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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 5, 2024?

36 free events take place on Thursday, 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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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 5, 2024

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free events nyc A Photographer's Unique 50 Year Career of Capturing Beauty: From Fashion to Conceptual (online)
free events nyc Winchester '73 (1950) with James Stewart and Shelley Winters
free events nyc Accordions Around the World with 2024 Grammy Award nominee and "America's Hottest Accordion" winner (in the Park)
free events nyc UnBroken (2023): A Family's Survival After Auschwitz
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Workshop | Rooftop Yoga


Sputnik Yoga presents yoga sessions throughout the entire summer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Rooftop Yoga

Workshop | Pick Up Pickleball


An exciting fusion of badminton and tennis, pickleball has been proven to strengthen muscles, boost cardiovascular health, and enhance brain function.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Pick Up Pickleball

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 expensive tours are listed on top). Daily tours may include: SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Lower Manhattan Brooklyn Bridge Harlem Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Graffiti and Street Art Tours
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Tours, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, NYC Walking Tours: A Variety of Neighborhoods - Choose One Tour Or Many

Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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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.
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Workshops, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Learn Juggling in the Park

Concert | Piano in the Park


Come on by and tap your toes to The Big Apple's finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists around! Featuring special events and performances by distinguished musicians. Today's pianist: Peter Yarin.
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Concerts, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Piano in the Park

Film | Love Affair (1939): romance


Engaged ladies' man Michel Marnet encounters spoken-for singer Terry McKay aboard a transatlantic cruise, where sparks fly and a romance ensues. Once they reach New York, Michel and Terry agree to go back to their significant others, then meet atop the Empire State Building in six months, when both are free to pursue their affair. Though a tragic accident forestalls their reunion, Terry and Michel still hold out hope for a chance to rekindle their true love. Director: Leo McCarey Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
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Films, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Love Affair (1939): romance

Film | The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Directed by Guy Ritchie, Starring Henry Cavill


British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a group of military officials hatch a daring plan to neutralize Hitler's fleet of German U-boats during World War II. Made up of a motley crew of rogues and mavericks, the top-secret combat unit uses unconventional techniques to battle the Nazis and change the course of the war. Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Henry Cavill, Eiza Gonzalez, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Babs Olusanmokun, Henrique Zaga, Til Schweiger, Henry Golding, Cary Elwes Guy Ritchie is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr. Henry Cavill is a British actor. He is known for his portrayal of Charles Brandon in Showtime's The Tudors (2007–2010), Superman in the DC Extended Universe (2013–2023), Geralt of Rivia in the Netflix fantasy series The Witcher (2019–2023) and Sherlock Holmes in the Netflix film Enola Holmes (2020) and its 2022 sequel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Directed by Guy Ritchie, Starring Henry Cavill

Slide Lecture | A Photographer's Unique 50 Year Career of Capturing Beauty: From Fashion to Conceptual (online)


In this presentation Robert Farber will take you on a behind-the-scenes exploration about how his career evolved from his first fine art book in 1976 to his abstract photography of today. He brings the audience on an entertaining journey telling the stories behind some of his iconic images over a unique 50-year career path.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
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Slide Lectures, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, A Photographer's Unique 50 Year Career of Capturing Beauty: From Fashion to Conceptual (online)

Workshop | Mah Jongg Social - Outdoors


Players of all skill level are welcome to play. Socials are hosted and organized by Linda Fisher, and players play the National Mah Jongg League style. Participants are welcome to borrow equipment, or bring their own Mah Jongg sets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Mah Jongg Social - Outdoors

Birdwatching | Fall Migration Birding Tour


Spot the wonderful diversity of birds that visit the park during migratory season, with guided tours led by environmental educator and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. Located in the heart of Midtown, the park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow!
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Birdwatchings, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Fall Migration Birding Tour

Jazz | Jazz at the Crossroads of the World


New York City’s jazz scene comes to Broadway, creating the feeling of an intimate club amidst the lights and sounds. Featuring: C. Anthony Bryant
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Concerts, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Jazz at the Crossroads of the World

Opening Reception | 2 Art Openings: Behind the dunes / por la señal | by a signal


Daniel Mato: Behinds the dunes Mato’s paintings defy belief. His freehand color shapes seep into the canvas like nebulous pools, yet their edges appear sharply precise. The surfaces––ranging from dark chromatic tones to highlights that glow like actual light––reveal their depth through transparent layers of pigment-rich paint. Edra Soto: por la señal | by a signal A series of abstract works inspired by Puerto Rican rejas, wrought iron screens which are common in the archipelago’s lower and middle-class communities. This new presentation draws from Soto's personal history and cultural heritage, examining the connections between Puerto Rican cultural memory, African and Black influences, and the colonial history of the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, 2 Art Openings: Behind the dunes / por la se&ntilde;al | by a signal

Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitions: After / After


Pamela Flynn After An exhibition of mixed media paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Pamela Flynn. This is Flynn's third solo exhibit at the gallery. Mary Alice Orito After Orito’s monotone, monoprints are the background of EXCESS, her mixed media, solo exhibition of decay, excess and opulence. The textual inspiration of the many costumes created for the character, Miss Havisham, in the stage and video productions of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations is the integrating element. Referencing her prior professional costume design background, Orito experiments with iridescent, acrylic paint monoprints embellished with embossment, metallic ribbon, paper placemats, pearls, sequins, and beads.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, 2 Exhibitions: After / After

Opening Reception | Alonsa Guevara: Relatos de Origen/Origin Stories


The show features the artist’s latest series of paintings centered on exploring new beginnings and the various kinds of origin stories. These narratives include birth, but also the important moments and milestones that profoundly shape our identities, ones that often result in a sense of rebirth. Guevara’s paintings connect these personal accounts with archetypal tales that have resonated throughout humanity for millennia in order to tap into the collective unconscious, revealing the shared emotions that connect us all to our origins. Guevara’s artistic journey began in the Ecuadorian jungle where she spent her formative years developing a profound respect for nature and learning the magical legends that warned of the jungle’s dangers. The artist incorporates the country’s native flora into her imagery to honor her upbringing while also recognizing her Chilean heritage through representing vegetation such as Chile’s national flower, Copihue (Chilean Bellflower); and national tree, Araucaria Araucana (Chilean Monkey Puzzle). To continue the commemoration of new beginnings upon her life path, Guevara integrates natural elements representative of the other countries that she has called “home” including the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Guevara’s compositions feature a vibrant blend of elements from nature interlaced with ethereal, human-like figures to portray a deep connection between humanity, nature, and spirituality. Her artistic process begins with unique monotype prints, in which spontaneous brushstrokes on a wet surface are pressed onto canvas. Shapes and objects emerge organically from within the unexpected interactions of paint. With a Magical Realist style, Guevara delves into themes of miraculous birth; family union and the promise of new beginnings; desire and sexuality; growth; resilience and transformation; death; rebirth and the continuity of the cycle of life. This series invites viewers on a journey through the wide array of "Origin Stories” with each painting serving as a portal that reveals how our shared experiences inform our identities and unite us in the richness of life.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Alonsa Guevara: Relatos de Origen/Origin Stories

Opening Reception | Jacob Lawrence: Builders


An exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints spanning from 1974-2000. Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is an iconic presence in 20th century art. He uniquely harnessed the power of the figurative, the narrative, and the abstract to address major social and philosophical themes. His engagement with African American subject matter was groundbreaking. During the last three decades of his life, Lawrence consistently pursued the subject of Builders, an unparalleled commitment within his work. A continuation of his dedication to themes from daily life, the Builders are a manifestation of his belief in human agency and the dignity of work. The Builders symbolize a variety of ideas about life and work, particularly in Black communities. Altogether, the Builders paintings are philosophical reflections on the human condition, addressing the role and responsibility of all people to the improvement of society.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Jacob Lawrence: Builders

Opening Reception | Liza Lou: Painting


A series of abstract works on canvas in which the artist explores the most singular feature of a painting—the brushstroke. Activating the intense chroma and refractive qualities of glass beads, Lou uses her signature material to flow and coagulate into a new form of paint, applying beads in free-form gestures through an intuitive approach. As they collide and overlap on the canvas, Lou’s beads reconstruct strokes of paint, an often-fetishized aspect of mid-century American Abstraction. At close range, the tiny, individual 3-dimensional pieces of factory-made color jostle each other, resulting in micro explosions that register as surprise and offer a new take on American Abstract painting.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Liza Lou: Painting

Opening Reception | Mike Cloud: Holistic Abstraction


Mike Cloud’s new body of work developed during his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome earlier this year. Retaining key features of his practice, Cloud expands his concept of painting’s intricate relationship with death to now embrace - though from an impersonal perspective - the full range of human experience.  In these new paintings, Cloud replaces traditional wooden stretcher bars with handmade mops, which he has fashioned from broomsticks and tattered canvas strips. These mops are structural elements taking on the shapes of stars, arrows, fish or others.  Cloud continues his practice of roughly stapling his canvas surfaces onto their wooden supports in a way that leaves the structure slightly visible, undermining painting’s authoritative status in its inviting DIY ethos and turning it into an object instead of a pristine, level surface.  The mop structures crisscross at irregular angles and often multiple times, creating mosaic-like, collaged surfaces describing iconic forms. The extending mop heads bestow an air which veers between festive and ridiculous, pom poms and scare crows and also allude to the African American wedding tradition of “jumping the broom”. The artist has used totemic shapes as painting structures before, but here the paintings resist hanging flat against the wall to a degree that transmutes the works into "standards", portable flags or signs that can be carried into different contexts, such as battles, processions or protests.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Mike Cloud: Holistic Abstraction

Opening Reception | Neptune in June: I Split the Dream


Neptune in June's current exhibition draws focus to the mechanics of historical memory and optical modes for displacing the viewer. A bifurcated sense of American identity surfaces through objects and land that have borne witness to or have been tools in the creation of American myths. The exhibition features work by Matt Coombs, Anna Gregor, Annie Grossinger, Petros Lales, Nicole Mouriño, Supermrin, and Dave Walsh.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Neptune in June: I Split the Dream

Opening Reception | Santi Moix: Future Flora


Santi Moix’s new monoprints are suffused with life. Plush blooms of flowers and threads of dots become intertwined, often radiating from the center of the compositions, or lying evenly in swaths of saturated color. In many of the works, the flowers’ stems are crowded with little emblems which Moix refers to as his “Pictionary,” a term he coined to describe his idiosyncratic lexicon of figurines – abstract, insect-like, or botanical, and all unique imaginary shapes.   Future Flora is a continuation of Moix’s exploration of beauty and ephemerality, as it draws from previous bodies of work published with Pace Prints: Hanabi (2019), inspired by the firework festival in Nagaoka, Japan; and Rippling (2012), which the artist named for the effect produced by the spontaneous layering of silkscreens. Moix incorporates motifs of drooping blossoms and barbed leaves tinged in melancholic blue that appear as gentle reminders of the inevitable condition following energetic bursts of life.   Future Flora presents new worlds, lush with the biota of Santi Moix’s mind, where beauty and vibrance encourage us to embrace the cyclical nature of our own experience.   
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Santi Moix: Future Flora

Opening Reception | Tiffany Shlain: You Are Here


The exhibition will include a selection of Shlain’s supergraphics, tree-ring projections and sculptures, light boxes, and photographs, investigating ideas in feminism, philosophy, technology, neuroscience, and nature.
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Opening Reception | Tsohil Bhatia: This Fire That Warms You


This Fire That Warms You imagines the gallery as a kitchen, activating and recontextualizing its furnishings, ingredients, methods, and labor. Bhatia engages in transmodal ways of making that consider the everyday and the ephemeral. Their ongoing studio and kitchen practices converge, revealing excerpts and observations of their daily life through sculpture and installation-based works.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Tsohil Bhatia: This Fire That Warms You

Opening Reception | Wangari Mathenge: Bedimmed Boundaries: Between Wakefulness and Sleep


A new series of paintings and video installation by Wangari Mathenge in which she observes her own sleeping body to derive profound, personal insights into the nature of altered states of consciousness. This recent work depicts her experience of two particular psychological phenomena: hypnagogia, the transition from wakefulness to sleep, and hypnopompia, the transition from sleep to wakefulness. Amidst semi-lucid dreams, her senses distort, even merge, the physical and fantastical, incurring a heightened sensation of euphoria.
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Opening Receptions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Wangari Mathenge: Bedimmed Boundaries: Between Wakefulness and Sleep

Film | Winchester '73 (1950) with James Stewart and Shelley Winters


Lin McAdam pursues notorious outlaw Henry "Dutch" Brown into Dodge City, Kansas. There, in an effort to flush out the criminal, McAdam enters a sharp-shooting contest and wins the top prize: the eponymous Winchester rifle. Brown, desiring the rifle for himself, sneaks into McAdam's room and makes off with it. After finding the rifle missing, McAdam chases Brown across the state and toward an epic confrontation. Director: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally James Stewart was an American actor. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality, which he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth century. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors. He received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom, both in 1985. Shelley Winters was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Winchester '73 (1950) with James Stewart and Shelley Winters

Workshop | Boxing in the Park


Designed to teach all levels, from beginners to professional boxers, focusing on skill, self discipline and endurance conditioning
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Jazz | Jazz Orchestra and Swing Dancers in the Park!


George Gee Swing Orchestra brings its big band sound (and swing dancers) in the styles of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway and other legends. The jazz orchestra has been at the forefront of the modern swing resurgence for over four decades. It is a regular headliner at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing. Swing music was developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders such as Benny Goodman was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1946, known as the swing era.
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Concerts, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Jazz Orchestra and Swing Dancers in the Park!

Book Discussion | A Termination: Young and Sexual in the 1960s


In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encounter. That spring, she had an abortion. A Termination is the story of the young woman who made that decision, and of how that act of resistance, then shrouded in fear and silence, has reverberated throughout her life since. Angry, nostalgic, questioning, and romantic, the memoir pursues the associations of memory, moving from the New Haven of Yale Drama School, the Living Theatre and the Black Panthers; to the New York City of theater, jazz, and the Chelsea Hotel; the Berkshires of rock and roll at Tanglewood, and Chicago in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention. Framing the story is a self-portrait of the author fifty-five years later, a woman with a sexual past, a poet who has made her own way. A lyric, searching memoir, A Termination asks what it means to write with full honesty about one's life--to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.
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Book Discussions, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, A Termination: Young and Sexual in the 1960s

Workshop | Bodyroll Workout


Joyful and cathartic dance aerobics with VIVA! Low stakes, all fun, and open to all levels.
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Talk | Intro to Birding (online)


Get ready for fall migration with this webinar! This educational session will cover birding basics, how to pick binoculars, and the best resources for learning more. You’ll be given all the tools you need to start figuring out what’s in your local park and even make more advanced bird identifications. No experience necessary!  
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Workshop | Sunset Yoga


A multi-level sunset yoga practice. Suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat.
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Film | UnBroken (2023): A Family's Survival After Auschwitz


This documentary chronicles the plight of the seven Weber siblings who, following their mother's murder at Auschwitz, evaded certain capture and death as mere children in war-torn Nazi Germany. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent farmer, the children spent two harrowing years on their own. Emboldened by their father's mandate that they 'always stay together,' their saga culminates in a painful ultimatum: for that which would save them, would also tear them apart. Filmmaker Beth Lane, daughter of the youngest Weber sibling, embarks on a quest to retrace their steps, seeking answers to long-held questions about her family's survival. The film examines the journey of the Webers as told through conversations with living siblings - now in their eighties and nineties - while Beth and her crew road trip across Germany, following the courageous, tumultuous, and harrowing path taken by her family over seventy years ago. Following the film there will be a brief Q&A with director Beth Lane. Run time: 1h 43m
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Films, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, UnBroken (2023): A Family's Survival After Auschwitz

Concert | Accordions Around the World with 2024 Grammy Award nominee and "America's Hottest Accordion" winner (in the Park)


This annual celebration of accordionists returns with a rare New York City appearance from the Louisiana-based, three-time Grammy-nominated Zydeco star Dwayne Dopsie as well as Latin funk steeped in Dominican styles of music from Afro Dominicano and and powerhouse Haitian collective Lakou Mizik. 2024 Grammy Award nominee and "America's Hottest Accordion" winner, Dwayne Dopsie plays high-energy zydeco that keeps you wanting more. Dwayne hails from one of the most influential Zydeco families in the world. Although inspired by tradition, he has developed his own style that defies existing stereotypes and blazes a refreshingly distinct path for 21st century Zydeco music. Dwayne attributes his musical abilities to his father, Rockin' Dopsie, Sr., a pioneer of Zydeco music. He has played the accordion since age seven and states, "This is my calling - Zydeco music is in my blood and it is my heart and soul." This singer/songwriter and accordionist has performed in 40 countries and also in hundreds of cities across the United States, Europe, Brazil, Panama and Canada since debuting his band at age 19. The funk-fusion combo Afro Dominicano infuses their songs with Afro-Caribbean soul: a blend of Dominican folkloric styles and pop influences that includes merengue, bachata, samba, reggae, punk and R&B, all filtered through a uniquely New York sensibility. The group's mix of sweet vocals, accordion, guitar, traditional percussion and electric bass sparks high-energy riffs and romantic balladry that eludes the pigeonhole of genre in favor of genuine human connection. The social justice-inspired collective of Dominican-American musicians celebrates the forthcoming release of their newest album with a night of fresh jams and good times, featuring music by DJ Bembona. Lakou Mizik is a powerhouse collective of Haitian roots music with a soulful energy and a mix of styles that feels mystical and familiar at the same time. In the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake the band came together to show the world that their country was much more than the sum of headlines that were being shot around the globe. Today with their positive messages and roots revival music, they have become one of Haiti's hottest exports and have gained an international following with their critically acclaimed debut album Wa Di Yo and their mystical, soulful, dance party inducing live shows.
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Concerts, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Accordions Around the World with 2024 Grammy Award nominee and "America's Hottest Accordion" winner (in the Park)

Movie in a Park | Luther: Never Too Much (2024): Life of the R&B Singer Luther Vandross


This documentary chronicles the life of an iconic musical performer Luther Vandross, from childhood musical talent to worldwide fame. Explores his collaborations, influences, character and relationships with family, friends and fans. Director: Dawn Porter 101 min.  
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Movie in a Parks, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Luther: Never Too Much (2024): Life of the R&B Singer Luther Vandross

Comedy Club | Bomb Shelter Comedy Show


Bomb Shelter is a free weekly comedy show in New York City where you'll find some of the best comedians performing. Expect free pizza. With: Torrey Huggins - Sweat Tea Comedy Allyson Vastano - Comedy Store Cris Sosa - Broadway Comedy Club Aaron Hertzog - Friendship Buds
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Comedy Clubs, September 05, 2024, 09/05/2024, Bomb Shelter Comedy Show

Movie in a Park | Family Camp (2022): Dads Compete for Trophy


In this faith-based comedy, when two polar-opposite families are forced to camp together, the dads struggle to hold onto their families and marriages as they compete for the coveted camp trophy. Director: Brian Cates Stars: Tommy Woodard, Eddie James, Leigh-Allyn Baker 111 min.
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Classical Music | Orchestral Masterworks at a Landmark Venue

Regular Price: $50
CFT Member Price: $0.00

Play | Broadway Actors in a Play at a Major NYC Theater

Regular Price: $79
CFT Member Price: $0.00
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