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Dyckman Farmhouse – Inwood Haven: Making Melodies of Inwood (Family Workshop)

What does Inwood sound like?

What music comes to mind when you think of Inwood?

Join us for a musical family workshop for youth and adults! Adults and kids ages 5-18 are invited to collaborate on a community composition, guided by Teaching Artist and composer Evelyn Petcher Brandes and Leadlights Ensemble violist Arthur Dibble.

Come learn how to use flashcards, boomwhackers, and bells to create melodies and rhythms inspired by our Inwood neighborhood. Your words, melodies, and ideas shared in this workshop will come to life in Ms.Brandes’ brand-new musical composition called “Inwood Haven,” premiering this September on our very own back porch!

Any accompanying adult is considered a participant of this program. Accompanying adults and youth must reserve a ticket. Participants may be photographed during this workshop and will be asked to sign a media release form.

Date: Saturday, March 21st, 2026

Time: 4PM-6PM

Cost: FREE

Registration Required? Yes, register via Eventbrite! Only 15 spots available.

Location: Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)

“Inwood Haven” is a project created by NYC based composer Evelyn Petcher Brandes and sponsored by the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum through a grant from New York State Council on the Arts.

Flyer Design by Dawn Kim

Dyckman Farmhouse – Brewing Up History: From Farm To Bar

Join Dyckman Farmhouse Museum for our newest fundraiser, Brewing Up History: From Farm to Bar.

Learn about the history of alcohol production in early America and the role of farmers like the Dyckman’s.

You’ll get to enjoy:

  • Unlimited tastings from Dyckman Beer Co., Aaron Burr Cidery, and The Old Field Vineyards.
  • Historic games with Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site.
  • Light bites from local restaurants, including Refried Beans Mexican Grill, Le Chéile, Tubby Hook Tavern, Tryon Public House, and 24/7 Caterers.
  • A souvenir tasting glass!

All proceeds will go to supporting Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in its mission to serve the community with art, history, and culture through exhibitions and free and engaging public programming.

21+ only. IDs will be checked at the door. 

Get your early bird tickets here!

Date: Friday, November 7, 2025

Time: 6-9pm

Price:

  • Early Bird (Through October 22nd): $50
  • Regular (Starting October 23rd): $65

Location: Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)

Thank you to additional supporter Brotherhood Winery.

Dyckman Farmhouse: Talking About Race Matters 2025: “Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity” with Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel

Date: September 23, 2025 Time: 6pm-7pm Cost: FREE!
Join us for our upcoming virtual lecture series 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. She will be presenting “Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity,” a conversation about the first Blacks 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. 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/. 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, and made possible by The Cowles Charitable Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Dyckman Farmhouse: [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

Date: September 25, 2025
Time: 6pm-7pm
Cost: FREE!

Registration Required? YES! Register HERE!

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Join us for DFM’s Talking About Race Matters virtual lecture series with 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.

Living 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.

Yalidy Matos is Associate Professor of political science at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Her 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.

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, and made possible by The Cowles Charitable Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Dyckman Farmhouse – Finding Peace: Create Loving Offerings for A Community Altar with Regina Evans

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? ​

Dyckman 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.

Using 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!

Date: Saturday, August 30th AND Saturday, September 6th

Time: 12pm-3pm

Cost: FREE!

Location: Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)

This 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.