At Old First Dutch Reformed Church:
On
Sunday, November 15 at 12:30 PM (after a church service) there will be a Colonial style dinner, as the congregation might have eaten it centuries ago. Participants will eat it in that
style—entirely with wooden spoons!
Spÿskaart (menu)
Gerecht schotel (main course) Beef with Ginger, Chicken with Orange
Groenten (vegetables): Stewed Cabbage, Belgian Endive, Leeks
Brood (bread): Pumpkin Cornmeal Cakes, Rye and Wheat Bread
Nagerecht (dessert): Almond Tart, Pear Tart, Spanish Porridge, Zoete Koek
Eet smakelÿk (bon appetite)
For information and reservations, see the webpage.
At the Old Stone House, an exhibition will be on view November 12-December 13 as part of this year’s 5 Dutch Days 5 Boroughs’ HOME | LAND Contemporary Dutch Art @ Historic Sites.
The Old Stone House presents an exhibit by Amsterdam-based artists Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács exploring the changing notions of cultural and familial ties through their multimedia installation, Heart is where the Home is. Viewers will be able to reflect their own ideas on the topic on panels included in the exhibition.
"The Broersen Family," a 20-minute, 4-channel video, begins as an upbeat profile of a tightly-knit Dutch family that has lived on the same land in Nieuwe Niedorp, a village of approximately 3,000 people located just north of Amsterdam, for several generations. In addition to the video installation, the artists will display quotes on panels marking various responses to local banking mogul Dirk Scheringa's bankruptcy.
Scheringa’s private museum, with a major collection of works by artists including René Magritte, Lucian Freud, Marlene Dumas, Carel Willink and Terry Rodgers, among others, is located in the Broersen family’s ‘backyard’, and was recently emptied of its permanent collection by creditors to whom Scheringa’s bank owed money. The artists took this juxtaposition of basic family matters in a small village and the tough economic issues around the globe to reflect their on their ideas of community life.
On view in the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the exhibition evokes the struggles of settlers in New Amsterdam to maintain traditions while building a new life in a foreign land.