JCCWM  TRIP TO THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM

       & BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN

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Join us for a wonderful day of visiting the Museum and

the Garden during Cherry Blossom time(depending upon the weather)

 

Date: Wed. May 7, 2008

Time: Bus departs the JCCWM in

         The Galleria at 9:00am sharp

Cost: $46 for JCCWM members; $56 for non-members

Includes: General admission to the Brooklyn Museum, docent tour of Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900, admission to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (self guided tour), coach bus & driver tip. Lunch is on your own in the Museum Café. You may continue visiting different galleries of the Museum if you prefer, or you can stroll the Garden – just a short walk from the rear exit of the Museum.

                                                    We will depart the Museum at about 3:00pm

Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900 presents more than seventy prints from the renowned Van Vleck collection of Japanese woodblock prints at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison and approximately twenty prints from the Brooklyn Museum. The Utagawa School, founded by Utagawa Toyoharu, dominated the Japanese print market in the nineteenth century and is responsible for more than half of all surviving ukiyo-e prints, or “pictures of the floating world.” Colorful, technically innovative, and sometimes defiant of government regulations, these prints were created for a popular audience and documented the pleasures of urban life and leisure. The prints represent famous places, landscapes, warriors, and kabuki actors; they were reproduced in books, posters, and other printed materials for mass consumption, and they fed a thriving Edo publishing industry. In the Gardens in May: Lush, intoxicating lilacs bloom in tones of lavender and purple in the Lilac Collection. Azaleas are ablaze in pink, magenta, and red in the Osborne Garden. Tulips explode in every imaginable hue in the Annual Borders and Fragrance Garden. Bluebell Wood is aglow with 45,000 Spanish bluebells.

 

Bus seating is determined when your check is received

 

 

Registration Form ------------------Tear here

Please mail your check to: JCCWM, 100 US Highway 9, Suite 7, The Galleria, Manalapan, NJ 07726

 

Name____________________________________________________________________

 

 

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email__________________________________________

 

 

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Bklyn museum 5/7/08

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JCCWM TRIP TO

THE LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM

& MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET

(The 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue) 

Date:  Wed., June 18, 2008

Time:  Depart the JCCWM at 9:00am sharp ~ returning about 5:00pm

Cost:   For JCCWM members:  $46pp, non-members: $56pp

 

Includes:  Tenement Museum Confino Family Tour, docent tour of Museum at Eldridge Street, coach bus & driver tip.  Lunch is on your own – you will be sent a map of the area & restaurant info with your confirmation after we receive your check.

This "living history" apartment is based on the Sephardic-Jewish Confino family from Kastoria (once part of the Ottoman Empire, now in Greece). A costumed interpreter dressed as teenage Victoria Confino circa 1916 welcomes visitors as though they were newly arrived immigrants, teaching them how to adapt to America. The Confino tour is a hands-on experience and visitors can touch any items in the apartment.

On December 2, the Eldridge Street Project celebrated the completion of the restoration of the Eldridge Street Synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This marks a new chapter in the history of the Eldridge Street Project, which is being renamed the Museum at Eldridge Street. This year marks the National Historic Landmark’s 120th anniversary, highlighting the Eldridge Street Synagogue’s significance as the first great house of worship built by East European Jews in America.

TEAR HERE: ----Mail to: JCCWM 100 US Highway 9, Suite 7, Manalapan, NJ 07726------------------------------------------

 

Name__________________________________________________________________________

 

Street, town_______________________________________________________________________

 

Daytime tel_______________________________Email____________________________________

 

For bus – please seat me with_________________________________________________________

 

Cell phone: ______________________________________________

(tenement museum)