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June 30, 2015NYS Museum Programs , early July
Shaker Craft Fair
Saturday, July 11 and Sunday July 12 ▪ 10am-4pm
$4 per person, or $3 with this ad; SHS members, veterans and active-duty military, and under 18 free Find the perfect item for your home or a gift for a friend at the Shaker Craft Fair. Explore the booths of dozens of local and regional artisans on the beautiful grounds of the Shaker Heritage Society. A Family Activity Tent will host fun hands-on activities for all ages throughout the weekend. Members of the Abenaki First Nation will offer traditional craft activities, displays, and music. Site tours are offered both days at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Fair food and pie will be available for purchase.
Please visit shakerheritage.org for the most up to date information. Shaker Heritage Site is located at 25 Meeting House Road, Albany, NY 12211
The North Family Shaker Cemetery & Memorial Walking Tour Shaker Museum | Mt. Lebanon Saturday, July 11 ▪ 10–11:30 a.m.
Tour leaves from the Wash House ▪ Adults ▪ $10, free for Museum Members “The idea of keeping in mind, from generation to generation, the spot where the body was deposited” was, according to an 1886 sermon, preposterous to Elder Frederick Evans and other North Family Shakers. Still, different Shakers at different times did mark the graves of their departed and their views on life and death were not static. This walking tour will provide the back story to the North Family Shakers’ Cemetery and Memorial, one of Mount Lebanon’s many cemeteries, still owned by the Shakers today.
The Shaker Museum | Mt. Lebanon is located at 202 Shaker Road, New Lebanon, NY 12125. Visit www.shakerml.org for more information.
Cinema Sunday: The Music Instinct: Science and Song Sunday, July 12 ▪ 2 p.m.
Huxley Theater Adults ▪ Free
This film provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism–and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos–is moved by the undeniable effect of music. This follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music’s deep mysteries. 2009. 120 minutes.
Native Peoples of New York Journey
Wednesday, July 15 ▪ 10–11 a.m.; Noon–1 p.m. and 2–3 p.m.
Families with children, ages 8 and older ▪ Meet at Museum Lobby ▪ Free Travel back in time with Museum educator Cecile Kowalski to meet the people who were the first ones to live here in New York State more than 10,000 years ago. Discover the kinds of tools they created. Continue your journey through time and discover how a changing environment and evolving technology created new opportunities for the people who lived here. Learn about life in a prehistoric Iroquois village, sit in a longhouse, and then view the artwork in Represent: Contemporary Native American Art and learn about Native American artists who live in New York today.
If you would like to book this program for your group, please contact groupreg@mail.nysed.gov or call (518) 474-5843 for more information.
New York State Education Department
New York State Museum • Cultural Education Center • Albany NY 12230
518 474-5877
