VIRTUAL PROGRAM
This free event has limited capacity, we encourage you to register in advance.
In an 1872 letter to her beloved cousin, Louise Norcross, Dickinson considered the passing of time and the enduring power of language. She wrote, “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Join the Emily Dickinson Museum as we look back at a year full of new programs, sights, and sounds at the poet’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts. We will learn about recent developments in wallpaper conservation at The Evergreens, explore the art installation that opened in August in the Homestead, celebrate creative projects inspired by Dickinson in other parts of the world this year, and more. And along the way we’ll hear special birthday messages to the poet from fans you just might recognize.
All are welcome to this free VIRTUAL program. Space is limited, register in advance. Pay Your Way tickets support free programs at the Emily Dickinson Museum.
This year there are three programs to celebrate Dickinson’s birthday with us!:
195th Birthday Open House
Saturday, December 6, 1-4:30pm ET
Free In-Person Program
Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute:
Celebrating Jane Austen at 250
Co-Presented with the Folger Shakespeare Library
Tuesday, December 9, 7:30pm ET
Paid Online or In-Person (at the Folger) Program
Newer every day
A Dickinson Birthday Celebration
Wednesday. December 10, 6pm ET
Free Virtual Program
About Dickinson’s Birthday
Emily Dickinson, the middle child of Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson, was born on December 10, 1830, in the family Homestead on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, now the home of the Emily Dickinson Museum. She celebrated 55 birthdays before her death in 1886. Some of the poet’s most favored themes were time and immortality; she wrote, “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” (Johnson L379)