Hudson River Museum Announces Free First Fridays
YONKERS, NY, November 27—The Hudson River Museum is thrilled to announce Free First Fridays, a new initiative that offers free admission and special programs to the Museum on the first Friday of each month from 5–8pm. Celebrate the weekend with live music, dance performances, art-making, drinks, and friends!
Free First Fridays is a newly launched “Access for All” initiative made possible by Art Bridges Foundation, the national arts nonprofit founded by philanthropist Alice Walton. The HRM will be featuring dynamic and diverse programs, including collaborations with community-based arts groups. Look for concerts under our Planetarium dome, innovative music and dance in our galleries, live sketching and painting nights, and outdoor performances and programs in our courtyard.
Free First Fridays: Gilded Holiday Glow
Friday, December 1, 5–8pm
Diverse Concert Artists inaugurates Free First Fridays with a celebration of the joyous season. This unconventional string quartet will play a mixture of classical, Broadway, holiday, pop, and Hip Hop tunes, setting the tone to enjoy our current exhibitions and our Gilded Age historic home, Glenview, decorated in full Victorian holiday splendor. Enjoy guided holiday tours throughout the evening and sketch a seasonal landscape in a bilingual art workshop with artist Carolina Amarillo. Cash bar with holiday-inspired refreshments.
Free First Fridays: Music Under the Dome
Friday, January 5, 5–8pm
We’re kicking off the New Year with Music Under the Dome in the Planetarium featuring the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra. A woodwind quintet will play a special arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky’s famous 1874 orchestral work “Pictures at an Exhibition,” complemented by visuals on the dome, in two separate 40-minute sets, at 6pm and 7pm. Check out our current exhibitions and enjoy a bilingual sketching workshop with artist Carolina Amarillo. Enjoy a cash bar with refreshments to warm you up.
Free First Friday: A Night of Romance and Rhythms
Friday, February 2, 5–8pm
River’s Edge Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Constellations by Nick Payne under the Planetarium dome at 6:30pm. This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman, but what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know. The New York Times says “Who knew that higher physics could be so sexy, so accessible—and so emotionally devastating? This story of parallel universes is universal in every sense of the word.” Also on hand this evening will be Bronx-based DJ Sunny Cheeba, founder of Uptown Vinyl Supreme, whose music will highlight Black history, and focus on themes of love and intimacy. Enjoy our current exhibitions, as well as a bilingual art workshop with artist Carolina Amarillo. Cash bar.
Free First Friday: Ballet, Bach, and Bold Women’s History
Friday, March 1, 5–8pm
This First Friday celebrates Women’s History Month with MorDance, a trailblazing, women-led ballet company striving to advance accessibility, diversity, and creativity in ballet by fostering empowered environments for artistic expression. The company will present Humanism, an immersive contemporary ballet inspired by Bach’s melodies and civil rights speeches, that harmonizes classical beauty with contemporary urgency. Follow the dancers that make up this vibrant young company through the galleries in a celebration of human rights and the progress women have made, and have yet to make. Enjoy our current exhibitions, as well as a bilingual art workshop with Carolina Amarillo. Cash bar.
Keep an eye out on the HRM calendar for more exciting programming on Free First Fridays for something fun, different, and social every month.
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
Image: MorDance Humanism performance photo by Kelsey Campbell.
Press contacts:
Jeana Wunderlich
jwunderlich@hrm.org
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Samantha Hoover
shoover@hrm.org
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The Hudson River Museum is a preeminent cultural institution in Westchester County and the New York metropolitan area. The Museum is situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Yonkers, New York, with a mission to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
The HRM offers engaging experiences for every age and interest, with an ever-evolving collection of American art and dynamic exhibitions that range from notable nineteenth-century paintings to contemporary art installations. The campus, which recently expanded to include a West Wing with exhibition galleries and sweeping views of the Hudson River, features Glenview, an 1877 house on the National Register of Historic Places; a state-of-the-art planetarium; an environmental teaching gallery; and an outdoor amphitheater. The Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting these multidisciplinary offerings, which are complemented by an array of public programs that encourage creative expression, collaboration, and artistic and scientific discovery. The Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM), an honor awarded to only 3% of museums nationwide.
Hours and Admission: The Hudson River Museum is open to the public Wednesday–Friday, from 12–5pm, and Saturday–Sunday, from 11am–5pm. On Free First Fridays, the Museum is open and free of charge on the first Friday of the month, from 5–8pm. Learn more and purchase tickets at hrm.org/visit.
General Admission: Adults $13; Youth (3–18) $8; Seniors (65+) $9; Students (with valid ID) $9; Veterans $9; Children (under 3) FREE; Members FREE; Museums for All* $2, *SNAP/EBT card with photo ID (up to 4 people). Planetarium tickets: Adults $7; Youth (3–18) $5; Seniors (65+) $6; Students (with valid ID) $6; Veterans $6; Children (under 3) Free. Glenview tours: Adults $7; Youth (3–18) $5; Seniors (65+) $6; Students (with valid ID) $6; Veterans $6; Children (under 3) Free. The Museum is accessible by Metro-North (Hudson Line—Yonkers and Glenview stations), by Bee-Line Bus Route #1, by car, and by bike. If you plan on taking Metro-North Railroad to Glenwood Station and want to leave your car behind, you can save on discounted round-trip rail fare and discounted admission by getting an MTA Away package. Learn more here.
