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Upcoming events and programs at Wave Hill
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Wave Hill Sonic Experience: Dronechoir. Photo by Michael Azerrad
As evening descends, the gardens
here take on a magical quality—summer
blooms glow in the waning light
and fi refl ies begin to rise up from the
grass like tiny lanterns in the night.
This is twilight at Wave Hill. Below
are the events and programs scheduled
for the coming week:
Thursday, August 8; Friday, August
9; Sunday, August 11; Wednesday,
August 14; Thursday, August 15:
Garden Highlights Walk: Join a Wave
Hill Garden Guide for a public tour of
seasonal garden highlights. Free with
admission to the grounds. Meet at Perkins
Visitor Center, 1 p.m.
Thursday, August 8: Sonic Experience:
DJ Lightbolt Spinning Globe
Sounds: Global Stereotype is a sonic
journey of Outernational music. Multiinstrumentalist
with a global headset
DJ Lightbolt mashes up sounds from
both hemispheres and all manner of
contemporary fusion. Based in NYC,
he’s performed for the art world at Exit
Art, The Bronx Museum, Smack Mellon,
for Performa at Museo del Barrio,
Third Streaming, Bronx ArtSpace,
NYFA, BRAC and on the Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage, in Washington,
DC. He has also presided over NYC
nightlife at various, venues including
Shrine, The Frying Pan, Kush, Santos
Party House, and BeautyBar. Free with
admission to the grounds. Special evening
admission to the grounds starts
at 4PM. $12 general adult admission;
$8 student and seniors 65+; $6 children
ages six+. Purchase admission online
by 4PM day of event and save $2. Free
to Wave Hill Members and children
under age six. No guest passes or reciprocal
admission accepted. Kate
French Terrace, 7 p.m.
Thursday, August 8: Garden Talk
and Walk: Bats of the Bronx: Rewind
and experience twilight in August. Explore
the garden through a customized
nature program or experience the gardens
through sound. Tonight, join bat
expert Kaitlyn Parkins and the New
York City Bat Group for a peek at the
secret life of bats that live in and migrate
through the Bronx. Begin with an
indoor presentation on the diversity of
urban bats and their importance to our
ecosystem, then venture out onto the
grounds to search for bats at Wave Hill
using a bat-detector. Don’t forget your
fl ashlight. Ages 10 and older welcome
with an adult. Rain date: August 29.
Check wavehill.org for shuttle service
and for The Café menu on this Thursday
evening. The Café will be open till
7:30PM. $40; Wave Hill Members save
10%. Registration required, online or
at the Perkins Visitor Center. Twilight
in the Garden event. Wave Hill House,
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 10; Sunday, August
11: Family Art Project: Tools to
Navigate: Join visiting artist Francisco
Donoso to explore themes of belonging,
migration and connection to
place. Decide which otherworldly place
you’d like to navigate—perhaps outerspace
or the deep seas—then create
sculptures infused with a little magic
to help you explore that world. Learn
real navigation, mapping and tracking
techniques to inform how you create
your own, made-up, navigation tool.
Free, and admission to the grounds is
free until noon. Wave Hill House, 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday, August 10; Tuesday, August
13: Gallery Tou: Tour Glyndor
Gallery with Wave Hill’s Curatorial
Fellow or Gallery Greeter to get an insider’s
view of current exhibitions. The
exhibition Figuring the Floral features
artists who employ fl owers to explore
representations of identity—constructing
narratives on race, ethnicity, class,
gender, sexual orientation, and aging.
The exhibition includes paintings, collages,
drawings, sculptures and an
outdoor installation. In the Sunroom,
Kate Bae’s immersive installation consists
of fl owers created from layers of
acrylic paint. They drape from the ceiling
into a wishing well. The landscape
evokes the ecosystem of Mount Halla
on South Korea’s Jeju Island, a holy
symbol of the unifi cation of South Korea
and North Korea. In the Sun Porch,
Riad Miah creates a multi-part installation
of double-sided, oil and acrylic,
rectangular paintings on Dura-Lar.
He traces light throughout the calendar
year to portray a sense of time,
with each piece representing a single
month. Free with admission to the
grounds. Glyndor Gallery, 2 p.m.
Sunday, August 11: Summer Birding:
Naturalist Gabriel Willow contributes
his extensive knowledge of diverse
bird species and their behavior
on these walks through the gardens
and woodlands. Observe the plants,
insects and habitats at Wave Hill that
make it so appealing for such a wide
variety of birds. Birders of all levels
welcome! Ages 10 and older welcome
with an adult. Free with admission to
the grounds. NYC Audubon Members
enjoy two-for-one admission. Meet at
Perkins Visitor Center, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, August 11: Family Nature
Walk: Join naturalist and educator Gabriel
Willow on a family-friendly walk
through the gardens or woodlands.
Family walks begin at Wave Hill
House. Ages fi ve and older welcome
with an adult. Severe weather cancels.
Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at Wave Hill House, 1 p.m.
Thursday, August 15: Sonic Experience:
Dronechoir: Arone Dyer is director,
composer, curator and performer,
and aims to present beautiful musical
experiences that provide deeper connections
between women of different
cultures within the musical community
through Dronechoir. While the
current sonic composition of the piece
is a constant, Dronechoir continually
reshapes itself through reimagined
movement directions designed
specifi cally for each space, as well as
thanks to the generous participation
of adventurous vocalists of diverse
backgrounds whose voices vary in
volume, range and timbre. Movement
directions embedded within the piece
physically foregrounds specifi c singers
at different points in the piece, and
the singers may move closer to members
of the audience, bringing depth to
the listener’s experience by challenging
barriers and introducing a heightened
sense of engagement with the
performance. Dronechoir combines
unfamiliar collaborators with an unrehearsed
performance, and everyone
is singing together for the fi rst time
with people they may never have met
before. Throughout the piece, the vocalists
learn what their role is within
the choir and composition. By committing
to this unrehearsed performance
the vocalists naturally demonstrate a
sense of hope and support, acceptance,
love and respect to the audience and
each other. Free with admission to the
grounds. Special evening admission
to the grounds starts at 4PM. $12 general
adult admission; $8 student and
seniors 65+; $6 children ages six+. Purchase
admission online by 4PM day of
event and save $2. Free to Wave Hill
Members and children under age six.
No guest passes or reciprocal admission
accepted. Aquatic Garden, 7 p.m.
Thursday, August 15: Full-Moon
Nature Walk: Traverse Wave Hill’s
garden and woodland paths under the
light of the “Sturgeon Moon,” the last
full moon of summer. Expert naturalist
Mike Feller leads this after-hours
adventure along woodland edges and
pocket meadows where fi refl ies, moths
and other insects rendezvous for some
evening revelry. Observe as Feller
calls to local screech owls and look for
signs of other nocturnal creatures taking
advantage of the tranquility of the
evening garden. Adults and children
10 and up welcome with an adult. Not
recommended for persons with mobility
issues; route includes rough terrain
and some steep slopes. This event
is held light rain or shine. $20; Wave
Hill Members save 10%. Registration
required, online or at the Perkins Visitor
Center. Twilight in the Garden
event. Meet at Perkins Visitor Center,
8 to 9:30 p.m.
For more information call (718) 549-
3200 or visit www.wavehill.org.
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