Upcoming at the Voelker Orth Museum:
Printing with Gelli Plates
Sunday, March 8th, 1 - 3:30pm
Explore gelli plate print-making this winter.
Learn a variety of monoprint techniques including stenciling. This fun-filled medium is fast moving and full of surprises. Gelli prints are used for wall hung art, artist’s books, cards, collages and scrapbooking. For both new and experienced print-makers
Helaine Soller, instructor.
Suitable for adults, teens, and tweens. Registration per session $10 / Members $8.
Springtime Planting Workshop & Gardening Tips
Sunday, March 22, 1 :30 - 3:30 pm
It’s time to get your hands in some soil!
Revive your house plants, and if you have any outside space, get your terrace or garden into shape in spring. Sarah Burns, the Museum’s gardener, offers advice and tips for the home gardener. Everyone gets to take home a new plant, with care instructions.
Suitable for adults, teens & tweens, and families. Registration: $10 /$8 Members and $15 for families.
Sunshine & Cheer Cartoons
Sunday, April 12, 2pm
Experience the magical world of cartoon animation with film historian Tommy Jose Stathes. It’s a special spring program with films drawn from Stathes extensive archive of vintage 16mm film prints from the 1920s-40s. These cartoons still delight and amuse audiences of all ages, today. The films are projected on 16mm film, in much the manner families like the Orths enjoyed movies in their home through much of the 20th century. The program is suitable for children and adults.
Light refreshments served after the screening. Admission $5 / $4 for members. Children under 3, free.
Abstract Reality: Greta Jaklitsch Photographs
Opening Reception: Sept 24, 2-4pm
Unaltered, unfiltered, a glimpse of the world around us, Greta Jaklitsch photographs with 35mm film. Jaklitsch was one of the first artists shown at the Museum and this exhibition is a 20th Anniversary event.
Many of her most striking images are captured in parks, on walks, and observing things that are here in Queens. This exhibition brings together images that explore pattern or playfully abstract composition.
Stories and Snacks: A Festival of Home Cooking
The Queens Memory Project and the Voelker Orth Museum are partnering for a festival of home cooking in Flushing, Queens.
This inaugural festival is an immersive celebration of food and cultural memory. Activate your senses and connect to the diversity of Queens culinary traditions as you explore the Voelker Orth House and its Victorian garden.
Hear from experts on history and cooking, taste samples from local food vendors, and swap family stories and recipes. See how to preserve a record of your family’s home cooking traditions, and get creative in hands-on family workshops.
Join us to add your stories, heritage, and food traditions to the living history of Queens!
The Latehomecoming: Literature to Life Workshop
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In this intimate workshop led by teaching artist Aurea Tomeski, participants will discuss questions of home, identity, and belonging. Actor Gaosong Heu will perform excerpts from The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang as a means of exploring the themes of immigration in the memoir.
Attendees will have the opportunity to reflect through small discussions and writing prompts.
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Tickets include happy hour, house tours, and garden viewing.
First twenty registrants also receive complimentary tickets to the full performance of The Latehomecomer at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts on Friday, May 5 at 8PM.
$15/per person | $10/students and VO members.
Limited spots available.
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Based on the memoir The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang, © 2008, published by Coffee House Press. Performed by Gaosong Heu
Adapted by Aurea Tomeski & Elise Thoron. Directed by Elise Thoron
For more about Literature to Life’s arts and literacy programs, please contact Lisa Beth Vettoso at Literature to Life: lisa.v@literaturetolife.org or learn more online at www.literaturetolife.org.
