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Practice your yoga and connect with nature in the beauty and serenity of Planting Fields. Each class will be held in a different area of the grounds to offer a unique experience each time! Classes are for all levels and led by certified instructors. Please bring your yoga mat, water bottle and plan to arrive at least 10 minutes early.  In the event of rain, the class will be held inside Coe Hall or the Hay Barn. The specific location within the gardens will be shared at check in.

Our Panorama series hosts Sasha Papernik and Justin Poindexter from Our Band for an evening of musical performance and cultural history. Join us to hear the duo perform tunes by female composers of the turn of the century and discuss how genres were blending during the American Modernist movement and the Gilded Age.  Defined by innovation and the inequities that followed, the musical scene of the early twentieth century marked a collision of cultures at a vigorous speed, with a mixing of genres and a rise of new voices. Tickets: FREE This event is part of our Panorama series of virtual gatherings. Your Zoom access link.....Read More

Leave life's stresses behind for an hour and find grounding through yoga on our Olmsted lawns. Bring a mat, a blanket or props, and water bottle and please plan to arrive 10 minutes early.  Masks recommended, social distancing required. All registrants will get an email clarifying where the practice will take place in advance of the session. Open Air Yoga is led by Oyster Bay Yoga and Glen Cove Yoga.  Members: $10  Non-Members: $18    Register For The Event

Leave life's stresses behind for an hour and find grounding through yoga on our Olmsted lawns. Bring a mat, a blanket or props, and water bottle and please plan to arrive 10 minutes early.  Masks recommended, social distancing required. All registrants will get an email clarifying where the practice will take place in advance of the session. Open Air Yoga is led by Oyster Bay Yoga and Glen Cove Yoga.  Members: $10  Non-Members: $18  Register For The Event

Our Juncture series hosts this Brooklyn-based trio of Sax, Bass and Drums for a LIVE outdoor concert in the gardens. Concert location details to follow!  Lynn Ligammari -Tenor Saxophone - plays with Antibalas, Durand Jones & The Indications, Red Baraat, Holy Hand Grenade, and more. Kells Nollenberger- Bass - Freelance performer and private educator, plays with Stephane Wremble, Mean Greens & more; plays on Broadway Off-Broadway. Kells just finished playing in the international tour of West Side Story. Conor Elmes-Drums - plays in Youngblood Brass Band, the InBetweens, MiwiLaLupa and more. Conor is a freelance performer and private educator. The.....Read More

Join Helen Selsdon, Archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, in a discussion about Helen Keller’s activism, as we view a copy of one of her speeches and recognize the centennial anniversary of the 19th amendment and women's constitutional right to vote.  To quote Keller, “There are no such things as ‘divine, immutable, inalienable rights.’ Rights are things which we get when we are strong enough to make our claim to them good. Today women are asserting their rights, tomorrow nobody will be foolhardy enough to question them."  Friend of the Coes and beneficiary of Mai Coe’s father, H.H. Rogers, Keller.....Read More

A little slice of the English countryside, right here in Oyster Bay: that was the vision and inspiration of W.R and Mai Coe as they created Coe Hall and Planting Fields. Explore all the ways the Coes, and their neighbors, built English country homes using innovative materials and salvaged artifacts to give their spaces an air of old world authenticity. Join Kurt Hirschberg from Jan Hird Pokorny Associates in a discussion about the allure of English country homes across the Gold Coast in the early twentieth century and the restoration of the West Portico, poised to begin in August.    The West Portico of Coe Hall is one of the.....Read More

Leave life's stresses behind for an hour and find grounding through yoga on our Olmsted lawns. Bring a mat, a blanket or props, and water bottle and please plan to arrive 10 minutes early.  Masks recommended, social distancing required. All registrants will get an email clarifying where the practice will take place in advance of the session. Open Air Yoga is led by Oyster Bay Yoga and Glen Cove Yoga.  Members: $10  Non-Members: $18    Register For The Event

Leave life’s stresses behind for an hour and find grounding through yoga on our Olmsted lawns. Bring a mat, a blanket or props, and water bottle and please plan to arrive 10 minutes early.  Masks recommended, social distancing required. All registrants will get an email clarifying where the practice will take place in advance of the session. Open Air Yoga is led by Oyster Bay Yoga and Glen Cove Yoga.  Members: $10  Non-Members: $18  Register For The Event

Join this Juncture series LIVE concert in the gardens of Planting Fields. Steeped in the tradition of great male and female duets such as Johnny Cash and June Carter, Sasha Papernik and Justin Poindexter bring their award-winning songwriting, intimate harmonies, and Eastern-European flair to a rich Americana soundscape. Together, they have performed for audiences in some of the world’s greatest venues, from Carnegie Hall to Lincoln Center to the Smithsonian Museum of American art.   The duet will perform 3 sets: 4:00 - 4:20 4:40 - 5:00 5:20 - 5:40 TICKETS: FREE Exact concert location to follow!   Register For The Event

This event is now at maximum capacity.   Enjoy an evening at Planting Field with a friend, family member, or a special someone by joining our first Twilight Tour of the season. Bask in the golden hour while exploring our late summer gardens guided by Vinnie Simeone, Director of Planting Fields Arboretum, and Master Gardener and Planting Field Garden Guide, Pat Oliver. The evening will start with refreshments in the Cloister Garden from 6:00-6:30 followed by a stroll led by the experts that will create a night to remember. There will be 2 tour groups, each capped at approximately 15.....Read More