What To Do Mother’s Day Weekend
What To Do Mother’s Day Weekend
Nisa Lee’s Mother’s Day Brunch, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, Sun, 5/14: 11:30am & 2pm: She’s cooked for Hillary Clinton, Sir Paul McCartney, Justin Bieber and Chef Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Here Nisa Lee prepares a special Mother’s Day Brunch of Garden Vegetable Frittata, Carribbean Chicken Mango Salsa, Grilled Spring Vegetables Quinoa Kale Pesto, Dark Chocolate Ganache Singles and Lemon Tartlet. After brunch enjoy the natural ambience of the Hammond’s Japanese Stroll Garden. (28 Deveau Road, North Salem; www.hammondmuseum.org)
Local! Academy Award Non-Winners: Manchester By The Sea, Chappaqua Library – Fri, 5/12: 7pm: Film buff Carol Durst’s (of Menus in the Movies fame) new film series brings you the best of the Oscar also-rans with a focus on films that focus on the changing definition of family. In this 2016 Oscar hopeful, Casey Affleck returns to his hometown to care for his teenage nephew after his brother’s death – an unexpected challenge.
Local! International Concerto Winners Concert, Chappaqua Orchestra – Sat, 5/13: 8pm. The top prizewinners from TCO’s Concerto Competition held on March 31 and April 1 at the Music Conservatory of Westchester will perform solo concerti with the orchestra conducted by Michael Shapiro. The concert concludes with Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony from TCO. Wallace Auditorium, 480 Bedford Rd, Chappaqua; www.chappaquaorchestra.org)
Local! 4th Annual Stayin’ Alive 5K & Fun Run and Walk, Armonk – Sat. 5/13: 8am: The run starts at The Windmill Club and continues through Windmill’s woodsy community. Stayin’ Alive raised over $36,000 for needed equipment for North Castle’s First Responders last year. Fun Run at 10am. (The Windmill Club, 10 Maple Way, Armonk; www.stayinalive.org)
Mother’s Day Weekend Plant Sale, Teatown Lake Reservation – Sat, 5/13: 9am-2pm: With over a dozen vendors, music and food, it’s a plant sale with “farmer’s market appeal”. Shop for rare varieties of annuals, perennials, butterfly attractors, herbs, deer-resistant flowers, vegetables, hanging baskets and Mother’s Day gifts. (1600 Spring Valley Rd., Ossining; www.teatown.org)
Lyndhurst Mansion Day Plant Sale – Sat, 5/13: 10am-2pm: Buy your Mother’s Day plants overlooking the Hudson. Here you can buy prized annuals and perennials suitable for sun or shade from the Lyndhurst Garden Club that are cultivated right on the Lyndhurst grounds. Just like the Gould’s use to do it. Plus alpines and troughs from The Hudson Valley Rock Garden Society and organic vegetable seedlings from Mobius Fields. (635 Broadway, Tarrytown; www.lyndhurst.org)
Mother’s Day Weekend Garden Party at NYBG – Sat-Sun, 5/13-14: NYBG’s spring landscape is the setting for live music, games, garden tours, picnicking and other dining options. After a significant restoration and expansion, the historic Lilac Collection reopens, making room for more Garden spots to play and relax. Featuring croquet, beanbag, lawn games, face painting, giant chess, chalk drawing and a family photographer. (2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx; www.nybg.org)
Local! Steel Magnolias, Armonk’s Small Town Theatre Company – Fri-Sat, 5/12-13: 8pm: See what goes on in the beauty parlor in Louisiana when Armonk’s Small Town Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Robert Haring’s 1987 comedy-drama about the bond amongst Southern women – as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel. The play ran Off-Broadway for 1125 performances from 1987 to 1990, was made into a motion picture in 1990 and debuted on Broadway in 2005. Admission is just $15. (The Hergenhan Center, 40 maple Ave., Armonk; www.smalltowntheatre.com)
Dance off the Grid, Emelin Theatre – Fri, 5/12: 8pm. This standout dance series at the Emelin Theatre continues with three dance companies at each performance. This one features 10 Hairy Legs that explores the male role in dance; Palissimo, the Bessie Award-winning dance company that merges the abstract aspects of dance with the nonlinear qualities of theatre and mise-en-scène into multidisciplinary works, and the iconic, internationally distinguished post-Modern Trisha Brown Dance Company. (153 Library Ln., Mamaroneck; www.emelin.org)
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company, Performing Arts Center Purchase – Sat, 5/13: 8pm: The innovative Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company presents a new work, Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist, (Part II of the Analogy Trilogy). Lance tells an often tragic and sometimes outrageously humorous narrative based on the life of Bill T. Jones’ nephew Lance. The work explores Lance’s life in the underworld of the 80s and 90s club culture and sex trade. Composer Nick Hallett and baritone Matthew Gamble provide accompaniment with a mixture of lullabies, R&B and house music. They will perform onstage while the dance evokes a ballet class, a disco, and more indefinable interior landscapes. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)
Brian Reagan, Paramount Hudson Valley – Sat, 5/13: 8pm. One of Jerry Seinfeld’s favorite comedians, Reagan made history in 2015 with his live broadcast from Radio City Music Hall – the first in Comedy Central’s history. He has been featured in Chris Rock’s Film Top Five, Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and has released 6 TV specials including The Epitome of Hyperbole and I Walked on the Moon. (1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)
Local! SHERLOCK HOLMES MEETS MONTY PYTHON! The Hound of the Baskerville’s, Hudson Stage Company, NCPL – Fri- Sun, 4/28- 5/13: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a comedic makeover in this cheeky spoof. Three actors take on more than twenty roles in retelling the story of the classic thriller with the killer dog in this production that is billed as part Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers and Monty Python! (Whippoorwill Hall Theatre, North Castle Library, Kent Place, Armonk; www.hudsonstage.com)
Mama Mia, Westchester Broadway Theatre – Thurs, 3/23- Sun, 6/25: Based on the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA, Mama Mia, is set on the Greek island of Kalokairi. A 20 year old woman named Sophie wants to have a traditional wedding and hopes her father will walk her down the aisle, but there’s one problem: she has no idea who her father is! With help from her mother’s journal, she narrows the possibilities down to three men, and hilarity ensues as they all claim her as their child! Featuring the ABBA hits “Dancing Queen”, “Thank You for the Music”, and, of course, “Mamma Mia!”. (One Broadway Plaza, Elmsford; www.broadwaytheatre.com)
Hyper-local! International Concerto Winners Concert, Chappaqua Orchestra – Sat, 5/13: 8pm. The top prizewinners from TCO’s Concerto Competition held on March 31 and April 1 at the Music Conservatory of Westchester will perform solo concerti with the orchestra conducted by Michael Shapiro. The concert concludes with Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony from TCO. Wallace Auditorium, 480 Bedford Rd, Chappaqua; www.chappaquaorchestra.org)
Local! Mothers Day! Ode to Mothers, Dalia Lazar, The Sanctuary Series South Salem – Sun, 5/14: 4pm. Westport resident, pianist Dali Lazar presents Beethoven in a special Mother’s Day performance. A native of Croatia, she was admitted at age 16 to Moscow’s P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory and performed throughout the Soviet Union. She continued her studies in New York and London and was a finalist in the New York Concert Artist Guild Competition, making her New York debut at Rubenstein Hall, followed by her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in the same year. (South Salem Presbyterian Church, 111 Spring Street, S. Salem; www.thesanctuaryseries.org)
Gordon Lightfoot, Tarrytown Music Hall – Sat, 5/13: 8pm. You know the songs: “Early Morning Rain,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Carefree Highway,” “Sundown”, “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald,” “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” “Ribbon Of Darkness,” “Beautiful,” “Song For A Winter’s Night” and “Rainy Day People”. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)
Christopher Cross, Ridgefield Playhouse – Fri, 5/12: 8pm. Christopher Cross, virtually defined adult contemporary radio with chart-topping ballads like “Ride Like the Wind”, “Sailing”, “Never Be the Same”, “Say You’ll Be Mine” and “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)”. He not only won five Grammy Awards, but is one of the few musical artists to also win an Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy Award as well! (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)
The Kingston Trio, Paramount Hudson Valley – Sun 5/14: 5pm. This new iteration of The Kingston Trio performs the tree-part harmonies on the songs that began the folk music revival in 1958 and set the stage for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul & Mary. Including “Tom Dooley”, “The Tijuana Jail”, “Greenback Dollar”, “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” and “The M.T.A.” (1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)
The Avett Brothers, Capitol Theatre – Thurs-Sat, 5/11-13: 8pm. Three-time Grammy nominees and three-time winners of the American Music Awards, The Avett Brothers weave folk, bluegrass, indie rock and pop influences into a repertoire that has been described as part Buddy Holly part Townes Van Zandt. Best known for the 2010 song “I and Love and You”. (149 Westchester Ave., Port Chester: www.thecapitoltheatre.com)
The Weight Playing Songs of The Band, Tarrytown Music Hall – Fri, 5/12: 8pm. The group features Jim Weider from The Band, Brian Mitchell of the Levon Helm Band, Marty Grebb, who wrote for The Band and worked with Rick Danko and Richard Manuel, Albert Rogers from the Jim Weider Band and frequent performer at The Barn’s Midnight Rambles. Michael Bram, the newest member of The Weight, played with Jason Mraz. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)
Picturing Love, Katonah Museum of Art, Tues-Sun, 3/19: 6/25: This new photography exhibition features fifty works from a range of periods and genres depicting romantic love, friendship and parental love for their child. The photographs take a look back at the history of this subject from early days to contemporary art. (134 Jay St., Rt. 22, Katonah; www.katonahmuseum.org)
Street Smart: Photographs of New York City, 1945-1980, Bruce Museum – Tues-Sun, 2/18-6/4: 10am-5pm. This exhibition features 30 photographs, from the museum’s permanent collection, provides a glimpse of street life in the city during the post-war period. Including works by Larry Fink, Herman Leonard, Leon Levinstein, John Shearer, and Garry Winogrand. (1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT; www.brucemuseum.org)
From the Streets: An Exhibition of Urban Art, ArtsWestchester – Tues-Sat, 4/11-7/15: Anchored by large-scale mural commissions by some of the best-known American urban artists, From the Streets follows graffiti’s stylistic evolution from its genesis as a 1980s youth subculture in the Bronx to its rising prominence in the global art scene. Mixed-media installations, murals and works on canvas highlight the mastery and diverse practices of today’s street artists. (31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains; www.artswestchester.org)
Wyeth Wonderland – Hudson River Museum – Wed-Sun: 12-5pm through May 14. Inspired by the same Pennsylvania landscapes and people as Andrew Wyeth, French photographer Joséphine Douet pairs her works in a side-by-side homage with 12 of the painter’s drawings and watercolors. Some of the comparisons in this “photographer in a painter’s footsteps” exhibition are direct. Others reflect the aesthetic synergy she draws from his works. Pictured here: Rubber Ivy, 2015. (511 Warburton Rd., Yonkers; www.hrm.org)
PepsiCo Sculpture Gardens Reopen – Sat-Sun: 10am-4pm through 10/31: The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo’s World Headquarters in Purchase re-opened on April 1 after being closed to the public for four years. The Gardens features 45 pieces of large-scale outdoor pieces from some of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. Including Henry Moore and Alexander Calder. Plus over 6,000 trees from 38 species, lawns, a Koi pond, fountains and formal gardens with topiary, hedges and thousands of flowering bulbs.The sculptures surround the seven building complex that were designed by Edward Durrell Stone and built at the time on a 168-acre campus. Read more.
Kykuit Tours, Thurs-Sun, 5/4- 9/30: This hilltop paradise, now a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, was home to four generations of the Rockefeller family. Read our review of the guided tours of the six-story stone house; the terraced gardens with Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s collection of 20th-century sculptures; the underground art galleries featuring a collection of Picasso tapestries; and the Coach Barn’s classic automobiles and horse-drawn carriages. Scheduled tours: Thurs-Sun, plus Memorial Day and Labor Day, 5/4-9/30 and 11/2-12. Open daily except Tuesdays from 10/1-31. Check for special tours and times. (381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow: www.hudsonvalley.org)
Lyndhurst Mansion Tours, Tarrytown – Thurs-Mon, 5/4-9/24: 10am-4pm: Take a one-hour guided tour of the historic Lyndhurst mansion overlooking the Hudson River. The Gothic Revival mansion has been used as a movie set for six major motion pictures including House of Dark Shadows (1970), Reversal of Fortune (1990), Cradle Will Rock (1999) and Winter’s Tale (2013). It was built in 1938 by William Paulding, a former NYC Mayor, and purchased by Union Pacific Railroad tycoon Jay Gould in 1880 as a summer home. (635 S. Broadway, Tarrytown; www.lyndhurst.org)
What To Do With the Kids
Bicycle Sundays on the Bronx River Parkway, Sun, 5/7-6/25: 10am-2pm: The Westchester Parks Foundation closes off a six and a half mile stretch of the Bronx River Parkway for the exclusive use of bicyclists, joggers, scooters and strollers. Park your car at the County Center lot and bike to Scarsdale Road in Yonkers. Round trip 13.1 miles. www.friendsofwestchesterparks.com
Mother’s Day Weekend Garden Party at NYBG – Sat-Sun, 5/13-14: NYBG’s spring landscape is the setting for live music, games, garden tours, picnicking and other dining options. After a significant restoration and expansion, the historic Lilac Collection reopens, making room for more Garden spots to play and relax. Featuring croquet, beanbag, lawn games, face painting, giant chess, chalk drawing and a family photographer. (2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx; www.nybg.org)
Local! Learn to Ride Bike Program, Bedford Recreation – Sat, 5/13: 10am-12pm: Bike New York teaches kids how to ride a bicycle and shows parents effective methods for teaching their kids at home. The Bedford Police will be on hand to provide safety tips and bike registration. Bring your own bike and helmet. For boys and girls of all ages. Rain Date: Sat, 5/20: 10am. (Bedford Hills Memorial Park, Haines Rd, Bedford Hills; www.bedfordny.gov)
Baah! Sheep Shearing & Farmers Market at Muscoot Farm – Sun, 5/14: 12-3pm. Every Mother’s Day Muscoot Farm shears its adult sheep and the public is invited to watch them get their spring haircut. Mother’s Day also marks the opening of the Muscoot Farmers Market. The market is open every Sunday through October. See our guide to Farmer’s Markets. (Rt. 100, Somers; www.muscootfarm.org)
NEW Star Show! Hudson River Museum Planetarium – Sat-Sun: 3:30pm in May: When the Museum’s historic home, Glenview, was being built in 1875, astronomers and physicists believed that they had completed the foundation of knowledge for their sciences. This new show, The Victorian’s Guide to the Galaxy, narrated by award-winning science fiction narrator Kate Baker, explores what 19th-century scientists understood about their universe. (511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers; www.hrm.org)
Cool! IMAX Movies, The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk – Daily through June 30: Through June 30 The Maritime Aquarium will be screening four movies seven days a week on their six-story tall IMAQX screen. Including: Dream Big, the first IMAX movie with STEM content; Jean-Michael Cousteau’s Secret Ocean; Born to Be Wild that follows orphaned orangutans through the rain forests of Borneo and the Kenyan savannah, and National Parks Adventure narrated by Robert Redford. (10 N. Water St., Norwalk, www.maritimeaquarium.org)
Cool! Marine Life Study Cruises, Maritime Aquarium Norwalk – Sat, 4/29-Sat, 9/30: 1-3:30pm. Study the biodiversity of Long Island Sound’s interdependent marine life. Participants utilize such sampling techniques as a plankton tow, biodredge, mud grab and otter trawl that may bring up fish, crabs, lobsters, sea stars and more. A video microscope and touch tank on board enhance observations. Check dates. (10 N. Water St., Norwalk; www.maritimeaquarium.org)
New at the Maritime Aquarium, Sun-Sat: 10am-5pm: The Maritime Aquarium recently debuted their new Coral Reef Exhibit featuring more than 40 species of reef fish native to the Indo-Pacific in their new 3000 gallon tank. Also new is a Sketch & Release video wall where kids can digitally color sharks, sea turtles and other marine animals onto their giant screen. (10 Water St., Norwalk, CT; www.maritimeaquarium.org)
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