Weekend Programming: Darwin and Moore, Together at Last
Posted in Exhibitions, Moore in America, Programs and Events on May 29 2008, by Plant Talk
Henry Moore is standing tall across the Garden and the Darwin exhibit is still going strong. Both of these wonderful exhibits have a slew of complementary programs. Want to take a guided tour highlighting the Moore sculpture, see the newly budding roses, go on a bird walk, learn the science of Charles Darwin, or find something to keep the kids occupied? This Friday through Sunday is jam packed with all of that and more.
Check out the full list after the jump.
Friday, May 30
Film Screening of The Art of Henry Moore
Friday, May 30, 12 & 2 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
This documentary features many of Henry Moore’s most significant sculpture and work from the 1920s to the 1980s. The artist and his various works are discussed in interviews, articles, and letters. Watch his creative process unfold, starting with small models and ending with impressive and massive sculpture.
Guided Tour of the Rose Garden
Friday, May 30, 1 p.m.
Meet at the entrance of the Peggy Rockafeller Rose Garden
Darwin for Kids
Friday, May 30, 1:30–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world, a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Moore for Kids
Friday, May 30, 1:30–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Explore the beautiful sculpture of Henry Moore throughout the Garden grounds and in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. Create your own works of art using techniques inspired by the renowned sculptor.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Friday, May 30, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
Saturday, May 31
Bird Walk
Saturday, May 31, 11 a.m.
Meets at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center
Bring your binoculars and walk the Garden grounds with a bird expert. You’ll search for birds and learn more about bird-friendly habitats for both passage birds and those that reside at the Garden.
Film Screening of The Art of Henry Moore
Saturday, May 31, 12 & 2 p.m.
In the Conservatory GreenSchool
This documentary features many of Henry Moore’s most significant sculpture and work from the 1920s to the 1980s. The artist and his various works are discussed in interviews, articles, and letters. Watch his creative process unfold, starting with small models and ending with impressive and massive sculpture.
Guided Tour of Darwin’s Garden: His Life with Plants
Saturday, May 31, 12:30 p.m.
In the 6th floor Library Gallery
Take a guided tour of an exhibition of more than 60 rare books and objects that tell the story of Charles Darwin’s lifelong relationship with plants. Darwin’s original manuscripts, field notebooks, plant collections, and other historical documents chronicle his progression from a boy with an interest in plants to an evolutionary botanist who revolutionized the world’s view of life.
Art in Nature: Walking Tours of Moore in America
Saturday, May 31, 12:30 & 3:30 p.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center or at the entrance to the Peggy Rockafeller Rose Garden
Take a closer look at the sculpture of Henry Moore and the impressive interaction of his work and the magnificent landscape of the Botanical Garden with a Garden Docent or Teaching Artist. Discover themes within his art and the stories each of the monumental pieces tell. Choose to take a tour of the sculpture near the Reflecting Pool or of those near the Rockafeller Rose Garden and Benenson Ornamental Conifers. Admission included with an All-Garden Pass.
Darwin’s Garden: Everyday Science
Saturday, May 31, 1–3 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Learn the basics of scientific experimentation, the likes of which Charles Darwin used in his research. Develop your skills of observation, inquiry, and hypothesis with scientific instruments, herbarium specimens, and Garden plants. Use these new skills to uncover unknown aspects of the Garden.
Home Gardening Demonstration—Lessons from the Art World
Saturday, May 31, 1:30 p.m.
In the Home Gardening Center
Art and ornamentation can be effectively used in the garden to brighten up and add interest to any space. Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she discusses basic design principles and explores how you can celebrate art in the garden.
Expert-led Tour of Darwin’s Garden: His Life with Plants
Saturday, May 31, 2:30 p.m.
In the 6th floor Library Gallery
Take an expert-led tour of an exhibition of more than 60 rare books and objects that tell the story of Charles Darwin’s lifelong relationship with plants. Darwin’s original manuscripts, field notebooks, plant collections, and other historical documents chronicle his progression from a boy with an interest in plants to an evolutionary botanist who revolutionized the world’s view of life.
World Science Festival: Seeds, Survival, Stalin
Saturday, May 31, 3 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
As part of the World Science Festival, The New York Botanical Garden will feature a special presentation on the urgent need to preserve botanical species and other food sources in the face of potentially catastrophic global threats.
Café Scientifique
Saturday, May 31, 3:30 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Gallery
Engage in lively conversation with Garden scientists and students from the Botanical Garden’s Graduate Studies Program as they discuss Darwin’s influence on their research today at the Garden as well as around the world, working in the field, herbarium, library and laboratory.
Darwin for Kids
Saturday, May 31, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world, a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Moore for Kids
Saturday, May 31, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Explore the beautiful sculpture of Henry Moore throughout the Garden grounds and in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. Create your own works of art using techniques inspired by the renowned sculptor.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Saturday, May 31, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
Sunday, June 1
Guided Tour of the Conservatory
Sunday, June 1, 11:30 a.m.
At the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory entrance
Film Screening of The Art of Henry Moore
Sunday, June 1 12 & 2 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
This documentary features many of Henry Moore’s most significant sculpture and work from the 1920s to the 1980s. The artist and his various works are discussed in interviews, articles, and letters. Watch his creative process unfold, starting with small models and ending with impressive and massive sculpture.
Darwin’s Garden: His Garden Re-Created
Sunday, June 1 12:30 & 2:30 p.m.
At the Conservatory entrance
Take a docent-led tour of the Conservatory segment of Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, which re-creates Down House, the place in Kent, England, where Charles Darwin spent the last 40 years of his life observing and experimenting with plants in the gardens, greenhouses, and surrounding countryside.
Art in Nature: Walking Tours of Moore in America
Sunday, June 1 12:30 & 3:30 p.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center or at the entrance to the Peggy Rockafeller Rose Garden
Take a closer look at the sculpture of Henry Moore and the impressive interaction of his work and the magnificent landscape of the Botanical Garden with a Garden Docent or Teaching Artist. Discover themes within his art and the stories each of the monumental pieces tell. Choose to take a tour of the sculpture near the Reflecting Pool or of those near the Rockafeller Rose Garden and Benenson Ornamental Conifers. Admission included with an All-Garden Pass.
Darwin’s Garden: Everyday Science
Sunday, June 1 1–3 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Learn the basics of scientific experimentation, the likes of which Charles Darwin used in his research. Develop your skills of observation, inquiry, and hypothesis with scientific instruments, herbarium specimens, and Garden plants. Use these new skills to uncover unknown aspects of the Garden.
Question and Answer Sessions with the Rose Experts
Sunday, June 1 1–3 p.m.
At the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden pergola
Get answers to your questions about caring for roses at home, cultivars to try in your garden, the history of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, and more from our garden experts.
Raffles for Rose Plants
Sunday, June 1 1:15 and 2:45 p.m.
At the entrance to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden
Win a rose plant! Fill out an entry form at the information table in the Rockafeller Rose Garden. Drawings will be held each weekend in June. The winner must be present at the time of the drawing.
Home Gardening Demonstration—Lessons from the Art World
Sunday, June 1 1:30 p.m.
In the Home Gardening Center
Art and ornamentation can be effectively used in a garden to brighten up and add interest to any space. Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she discusses basic design principles and explores how you can celebrate art in the garden.
Expert Tour of the Rose Garden: History of Roses
Sunday, June 1 3 p.m.
At the entrance to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden
Join Michael Mitchell, consultant for the American Rose Society, as he leads a tour of the rose’s past and present. Learn how roses developed over the years from wild species to the genetic wonders of today’s hybrids.
Darwin for Kids
Sunday, June 1 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world, a timeline of his life; a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Moore for Kids
Sunday, June 1, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Explore the beautiful sculpture of Henry Moore throughout the Garden grounds and in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. Create your own works of art using techniques inspired by the renowned sculptor.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Sunday, June 1, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
