Free Friday: 01/23/09

Each week we're telling viewers about events, activities and items that are free.

This week's free list:
1) Dunkin Donuts will be handing out free metrocards from 6:30am - 9:30am on Mon. Jan 26 at Grand Central Station
2) Lunar new year celebration and flower market at Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Sun. Jan 25 (giving away paper lanterns, Chinese money envelopes, plants, etc)

EVENT DETAILS AND VIDEO AFTER THE JUMP...

FREE METROCARDS
Monday, January 26 from 6:30am to 9:30am
Location: Outside of Grand Central Station
Over the next month, Dunkin' Donuts is making the morning commute a little brighter for New Yorkers by providing free subway rides at four of Manhattan's busiest subway stations.
The giveaway is a component of Dunkin's newly launched "You Kin Do It!" campaign to encourage everyday workers to keep America running during these tough times.

For more information, visit subwayblogger.com/2009/01/09/free-metrocards.

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION & FLOWER MARKET
Sunday, January 25
Location: Brooklyn Botanic Garden,1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
Note: All elements of the Lunar New Year Celebration & Flower Market are free with regular Garden admission.
We're presenting a host of performances (including our first Vietnamese group), hands-on workshops for kids and adults, plant tours and more celebrating the cultures of China, Korea, and Vietnam, plus a cut-flower market that sells gorgeous flowering plants considered lucky for the New Year!
Here are the free elements we're offering:
· A potted narcissus-considered very lucky in the New Year-that will grow beautifully
· A traditional paper lantern decorated with New Year's wishes and images of plants
· A lucky money ox made with just colorful Chinese money envelopes, scissors, and imagination!
FYI, these are all free take-home things that families will create in hands-on workshops. So visitors will get the satisfaction of making it AND taking it! Also, we have lots of vibrant Lunar New Year decorations we can bring to the studio-lucky potted citrus plants and flowers, masks, dragons and more.