Bird and Nature Walk: Wolfe's Pond Park
2023-01-04 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Mattarazo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through Wolfe’s Pond Park.
Wolfe’s Pond Park offers a diverse variety of habitats to search, including the pond, thickets, woodlands and the waters of Raritan Bay. Meet in the parking lot near the Parks Dept. buildings.

Korean Lunar New Year: An Interactive Guide to Seollal
2023-01-14 - 2023-01-31
Free/Donations welcome
Click the image below to download this year’s guide!
Download this year’s interactive guide and bring the traditions of Seollal (Korean Lunar New Year) right into your own home! Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with recipes, games, and activities that epitomize this special time of year.

NEW DATE! Crafternoons: Wool Felting and Dying
2023-01-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
New Series!
$25/$20 members (includes museum admission)
Join fiber artist and Manager of Exhibitions, Donna Pagano for this hands-on woolen workshop. In this 2-hour class, we will go over the tools and techniques needed to create felt balls. Then we will string them together, add tassels, and finish it with a few drops of essential oil to create a diffuser for your car, home, or keychain! Participants will also try their hand at dying wool. The same materials and techniques can be used to create garlands, too! All tools and materials are provided, plus extra to take home.
Please note: this program was originally scheduled for Saturday, December 10 and has been moved to Saturday, January 14.
Donna Pagano
Donna Pagano (Poddery) is a fiber and natural forms artist. She has been working with natural forms for over 20 years, and has been interested in wool for more than 10 years. Working with wool and seed pods are her passion. Sourcing her materials locally, she uses the natural forms to create beautiful and functional objects.

'Yes, And' - artists' panel | Impact and Inspiration: The Life of James Zappalorti
2023-01-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Online
To view the recorded talk, click the video on the right.
Donations welcome
This discussion centers on the memory of Staten Islander James Zappalorti and the ways in which his unfortunate death created and continues to inspire social change. It also addresses the current alarming trends of violence against LGBTQ+ people specifically impacting transgender and gender non-conforming people in New York City and across the country.
Join Yes, And artists Terry S. Hardy (who created the James Zappalorti Memorial Mandala) and Paul Moakley (who is working on a documentary short about James to be released in 2023), James’ brother Robert Zappalorti, and NYC Anti-Violence Executive Director Beverly Tillery – in conversation with selection panelist Ed Woodham – followed by a Q&A.
From the LGBT Historic Sites Project (www.nyclgbtsites.org):
Brooklyn-born James “Jimmy” Zappalorti (1945-1990) was a Vietnam War veteran who grew up in the neighborhood of Charleston on Staten Island’s South Shore. On January 22, 1990, he was murdered near his home because he was gay. The highly publicized murder became the borough’s first officially-designated gay hate crime and helped lead to New York State’s first hate crimes bill, which passed in 2000.
Jimmy Zappalorti on graduation from Recruit Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, 1963. Courtesy of the Zappalorti family.
About James Zappalorti:
James “Jimmy” Zappalorti (1945-1990) was a disabled Vietnam War veteran who grew up in the neighborhood of Charleston on Staten Island’s South Shore. On January 22, 1990, he was murdered near his home because he was gay. This highly publicized crime led to increased efforts to pass a statewide hate crime law, which was ultimately enacted in 2000.
About the panelists:
Terry S. Hardy addresses themes of identity, human rights, sexuality, and religion, examining social concerns through painting, sculpture, performance, and installations. His most recent work focuses on the intimacy of loss and memorializing those who are forgotten. His work has been included in over 80 exhibitions in venues throughout the US and abroad, including the Lincoln Center in New York, The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, and The Historic Freedom Riders Museum in Montgomery, AL. Hardy has presented large-scale public works at the Art Prospect Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, the National Center for Contemporary Art in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, The Cultural Olympiad in Atlanta, GA, and in Art in Odd Places in New York and Sydney, Australia.
Paul Moakley is an award-winning journalist who is currently the executive producer of The New Yorker video, formerly the deputy director of photography and special projects at TIME. His work stems from a passion for photography and storytelling, takes shape in collaborative documentary projects using his skills as a photo editor, producer, director, and writer. He is currently working on a documentary around the life of James Zappalorti and hate crime law to be released in 2023.
He’s earned numerous awards, including an Emmy for the interactive, multi-platform project and HBO film Beyond 9/11, an ASME award for the short film Life After Addiction, first place in World Press, Photo for the short film Behind the Video of Eric Garner’s Deadly Confrontation With New York Police among many others. Moakley has worked as an educator at the School of Visual Arts. He contributes to his community as the caretaker and curator of the Alice Austen House museum.
Beverly Tillery is the Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, an organization that empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. She is an experienced social justice thought leader, advocate, and national organizer.
Ed Woodham (moderator) is an elder queer who has been active in community art, education, and civic interventions across media and culture for over forty-five years. A visual and performance artist, curator, and educator Woodham employs humor, irony, subtle detournement, and a striking visual style in order to encourage greater consideration of – and provoke deeper critical engagement with – the urban environment. In 2005 he founded New York City’s only artist-run independent public art project, Art in Odd Places (AiOP), produced annually each autumn on 14th Street in Manhattan. AiOP has also been produced in Los Angeles CA, Boston MA, Indianapolis IN, Greensboro NC, and Orlando, FL in the U.S.; Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Sydney, Australia.
Robert T. Zappalorti is the older brother of James “Jimmy” Zappalorti. In 2014, he wrote Stained Glass Windows: The Life and Death of Jimmy Zappalorti: The hate crime that shocked a city and changed the law. In this book, Robert tells Jimmy’s story in his own voice: that of a brother who was Jimmy’s protector in life and champion after his death, whose efforts continue to keep his legacy alive and help maintain the fight for LGBT rights.
Robert T. Zappalorti founded Herpetological Associates, Inc. (HA) in the spring of 1977. The firm specializes in the conservation and ecology of threatened and endangered amphibians and reptiles. He specializes in conservation and mitigation plans and was the first herpetologist to build hibernacula for snakes and other wildlife in natural habitat areas. Robert has also conducted wildlife inventories, intensive herpetological studies, and the presence or absence surveys for a variety of clients.

Kid Flicks: Celebrating Black Stories (Day 1)
2023-02-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
RETURNING!
New York International Children’s Film Festival
$10 adults/ $5 children under 12
Includes museum admission
Runtime: 76 min. | Recommended Ages: 9+
Black stories take the spotlight in seven short films that share the joy, determination, resilience, and complexity of being Black and young. Explore a range of genres and styles in a program that spans the globe from the New York International Children’s Film Festival.
Free snacks!
The same films will be shown on February 11 and 12.
Click here for tickets to the screening on Sunday, February 12.
Hosted by Emmy Award Winner Dolores Morris
Dolores N. Morris is the former Vice President of HBO Family Channel, responsible for development, production and acquisition for the network’s family-oriented channel. Ms. Morris’ extensive career in television began with the Children’s Television Workshop more than 30 years ago, and has included employment at the American Broadcasting Company and The Walt Disney Company, receiving a career total of 30 Emmy Awards, 4 ACT awards, 10 Christopher Awards and 4 Peabody Awards. Ms. Morris is also a producer of the Oscar winning short film The Children’s March (2005).
COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS
COMIC ESCAPE
United States, Live Action, Alphonso McAuley, 2021, 15 min.
In English
A young boy unexpectedly finds a comic book that changes his reality.
CUPIDS
United States, Live Action, Zoey Martinson, 2021, 10 min.
In English
This whimsical comedy love letter to New York’s essential workers follows a whole class on the last day of school as they scheme to find the perfect partner for their adored bus driver, Ms. Cheryl, and save her from a lonely summer without them.
GENERATION IMPACT: THE CODER
United States, Documentary, Samantha Knowles, 2021, 7 min.
In English
Jay Jay Patton was only 13 when she designed and built an app to help kids connect with their incarcerated parents, inspired by her own experience. Now she is creating a coding academy to help other kids do the same.
MY NAME IS MALUUM
Brazil, Animation, Luísa Copetti, 2021, 8 min.
In Portuguese, with English subtitles
Maalum comes from a home surrounded by love and Afro-centered references. When her classmates tease her about her name, Maluum discovers the lovely legacy of her name and ancestry.
THE NIGHT I LEFT AMERICA
Uganda, United States, Live Action, Laki Karavias, 2021, 14 min.
English and Luganda with English subtitles
While anxiously awaiting the results of his mother’s visa renewal request, a teenage boy living in Texas conjures memories of his life in Uganda.
ROOM RODEO
United States, Live Action, Daniel Kayamba, 2021, 14 min.
In English
Grounded and with a last-minute school project due, Jamil takes matters into his own hands in order to prove he is the great grandson of a legendary Black cowboy.
WOLF AND CUB
United States, Animation, Marvin Bynoe, 2021, 8 min.
In English
A father and son cross a world of imagination in order to return their mother’s forgotten lunch.

Kid Flicks: Celebrating Black Stories (Day 2)
2023-02-12 14:00 - 15:30 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
RETURNING!
New York International Children’s Film Festival
$10 adults/ $5 children under 12
Includes museum admission
Runtime: 76 min. | Recommended Ages: 9+
Black stories take the spotlight in seven short films that share the joy, determination, resilience, and complexity of being Black and young. Explore a range of genres and styles in a program that spans the globe from the New York International Children’s Film Festival.
Free snacks!
The same films will be shown on February 11 and 12.
Click here for tickets the screening on Saturday, February 11.
COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS
COMIC ESCAPE
United States, Live Action, Alphonso McAuley, 2021, 15 min.
In English
A young boy unexpectedly finds a comic book that changes his reality.
CUPIDS
United States, Live Action, Zoey Martinson, 2021, 10 min.
In English
This whimsical comedy love letter to New York’s essential workers follows a whole class on the last day of school as they scheme to find the perfect partner for their adored bus driver, Ms. Cheryl, and save her from a lonely summer without them.
GENERATION IMPACT: THE CODER
United States, Documentary, Samantha Knowles, 2021, 7 min.
In English
Jay Jay Patton was only 13 when she designed and built an app to help kids connect with their incarcerated parents, inspired by her own experience. Now she is creating a coding academy to help other kids do the same.
MY NAME IS MALUUM
Brazil, Animation, Luísa Copetti, 2021, 8 min.
In Portuguese, with English subtitles
Maalum comes from a home surrounded by love and Afro-centered references. When her classmates tease her about her name, Maluum discovers the lovely legacy of her name and ancestry.
THE NIGHT I LEFT AMERICA
Uganda, United States, Live Action, Laki Karavias, 2021, 14 min.
English and Luganda with English subtitles
While anxiously awaiting the results of his mother’s visa renewal request, a teenage boy living in Texas conjures memories of his life in Uganda.
ROOM RODEO
United States, Live Action, Daniel Kayamba, 2021, 14 min.
In English
Grounded and with a last-minute school project due, Jamil takes matters into his own hands in order to prove he is the great grandson of a legendary Black cowboy.
WOLF AND CUB
United States, Animation, Marvin Bynoe, 2021, 8 min.
In English
A father and son cross a world of imagination in order to return their mother’s forgotten lunch.

Bird and Nature Walk: Brookfield Park
2023-02-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Brooklfield Park, Arthur Kill Rd. bet. Richmond Ave. and New Vale Ave., Staten Island, 10308, United States
The wide open skies of Brookfield Park make it the ideal place to search for wintering raptors, while the creeks hold a variety of waterfowl. Join guides Ed Johnson, Ray Matarazzo, and Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans for this 1-2 mile hike through one of Staten Island’s green spaces.
Meet in parking lot off Arthur Kill Road.

NYICFF in Your Neighborhood
2023-02-24 12:00 - 15:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free/Donations welcome
Donate
Get your Festival on, right in your community! Join us to check out a New York International Children’s Film Festival’s short film program and all of the great cultural activities your neighborhood has to offer. The film shorts will play on loop so families can pop in and watch on their own time, right in their neighborhood, for as long or as little as they like!
Runtime: 54 min. | Recommended Ages: 3 to 8
Presented in partnership with the Staten Island Children’s Museum

Kenya’s Symphony

A stubborn 5-year-old reluctantly heads off to a performance with her mom. When the music starts, will a passion bloom?

Mido and the Instrumals

Young Mido wants to be part of the band, but he just might need to tune his wild and wooly style to jam with these cool creatures.

The Yogi Walrus

Little Emi craves ice cream and always wants more. Learning to savor is the cherry on top.

a film by m+m

Two wacky wizard friends bump and cruise through a fantastical land, powered by green in more ways than one!

A Lynx in the Town

You’ve heard of King Kong, now meet this king cat, a giant feline who falls for the big city, with its skyscraper scratching posts and inhabitants who marvel at her size.

Ink

Being a neat freak is easy when you’ve got eight arms and live underwater, but try keeping up with this octopus teacher’s hilarious lesson!

Kiri and Lou — Air

Kiri and Lou are the silliest creatures around, but they’re smart enough to know a good thing when they’ve got it.

Leaf

A larger-than-life sailor is reminded of home when a passenger’s daughter brings aboard a tiny red leaf, inspiring a grand new journey.

Sum of its Parts

No dialogue

Athleticus: Sled

Puffins vs. seals. Who will win the big score in this slippy, slidey downhill race?

Athleticus: Guides

Go-Go flamingos fan out on the slopes to win unexpected style points.

Renaidance

A grandfather and granddaughter bond over dragons, dance, and shared cultural traditions.

Piñata Love

Mexican country craft meets-cute with NYC urban grit in this tale of a near-perfect mâche.

Crafternoons: Mosaics with Janice Patrignani
2023-02-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
SOLD OUT
Registration Required
Recommended for ages teen through adult.
$25/$20 members
Design professional, visual artist, and art educator Janice Patrignani will walk participants through the process of selecting a color palette for your design, laying out pieces of tile, and how to glue and grout them to a surface. No previous experience necessary and all materials provided.

Black History Month Transcribe-a-thon
2023-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Join the Staten Island Community Alliance at the Staten Island Museum for a Black History Month Transcribe-a-thon! Help the Staten Island Museum, the Staten Island Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and Frederick Douglass Memorial Park to transcribe newly digitized family history records making them more easily searchable and accessible for researchers.
A transcribe-a-thon is an event where people gather to work simultaneously on a transcription project. No previous experience is required. Training will be provided.
Bring your own laptop or tablet. Some transcribers have found an external keyboard for tablets useful, so if you have one bring it along!
This community-wide effort continues virtually all year long! Watch the introductory video, set up an account with From the Page, and start transcribing! Learn more here.

The Resilience Was Always There: Artist Talk and Story Sharing
2023-03-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Presented in partnership with the Pride Center of Staten Island

Free with museum admission
Join Yes, And artists Amanda Wu and Zach Rothman-Hicks for an artist talk discussing their interactive audio archive The Resilience Was Always There.

Bird and Nature Walk: Willowbrook Park
2023-03-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Willowbrook Park, 2 Eton Place, Staten Island, NY, 10314, United States
Search for early spring migrants, including rusty blackbird, ruby-crowned kinglet, pine and palm warblers.
Join guides Ed Johnson, Ray Matarazzo, and Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans for this 1-2 mile hike through one of Staten Island’s green spaces.
Meet by the carousel.

Reimagining Staten Island: A guided brainstorm with Jahtiek Long
2023-03-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
SOLD OUT
Doors open at 6pm
Free. Donations Welcome
Donate
Join us for an evening of connection and ideation with artists and community stakeholders expanding the narrative around Staten Island. Community discourse is served alongside soft drinks and small bites. Ideas gathered from around the table will be entered in the Museum’s archive.

Lockdown Staten Island Documentary: How to participate
2023-03-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free/Donations Welcome
In-Person Registration
Virtual Registration
“Lockdown Staten Island” is a project by CSI History Professor and John J. Marchi Fellow Dr. Susan Smith-Peter. The goal of this project is to document Staten Islanders’ lives during the lockdown that took place from March to June 2020—one of the most intense and memorable periods of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Submissions from all Staten Islanders are welcome, including stories, photos, video blogs, and various posts and captions from social media platforms.
“Lockdown Staten Island” is part of the curatorial collaborative, Journal of the Plague Year. This digital archive began at Arizona State University and since expanded to include collections from Australia, New Orleans, the Philippines, Boston, Canada, Las Americas, and Sacramento. Fellow CUNYs such as Bronx Community College, Brooklyn College, and City College have also joined the effort.
Learn how to participate in and contribute your story to this archive and documentary.

Bird and Nature Walk: Ocean Breeze
2023-03-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Ocean Breeze Park, Quintard St. and Olympia Blvd., Staten Island, NY, 10305, United States
We will be searching the wide open trails of this park for flocks of returning blackbirds, in addition to raptors and other early spring migrants, including eastern phoebe and pine warbler.
Join guides Ed Johnson, Ray Matarazzo, and Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans for this 1-2 mile hike through one of Staten Island’s green spaces.
Meet at the trail head near Quintard St. and Olympia Blvd.

Memorial Making with Lina Montoya
2023-04-01 12:00 - 15:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free with Museum Admission
Join artist Lina Montoya for an afternoon of public art making. Remember and memorialize those lost during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the project, Naming the Lost Memorials.
Guests will create tributes that will accompany others in a large-scale community memorial that will open to the public at Green-Wood Historical Cemetery in Brooklyn for the month of May.
Naming the Lost Memorials (NTLM) is a small team of artists, activists, and folklorists that has been curating memorial sites in New York City to name and remember victims of the COVID-19 pandemic since May 2020.

Yes, And Closing Event | Perfect Moment Review
2023-04-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Collect, Share, Process
Free with Museum admission
Join Yes, And artists Day de Dada as they process the Perfect Moments that have been written on tags and collected through their installation over the past 8 months. It’s time to share, read out loud, and add the Perfect Moments Tags to the Day de Dada archives. Readings will take place throughout the first floor and sweet treats will be distributed as a thank-you to all the participants and Museum staff.

Bird and Nature Walk: High Rock Park
2023-04-12 10:00 - 12:00 | High Rock Park, 200 Nevada Avenue, Staten Island, 10306, United States
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Mattarazo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the borough of parks.
High Rock is a well-known bird magnet. Join us as we search for early spring arrivals, including eastern phoebe, pine and palm warblers, rusty blackbird, and others.
Meet in the parking lot at the top of Nevada Ave. Registration is not required.

Vulnerable Landscapes: Members' Preview
2023-04-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Become a member to attend the preview of Vulnerable Landscapes.
Become a member
Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. Together, new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection examine the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlight local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live.

Featuring the work of: Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman and Sarah Yuster.

Major sponsorship of Vulnerable Landscapes is provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation and by National Grid.

Vulnerable Landscapes is also supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Vulnerable Landscapes Public Opening and Earth Day Celebration
2023-04-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free with Museum Admission
Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition, Vulnerable Landscapes, as well as crafts and activities for all ages.
Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat loss over millennia with a mastodon fossil dig, and more.
Seedling giveaways by the Native Plant Center
Beautify your outdoor space with native shrubs that also benefit birds and insects. The Native Plant Center will be giving away the following seedling varieties: Aronia prunifolia (Purple chokeberry), Ilex verticilata (Winterberry Holly), Rubus occidentalis (Black Raspberry), and Amelanchier nantucketensis (Nantucket shadbush)
Wildflower Seedpaper with teaching artist Jenya Frid
Plant wildflowers using recycled materials. Artist and educator Jenya Frid will walk visitors through the process of making seed paper using recycled paper pulp and a native seed mix. Once dried, the paper can be used for cards or letters, and finally planted to reach its fullest potential.
Landscape Drawing with Freshkills Park
Join educators from Freshkills Park to learn more about landscape drawing with charcoal. Get your hands dirty and take in the views of Snug Harbor and the Kill Van Kull in this outdoor workshop. Space is limited.
Fossil Dig and Print
The word fossil comes from the Latin word fossus, meaning “having been dug up.” Families are invited to dig through kinetic sand using delicate tools to uncover hidden fossils and make a fossil to take home!

Major support of Vulnerable Landscapes is provided the Lily Auchincloss Foundation and by National Grid.

Additional support provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Bird and Nature Walk: Conference House Park
2023-04-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Conference House Park, 298 Satterlee St., Staten Island, NY, 10307
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the borough of parks.
Join us for a walk in New York City’s southernmost park, as we search for newly arrived migrants, including pine and palm warblers, eastern phoebe, blue-gray gnatcatcher and others.
Meet in the parking lot across from the park Visitor’s Center, on Satterlee St., at the end of Hylan Blvd.
Registration is not required for this event.

National Poetry Month: Readings by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno with translator Olena Jennings
2023-04-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free with Museum Admission
Introduced and moderated by Prof Susan Smith-Peter, College of Staten Island/CUNY
Paper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno. Translated by Olena Jennings, this collection of personal poems communicates the present day Ukrainian experience.
In Paper Bridge, Makhno is able to preserve an “enviable spiritual equilibrium…one that grinds out the music even in the toughest of days, a music that survived the twentieth century and keeps alive in the new horrors of the twenty-first,” in the words of Los Angeles Book Prize winner Ilya Kaminsky.
About the Author
Vasyl Makhno is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was born in Chortkiv, western Ukraine, in 1964. Makhno left Ukraine in the late 1990s, and, after a short time teaching and writing in Poland, ended up in New York, where he still lives. His early work drew on the rich seams of Ukrainian modernism, in particular on the ecstatic and eclectic genius of the interwar poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych. His trajectory westwards was accompanied by a move away from modernist forms towards a simpler, more outward-looking sensibility. The poet’s eye turned to the strange, new landscapes around him. In New York, he caught the tail end of the activities of the New York Group of post-war Ukrainian émigré poets. His poetry contains fond nods in their direction, but as an immigrant of a different wave, he is more enchanted by New York than his predecessors, and more attuned to its paradoxical mix of local specificity and global reach. Makhno is today surely one of that city’s most dedicated poetic chroniclers, flitting between Chinatown markets and Brooklyn bars – watching, listening and recording. (Read more here)
Makhno is the author of fourteen collections of poetry and most recently the book of poems One Sail House (2021). He has also published a book of short stories, The House in Baiting Hollow (2015), a novel, The Eternal Calendar (2019), and four books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006), Horn of Plenty (2011), Suburbs and Borderland (2019), and Biking along the Ocean (2020). Vasyl Makhno’s works have been widely translated into many languages; his books have been published in Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the US. Two poetry collections, Thread and Other New York Poems (2009) and Winter Letters (2011), were published in English translation. He is the recipient of Kovaliv Fund Prize (2008), Serbia’s International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry (2013), the BBC Book of the Year Award (2015), and Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize “Encounter” (2020). Makhno currently lives with his family in New York City. (Read more here)

Bird and Nature Walk: Clove Lakes Park
2023-05-03 10:00 - 12:00
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the borough of parks.
The park should provide us with a good variety of spring migrants, including warblers, vireos, and thrushes.
Meet at the intersection of Royal Oak Rd and Victory Blvd.

Bird and Nature Walk: Wolfe's Pond
2023-05-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Wolfe’s Pond Park, 420 Cornelia Ave., Staten Island, NY, 10312, United States
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the borough of parks.
The habitat diversity of Wolfe’s Pond Park – woodland, freshwater pond, saltwater bay – should provides us with a good assortment of birds.
Meet in the parking lot near the Parks Dept. buildings.

Gala
2023-05-12 19:00 - 23:00 | Richmond County Country Club, 1 the oval, Staten Island, NY, 10304, United States
Join us for cocktails, dinner, live music, and dancing
Honoring Marie H. Cole and Lucille Herring
Formal/Business Attire
Visit the full 2023 Gala page here
Please purchase tickets before May 1, 2023
Tickets
$300 per Individual ($150 fully tax deductible)
$275 per Member ($125 fully tax deductible)
Table of Ten: $2,750 ($125 per ticket fully tax deductible)
Package (2 Tickets and Full-Page Journal Ad): $1400
Online purchases coming soon!
Journal Ads
The printed journal, an attractive publication that features imagery from the Museum’s collections in art, natural science, and history, will be presented at tables through the Gala (est. 250 people). In addition, all journal ads will be scrolling on screens throughout the venue during the evening.
Click here to view Journal Ad rates.
Online purchases coming soon!
For more information or to purchase a journal ad, please contact Jacqueline Caruso, Development Associate at JCaruso [at] StatenIslandMuseum [dot] org or 718-483-7119.
Click here explore last year’s 140th Anniversary Gala Commemorative Journal.
Sponsorship Opportunities
In addition to the Commemorative Journal, you can support the Staten Island Museum with a Gala Sponsorship. View full sponsorship opportunities here.
For Sponsorship Opportunities, please contact Emily Mathis Corona, Director of Advancement at EMCorona [at] StatenIslandMuseum [dot] org or 718-483-7114.

Wildflower Walk
2023-05-20 12:00 - 14:00 | High Rock Park, 200 Nevada Avenue, Staten Island, 10306, United States
Free/Donations welcome
CANCELED
Due to inclement weather, this walk has been canceled.
Presented in partnership with WildflowerNYC and Protectors of Pine Oak Woods
Join naturalist Ray Matarazzo, botanist Marielle Anzelone, and Director of Natural Science, Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the heart of the Greenbelt in search and celebration of Staten Island’s Official Wildflower, the Pinxter Azalea.

Bird and Nature Walk: Great Kills Park
2023-05-31 12:30 - 14:30 | Great Kills Park
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the borough of parks.
Migrating shorebirds and waders will be the highlights of this trip. Note the later start time to correspond with low 50tide.
Meet in the big parking lot.

Interactive Workshops: Part of FIGMENT NYC
2023-06-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free outdoor programming
Museum admission by donation.
All ages are invited to get hands-on with creative projects designed to foster collaboration and connection. Drop-in workshops at the museum will take place indoors and outdoors.
About FIGMENT NYC: During the first weekend in June, FIGMENT will produce a free interactive-art festival on the grounds of Snug Harbor. All FIGMENT art projects require input or participation from our visitors. Everyone involved in making FIGMENT happen is a volunteer, the artists, the production crew, the coordinators, everyone. FIGMENT is a gift.

Bird and Nature Walk: Cedar Grove
2023-06-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Cedar Grove, Ebbitts Street and Cedar Grove Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10306, United States
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the borough of parks.
The combination of coastal wetlands and the waters of Raritan Bay should give us a chance to view a variety of wading birds and waterfowl, in addition to assorted gulls and terns.
Meet at the parking lot at the intersection of Cedar Grove Ave and Ebbits St.

They Did What! Using Genealogy to Uncover Our African American Past
2023-06-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Space is limited. Registration required.
Free. Donations welcome.
Light refreshments provided.
Join public historian and professional genealogist Debbie-Ann Paige to answer the question “How do we find our people?” Discover how deeds, census records, letters, and other historic documents help uncover family history. Learn what will be important to future generations while exploring what those who have come before left behind. Participants will gain knowledge about genealogical research tools and methods in order to begin uncovering their own family story.
This program is produced in partnership with the Staten Island Community Alliance as part of the 3rd Annual Juneteenth Festival. Learn more about the festival here.
