The Tenement Museum

Cellist An-Lin Bardin and pianist Naomi Niskala invited African, Latinx, Asian, Arab and Native American composers to write pieces that incorporate folksongs and children’s songs of the composer’s cultures. Join us on November 13th on YouTube Live for a special virtual concert where Bardin and Niskala will perform these classical pieces live at the Tenement Museum! Each piece will be preceded by a short video of the composer, sharing their story and exploring the notions of homeland, community, and belonging and on the challenges of navigating life in this country as a bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or minority person. Link: https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-tenement-concert-an-evening-of-new-american-songs-with-the-bardin-niskala-duo/

Every building on the Lower East Side tells its own story. On this tour, learn about the architects, artists, and everyday people who influenced the design and use of the neighborhood's buildings and shaped the streetscape you see today. Check out the link for more details: https://www.tenement.org/tour/building-on-the-lower-east-side/?tour_date=2024-08-24

Join us on December 17th for a special virtual holiday tour uncovering the surprising history of Christmas in the nation’s first-ever immigrant neighborhood — Little Germany, known today as the Lower East Side. Through all-new research into the German newspapers of the 1870s, and the story of John and Caroline Schneider, saloon owners in 97 Orchard Street, we’ll explore the debates about Christmas and the role it played in building national identity for German immigrants in the diverse metropolis of New York City. Should Christmas be celebrated at home or in saloons? How does one manage the American commercialism of Christmas? What does a national holiday mean in a still-new country? REGISTER and we'll send you a reminder before the event: https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-holiday-tour-christmas-in-kleindeutschland/ DONATE to support more public programs like this at the Tenement Museum: https://www.tenement.org/donate-virtual-programs/ VISIT: Get your tickets now for on-site building and walking tours, available daily at: https://www.tenement.org/tours/ SUBSCRIBE to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhJvFvNWyOS7sVSiHyX3IA/?sub_confirmation=1 Our virtual programs are made possible through the generosity of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Humanities New York, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Con Edison.

Cellist An lin Bardin and pianist Naomi Niskala invited African, Latinx, Asian, Arab and Native American composers to write pieces that incorporate folksongs and children’s songs of the composer’s cultures. Join us on November 13th for a special virtual concert where Bardin and Niskala will perform these classical pieces live from our 19th-century German immigrant lager beer saloon, in which German families gathered to hear the music of their homeland. Each piece will be preceded by a short video of the composer, sharing their story and exploring the notions of homeland, community, and belonging and on the challenges of navigating life in this country as a bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or minority person. REGISTER and we'll send you a reminder before the event: https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-tenement-concert-an-evening-of-new-immigrant-music-the-bardin-niskala-duo/ DONATE to support more public programs like this at the Tenement Museum: https://www.tenement.org/donate-virtual-programs/ VISIT: Get your tickets now for on-site building and walking tours, available daily at: https://www.tenement.org/tours/ SUBSCRIBE to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhJvFvNWyOS7sVSiHyX3IA/?sub_confirmation=1 This program is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Park Service and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by Con Edison. It is also sponsored by a Humanities New York Action Grant.

In the lead-up to Election Day, we’re revisiting the origins and evolution of American democracy. Join us on October 21st for a conversation With Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism, and Mae Ngai, author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, Tenement Museum President Annie Polland as they explore how laws about immigration, citizenship, and slavery determined who could cast a ballot, and how immigrant and formerly enslaved communities would challenge America to live up to its democratic ideals. From the Naturalization Act of 1790, the nation’s first citizenship law restricting naturalization to free white men, to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which created legal mechanisms for America to be a multiracial democracy for the first time in its history, our experts will discuss how the Federal government expanded and limited voting rights and how immigrants and migrants impacted those decisions. REGISTER and we'll send you a reminder before the program: https://www.tenement.org/events/three-historians-walk-into-a-saloon-immigration-and-voting-rights/ DONATE to support more public programs like this at the Tenement Museum: https://www.tenement.org/donate-virtual-programs/ VISIT: Get your tickets now for on-site building and walking tours, available daily at: https://www.tenement.org/tours/ SUBSCRIBE to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhJvFvNWyOS7sVSiHyX3IA/?sub_confirmation=1 This program is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Park Service and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by Con Edison. It is also sponsored by a Humanities New York Action Grant.

In 1884, Lower East Sider Fredricka Mandelbaum was the defendant in the “trial of the century.” Her decades-long crime? She had become the nation’s most notorious “fence”—a receiver of stolen goods. From her building on the corner of Clinton and Rivington, just a few blocks away from 97 Orchard, she masterminded thefts of cash, gold and diamonds throughout the country. Join us on October 17th for a conversation with New York Times writer and author Margalit Fox and Tenement President Annie Polland on the riveting and complicated story of Marm Mandelbaum, known simultaneously as a neighborhood philanthropist and a crime boss visionary. REGISTER and we'll send you a reminder before the program: https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-tenement-talk-american-crime-boss/ DONATE to support more public programs like this at the Tenement Museum: https://www.tenement.org/donate-virtual-programs/ VISIT: Get your tickets now for on-site building and walking tours, available daily at: https://www.tenement.org/tours/ SUBSCRIBE to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhJvFvNWyOS7sVSiHyX3IA/?sub_confirmation=1 This program is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Park Service and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by Con Edison. It is also sponsored by a Humanities New York Action Grant.