Heleen Schuttevaêr will lead free jazz shows at the Holland Tunnel Gallery as part of 5 Dutch Days celebration of art and music
Holland Tunnel Gallery / Stairmasters
61 and 59 South Third St., Brooklyn
Friday, November 19, 5:00 – 8:00
Saturday, November 20, and Sunday, November 21, 3:00 – 7:00
718-384-5738
www.5dutchdaysnyc.org
As part of the 5 Dutch Days celebration continuing across all five boroughs through Sunday, honoring the rich Dutch cultural heritage in New York, the Holland Tunnel Gallery / Stairmasters in Brooklyn will be hosting a series of free live jazz concerts along with the exhibit “50 Artists Reinventing Delft Blue Pottery.” In conjunction with the four hundredth anniversary of trading between the Netherlands and Japan, the three-story space will be displaying ceramic works by more than one hundred artists, including Marjolijn van den Assem, Ka-Kyung Cho, Maartje Folkeringa, Hans van Uden, Nathalie Trovato, Joe Barnes, and Mireille Brouwer, curated by painter Paulien Lethen, whose paintings will also be on view, along with works by Jan Mulder. In addition, Dutch jazz vocalist and pianist Heleen Schuttevaêr (who is Lethen’s sister and Mulder’s partner) will be hosting free live music performances all weekend, featuring guitarist Ron Jackson, bassist Joris Teepe, drummer Jean-Clair-de Ruwe, and singer Jula Aimée on Friday, bassist Debbie Kennedy, de Ruwe, pianist Jarrett Cherner, singer Maria Christina, and trumpeter Diederik Rijpstra on Saturday, and Jackson, de Ruwe, Teepe, and singer Jerry Sheldon on Sunday, with many special guests scheduled as well. The 5 Dutch Days festival also includes a look at the restoration of the stained-glass window “Arrival of the Half-Moon,” an open house at the Holland Society of America, a Noonday Prayer tulip planting at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, the Peter Stuyvesant Ball at Pier 60, a scavenger hunt, visits to the Dyckman and Wyckoff Farmhouse Museums and the Lefferts Historic House, workshops, an illustrated lecture, a garden tour, a concert by Sylvan Winds, and other events.