Upcoming at the Voelker Orth Museum:
Treasure Boxes Workshop
Sunday, November 8th, 1:30-3:30pm
Create a special keepsake box for your treasures or gifting. There’s fanciful embellishments for your creation. Instructor Phyllis Ger offers tips on design & technique. All supplies provided.
Registration: $12/ $10 for member
Table-scape/Centerpiece Workshop
Sunday December 6, 1:30-3:30pm
Bring the beauty and scent of evergreens to your home this holiday season. Working with greenery, and decorative elements, we’ll create centerpieces for your home or for gifting. We will offer tips on constructing and caring for your creation.
Suitable for adults & teens. All supplies are provided, with a cup of tea or glass of wine (21+) on the side. Workshop fee: $15/$12 members.
Holly Tour - Holiday House
Sunday, December 13, Noon—4pm
The Museum will be dressed for the holidays. Our sing-along with a medley of seasonal tunes returns with Kenneth Gartman at the 1930 Sohmer piano. Enjoy hot cider and a cookie sampler. You can make a holiday decoration. There’s a holiday gift sale with a selection of small items, plants and our 2026 honey
You have the option of joining the Holly Tour which includes four more historic homes in Flushing: the Bowne House, Kingsland Homestead, the Lewis Latimer House and the Friends Meeting House. It’s a walkable tour—or—hop on the holiday trolley.
For a Holly Tour pass, contact the Queens Historical Society, www.queenshistoricalsociety.org to purchase a $25. pass that covers all five sites and the trolley. Members & children discounted.
If you want to skip the tour and stay at the Museum admission for the afternoon s $12/$10 members
Cocoa & Cookie Decorating Wednesday, December 30, 1:30-3:00pm
We close out the year this holiday season, with sweets and creative energy. Join us for a cup of cocoa and decorate cookies to eat or share with family & friends.
Let’s enjoy each others’ company and inspiration. Fun for all ages. Admission $5/$4 for members /$10 for family
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.
