Our favorite Brooklyn-based orchestra The Knights will host its family show on Saturday, Mozart and The Knights. It’s a great event for kids and families (or check out The Knights’ performance schedule for adults).
The Wyckoff House will host a cozy Family Lantern Light Day. They’ll be exploring forms of light from the Colonial era, and crafting our own tin lanterns to use at home.
At 2PM at the Queens Museum, join a special event in celebration of the closing of Relative Fields in a Garden on the Queens Museum’s 140-foot-long Large Wall including an interactive virtual project and artist talk. Relative Fields in a Garden combines painter Heidi Howard’s vivid gestural painting with her mother Liz Phillips’ interactive soundwork, which uses wave transmissions that respond to the natural light of the museum’s atrium.
At 2 PM, the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Staten Island will host a film screening of Shining Spirit. This film documents a recording project that brings together the exiled family of Jamyang Yeshi, through music and the use of multi-tracking recording technology.
At 2:30 PM, join author, former CEO of the National Urban League, and great grandnephew of inventor Lewis Latimer, Hugh B. Price, for a book talk about his memoirat the Lewis Latimer House in Queens.
At 3 PM, head to the Museum at Eldridge Street for a performance of the Eyal Vilner Big Band. The band is true to its name—it is BIG. Seventeen musicians big! Led by Tel Aviv-born and New York-educated musician/composer/conductor Eyal Vilner, this concert features Vilner’s inventive arrangements of jazz classics as well as his original compositions.
Poster House is hosting its College Night on Museum Fundamentals. Hear from LTL Principal Architect Marc Tsurumaki on how to design around an organization’s ideas and programs, Museum Director Julia Knight about building a mission from scratch and the basics of non-profit administration, and Education Director Samantha Hirsch speaks with Education Programs Manager Sierra Van Ryck. Then get a free headshot taken!
Michelle is the founder of Untapped New York and the author of The Art Spy (HarperOne, forthcoming) Secret Brooklyn, Secret New York Hidden Bars & Restaurants, and Broadway. michelleyoungwriter.com
