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Join us for a day of family-friendly activities in celebration of Red Grooms: Drawing “The Bookstore”! Go on a guided tour of the exhibition, make soft sculptures inspired by Grooms’s “sculpto-pictorama” characters, and make your own paper to start a book. Enjoy games in the courtyard, make your own model of a plant cell, and

Explore Red Grooms’s unique installation on a tour with docents as they discuss the artist’s creative process and connect the finished “sculpto-pictorama” with the artist’s observational drawings, sketchbooks, maquettes, and soft sculptures.

The summer forecast is for unusually hot weather! Wouldn’t it be nice to skip the line at the ice cream parlor and make your own? Learn how to make instant ice cream in just a few simple steps, and take the recipe home. Recommended ages 5+.

In honor of the 45th anniversary of the Red Grooms’ The Bookstore, let’s get back to bookmaking basics by creating homemade paper! Using recycled material, design your own paper to take home and start your literary journey. Recommended for ages 4+.

Join artist Julianne Farella, whose work is on view in Neighboring Visions: Westchester Artists Then and Now, for a drop-in printmaking workshop. Learn how to transform everyday objects such as styrofoam and ink into printmaking tools, and create an original work inspired by themes of home and community. All materials will be provided. Recommended for

Due to inclement weather, this program has been moved from Thursday, August 8, to Thursday, August 15. The HRM and the Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club are partnering to offer kayaking on the Hudson River, inspired by the exhibition Rivers Flow / Artists Connect. Embark with experienced guides from the cove at the JFK Marina,

Explore Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, featuring works by fifty artists who capture our profound, symbiotic relationship with significant rivers across the globe, and enjoy a scenic view of the Hudson River and Palisades, on an informative and interactive docent tour.   Image: Tammy Nguyen (American, b. 1984). Three Million Tons of Explosives Were Dropped,

Join us for a special afternoon of meditation and music. Begin with a walking meditation in the HRM Courtyard led by artist Bahar Behbahani and Indigenous artist Tahila Moss, followed by a collective experience of her work, From Her Hair the River Flows, a 2024 video installation incorporating sight, sound, and poetry on view in

Celebrate the summer and free your mind and body with an evening of yoga. Karen Young, MPH, Founder of Key Wellness, leads two 45-minute yoga classes at 5 and 6pm, surrounded by Rivers Flow / Artists Connect in the West Wing galleries. Suitable for all levels. Bring your own yoga mat or towel and dress

In River Music, the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Maestro Ariel Rudiakov, performs music inspired by the great rivers of the world. The performance explores how rivers, art, culture, and music continually transform over time. The eclectic program includes Ivanovici’s Waves of the Danube, Johann Strauss II’s Artist’s Life Waltz, Handel’s excerpts from Water Music,