This week, we celebrate Black History Month with an exceptionally lively Family Art Project, giving grown-ups and their kids—or grandkids, nieces or nephews!—an opportunity to use movement and sound and storytelling to mark this important moment in the calendar. This is also Presidents Week, and we encourage families to visit if they are off from school: Admission will be free for children ages 18 and younger, Tuesdaythrough Friday, February 20 through 23.
If you are Manhattan-bound mid-week, don’t miss the second in our 2018 Horticultural Lectures. Sarah Raven, flying in from her farm in East Sussex, will talk flowers. What a wonderful subject for mid-February in NYC! Don’t wait to purchase a ticket. I hear it’s almost sold out.
Sat, February 17 Family Art Project: Josephine Baker Dances Out the Winter Blues
In conjunction with Black History Month, celebrate the renowned entertainer Josephine Baker, famous for her activism and for refusing to perform for segregated audiences in the U.S. Make handmade musical instruments and join visiting storyteller Channie Waites, who reinterprets Jazz Age Josephine, by Jonah Winter, through interactive movement and sound. Interactive storytelling at noon. Free, and admission to the grounds is free until noon.
WAVE HILL HOUSE, 10AM‒1PM
Sun, February 18 Family Art Project: Josephine Baker Dances Out the Winter Blues
In conjunction with Black History Month, celebrate the renowned entertainer Josephine Baker, famous for her activism and for refusing to perform for segregated audiences in the U.S. Make handmade musical instruments and join visiting storyteller Channie Waites, who reinterprets Jazz Age Josephine, by Jonah Winter, through interactive movement and sound. Interactive Storytelling at noon. Free with admission to the grounds.
WAVE HILL HOUSE, 10AM‒1PM
Sun, February 18 Garden Highlights Walk
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
MEET AT PERKINS VISITOR CENTER, 2PM
Mon, February 19
Closed to the public.
Tue‒Fri, February 20‒23 Presidents Week
Admission to the grounds is free to children ages 18 and younger.
Wed, February 21 Sarah Raven: The Cutting Garden
An inspirational and passionate teacher and award-winning author, Sarah Raven has been running cooking, flower arranging, growing and gardening courses at Perch Hill—her farm in East Sussex—and across England, since 1999. Her talk is all about how to prepare, plant, maintain and harvest buckets of flowers from your garden—from March to November—with her best sowing and growing techniques. Raven has written forThe Saturday Telegraph, Country Living, Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden and more. Wave Hill’s annual horticultural lecture series is held at the New York School of Interior Design. Three-lecture series: $60/$50 Wave Hill Member or student. Individual tickets: $25/$20 Wave Hill Member or student. Seating is limited, and advance reservations are recommended, online at wavehill.org beginning November 15. The final lecture of the series takes place on March 21, when Timothy Young focuses on the archival legacies of several 20th-century writers and artists who built gardens, including Vita Sackville-West, Robert Dash and Rupert Barneby and Dwight Ripley.
NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN, 6‒7:30PM
A 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, Wave Hill’s mission is to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscape, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts.
HOURS Open all year, Tuesday through Sunday and many major holidays: 9AM–4:30PM, November 1–March 14. Closes 5:30PM, starting March 15.
ADMISSION $8 adults, $4 students and seniors 65+, $2 children 6–18. Free Saturday and Tuesday mornings until noon. Free to Wave Hill Members and children under 6.
PROGRAM FEES Programs are free with admission to the grounds unless otherwise noted.
Visitors to Wave Hill can take advantage of Metro-North’s one-day getaway offer. Purchase a discount round-trip rail far and discount admission to the gardens. More at http://mta.info/mnr/html/
DIRECTIONS – Getting here is easy! Located only 30 minutes from midtown Manhattan, Wave Hill’s free shuttle van transports you to and from our front gate and Metro-North’s Riverdale station, as well as the W. 242nd Street stop on the #1 subway line. Limited onsite parking is available for $8 per vehicle. Free offsite parking is available nearby with continuous, complimentary shuttle service to and from the offsite lot and our front gate. Complete directions and shuttle bus schedule at www.wavehill.org/visit/.
Information at 718.549.3200. On the web at www.wavehill.org.
