Events

All events free unless otherwise indicated. Children under 16 free; Students with Valid ID $5.

TELEPHONE TOUR

DATE & TIME: ongoing
DESCRIPTION: A self-guided walk through the area of Peter Stuyvesant's farm utilizing pay or cellphones to access soundworks via an open-source telephony server. For more information, locations of payphones, and participating artists, see the Telephone Tour page.

DUTCH DAYS RADIO HOUR

on free103point9.org
Curated by Michelle Nagai (treetheater.org)
DATE & TIME: November 15–19, 5–6 pm daily
DESCRIPTION: An online radio show featuring sound art, discussion, environmental recordings, historical readings, interviews, special guests and ghosts, and other sonic ephemera inspired by 17th century New York

THE SOUND SHELF AT Performance Space 122

Edmund Mooney (edmundmooney.com)
DATE & TIME: ONGOING INSTALLATION from November 15, 2006
LOCATION: Kiosk, upstairs corridor, PS122, 1st Ave at 9th Street
DESCRIPTION: Listen to the Farm while waiting to see performance art! Featuring: the Orchard, the Meadow, the Skating Pond and the Shoreline

FOUR LANDSCAPES ON LOCATION

Edmund Mooney
There are two options if you'd like to experience FOUR LANDSCAPES ON LOCATION.
1. Download these files and play in the following order:
a) onto your iPod: fields [.mp3, 6,107 KB], east river [.mp3, 6,040 KB], orchard [.mp3, 6,730 KB], skating pond [.mp3, 7,665 KB]
b) as a printed map [.pdf, 1,148 KB] and enjoy at your leisure
2. See the instructions below, relevant for Sunday, November 19 ONLY
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, November 15th / 12pm–4pm Sunday, November 19th / 12pm–4pm
LOCATION: ONLY DURING THE ABOVE DAYS AND TIMES at Ontological-Hysteric Theater ticket booth, upstairs at St. Mark's
DESCRIPTION: Bring your own Walkman CD player. Receive a CD and special map indicating walking and listening routes through the Farm COST: $10

SOUNDWALKS [about soundwalks]

Michelle Nagai (treetheater.org)

1. Stuyvesant's Ghost Walk
DATE & TIME: Friday, November 17th, 2006 / 9 pm
LOCATION: St. Mark's Church, 2nd Ave and 10th Street
DESCRIPTION: A guided listening walk through the nighttime terrain of the Stuyvesant farm, heard in the context of the contemporary hauntings of a Friday night in the East Village
COST: $10

2. Farm Waterways Walk
DATE & TIME: Saturday, November 18th, 2006 / 3:30 pm. See SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM for full listing of ALL Saturday events, costs and PACKAGE DEALS!
LOCATION: St. Mark's Church, 2nd Ave and 10th Street
DESCRIPTION: A guided listening walk through the now invisible waterways of the Stuyvesant farm. Follow the original waterways from St. Mark's Church to the Stuyvesant Town fountain as an exercise in Deep Listening [about deep listening]

SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM

COST: $10 for one event, $15 for two events, $20 for all three

The Pre-Urban World Walking Tour and Talk
Peter Joost, Eric Sanderson DATE & TIME: November 18, 2006 / 10:30 am
LOCATION: St. Mark's Church, 2nd Ave and 10th Street
DESCRIPTION: Peter Joost, NYC Audubon Board member, and Eric Sanderson, Associate Director, Landscape Ecology, Wildlife Conservation Society, will co-lead a walk describing the pre-urban East Village with a focus on birds and their habitats, past and present. We will follow portions of the outline of Peter Stuyvesant’s farm; discuss environmental changes that occurred between 1609 and the late 17th century as the result of Dutch colonial activity; look for any present day birds; and discuss historic and present day bird populations and their habitats

Practical History: a panel presentation
DATE & TIME: November 18th, 2006, 1:30 pm
LOCATION: St. Mark's Church Sanctuary, 2nd Ave and 10th Street
DESCRIPTION: Short presentations, some featuring audio-visual and performance elements, addressing questions including: How can we interpret the landscape of the past through the environment of the present? What was the catalyst for panelists' involvement with the project? What are the reasons to pursue cross-disciplinary work, and how does promoting dialogue among artists, scientists, and historians enhance professional investigations or creative endeavors?
CHAIR:
Thomas Miller, PhD,
Anthropologist and sound artist
PANELISTS:
Andrea Polli
(USA) Director, MFA in Integrated Media Arts, CUNY/Hunter ima.hunter.cuny.edu; andreapolli.com
Eric Sanderson, PhD
(USA), Associate Dir., Landscape Ecology & Geographic Analysis, Living Landscapes Program, Intl Conservation Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society wcs.org/sw-high_tech_tools/landscapeecology/mannahatta
Jaap Jacobs, PhD
(NL), Historian, author of "New Netherland, a Dutch Colony in 17th-century America"
Renée Ridgway
(NL), Visual Artist/curator reneeridgway.net
Felicia Mayro
(USA), Director, St. Mark's Historic Landmark Fund smhlf.org

Farm Waterways Walk
(see SOUNDWALKS for full description)