Museum of Everyday Life Opening Celebration

Past event
May 29, 2016, 3 to 6 PM

The Museum of Everyday Life announces the opening of its new exhibition, “Mirror/Mirror" on Sunday May 29th, from 3-7pm. The Museum’s goal is the slow-motion cataloging of life via mundane, often overlooked objects. This year we reflect upon the looking-glass and all that it contains. From the moment the first mirror was encountered, this object began to haunt humanity. As a vehicle for gazing at ourselves or for divining the unseen, as unforgiving truth-teller or portal to other worlds, as a totem of power or icon of vanity, the mirror fascinates and dazzles. Essential to telescopes and magic tricks, disco balls and dentistry, the mirror inhabits a central place in a startling diversity of human endeavors. Indeed, the mirror, we would argue, is the object that makes self-transformation possible. This exhibition will explore the mirror in all of its guises. At the opening day celebration Sunday May 29th, from 3-7pm, animatrix Meredith Holch and famed Circus Amok founder Jennifer Miller will perform new works on the Mirror theme, local vaudevillians Rose Friedman and Justin Lander will perform their signature Museum of Everyday Life object songs, there will be a Mirror dance by Maura Gahan, Mirror manifestos, and snacks and beverages will be served. Admission by donation. The Museum of Everyday Life is a self-service museum, open every day from 8am-8pm, and is located at 3482 Dry Pond Rd. (Rt. 16) in Glover, a short distance South of the Shadow Lake Rd. See www.museumofeverydaylife.org for more details

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