17 BRONX WEEKLY January 20, 2019 www.BXTimes.com
The story of Anne Hutchinson, a revolutionary
Continuing the tradition
of its acclaimed annual antiques
fair, the New York
Botanical Garden presents
the 2019 Garden Furniture
& Antiques Fair, with
curated offerings from leading
dealers, including classic
furniture and fi ne garden
antiques—some with a
modern twist, both elegant
and inspiring—for the
home and garden. The Fair
opens with a Preview Party
and Collectors’ Plant Sale
on Thursday, April 11, from
6 to 8 p.m. and continues all
weekend, Friday, April12,
through Sunday, April
14, featuring the choicest
plants, antiques, and garden
furniture, taking place
amid the glorious spring
spectacle at the Garden.
New this year: visitors to
the weekend-long Fair and
Preview Party will also be
able to experience NYBG’s
popular annual exhibition,
The Orchid Show, which
will pay tribute to Singapore’s
rich legacy of innovative
garden design and fl oral
display.
Festivities begin on
Thursday evening with an
exclusive Preview Party
and Collectors’ Plant Sale
featuring a curated collection
of rare, exotic, and
beautifully grown garden
plants hand-picked by NYBG’s
horticultural staff,
who are on hand to advise
on the best selections for
the home and garden. Be
among the fi rst to shop the
Fair’s exquisite selection
of fi ne antiques and garden
furniture and enjoy a fabulous
Silent Auction, plus
music, signature cocktails,
and light fare.
For Preview Party tickets
and information, call
(718) 817-8773 or e-mail
cbalkonis@nybg.org. All
proceeds benefi t NYBG’s
Fund for Horticulture, directly
supporting the work
of the curators and gardeners
who are responsible for
making the New York Botanical
Garden—a major
educational institution and
a renowned plant research
and conservation organization—
one of the grandest
horticultural showplaces.
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The Bronx Council on
the Arts presents Foreign/
Familiar: Immigrants in
The Bronx , until Wednesday,
February 27, at the Longwood
Art Gallery @ Hostos,
450 Grand Conccourse.
Curated collectively by
Bronx Council on the Arts
staff, the exhibition was
generated through an Open
Call for Bronx-based artists,
and offers alternative
narratives to the current
public discourses on immigrant
and refugee communities.
Seven Bronx visual and
media artists explore displacement
and belonging
through works infl uenced,
inspired, created, or responding
to issues of voluntary
and involuntary exile,
immigration, diaspora and
statelessness.
The exhibition’s title refl
ects on the usage of the
terms “foreign/foreigner”
as an ever expanding tool
used to exclude vast sections
of the population from
the national imaginary. At
a time when marginalized
communities are openly
vilifi ed in public conversations,
these artists articulate
alternative individual
notions of movement
through personal and nuanced
strategies.
The works in this exhibition
span across and weave
through overlapping historical
eras and locations, including
exploring the legacies
and intersections of the
transatlantic slave trade
with current migrations of
African descendent peoples
in the Bronx, memories
of landscape and domestic
spaces left behind, and
questioning inclusion and
nationalism through prose
and performance.
Participating artists
include: Dennis Redmoon
Darkeem, Nicky Enright,
Kitchen Table Digital
Diaspora Collective, Tijay
Mohammed Luis Stephenberg,
and Musah Swallah.
For more information
visit longwood@bronxarts.
org.
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Upcoming Wave Hill
events and programs:
Saturday, January 26;
Sunday, January 27: Woodworking
Workshop series
begins: The Wave Hill
Chair: Wave Hill’s inspirational
landscape is complemented
by this iconic Wave
Hill Chair. In this two-day
workshop, construct your
own Wave Hill Chair under
the guidance of master
woodworker and Wave
Hill Director of Facilities
Frank Perrone. Participants
receive step-by-step
instructions; no previous
carpentry skills required,
but participants must attend
both sessions. The second
day of this two-session
series is Sunday, January
27, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Space is limited. $240. Wave
Hill members save 10%.
Registration required, online
at wavehill.org or at the
Perkins Visitor Center.
Saturday, January 26;
Sunday, January 27: Family
Art Project: Painted Papers
and the Stories of Eric
Carle: What better season
than winter to cuddle up
with stories you love? Join
us to explore Eric Carle’s
stories illustrating the wonders
of nature. Hear some
of these enchanting favorites
as told by our storytellers,
then learn from Eric
Carle’s techniques, as we
cut and layer hand painted
papers to form bright and
colorful images. Free, and
admission to the grounds is
free until noon. Wave Hill
House, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sunday, January 27:
Garden and Conservatory
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, 2 p.m.
For further information
call (718) 549-3200 or visit
www.wavehill.org.
BRONX SCENE
FIGHTING BRONX WEIGHT GAIN WITH SUCCESS
Loretta Fleming, part of a group of community health educators, is fi ghting Bronx weight gain
issues with new success.
(Above_ Peers celebrated enrolling Health People’s 1,000th participant in the Diabetes Self-
Management Program, in August 2018. Photo courtesy of Health People
Quintent of the Americas concert
Quintet of the Americas,
Queens’ renowned
woodwind quintet, will be
in concert on Sunday, February
3 at 3 p.m. at Bartow-
Pell Mansion Museum, 895
Shore Road, Pelham Bay
Park, as part of the Composers
Now Festival.
The international program
will include Gershwin’s
Three Preludes (arranged
by William Hoyt),
Xinyan Li’s Mo Suo’s
Burial Ceremony, Arturo
Marquez’s Danza de mediodia,
Gunther Schuller’s
Blues from Suite, the
Premiere of James Cohn’s
Sourwood Mountain Variations,
Ricardo Romaneiro’s
Ventos, Agustín Barrios’s
Danza Paraguaya
(arr. Gabriel Graziani),
Vince Guaraldi’s Skating
(from his score for A Charlie
Brown Christmas, arr.
Scott Grimaldi) and Valerie
Coleman’s Tzigane.
Tickets for the Sunday,
February 3 event are $40
for non-museum members,
museum members $35,
available at https://www.
bartowpel lmansionmuseum.
org/events/quintetof
the-americas/.
For more information,
call (718) 885-
1461 or visit https://
www. f a c e b o ok . c om /
events/1731574256948082/.
The concert is ADA accessible.
For MTA transportation
information, visit
http://tripplanner.mta.
info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/
TripPlanner.
aspx.
Founded in Bogota, Colombia
in 1976, the Quintet
has specialized in bringing
music from the Western
hemisphere to audiences
in the US since its arrival
in New York in 1979.
Wave Hill’s Family Art Project, Painted Papers and the Stories of
Eric Carle. Photo courtesy of Joshua Bright
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