Friday, November 24, 2023
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Free
Sunday, November 19, 2023
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Free
(Español abajo)
Join professional photographer, Michael Palma Mir, for a series of nature photography workshop-walks featuring the geology, topography and biodiversity of Northern Manhattan Parks. Michael will guide you to capture the parks’ natural beauty, such as rock outcrops, greeting gardens, historic trees, and scenic vistas from behind the lens. He will discuss nature photography strategies for dealing with difficult lighting situations, prime and zoom lens choice for perspective control, depth of field, and composition. Any kind of camera is welcome! For questions about accessibility, contact ollie.demeio@parks.nyc.gov.
In Spanish
Sunday, Nov 19 @ 11am
Inwood Hill Park | Payson Ave & Dyckman St entrance
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Únase al fotógrafo profesional, Michael Palma Mir, para una serie de talleres…caminatas de fotografía sobre la naturaleza que presentan la geología, la topografía y la biodiversidad de los parques del alto Manhattan. Michael lo guiará para capturar las bellezas naturales de los parques, como los afloramientos rocosos, jardines, árboles históricos y vistas panorámicas desde, detrás de la lente. Discutirá las estrategias de fotografía para lidiar con situaciones de iluminación difíciles, la elección de lente prime y lente zoom para el control de la perspectiva, la profundidad de campo y la composición. ¡Cualquier tipo de cámara es bienvenida! Si tiene preguntas sobre accesibilidad, comuníquese con ollie.demeio@parks.nyc.gov.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Join Paul Sadowski, of the New York Mycological Society and the New York Botanical Garden, for a Fungus Tour of Inwood Hill Park, one of New York City’s oldest woodlands. We will walk among the Park’s varied habitats in search of mushrooms large and small, edible, inedible, or just plain poisonous.
Free
PERFORMANCES (each performance is about an hour long)
Saturday, October 14, 2023: 2pm & 4pm
Sunday, October 15, 2023: 1pm & 3pm
Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, New York: A to Inwood / 207 or 1 to 215th St. Enter at Shorakkopoch Rock (Google Maps)
Forest Song is a free music performance that takes place in the last, original site of pre-Columbian Mannahatta: Inwood Hill Park. Nestled within a valley, near ancient glacial potholes, caves, and cold springs, musicians are spread throughout the forest, performing a variety of sonic materials. Harmonies are reflected, words appear, and the melodies from revolutionary hymns are re-cycled, all conjuring a human and arboreal conversation. A Forest Song gathers everyone together over distance, a unitary statement that underscores the fundamental relationships that foster all our existences in this world. Over the course of an hour performance, the audience is free to wander the park, to hear the musicians at a distance, while also observing them close-by.
Myths and stories swirl around our forests, some of them fanciful and fantastic, others feed into age-old tropes of colonial settlement. They have been many things to humans: a source of fuel, shelter, fear. They are a place of mystery and repose. Forest Song takes these many iterations of human conception of the forest to fashion a poly-narrative: a Native American home, a European folk drama, a technocratic “shelterbelt”, and now a conserved piece of our future. Forests are a mirror for humans: the reflection of our wants and desires throughout our years of existence.
featuring
TILT Brass: Christopher McIntyre – trombone, James Rogers – trombone, Nicolee Kuester – horn, Blair Hamrick – horn, Rebecca Steinberg – trumpet, Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet
with
Iván Barenboim – clarinet
Katie Porter – clarinet
Jessica Schmitz – flute
Eva Ding – flute
Casey Anderson – saxophone
The Team:
John P. Hastings – originator
Aaron Meicht – music director, trumpet
Carolina Gomez – costuming
Benjamin Mayock – design
Shannon Sindelar – producer
Michelle Tabnick – PR (contact)
Forest Song is supported by
This project is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement , a regrant program supported by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council , and administered by LMCC. This project is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), and administered by LMCC.
