2020 Calendar

PLEASE NOTE: In keeping with New York State health and safety guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are pleased to offer an immersive, multi-sensory experience to the public that allows for smaller groups of family and friends. Please visit our COVID-19 HEALTH & SAFETY section for more information.

JULY

10 – Friday, MANITOGA: Nature • Art • Design Tours begin.
Tours run through November 9. Timed reservations offered Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays between 11am and 2pm. Tours are 90 minutes and include Russel Wright’s modernist Home, Studio and Woodland Garden. $50 DUAL (up to 2); $100 FAMILY & FRIEND (up to 4); $120 FAMILY & FRIEND (up to 6).
Children must be at least 5 years old to attend. Advance online ticket purchase required for all tours.
Purchase tickets for JULY tours: BrownPaperTickets 

10 – Friday, Open date for cycles of seeing by New York-based artist Anne Lindberg - her luminous large-scale drawings are installed in the main House. On view with all tours and special programs through November 9, 2020. LEARN MORE >>>

10 – Friday, Open date for iForest, an immersive sound installation in Manitoga’s woodland landscape by composer Pete M. Wyer. Included on tours and special programs through September, 2020. Advance online ticket purchase required. LEARN MORE >>>

AUGUST      

MANITOGA: Nature • Art • Design Tours
Through November 9, 2020
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday between 11am and 2:30pm
Advance online ticket purchase required for all tours.             

1 – Saturday, 10am-12 pm, Member Mornings. Free to Manitoga members with a guest. Exclusive access to the private Quarry Pool Path, House and Studio on select Saturdays in 2020. Become a member today! To register, email Sarah Connors at sconnors@visitmanitoga.org or call 845-228-8381       

15 – Saturday, 5-7 pm, iFOREST Sunset Concert, $25 General Admission / $20 Manitoga Member.
Manitoga's woodland forest comes alive with Pete M. Wyer's iFOREST - an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation. Seating for the concert program is first come first serve on rock ledges and benches with safe social distancing (no personal/outside seating such as travel chairs are permitted). Please note that the experience does include a moderate hike. Beverages served and the main House on view.

SEPTEMBER

MANITOGA: Nature • Art • Design Tours
Through November 9, 2020
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday between 11am and 2:30pm
Advance online ticket purchase required for all tours.
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR SEPTEMBER

12 – Saturday, 5-7 pm, iFOREST Sunset Concert, $25 General Admission / $20 Manitoga Member.
Manitoga's woodland forest comes alive with Pete M. Wyer's iFOREST - an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation. Seating for the concert program is first come first serve on rock ledges and benches with safe social distancing (no personal/outside seating such as travel chairs are permitted). Please note that the experience does include a moderate hike. Beverages served and the main House on view. ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE ONLY: SOLD OUT

26 – Saturday, 5-7 pm, iFOREST Sunset Concert, $25 General Admission / $20 Manitoga Members.
Manitoga's woodland forest comes alive with Pete M. Wyer's iFOREST - an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation. Seating is first come first serve and is comprised of blankets, ledges and benches with safe social distancing (no personal/outside seating such as travel chairs are permitted). Please note that the experience does include a moderate hike.
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE ONLY: SOLD OUT

28 – Monday, FINAL DAY OF PUBLIC TOUR OFFERING INCLUDING iFOREST

30 – Wednesday, 5pm, Glenn Adamson and Anne Lindberg in Conversation
Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center is pleased to invite you to join us for a conversation between 2020 Resident Artist Anne Lindberg and Glenn Adamson, an independent curator / writer and host of Design in Dialogue, an online interview series co-presented with Friedman Benda Gallery. The conversation will take place via ZOOM. LEARN MORE…
Space is limited, advance registration required: REGISTER NOW

OCTOBER

EXPERIENCE MANITOGA: Nature • Art • Design
Through November 9, 2020
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday between 11am and 2:30pm
Advance online ticket purchase required for all tours.
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR OCTOBER

3 – Saturday, 10am-12 pm, Member Mornings. Free to Manitoga members with a guest. Exclusive access to the private Quarry Pool Path, House and Studio on select Saturdays in 2020. Become a member today! To register, email Sarah Connors at sconnors@visitmanitoga.org or call 845-228-8381

3 – Saturday, 4:30-6 pm, iFOREST Sunset Concert, $25 General Admission / $20 Manitoga Members.
Manitoga's woodland forest comes alive with Pete M. Wyer's iFOREST - an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation. Seating is first come first serve and is comprised of blankets, ledges and benches with safe social distancing (no personal/outside seating such as travel chairs are permitted). Please note that the experience does include a moderate hike.
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE ONLY: BUY NOW

10 – Saturday, 10am-12pm. In the Landscape: Osios - Sculpted Views of the Hudson, $10.
Explore Manitoga’s landscape as a personal expression of designer Russel Wright during NY State Path Through History weekend. Join Emily Phillips, Manitoga’s Landscape Collection and Preservation Manager, on a 1-1/2 hr. / 1.5 mile moderate hike of Manitoga's woodland trails, featuring four osios ("beautiful view" in native Algonquin) created by Wright to frame the Hudson River.
Purchase tickets: Manitoga.SimpleTix.com

10 – Saturday, 4:30-6 pm, iFOREST Sunset Concert, $25 General Admission / $20 Manitoga Members.
Manitoga's woodland forest comes alive with Pete M. Wyer's iFOREST - an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation. Seating is first come first serve and is comprised of blankets, ledges and benches with safe social distancing (no personal/outside seating such as travel chairs are permitted). Please note that the experience does include a moderate hike.
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE ONLY: BUY NOW

12 – Monday, 3:30-5 pm, iFOREST Sunset Concert, $25 General Admission / $20 Manitoga Members.
Manitoga's woodland forest comes alive with Pete M. Wyer's iFOREST - an immersive, multi-sensory sound installation. Seating is first come first serve and is comprised of blankets, ledges and benches with safe social distancing (no personal/outside seating such as travel chairs are permitted). Please note that the experience does include a moderate hike.
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE ONLY: BUY NOW

25 – Sunday, 10am-12pm & 12:30pm-2:30pm, In the Landscape: Lens on the Forest - Mushrooms, $10.
Led by naturalist and mycologist Taro Ietaka, this moderate hike offers an intimate experience of the richness of the Hudson Valley flora at Manitoga.
Purchase tickets: Manitoga.SimpleTix.com

NOVEMBER

EXPERIENCE MANITOGA: Nature • Art • Design
Through November 9, 2020
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday between 11am and 2:30pm
Advance online ticket purchase required for all tours.
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR NOVEMBER

7 – Saturday, 10am - 3pm. Volunteer Landscape Workday: For hands of all sizes! Roll up your sleeves along with other arborists, horticulturists, garden designers and landscape enthusiasts. Volunteers of all skill levels are welcome. 
To register, email ephillips@visitmanitoga.org or call 845-424-3812.

9 – Monday, Last Day of Public Programming

DECEMBER

YEAR ROUND

Self-Guided Hikes. Daily, during daylight hours. Manitoga offers two miles of trails designed by Russel Wright. His “garden of woodland paths” has links to the Appalachian Trail. Dogs are not permitted. Trail maps available at the Visitor/Guide House kiosk, 584 Route 9D. Suggested donation of $5 helps support trail maintenance. For more information: Hike Manitoga.