Join educator Fabiola Cáceres as she guides you on a tour of the Dyckman Farmhouse and connects the past to the present through the farming life experience in colonial New York. Learn about the lives of the people who helped build Upper Manhattan. All ages. In English. REGISTER TODAY!
Join Melissa Branfman, Director of Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum and Meredith Horsford, Director of Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, as they chat with Culinary Historian and Interpreter of African American History for the Bureau of Historic Sites, Lavada Nahon and musician Chief Baba Neil Clarke. The event will provide live demonstrations and music to teach you more about this […]
Join Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Director of Education and Founder of Garden Kitchen Lab, Fabiola Cáceres, and our friends at New York Common Pantry for a demonstration of how to make personal flatbread pizzas with items you will find in a bag from the New York Common Pantry's Farm Share program. Find the recipes below and […]
OKRA Dance Company highlights the revived legacy of Pinkster (celebrated by freed and enslaved Africans), which flourished for over 200 years during the height of colonial America, most notably in Albany and New York City. Learn more about this unique facet of the city's past through this family-friendly, interactive performance of song, dance, and storytelling. […]
Maca Harvest Maca Cacao Harvest Cacao The earliest archeological record of cacao dates 3,000 BCE in South America. Learn more about the origins of this sacred food and its use by the elite indigenous people of Mesoamerica. Cacao was an exotic and expensive food —considered a commodity in the colonial […]
Inwood-based pianist, composer and Jazz Power Initiative Managing and Artistic Director, Eli Yamin, teams up with Grammy-nominated violinist, and Juilliard Professor of blues performance practice and chamber music, Curtis Stewart. Mr. Stewart will be featured along with members of Zah! Jazz Power’s young professional youth ensemble. The series continues Mondays in June as part of […]
UP Theater Company presents a reading of an excerpt of Lizzie Donahue’s A BARN PLAY outdoors at the Dyckman Farmhouse. The play features a cast of farm animals that attempt to write and produce a play of their own to capture the plight of their circumstances. A BARN PLAY was scheduled to open in March […]