Monday, November 16
Celebrate the Dutch Bike –Bike Drive
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Donate a bike to Recycle-a-Bicycle at the ING DIRECT Café Bike Drive!
Free.
ING DIRECT CAFÉ
968 3rd Avenue
New York, NY 10022
302.888.0560 | Ingdirect.com/seminars
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Dutch Class at Columbia University
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Introduction to Dutch: A short class for beginners. Learn to say some basic phrases in Dutch and meet with others interested in the Dutch language! Event followed by a reception from 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Free. RSVP via e-mail or phone.
DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Deutsches Haus
240 West 116 Street
New York, NY 10027
212.854.1856 | wed23@columbia.edu | www.columbia.edu/cu/german
Co-Organized by:
The Nederlandse Taalunie
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From the Netherlands to New York: New Dutch Design
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Rotterdam and New York based West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture have shaped both Amsterdam and New Amsterdam. Principal Jerry van Eyck will share his perspectives on the future of urban landscapes.
Free and open to the public.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, NY CHAPTER
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
212.683.0023 | www.aiany.org
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Lytle Shaw on The Source of the Hudson- A Dutch Landscape of American Prospects
8:00 PM
Keyed on the Hudson Quadricentennial, this talk will be Shaw's first from a book in progress on the politics of time in landscape painting- and more generally on what happens to American history and aesthetics when the Dutch, not the English, get read as forbears.
THE POETRY PROJECTS AT ST. MARK'S CHURCH
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
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