FUTURE 400 Brochure

BEGINS 400 YEARS AGO

2024 MARKS THE 400TH YEAR SINCE DUTCH SETTLERS’ ARRIVAL IN WHAT IS NOW NEW YORK CITY.

The moment we perceive an account of history as complete is the moment we stop being able to learn from it. Expansive understandings of the past allow us to move forward with empathy and accountability to one another.

400 years ago, the Dutch arrived in what is now New York City. As a bridge between New York and the Netherlands, this year, we’re excited to launch a project that marks the multicultural, global epicenter that has grown around us, and that frankly contends with what happened here at the collision of these places four centuries ago. How can our consideration of multiple histories inform the ways we also move forward collectively?

We launch FUTURE 400, in hopes that a collaborative and open examination of our intersecting pasts can bring us closer to one another. We are exhilarated by the prospect of so many new visionary contributions to the complex history of this city— and of you joining us to experience them.

Ahmed Dadou Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Four hundred years ago, the Dutch arrived in what is now New York City. As a bridge between New York and the Netherlands, this year, we’re excited to launch a project that marks the multicultural, global hub that has grown around us, and that honors all of the monumental history of this great city and the many people who have called it home for centuries. Our goal with FUTURE 400 is to bring people together— artists, civic leaders, community advocates, youth and others—to reflect on the layered past of New York City, the triumphs and the challenges. We endeavor to spark new initiatives and unique collaborations across cultures that lead to a deeper understanding of our shared history and an optimistic path forward. This is our F U T U R E 400.

Wild by Design, Piet Oudolf Celebration at The High Line

forges new connections in the present.

FUTURE 400 creates space for intersecting histories at this monumental moment, with programming filling landmark destinations and esteemed performance venues throughout the city.

FUTURE 400 fosters surprising new collaborative connections as a path forward, bridging individuals, communities, and institutions in the U.S. and the Netherlands. Programming spans a vast range of artistic disciplines and forms, from a U.S. premiere play co-produced by Kip Republic Theater (Netherlands) and National Black Theatre (USA) and presented at New York City’s legendary Apollo Theater; to a new work from choreographer Rutkay Özpinar, both featuring Dutch and American performers; to an exhibition of VR-sculpted and 3D-printed works by Beatrice Glow and an exhibition surrounding the last and most detailed map of New Amsterdam at the New York Historical Society; to a celebration of garden designer Piet Oudolf on the High Line; to a talk with Surinamese-Dutch author Astrid Roemer for the PEN World Voices Festival; to two photographic exhibitions as part of Photoville.

FUTURE 400 showcases the variety and depth of Dutch and American arts and culture as it traces how these histories are carried in New York’s present.

What do we hope for in the future for this great city? The new creative works developed through this initiative will contribute to the next chapter of our shared story, offering the groundwork for a more equitable and connected ideal for the next 400 years of New York history— our collective FUTURE 400.

Kennedi Carter, Dutch Masters Revisited X Flex at Photoville

F U T U R E 400 PROGRAMS

FEBRUARY - SEPTEMBER 2024

RAMBLER STUDIOS NYC YOUTH DESIGN PROGRAM

A collaboration between Henry Street Settlement and Rambler Studios Amsterdam

Henry Street Settlement and Rambler Studios Amsterdam are teaming up again in 2024, using fashion design to unleash the talent and creativity of the youth the agency serves. During FUTURE 400, the Rambler Studios NYC Youth Design Program will continue to empower young talents to design their life through fashion. They learn about working in a professional studio while gaining the selfesteem that comes from seeing their designs turned into clothing styles and earning income from selling in studio stores and online.

MARCH 2 – 17

FUTURE 400 FILM PROGRAM

Featuring Screenings and Discussions. In cooperation with the New York International Children’s Film Festival

Films and discussions encourage reflection on Dutch-New York colonial history through the lens of a new generation of global citizens and their compelling stories. NYICFF’s Next Gen 400 centers stories of young

protagonists navigating new countries and cultures, spotlights Native American and First Nation stories and storytellers, and explores vibrant multicultural communities in the Netherlands. It celebrates the vitality and importance of Dutch, American, and international film as a mirror and window into these diverse communities and histories.

MARCH 15 - JULY 14, 2024

THE CASTELLO PLAN: ENCOUNTERS IN NEW AMSTERDAM

New York Historical Society

The Castello Plan, the last and most detailed map of New Amsterdam before it became New York, visits modern-day New York City from its home in Florence, Italy for FUTURE 400. The plan provides a unique glimpse of daily life in the settlement by detailing streets, homes, businesses, canals and Fort Amsterdam around the peak of the settlement in 1660. The exhibition surrounding this vital artifact tells the stories of those who lived in New Amsterdam: Indigenous communities, enslaved people, and European settlers.

It offers a complex understanding of how New Amsterdam operated as a site of cultural encounters, commercial opportunity, and global exchange as well as violence and enslavement.

BEATRICE GLOW: WHEN OUR RIVERS MEET

New York Historical Society

Through conversations with nine culture bearers, artists, and scholars whose heritages have been impacted by the Dutch colonial enterprise, Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet considers the local and global influence of the Dutch settlement on present day New York. With these works Glow imagines an alternative commemoration of its 400th anniversary. The exhibition consists of a series of seven VR-sculpted and 3D-printed maquettes, complemented by Glow's analyses of decorative arts collection objects that signify the inheritance of colonial worldviews.

APRIL 7, 2024

TULIP DAY: LAUNCH OF FUTURE 400 TULIP

by CG New York, Union Square

On Tulip Day over 200,000 tulips will be taking over New York City’s Union Square Park. Thousands are welcome to join us and pick their own bouquet of ten tulips for free. During tulip Day, the Consul General of The Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York will present an exclusive New York tulip variety to New York City. This new tulip, FUTURE 400, commemorates this year’s anniversary of the first Dutch settlers landing on Governor’s Island 400 years ago and symbolizes another 400 years of collaboration and friendship between the United States and The Netherlands.

MAY 2024

FORBIDDEN MUSIC REGAINED

Performed by Chamber Ensemble Musicians at Ma’alwyck Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site

As FUTURE 400 confronts more recent histories in its consideration of the past 400 years, this musical program performed by chamber ensemble Musicians at Ma’alwyck brings to light the works of Dutch Jewish composers murdered in the Holocaust and whose music had been lost. The program is presented in partnership with Donemus in the Netherlands, where extensive research and archiving of this powerful music has taken place. The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York will host several educational programs with local schools expanding from the concerts.

Beatrice Glow, When Our Rivers Meet at New York Historical Society

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NY PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITION

Museum of the City of NY, Amsterdam Museum

FUTURE 400 teams with Native American communities through a partnership with Museum of the City of New York to develop a series of public programs over the coming two years, specifically geared towards families, that will include art, dance, theater and educational initiatives, and culminate in an exhibition of new Native American work in 2026. FUTURE 400 has simultaneously supported a partnership between the Amsterdam Museum and the Museum of the City of NY that will come together this Spring, with works and objects from the Lenape community featured at the museum in Amsterdam.

MAY 1, 2024

FIVE BORO BIKE TOUR

Church St. & Franklin St

Cycling is the second most frequently used mode of transportation in the Netherlands and has, in recent years, become an increasingly visible part of New York City life. What began in 1977 as a 250-person ride across New York to celebrate and educate on cycling in the City has transformed into an annual event and citywide tradition, with tens of thousands riding through the five boroughs on the first Sunday in May. FUTURE 400 embraces this New York custom for its future-forward celebration of a more sustainable lifestyle and promotion of a broader understanding of New York City’s vast interconnectedness.

MAY 3 – 4, 2024

CONFERENCE: SLAVERY IN NEW NETHERLAND AND THE DUTCH ATLANTIC WORLD

New York Historical Society

Slavery in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World, presented by New-York Historical Society in partnership with New Netherland Institute (NNI), and with the cooperation of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will extend the Dutch call for increased historical research on slavery to the United States, and inspire fresh discussions about how to approach memorializing slavery.

MAY 11, 2024

IN CONVERSATION:

AUTHORS ASTRID ROEMER, SAFIYA SINCLAIR, MARLON JAMES AND JAMAICA KINCAID

PEN World Voices Festival

PEN America works at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression. With this discussion at the PEN World Voices festival, an annual celebration of international literature and writers, authors will touch on commonalities and differences across language, geography, and colonial legacies in the Caribbean world, mirroring FUTURE 400’s vision of a bridge between past, present, and future. The event features Surinamese-Dutch author Astrid Roemer, recipient of the P.C. Hooft Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement; in 2023, the English translation of her Suriname-set novel On a Woman’s Madness was long-listed for an American National Book Award.

JUNE 1-16, 2024

ERNST COPPEJANS: FROM THE STREETS TO THE HEART AND DUTCH MASTERS REVISITED X FLEX

Two Exhibitions as Part of Photoville 2024

Presented by United Photo Industries

Exhibitions at this year’s Photoville Festival address our past and present. Dutch photographer Ernst Coppejans’ From the Streets to the Heart, a documentary portrait series of homeless LGBTQIA+ youth in New York will be presented as part of New York Pride Month. The exhibition Dutch Masters Revisited X Flex (a co-production with Amsterdam-based cultural organization Urban Myth) uses historical research to recreate portraits of people of color who lived in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries and juxtaposes them with South Carolina based photographer Kennedi Carter’s contemporary portraits combining visual references to European royalty and nobility with contemporary Black aesthetics. Photoville, the free festival amplifying visual storytellers and connecting them to a worldwide diverse audience takes place in Brooklyn Bridge Park and NYC neighborhoods.

JUNE THROUGH SEPTEMBER, 2024

WILD BY DESIGN (SINCE 2009)

Piet Oudolf Celebration at The High Line

FUTURE 400’s theme of reconsidering the past for the purposes of the future resonates with the ethos of New York’s High Line— a formerly abandoned 1930s viaduct reconceived as verdant public space. In 2024, as the High Line marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of Friends of the High Line and the 15th birthday of the park, its cornerstone annual horticulture celebration will focus on iconic garden designer Piet Oudolf’s role in creating the High Line’s gardens and how its horticulturists are shepherding that vision into the future. Oudolf is one of the world’s most revered plantsmen, and the High Line is emblematic of his unique artistry and his pioneering naturalistic— or nature-inspired—approach, which is a revolutionary departure from traditional garden design. Throughout the year, the High Line invites visitors and neighbors to delve into Oudolf’s design approach and his favorite grasses and perennials through on-site signage, a printed brochure, and on- and off-site programming for all ages— including a public talk with Oudolf himself.

Wild by Design Piet Oudolf Celebration at The High Line

TEACHER-TRAINING FOR THE CURRICULUM ’NEW WORLD, NEW NETHERLAND, NEW YORK’

New York Historical Society

New World, New Netherland, New York and Early Encounters from the Women & the American Story program are part of the New York Historical Society’s in-house curriculum for K-12 students and teachers, and give special focus to the contributions of the Dutch and the shared Dutch-American history. For the 400th commemoration of the founding of New Netherland, the NYHS updates its curriculum with Colonial New York field trips, teacher development workshops, and permanent digital resources.

CHOREOGRAPHIC TRIPLE BILL FROM RUTKAY OZPINAR

Presented by Battery Dance Festival (NYC) and Korzo Theater (The Hague)

In a partnership to develop new dance work, Turkish/Dutch choreographer Rutkay Ozpinar will create a 10 minute solo work at Korzo Theater that will expand, in a two-week residency at Battery Dance, into a 15-20 minute piece for their six dancers. At the festival, Ozinpar will also be joined by two dancers from the Netherlands, in the first-ever international performance of his dance Something About Something. This triple bill for FUTURE 400 explores themes of migration and colonialism.

FUTURE 400 PARTNERS: ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY & ART – AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE

AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY – AMSTERDAM MUSEUM – APOLLO THEATER – BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL

BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL – CARNEGIE HALL – CENTER FOR BROOKLYN HISTORY – CREATIVE CHEF STUDIO

ERNST COPPEJANS – FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE – GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY – HENRY

STREET SETTLEMENT – HISTORIC HOUSE TRUST OF NEW YORK CITY – HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY – HOLLAND

SOCIETY OF NEW YORK – THE JOYCE THEATER – INTRODANS – JULLIARD SCHOOL – KIP REPUBLIC THEATRE

KORZO THEATER – THE LEIDEN COLLECTION – LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS – MCNALLY JACKSON

BOOKSTORE – MUSICIANS OF MA’ALWYCK – MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK – MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF

NEW YORK – NATIONAAL ARCHIEF – NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE – NEW AMSTERDAM HISTORY CENTER – NEW

NETHERLAND INSTITUTE – NEW YORK CITY CENTER – NEW YORK CITY MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES – NEW YORK CITY

MAYOR’S OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS – NEW-YORK

HISTORICAL SOCIETY – NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL – NIEUWE INSTITUUT – PEN WORLD

VOICES FESTIVAL – PERELMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER – PERFORMA – PHOTOVILLE – PLANTING FIELDS

POWERHOUSE ARTS – PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL – RAMBLER STUDIOS AMSTERDAM – ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW

ORCHESTRA – RUTKAY OZPINAR – SCHOMBURG CENTER – SCHUYLER MANSION STATE HISTORIC SITE

SOCIALLY RELEVANT FILM FESTIVAL – SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM – STICK TOGETHER GALLERY / MAX

ZORN – THE COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK’S QUADRICENTENNIAL, INC. – TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL – URBAN MYTH

Delights of the Senses at the Albany Institute of History and Art

SEPTEMBER 14 - DECEMBER 31, 2024

ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY & ART AND ART AND THE LEIDEN COLLECTION

Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century

Dutch Art and Life. Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection

With roots dating back to 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is New York’s oldest museum, and a major repository for the region’s heritage, including objects from the Dutch colonial period. Integrating their seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Colonial New York objects with seventeenth-century Old Master paintings from The Leiden Collection, this exhibition examines seventeenth-century

Dutch culture through the five senses. Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life will open in the fall of 2024 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Fort Orange, the first permanent Dutch settlement at the location of present-day Albany, as FUTURE 400 looks back to where the U.S. and Netherlands’ intersecting histories began. Additionally, the Albany Institute of History and Art is collaborating with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians (the indigenous inhabitants of the area settled by the Dutch), and contemporary Mohican artist Tamara Aupaumut to develop a complementary exhibition, entitled People of the Waters that are Never Still: A Celebration of Mohican Art and Culture, celebrating 400 years of Mohican art, history, and culture.

FEBRUARY 24–MARCH 16, 2025

KINGS... COME HOME

Written and Directed by Ira Kip, Co-Created by Winston (Winne) Bergwijn, Kip Republic Theater Co-Production with National Black Theatre At the Apollo Theater

Kings... come home follows a family that leaves their motherland, moves into a home in a field, and establishes their own micro-utopia there—until the walls begin to move and that structure slowly starts to come undone. By Ira Kip’s Kip Republic Theater, Amsterdam, this production makes its world premiere in the Netherlands in cooperation with International Theater Amsterdam before coming to the Apollo, in performances presented by National Black Theatre as part of FUTURE 400. Kip’s play investigates the effects of migration caused by a spectrum of social and economic issues and examines how migration is intrinsically connected to colonial pasts and their long term effects.

“FUTURE 400 gives New Yorkers the opportunity to experience their

Letter describing the “purchase” of Manhattan at the New York Historical Society

Delights of the Senses at the Albany Institute of History and Art

The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam at the New York Historical Society

hometown through the lens of its history. From the past to the present, its projects center a multitude

Future 400 Film Program at the New York International Children’s Film Festival

Beatrice Glow, When Our Rivers Meet at the New York Historical Society

Delights of the Senses at the Albany Institute of History and Art

of voices—Indigenous, African-American, Dutch, and others—who made up the vibrant tapestry that

Kennedi Carter, Dutch Masters Revisited X Flex at Photoville

Rambler Studios NYC Youth Design Program

Future 400 Film Program at the New York International Children’s Film Festival

was New Amsterdam, and whose diversity continues to distinguish New York City to this day.”

–Ahmed Dadou, Consul General of the Netherlands

Wild by Design, Piet Oudolf Celebration at The High Line

come home at the Kip Republic Theater and Apollo Theater

Ernst Coppejans, From the Streets to the Heart at Photoville