Thursday, November 12
5 Dutch Days 5 Boroughs Opening Reception
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Put on your best orange and join us at Brooklyn's Borough Hall to kick off 5 Dutch Days 2009 with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. We'll preview the Dutch contemporary art featured in HOME | LAND, our special Quadricentennial project, and then process down Montague Street to continue the festivities at the Brooklyn Historical Society and view Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts.
Free. RSVP required via e-mail.
5 DUTCH DAYS 5 BOROUGHS
Brooklyn Boro Hall
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierpont Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
212.228.3127 | info@5dutchdaysnyc.org | www.5dutchdaysnyc.org
Co-Organized by:
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
The Consulate General of the Netherlands
Brooklyn Historical Society
New Amsterdam Market
Brooklyn Brewery
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The Founding and Building of New York
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The library of the Huguenot Society of America will be open to the public with examples of the Huguenots presence and participation in the founding and building of New York.
Free.
THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF AMERICA
20 West 44th Street, Suite # 510
New York, NY 10036
212.755.0592 | hugsoc@verizon.net | www.huguenotsocietyofamerica.org
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Dutch Quiz Quest
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Does July 26, 1581 ring a bell? Test your knowledge of Dutch history for a chance to win prizes! Taste the Netherlands with food from Danku, a Dutch restaurant in Midtown - all courtesy of ING DIRECT Café.
Free. RSVP via phone or website.
ING DIRECT CAFÉ
968 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
302.888.0560 | www.ingdirect.com/seminars
Co-Organized by:
Danku
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Tour of New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion
12:00 PM
Join a tour of the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, designed by world-renowned architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio (Amsterdam) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ centerpiece gift to the NY400 celebrations.
Free. RSVP required via email.
THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY
Peter Minuit Plaza
The Battery (at State St. and Whitehall St.)
212.344.3491 | info@thebattery.org | www.thebattery.org
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Gallery Tours of Dutch Houses at the Brooklyn Museum
1:30 PM
Museum guide-led gallery tours of the museum’s two Dutch houses: the Jan Martense Schenck House, built in 1675, and the Nicholas Schenck House, built in the 1770s.
Free with admission to the museum.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
718.638.5000 | www.brooklynmuseum.org
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Manhattan’s Indians: A Lecture with Karen Ordahl Kupperman
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Discover the pre-contact Indian cultures that lived on the island of Manhattan and explore the effects of the Dutch arrival on these native societies.
Free. RSVP required. Space is limited.
THE GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
The Wasserman Center for Career Development
133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003
212.475.9585 Ext. 35 | rsvp@gvshp.org | www.gvshp.org/events.htm
Co-Organized by:
The Native People’s Forum
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Scandinavians Celebrate Dutch New York: Henry Hudson and Beyond
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
New Yorkers know little about early Dutch and Scandinavian history. Hear Pascal Theunissen shed light on the subject with his new book Nederlands in New York, followed by a look at Scandinavians in the colony.
Tickets are $20 including a wine and cheese reception.
SCANDANAVIAN EAST COAST MUSEUM
414 - 80th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11209
718.748.5950 | www.scandinavian-museum.org
HOME│LAND - Contemporary Dutch Art @ Historic Sites
See the HOME│LAND tab for special contemporary arts programming @ historic sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.