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The Weekend Calendar July 27 & 28
9AM Family Farm Volunteer Day The Battery Conservancy Fun and active workshop for families looking to get outside and get dirty. Farm educators will lead participants in the tasks needed to keep our farm thriving this summer — planting, weeding, harvesting, and more. No experience necessary. For ages 4 and up. Battery Park. http://thebattery.org 10AM Drawing in the Park Battery Park City Authority Paint in watercolor, or use pastels, chalk, and charcoal to capture the magical vistas of the Hudson River and the unique landscape of South Cove. An artist/educator will help participants at all levels with instruction and critique. Materials provided. Wagner Park. http://bpcparks.org/events/2019-07/ 11AM African Drumming and Dance Battery Park City Authority Sankofa founder Kofi Maxwell Donkor, will lead us in a spirited and joyful performance workshop that includes hands on drumming and guided movement embodying the infectious rhythms and sounds of West Africa. Drums provided. Rockefeller Park. http://bpcparks.org/events/2019-07/ 11AM NYC Poetry FestivalTrust for Governors Island This festival on Governors Island features poets from over 75 poetry organizations on its three main stages; a Vendor’s Village where local booksellers, artists and craft makers sell their wares; healthy and delicious food options; a beer garden sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery, poetry-inspired installation art throughout; the Ring of Daisies open mic; and other poetic festivities. One major highlight of the festival each year is its Youth Poetry Festival, which offers children and young adults the opportunity to participate in interactive writing games, to generate new work, and to perform their work on stage alongside some of the greatest living writers. Today and tomorrow 11AM Vegetable Gardening (and Eating) with Kids The Battery Conservancy Community gardeners can learn to get children of any age engaged in gardening. Battery Urban Farm’s Educators will give participants insight on how we plant sees, tend crops, harvest and cook with budding gardeners. Includes a raw cooking demo and tasting with produce harvested from Battery Urban Farm. Kids of all ages welcome. RSVP required. Battery Park. http://thebattery.org 12:30PM Walking Tour: History of Wall Street Museum of American Finance 90-minute historical walking tour of the Financial District. Tour meets outside 48 Wall Street $15 https://www.moaf.org/events/walking/2019-07-27-walking-tour-history-of-wall-street W.O. Decker Trip South Street Seaport Museum Ages 10 and up (no more than three children under the age of 14 per adult) When booking this trip, please be aware that you are embarking on a working tugboat. Tugboat journeys can be bumpy and the only seating area is inside. There is a secure safety line around the perimeter of the boat, but it is not a hand grasp. You may get wet. Flat, closed-toe shoes with a back or back-strap are required. Check web site for times. + Museum Admission $29-$35 Pier 16 (box office at 12 Fulton Street). https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org 6:30PM The Struts: Young & Dangerous Tour 2019 Rooftop at Pier 17 6:30PM Tarantella Battery Park City Authority Join Boston based ensemble Newpoli in an exploration of southern Italian tarantella and pizzica! Let yourself be enchanted by their mesmerizing, trance-inducing mix of classics and originals inspired by the cultures of the Mediterranean Sea. Wear your long skirts, wave scarves and learn a few simple steps that will transport you to an Italian village summer festival! Esplanade Plaza. http://bpcparks.org/events/2019-07/
SUNDAY July 28 10AM T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America Exhibition Tour Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Join a museum ambassador for a 45-minute tour of T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America. Repeated at 11am. One Bowling Green. 7PM Sheryl Crow Rooftop at Pier 17 |
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Idyl Thoughts
“Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows,” was how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow described a summer of his memory. We thought of these words when we observed two children playing above, on a lawn that they miraculously had all to themselves. At moments like this, it feels like each year really has only two seasons: summer and everything else. The other three are, in some sense, just transitions — spring’s frantic burst of life and growth, autumn’s poignant dying, and the pensive slumber of winter. But summer is different. While the year’s three other quadrants exist in relation to one another, summer is really about nothing more than itself. This is the season when our relationship with all that surrounds us consists of saying: we are here, we are alive, and that is more than good enough. It is when our lives, at least for a moment, stand still — and so does the spinning world. If the other nine months of every twelve are complex and dynamic, these three are meant to be simple and static. Poised, in a way that hints at the possibility of remaining in this state forever. Of course, we cannot, and we know as much. But there’s the magic of summer: Momentarily, we are gifted not merely the opportunity — but also the capacity — to ignore the headlong rush from yesterday to tomorrow, and dwell in an idyllic present. It is a trite platitude to say that the effort and grind of the other three seasons are what make summer possible, but we suspect that just the opposite may be. Perhaps it is moments like the one depicted above that sustain each of us, not merely through the year’s other seasons, but for a lifetime. Matthew Fenton photo Robert Simko |
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Cass Gilbert and the Evolution of the New York Skyscraper by John Simko |
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A short film about the National Lighthouse Museum
For more info, www.LighthouseMuseum.org |
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Upward with the Arts
Silver Art Projects, a public service project supported by Silverstein Properties is kicking off a new artist residency program at 3 WTC. Under this initiative, dozens of artists will be invited to share more than 40,000 square feet of free studio space on the tower’s 50th floor. Occupancy will begin in September, but artists who wish to participate must apply by July 31, www.silverart.com/home |
RiverWatch Cruise Ships in the Harbor
Arrivals and Departures Saturday, July 27 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Bermuda Norwegian Dawn Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 3:30 pm; Port Canaveral, FL/Bahamas Sunday, July 28 Celebrity Summit Inbound 7:30 am Bayonne; 4:00 pm; Bermuda Norwegian Escape Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Bermuda Queen Mary 2 Inbound 6:00 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm; Transatlantic (Southampton, UK) Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal. Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, New Jersey, and are based on sighting histories, published schedules and intuition. They are also subject to tides, fog, winds, freak waves, hurricanes and the whims of upper management. |
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The Tale of the Ticker Tape, or How Adversity and Spontaneity Hatched a New York Tradition What was Planned as a Grand Affair became a Comedy of Errors
While the festivities in New York Harbor didn’t go as scripted that afternoon, the spontaneous gesture it generated from the brokerage houses lining Broadway famously lives on more than a century later. On October 28, 1886, Liberty Enlightening the World was to be unveiled to New York City and the world as it stood atop its tall base on Bedloe’s Island. But the morning mist had turned to afternoon fog, blurring the view of the statue from revelers on the Manhattan shore and the long parade of three hundred ships on the Hudson River. John Simko |
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