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SUMMARY:Sugar\, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York
DESCRIPTION:More than century before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today’s prominent Cuban American presence\, Cubans were settling in New York in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-century Northeast. Lisandro Pérez’s new book\, Sugar\, Cigars\, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press)\, brings this community to vivid life\, tracing how it was formed by both the sugar trade and the long struggle for independence from Spain. Professor Pérez analyzes forces that shaped the community and tells the stories of individuals and families in a little-known immigrant world representing the origins of New York City’s dynamic Latino presence. The Cuba Trade\, starting in the early 1800s\, brought most of Cuba’s burgeoning sugar production to Lower Manhattan’s docks\, to be sold to the city’s many sugar refineries. This trade was the basis for the creation of a community of Cubans dominated by sugar planters\, which led to a popular image among New Yorkers of Cubans as wealthy landowners with a hint of Old World sensibilities. Professor Pérez’s lecture for VSNY will reveal\, among other topics\, how Cubans rose to prominence among Manhattan’s 19th-century elite \n  \n  \n  \nReception and doors 6:15 p.m.\nLecture 6:30 p.m.\nThis year we are requesting a $5 donation for members and $10 donation for non-members\nThe donation helps to cover our costs of each lecture as well as continues to allow us to provide lectures\, tours and awareness of the Victorian Era in New York’s metropolitan area. \nPlease RSVP here  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/sugar-cigars-and-revolution-the-making-of-cuban-new-york/
LOCATION:5 West 63rd Street\, 5 West 63rd Street\, New York\, New York\, 10023\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191102T103000
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SUMMARY:The Bowery: New York City's Oldest Street
DESCRIPTION:Native American footpath\, Dutch farm road and site of the city’s first Free Black homesteads\, the Bowery stretches 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square. An early social hub for the working class\, gangs\, gays and immigrant Irish\, Italians\, Chinese\, Jews and Germans\, it was “the most interesting place in New York” to author Stephen Crane. It has important links to Washington\, Lincoln\, baseball\, streetcars\, tap dance\, tattoo\, Yiddish theater\, vaudeville\, Stephen Foster\, Irving Berlin\, Harry Houdini and even Mae West. A long-time home to rescue missions\, it is also known for its affordable jewelry\, lighting and restaurant supply districts. Its artists’ community helped foster abstract expressionism\, Beat literature\, improvisational jazz and punk rock. New York City’s oldest\, most architecturally diverse street\, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Despite that honor\, it is one of the city’s most endangered historic streetscapes. \n  \nThis tour is limited to 30 participants \nFEES: $20 for Victorian Society New York members\, $30 for others \nTo purchase a ticket online please click here\nTo reserve your spot for this tour via check\nMake checks payable to Metropolitan Chapter VSA\nand mail checks to \nTours\nMetropolitan Chapter VSA\n232 East 11th Street\nNew York NY 10003 \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health and able to participate safely in the activities involved. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, please contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-bowery-new-york-citys-oldest-street/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191117
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SUMMARY:Considering Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:We travel to Connecticut to visit the famed Florence Griswold Museum\, which was the center of the Old Lyme Art Colony\, the main center of development of American Impressionism. Henry Ward Ranger\, Childe Hassam\, and Willard Metcalf all spent considerable time at the Griswold house and literally left their mark on its doors with their paintings. The two-hour curator-led tour of the complex will provide us with insights into this exciting time in American art history. We then head to Old Saybrook\, where tour participants will feast on a three-course meal at the waterside Saybrook Inn. The expedition concludes at an early 19th century house nearby with a short talk about what life was like in the Victorian era in this town first settled in the 1600s. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 40 participants\nFEES: $160 for Victorian Society New York members\, $185 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Monday\, November 11. \nTo purchase a reservation online click here \nTo purchase a reservation via check\nmake checks payable to Metropolitan VSA\nChecks can be mailed to\nTours\, Metropolitan Chapter of Victorian Society in America\nc/o Village Alliance\n8 East 8th Street\nNew York\, NY 10003 \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health and able to participate safely in the activities involved. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, please contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/considering-connecticut/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T181500
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SUMMARY:Everybody's Doin' It: Sex\, Music and Dance in Victorian New York
DESCRIPTION:Prostitution was big business in New York up to World War I\, and where sex workers plied their trade\, there was generally dancing and music. Musicologist and author Dale Cockrell’s lecture\, based on his new book\, Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex\, Music\, and Dance in New York\, 1840-1917 (W. W. Norton)\, will explore New York’s Victorian meeting places where sex\, drink\, music and dance mingled. Spirited live music\, whether played by a single pianist or a small band\, was enjoyed nightly in hundreds of basement dives\, dance halls\, brothels and concert saloons. Crowds of multiethnic men and women danced wildly to intoxicating music—to the horror of the moralistic elite. This rollicking demimonde drove innovative new music\, including ragtime and jazz\, and the development of risqué new dance styles. Cockrell’s talk will illuminate the how\, why and where of America’s popular music and dance\, and trace a buoyant journey from downtown Five Points to midtown Tin Pan Alley and all the way to Harlem.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/everybodys-doin-it-sex-music-and-dance-in-victorian-new-york/
LOCATION:5 West 63rd Street\, 5 West 63rd Street\, New York\, New York\, 10023\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191209
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SUMMARY:Holiday Open Houses North Of NYC
DESCRIPTION:Our bus tour to Newburgh will take us into 10 sites that will be decorated for the holidays. The first “open house” on our tour will be one we visited before—but in an undecorated state—the former David Crawford mansion. It is now a museum and the headquarters of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & the Highlands. Our bus will then take us to nine privately owned sites. In the course of the afternoon we’ll see architectural gems\, mansions and rehabilitated homes and some of Newburgh’s most important landmarks. A booklet that will be given to every tour participant will provide a history of each property to be visited. An early lunch at a Newburgh restaurant will precede the visits to the open houses. \n  \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 34 participants. \nFees: $155 for Victorian Society New York members\, $185 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Friday\, November 29. \nTickets can be purchased here 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/holiday-open-houses-north-of-nyc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T183000
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SUMMARY:A History of The Victorian Dolls' House: Living Large in a Small Home
DESCRIPTION:This lecture on the history of antique dolls’ houses and miniatures will follow the fascination of the small as a part of Victorian life from a candy container miniature or a fairing\, to a small box of miniature toys a child might have to a large grand dolls’ house. We will see a doll pantry\, doll kitchens\, dolls’ houses large and small and different scales. We will explore the contents of each room of the Victorian dolls’ house both upstairs and downstairs and the inhabitants\, including their pets covering the early Victorian period and end just touching briefly on the beginning of the Edwardian era with mention of World War I. \nEliza de Sola Mendes is an Independent Decorative Arts Scholar from NYC who has worked in museums in the US and abroad as a curator and registrar as well as in auction houses. Her specialty is antique dolls’ houses and miniatures. \nReception and doors 6:15 p.m.\nLecture 6:30 p.m. \n\nThis year we are requesting a $5 donation for members and $10 donation for non-members. The donation helps to cover our costs of each lecture as well as continues to allow us to provide lectures\, tours and awareness of the Victorian Era in New York’s metropolitan area. \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/a-history-of-the-victorian-dolls-house-living-large-in-a-small-home/
LOCATION:Svenska Kyrkan\, 5 East 48th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T183000
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday\, John Ruskin! Ruskin's Influence on American Architecture
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Richard Guy Wilson\nOrganized by the Victorian Society In America \nDirector\, VSA Newport Summer School\nand Commonwealth Professor of\nArchitectural History\, University of Virginia\n \nThursday\, February 6th\, 6:30pm\n\nThe Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall\nThe New School University Center\, UL 105\n63 Fifth Avenue\, New York\nRSVP by Tuesday\, February 4 to admin@vsasummerschools.org\n  \nDiscover more about the VSA Summer Programs in Newport\, London\, and Chicago before this year’s March 2nd deadline!\nIf you are already one of our alumni\, we encourage you to bring a friend or colleague who might be interested in the Summer Programs.\n  \nLearn more about the VSA Summer Programs. \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/happy-birthday-john-ruskin-ruskins-influence-on-american-architecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200208T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200208T160000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T021052Z
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SUMMARY:Young Victorians Historic Pub Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Dear Young Victorians\, \nWe’re pleased to invite you to our first ever historic pub crawl! An afternoon of merriment is guaranteed to all as we explore some of New York’s oldest institutions and drink like true Victorians. \nWhen: Saturday February 8th\, 1pm – 4pm\nWhere: Meet-up point to will be announced to those who RSVP.\nWho: Open to the public\, invite your friends!\nHow much: Free! Pay-as-you-go drinks.\nRSVP: Space is limited\, reserve your spot on Eventbrite. \nStops include Pete’s Tavern (1864)\, Old Town Bar (1892)\, McSorley’s Old Ale House (1854/1861) and Lillies (19th century antique marble bar). A brief history will be presented at each establishment\, and participants may purchase drinks in a pay-as-you go fashion. Some of the bars will offer our Young Victorian participants exclusive signature cocktails and drink specials. \nCordial-ly Yours\, \nThe Young Victorians
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/young-victorians-historic-pub-crawl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T193000
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SUMMARY:The Decorated Tenement
DESCRIPTION:Zachary J. Violette focuses on what he calls the “decorated tenement\,” a wave of new buildings constructed by immigrant builders and architects who remade the slum landscapes of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the North and West Ends of Boston in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on research and fieldwork of more than three thousand extant tenement buildings\, Violette uses ornament as an entry point to reconsider the role of tenement architects and builders (many of whom had deep roots in immigrant communities) in improving housing for the working poor. \nUtilizing specially commissioned contemporary photography\, and many never-before-published historical images\, The Decorated Tenement complicates monolithic notions of architectural taste and housing standards while broadening our understanding of the diversity of cultural and economic positions of those responsible for shaping American architecture and urban landscapes.  \n  \n  \nZachary Violette has a PhD in American and New England Studies from Boston University. His first book\, The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age(University of the Minnesota Press\, 2019)\, is the winner of the 2019 Fred Kniffen Award from the International Society of Place\, Landscape\, and Material Culture. Violette is the recipient of the 2019 short-term H. Allan Brooks Traveling Fellowship for travel in Central Europe. He serves on the Board of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and is a lecturer at Parsons/The New School of Design in New York. He is currently researching a follow-up volume to The Decorated Tenement on the inner suburban apartment house in the early twentieth century \n  \nPlease note reception will be post lecture\, 7:30 p.m. \nTickets may be purchased here \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-decorated-tenement/
LOCATION:The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen\, 20 W 44th St\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T203000
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund Concert
DESCRIPTION:The Victorian Society New York invites you to a concert to benefit the Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage. \nMonday March 9th at 6:30 – 8:30 pm\nBloomingdale School of Music\n323 W 108th St\, New York\, NY 10025 \nDoors at 6:30 pm\nPerformance begins at 6:45 pm in the David Greer Recital Hall\nReception to follow\nTickets: $50 – $1\,000 \nFrom parlor to porch and from pleasure garden to concert hall\, Linda Russell sings the tunes and tells the stories of Victorian New York. Accompanying herself on dulcimer and guitar\, she explores the era through love songs\, patriotic anthems\, minstrel tunes\, hymns and Stephen Foster Melodies. \nHaving served for many years as a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street\, Ms. Russell now takes her music to historic sites\, schools and festivals throughout the country.  New York appearances have included Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival and the New-York Historical Society. \nPurchase Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-concert/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T181500
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SUMMARY:How the Emerald Oasis Came to Be
DESCRIPTION:The Central Park: Original Designs for New York’s Greatest Treasure (Abrams)\, a new book by New York City Municipal Archives conservator and art historian Cynthia S. Brenwall\, is an eye-opening and magisterial study of how Manhattan’s beloved oasis was born. Based on previously unpublished documentation of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s visions\, Brenwall’s lecture will explore original competition entries and designs for buildings\, fixtures\, and infrastructure that created pastoral and seemingly primeval landscapes. She will offer insights into how much engineering fine-tuning and big-picture aesthetic imagination went into every landscape decision\, and how much 19th-century evidence survives in a well-used public space. \nSvenska Kyrkan \nTuesday\, March 24\n6:15-8 pm (with reception/refreshments)\n5 East 48th Street\nNYC 10017 \n  \nTickets can be purchased here \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/how-the-emerald-oasis-came-to-be/
LOCATION:5 East 48th Street\, 5 East 48th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200421T181500
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SUMMARY:Croquet's Cheating Women
DESCRIPTION:Update: Due to concern for the spread of COVID-19\, the Victorian Society New York will be postponing all spring events.  We will continue to monitor developments and remain grateful to all who are working to mitigate this growing health concern. When possible\, we hope to be able to reschedule all our postponed events. Thank you for your understanding. \nIn the 1860s\, the British sport of croquet caught on in America\, “especially with Ladies\,” as one newspaper put it. Although the outdoor activity was supposedly noncompetitive and centered on socializing\, it actually stirred up bitter arguments\, particularly about women’s behavior on the lawns. \nJon Sterngass\, a Saratoga Springs-based writer specializing in children’s nonfiction\, has uncovered evidence that certain croquet strokes were perceived as a form of symbolic castration\, and that women were constantly accused of cheating at croquet by double-tapping\, concealing balls under skirts\, or hitting while opponents weren’t looking. Sterngass will lecture on how the sport evolved as it was popularized nationwide\, and how gender expectations shaped public perceptions. Find out how Victorian women\, while posed on pedestals as paragons of virtue\, actually played on the grassy courts to win. \nTuesday\, April 21\n6:15-8 pm (with reception/refreshments) \nSvenska Kyrkan \n5 East 48th Street\nNYC 10017 \nTickets can be purchased here \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/croquets-cheating-women/
LOCATION:5 East 48th Street\, 5 East 48th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lecture - Dreicer & Co: Forgotten Jewelers of the Gilded Age
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Lecture – Dreicer & Co: Forgotten Jewelers of the Gilded Age \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. \nPlease join us for an online lecture via Zoom video conferencing. \nWednesday May 6th\n6:30 PM \nPlease RSVP on Eventbrite to receive the event link. \nThis lecture will explore the history of elite jewelry firm Dreicer & Company. Founded by Jewish immigrants shortly after the Civil War\, the company began in a tenement laundry room\, and ended in a 5th Avenue flagship designed by Warren & Wetmore.  Although the brand is somewhat obscure today\, by the turn of the twentieth century Dreicer & Company ranked alongside prestigious houses such as Cartier and Tiffany & Co.\, and boasted the nation’s wealthiest businessmen and U.S. presidents as patrons. Dreicer was celebrated for their intricate garland-style platinum mountings\, singular strands of pearls\, and ability to procure rare and historic gemstones. In addition to operating their jewelry business\, the Dreicer family invested in real estate and developed properties along Fifth Avenue\, and left a substantial collection of Renaissance & Medieval Art to the Metropolitan Museum.  \n  \n  \n \nSpeaker Bio: \nAnna Rasche is a gemologist and independent jewelry historian based in New York City. She holds an MA in the History of Design & Curatorial Studies from Cooper Hewitt/Parsons\, a Graduate Gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America\, and a BA in archaeology from Boston University. She is also co-founder of the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies\, a history lecture series that has been bringing good times and fun facts to museums and bars around the city since 2011.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/virtual-lecture-dreicer-co-forgotten-jewelers-of-the-gilded-age/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200519
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Update: Due to concern for the spread of COVID-19\, the Victorian Society New York will be rescheduling all spring events. We will continue to monitor developments and remain grateful to all who are working to mitigate this health concern. Thank you for your understanding.  \nVSNY is making plans for its annual “Emerging Scholars” event this fall\, which will highlight recent scholarship about aspects of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including literature\, architecture\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, politics\, manufacturing\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Recent topics for emerging scholars have included celluloid collar advertisements\, New York brothel furniture\, and a mining tycoon’s luxurious dinnerware. Three current university students or recent graduates will give 15-minute presentations. Stay tuned for details of 2020 topics and event scheduling. \nThe Victorian Society New York will present young historians (proposal deadline March 10) at its annual “Emerging Scholars” event on May 20. We support scholarship about every aspect of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including literature\, architecture\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, politics\, manufacturing\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Recent topics for emerging scholars have included celluloid collar advertisements\, New York brothel furniture and a mining tycoon’s luxurious dinnerware. Current university students or recent graduates will give 15-minute presentations. Deadline for 200-word proposals (preference given to American/New York topics) and CVs is March 10; email to info@vicsocny.org.\n \nWednesday May 20th\n6:15 lecture\nCheck back later for the new event date. 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboy - With Prof. Vincent DiGirolamo
DESCRIPTION:  \nWednesday\, September 30\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EDT on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nABOUT THIS EVENT \nJoin Baruch College history professor Vincent DiGirolamo in a discussion of his award-winning pictorial study of Victorian America’s most omniferent and unshushable creation: the newsboy. \nDiGirolamo will visually trace the shifting fortunes and influence of these “little merchants” from the rise of the penny press in 1830s New York through the wars\, panics\, and protests of the 19th century\, highlighting how these children—boys and girls\, blacks and whites\, immigrants and natives—became key political actors and symbols in the making of modern America. \nPublished by Oxford University Press in 2019\, the book has garnered rave reviews and several prestigious awards: the Frederick Jackson Turner Award\, given by the Organization of American Historians\, the Philip Taft Labor History Prize\, and the Frank Luther Mott Research Award for best book on journalism and mass communications. \nThe newsboys “now have their Boswell” in DiGirolamo\,” said the Wall Street Journal. “His Crying the News is an encyclopedic account of these heralds of the golden age of newspapers in America.” \n“Monumental\,” said Journalism History. “A well-balanced book that refuses to romanticize its subjects.” \n“Breathtaking\,” said the New England Quarterly. “The author resurrects countless historical characters\, telling their story with ingenuity and grace.” \n  \nPlease register for this event via the Eventbrite link below in order to receive the Zoom meeting link. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/book-talk-on-crying-the-news-a-history-of-americas-newsboy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201012T190000
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SUMMARY:Elevating the Potter's Art: James Carr & His New York City Pottery
DESCRIPTION:Display of James Carr\, a Father of the American Ceramics Industry\, at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial\n\n\n  \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nEnglish immigrant potter James Carr (1820–1904) operated a factory on Manhattan’s west side from 1855 to 1889. Like other American pottery manufacturers\, he struggled against great odds to make a variety of ware\, including parian and majolica\, that could compete with foreign goods. Determined to succeed\, he experimented with materials and processes\, hired leading modelers and decorators\, and collaborated with artists and sculptors. Regarded by early ceramics curator Edwin AtLee Barber as “one of the fathers of the American ceramics industry\,” Carr would be all but forgotten had he not taken pains to ensure his own legacy in ways that will seem familiar today: depicting popular themes and celebrities\, participating in important exhibitions\, placing key works in museum collections\, managing his own narrative and exit. \nDesign historian Caroline Hannah\, Ph.D.\, examines the life and work of this enterprising potter through the trail of little known extant ceramic works and lively autobiographical accounts. “The story of his life\,” as ceramics historian Jennie J. Young wrote in 1878\, “is the history of modern American pottery.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/elevating-the-potters-art-james-carr-his-new-york-city-pottery/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T190000
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SUMMARY:Victorian Era through Contemporary Artists' Lenses
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Stephen Berkman and Stacy Renee Morrison about Photography\, Shimmel Zohar\, and Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander \nWednesday\, October 28\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \n  \nAbout this Event \nPredicting the Past\, Zohar Studios: The Lost Years \nPredicting the Past takes us on a discursive journey through the nineteenth century into the world of Shimmel Zohar\, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who came to America in the 1850s. Already an accomplished silhouette artist\, he became the proprietor of eponymous Zohar Studios\, a storied photographic establishment located on Pearl Street in the predominately Jewish Lower East Side of New York. Traveling through the portal of this enigmatic studio into the past\, we encounter a Balzacian cavalcade of characters\, both winsome and whimsical. This immersive panorama of personages includes phrenologists\, ventriloquists\, painters\, poets\, spiritualists\, artists\, bon vivants\, merchants\, luddites\, and many more\, each tableau composed like a single cinematic frame from a long forgotten nitrate film. Stephen Berkman resurrects this vanished world in a tribute to Zohar Studios\, working with the archaic glass plate process and photographing through period lenses\, still coated with dust of the nineteenth century. He seeks to reclaim the lost world of the mid-nineteenth century even as our own world seems to be disappearing all around us. \nThe Girl of My Dreams\, Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander.  \nIn 2002\, a small leather trunk containing the preserved keepsakes of a 19th woman was discarded on a sidewalk in Lower Manhattan. Thus began visual artist Stacy Renee Morrison’s self-proclaimed love affair with Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander (1841-1925). \nFor almost two decades\, Morrison has been on a quest to weave together Sylvia’s life in the 19th century and reimagine it in the world today through her photographs. Stacy Renee Morrison often forgets what century it is. As fate would have it\, she met her 19th century best friend in the form of a trunk abandoned on a New York City street. These two women who were born 133 years apart\, began a collaboration called The Girl of My Dreams. \nMorrison received a grant from the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities to research and make photographs about the trunk’s owner\, Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander. She has exhibited her photographs in New York City\, Rhode Island\, Philadelphia\, San Francisco\, Toronto\, Parma\, Cordoba\, Argentina and Jeouju\, South Korea. Her photographs have been published in Harper’s Magazine\, Dear Dave\, Feature Shoot\, Photography Quarterly\, and The Providence Journal. In 2020\, Morrison exhibited the contents of Sylvia’s trunk for the first time along with her work interpreting Sylvia’s life at the Merchant’s House Museum in Lower Manhattan. \nShe will speak about her research\, what she has uncovered about Sylvia’s life\, and how she photographs memories that are not her own in her project titled The Girl of My Dreams. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/victorian-era-through-contemporary-artists-lenses/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T190000
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SUMMARY:Faces of Civil War Nurses - With Ronald S. Coddington
DESCRIPTION:Women’s stories of the Civil War told through letters\, diaries\, pension files\, and newspaper and government reports. \nWednesday\, November 11\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nABOUT THIS EVENT \nDuring the American Civil War\, women on both sides of the conflict\, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts\, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies\, becoming nurses\, or even marching off to war as vivandières\, unofficial attachés to the regiments. \nIn Faces of Civil War Nurses\, Ronald S. Coddington turns his attention to the experiences of 77 women of all ages and walks of life who provided care during the war as nurses\, aid workers\, and vivandières. Their personal narratives are as unique as fingerprints: each provides a distinct entry point into the larger social history of the brutal and bloody conflict. Coddington tells these determined women’s stories through letters\, diaries\, pension files\, and newspaper and government reports. Using identified tintypes and cartes de visite of women on both sides of the war\, many of them never before published\, Coddington uncovers the personal histories of each intrepid individual. Following their postwar stories\, he also explains how the bonds they formed continued long after the cessation of hostilities. \n  \nReserve Your Tickets Here \nBuy The Book Here 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/faces-of-civil-war-nurses-with-ronald-s-coddington/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T190000
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Resistance in New York
DESCRIPTION:  \nTwo New Books Shed Light on 19th-Century Complicity and Activism \nMonday\, November 16\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nAbout this Event  \nCongress banned American participation in the transatlantic slave trade in 1808\, but fifty years later the United States was still steeped in the traffic. By this stage\, the trade’s home was no longer Charleston or New Orleans\, the well-known slaving hubs of the South\, but a booming northern metropolis: New York City. \nNew York City rose from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1835. But the many tales of Gotham’s growth rarely acknowledge the truth: that the city was not only built on the backs of slaves\, but was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. \nThe scale of the illegal slave trade through New York was stunning. In the years leading up to and during the Civil War\, hundreds of slave ships embarked from Gotham’s wharfs for the African coast. Around 200\,000 men\, women\, and children would be packed aboard these vessels\, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the deadly sugar plantations of Cuba. \nJohn Harris\, a professor at Erskine College\, will recount this stunning and little-understood history\, drawing on his new book\, The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. His talk will reveal who ran the illegal slave trade\, why they got away with it\, and how Abraham Lincoln’s administration final squashed the trade during the Civil War. \nIn The Kidnapping Club\, University of Michigan historian Jonathan Daniel Wells tells the story of the powerful network of judges\, lawyers\, and police officers who circumvented anti-slavery laws by sanctioning the kidnapping of free and fugitive African Americans. Nicknamed “The New York Kidnapping Club\,” the group had the tacit support of institutions from Wall Street to Tammany Hall whose wealth depended on the Southern slave and cotton trade. But a small cohort of abolitionists\, including Black journalist David Ruggles\, organized tirelessly for the rights of Black New Yorkers\, often risking their lives in the process. \nTaking readers into the bustling streets and ports of America’s great northern metropolis\, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism\, the deeply corrupt roots of policing\, and the strength of Black activism. \nReserve Your Tickets Here \nBuy The Last Slave Ships  \nBuy The Kidnapping Club
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/117129/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T190000
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SUMMARY:Restless Enterprise: The Art & Life of Eliza Greatorex - With Dr. Katherine Manthorne
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 9\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nABOUT THIS EVENT Once called “the first artist of her sex in America\,” Eliza Greatorex emigrated from Ireland and went on to document the Hudson Valley\, NYC\, Colorado\, Germany\, France\, Italy and Morocco in paintings\, prints\, books and drawings. She did all this while supporting her four children as a single mother and championing the Women’s Movement. In this “Year of the Woman\,” join Dr. Manthorne for this illustrated lecture highlighting episodes from her new book Restless Enterprise: The Art & Life of Eliza Greatorex (U. California Press\, 2020). Katherine Manthorne\, a specialist in modern art of the Americas\, earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University.  Prior to joining the faculty at the Graduate Center of City University of New York she was Director of the Research Center at Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. Her fellowships include Tyson Scholarship at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Terra Foundation Professor\, Free University\, Berlin; and Senior Fulbright Research Fellow\, University of Venice. Her scholarship had long focused on landscape and hemispheric dimensions of American art\, beginning with Tropical Renaissance. North American Artists Exploring Latin America\, 1839-1879 (1989) and continuing in California Mexicana: Missions to Murals\, 1820 to 1930 (2017). Eager to better highlight the role of women within these developments\, she has authored two new books: Women in the Dark: American Female Photographers 1850-1900 (Schiffer Publishing\, 2020) and Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex (U. of California Press\, 2020). \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/restless-enterprise-the-art-life-of-eliza-greatorex-with-dr-katherine-manthorne/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201217T190000
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SUMMARY:Here Today\, Gone Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Transformations in Department Store Design\, 1880–1920\n\n\n  \nThursday\, December 17\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nThis talk will time-travel to the department stores’ golden era when display professionals transformed the shopping experience through design innovation. At the turn of the twentieth century\, architects\, window dressers\, shopfitters\, and interior designers aimed to keep up with ever new display styles\, strategies\, and technologies. Ongoing building construction and the continual reinvention of window and interior arrangements created a compelling impression of speed and change for the public. Design distinguished stores from their competition and made the retail experience different from one visit to the next. This illustrated review will show how variable display design was central to both the artistic and economic pursuits of leading department stores in Chicago\, London\, and New York. \nEmily M. Orr is the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design at Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum. She is the author of Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury\, 2019) and co-editor of the newly released monograph E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising (Rizzoli Electa/Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum\, 2020). \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/here-today-gone-tomorrow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210119T200000
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SUMMARY:The King of Macabre: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday January 19\, 2021 \n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST \n  \nAbout this Event\nEdgar Allan Poe has a firm place in history as the father of American horror\, authoring the poems and short stories we are well versed with today like ‘The Raven’ and the ‘Cask of Amontillado’. What many may not know is the drama that surrounded his life; from being orphaned at a young age to moving from city to city trying to firmly place himself in the literary scene to personal loss to his own mysterious death. On his 212th birthday\, historian and former Education Coordinator of the Bronx County Historical Society Vivian Davis will explore Poe’s life in New York\, where the inspiration for his most famous works took place.\n  \n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-king-of-macabre-the-life-of-edgar-allan-poe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T200000
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SUMMARY:Cottier & Co. on Fifth Avenue\, NY: A One-Stop Shop for the House Beautiful
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Cottier: Designer\, Decorator\, Dealer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nAbout this Event\n\n\nTrained as a stained glass artist\, the Glasgow native Daniel Cottier (1838-1891)\, by age thirty-five\, had created a worldwide network of large shops where one could buy everything for the elegant home–. from furniture to fabrics; from chandeliers to fine china\, and from paintings to stained glass panels. This talk will focus on Cottier & Co. in New York\, its clientele\, and the unique place it occupied among other interior decorating firms because of its inclusion of an art gallery\, which promoted contemporary European art. Cottier’s close friendships with contemporary American artists\, such as Albert Pinkham Ryder\, J. Alden Weir\, and the sculptor Olin Levy Warner\, whose careers he supported without\, however\, selling their art\, will also be discussed. \nPetra ten-Doesschate Chu is professor emeritus of art history and museum studies at Seton Hall University (South Orange\, NJ). A specialist in nineteenth-century art history\, she has published or co-published some fifteen books\, edited volumes\, and exhibition catalogues\, in addition to numerous articles and book chapters. Her textbook\, Nineteenth-Century European Art\, is used across the world. She is the founding co-editor of the open-access journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (http://19thc-artworldwide.org). Most recently\, together with Max Donnelly\, Andrew Montana\, and Suzanne Veldink\, she has authored a book on Daniel Cottier entitled Daniel Cottier: Designer\, Decorator\, Dealer\, which will be published in May/June by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and distributed by Yale University Press. \n  \n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/cottier-co-on-fifth-avenue-ny-a-one-stop-shop-for-the-house-beautiful/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T200000
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SUMMARY:Mary Church Terrell’s Family History and the Making of an Activist
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, February 22\, 2021 \n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST \nAbout this Event\n\n\nHighlighting new findings from her biography\, Unceasing Militant\, Alison Parker will share how Mary Church Terrell’s family history of enslavement and of opportunities and dangers during Reconstruction helped shape her activism. The Oberlin College graduate became an educator and served as the first Black woman on the Washington\, D.D. board of education. As a leader in the National Association of Colored Women\, the Constitution League\, and then the NAACP\, Terrell became a public lecturer. Pointing to the violence of white enslavers who had raped enslaved women\, including both of her grandmothers\, as well as to the violence of lynching that even ended the life of one of her childhood friends\, Terrell spoke frequently in New York City\, calling for Black men’s and women’s voting rights\, as well as for federal anti-lynching legislation and an end to segregation. \nAlison M. Parker is the Chair & Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. \n  \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/mary-church-terrells-family-history-and-the-making-of-an-activist/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T180000
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars Lectures - Submission Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Submission Deadline: March 10th\, 2021     \nEmerging Scholars Lecture Event: May 10th\, 2021 \nThe Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March 10 for its annual “Emerging Scholars” event\, to be held by Zoom on May 10\, 2021. The Victorian Society New York\, founded in 1966\, supports scholarship about every aspect of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including architecture\, literature\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, immigration\, economics\, politics\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Topics for recent event winners have included 19th-century tableaux vivants\, cookbook recipes revealing artistic gluttony\, and women’s alleged hatpin savagery. \nFor the live event on May 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm\, VSNY will bring in three current students or recent grads to each give a 20-minute Zoom presentation and then field questions. Send 200-word proposals (preference given to American/New York topics) and CVs by March 10 to info@vicsocny.org. \nSpeakers will receive a free VSNY year membership ($30 value)\, and their talks will be recorded and made publicly available on VSNY’s website.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars-lectures-submission-deadline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T133000
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SUMMARY:“Man With Glass Eye Seeks Woman With Glass Eye”: New York’s personal ads
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n\n\nHistorian Francesca Beauman\, author of Matrimony\, Inc.: from personal ads to swiping right\, a story of America looking for love (2020)\, explores the history of personal ads in New York. \nOne Thursday morning in 1861\, a woman named Ethel placed an ad for a husband in the New York Herald. She explained that she was “compelled to adopt this mode of opening a correspondence owing to the strict surveillance under which she is placed at home.” The successful candidate needed to be under twenty-five and “possess a fine intellectual countenance\, be of an agreeable disposition\, and above all have a love of a mustache.” Clearly\, if you’ve ever used a dating app or website\, then you have more in common than you know with nineteenth century New Yorkers. \nWhilst researching her latest book\, Beauman has uncovered hundreds of never-before-seen personal ads\, which together offer startlingly fresh insight into American life as the population grew and the cities expanded. In this talk\, she will share some of her favorites from the past 250 years or so\, along the way helping to answer the age-old question: what do men and women look for in each other? And how has this changed (or not!) over the past 250 years? \n  \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/man-with-glass-eye-seeks-woman-with-glass-eye-new-yorks-personal-ads/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T200000
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SUMMARY:THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, March 17\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nDOCTORS BLACKWELL looks closely at the sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell\, English immigrants who\, in quick succession\, became the first and third women\, respectively\, in the U.S. to earn medical degrees—and who\, in 1857\, founded the very first hospital staffed by women\, the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. \nTenacious visionaries\, Elizabeth and Emily obtained their medical degrees despite the numerous and considerable challenges before them. Elizabeth’s entry into this previously all-male profession was called “a farce\,” “the nefarious process of amalgamation\,” and was met with bursts of laughter and derision. The dean of one school summed up a popular fear among male practitioners\, who were worried that female patients would only want to see female doctors: “You cannot expect us to furnish you with a stick to break our heads with.” Attempts by both sisters to get into medical colleges were either denied or met with toothless acceptance—the faculty at Geneva Medical College left the ultimate decision of whether to accept Elizabeth up to the students\, who only agreed as a sort of fraternity prank. \nThe Blackwells’ ambitions extended far beyond themselves. Whereas Elizabeth strove to stand alongside her male allies as an exceptional woman who had proved herself their equal\, Emily yearned to strip her gender and make her way in anonymity. Nimura writes of Elizabeth\, “caring for suffering individuals had never been the engine that drove her. In becoming a doctor\, she meant to heal humanity.” And as Emily once reminded Elizabeth\, the point was “to be not the first female M.D.s\, but the first of legions.” \nNow all but forgotten or watered down in children’s books\, the sisters (especially Elizabeth\, deemed the “lioness”) made national and international news when they earned their degrees and began practicing\, and were consistently trailed by whispers and curious looks. They were written up in the New York Times; mocked in Punch\, the London satirical paper; and they and their work were profiled in leading medical and women’s journals. What’s more\, their lives intersected with some of the most notable figures of their era. Florence Nightingale\, Lucy Stone\, Horace Greeley\, Henry Ward Beecher\, Lady Byron\, Henry Whitney Bellows\, and Dorothea Dix made important introductions for them and/or supported their endeavors publicly. Elizabeth even won a private meeting with President Abraham Lincoln. \nTHE DOCTORS BLACKWELL illuminates these two remarkable women—in all their complicated\, contradictory brilliance—whose profound influence changed the medical profession forever. \nJanice P. Nimura—an independent historian whose last book\, Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back\, was a New York Times’s Notable book of 2015—is the winner of a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award. \nReserve Your Tickets Here\n\n\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-doctors-blackwell-how-two-pioneering-sisters-brought-medicine-to-women/
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SUMMARY:Pamela Colman Smith’s New York
DESCRIPTION:Tue\, March 30\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nPamela Colman Smith’s illustrations for the Rider Waite tarot deck are known to millions worldwide\, but her many other contributions as an artist\, folklorist\, editor\, and suffragist have received relatively little attention until recently. She was active from the 1890s through the 1920s\, during the critical transition from the Victorian to Modernist eras. Drawing on new findings from her literary biography\, Pamela Colman Smith: Artist\, Feminist & Mystic\, Elizabeth Foley O’Connor will share new details about Colman Smith’s life and work\, especially her time in New York. Although she spent most of her life in England\, Colman Smith was descended from two well-connected Brooklyn families. She attended the Pratt Instituted and launched her career as an artist and illustrator in Manhattan and was the first non-photographic artist that Alfred Stieglitz exhibited at his 291 galleries on Fifth Avenue. Colman Smith was well-known in the City’s artistic community and often gave several performances of Jamaican Anansi tales at venues around the City\, including a memorable performance for Mark Twain. \nElizabeth Foley O’Connor is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender Studies program at Washington College. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/pamela-colman-smiths-new-york/
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SUMMARY:Loïe Fuller: Obsessed with Light\, A Conversation with the Filmmakers
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, April 7\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nBefore there was Isadora Duncan\, there was Loïe Fuller (American\, 1862-1928)\, the American creator of modern dance. A ground-breaking inventor\, she created a completely new spectacle that combined dance\, light\, fabric and movement\, premiering it at the Folies Bergère in Paris in 1892. Fuller also pioneered the use of electricity and performed in her own theater at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. She revolutionized the visual culture of the early 20 th century and became one of the most famous entertainers in the world. The light shows of recent concerts are indebted to Fuller’s visionary theatrics. \nObsessed with Light is the first documentary feature about Loïe Fuller. The film pulls back the curtain on this forgotten modernist\, exploring her impact on our current cultural landscape. It is a film about transformation – about a Midwestern vaudeville performer\, born during the Civil War\, who became the world-famous star of Belle Époque Paris with elaborate productions that created ephemeral\, shape-shifting abstractions. It is a story about an ugly duckling who turned herself into the “Fairy of Light” onstage. Ultimately\, Obsessed with Light reveals the stunning metamorphosis of Fuller’s work\, as seen on fashion runways\, rock concerts\, art installations and dance performances. \nThere will be a presentation and clips from the forthcoming documentary led by the filmmakers\, followed by a moderated conversation. \nThe Margot Gayle Fund enables the Metropolitan Chapter to make monetary grants for projects for preservation or conservation of Victorian material culture in the New York Metropolitan area. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/loie-fuller-obsessed-with-light-a-conversation-with-the-filmmakers/
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SUMMARY:The Waldorf-Astoria and the Life of the City
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, May 5\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nWhen the original Hotel Waldorf opened on Fifth Avenue in 1893\, its managers sought to create a “haven for the well-to-do\,” an elite citadel that would guard the privacy (and secrets) of a select assemblage of Astors\, Vanderbilts and Whitneys. But after the Waldorf doubled in size with the addition of the Astoria in 1897\, it had to open its doors to a wider spectrum. In this lecture based on his forthcoming book\, American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and Making of a Century\, David Freeland will discuss how the hotel that cultivated (it was once said) “exclusiveness among the masses” became a turn-of-century meeting place for all kinds of people. Along the way\, he’ll share a range of photos and documents to highlight the Waldorf’s contributions in architecture\, music\, and cuisine. \nDavid Freeland is the author of the books Automats\, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure\, for which he won the 2009 Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment for 2009 from the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America\, and Ladies of Soul. As a historian and journalist\, he has written for the Wall Street Journal\, am New York\, Time Out New York\, New York History\, American Songwriter\, and other publications. He appeared in episodes of NBC TV’s “Who Do You Think You Are” and NYC Media’s “Secrets of New York.” Freeland lives in New York\, where he leads walking tours and gives lectures on the city’s culture and history. \nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-waldorf-astoria-and-the-life-of-the-city/
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