe Pytka Stars: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle 88 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Jazz | Funky Latin Jazz Trio from San Francisco


Charged Particles is the San Francisco Bay Area's favorite funky Latin jazz trio - they have toured Indonesia, the U.K., Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, and have performed in the U.S. at famed jazz clubs including Yoshi's, Birdland, Blues Alley, the Dakota, the Deer Head Inn, the Falcon, Nighttown, and at the Musical Instrument Museum, the Columbus Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, the San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival, the Eureka Springs Jazz Festival, and in hundreds of other venues over their 30 years of music-making. The band will be joined by tenor saxophonist Tod Dickow, playing new arrangements of compositions by Michael Brecker that were recorded by the quartet (saxophone, piano, bass, drums) on the CD, Live at the Baked Potato! Dickow is a first-all player on the San Francisco scene, is a winner of the Outstanding Soloist Award from Downbeat Magazine, and was called "one of the best saxophonists in the world" by Jazz Life Magazine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Play | As You Like It: A Musical Production of Shakespeare's Comedy


Public Works' acclaimed musical production of As You Like It brings together its diverse ensemble of both professional actors and community members from across New York. Adapted by Shaina Taub and Director of Public Works Laurie Woolery, featuring music and lyrics by Taub, this ambitious work of participatory theater has been hailed as "thrilling & terrifically vital" by The New York Times. Forced from their homes, Orlando, Duke Senior, his daughter Rosalind, and niece Celia are banished to the Forest of Arden. There, they discover a community of acceptance and transformational love, where all are welcomed and embraced. Laurie Woolery directs this magical adaptation of a beloved classic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Movie in a Park | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021): Another Marvel Blockbuster


Shang-Chi, the master of weaponry-based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization. Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Stars: Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung 132 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
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