| |
| December
15: GIPEC to Host Second Annual Tree
Lighting on Governors Island, from 4pm to
6pm Please join
the Governors Island Preservation &
Education Corporation for the Second Annual
Tree Lighting ceremony here on Governors
Island. The ceremony, which will take place
in Nolan Park in front of the Admiral's
Quarters, is a time for the Governors
|
| Island
community to come together and celebrate the
holiday season. Light refreshments will be
served in the Admiral's Quarters.
RSVPs are required, by
emailing Jennel Hewan at
jhewan@empire.state.ny.us
Ferries will depart from Lower Manhattan for
the event at: 3:45, 4:30 and 5:15.
Click here for
directions to the Governors Island ferry.
Ferries will return to Lower Manhattan from
Governors Island at: 4:00 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:30
pm and 6:00 pm.
Click here to download the invitation to
the event.
|
Governors Island Tours During Open House
New York
Dates: Saturday, October 8, 2005 and Sunday,
October 9, 2005
Tour times: 10:00 am, Noon and 2:00 pm
For two days in October, Governors Island will
participate in a special New York City-wide program,
Open
House New York. Open House New York gives
visitors the opportunity to explore many distinct
buildings, structures and parks around the city –
many of which have rarely been seen – at no charge.
During Open House New York, visitors to Governors
Island will be introduced to the history and the
architecture of New York City and the nation from a
distinct vantage point: The heart of New York
Harbor. With breathtaking views from the Verrazano
Narrows Bridge up both the Hudson and the East
Rivers – including the of the Statue of Liberty,
Ellis Island, Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn
Bridge – Governors Island provides visitors with a
unique perspective on New York Harbor and the
surrounding communities.
Book Reading and Signing
with Ian Williams, author of Rum: A Sociable
History of the Real Spirit of 1776
Saturday, September 3
3:30 pm at Pershing Hall, Governors Island
Ian Williams will discuss and sign his new book
Rum: A Social & Sociable History of the Real
Spirit of 1776. The setting of
historic Governors Island provides a perfect
backdrop for William's lecture on the role of rum in
the American Revolution and Prohibition, when
Governors Island as Coast Guard Headquarters was in
the vanguard of the attempt to stop the rum-runners
from restocking the speakeasies of New York.
(Return to event list)
Photography Exhibition: “We Were Here” by Donna
Clovis
Opening Day: June 18. Exhibit will run until September 10, 2005. Until recently, Governors Island, the last of
three small islands that lie south of Manhattan, was
the largest Coast Guard installation in the world,
housing some 5,000 service personnel and their
families. Photographer and journalist, Donna L.
Clovis was one of those children with a 13 year
history on the island. Her photographic exhibition,
along with excerpts from oral histories of Governors
Island residents, is designed to capture the
memories and the history of a community and culture
that once flourished on the island, now mostly
abandoned. (Return
to event list)
“Set & Drift”, a
site-specific, historic, month-long art exhibition
on Governors Island
Opening on Saturday, July 16th, and
continuing through Saturday, August 13th, 2005
The exhibition will be displayed throughout the
Governors Island National Historic Landmark District
on Saturdays ONLY. Visitors to Governors Island from
July 23 through August 13 will be able to roam
around and view the exhibition from 10:00 am to 5:30
pm.
“Living History” a Civil
War educational program,
music and reenactment by
Company H 119th New York
Volunteers Historical
Association
Saturday, August 13th
10:30 am to 4:00 pm on
the Colonels' Row Green
Special Musical
Performance at 12:30 pm
On Saturday, August 13, Governors Island will be the
backdrop for a Civil War Reenactment by the Company
H, 119th New York Volunteer Historical Association (http://119nysv.org/).
The program will take place between 10:30 am and
4:00 pm on the Colonels’ Row Green on Governors
Island. A special musical performance will take
place around 12:30 pm.
Company H was "reformed" in 1980 when a group of
five Long Islanders, through their love and
dedication to American and Long Island history,
formed the Company H, 119th New York Volunteer
Historical Association. The Association exists to
preserve and promote American and Long Island 19th
century history, and is dedicated to the spirit and
memory of those men from the Hempstead Plains, who
fought to preserve the country they believed in.
Members of the Association have participated in
numerous educational programs, parades, 19th century
living history presentations, military reenactments,
as well as television documentaries and Hollywood
movies. In addition to the military impression the
Association has an active Soldiers Aid Society
consisting of civilian members.
Through Living History, the members of the
Association present what it was like to be a soldier
fighting for the Union during the American Civil War
(1861-1865), or a civilian sustaining the Homefront.
Adults and children can see, hear, touch, smell and
experience what was previously only available from
printed text and Hollywood movies. More importantly,
visitors can ask questions and engage 19th century
military and civilian personnel in conversation.
Activities will include a uniformed display and
demonstration accompanied by question and answer
period, all of which take place in an outdoor
encampment with a musical parade by a fife and drum
corp.
For more information, write to: Company H, 119th New
York Volunteer Historical Association, P.O. Box 738,
Melville, NY 11747 or email:
prog@119nysv.org.
GIPEC and Literally
Alive co-sponsor family festival on Governors Island
Saturday, August 6 Arts and Crafts on the
Colonels' Row triangle and a special theater
performance by Literally Alive, a NYC -based
children's theatre company that produces original
musicals based on classic children's literature.
Their innovative approach combines art forms
including theatre, dance, music, art, and puppetry
to explore a work of literature. Now in its 5th
season, previous productions have included
"The Ugly Duckling",
"The Little Mermaid",
"The Velveteen Rabbit" and
"Beauty and the Beast".
There will be two shows performed by Literally Alive
on the Colonels' Row green on Governors Island:
12:00 pm The Ugly Duckling
An interactive 30-minute story time version of
Literally Alive’s main stage show that gives the
audience a chance to act up by participating in the
fun! Based on Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale
- it is timeless. An art workshop will be included
to complement the performance. Suggested for
families with children ages 7 and under.
2:00 pm The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A 20-minute interactive story time based on the
beloved picture book that includes a butterfly
ballet. Meet the Caterpillar, help retell the story
and dance a little too! An art workshop will be
included to complement the performance. Suggested
for families with children ages 6 and under.
For more information about Literally Alive, please
visit
www.literallyalive.com.
Lecture: “Waterfront: A
Journey Around Manhattan” with Phillip Lopate
Saturday:
July 23, 1:00 pm
From Publishers Weekly
Unlike other great cities, as eminent essayist and
New York devotee Lopate (Getting Personal) observes,
"Manhattan is almost pathologically averse to letting you wander to
the river's edge and get close enough to touch the
water." In this loose circumnavigation, first up the
West Side from the Battery to Washington Heights and
then up the East Side from South Street Seaport to
Highbridge Park, he takes the reader up close on an
information-packed journey—dipping, as the
particular location suggests, into memoir, history,
current events, marine biology, city planning,
literature, architecture, interviews, biography,
films, ecology and more. Anyone who relishes the
company of Whitman, Melville, both Cranes, even Sara
Teasdale, among many other celebrants of the
New York
waterfront, will particularly enjoy the vicarious
sojourn. The trek includes Chelsea Piers and the
U.N., Gracie Mansion and the Brooklyn Bridge,
Captain Kidd and the Gulf filling station on East 23rd Street.
"Sewage and salsa," Lopate invokes in describing
Riverbank State Park, and that mix of the
problematic and the delightful pervades his account,
"saturated with history," of the waterfront's
metamorphosis from "a working port, to an abandoned,
seedy no-man's-land, to a highly desirable zone of
parks plus upscale retail/residential." This is a
demanding book—formidable in some of its detail,
complex in its broad approach. Tourists will find it
enriching but only borderline useful. Its ideal
reader, a New Yorker who cares as deeply as Lopate
does about the waterfront as "the key to New York's
destiny," will find it compelling as well as
entertaining. © Reed Business Information, a
division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
LMCC and Rooftop Films
present an evening of short films and animations
around the theme “Lost at Sea” on the Governors
Island Parade Ground
Saturday: July 16, the program will start at
7:30 pm with live music on the Parade Grounds. The
films will begin at 8:30 pm.
For this event only, ferries will continue to
leave from the Battery Maritime Building in Lower
Manhattan from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm. Ferries will
return to Lower Manhattan every hour on the ½ hour
with more frequency in the evening, up until 11:25
pm. For more information, visit
www.lmcc.net/setanddrift. For ticket
information,
click here.
Around
Governors Island Swim:
Sponsored by Manhattan Island Foundation
Saturday:
June 25, 8:00 am
Results available at:
http://www.nycswim.org/events/results.aspx?Event_ID=1624
Part of the 2005 Summer Swim Series organized by the
Manhattan Island Foundation and sponsored by Hudson
River Park Trust, New York City Department of Parks
and Recreation, Riverside Park South and the Battery
Park City Parks Conservancy. This is the
first year for the Governors Island Swim. The swim
will circumnavigate Governors Island in an extremely
challenging 2-mile course with great views of Lower
Manhattan. For more information, including an
application or volunteer form, visit
www.nycswim.org. This event is not open to the
General Public.
Lecture: “Unearthing Gotham:
The Archeology of New York City” with Diana Wall and
Ann-Marie Cantwell
Saturday:
June 25, 1:00 pm
From Publishers Weekly
Rutgers's Cantwell
and City College's Wall, anthropologists both, track
the evolving practice of urban archeology, and
document much of what it has uncovered (and is still
uncovering) in the Big Apple. From the oldest
remnants of Native Manhattanites to 18th-, 19th- and
20th-century detritus, Cantwell and Wall explore how
archeologists painstakingly expose and determine the
past as well as the objects they find. Continually
surprising objects of great import the intricate
nature and use of "wampum beads"; a full crate of
wine bottles from a Wall Street store lost in the
great 1835 fire; children's toys and mugs from
mid-19th century middle-class homes balance the
book's academic underpinnings with its obvious
intention to entertain and to illuminate the past.
Whether dealing with the discovery of glass urinals
found behind a brothel in the notorious Five Points
section of the city, or an extraordinarily moving
account of the preservation of a colonial
African-American burial ground uncovered during
excavation for a new high-rise in lower Manhattan,
the authors are always mindful of the endless battle
between embracing new growth and respecting and
safeguarding the past. Copyright 2001 Cahners
Business Information, Inc.
Play: The American
Revolution by the Inverse Theater Company
Saturday: June 18 at 2:00 pm
“This hilarious and historical patriotic parade
(Music! Comedy! Battles!) follows General George
Washington on his quest to defeat the British Empire
and secure independence. Along the way, he confronts
Redcoats, Tories, Hessian mercenaries, mutinying
generals, a bankrupt Congress, spies, and Benedict
Arnold. He is joined by the world’s most incompetent
and endearing troop of new recruits - The Rebel
Mess. These rambunctious Yankees tumble through the
colonies chasing freedom, dodging bullets, making
song, and discovering what it means to be an
American.”
Lecture: “Images of America: Ellis Island and the
Statue of Liberty” with Barry Moreno
Saturday: June 18, 3:00 pm
One of the nation’s leading authorities on the subject, author Barry Moreno has
worked in the Museum Services Division at Ellis Islandfor more than a decade. In
addition to authoring two “Images of America” series books from Arcadia
Publishing – Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty -- he is also the author of The
Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia and Italian Americans, as well as the recently
published “The Encyclopedia of Ellis Island.”
Governors Island
Family Festival – co-sponsored by GIPEC and
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Noon to 4:00 pm Please join us for family
entertainment on Colonels’ Row, featuring arts and
crafts, storytelling, live theater and songs about
the American Revolution, and a fire safety
demonstration by the NYFD.
No ferry tickets are required for June 11
(ONLY). Visitors to Governors Island on June 11 will
be allowed to board the ferry on a first come, first
served basis. Adults and children over 15 (if
traveling on their own) must show proper ID to board
the ferry. This event takes place during regular
Summer Saturday hours, with the park opening at
10:00 am.
The Public Art Fund
presents "The Muster. A Project by Allison Smith."
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Noon to 5:00 pm
The Declaration of Causes, a formal roll call,
begins at 2:00 pm. This event is free to the public.
The Muster is a public art event generated by the
question "What are you fighting for?" posed by
artist and self-appointed Mustering Officer Allison
Smith. Inspired by the aesthetic and performative
qualities of American Civil War reenactments, Smith
creates a festive setting for ecstatic proclamation.
In this gathering of the troops on the marching
fields of Fort Jay, an army of enlisted participants
will fashion uniforms, build campsites, and declare
their causes publicly to an audience of spectators.
Ferries depart from the Governors Island ferry
terminal located in the Battery Maritime Building at
10 South Street in Lower Manhattan (directions).
Ferries depart from Lower Manhattan at 11:45 am,
12:15 pm, 1:00 pm, 1:45 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:15 pm and
4:00 pm. For additional information, visit
www.themuster.com.
First Annual
Governors Island Tree Lighting Ceremony
December 15, 2004, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Nolan
Park, Governors Island. Governors Island
Preservation & Education Corporation invites you to
ring in the Holiday season on Governors Island.
Light refreshments will be served at the Admiral’s
Quarters in the heart of the Governors Island
National Historic Landmark District. Reservations
are required by calling 212.440.2202. Ferries to
Governors Island leave from the Battery Maritime
Building (directions).
Ferries will depart every 30 minutes for Governors
Island beginning at 4:00 pm.
Invitation (PDF). This is a free event. No
tickets are required.
Special Event:
Governors Island to participate in openhousenewyork
October 9 and 10, 2004
During the openhousenewyork weekend, New
Yorkers and visitors are invited to explore 100
spectacular buildings, structures and parks in
neighborhoods throughout the City – at no charge.
Governors Island is pleased to participate in this
year’s openhousenewyork celebration of NYC
architecture.
Governors Island will host three tours a day during
openhousenewyork weekend, providing visitors
with a chance to see and learn about the history of
Governors Island and to look inside some of the
incredible buildings and structures located
throughout the northern section of the Island. Space
is limited, and must be reserved.
More....
HISTORIC TOURS:
Governors Island National Landmark District Tours
June 21 through September 3, 2004
Tours of the 90-acre Governors Island National
Landmark District are available through the National
Park Service. Landmark District walking tours cover
approximately two and a half miles within the
Landmark district, and take approximately two and a
half hour to complete. Tickets for these tours are
available only at the South Street Seaport
Museum ticket windows located in the South Street
Seaport complex in Lower Manhattan. There are two
tours daily, at 10:00 am and at 1:00 pm, and tickets
are available on a first-come, first-served basis,
on the day of the tour.
There are no advance phone reservations
available for weekday NPS tours.
Click here for details.
Special Event: Barnet Schecter, author of The
Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the
American Revolution, will speak to visitors at
Governors Island National Monument
Saturday, August 21st
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Hosted by the National Park Service and the
Governors Island Preservation and Education
Corporation.
Barnet Schecter, an expert on the strategic and
political role of New York during the American
Revolution, will discuss his book, and particularly
the role the Continental Army’s troops and defenses
built on Governors Island had on the outcome of the
Battle of Long Island – the first engagement of the
fledgling army of the United States with British
troops after independence was declared in 1776. The
British invaded New York 228 years ago this month
and occupied the city until 1783.
Visitors will be treated to a brief lecture,
followed by an opportunity for the author to sign
copies of his work. In addition, Mr. Schecter will
introduce his upcoming work on the New York City
“draft riots” during the American Civil War – in
which Governors Island also had an historical
connection. Weather permitting, the event will be
held in the parade ground of Fort Jay in Governors
Island National Monument. An alternative site will
be provided on the island in the case of inclement
weather.
Special Event: Van Alen Institute and
Rooftop Films, in association with GIPEC, present an
evening of film on Governors Island
August 6, 2004
7:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Admission: Free – Sponsored by Target Stores
As part of their “OPEN views: film on the city”
series, Van Alen Istitute and Rooftop Films, in
association with the Governors Island Preservation
and Education Corporation, will screen a series of
independent films on August 6.
Click here for details.
GET INVOLVED! Public
Meeting: Planning for the Future of Governors Island
July 29, 2004 on Governors Island, 5:30 pm
to 9:30 pm
Where: Governors Island
Date: July 29, 2004
Time: 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm
At this early stage in the planning process for
Governors Island, GIPEC is seeking broad public
input on the potential uses for the Island. GIPEC
will be organizing a series of Public Meetings to
foster idea exchanges with the public and community
organizations.
Click here for details.
SPECIAL EVENT: Governors Island:
Photographs by Lisa Kereszi and Andrew Moore
May 24 – July 8, 2004
Urban Center Gallery
457 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Between 50th and 51st Streets
Hours: Monday-Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 11am – 5pm
The exhibition of current photographs of
Governors Island was commissioned by GIPEC and
organized by the Public Art Fund, in association
with the Municipal Art Society. Target Stores is
sponsoring the exhibition and an accompanying
exhibition catalogue.
The exhibition at the Urban Center has closed.
Check back soon, the exhibit will be moving to
Governors Island in the near future.
More information about the exhibit, including a
slide show of the project is available at the Public
Art Fund website:
http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/04/govern_island_04.html
Artists Bios
Lisa Kereszi, a Brooklyn-based photographer,
was born in 1973 in Chester, Pennsylvania. She
received an MFA from Yale School of Fine Arts in
2000 and is currently on the faculty of the
International Center for Photography. Although the
human figure rarely appears in her work, Kereszi's
photographs are just as much about people as they
are about places and things: "I go into a space that
has been inhabited and look for the trails and
traces people leave behind," she has said. Like all
of her work, Kereszi's photographs of Governors
Island are straightforward, unaltered images,
portraying scenarios just as she finds them. She
recently had a solo show at Pierogi in Williamsburg
in 2003; her editorial photographs have appeared in
The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest,
wallpaper, and other publications.
Andrew Moore graduated from Princeton
University in 1979, where he is currently a
professor of photography. Moore's nuanced
photographs, made with a large format camera, use
architectural form to express the history of public
and private spaces. His photographic series have
focused on the crumbling grandeur of Havana, the
dilapidated theaters of Times Square, and the old
asylums on Roosevelt Island. He has recently had
solo shows at Craig Krull in Los Angeles (2004),
Jane Jackson Gallery in Atlanta (2003), and at
Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York (2002). Moore
was also the producer and cinematographer for How to
Draw a Bunny (2002), a documentary feature about the
artist Ray Johnson, recently released by Palm
Pictures.
SPECIAL EVENT: Curvation Walk of Confidence
with Queen Latifah
June 22, 2004
CURVATION® intimate apparel created for curvaceous
women, along with spokesperson Queen Latifah, hosted
the first-ever CURVATION 2004 "Walk of Confidence"
to benefit The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island
Foundation, which recently launched a campaign to
Re-Open Lady Liberty. To mark the event, Curvation
contributed $15,000 to the foundation in honor of
America’s most symbolic woman – the Statue of
Liberty. CURVATION also made a $10,000 donation to
Governors Island for the preservation of this new
National Monument in New York Harbor. |
|
