April to June / Programs
Tuesday, April 23rd at 7 PM
the birds of shakespeare
Drawing by Missy Dunaway
Maine-based artist Missy Dunaway is creating a series of paintings to catalog all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, some 65 in all. She is roughly one-third of the way towards her goal.
Birds afforded Shakespeare a rich metaphorical palette. Dunaway’s beautiful, ingenious paintings incorporate the birds, as well as their habitats and the allusions made when Shakespeare mentioned them in his works.
Missy Dunaway is a 2010 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Among her many awards have been a Folger Institute Fellowship which supported, in part, her Shakespeare project, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her bird paintings can be viewed at www.birdsofshakespeare.com
April 23rd is Shakespeare’s birthday. We’re all celebrating. Bronx River Sound Shore Audubon organized this program, with support from Bedford, Central, Hudson River and Saw Mill River Audubon Societies.
Wednesday, May 22 at 7 PM in person
Time and Time Again: Calendars Now and Then
Alberto Guzman, Professor Emeritus, City College of NY
Lenoir Nature Center, 19 Dudley St, Yonkers
If you think that it’s 2024, and most of you do, thank Pope Gregory XIII. In 1582, he reformed the Julian calendar (thanks, Julius Cesar) so the months would stay in the right season, no December in summer. It’s the most widely used calendar, even if not the only one around. Muslims, Jews, Chinese, the Eastern Orthodox Church all have different calendars. The calendar has had a long and complicated history. Professor Guzman, a mathematician and an astronomer, will talk about how we have come to think of this year as 2024.
Refreshments at 7 PM, talk at 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 2 at noon
Lunch at Lenoir
Lenoir Nature Center, 19 Dudley St, Yonkers
Save the date. Hudson River Audubon will celebrate its 50th birthday. All welcome. Walks, talks and lunch, and a big birthday cake.