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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, November 3, 2018

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free events nyc One act comedies from Broadway of the past
free events nyc Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today
free events nyc And Quiet Flows the Don (1957): a three-part epic Soviet film
free events nyc Concert at the coolest classical music concerts location in NYC
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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 more 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 less
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
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Tour | Roosevelt House Public Tour


Roosevelt House - the landmark former double townhouse of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, more and now owned by Hunter College - offers visitors a chance to get closer to a family as unique as the city they inhabited, and to explore the private spaces where some of the most iconic public policy of the 20th century was shaped. Hear about FDR's rise to the presidency after his struggle with polio, Eleanor's activism for civil rights and human rights, and Sara's support for interracial and interfaith initiatives. Hear the voices of the Roosevelts and their visitors, and see Roosevelt memorabilia, photographs, and documents. · less
   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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Workshop | Day of Mindfulness


Experiencing Life in the Now. This will be a day to drop your worries and enjoy the present. There will more be lots of guidance and each segment of the day will be short enough so that beginners can feel comfortable, and long enough for experienced meditators to enjoy it. The program includes sitting and walking meditation, meditation on the breath, the body, thoughts and feelings, some poetry for inspiration, loving-kindness meditation, and some gentle stretching. There will be an overall practice of learning to stay with our experience, joyfully. Lunch break at 12:15 PM. No need for special clothing. Chair provided. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:15 am
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City Walk | The NYC Diner Tour: The Rise, Fall, and Resiliency of the Everything Restaurant


From solitary eggs and toast to memorable late night hangs to infinite movie cameos, New York City Diners more are an essential, albeit fading, component of NYC culture and attitude. This tour charts the rise of the "everything restaurant," celebrates its heyday in the second part of the 20th century, and examines the current state of the diner amidst the ever-changing economic conditions and everyday priorities of the city and its residents. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Brooklyn Cultural District Walking Tour


The Brooklyn "Cultural District" is growing: with the recent openings of the sparkling new Theatre for more a New Audience and the BRIC Arts Center, along with the expansive Gotham Market and other destination restaurants on Fulton Street, the promise of a major new cultural district in Brooklyn is finally being realized. But beyond the new, are institutions that have excelled here for years: from the Irondale Ensemble, to MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts); from BAM Harvey to Greenlight Bookstore to Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. This two-hour guided walking tour allows you to experience the old, the new, and what's to come! Learn how this concentration of venues and people is shifting the cultural landscape of the borough and the city, while you discover the surprising historical core: a flourishing Fulton Street arts center, of more than a century ago. Over the 120 minutes, you will stroll through the gorgeous brownstone-dotted streets of Fort Greene, past both spontaneous and commissioned street art, to see where more than a dozen spaces and locations have already made the Brooklyn Cultural District a major arts destination for performances of every type, large and small. Adding to the Brooklyn cultural experience, "pop-up" performances by Fort Greene's American Opera Projects, accompany the tour. Tour Leader Dr. Ron Janoff is a licensed tour guide, a professor of Classics, Coordinator of the Rockwell Place Community Garden in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District, and a long-time Fort Greene resident. He has led walking tours of Brooklyn and Manhattan for more than 25 years. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Yoga for beginners


In this session you will learn simple but powerful yoga postures to balance and stabilize your system. more No prior experience with yoga is necessary. - Can relieve chronic ailments. - Can relieve back pain, stress, anxiety and tension. - Strengthens the spins. - Takes only 5-10 minutes to practice daily. less
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11:00 am
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Jazz | Jazz Performance


A singular creative voice in jazz, clarinetist and woodwind multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus has more performed across the U.S., Canada and Europe. Having gotten his start in the groups of blues giants Bobby "Blue" Bland and Albert King, he has appeared on records alongside jazz greats like Jaki Byard, Billy Higgins, Andrew Cyrille and Frank Lowe, including more than a dozen under his own name and several with the Cosmosomatics, which he co-led with the legendary Sonny Simmons. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Job Search Tips


An interactive, informative, and fun session that demystifies the top myths about ageism and job search. more Learn strategies to conduct a more effective and fulfilling job search. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Play | One act comedies from Broadway of the past


Featuring: The Motor Bellows - William Courtwright (1877) The Great Look - Nita Faydon (1912) Barney's more Courtship - Harry McCarthy (1871) The Second Hand Man - Harry Lee Newton (1903) Is It Raining? – Harry Lee Newton (1903) When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Harry Lee Newton (1903) less
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
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Workshop | Afternoon Tai Chi


All are welcome
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Play | 99 Histories: The Unbreakable Bond Between Mother and Child


99 Histories is a beautifully haunting and moving play about memory, legacy, and the unbreakable bond more between mother and child. Presented by the College of Performing Arts. Written by Julia Cho. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | And Quiet Flows the Don (1957): a three-part epic Soviet film


A six-hour long epic (original director's cut) about the life of Don Cossacs in a village in southern more Russia between 1912 and 1922. The leading character Grigori Melekhov is a rugged Cossac, who is torn between his first and true love Aksiniya, and his wife Natalya. Grigori Melekhov's personal life is shown as a rough journey through the experience of World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War. The Cossacs are shown as traditional farmers and warriors, who are suffering through the most dramatic events in the history of Russia. Directors Sergey Gerasimov. Starring Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kirienko. 330 min. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
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Film | Election (2005): a Hong Kong crime film


Every two years the senior members of the Wo Shing Triad, the oldest gang in Hong Kong, elect an up-and-coming more younger boss as their chairman. The two candidates they are voting on couldn't be farther apart in personality; Lok is a levelheaded businessman and Big D is a loud, obnoxious, violent criminal. When the voting does not go how some people would have liked, lines are divided and a gang war begins to form. Directed by Johnnie To. 101 min. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos


Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, will recount the evolution more of celestial map-making and will show how maps literally track our ever-evolving cosmic view, tracing our understanding of the universe, its contents and its evolution. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
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City Walk | Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today


Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti more Smith, Joan Baez, and Truman Capote are just a few of the thousands of accomplished artists, writers, radicals, and performers who made their way through Greenwich Village. This tour, primarily focusing on the 1950s onward, visits the hangouts that have defined legendary people and the spirit of this iconic neighborhood. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
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Open Mike | Poetry, short stories, songs and more


An evening of poetry, short stories, and songs in an Open Mic-setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Featuring: Natalie Diaz and Annemarie Ní Churreáin
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | A Different Path to Education


Akilah S. Richards, Antoine Fromental, Julia Putnam, and Emmanuel Davidenkoff will talk about education, more school as an institution, and how alternative learning environments could produce better educated students, and subsequently, a healthier society. Moderated by Kenneth Danford. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, the DraftWork series hosts informal, free Saturday afternoon performances more that offer choreographers an opportunity to show their work in various stages of development. Performances are followed by discussion and a reception with the artists and curator. With: Anna Kroll & Stuart Shugg / Jordan Morley less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lesson | Democracy and Voting Rights in the United States: A Contested History


This course will interrogate the history of democratic participation in the United States, with an emphasis more on disparities in access to the ballot, racial discrimination, and violence, which continue to exclude voters from the franchise. We will start with an overview of the historical development of democratic inclusion, exclusion, and participation in the United States, and then focus on how social, political and economic institutions intersect with and inform this development. The second half of the course will focus on the ways that democratic participation in the United States is mediated and informed by the carceral state, the regulation of citizenship, political power, wealth, redistricting, and contemporary voter suppression efforts. The class will conclude with a discussion of current efforts to secure and expand voting rights in the United States, focusing on a selection of promising innovations, reforms, and movement building projects. Saturdays, October 6, 20, 27, November 3, and 10 from 3:00 - 4:30pm. less
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3:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz workshop


Jazz intro workshop open to all ages, instruments and vocalist. No prior jazz experience required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | The Restoration of a Never-Performed Long-Lost Symphony


The two-part program will consist of a discussion on the restoration of Julius Eastman’s long-lost more "Symphony No. II - The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved" (1983) between composers Luciano Chessa and Mary Jane Leach, and poet R. Nemo Hill; with performances by Chessa and Adam Tendler including a premiere of Eastman’s "Touch Him When" (1970) for piano four hands in a new transcription by Chessa and Sumanth Gopinath, and "Hail Mary" (1984). less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Featuring: Michelle O'Sullivan Maureen McLane
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Classical Music | Concert at the coolest classical music concerts location in NYC


Classical music on a boat with an intimate and romantic setting and beautiful view of New York City. more Followed by a Q & A session with the musicians. Program and musicians TBA. Doors open at 3:45 pm. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Redefining Normality and Disease


Writers Siri Hustvedt and Laure Murat, and artist Johanna Hedva will join two representatives of L’Oiseau more Mouche Theater Company to discuss how the understanding of mental illness can move beyond a dichotomous perception of normality and disease. Moderated by Sara Hendren. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Screening | Anniversaries: A German Miniseries, Episodes 2-4


New York, New York, in the late 1960s. German interpreter Gesine Cresspahl, who was born in a small village more in the German province of Mecklenburg, feels out of place in her adopted country. She has never gotten over the death of Jakob, her true love. The father of her now eleven-year-old daughter was run over by a train and killed. At Marie’s insistence Gesine begins to tell the story of her family, which in turn is a story of what happened in Germany. The memories stretch from Hitler’s rise to power and World War II, to the post-war period and the establishment of East Germany, and finally to the suppression of the Prague Spring in the summer of 1968. For a long time Uwe Johnson’s complex masterwork Anniversaries was believed to be unfilmable. Director Margarethe von Trotta filmed it anyway. The result is a four-part miniseries, in which von Trotta succeeds in translating the complexity and intricacy of the novel into cinematic language. 270 min. In German with English subtitles. less
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5:00 pm
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Museums | Museum Programs of Art, Performance, and Participation for All


At this monthly event, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment, including more dynamic performances and participatory experiences. less
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5:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Featuring: Vona Groarke Ben Lerner Richard Osmond
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Play | 99 Histories: The Unbreakable Bond Between Mother and Child


99 Histories is a beautifully haunting and moving play about memory, legacy, and the unbreakable bond more between mother and child. Presented by the College of Performing Arts. Written by Julia Cho. less
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Reading | Fatventure Mag Launch Party


Fatventure Mag is a new magazine that features work by fat writers and artists who love spending time more outdoors and being active, but hate toxic weight-loss culture. Listen to readings and presentations from the founders. less
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Performance | Lights Up/Fade to Black: 3 Short Plays


Theater of Light presents the fourth bi-annual production of Lights Up/Fade to Black, an hour of rejuvenating more and light-hearted theater made of three short new plays. Play I: A conversation could be a flirtation, she is charming but there is something alarming, what she is planning for today? Play II: It is true, love is for forever but this guy is in a deep haze, figuring out just which who is who; two wives what is he going to do? Play III: She comes to see the doctor about all her crazy quirks, he has quite a diagnosis, will she need hypnosis? less
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Author Reading | Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics


Celebrate Christoph Cox’s book, newly published by the University of Chicago Press. The evening will more include solo sets by Maria Chavez (turntables) and Jake Meginsky (electronics). Along with artist Aura Satz, Cox will discuss the central themes and arguments of the book, which offers a philosophical examination of sound art and experimental music conceived as disclosing the perennial flow of sonic matter. less
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Musical | Star-Spangled: A New Musical


It’s the summer of 1972, and the college-aged "Star-Spangled Singers" are at the top of their game. more They’ve kissed performing at local Kiwanis clubs and VFW halls goodbye and are now singing and dancing their patriotic show choir routines for Bob Hope and President Nixon. But, in America, change is afoot! It's “Up with People” in the age of Watergate. Can everything be sorted out in time for the bicentennial? A college production: Written and directed by Douglas Carter Beane Music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn Choreography by Joey Pizzi less
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7:00 pm
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