Programs
Events
The Long Island Museum
Artist in the Gallery: David Bunn Martine
April 26th
2pm - 4pm
Free Admission
Visitors to the Long Island Museum and the Building the Ballot Box: Long Island’s Democratic History exhibition have the unique opportunity to meet David Bunn Martine, an artist featured in the show. Bunn Martine will be in the gallery to discuss his art and life and answer visitors' questions about him.
Museum and Emma S. Clark Library Collaborative Exhibit Tour and Book Discussion
April 30th
2pm - 4pm
Free Admission - Registration Required
Join LIM and Emma S. Clark Library for a collaborative and engaging tour and book discussion. First, take an educator-led walk through the Building the Ballot Box exhibition. Then, enjoy a Librarian-led discussion of the book Stories from Suffragette City edited by M. J. Rose and Fiona Davis.
Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed and Unbowed, A One-Woman Show by Ingrid Grifith
May 9th
7pm - 9:30pm
Admission: LIM Member $25, Non-member $30 - Purchase tickets here
This one-woman show tells the largely unheard story of Shirley St. Hill Chisholm, a Brooklyn-born politician of immigrant parents, who, in the 20th century, was the first African-American woman to win a seat in Congress and run for President. Starring Ingrid Griffith as Chisholm and the characters that surround her life, Unbossed & Unbowed dramatizes the Civil Rights era, the unrest of the 1960s, the patriarchal system, and the all-boys network Shirley Chisholm was up against, many themes we still see in today's politics.
Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center
Voices and Votes Opening Reception
April 24th
5:30 pm
Free Admission, Registration Required
Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center
Join the Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center, Onondaga Historical Association, and Liverpool Public Library to celebrate the opening of Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, a traveling Smithsonian Museum on Main Street exhibit on display at the Skä•noñh Center from April 18 through May 30. This opening event will feature a talk from historian of the women's suffrage movement Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner; a showing of the documentary Without a Whisper, the untold story of the profound influence of Indigenous women on the suffrage movement in the US; songs by the Onondaga Women's Singing Society; Indigenous food samples from local caterer Tina Hill Thomas; and more!
Teacher Training Workshop
April 26th
12pm-3pm
Free Admission with Registration
Liverpool Public Library
“A New Agora for New York” is proud to provide, as part of the Humanities Discussion program, free Teacher Training Workshops where teachers will gain the skills to incorporate museum exhibitions like the Smithsonian's Voices and Votes and exhibitions created by local museums into their classrooms and curriculums. Teachers will also be introduced to Consider the Source, a free online resource by the New York State Archives that connects educators across New York State to primary source materials found in cultural and historical organizations across the state.
The New York State Office of Cultural Education (OCE) is partnering with the Museum Association of New York (MANY) to provide CTLE eligible workshops for teachers throughout 2025 with additional content provided by museums participating in “A New Agora for New York”
If you are a teacher or educator interested in participating in one of these workshops please refer to the list below of locations and partner organizations.
All of the workshops are available virtually, but if you are local to any of the museums listed below who are providing in-person programming we encourage you to consider participating in person.
For any questions relating to the workshops, please reach out to Ren Lee at rlee@nysmuseums.org .
Book Discussion Series - We Want Equal Rights!: The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on the Women's Rights Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner
April 29th
Free Admission
Liverpool Public Library
Speaker Series - Bob Searing Presentation - "National Colored Men's Convention"
May 8th
Free Admission
Liverpool Public Library
Book Discussion Series - The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As A Slave And As A Freeman: A Narrative Of Real Life; facilitated by Bob Searing
May 13th
Free Admission
Liverpool Public Library
Liverpool Library Day at Skä•noñh Center
May 19th
Free Admission
Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center