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SUMMARY:Artist Talk and Opening Reception: "We Were\, We Are\, We Will Be" by Cheyney McKnight
DESCRIPTION:   We Were\, We Are\, We Will Be \nCheyney McKnight \n\nHeed my warning from the ancestors. \nDo right by these ancestors. \nDo right by these descendants.\n\nA fundamental aspect of many African traditions is that the ancestors are continuously linked to us and even those yet to be born. They are the intermediaries between our world and the spiritual world. Throughout the African diaspora\, people honor the ancestors and seek them out for guidance\, protection\, and blessings. Libations is one of the ways they honor their ancestors. \nIn We Were\, We Are\, We Will Be\, historical Interpreter Cheyney McKnight presents a series of photographs and videos from libation ceremonies she led for First Africans Day at Stratford Hall Historic Preserve over the past 4 years. Through exclusive tours\, lectures\, and activities\, Stratford Hall Historic Preserve hosts First Africans Day each year to commemorate the enslaved Africans and African Americans who built\, managed\, and sustained the estate for generations of the Lee family. \nAs part of First Africans Day 2025\, Cheyney McKnight and Tanyah Dadze Cotton led an opening ceremony in the morning on Stratford Hall’s burial ground to honor the enslaved ancestors with libations. In the evening\, McKnight led a closing ceremony— one final action to ground the descendents. Everyone was present: descendents of those who were enslaved at Stratford Hall\, descendents of the Lee family\, local community members\, and visitors from all over the world. They called out the names of those who were enslaved at Stratford Hall. They weaved those same names written on dissolvable paper into a raft made from locally sourced\, biodegradable materials. McKnight then concluded the ceremony with a call for all of the female descendents of those who were enslaved at Stratford Hall to join together and push the raft out into the Potomac River.  \nWe Were\, We Are\, We Will Be links the past\, present\, and future of the African diaspora highlighting the reparative work that needs to be done in centering the spiritual and physical healing of descendants of slavery through reparations.  \nThe exhibition at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum features framed photographs and a projected video montage from libation ceremonies Cheyney Mcknight led for First Africans Day at Stratford Hall over the past 4 years alongside a selection of objects that hold immense value during McKnight’s libation ceremonies. \nJoin us for the Opening Reception of We Are\, We Were\, We Will Be where you’ll have the chance to meet the artist and hear more about the making of the exhibited work. \nDate: Wednesday\, September 3rd\, 2025 \nTime: 5:30pm-7:30pm \n(The Artist Talk portion of the Opening Reception will begin at 6pm. Can’t attend in person? Please register via Zoom for the livestream) \nCost: FREE! \nLocation: Livestream via Zoom or attend in person at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th Street and Broadway)  \nThis program is supported by the Ministry of Education\, Culture and Science of the Kingdom of the Netherlands\, through the Dutch Culture USA FUTURE 400 program of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
URL:https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/artist-talk-and-opening-reception-we-were-we-are-we-will-be-by-cheyney-mcknight/
LOCATION:Dyckman Farmhouse Museum\, 4881 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10034-3101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Finding Peace: Create Loving Offerings for A Community Altar with Regina Evans
DESCRIPTION:If you could send a message to an enslaved person from the past\, how would you use your creativity to acknowledge the inherent humanity of their life? Would you draw them a beautiful map to freedom? Write a loving poem to sing softly into their ear? Paint a colorful picture that holds hidden symbols of care? ​ \nDyckman Farmhouse Museum is honored to welcome back our 2024–2025 exhibiting artist\, Regina Evans\, for a community-engaged project that pays tribute to the enslaved people who once unjustly lived and labored here. Through this Community Altar\, we offer a deliberate acknowledgment of their life’s journey so that they are properly honored and remembered. \nUsing materials provided and optional guided prompts\, participants will create loving offerings— a letter\, poem\, or drawing—that will be placed on the Community Altar and later bound into a book by Regina Evans for public viewing. All ages welcome! \nDate: Saturday\, August 30th AND Saturday\, September 6th \nTime: 12pm-3pm \nCost: FREE! \nLocation: Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)
URL:https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/finding-peace-create-loving-offerings-for-a-community-altar-with-regina-evans-2/
LOCATION:Dyckman Farmhouse Museum\, 4881 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10034-3101\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T180000
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SUMMARY:[ZOOM] I Do Promise: A Virtual Roundtable with Composer Jonathan Woody
DESCRIPTION:“I do promise to every NEGROE who shall desert the Rebel Standard\, full security to follow within these Lines\, any Occupation which he shall think proper.”—H. Clinton\, June 30\, 1779 \nJoin composer/bass-baritone Jonathan Woody\, violinist Shelby Yamin\, and historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino for a roundtable discussion centered on Woody’s forthcoming work\, I Do Promise. \nCommissioned by Dyckman Farmhouse Museum and the period-instrument ensemble Music of the Regiment\, I Do Promise blends 21st-century sounds with 18th-century instruments and texts from the American Revolutionary War. Taking its name from a line in General Henry Clinton’s 1779 Philipsburg Proclamation\, the work is a musical meditation on the experiences of Africans and Black Americans who navigated Britain’s utilitarian policies of emancipation in New York and throughout North America between 1775 and 1783. \nDate: September 11\, 2025 \nTime: 6pm-7pm \nCost: FREE! \nRegistration Required? Yes\, register via Zoom HERE! \nLocation: Virtual via Zoom. \nJonathan Woody often performs as a member of the GRAMMY®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street\, where he has earned praise from the New York Times for his “charismatic” and “riveting” solos. Woody is in demand as a bass-baritone soloist\, appearing regularly with historically informed and period-instrument orchestras including Boston Early Music Festival\, Apollo’s Fire\, Pacific MusicWorks\, Bach Collegium San Diego\, Trinity Baroque Orchestra\, and New York Baroque Incorporated. As a composer\, his compositional voice blends 17th- and 18th-century inspiration with minimalism and socially conscious subject matter of today. Since 2020\, he has received commissions from Apollo’s Fire\, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street\, Chanticleer\, the Handel and Haydn Society\, the Cathedral Choral Society of Washington\, D.C.\, and the Five Boroughs Music Festival\, among others. \nViolinist Shelby Yamin is a sought after chamber musician\, recitalist\, and soloist. Recent season highlights include appearances as soloist with the Albany Symphony\, Oregon Bach Festival\, Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players\, New York Baroque Incorporated\, House of Time\, and Voices of Music. Her passion for bringing historical music into historic spaces has led to concerts at the Hammond-Harwood House and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Based in New York\, Shelby can be regularly heard with the city’s premier period-instrument ensembles\, including Trinity Baroque Orchestra and The Sebastians\, and she has been a core member of Les Délices (Cleveland\, OH) since 2022. In addition to her active performing and teaching career\, Shelby is the associate producer of Les Délices’s award-winning early music webseries and podcast\, SalonEra. Shelby holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music\, San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, and The Juilliard School\, where she won the historical-performance concerto competition.  \nHistorical clarinetist Dominic Giardino enjoys a varied professional life as a performer\, administrator\, educator\, and researcher. Dominic performs in period-instrument orchestras throughout the continent\, including in recent seasons with Boston Baroque\, the Washington Bach Consort\, and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. He also regularly performs in chamber music programs with the Raleigh Camerata and Wit’s Folly. Dominic has recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Players\, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem Orchestra\, Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band\, and Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble. He is the executive director of Arizona Early Music\, serves on the faculties of the University of North Texas and George Mason University\, and co-directs the period-instrument ensemble Music of the Regiment. Dominic is a 2016 Fulbright grantee and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. \nThis project is made possible through the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts.
URL:https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/i-do-promise-a-virtual-roundtable-with-composer-jonathan-woody/
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SUMMARY:[VIRTUAL]  "Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo\, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity" with Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel
DESCRIPTION:Date: September 23\, 2025 \nTime: 6pm-7pm \nCost: FREE! \nRegistration Required? Yes\, register here! \nLocation: Virtual via Zoom \nTwice a year\, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM)\, a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history\, racial identity\, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this September-October (Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!)\, all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity.\nJoin us for the first session of Talking About Race Matters 2025 featuring Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel\, an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. \nShe will be presenting “Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo\, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity\,” a conversation about the first Black people to arrive in the Caribbean and how Santo Domingo (or La Española) played a key role as the main port of entry for the Transatlantic Slave Trade\, leading to one of the largest diasporic Black communities and each with a distinct sense of belonging through adaptation\, identity preservation\, and identity development. \nDr\, Lissette Acosta Corniel’s work focuses on gender\, slavery\, and resistance in early colonial Hispaniola and Santo Domingo. She has published several articles and book chapters and is the editor of the book Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain\, Santo Domingo\, and Puerto Rico (SUNY Press\, 2024). She is working on her next book\, Bad Women\, Contested Freedoms: Feminist Behavior in 16th Century Hispaniola. Acosta Corniel is also interested in digital humanities. She was the research associate of the www.firstblacks.org database and is the co-creator and co-director of the faculty-student research program Black Studies Across the Americas. https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/black-studies-across-the-americas/. \nDyckman Farmhouse Museum’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council.
URL:https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/virtual-genesis-of-blackness-in-the-americas-santo-domingo-a-passport-to-black-caribbean-culture-and-identity-with-dr-lissette-acosta-corniel/
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SUMMARY:[VIRTUAL] Talking About Race Matters 2025: "Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Identity Formation and Political Consciousness" with Dr. Yalidy Matos
DESCRIPTION:Date: September 25\, 2025 \nTime: 6pm-7pm \nCost: FREE! \nRegistration Required? YES! Register HERE! \nLocation: Virtual via Zoom \nTwice a year\, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM)\, a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history\, racial identity\, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this Hispanic Heritage Month\, all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity. \nJoin us for the second session of Talking About Race Matters 2025 featuring Dr. Yalidy Matos\, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick\, as she presents her newest research\, Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness. \nLiving Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness explores how Afro-Latinas— whether born in the U.S. or abroad but primarily residing in the United States—identify and construct their identities\, and how they engage with broader identity categories. Crucially\, the work traces the shift from individual identification to the development of an intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness. This consciousness isn’t just about how they see themselves—it’s about how they act\, what they believe\, and how they engage politically. Rooted in Black feminist thought\, this intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness has real consequences for political attitudes and behavior. This works examines how identity becomes action\, and how Afro-Latina lives illuminate the power of lived experience in shaping political life. \nYalidy Matos’ scholarship sits at the intersection of race\, ethnicity\, gender\, and politics\, immigration\, and identity politics. Her book Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics (OUP) was published in 2023. She graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus\, OH with a PhD in Political Science in 2015\, and Connecticut College in New London\, CT with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Gender and Women’s Studies in 2009. \nDyckman Farmhouse Museum’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council.
URL:https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/virtual-talking-about-race-matters-2025-living-afro-latina-lives-an-afrodiasporic-feminist-approach-to-understanding-identity-formation-and-political-consciousness-with-dr-yalidy-matos/
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