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

 

 

HOMELAND - Contemporary Dutch Art @ Historic Sites
See the HOME│LAND tab for special contemporary arts programming @ historic sites in Manhattan.