Upcoming at the Voelker Orth Museum:
Queens Gardens: Tales & Memories
Sunday, October 4, 1:30 – 3:30pm
Attention Queens gardeners and everyone with great Queens garden tales. Queens Memory Project is collecting images and stories about our garden experiences to add to their digital archive documenting the life in the borough.
It’s also an opportunity to swap tips, take home plants, make some art and catch the All the Queens Gardens exhibition before is closes.
Free admission, donations welcome.
OpenHouse, NY
Saturday and Sunday, October 17-18, Noon-4pm
Each October, Open House New York Weekend offers access to New York City’s design, cultures, and infrastructure by unlocking 300 sites across the city for tours, talks and exploration.
The Voelker Orth Museum is one of the many sites welcoming visitors.
It is FREE
Pumkin Decorating Workshop
Sunday, October 25th, 1:30-3:00pm
From Harvest Fest to Halloween pumpkins mean fall celebrations and the museum has a supply to decorate. Megan Bass Leads this workshop for all ages. Paint and embellish your display pumpkin.
Registration is $4/10 for families.
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.
