This fun, hands-on soap making workshop uses organic lavender and good-for-you ingredients. Come discover why particular butters and oils are used as we create soap from scratch. You'll also learn about the essential oil distillation process, which turns lavender into essential oil. Students will create several lavender-scented soaps that will gently cleanse your skin and relax your entire body. Don’t forget to check out Wave Hill’s collection of lavender in full bloom!Ages 12 and older welcome with an adult. Space is limited.

$55/$45 Wave Hill Member per project. Registration required, starting May 15, online, by calling 718.549.3200 x251 or at the Perkins Visitor Center. 

Also taking place place this Saturday, June 14, is a free Cooking Demo: Flavorsome Flora—Lavender, with Wave Hill exclusive caterer Great Performances.

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the historic Woodlawn Cemetery, and to honor those in Woodlawn’s care, on June 11, 2014, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will perform live and en plein aire at the cemetery.

This concert is free to the public, and Woodlawn welcomes families and those eager to experience the joy of jazz in a unique setting to spend an evening under the stars. Participants are welcome to visit Woodlawn’s "jazz corner" before the concert begins and spread a blanket on the open lawn at the Jerome Avenue entrance to the cemetery.

The 90-minute set will feature the works of many of the famous jazz artists memorialized at Woodlawn.

Advance registration permits early entry; reserve tickets here.

With additional questions, please call (718) 920-1469 or email.

CONCERT SCHEDULE
5:30PM:              Admission for guests with advance RSVP registration begins
6:00PM:              General public admission begins
7-8:30PM:           Live concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis;
                          anticipated 90 minute set with no intermission
9-10:00PM:         After-party for concert sponsors in the Woolworth Chapel. Interested in becoming a sponsor?

Join a curatorial assistant for a tour of three current exhibitions. In the main gallery, Gregory Crewdson’s Fireflies series is being shown for the first time in its entirety. Crewdson’s photographs capture the fleeting light of these nocturnal creatures. Experience the natural landscape from the comfort of a domestic interior in Marek and Kristyna Milde’s Sunroom Project, an installation of planters shaped as couches and chairs. In the Sun Porch space, listen to With Hidden Noise, a traveling exhibition featuring evocative sounds, some recognizable from traditional instruments and field recordings, and others masked through electronic processes. Tours take place Tuesdays and Saturdays at 2PM.

Free with admission to the grounds.

Don Quixote by The Russian National Ballet

The Russian National Ballet Theatre was founded in Moscow in the late 1980s. This vibrant company is dedicated not only to the timeless tradition of classical Russian ballet but to invigorate tradition with developments from around the world. Based on an episode from Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, the story follows its title hero, a middle-aged country gentleman absorbed with tales of chivalry, who sets out to defend virtue and punish those who violate the code of honor. With his servant Sancho Panza as his armor-bearer, he travels to Barcelona, only to mistake Kitri, an innkeeper’s daughter who is in love with a barber, for his dream-lover Dulcinea. A dance-packed feast of comedy, drama, romance, intrigue, betrayal and fantasy, Minkus’ rousing score endows each scene with rich atmosphere.

Tickets: $45, $40, $25 | Children 12 and under, $10 any seat

To buy tickets click here. 

Tao is Japanese Taiko drumming that has to be experienced live!
In this new production for North American audiences, athletic bodies and contemporary costumes meet explosive drumming and innovative choreography in a show that has critics raving about TAO’s precision, energy, and stamina. Tao has had hundreds of sold-out shows and more than a million spectators. The stars of TAO live and train at a compound in the mountains of Japan, reaching the highest level of virtuosity only after years of intensive study. The performers each bring nontraditional flair to the group by drawing on their diverse backgrounds: one as a hard rock musician, another gymnast, and yet another as a composer. They offer a young and vibrantly modern take on a compelling traditional art form.

Tickets: $35, $30, $25 | Children 12 and under, $10 any seat , purchase tickets here. 

Phone: 718-920-1469 

Man of LaMancha comes to the Lehman Center stage in an all new production, complete with the Tony Award®-winning score and book that has inspired theatre goers since the very first note of “The Impossible Dream” was heard on opening night. Enter the mind and the world of Don Quixote as he pursues his quest for the impossible dream. Against all odds, a man sees good and innocence in a world filled with darkness and despair. This lyrical and amusing adventure is a classic tale of the triumph of man over his own follies.

“The musical that’s set above and apart from all others by touching the heart!! An exquisite musical play…” -The New York Daily News

“Charm, gallantry and delicacy of spirit.” -The New York Times

Ticket Prices: $45, $40, $25, purchase tickets here.

From arias to Broadway favorites, members of the acclaimed Bronx Opera Company channel the spirit of the season.

New York Newsday has written of The Bronx Opera Company:

If this were the best of all possible worlds, there would be Bronx Operas going strong in every neighborhood of the country, melding local folks and promising youngsters in deftly staged productions of the rare and the common ...

The New York Daily News proclaimed: "…seldom have I had so much fun."

FREE to the public (a donation of $10 per person is suggested but not required).

Location

Jerome Avenue and Bainbridge Avenue
Woolworth Chapel
Bronx, NY 10470
United States

Contact

Phone: 718-920-1469 

Kicking off the 15th Annual Havana Film Festival New York, The Bronx Museum will host a screening of Los 100 sones de Cuba/The 100 Cuban Sones, followed by a special performance by Yunior Terry y Son de Altura. Music by DJ ASHO. 

Winner of a Latin Grammy, Los 100 sones de Cuba/The 100 Cuban Sones follows the popularity and dissemination of the son musical tradition throughout Cuba. Using interviews with academic experts and community members, the film traces the familial and regional roots of this song style around the country and beyond. How has such a region-specific style defied borders? As one musician states with pride and happiness: "It's very authentic, and therefore it has been internationalized." Directed by Edesio Alejandro and Rubén Consuegra. 

Free admission and bar (donations suggested)