NYICFF in Your Neighborhood
2023-02-24 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free/Donations welcome
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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
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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.
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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.

Bird and Nature Walk: Clay Pit Pond
2023-06-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Clay Pit Pond, 83 Nielsen Ave, Staten Island, NY, 10309, 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.
Clay Pit is home to a number of nesting birds, including eastern towhee and wood thrush. We may also find some interesting amphibians/reptiles, such as the northern fence lizard, Fowler’s toad and eastern box turtle. Note: Tick precautions (repellent, etc.) are advised.
Meet at the Interpretive Center.

SOLD OUT - Summer Nights | Art of Cocktails: Foraged
2023-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
$35/$30 members (All materials provided)
SOLD OUT
Art of Cocktails is sold out. If you’d like to be added to the wait list, please email Rylee Eterginoso at REterginoso@StatenIslandMuseum.org.
Art of Cocktails returns with Aly Stoffo (Glam Gardener) in collaboration with Nick Rozak (Green Stinger Beekeeping)!
Join us for an evening of foraged cocktails and captivating stories that speak to the hidden ingredients in our own backyards and the pollinators that help make it all happen.
Aly and Nick’s portraits by Sarah Yuster are featured in the Museum’s current exhibition, Vulnerable Landscapes.
Each of the three featured drinks will be crafted using fresh ingredients (all provided), allowing guests to observe the process and create their own cocktails.

Summer Nights | Bookmaking with Ashley Frenkel
2023-07-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
$35/$30 members. Includes museum admission.
Registration required
Learn the basics of bookmaking from cover to cover including paper types, tools, and binding techniques. Participants will explore both traditional bookmaking methods to produce journals, notebooks, or sketchbooks.
Have a glass of wine and a snack (21+) while getting creative with your community!
All materials provided.

Moth Night
2023-07-22 20:30 - 22:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
$10 Adults/$5 Children
Registration recommended
Presented in collaboration with the Staten Island Children’s Museum and Freshkills Park Alliance

Stay up late and celebrate National Moth Week! Revel in the beauty and learn about the life cycles and habitats of moths.
Activities include:

Design your own set of moth wings and antennae to buzz around town!
Black Light Bonanza: Face Painting and Moth Making in the Glow Room by the Staten Island Children’s Museum
Cooper Keane and the Mobile Monarch Museum
Freshkills Park After Dark Science Activities: Bat & Moth, Deer Bed, and Midnight Smells
Moth specimens on display from the museum’s collection along with magnifying glasses to look closely
Night Walk to search the skies and see what insects find our light attractor appealing (bring your own flashlight!)

SOLD OUT - Summer Nights | Botanical Resin Artwork with Janet Gonzalez
2023-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
$35/$30 members. Includes museum admission.
Botanical Resin Artwork is sold out. If you’d like to be added to the wait list, please email Rylee Eterginoso at REterginoso@StatenIslandMuseum.org.
Participants will learn how to make unique items made with UV resin and a variety of molds and materials from pressed flora to pigments and collage. In this introductory workshop, students will create a design, pour resin, and use a UV lamp to cure the finished artwork preserving the summer for seasons to come.
Have a glass of wine (21+) and a snack while getting creative with your community!
All materials provided.

Summer Nights | Suminagashi Marbling with Janet Gonzalez
2023-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
$35/$30 members. Includes museum admission.
Suminagashi 墨 流 し or “floating ink” is the process of marbling plain paper with water and ink to transform it. Participants will learn about this distinct printmaking process to produce uniquely patterned paper. No two sheets will be the same!
Enjoy a glass of wine (21+) and a snack while getting creative with your community!
All materials provided.

Bird and Nature Walk: Clove Lakes Park
2023-09-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Clove Lakes Park
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on a guided walk through the borough of parks.
Migrant songbirds, including warblers, vireos, flycatchers and others should be in the park in good numbers.
Meet at Victory Blvd & Royal Oak Road, by the ballfield.
