Innisfree Garden's Looking at Nature Walks: Spring Flowering Plants Join expert horticulturist, naturalist, and Innisfree trustee Brad Roeller to explore and enjoy Innisfree’s spring blooming beauties. He will point out both native and garden species. Some are spring ephemerals, meaning the plants are only visible in the spring. Others are tiny gems that are easy to miss but once Brad points them out, you’ll be watching for them year after year. Still more add to landscape beauty and environmental health throughout the growing season.
THURSDAY May 4th at 3PM: CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE with Gillian Conoley - Free online poetry workshop This FREE, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Gillian Conoley, one of our favorite poets, leads an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “The Present/” by Lisa Robertson. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.
The REAL Gilded Age: America’s Elite in the Downton Abbey Era This tour highlights the real-life characters and themes at Staatsburgh that parallel Downton Abbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age. Led by a costumed interpreter, the tour shows how the Mills family and their servants conducted a busy weekend of high-society entertaining, comparing Staatsburgh to what viewers saw on TV.
Taishu Engeki: Discovering “Popular Theater” in Japan Taishu Engeki is a Japanese performing art with roots in Kabuki, yet it is seldom experienced by Western audiences. Professor Takahiro Takeuchi from Aoyama Gakuin University, through a recorded video lecture, will first explain the history of Taishu Engeki. Afterward, Junya Koikawa, a Taishu Engeki performer, will showcase his standard showtime preparations, such as applying makeup and putting on traditional kimono, followed by a live example of a Taishu Engeki performance, including how performers simulate katana samurai combat and forms of dancing.