Saturday, November 15
10am - 11:30am planting, 10am - 4pm museum hours
Planting Dutch: Bulbs and Blooms at Dyckman Farmhouse
Plant dutch flower bulbs in the garden from 10am-11am and then visit Manhattan's only Dutch Colonial style farmhouse museum for a special photo exhibit of bulbs in bloom.
Bulb Planting free. Museum: $1 adults, free for children 10 and under.
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
4881 Broadway at 204th Street, New York, NY 10034
212.304.9422
info@dyckmanfarmhouse.org
dyckmanfarmhouse.org
1pm
Imagining New Netherland
Historian and Novelist Firth Haring Fabend and Artist Len Tantillo will talk about how she creates fiction out of fact and how he creates imagery from historical archives.
Free. RSVP email kchase@westendchurch.org or phone 212.799.4203
Marble Collegiate Church
3 West 29th Street, New York, NY 10001
Co-organized by
The New Amsterdam History Center
newamsterdamhistorycenter.citymax.com
Society of Daughters of Holland Dames
1pm
Lecture: The Original Bronx Natives
Pat Ernest, former Education Director of Bartow-Pell, will provide a powerpoint presentation on the history of the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx. Mrs. Ernest will discuss the original natives, the Lenape, as well as Jonas Bronck the first European to settle in the Bronx (1638.)
Free with museum admission, revervations required RSVP 718.885.1461 or info@bpmm.org
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
895 Shore Road; The Bronx, NY 10464
718.885.1461
info@bpmm.org
bpmm.org
1pm - 5pm
Celebrate the Road to Happiness!
Calling children of all ages! Join ING DIRECT and Mr. Happy, Dutch artist Berrie Martens, for a children’s extravaganza. Create your own “Happy People of the World” painting. Enjoy prizes, entertainment, and fun for all.
Free. Donations to the Happy People of the World appreciated.
ING Cafe
45 East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017
866.692.2233
302.255.3192
Co-organized by
ING Direct
Happy People of the World Fundation
2pm - 5pm
Dutch Houses at the Brooklyn Museum
A celebration of the Schenck Houses with presentations by a Museum Curator, a Conservator, and a specialist in restoration of historic buildings followed by a viewing of related archival documents in the Museum Library.
Free with museum admission
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238
718.638.5000
brooklynmuseum.org
2pm - 4pm
It’s Elementary: An Introduction to Dutch Conversation
Join Wijnie de Groot, Columbia University’s Dutch Language Coordinator, for a free introduction to Dutch conversation. Dutch refreshments will be served. This event is supported by the Nederlandse Taalunie in connection with the Queen Wilhelmina Professorship.
Free RSVP to 212.854.1856 or wed23@columbia.edu
Columbia University, Department of Germanic Languages
Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street, New York, NY, 10027
columbia.edu/cu/german/dhaus/index.html
3pm – 9pm/ Reception 7:30 – 9:00
The Scandinavians Celebrate Dutch New York: Through Art & History
17th c. Holland depended on Norwegian resources and labor: learn how this connection continued in New Amsterdam, see a Still Life exhibition and watch as an edible Still Life is created, culminating in a reception.
Free for exhibition. $10 for reception.
The Scandinavian East Coast Museum & Gallery 364.
Gallery 364 at 364 72nd Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (please note this a change of venue from that printed in the brochure)
718.748.5950
scandia36@optonline.net
scandinavian-museum.org