This event has been postponed we will update with a new date as information becomes available.

We're kicking off National Volunteer Week with our Ganondagan Volunteer Appreciation event on Saturday, April 18 at 10:30 am. Join us for some fun activities, chat with your volunteer friends and make new ones, and then enjoy a light lunch and stay for our Annual Meeting to hear the exciting plans for 2020.

Please RSVP to Aimee Carpenter (585) 742-1690 or aimee@ganondagan.org.

DUE TO CONCERN REGARDING COVID-19 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED, ALL REGISTRATIONS WILL BE REFUNDED

Wampum Expert, Rich Hamell, and Traditional Bead Artist, Aimee Carpenter, will co-teach this hands-on workshop. You’ll leave with your own 3-row wampum bracelet (with glass wampum beads) and an education of the history and contemporary importance of Wampum Belts. For registration please go to event page at: https://ganondagan.org/wampum-bracelet-workshop

Ganondagan's Seneca Bark Longhouse will open for the season on Friday, May 1^st, 2020.

Our full-size, Seneca Bark Longhouse is fully furnished to reflect a typical Seneca family living in the late 1600's, complete with Seneca objects and colonial-era trade goods. 

Saturday, May 2^nd; 9 AM- 12 PM

I Love My Park Day, held the first Saturday in May, attracts thousands of volunteers from across the state to participate in cleanup, improvement, and beautification events at New York State parks and historic sites. Join us at Ganondagan State Historic Site to celebrate New York's park system by cleaning up historic site lands, planting trees and gardens, restoring trail and wildlife habitat, removing invasive species, and working on various site improvement projects

Saturday, May 16^th 11:30 AM - 4 PM

Join us at Ganondagan to celebrate Haudenosaunee women and the women’s suffrage movement for HERstory/Our Story Weekend. Our program begins with Table Talk & Tea: “Women Voted Here Before Columbus” led by author and Executive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation; Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. Then join us at the front plaza for Votercade 2020, celebrating Susan B Anthony’s 200th birthday and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Our afternoon culminates celebrating indigenous women’s voices with a performance by the Akwesasne Women Singers. While you are here, be sure to visit the Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation exhibit, which examines the many ways in which Hodinöhsö:ni’ women have acted as positive forces in our world.  More details to come!

Free admission, donations welcome for this event.

Sunday May 17^th 2 PM -4 PM

Our HERstory/Our Story weekend continues with Katsitsionni Fox film “Without a Whisper” which examines the hidden history of the profound influence of Hodinöhsö:ni’ (Haudenosaunee) women on the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States in the early 1800s. The film showing will include a presentation by the film maker, Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk); Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner; and Bear Clan Mother, Louise McDonald (Mohawk). More details to come!

Free admission to film, donations welcome for this event.

*Free admission on Sunday does not include admission into the Seneca Art & Culture gallery, Bark Longhouse, or Iroquois Creation film.

Saturday, May 23^rd; 11 AM

Join us with Rohsennase Dalton LaBarge (Akwesasne Mohawk, Bear Clan) offering this donation-based yoga practice beginning 11 AM; Saturday, May 23rd  at the Seneca Art & Culture Center auditorium.  No registration necessary. 

 Now Our Minds Are One – Yoga Series

Friday, April 24 – 11 AM (CANCELED) 

Saturday, May 23 – 11 AM

Saturday, June 27 – 11 AM