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March 28, 2017

Coming Up: Collectors' Night and Knish Screening

Get Ready For Collectors and Knish Talk!

[Collectors' Night](http://cityreliquary.org/cn17) is less than 2 weeks away! We hope you'll join us on **Saturday, April 8**, for one of our biggest and most unique events of the year.

On **Saturday, April 1**, we will screen *If These Knishes Could Talk*, a documentary on the New York accent, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Heather Quinlan.

Details below!
[Get Tickets](https://www.artful.ly/store/events/11539)

**Collectors’ Night 2017 New York City Fire Museum, 278 Spring Street, NY, NY Saturday, April 8 @ 5 PM Online: $7/$5 Reliquary or Fire Museum members Door: $10/$8 Reliquary or Fire Museum members**


Join us for Collectors' Night on **Saturday, April 8 at the **[**New York City Fire Museum**](http://nycfiremuseum.org/). Displays range from the charming and quotidian to the intriguingly morbid. With special presentations by guest speakers.

**Collectors’ Night 2017 Guest Speakers:**

    - Schoolteacher Miriam Sicherman of the [*Closet Archeology* project](https://nyti.ms/1Kwa5gT) will discuss the 20th-century debris her 4th graders discovered under the floorboards of their 1913 NYC public school. - Mike Zohn of [Obscura Antiques & Oddities](http://www.obscuraantiques.com/) will discuss his collection of original cover art from1960s- and ‘70s-era Mexican comic books. - Artist and activist [LuLu LoLo](http://www.lululolo.com/) of the [Where Are The Women Monuments Project](https://nyti.ms/2mKvaw8) will perform two short monologues drawn from the obituaries of [Elizabeth Tashjian](https://nyti.ms/2jKDOLZ), founder of [The Nut Museum](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/nut/CTOLDmus.html), and [Hugh Hicks](https://nyti.ms/2m6St6D), whose massive light bulb collection formed the [Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/7591).

**#CollectorsNight**

[Tickets available through Artfully](https://www.artful.ly/store/events/11539). General admission $7/$5 for City Reliquary or Fire Museum members. [Become a Reliquary member today](https://www.artful.ly/the-city-reliquary/store/memberships). Admission at the door will be higher, so buy online and save!

Here are a few images of collections we'll see this year. See more on [our FB event page](https://www.facebook.com/events/1920899561479935/). Full list of participating collectors on [our website](http://cityreliquary.org/cn17).

[Get Tickets](https://www.artful.ly/store/events/11539)
Coming up this Saturday, April 1: A screening of *If These Knishes Could Talk* followed by a discussion with filmmaker Heather Quinlan. Tix $10/$8 Reliquary members. More info [on our website](http://cityreliquary.org/quinlan).
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