Weekend Programming: Moore Is Here!
Posted in Exhibitions, Moore in America, Programs and Events on May 23 2008, by Plant Talk
The Garden’s newest exhibition, Moore in America, opens to the public this Memorial Day weekend. The weather is slated to be amazing, so there are no excuses not to enjoy the sunshine and the majestic works of Henry Moore. And don’t forget about Darwin’s Garden, either. From his garden re-created in our own Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to a selection of original texts and artwork in our library, experience Darwin as never before. This weekend offers guests an extra day to get in on the fun as Monday is a holiday. From films to children’s programming to a slew of guided tours, this weekend looks to be the busiest yet. Check out the full list after the jump.
Friday, May 23
Film Screening of The Art of Henry Moore
Friday, May 23, 12 & 2 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
This documentary features many of Henry Moore’s most significant sculpture and work from the 1920s to the 1980s. The artist and his various works are discussed in interviews, articles, and letters. Watch his creative process unfold, starting with small models and ending with impressive and massive sculpture.
Art in Nature: Guided Tours of Moore in America
Friday, May 23, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, & 4:30 p.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center or at the entrance to the Peggy Rockafeller Rose Garden
Take a closer look at the sculpture of Henry Moore and the impressive interaction of his work and the magnificent landscape of the Botanical Garden with a Garden Docent or Teaching Artist. Discover themes within his art and the stories each of the monumental pieces tell. Choose to take a tour of the sculptures near the Reflecting Pool or of those near the Rockafeller Rose Garden and Benenson Ornamental Conifers. Admission included with an All-Garden Pass.
Darwin for Kids
Friday, May 23, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world, a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Friday, May 23, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
Saturday, May 24
Bird Walk
Saturday, May 24, 11 a.m.
Meets at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center
Bring your binoculars and walk the Garden grounds with a bird expert. You’ll search for birds and learn more about bird-friendly habitats for both passage birds and those that reside at the Garden.
Film Screening of The Art of Henry Moore
Saturday, May 24, 12 & 2 p.m.
In the Conservatory GreenSchool
This documentary features many of Henry Moore’s most significant sculpture and work from the 1920s to the 1980s. The artist and his various works are discussed in interviews, articles, and letters. Watch his creative process unfold, starting with small models and ending with impressive and massive sculpture.
Darwin’s Garden: His Garden Re-created
Saturday, May 24, 12:30 p.m.
At the Conservatory entrance
Take a docent-led tour of the Conservatory segment of Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, which re-creates Down House, the place in Kent, England, where Charles Darwin spent the last 40 years of his life observing and experimenting with plants in the gardens, greenhouses, and surrounding countryside.
Art in Nature: Guided Tours of Moore in America
Saturday, May 24, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, & 4:30 p.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center or at the entrance to the Peggy Rockafeller Rose Garden
Take a closer look at the sculpture of Henry Moore and the impressive interaction of his work and the magnificent landscape of the Botanical Garden with a Garden Docent or Teaching Artist. Discover themes within his art and the stories each of the monumental pieces tell. Choose to take a tour of the sculptures near the Reflecting Pool or of those near the Rockafeller Rose Garden and Benenson Ornamental Conifers. Admission included with an All-Garden Pass.
Darwin’s Garden: Everyday Science
Saturday, May 24, 1–3 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Learn the basics of scientific experimentation, the likes of which Charles Darwin used in his research. Develop your skills of observation, inquiry, and hypothesis with scientific instruments, herbarium specimens, and Garden plants. Use these new skills to uncover unknown aspects of the Garden.
Home Gardening Demonstration—It’s an Annual Affair
Saturday, May 24, 1:30 p.m.
Annuals are available in a myriad of colors, shapes, and sizes. Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she demonstrates how to plant, maintain, and create beautiful designs with annuals for both sunny and shady areas.
Expert-led Tour of Darwin’s Garden: His Life with Plants
Saturday, May 24, 2:30 p.m.
In the 6th floor Library Gallery
Take an expert-led tour of an exhibition of more than 60 rare books and objects that tell the story of Charles Darwin’s lifelong relationship with plants. Darwin’s original manuscripts, field notebooks, plant collections, and other historical documents chronicle his progression from a boy with an interest in plants to an evolutionary botanist who revolutionized the world’s view of life.
Darwin Live and In Concert
Saturday, May 24, 3:30 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
Naturalist Charles Darwin is brought to life by Richard Milner, historian and anthropologist from the American Museum of Natural History, in a one-man musical filled with witty original songs, science, and madness. Milner appears as Darwin and other characters and belts out a blues for the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial.” Somehow even Maurice Chevalier and Jimmy Durante get into the act. Milner presents a unique, entertaining adventure into the discovery of evolution and its impact on our culture. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Darwin for Kids
Saturday, May 24, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world; a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Moore for Kids
Saturday, May 24, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Explore the beautiful sculpture of Henry Moore throughout the Garden grounds and in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. Create your own works of art using techniques inspired by the renowned sculptor.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Saturday, May 24, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
Sunday, May 25
Film Screening of The Art of Henry Moore
Sunday, May 25, 12 & 2 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
This documentary features many of Henry Moore’s most significant sculpture and work from the 1920s to the 1980s. The artist and his various works are discussed in interviews, articles, and letters. Watch his creative process unfold, starting with small models and ending with impressive and massive sculpture.
Darwin’s Garden: His Garden Re-Created
Sunday, May 25, 12:30 & 2:30 p.m.
At the Conservatory entrance
Take a docent-led tour of the Conservatory segment of Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, which re-creates Down House, the place in Kent, England, where Charles Darwin spent the last 40 years of his life observing and experimenting with plants in the gardens, greenhouses, and surrounding countryside.
Art in Nature: Guided Tours of Moore in America
Sunday, May 25, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, & 4:30 p.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center or at the entrance to the Peggy Rockafeller Rose Garden
Take a closer look at the sculpture of Henry Moore and the impressive interaction of his work and the magnificent landscape of the Botanical Garden with a Garden Docent or Teaching Artist. Discover themes within his art and the stories each of the monumental pieces tell. Choose to take a tour of the sculptures near the Reflecting Pool or of those near the Rockafeller Rose Garden and Benenson Ornamental Conifers. Admission included with an All-Garden Pass.
Darwin’s Garden: Everyday Science
Sunday, May 25, 1–3 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Learn the basics of scientific experimentation, the likes of which Charles Darwin used in his research. Develop your skills of observation, inquiry, and hypothesis with scientific instruments, herbarium specimens, and Garden plants. Use these new skills to uncover unknown aspects of the Garden.
Home Gardening Demonstration—It’s an Annual Affair
Sunday, May 25, 1:30 p.m.In the Home Gardening Center
Annuals are available in a myriad of colors, shapes, and sizes. Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she demonstrates how to plant, maintain, and create beautiful designs with annuals for both sunny and shady areas.
Darwin Live and In Concert
Sunday, May 25, 3:30 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
Join Richard Milner, anthropologist and historian, in a roundup of his favorite stories of Charles Darwin’s adventures. Discover an unknown side of Darwin, including tales of extracting dinosaur bones during a war; of Darwin’s visit to slave-owning countries, which confirmed his lifelong abolitionist beliefs; and of his prediction of the existence of a moth with a foot-long tongue. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Darwin for Kids
Sunday, May 25, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world; a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Moore for Kids
Sunday, May 25, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Explore the beautiful sculpture of Henry Moore throughout the Garden grounds and in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. Create your own works of art using techniques inspired by the renowned sculptor.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Sunday, May 25, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
Monday, May 26
Film Screening of The Art of Henry Moore
Sunday, May 25, 12 & 2 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
This documentary features many of Henry Moore’s most significant sculpture and work from the 1920s to the 1980s. The artist and his various works are discussed in interviews, articles, and letters. Watch his creative process unfold, starting with small models and ending with impressive and massive sculpture.
Art in Nature: Guided Tours of Moore in America
Sunday, May 25, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, & 4:30 p.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center or at the entrance to the Peggy Rockafeller Rose Garden
Take a closer look at the sculpture of Henry Moore and the impressive interaction of his work and the magnificent landscape of the Botanical Garden with a Garden Docent or Teaching Artist. Discover themes within his art and the stories each of the monumental pieces tell. Choose to take a tour of the sculptures near the Reflecting Pool or of those near the Rockafeller Rose Garden and Benenson Ornamental Conifers. Admission included with an All-Garden Pass.
Darwin’s Garden: Everyday Science
Sunday, May 25, 1–3 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Learn the basics of scientific experimentation, the likes of which Charles Darwin used in his research. Develop your skills of observation, inquiry, and hypothesis with scientific instruments, herbarium specimens, and Garden plants. Use these new skills to uncover unknown aspects of the Garden.
Home Gardening Demonstration—It’s an Annual Affair
Sunday, May 25, 1:30 p.m.
In the Home Gardening Center
Annuals are available in a myriad of colors, shapes, and sizes. Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she demonstrates how to plant, maintain, and create beautiful designs with annuals for both sunny and shady areas.
Darwin for Kids
Sunday, May 25, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world; a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Moore for Kids
Sunday, May 25, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Explore the beautiful sculpture of Henry Moore throughout the Garden grounds and in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. Create your own works of art using techniques inspired by the renowned sculptor.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Sunday, May 25, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
