• Bird and Nature Walk: Great Kills Park

    Great Kills Park

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be looking around the waterfront for waterfowl, as well as checking the area around the parking lot for horned lark and perched raptors, in addition to taking walk out to Crooke’s ...

    Here You Are: Staten Island Triennial Members and Private Opening

    Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, United States

    Registration by invitation only. For more information about registration or how to become a member, please contact the Development Office at 718-483-7114. Become a member to attend the preview of Here You Are: Staten Island Triennial Here You Are presents new work in fiber, painting, film, photography, and graphic design. Seven Staten Island artists forge ...

    Here You Are: Staten Island Triennial Public Opening Reception

    Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, United States

    Free with Museum Admission Here You Are presents new work in fiber, painting, film, photography, and graphic design. Seven Staten Island artists forge a path through the here and now, navigating questions and anxieties around identity, heritage, and home. Featured artwork is introspective and far reaching, exploring spaces that feel familiar, haunting, lonely, and powerful. ...

    Bird and Nature Walk: Wolfe’s Pond Park

    Wolfe's Pond Park 420 Cornelia Ave., Staten Island, NY, United States

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. 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.

  • Bird and Nature Walk: South Beach/Fort Wadsworth

    South Beach Park Father Capodanno Blvd and Sand Ln, Staten Island, New York

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. In addition to the usual (and maybe unusual) species of waterfowl and gulls that winter here, we will also be on the lookout for harbor seals. Meet in the parking lot off Capodanno ...

    SKIN Dance Company Celebrates Black History Month

    Tickets: $25 adults, $10 for children ages 5 and up. 5 and under are free. Registration required. Includes museum admission. Join us for a powerful afternoon of movement, memory, and legacy as SKIN Dance Company honors Black History Month through Afrocentric choreography, ancestral storytelling, and cosmic celebration. Featuring excerpts from Josephine’s Cotton: The Musical, this ...

    Bird and Nature Walk: Brookfield Park

    Brooklfield Park Arthur Kill Rd. bet. Richmond Ave. and New Vale Ave., Staten Island, United States

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. 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.  Meet in parking lot off Arthur Kill Road.

  • Bird and Nature Walk: Conference House Park

    Conference House Park 298 Satterlee St., Staten Island, NY

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will check the waterfront for late wintering waterfowl, as well as the plantings around the park for early spring arrivals. Meet on Satterlee St. by the Visitor’s Center.

    Triennial Artist Talk: Siobahn McBride and Lea Simoniello

    Free with museum admission. Join Here You Are artists Siobhan McBride and Lea Simoniello in the auditorium and gallery to learn more about their artwork and creative practice. McBride’s paintings are descriptions of strange and quotidian experiences, passages from books, film fragments, things caught in the corner of the eye and an attempt to conjure ...

    Bird and Nature Walk: Mount Loretto Unique Area

    Mount Loretto Unique Area 20 Kenny Road, Staten Island, NY, United States

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be searching the fields, woodlands and waterfront for wintering songbirds, raptors and waterfowl, and maybe some early spring migrants. Meet in the parking lot off Hylan Blvd.

    Hekate Supper: Performative Lecture with Artist Kay Turner

    Free with museum admission. Join artist and scholar Kay Turner as she unfolds the archetype of Hekate, Greek goddess of many things--the Crossroads, the Underworld, the Moon. She was also very much associated with the cycle of fruition and decay. Her worshippers held “suppers” for her at crossroads shrines and left the refuse in her ...

  • Bird and Nature Walk: Freshkills-North Park

    Freshkills North Park 350 Wild Ave., Staten Island, NY, United States

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We should get a nice variety of raptors and migrating waterfowl & landbirds. Meet in the parking lot at the end of Wild Ave.

    Earth Day How-To Festival

    Free with museum admission. Join us as we transform the museum into a giant classroom celebrating community science! Hands-on workshops, drop-in presentations, and scheduled lectures take place throughout the museum. Local experts, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and professionals share their particular passions, ranging from activities that require highly specialized skills to those anyone can do. Celebrate our ...

    Bird and Nature Walk: Clove Lakes Park

    Clove Lakes Park

    Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. The park should provide us with a good variety of spring migrants, including warblers, vireos, thrushes, etc. Meet at Victory Blvd. & Royal Oak Road (near ballfield).