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Squirrels in New York City’s Parks : NYC Parks

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Squirrels in New York City’s Parks Meet our cute park pals—the many, many squirrels that call New York City’s parks home. A true New Yorker, our squirrels play a major…

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1 April Fools' Da… April Fools' Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 1, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy April Fools' Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 1, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 1, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 1, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 1, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 1, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Teen Movie Monday We… Teen Movie Monday West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 1, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: Teen Movie Monday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 6:30 pm Ends: April 1, 2024 - 7:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Anxiety & Stress… Anxiety & Stress Solutions: Weekly Classes to Learn How to Reduce and Remove Anxiety & Stress Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 1, 2024 - 8:30 pm Location: 1698 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Location: Act Adult Day Care 1698 Victory Blvd. Castleton Corners Staten Island, NY 10314 These class are offered free with a suggested donation of $10. To attend this workshop, please click here: https://goo.gl/pPnvWM or TheCompassionCenter.com For more information, contact Dan Globus at (888) 377-7761 or e-mail info@TheCompassionCenter.com About Act Adult Day Care ACT is a comprehensive educational/social program which focuses on strengthening, stimulating and retraining the brain of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's/Dementia. Our mission is to keep people with AD/D involved in carefully planned activities that have been shown to significantly improve cognitive and physical health. About The Compassion Center The Compassion Center teaches Meditation classes to people and organizations seeking anxiety solutions, stress relief, depression treatment, anger treatment, ways to deal with emotional trauma, loss and grief. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • •	2 National PB&J Da… National PB&J Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 2, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Stapleton Mobile Market Starts: 9:30 am Ends: April 2, 2024 - 11:00 am Location: 75 Hill St, Staten Island, NY 10304, USA Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 2, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tot Time Tuesdays Tot Time Tuesdays Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 2, 2024 - 11:30 am Location: Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center, 2351 Veterans Rd W, Staten Island, NY 10309, USA Description: Explore a different nature theme each week during this indoor play group. Story time starts at 10:30am followed by a short hike at 11:00am, weather permitting. Ages 0-3. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Silver Lak… Open Run: Silver Lake Park Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Silver Lake Park Rd, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Tuesdays @ 7 p.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: At the lake bridge, down the hill from the intersection of Victory Blvd. and Eddy St. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Adult Acting Class -… Adult Acting Class - Adults 18 and over Spotlight Studios Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 2, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: 358 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: ADULT ACTING ~ Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:00pm ~ ages 18 - adult Also back by popular demand! This acting class is open to all experience levels. Participants will explore the fundamentals of acting through monologue work, scene study, improvisation, story-telling, and journaling. The class size is limited to 8 actors. There will be a final presentation. This class is taught by Mary Lee Aloia, Meggan Herod, and John Stewart. 8-week session starts October 18, 2022 Fee: $150 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • •	3 National Find a Rain… National Find a Rainbow Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy National Find a Rainbow Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events New York City Center… New York City Center Administrative Apprenticeship Program Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: In conjunction with the 2021-2022 season, City Center's Administrative Apprenticeship Program is accepting applications for early-career and career-changing individuals to apprentice in Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing and Production Management. We are committed to training the next generation of creative, passionate arts professionals by building pathways to careers in the arts for candidates underrepresented in the field of arts administration. The program runs from September to May and includes paid training. Apprentices are paid $15 per hour for 24 hours a week. Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm. Weekly schedules vary by department. Needs-based scholarships are available. Through this program, apprentices will: -Commit to a season-long paid part-time apprenticeship in either Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing or Production Management. -Work directly with a department supervisor and colleagues. -Build a professional network and engage in career planning under the guidance of a designated Mentor. -Participate in a three-day paid training that includes department meet and greets, professional development workshops, entrance interviews and professional goal setting with supervisors. -Attend seminars with City Center staff and artists. -Participate in City Center's staff initiatives, including anti-racism workshops, committees and all-staff meetings. -Complete a solo project in their area of focus. -Observe rehearsals and attend performances, when possible. -Deliver a final group presentation to City Center staff. Application Deadline: Wednesday, June 23 at 11:59PM The application and additional program information can be found here. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Call for Photog… Open Call for Photographers: 'My 20/20' World Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: The Art Guild invites all photographers and artists, high school and older, to submit photography for consideration for My “20/20” World Photography Show, an Online Juried Competition and Exhibition. What is your “20/20” vision? The past year limited our access to the world and posed unprecedented challenges. It also sparked our creativity. We photographed indoors; or, mask in place, we ventured out to capture new images. Perhaps past work came to mind and we used this time to review or revise it. Show us art that shines through a difficult time. Your work will be exhibited in an online gallery. CRITERIA All photographic genres are welcome: portraits, landscapes, photojournalism, macro photography and composites. All work must be original. Submitted work must be the artist’s own. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered. JUROR OF AWARDS Award-winning photographers Bill and Gen Rudock will serve as Jurors of Awards. With over 60 years of combined photographic experience, they share a love and passion for photography, traveling, nature, and wildlife. Their knowledge and their reputations have made them sought after speakers, lecturers, and workshop instructors. ENTRY FEE(S) Entry fees are payable online when you upload or by mailing a check or using Paypal as detailed below. Registration is required and fees are non-refundable. Members: $25 (1-2 pieces) Non-members: $35 (1-2 pieces) High School Student members: $15 (1-2 pieces) One additional entry: $10 (per person) No more than 3 works per artist. Entry fees are non-refundable. AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions • Student awards will also be given, if appropriate. https://www.theartguild.org/my-2020-world-photography-show More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Baker Square Starts: 7:30 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Intersection of Hyatt & Stuyvesant Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Mariner's Harbor Mobile Market Starts: 9:30 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 11:00 am Location: 22 Roxbury Street Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events NAMI NYC Staten Isla… NAMI NYC Staten Island Support Group at the JCC Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC,1466 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Join NAMI NYC Staten Island at the JCC to support family members, significant others and friends of people with mental health conditions. For more information please contact Paloma Wasserstein at pwassersteain@sijcc.com mailto:pwassersteain@sijcc.com or 718.475.5228 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 3, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Create Your Own Base… Create Your Own Baseball Card Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 5:30 pm Location: 5 Central Ave, Staten Island, NY, United States, New York 10301 Description: Baseball fever is here! Swing by the St. George Library on April 3rd at 3:30 PM and create your own epic baseball card! https://www.facebook.com/events/2084849078553091/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 5:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room A / Media Lab (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Be a part of our First Lego League Robotics Team. Join our team to learn science, technology, engineering, and math through fun hands-on learning experiences. Learn to solve real-world problems, build and code Lego robots, and learn how to work as a team to compete in Robotics competitions. Ages 9 - 14 years old! More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	4 National Chicken Cor… National Chicken Cordon Bleu Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 4, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Chicken Cordon Bleu Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 4, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 4, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 4, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 4, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tiny Gardens Worksho… Tiny Gardens Workshop Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 3:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: Bring the outside indoors and make your own terrarium at the Tiny Gardens Workshop! Learn about the best plants to use for your very own miniature garden, working with clippings sourced from Snug Harbor's gardens and greenhouse. You can even go the extra mile and personalize it with any 1" waterproof trinket you can bring from home. WHEN: March 7, 9, April 4, 6 \| 2:00 PM WHERE: Meet at Visitor Info Booth, located at Chapel Road and Gazebo Road (view site map at https://snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/) ADMISSION: $15 \| Students, seniors, and Snug Harbor Members receive a 20% discount Tickets here: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg000001WkvCMAS https://www.facebook.com/events/410967711327020/?event_time_id=410967721327019 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Shakespeare in the P… Shakespeare in the Park (Free) Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: New York, New York Description: www.EventsInYourCity.com/nyc Info - https://www.publictheater.org/Free-Shakespeare-in-the-Park/ You need a Free Ticket to attend Every summer, the Public Theater produces a beloved NYC democratic tradition and one of the best free things to do in NYC: Shakespeare in the Park, presented at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park. There’s nothing quite like hearing the Bard’s immortal words performed outside in New York, with a backdrop of natural splendor and the Belvedere Castle looming in the background like the world’s most impressive set decoration. But Shakespeare in the Park’s popularity means that tickets aren’t easy to come by. Like The NYC Daily Event List for more upcoming events! https://www.facebook.com/events/1146813955805630/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 4, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: Saint Alban's Episcopal Church, 76 St Albans Pl, Staten Island, NY, United States Description: The Pipes are Calling... Join Richmond County Pipe & Drums A Staten Island community Bagpipe & Drum band proudly serving Staten Island and the greater NYC area for almost 40 years Free Lessons on Bagpipes & Drums Every Thursday Night, except holidays 7:30pm - 10pm St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Eltingville Family Fun / Bring a Friend No Experience Necessary! We will teach you everything you need to know Please email ahead in case of any unforeseen cancellations: richmondcountypipesdrums@gmail.com More Info: http://www.richmondcountypipesanddrums.com Any other questions: Kathy Burke 917-837-3272 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	5 National Deep Dish P… National Deep Dish Pizza Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 5, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Deep Dish Pizza Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 5, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 5, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 5, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 5, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: Staten Island Children's Museum, 1000 Richmond Terrace building m, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Learn different cooking techniques at the museum. It's different each month! Free with museum admission Also at 4 PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events First Fridays Nation… First Fridays National Lighthouse Museum Staten Island Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 8:30 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum, 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Lighthouse Jeopardy Night Game times are 6pm & 7pm More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • •	6 National Caramel Pop… National Caramel Popcorn Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Caramel Popcorn Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Yoga on the lawn at … Yoga on the lawn at Alice Austen House with Be Yoga SI Starts: 8:00 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 9:00 am Location: Alice Austen House @ 2 Hylan Blvd, New York, New York, New York, New York, 10305, United States Description: All levels Gentle Flow by Donation. Must pre-register for class at www.beyogasi.com. Only students who are registered my attend class. Occupancy 24 students. Social distancing will be practiced and masks are required to and from mat. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring yoga mat, towel, water, and anything else you need for practice. Portion of proceeds benefit the Alice Austen House Museum. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events ROC'N WEDNESDAY… ROC'N WEDNESDAY! Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc's TappenTeers At Work-Park Clean-up Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: Tappen Park, Bay St, Staten Island, NY 10304, USA Description: Want to become a TappenTeer and reimagine Tappen Park? Everyone is invited to join Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc in collaboration with Community Partners at Tappen Park's TappenTeers At Work-Park Clean-up! Engage in this community service project on Saturday, April 6, 2024, from 10:00am to 1:00pm to remove trash and help beautify Tappen Park. Dress in warm clothing, thick pants, and waterproof footwear. Gloves, tools, and snacks will be provided, while supplies last. Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc Volunteer Service Agreement forms must be completed by each participant. Register for free on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/tappenteers-at-work-park-clean-up-tickets-854509439737 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tappenteers-at-work-park-clean-up-tickets-854509439737 Follow IG @rocanaturalculturalfoundation & FB @rocanaturalculturalfoundation More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Staten Island Zoo, 614 Broadway, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: The Staten Island Zoo is happy to introduce our Saturday Zoofari program. We have created six exciting programs for children in PreK through 6th grade. This is a four hour (10am - 2pm) drop off program at the zoo. Please pack a lunch for the day. There is no refrigeration for the lunches at the zoo so the lunches need to be non-perishable. You can register for any number of sessions or all six! There is a 15% discount on the total price if you register for all six sessions. Register here: http://statenislandzoo.doubleknot.com/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2446149&OrgKey=3637&ReturnURL=%2fOpenRosters%2fViewActivitySpaceAvailable.aspx%3fclassificationid%3d55250%26orgkey%3d3637# More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Meditation Class Meditation Class Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 6, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: The Museum's meditation class is held Saturdays at 11:30 AM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/meditation-classes More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Faber Building Open Access More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Asbury Park Mrs Rope… Asbury Park Mrs Roper Romp Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Asbury Lanes Description: Bust out your finest kaftan and pearls. The Asbury Park chapter of The Mrs Roper Romp is going out, with or without Stanley! This is a full-costume, Mrs Roper gathering that the New York Times describes as “a bunch of loud redheads nursing froufrou cocktails and cha-cha-ing around in platform wedges”. DETAILS: All Ropers will gather at 2:00pm at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Street, Asbury Park) where we will enjoy cocktails, bowling and some fun surprises to be announced. There will be a group photo at 3:30 that will later be shared on this event page. The Asbury Lanes space is open to us until 6:00 pm. A 500+ person bar crawl just isn’t possible but Asbury Lanes will be a fabulous home base. I WILL UPDATE EVENT DETAILS AS THEY ARE DECIDED. Thank you all for your interest in this event. it has become bigger than anyone expected and has done so organically and free of charge. Can’t wait to rock that red wig and kaftan with all of you! FAQS YES, This event is STILL FREE TO ATTEND (food and drink NOT included). NO, you do not have to register. I only ask that you RSVP on the event page. Dressing as Mrs Roper (or any Three’s company character) is mandatory for entry. https://www.facebook.com/events/1030466778246315/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Community Conversati… Community Conversation \| 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 3:00 pm Location: 5 Central Ave, Staten Island, NY Description: Join Michael Koncewicz, Associate Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge in this community conversation surrounding acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg's latest book, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed. 2020 will go down alongside 1914, 1929, and 1968 as one of the most consequential years in history. Acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg's latest book, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, is the first attempt to capture the full human experience of that fateful time. At the heart of 2020 are seven vivid profiles of ordinary New Yorkers—including an elementary school principal, a bar manager, a subway custodian, and a local political aide—whose experiences illuminate how Americans, and people across the globe, reckoned with 2020. Klinenberg vividly captures these stories, casting them against the backdrop of a high-stakes presidential election, a surge of misinformation, rising distrust, and raging protests. 2020 not only helps us reckon with what we lived through, but also with the challenges we face before the next crisis arrives. At this event, Michael Koncewicz, Associate Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU adjunct professor will discuss the book and its themes with library patrons. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eric Klinenberg is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance and author of Palaces for the People, Going Solo, Heat Wave, and Fighting for Air. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, and This American Life. He lives in New York City. https://www.facebook.com/events/245355611998524/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tiny Gardens Worksho… Tiny Gardens Workshop Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 3:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: Bring the outside indoors and make your own terrarium at the Tiny Gardens Workshop! Learn about the best plants to use for your very own miniature garden, working with clippings sourced from Snug Harbor's gardens and greenhouse. You can even go the extra mile and personalize it with any 1" waterproof trinket you can bring from home. WHEN: March 7, 9, April 4, 6 \| 2:00 PM WHERE: Meet at Visitor Info Booth, located at Chapel Road and Gazebo Road (view site map at https://snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/) ADMISSION: $15 \| Students, seniors, and Snug Harbor Members receive a 20% discount Tickets here: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg000001WkvCMAS https://www.facebook.com/events/410967711327020/?event_time_id=410967714660353 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: Tai Chi is held on Saturdays at 3:30 PM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/tai-chi More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tavern Concerts @ Hi… Tavern Concerts @ Historic Richmond Town Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 11:00 pm Location: Guyon Tavern, Richmond Road, Staten Island, 10306 Description: Tavern Concerts — Historic Richmond Town This indoor winter concert series will take place in the newly restored Guyon Tavern, located on Richmond Road. The Tavern boasts a wood-burning stove, flickering candles, live music and the true feel of a 19th century saloon. Beverage options harken back to the period and include hot spiced apple cider, scratch made mulled wine, as well as a refreshing selection of beers. Restoration projects recently completed at the nearly 200 year old historic Guyon Tavern, repaired damage from a 2017 car accident as well as structural and cosmetic work giving the building a functional tavern space that is true to its 1820s heritage. Shows are scheduled for every Saturday, at 6:00:PM and 8:00PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Scenes from the Stat… Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: April 6, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre,2205 Richmond Road, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: Sundog Theatre’s 22nd annual presentation of new and original, one-act plays about our favorite boats. 2024 theme: Things Are Not What They Seem. This year’s Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry winning plays: All the World by Michael J. Veasey Directed by Craig Stoebling Cold Hot Coffee by Margaret McAleese Directed by Barbara Brandt Lost Connection by Louis Affortunato Directed by Larry Marshall SUNRISE~sunset = Goodbye by Theo Gallagher Directed by Ken Tirado They Look Just Like Everybody Else by Courtney Emerson Directed by James Barone Would You Believe Me? by Matt Gilleece Directed by Austin Nakamura Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 April 6 & 13 at 8 PM April 7, 13 & 14 at 3 PM New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre 2205 Richmond Rd (corner of Todt Hill Rd), Staten Island, NY 10306 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	7 National Beer Day National Beer Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 7, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Beer Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 7, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRACE Walk for All GRACE Walk for All Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 7, 2024 - 11:00 am Location: Midland Beach (by Turtles),Midland Beach, Staten Island, NY, USA Description: Join Us At Our Walk For All! The First Annual Walk for All with GRACE and our partners:s: CSH HS For International Studies, Concord, Curtis, Eagle Academy, Gaynor McGown, Great Kills, Hungerford, McKee, New Dorp, Petrides, Port Richmond, SI Tech, South Richmond, Susan Wagner, Tottenville, Public Elementary & Middle Schools and more as we all walk for Autism Awareness April is Autism Awareness month and you’re invited to join The GRACE Foundation for our First Annual Walk For All Event. Registration is $20 per person and includes a GRACE T-Shirt. You can register as a walker OR you can even create your own team and launch your own fundraising efforts by clicking our Create A Team Button. You’ll have the ability to create your own team name and fundraiser and invite family, friends and supports and either walk along with you or simply make a donation to show thier support! https://graceofny.org/grace-walk-for-all/ https://graceofny.org/grace-walk-for-all/0?fbclid=IwAR0devpSQ_KcSTrSn-mK6D_WVuxsWtu2fu7BEAAhXkf9rHIE7x8rwPZ7qUk More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 7, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Conference House Park, 298 Satterlee St, Staten Island, NY 10307, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Sundays @ 9 a.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: Off Hylan Blvd., next to the parking lot, on the path that leads to the water More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 7, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 7, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 7, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 7, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Empowering Voices 20… Empowering Voices 2024: A Musical Revue to Benefit IlluminArt's Youth Programs Starts: 1:00 pm Ends: April 7, 2024 - 5:30 pm Location: The Historic Old Bermuda Inn Restaurant and Catering Hall Description: Rehearsals have begun, our honorees have been chosen, and the raffle baskets are being assembled. All that's missing is YOU! Join us for the biggest and best Empowering Voices yet on Sunday, April 7, at the Old Bermuda Inn. Spend the afternoon eating lunch, celebrating pillars of the Staten Island community, and taking in the stunning voices of our musical revue. Our 2024 Honorees: David LaMorte (Posthumously)- Assistant Principal of Visual, Performibg, and Career Arts at Tottenville High School and Director of the Staten Island Community Band Virginia Allen- CSI Doctorate of Humane Letters and “Black Angel” Gail Castellano- 1st Vice President of New York Community Bank Dr. Nicole Reid Christopher- Senior Director of Implementation and Instruction at the NYC Department of Education Each Ticket includes a five course meal (including passed hor dourves), wine and beer, and our musical revue! $100 per Adult Ticket $50 per Child Ticket (up to age 12) https://www.facebook.com/events/408073031673113/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 7, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Mendelsohn, Mozart a… Mendelsohn, Mozart and More Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 7, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: JCC of Staten Island Description: The Richmond County Orchestra and Maestro Alan Aurelia celebrate our 26th anniversary season on Staten Island featuring Letao Li, child prodigy pianist performing Mendelssohn's piano concerto #1 mov. 1, the World premier of "The New Moon" by Valeda Zaage Bell, with soprano Anita Berger, and Offenbach's famous "Can Can" danced by Christine Leonardi-Kramer. limited space GET YOUR TICKETS NOW AND SAVE students and children FREE! https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6269318 Program order: 1.Symphony #40 first movement by W.A. Mozart 2."The New Moon" World Premiere composed and conducted by Valeda Zaage Bell featuring Anita Berger soprano 3.Playful Pizzicato from Simply Symphony by B. Britten 4. Danza Final from Estancia by A. Ginastera 5.Can-can from Orpheus in the Underworld by J. Offenbach, Christine Leonardi-Kramer dancer. 6. Piano Concerto #1 Mov. 1 by F. Mendelssohn, Letao Li pianist This program is made possible in part by public funding from the NYC Dept. of Cultural affairs our membership and you! Live Music Matters! https://www.facebook.com/events/853931256493073/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Scenes from the Stat… Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 7, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre,2205 Richmond Road, Staten Island, NY, USA Description: Sundog Theatre’s 22nd annual presentation of new and original, one-act plays about our favorite boats. 2024 theme: Things Are Not What They Seem. This year’s Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry winning plays: All the World by Michael J. Veasey Directed by Craig Stoebling Cold Hot Coffee by Margaret McAleese Directed by Barbara Brandt Lost Connection by Louis Affortunato Directed by Larry Marshall SUNRISE~sunset = Goodbye by Theo Gallagher Directed by Ken Tirado They Look Just Like Everybody Else by Courtney Emerson Directed by James Barone Would You Believe Me? by Matt Gilleece Directed by Austin Nakamura Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 April 6 & 13 at 8 PM April 7, 13 & 14 at 3 PM New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre 2205 Richmond Rd (corner of Todt Hill Rd), Staten Island, NY 10306 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • •
8 National Empanada Da… National Empanada Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 8, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Empanada Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 8, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 8, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 8, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 8, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 8, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Teen Movie Monday We… Teen Movie Monday West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 8, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: Teen Movie Monday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 6:30 pm Ends: April 8, 2024 - 7:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Anxiety & Stress… Anxiety & Stress Solutions: Weekly Classes to Learn How to Reduce and Remove Anxiety & Stress Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 8, 2024 - 8:30 pm Location: 1698 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Location: Act Adult Day Care 1698 Victory Blvd. Castleton Corners Staten Island, NY 10314 These class are offered free with a suggested donation of $10. To attend this workshop, please click here: https://goo.gl/pPnvWM or TheCompassionCenter.com For more information, contact Dan Globus at (888) 377-7761 or e-mail info@TheCompassionCenter.com About Act Adult Day Care ACT is a comprehensive educational/social program which focuses on strengthening, stimulating and retraining the brain of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's/Dementia. Our mission is to keep people with AD/D involved in carefully planned activities that have been shown to significantly improve cognitive and physical health. About The Compassion Center The Compassion Center teaches Meditation classes to people and organizations seeking anxiety solutions, stress relief, depression treatment, anger treatment, ways to deal with emotional trauma, loss and grief. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • •	9 National Former Pris… National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 9, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Former P.O.W Recognition Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Ocean Breeze Open House Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 9, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex, 625 Father Capodanno Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10305, USA Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Ocean Breeze Open House https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2744&sport_id=7 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 9, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tot Time Tuesdays Tot Time Tuesdays Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 9, 2024 - 11:30 am Location: Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center, 2351 Veterans Rd W, Staten Island, NY 10309, USA Description: Explore a different nature theme each week during this indoor play group. Story time starts at 10:30am followed by a short hike at 11:00am, weather permitting. Ages 0-3. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Silver Lak… Open Run: Silver Lake Park Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Silver Lake Park Rd, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Tuesdays @ 7 p.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: At the lake bridge, down the hill from the intersection of Victory Blvd. and Eddy St. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Adult Acting Class -… Adult Acting Class - Adults 18 and over Spotlight Studios Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 9, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: 358 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: ADULT ACTING ~ Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:00pm ~ ages 18 - adult Also back by popular demand! This acting class is open to all experience levels. Participants will explore the fundamentals of acting through monologue work, scene study, improvisation, story-telling, and journaling. The class size is limited to 8 actors. There will be a final presentation. This class is taught by Mary Lee Aloia, Meggan Herod, and John Stewart. 8-week session starts October 18, 2022 Fee: $150 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • •	10 National Siblings Da… National Siblings Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Siblings Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events New York City Center… New York City Center Administrative Apprenticeship Program Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: In conjunction with the 2021-2022 season, City Center's Administrative Apprenticeship Program is accepting applications for early-career and career-changing individuals to apprentice in Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing and Production Management. We are committed to training the next generation of creative, passionate arts professionals by building pathways to careers in the arts for candidates underrepresented in the field of arts administration. The program runs from September to May and includes paid training. Apprentices are paid $15 per hour for 24 hours a week. Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm. Weekly schedules vary by department. Needs-based scholarships are available. Through this program, apprentices will: -Commit to a season-long paid part-time apprenticeship in either Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing or Production Management. -Work directly with a department supervisor and colleagues. -Build a professional network and engage in career planning under the guidance of a designated Mentor. -Participate in a three-day paid training that includes department meet and greets, professional development workshops, entrance interviews and professional goal setting with supervisors. -Attend seminars with City Center staff and artists. -Participate in City Center's staff initiatives, including anti-racism workshops, committees and all-staff meetings. -Complete a solo project in their area of focus. -Observe rehearsals and attend performances, when possible. -Deliver a final group presentation to City Center staff. Application Deadline: Wednesday, June 23 at 11:59PM The application and additional program information can be found here. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Call for Photog… Open Call for Photographers: 'My 20/20' World Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: The Art Guild invites all photographers and artists, high school and older, to submit photography for consideration for My “20/20” World Photography Show, an Online Juried Competition and Exhibition. What is your “20/20” vision? The past year limited our access to the world and posed unprecedented challenges. It also sparked our creativity. We photographed indoors; or, mask in place, we ventured out to capture new images. Perhaps past work came to mind and we used this time to review or revise it. Show us art that shines through a difficult time. Your work will be exhibited in an online gallery. CRITERIA All photographic genres are welcome: portraits, landscapes, photojournalism, macro photography and composites. All work must be original. Submitted work must be the artist’s own. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered. JUROR OF AWARDS Award-winning photographers Bill and Gen Rudock will serve as Jurors of Awards. With over 60 years of combined photographic experience, they share a love and passion for photography, traveling, nature, and wildlife. Their knowledge and their reputations have made them sought after speakers, lecturers, and workshop instructors. ENTRY FEE(S) Entry fees are payable online when you upload or by mailing a check or using Paypal as detailed below. Registration is required and fees are non-refundable. Members: $25 (1-2 pieces) Non-members: $35 (1-2 pieces) High School Student members: $15 (1-2 pieces) One additional entry: $10 (per person) No more than 3 works per artist. Entry fees are non-refundable. AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions • Student awards will also be given, if appropriate. https://www.theartguild.org/my-2020-world-photography-show More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Baker Square Starts: 7:30 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Intersection of Hyatt & Stuyvesant Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events NAMI NYC Staten Isla… NAMI NYC Staten Island Support Group at the JCC Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC,1466 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Join NAMI NYC Staten Island at the JCC to support family members, significant others and friends of people with mental health conditions. For more information please contact Paloma Wasserstein at pwassersteain@sijcc.com mailto:pwassersteain@sijcc.com or 718.475.5228 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 10, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 10, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 10, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 10, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 10, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 10, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 10, 2024 - 5:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room A / Media Lab (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Be a part of our First Lego League Robotics Team. Join our team to learn science, technology, engineering, and math through fun hands-on learning experiences. Learn to solve real-world problems, build and code Lego robots, and learn how to work as a team to compete in Robotics competitions. Ages 9 - 14 years old! More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	11 Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 11, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 11, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 11, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 11, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ep. 5 Indira Somani … Ep. 5 Indira Somani \| Shining Light on Shadows: South Asian Community / Caregiving Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 10:00 pm Description: Please join me and my co-host, Dawn Helmrich, for the fifth episode of “Shining Light on Shadows: A Candid Conversation About Mental Health.” Our guest will be Indira Somani, an independent documentary filmmaker. She is currently finishing a documentary about her mother’s 20-year struggle with depression and Indira’s role as her primary caregiver. Our conversation will focus on mental health in the South Asian community, and separately, the challenges of caregiving. We’ll be live on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and my website Thursday, April 11 at 7pm ET / 6pm CT. If you can’t watch the show live, you can watch the recording at your convenience. Click here for more details and links to watch on other channels: https://www.neilparekh.org/post/ep-5-indira-somani-shining-light-on-shadows In Indira’s blog post, “Telling my Mom’s Story AND Caring for Her,” she writes, “I am making this film because I want people to understand that South Asian families also struggle with depression, struggle with figuring out caregiving, struggle with adult siblings trying to figure out how to manage long-term plans for their parents. I want people to understand that with proper psychiatric care and medication, people can still lead fulfilling lives.” In Dawn’s blog post, “A Daughter’s Rape, A Mother’s Cancer,” she writes, “My silent hell as a caregiver was always there. The anxiety, deep fear, and depression were once again nearly unbearable. I felt selfish for wanting her to not leave me. I felt selfish for making it about me and my feelings. I felt selfish for wishing it wasn’t like this and that I didn’t have to see her suffer while she was the one who was doing the most suffering.” In my blog post, “Representation Matters for the South Asian Community,” I write, “When I first heard about Indira’s film, I immediately thought of older female relatives, the aunties in the community. I thought of several who had lost their husbands years ago (like Indira’s mom). How many people do I know are suffering or have suffered from depression?” We launched this twice a month show (the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month) in order to help reduce the stigma associated with mental health. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be joined by friends and colleagues who are working through or have worked through their own challenges, practitioners who can speak to some of the issues faced by their clients and advocates who can talk about a range of different issues. Click here to learn more about the show and to read the blog posts referenced above. https://www.neilparekh.org/shininglightonshadows The show is produced by Digimentors on a pro bono basis. https://www.facebook.com/events/1949044192218705/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 11, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: Saint Alban's Episcopal Church, 76 St Albans Pl, Staten Island, NY, United States Description: The Pipes are Calling... Join Richmond County Pipe & Drums A Staten Island community Bagpipe & Drum band proudly serving Staten Island and the greater NYC area for almost 40 years Free Lessons on Bagpipes & Drums Every Thursday Night, except holidays 7:30pm - 10pm St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Eltingville Family Fun / Bring a Friend No Experience Necessary! We will teach you everything you need to know Please email ahead in case of any unforeseen cancellations: richmondcountypipesdrums@gmail.com More Info: http://www.richmondcountypipesanddrums.com Any other questions: Kathy Burke 917-837-3272 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	12 National Grilled Che… National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 12, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Grilled Cheese Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 12, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 12, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 12, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 12, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: Staten Island Children's Museum, 1000 Richmond Terrace building m, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Learn different cooking techniques at the museum. It's different each month! Free with museum admission Also at 4 PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vin Innocente LIVE a… Vin Innocente LIVE at O'Neill's Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: O'Neill's Staten Island Description: On Friday, April 12 I'll be playing at O'Neill's Staten Island starting at 7pm! For reservations call (718) 273-4481 https://www.facebook.com/events/467541755595448/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Music from English C… Music from English Court Masques with Collectio Musicorum Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 9:30 pm Location: Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Description: Apr 12, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA About the event Dr. Jeff S. Dailey, a longtime friend of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, has been displaying his collection of Himalayan musical objects at the Museum since 2021. In April of 2024, part of his collection will be switched with some new objects never before seen by the public. Now retired as a college professor and administrator, Dr. Dailey devotes his time to research into the musical cultures of the Himalayas. After graduating from Wagner College, he went on to earn his PhD from New York University. He serves as president of the American Musicological Society's Greater New York Chapter. In addition to viewing instruments from Dr. Dailey's collection, all of which are interesting from both musicological, historical, and artistic perspectives, Collectio Musicorum, the non-profit organization from Dr. Dailey, will present Music from English Court Masques at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Friday, April 12, 2024. The concert will begin at 8 pm and will be followed by a reception. Admission is $15.00. The English Court Masque was the most extravagant theatrical event of its time, evolving during the 16th century and reaching its climax in productions at the court of King James I and his successors in the 17th century. These theatrical extravaganzas featured both professional and amateur performers, combining florid poetry and music with sumptuous scenery and costumes. Collectio Musicorum, under the direction of Dr. Dailey, will perform highlights from four 17th-century masques—Lord Hay’s Masque, The Masque of Beauty, The Masque of Queens, and The Masque of Oberon. The concert will be performed by Dr. Dailey, assisted by tenor Alex Longnecker, gambist Patricia Ann Neely, and lutenist Christopher Morrongiello. The Jacques Marchais Museum provides a suitably exotic setting for this music. Constructed in 1947 to imitate a Himalayan temple, it will be illuminated by candlelight to evoke the luxurious surroundings of the Stuart court. https://www.facebook.com/events/436951828997186/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Newhouse After Dark:… Newhouse After Dark: Bars and Beats Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 11:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: Hip hop as a general rule consists of two elements: an instrumental track [Beats] and a vocal track [Bars]. The artist who crafts the beat is the producer or beatmaker, and the one who crafts the rap is the MC. Prepare to immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Staten Island hip-hop as we showcase contemporary artists who are leaving an indelible mark both locally and beyond. WHEN: April 12 \| 8:00 PM WHERE: Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Main Hall Gallery, Building C (View site map and directions here) ADMISSION: $10 \| Snug Harbor Members: $8 Buy tickets here: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg000001mciLMAQ Join us for an electrifying evening featuring Eddy I and SickInTheHead, delivering enthralling bars that draw you in and inspire contemplation, while bringing an element of excitement and enjoyment as D3signer.Dr3ams sets the stage ablaze with meticulously crafted beats that pulse with rhythm and energy. With three exhilarating sets lined up, this is an event you won't want to miss. Featuring: Eddy I (@eddygotsalsa) SickInTheHead (@sickinthehead92) D3signer.Dr3ams (@d3signer.dr3ams) Curated by Jahtiek Long Newhouse After Dark is a series that invites audiences to encounter the galleries up close after hours through performances, screenings, and social experiences. A venue for experimental and exciting performance, Newhouse After Dark invites artists to share their work against the backdrop of the landmarked Main Hall Gallery. https://www.facebook.com/events/322033103801105/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	13 Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Thomas Jefferson… Thomas Jefferson's Birthday Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Yoga on the lawn at … Yoga on the lawn at Alice Austen House with Be Yoga SI Starts: 8:00 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 9:00 am Location: Alice Austen House @ 2 Hylan Blvd, New York, New York, New York, New York, 10305, United States Description: All levels Gentle Flow by Donation. Must pre-register for class at www.beyogasi.com. Only students who are registered my attend class. Occupancy 24 students. Social distancing will be practiced and masks are required to and from mat. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring yoga mat, towel, water, and anything else you need for practice. Portion of proceeds benefit the Alice Austen House Museum. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Zimmer Club Youth Co… Zimmer Club Youth Conservation Enrollment & Breakfast Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: 4411 Arthur Kill Rd, Staten Island, NY 10309, USA Description: Please join us on Saturday, Jan 31st 2015 @ 9:00am as we kick off our open enrollment for the 2015 Youth Conservation Classes. We will have an introduction and overview of our program along with a special guest followed by a breakfast for all. The classes will run approximately 12-15 weeks and encompass topics such as emergency first aid, map reading, archery, boater safety and habitat awareness just to name a few. The course is open to children between the ages of 10-17. Children under 10 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All courses are free as well as lunch after. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate of completion along with a free brand new Huck Fin fishing rod. For more information email info@aezyouth.com. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Staten Island Zoo, 614 Broadway, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: The Staten Island Zoo is happy to introduce our Saturday Zoofari program. We have created six exciting programs for children in PreK through 6th grade. This is a four hour (10am - 2pm) drop off program at the zoo. Please pack a lunch for the day. There is no refrigeration for the lunches at the zoo so the lunches need to be non-perishable. You can register for any number of sessions or all six! There is a 15% discount on the total price if you register for all six sessions. Register here: http://statenislandzoo.doubleknot.com/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2446149&OrgKey=3637&ReturnURL=%2fOpenRosters%2fViewActivitySpaceAvailable.aspx%3fclassificationid%3d55250%26orgkey%3d3637# More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Meditation Class Meditation Class Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 13, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: The Museum's meditation class is held Saturdays at 11:30 AM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/meditation-classes More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Faber Building Open Access More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events NY Chinese Scholar&#… NY Chinese Scholar's Garden - 25th Anniversary Luncheon Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: The Great Hall at Snug Harbor,1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: A fundraising luncheon to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden at Snug Harbor, groundbreaking of Phase 1 of restoration, and launch of capital campaign. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Children's Croc… Children's Crochet Time Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: 5 Central Ave, Staten Island, NY, United States, New York 10301 Description: This is an in-person event taking place at the St. George Library Center. Come visit the children room floor to learn how to crochet! Best suited for school-aged children only https://www.facebook.com/events/441106978276518/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Scenes from the Stat… Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre,2205 Richmond Road, Staten Island, NY, USA Description: Sundog Theatre’s 22nd annual presentation of new and original, one-act plays about our favorite boats. 2024 theme: Things Are Not What They Seem. This year’s Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry winning plays: All the World by Michael J. Veasey Directed by Craig Stoebling Cold Hot Coffee by Margaret McAleese Directed by Barbara Brandt Lost Connection by Louis Affortunato Directed by Larry Marshall SUNRISE~sunset = Goodbye by Theo Gallagher Directed by Ken Tirado They Look Just Like Everybody Else by Courtney Emerson Directed by James Barone Would You Believe Me? by Matt Gilleece Directed by Austin Nakamura Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 April 6 & 13 at 8 PM April 7, 13 & 14 at 3 PM New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre 2205 Richmond Rd (corner of Todt Hill Rd), Staten Island, NY 10306 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: Tai Chi is held on Saturdays at 3:30 PM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/tai-chi More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tavern Concerts @ Hi… Tavern Concerts @ Historic Richmond Town Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 11:00 pm Location: Guyon Tavern, Richmond Road, Staten Island, 10306 Description: Tavern Concerts — Historic Richmond Town This indoor winter concert series will take place in the newly restored Guyon Tavern, located on Richmond Road. The Tavern boasts a wood-burning stove, flickering candles, live music and the true feel of a 19th century saloon. Beverage options harken back to the period and include hot spiced apple cider, scratch made mulled wine, as well as a refreshing selection of beers. Restoration projects recently completed at the nearly 200 year old historic Guyon Tavern, repaired damage from a 2017 car accident as well as structural and cosmetic work giving the building a functional tavern space that is true to its 1820s heritage. Shows are scheduled for every Saturday, at 6:00:PM and 8:00PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Scenes from the Stat… Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: April 13, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre,2205 Richmond Road, Staten Island, NY, USA Description: Sundog Theatre’s 22nd annual presentation of new and original, one-act plays about our favorite boats. 2024 theme: Things Are Not What They Seem. This year’s Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry winning plays: All the World by Michael J. Veasey Directed by Craig Stoebling Cold Hot Coffee by Margaret McAleese Directed by Barbara Brandt Lost Connection by Louis Affortunato Directed by Larry Marshall SUNRISE~sunset = Goodbye by Theo Gallagher Directed by Ken Tirado They Look Just Like Everybody Else by Courtney Emerson Directed by James Barone Would You Believe Me? by Matt Gilleece Directed by Austin Nakamura Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 April 6 & 13 at 8 PM April 7, 13 & 14 at 3 PM New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre 2205 Richmond Rd (corner of Todt Hill Rd), Staten Island, NY 10306 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	14 National Dolphin Day National Dolphin Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 14, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Dolphin Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 14, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Ocean Breeze WaveRunners Youth Challenge Series Meet #1 Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 14, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Icahn Stadium Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Ocean Breeze WaveRunners Youth Challenge Series Meet #1 https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2792&sport_id=6 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 14, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Conference House Park, 298 Satterlee St, Staten Island, NY 10307, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Sundays @ 9 a.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: Off Hylan Blvd., next to the parking lot, on the path that leads to the water More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events ♻ Spring Shred-a-tho… ♻ Spring Shred-a-thon and E-Waste Recycling Event ♻ Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 14, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Fulton St, New York, NY, United States Description: 📋 📝 📨 📄 📃 📂 Shred-a-thon: Bring all your sensitive documents, tax receipts, junk mail, bills, and more to be securely shredded and recycled at this free community event. Please no binders, X-rays, blueprints, prescription bottle labels, credit cards or projector slides. 📷 📹 💿 💻 📱📺 E-Waste Reuse and Recycling Drop Off: Bring electronics (working and non-working) that are currently collecting dust, the following list covers what to bring: - Computers (laptops, desktops, servers, mainframes) - Monitors (CRT and flatscreen) - Handheld devices (smartphones, tablets, MP3 players, e-readers) - Network devices (routers, hubs, modems) - Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers) - Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies) - Printers under 50 pounds, scanners, fax machines - TVs - VCRs, DVRs, DVD and Blu-ray players - Digital converter boxes, cable/satellite receivers - Video-game consoles and accessories - Cell phones, pagers, PDAs - Audiovisual equipment (cameras, microphones, stereo equipment, etc.) We cannot accept home appliances such as microwaves, humidifiers and dehumidifiers, refrigerators, air conditioners or ionization smoke detectors/carbon monoxide detectors (those that are labeled as containing radioactive material); batteries, except lead-acid batteries from uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems, and media like floppy disks, CDs, VHS tapes and cassette tapes are also not accepted. For additional e-waste questions you can check out the LES Ecology Center’s FAQ at https://www.lesecologycenter.org/e-waste/#faq. For other items that require disposal, use the Department of Sanitation’s How to Get Rid of… tool at https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/. https://www.facebook.com/events/730392622625352/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 14, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 14, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 14, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 14, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Eid Al-Fitr on the E… Eid Al-Fitr on the Esplanade Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 14, 2024 - 3:00 pm Location: Staten Island North Shore Esplanade , Richmond Terrace and St Peters Place Description: Soo excited about the upcoming Eid Al-Fitr Eid on the Esplanade . This Free community event celebrates the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and prayer in the Islamic religion. It will take place on the picturesque Esplanade on the Northshore of Staten Island and is open to people of all cultures and religions. There will be a variety of activities for people to participate in. Our guest will enjoy complimentary traditional foods , along with activities, games, and toy giveaways. Overall, Eid Al-Fitr on the Esplanade is a wonderful event that brings people together to celebrate and appreciate the diversity of Staten Island. It is a great opportunity to learn about Islamic culture and traditions and to celebrate the end of Ramadan with the larger community. https://www.facebook.com/events/1769031603576809/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 14, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Snug Harbor Dance Fe… Snug Harbor Dance Festival: ChoreoLab with Nubian Néné Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 14, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: PASS artist in residence Nubian Néné will lead dance artists in ChoreoLab, a workshop geared toward dance and the creative process. ChoreoLab, a program of the Snug Harbor Dance Festival, is a new intentional creative space for dance artists to explore process, experimentation, and community. WHEN: April 14 \| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM WHERE: Newhouse Center, Gallery G 103 – Building G, 1st Floor at Snug Harbor ADMISSION: $10 \| Snug Harbor Members: $8 \| BUY TICKETS HERE: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg000001roFpMAI Advance registration requested and recommended. We will accept day-of drop-ins if space permits. Bring new material, ideas, questions, and an open mind to the floor. We will move through a collective warm-up, exercises to generate creativity and dialogue around each other’s work, and share an open space to connect with one another. Nubian Néné is a Montreal native and a New York-based dancer/choreographer who weaves Street & Club dances to create her unique captivating style. Her resilience and hard work stem from her Haitian roots, enabling her to expand into a producer, a creative director, a curator, a visual artist, a teacher, and a reliable asset to the innovative Montreal-based multidisciplinary collective: FRGMNT. Her mentors, some of the pioneers of the Street & Club dance cultures, support, encourage, and inspire her to identify cultural references, to be involved and engaged in community, and through pedagogy help carry the weight of legacy. Signature Verses Liberation (2022), an ode to architecture, dance, and drawing, is her first visual art installation, and proof of harmony. A hybrid context, with an amalgam of texture, layers, and patterns examined and imagined by the artist. She's the creator of Waack Bazaar, The Essence Experience, Glasses & Laces, and A Lady in The House Dance Company. This series is open to dancers, choreographers, and movers of all levels, though having some experience in dance and performance is recommended. SHDF ChoreoLab, a series under the Snug Harbor Dance Festival, is made possible in part by the Howard Gilman Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.facebook.com/events/3309275896045302/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Scenes from the Stat… Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 14, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre,2205 Richmond Road, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: Sundog Theatre’s 22nd annual presentation of new and original, one-act plays about our favorite boats. 2024 theme: Things Are Not What They Seem. This year’s Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry winning plays: All the World by Michael J. Veasey Directed by Craig Stoebling Cold Hot Coffee by Margaret McAleese Directed by Barbara Brandt Lost Connection by Louis Affortunato Directed by Larry Marshall SUNRISE~sunset = Goodbye by Theo Gallagher Directed by Ken Tirado They Look Just Like Everybody Else by Courtney Emerson Directed by James Barone Would You Believe Me? by Matt Gilleece Directed by Austin Nakamura Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2024 April 6 & 13 at 8 PM April 7, 13 & 14 at 3 PM New Dorp Moravian Church Theatre 2205 Richmond Rd (corner of Todt Hill Rd), Staten Island, NY 10306 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • •
15 National Tax Day National Tax Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 15, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Tax Day! Don't forget to file. Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 15, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Creative Endeavors w… Creative Endeavors with SI Arts! Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: Maker Park Radio - www.makerparkradio.nyc Description: Tune into SI Arts' monthly radio show! The show features projects and opportunities connected to the council as well as informing the community about all the programs SI Arts offers. The show highlights past grantee projects along with informing people about upcoming grantee projects they can experience in their own neighborhoods. Through interviews with artists/creators/makers the show explores the greatest benefits of exercising creativity. The expression of creative ideas and how that expression can lead to facing the fear of failure, building self-worth, and seeing the world differently. The show is hosted by SI Arts Deputy Director Gena Mimozo You can tune into the show every 3rd Monday of the month from 2pm – 4pm on makerparkradio.nyc To listen through a mobile device download the Mixlr or TuneIn app. https://statenislandarts.org/creative-endeavors-radio-show/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Teen Movie Monday We… Teen Movie Monday West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: Teen Movie Monday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 6:30 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 7:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Anxiety & Stress… Anxiety & Stress Solutions: Weekly Classes to Learn How to Reduce and Remove Anxiety & Stress Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 15, 2024 - 8:30 pm Location: 1698 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Location: Act Adult Day Care 1698 Victory Blvd. Castleton Corners Staten Island, NY 10314 These class are offered free with a suggested donation of $10. To attend this workshop, please click here: https://goo.gl/pPnvWM or TheCompassionCenter.com For more information, contact Dan Globus at (888) 377-7761 or e-mail info@TheCompassionCenter.com About Act Adult Day Care ACT is a comprehensive educational/social program which focuses on strengthening, stimulating and retraining the brain of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's/Dementia. Our mission is to keep people with AD/D involved in carefully planned activities that have been shown to significantly improve cognitive and physical health. About The Compassion Center The Compassion Center teaches Meditation classes to people and organizations seeking anxiety solutions, stress relief, depression treatment, anger treatment, ways to deal with emotional trauma, loss and grief. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • •	16 DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 16, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tot Time Tuesdays Tot Time Tuesdays Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 16, 2024 - 11:30 am Location: Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center, 2351 Veterans Rd W, Staten Island, NY 10309, USA Description: Explore a different nature theme each week during this indoor play group. Story time starts at 10:30am followed by a short hike at 11:00am, weather permitting. Ages 0-3. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Silver Lak… Open Run: Silver Lake Park Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Silver Lake Park Rd, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Tuesdays @ 7 p.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: At the lake bridge, down the hill from the intersection of Victory Blvd. and Eddy St. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Adult Acting Class -… Adult Acting Class - Adults 18 and over Spotlight Studios Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 16, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: 358 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: ADULT ACTING ~ Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:00pm ~ ages 18 - adult Also back by popular demand! This acting class is open to all experience levels. Participants will explore the fundamentals of acting through monologue work, scene study, improvisation, story-telling, and journaling. The class size is limited to 8 actors. There will be a final presentation. This class is taught by Mary Lee Aloia, Meggan Herod, and John Stewart. 8-week session starts October 18, 2022 Fee: $150 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • •	17 National Haiku Poetr… National Haiku Poetry Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Haiku Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events New York City Center… New York City Center Administrative Apprenticeship Program Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: In conjunction with the 2021-2022 season, City Center's Administrative Apprenticeship Program is accepting applications for early-career and career-changing individuals to apprentice in Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing and Production Management. We are committed to training the next generation of creative, passionate arts professionals by building pathways to careers in the arts for candidates underrepresented in the field of arts administration. The program runs from September to May and includes paid training. Apprentices are paid $15 per hour for 24 hours a week. Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm. Weekly schedules vary by department. Needs-based scholarships are available. Through this program, apprentices will: -Commit to a season-long paid part-time apprenticeship in either Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing or Production Management. -Work directly with a department supervisor and colleagues. -Build a professional network and engage in career planning under the guidance of a designated Mentor. -Participate in a three-day paid training that includes department meet and greets, professional development workshops, entrance interviews and professional goal setting with supervisors. -Attend seminars with City Center staff and artists. -Participate in City Center's staff initiatives, including anti-racism workshops, committees and all-staff meetings. -Complete a solo project in their area of focus. -Observe rehearsals and attend performances, when possible. -Deliver a final group presentation to City Center staff. Application Deadline: Wednesday, June 23 at 11:59PM The application and additional program information can be found here. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Call for Photog… Open Call for Photographers: 'My 20/20' World Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: The Art Guild invites all photographers and artists, high school and older, to submit photography for consideration for My “20/20” World Photography Show, an Online Juried Competition and Exhibition. What is your “20/20” vision? The past year limited our access to the world and posed unprecedented challenges. It also sparked our creativity. We photographed indoors; or, mask in place, we ventured out to capture new images. Perhaps past work came to mind and we used this time to review or revise it. Show us art that shines through a difficult time. Your work will be exhibited in an online gallery. CRITERIA All photographic genres are welcome: portraits, landscapes, photojournalism, macro photography and composites. All work must be original. Submitted work must be the artist’s own. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered. JUROR OF AWARDS Award-winning photographers Bill and Gen Rudock will serve as Jurors of Awards. With over 60 years of combined photographic experience, they share a love and passion for photography, traveling, nature, and wildlife. Their knowledge and their reputations have made them sought after speakers, lecturers, and workshop instructors. ENTRY FEE(S) Entry fees are payable online when you upload or by mailing a check or using Paypal as detailed below. Registration is required and fees are non-refundable. Members: $25 (1-2 pieces) Non-members: $35 (1-2 pieces) High School Student members: $15 (1-2 pieces) One additional entry: $10 (per person) No more than 3 works per artist. Entry fees are non-refundable. AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions • Student awards will also be given, if appropriate. https://www.theartguild.org/my-2020-world-photography-show More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Baker Square Starts: 7:30 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Intersection of Hyatt & Stuyvesant Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events NAMI NYC Staten Isla… NAMI NYC Staten Island Support Group at the JCC Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC,1466 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Join NAMI NYC Staten Island at the JCC to support family members, significant others and friends of people with mental health conditions. For more information please contact Paloma Wasserstein at pwassersteain@sijcc.com mailto:pwassersteain@sijcc.com or 718.475.5228 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 17, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 17, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 17, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 17, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 17, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 17, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 17, 2024 - 5:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room A / Media Lab (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Be a part of our First Lego League Robotics Team. Join our team to learn science, technology, engineering, and math through fun hands-on learning experiences. Learn to solve real-world problems, build and code Lego robots, and learn how to work as a team to compete in Robotics competitions. Ages 9 - 14 years old! More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Borgo di colloredo W… Borgo di colloredo Wine tasting Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 17, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation, 79 Howard Ave, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Borgo di Colloredo Wine Tasting Wednesday, April 17 from 7 to 9 pm Featuring wines from the Borgo di Colloredo winery in Molise, Italy Borgo di Colloredo Winery is owned and operated by Enrico and Pasquale Di Giulio, brothers who represent a third generation of passionate winemakers. Enrico is the oenologist and Pasquale the agronomist. The history of the business is primarily a history of the family. At this special event, guests will learn about and sample a selection of wines created from organically and sustainably farmed grapes grown in Campomarino, located on the picturesque Adriatic coast of Molise in southern Italy. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	18 National Animal Crac… National Animal Crackers Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 18, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Animal Crackers Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 18, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events SIEDC 25th Annual Bu… SIEDC 25th Annual Business Conference Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 18, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Hilton Garden Inn (Staten Island) Description: Will you be there? Known as Staten Island’s largest business awareness event, the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation's 25th Annual Business Conference will feature a full day of high-profile addresses, educational and interactive sessions, the “20 Under 40” Leadership Awards, and unmatched networking opportunities. Whether you're an established business owner or aspiring entrepreneur, SIEDC's Business Conference is the premier place to make worthwhile connections and take your company to new heights. Visit https://www.siedc.org/businessconference2024 to view the full action-packed agenda and to secure your spot for select ticketed events. This event is free and open to the public. https://www.facebook.com/events/314929754595614/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 18, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 18, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 18, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events College of Staten Is… College of Staten Island Spring into Giving Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: Richmond County Country Club, 135 Flagg Pl, Staten Island, NY 10304, USA Description: The Celestial Ball is being rebranded for a spring event. Honorees include Linda Dianto, Edwina F. Martin and Daniel Messina. More information coming. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 18, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: Saint Alban's Episcopal Church, 76 St Albans Pl, Staten Island, NY, United States Description: The Pipes are Calling... Join Richmond County Pipe & Drums A Staten Island community Bagpipe & Drum band proudly serving Staten Island and the greater NYC area for almost 40 years Free Lessons on Bagpipes & Drums Every Thursday Night, except holidays 7:30pm - 10pm St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Eltingville Family Fun / Bring a Friend No Experience Necessary! We will teach you everything you need to know Please email ahead in case of any unforeseen cancellations: richmondcountypipesdrums@gmail.com More Info: http://www.richmondcountypipesanddrums.com Any other questions: Kathy Burke 917-837-3272 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	19 National Garlic Day National Garlic Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 19, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Garlic Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 19, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 19, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 19, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 19, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: Staten Island Children's Museum, 1000 Richmond Terrace building m, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Learn different cooking techniques at the museum. It's different each month! Free with museum admission Also at 4 PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Parent & Me Paint Night Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Parent & Me Paint Night https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2771&sport_id=7 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events SIST Audition Announ… SIST Audition Announcement: The Grown-Ups by Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Company Audition Announcement: The Grown-Ups By Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques Director: Courtney Emerson Assistant Director: Meredith Sladek Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the future leaders of tomorrow, when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown Ups is an immersive comedy that explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you’re hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this. Auditions will take place on Friday, April 19 from 6:00 to 10:00pm, and Saturday, April 20 from 12:00pm to 5:00pm in The Harbor Room, Building G, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301. To make an audition appointment email the director, Courtney Emerson, at TheGrownUpsSIST@gmail.com with a preferable time window and we will accommodate as best as possible. Performances will take place outside at Camp Gateway, Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, on the following dates: Friday, June 14 – 8:00pm Saturday, June 15 – 8:00pm Friday, June 21 – 8:00pm Saturday, June 22 – 8:00pm (Rain Dates: Sundays, June 16 and 23) Looking for 5 actors with strong comedic timing as well as some light improv ability. Please prepare a contemporary monologue. Memorized is preferred, but rather have you on book than not there if interested. ALL ROLES ARE OPEN. There will be a small stipend provided to actors. CHARACTER BREAKDOWN LUKAS - (20s/30s to portray early 20s, white) is PUMPED to be back this summer. CASSIE - (20s/30s to portray early 20s, not white) is EXCITED to be joining this summer. BECCA - (20s/30s to portray early 20s, white) is THRILLED to be back this summer. MAEVE - (20s/30s to portray early 20s, white) is literally SOOOO JAZZED to be back this summer you guys. AIDAN - (20s/30s to portray early 20s, white) has a LOT of new responsibilities this summer. https://www.facebook.com/events/3697069650580785/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	20 National Pineapple U… National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Yoga on the lawn at … Yoga on the lawn at Alice Austen House with Be Yoga SI Starts: 8:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 9:00 am Location: Alice Austen House @ 2 Hylan Blvd, New York, New York, New York, New York, 10305, United States Description: All levels Gentle Flow by Donation. Must pre-register for class at www.beyogasi.com. Only students who are registered my attend class. Occupancy 24 students. Social distancing will be practiced and masks are required to and from mat. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring yoga mat, towel, water, and anything else you need for practice. Portion of proceeds benefit the Alice Austen House Museum. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Earth Day Earth Day Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: Join us at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Saturday, April 20th, for an Earth Day celebration like no other! Begin with a meaningful volunteer cleanup in our enchanting Samadi Garden, followed by a tranquil grounding sound meditation with our Tibetan gong, immersing you in peace and connection. The festivities continue with a vibrant festival featuring unique vendors, delightful food, and engaging activities for all ages. Be part of this special day that blends environmental stewardship with cultural enrichment, all within the serene setting of our museum. Morning Cleanup: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (RSVP Required) Dive into the heart of Earth Day by volunteering in the beautiful Samadi Garden and Pond. A morning of community, care, and connection awaits! Volunteers can join our 12:15 PM Sound Meditation for free. Grounding Sound Meditation: 12:15 PM (RSVP Required) Experience tranquility and grounding through the powerful vibrations of a Tibetan gong. A moment to connect with the Earth and oneself. Earth Day Festival: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Join us for an afternoon filled with joy and festivity. Enjoy: - Eclectic Vendors - Delicious Food - Face Painting for Kids - Grounding Sound Meditation with Leslee Penny: 3:00 PM (Free to guests) - Traditional Sri Lankan Dancing and Drumming from Yakkhanadha Group: 3:30 PM -Tai Chi with Kristen Dolan-Murphy: 4:00 PM (Free to guests) https://www.facebook.com/events/25126556853654868/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Mariner's Harbor Mobile Market Starts: 9:30 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 11:00 am Location: 22 Roxbury Street Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Stapleton Mobile Market Starts: 9:30 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 11:00 am Location: 75 Hill St, Staten Island, NY 10304, USA Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Earth Day Celebratio… Earth Day Celebration Snug Harbor Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Ter, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Celebrate Earth Day at Snug Harbor! Choose your own adventure in sustainability, from stewarding the wetlands and waterfront, learning to care for trees, composting on the Heritage Farm, and identifying trees in a scavenger hunt. WHEN: April 20 (times vary by event) WHERE: Meetup locations vary - please check event listing for your event location (View site map here) ADMISSION: All events are free of charge except for the Natural Dyeing with Food Scraps workshop. Advance registration highly recommended. REGISTER AND BUY TICKETS HERE: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg000001xbZFMAY For all events, please dress for the weather and wear clothes that you don't mind getting dirty. Tree Mulching Workshop (10:00 AM - 10:30 AM) - Learn why and how to mulch trees while helping nourish the ones at Snug Harbor Lawn Care with Compost (10:00 AM - 10:45 AM) - Learn the importance of compost in caring for your own lawn Tree Pruning and Maintenance Workshop (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM) - Learn how to care for your own trees for their long-term health Waterfront Clean Up (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM) - Pitch in to help remove the trash along the shorelines Tree ID Scavenger Hunt (10:00 AM - 2:15 PM) - Fun for families and young econauts, with a chance to win a sustainability prize! Heritage Farm and Compost Site Tour (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) - Tour our sustainable urban farm and composting site Wetlands Clean Up (12:15 PM - 2:15 PM) - Continue our journey into the wetlands to remove trash and invasive plants Natural Dyeing with Food Scraps (12:30 PM - 2:30 PM) - Bring some clothing to upcycle and learn how different food scraps can be used to create fabric dyes https://www.facebook.com/events/799141525485109/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Earth Day Nature Wal… Earth Day Nature Walk at Ocean Breeze Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: 625 Father Capodanno Blvd, Staten Island, NY, United States, New York 10305 Description: Join us at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex to celebrate Earth Day! The NYC Parks Urban Park Rangers will lead a nature walk throughout the beautiful Ocean Breeze Park, starting at 10am. Participants will help beautify our park with a planting project throughout the nature walk! Fun for the whole family! https://www.facebook.com/events/952004759884014/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Earth Day Nature Walk Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Earth Day Nature Walk https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2772&sport_id=7 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Memoir Writing Works… Memoir Writing Workshop Starts: 10:30 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: St. George Library Center, 5 Central Ave, Staten Island, NY Description: A memoir writing workshop for adults of all ages. Tap into your memories and experiences. Enrich your life and the lives of those around you by sharing them in a supportive environment. There is no registration required for these FREE workshops! You may drop-in whenever you like. They take place on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month. 718.442.8560. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Earth Day 2024: Wild… Earth Day 2024: Wildflowers of New York City Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: New York Botanical Garden Description: NYBG’s annual Earth Day celebration highlights the Garden’s central work to advocate for the plants of the world and offers visitors a beautiful space to honor our surroundings. This year, join photographer and author Andrew Garn as he shares his explorations of the flowering wildlife of New York City. From the swamps of Staten Island to the dense forests of Central Park, the marshes of Jamaica Bay, the rocky hills of the Bronx, and many sidewalk cracks along the way, Garn introduces over 2,000 wildflowers in his beautiful book, Wildflowers of New York City. His photography invites us to look and then look again—to appreciate the marvels of nature that we might have otherwise passed by. Following his visually stunning presentation, Garn will be joined by NYBG’s Curator of the Native Plant Garden and the Rock Garden, Michael Hagen, for a conversation highlighting the importance of wildflowers in our urban habitats. https://www.facebook.com/events/936428131449219/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Earth Day @ Tompkins… Earth Day @ Tompkinsville Park Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Tompkinsville Park Description: 🌍🎉 Join us for an incredible Earth Day celebration! 🎉🌍 FREE EVENT 📅 Date: Saturday, April 20th ⏰ Time: 11 AM - 2 PM 📍 Location: Tompkinsville Park (207 Bay St, Staten Island, NY 10301) 🎶 Get ready for an amazing live music performance by SICKINTHEHEAD (SITH), OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE & MICHELLE CLAUSSELL, and JULIA SANE. Their talent will have you dancing to the rhythm of our beautiful planet! 🖌️ Immerse yourself in creativity at the Artist Showcase featuring SI GOLRAINE (OLGA PANCHENKO) 🌱 Participate in our Seed Swap and discover the joy of cultivating new life. Engage in Eco Crafts and tap into your creative side while making sustainable creations. Explore our Resource Tables and learn more about how you can make a positive impact on the environment. 🤝 Don't miss the chance to celebrate with the organizations and people that made this event possible: #friends_of_tompkinsville_park Bait-ul Jamaat - House of Community Partnerships for Parks Staten Island Urban Center NYC Department of Youth and Community Development City Parks Foundation #dycd @etg.bookcafe #EJCOFSI @sickinthehead92 @juliasane #michelleclaussell #outsidethetemple Si Golraine 🆓 This event is FREE and open to everyone! Bring your friends, family, and fellow nature enthusiasts. Let's come together to celebrate and protect our precious planet. See you there! 🌎❤️ https://www.facebook.com/events/1265377637754299/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Staten Island Zoo, 614 Broadway, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: The Staten Island Zoo is happy to introduce our Saturday Zoofari program. We have created six exciting programs for children in PreK through 6th grade. This is a four hour (10am - 2pm) drop off program at the zoo. Please pack a lunch for the day. There is no refrigeration for the lunches at the zoo so the lunches need to be non-perishable. You can register for any number of sessions or all six! There is a 15% discount on the total price if you register for all six sessions. Register here: http://statenislandzoo.doubleknot.com/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2446149&OrgKey=3637&ReturnURL=%2fOpenRosters%2fViewActivitySpaceAvailable.aspx%3fclassificationid%3d55250%26orgkey%3d3637# More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Waste No More: Brook… Waste No More: Brooklyn Museum Clothing Swap Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, United States, New York 11238 Description: Clean out your closet and refresh your wardrobe for summer with us and Bed-Stuy Clothes Swap! Through this inclusive and eco-conscious clothing swap celebrating Earth Day, we can make a positive impact on the planet while embracing community, style, and sustainability. Bring your new or gently used clothes, accessories, and shoes for all seasons and participate in our vibrant exchange. You can contribute and take home up to 10 items, but if you have more to share, rest assured they will be lovingly donated to those in need. While our collection predominantly features feminine-presenting apparel, we’re actively working to diversify our offerings. Your participation can help us achieve this goal! Free; registration is encouraged. https://www.facebook.com/events/776848060646502/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Meditation Class Meditation Class Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 20, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: The Museum's meditation class is held Saturdays at 11:30 AM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/meditation-classes More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Cottage Row Curiosit… Cottage Row Curiosities Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: Shop the Row at Cottage Row Curiosities, a community artisan market at Snug Harbor featuring over fifty Staten Island vendors, plus music, entertainment, food, and more. Enjoy new vendors and attractions on the third Saturday of each month! WHEN: April 20 (rain date April 21) May 18 (rain date May 19) June 15 (rain date June 16) July 20 (rain date July 21) August 17 (rain date August 18) September 21 (rain date September 22) October 19 (rain date October 20) All events take place from 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM In the event of cancellation due to rain, Cottage Row Curiosities will take place the following day. WHERE: Cottage Row at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301 ADMISSION: Free https://www.facebook.com/events/3333184510315795/?event_time_id=3333184520315794 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Faber Building Open Access More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events NCNW-SI 18th Annual … NCNW-SI 18th Annual Harambee Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: The Historic Old Bermuda Inn Restaurant and Catering Hall Description: On behalf of the NCNW-SI, I am thrilled to extend a heartfelt invitation to our 18th Annual Harambee Luncheon scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 12pm - 4pm at the Historic Old Bermuda Inn, 301 Veterans Rd W, Staten Island, NY 10309. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit our website at: https://ncnwsi.org/harambee By zelle: ncnwsi@gmail.com and PayPal: https://paypal.me/ncnwsi Show your support! Get your tickets! Sponsor a Youth or a Senior! Encourage others to attend! Seek journal ads from your networks! Vending opportunities available. Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to celebrating with you. https://www.facebook.com/events/24995230146759360/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Earth Day: Flower Po… Earth Day: Flower Power Starts: 1:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 3:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum Description: $15 Adults/$10 Children Includes Museum Admission Make and take crafts for green thumbs big and small! Crafting Flower Crowns: Create your own wearable flower crown using recycled materials and a little bit of sparkle. Become forest royalty and let your unique spirit shine. Make Seed Paper: Seed paper is homemade paper that grows! Make your own paper pulp, shape it, and add wildflower seeds. When it dries, give it as a gift or write a secret note on it that will grow when planted. Create Wildflower Seed Bombs: Growing a patch of colorful native wildflowers not only adds beauty and charm to a space, but they also provide a critical habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects and wildlife, which is important for ecosystem function and pollination. Get your hands dirty to make these mini gardens which, after they dry, can be stored or tossed into a hard to reach area for summer-long flowers. Design your own seed packets: Give the gift of seeds! Share the wonder of wildflowers with someone you love by personalizing and designing your own seed packets. All materials provided. https://www.facebook.com/events/1574143040009170/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Talks of the Town Fr… Talks of the Town Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 3:00 pm Location: 441 Clarke Ave, New York, NY, United States, New York 10306 Description: Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/talks-of-the-town-fresh-kills-/773416127996332/ The public program series explores topics that compliment exhibitions and education programs. The series hosts a diverse set of speakers, experts, and facilitators to bring in-depth insights and perspectives on various subjects related to Staten Island and Greater New York. This series focuses on published works related to Staten Island history, inviting published authors to connect with the community. For decades, Staten Island was defined by Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre site—once the world’s largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City’s refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin Towers, turning a notorious disposal site into a cemetery. Today, a mammoth reclamation project is transforming the landfill site, constructing an expansive park three times the size of Central Park. In this lecture, Martin Melosi (in conversation with Phillip Papas) provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and disposal. He traces the metamorphoses of the landscape, following it from salt marsh to landfill to cemetery and looks ahead to the future park. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: Tai Chi is held on Saturdays at 3:30 PM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/tai-chi More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tavern Concerts @ Hi… Tavern Concerts @ Historic Richmond Town Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 11:00 pm Location: Guyon Tavern, Richmond Road, Staten Island, 10306 Description: Tavern Concerts — Historic Richmond Town This indoor winter concert series will take place in the newly restored Guyon Tavern, located on Richmond Road. The Tavern boasts a wood-burning stove, flickering candles, live music and the true feel of a 19th century saloon. Beverage options harken back to the period and include hot spiced apple cider, scratch made mulled wine, as well as a refreshing selection of beers. Restoration projects recently completed at the nearly 200 year old historic Guyon Tavern, repaired damage from a 2017 car accident as well as structural and cosmetic work giving the building a functional tavern space that is true to its 1820s heritage. Shows are scheduled for every Saturday, at 6:00:PM and 8:00PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Translating Sonnets … Translating Sonnets - The Third Installment Celebrating Shakespeare's Birthday! Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 20, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: “Translating Sonnets” The third installment on April 20th, 7PM will showcase local actors performing sonnets and then local poets translating the meaning into their own contemporary form. It's a fun evening of poetry & whimsy inside Snug Harbor Cultural Center's Carpenter Shop! RUN OF SHOW: 7-8pm: refreshments and social 8-10pm: The Show! The event is free, or pay what you can! All are welcome, a ticket is required! For tickets, please visit: https://www.showclix.com/event/sist-nysai-press-present-translating-sonnets Featured Local Poets: M.A. Dennis Alysia Kayla Van Manen Elle Jay Snyder Maya da Poet Cyn Matt Figgz Gabriella Adriana Iacono Ellen T. Dotts Jenny Pisani Rocio Uchofen Thomas Fucaloro Featured Sonnet Performers: John Griffin Caroline Russell Carrie Ellman-Larsen Victoria Gullo Rina Sklar Nick Easton Jenny Kelly Connor Burke Gabrielle Canci Jack Dabdoub Meredith Sladek Watch the first & second installment by visiting: https://sishakespeare.org/translating-sonnets/ https://www.facebook.com/events/405827258695979/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	21 National Chocolate C… National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 21, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Chocolate Covered Cashews Day Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 21, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 21, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Conference House Park, 298 Satterlee St, Staten Island, NY 10307, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Sundays @ 9 a.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: Off Hylan Blvd., next to the parking lot, on the path that leads to the water More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Earth Day Earth Day Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 21, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Staten Island Zoo Description: Party for the Earth! Celebrate Earth Day at the Staten Island Zoo with a day filled with eco-friendly activities and conservation talks that highlight our planet’s beauty and the importance of protecting its diverse wildlife. Join us in learning how small actions can make a big impact on preserving our environment for the future. Part of AZA’s Party for the Planet! Free with Zoo admission. FREE giveaway to the first 100 children under 14. Powered by ConEdison. Note: Reserving admission tickets in advance is recommended but not required. Click the ticket link http://www.statenislandzoo.org/tickets/ and choose Sunday, April 21st. Please note that general Zoo admission is valid for 1 day. Guests must enter the Zoo at the Clove Rd. entrance. Our Broadway gate is currently closed. https://www.facebook.com/events/1620347568728482/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 21, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 21, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 21, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 21, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 21, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Sea Shanty Sessions Sea Shanty Sessions Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 21, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: The Noble Maritime Collection, 1000 Richmond Terrace # 8, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. 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Staten Island NYC Living Events Snug Harbor Spring B… Snug Harbor Spring Break Program Starts: 5:00 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Description: Bring your kids to Snug Harbor for Spring Break! Snug Harbor’s youth programs offer a hands-on experience learning about the natural world and all the unique spaces Snug Harbor has to offer. WHEN: April 22 – 26, 29-30 \| 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM WHERE: Drop-off and pickup at red barn by the Heritage Farm (View site map and directions here: https://snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/) ADMISSION: $550 per child REGISTER HERE: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg00000103uzMAA At Spring Break, your kids will: Take nature walks and bask outside in the sun Make art Meditate in the NY Chinese Scholar’s Garden Read Plant seeds for the Heritage Farm Explore the woodlands and Sensory Garden Get outside, get a little dirty, meet some new friends, and enjoy life! 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To attend this workshop, please click here: https://goo.gl/pPnvWM or TheCompassionCenter.com For more information, contact Dan Globus at (888) 377-7761 or e-mail info@TheCompassionCenter.com About Act Adult Day Care ACT is a comprehensive educational/social program which focuses on strengthening, stimulating and retraining the brain of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's/Dementia. Our mission is to keep people with AD/D involved in carefully planned activities that have been shown to significantly improve cognitive and physical health. About The Compassion Center The Compassion Center teaches Meditation classes to people and organizations seeking anxiety solutions, stress relief, depression treatment, anger treatment, ways to deal with emotional trauma, loss and grief. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • •	23 National Picnic Day National Picnic Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 23, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Picnic Day! 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Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 23, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 23, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 23, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Silver Lak… Open Run: Silver Lake Park Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 23, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Silver Lake Park Rd, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. 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Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • •	24 National Pigs in a B… National Pigs in a Blanket Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 24, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Pigs in a Blanket Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events New York City Center… New York City Center Administrative Apprenticeship Program Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 24, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: In conjunction with the 2021-2022 season, City Center's Administrative Apprenticeship Program is accepting applications for early-career and career-changing individuals to apprentice in Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing and Production Management. We are committed to training the next generation of creative, passionate arts professionals by building pathways to careers in the arts for candidates underrepresented in the field of arts administration. The program runs from September to May and includes paid training. Apprentices are paid $15 per hour for 24 hours a week. Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm. Weekly schedules vary by department. Needs-based scholarships are available. Through this program, apprentices will: -Commit to a season-long paid part-time apprenticeship in either Dance Programming, Development, Education, Marketing or Production Management. -Work directly with a department supervisor and colleagues. -Build a professional network and engage in career planning under the guidance of a designated Mentor. -Participate in a three-day paid training that includes department meet and greets, professional development workshops, entrance interviews and professional goal setting with supervisors. -Attend seminars with City Center staff and artists. -Participate in City Center's staff initiatives, including anti-racism workshops, committees and all-staff meetings. -Complete a solo project in their area of focus. -Observe rehearsals and attend performances, when possible. -Deliver a final group presentation to City Center staff. Application Deadline: Wednesday, June 23 at 11:59PM The application and additional program information can be found here. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Call for Photog… Open Call for Photographers: 'My 20/20' World Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 24, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: The Art Guild invites all photographers and artists, high school and older, to submit photography for consideration for My “20/20” World Photography Show, an Online Juried Competition and Exhibition. What is your “20/20” vision? The past year limited our access to the world and posed unprecedented challenges. It also sparked our creativity. We photographed indoors; or, mask in place, we ventured out to capture new images. Perhaps past work came to mind and we used this time to review or revise it. Show us art that shines through a difficult time. Your work will be exhibited in an online gallery. CRITERIA All photographic genres are welcome: portraits, landscapes, photojournalism, macro photography and composites. All work must be original. Submitted work must be the artist’s own. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered. JUROR OF AWARDS Award-winning photographers Bill and Gen Rudock will serve as Jurors of Awards. With over 60 years of combined photographic experience, they share a love and passion for photography, traveling, nature, and wildlife. Their knowledge and their reputations have made them sought after speakers, lecturers, and workshop instructors. ENTRY FEE(S) Entry fees are payable online when you upload or by mailing a check or using Paypal as detailed below. Registration is required and fees are non-refundable. Members: $25 (1-2 pieces) Non-members: $35 (1-2 pieces) High School Student members: $15 (1-2 pieces) One additional entry: $10 (per person) No more than 3 works per artist. Entry fees are non-refundable. AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions • Student awards will also be given, if appropriate. https://www.theartguild.org/my-2020-world-photography-show More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Baker Square Starts: 7:30 am Ends: April 24, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Intersection of Hyatt & Stuyvesant Description: We host neighborhood organics drop-off sites and compost the material locally at sites managed by NYC Compost Project staff. Our drop-off sites located at greenmarkets, major public transit stations, public libraries, and other popular locations let residents recycle their waste conveniently. Learn what to drop off here: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/what-food-waste-to-drop-off.page More details... 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Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 24, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events NAMI NYC Staten Isla… NAMI NYC Staten Island Support Group at the JCC Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 24, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC,1466 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Join NAMI NYC Staten Island at the JCC to support family members, significant others and friends of people with mental health conditions. For more information please contact Paloma Wasserstein at pwassersteain@sijcc.com mailto:pwassersteain@sijcc.com or 718.475.5228 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 24, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 24, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 24, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 24, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 24, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 24, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 24, 2024 - 5:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room A / Media Lab (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Be a part of our First Lego League Robotics Team. Join our team to learn science, technology, engineering, and math through fun hands-on learning experiences. Learn to solve real-world problems, build and code Lego robots, and learn how to work as a team to compete in Robotics competitions. Ages 9 - 14 years old! 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Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 25, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 25, 2024 - 12:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Northfield Community… Northfield Community LDC Pizza & Raffle Basket FUNdraiser Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: Jimmy Max,280 Watchogue Road, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA, https://northfieldldc.org/uncategorized/592/ Description: Please Join Us! Northfield Community LDC of Staten Island’s Pizza and Raffle Basket FUNdraiser Thursday, April 25, 2024 6:00 pm — 9:00 pm Jimmy Max 280 Watchogue Road Staten Island, NY 10314 RSVP: Kathleen Sforza 718-442-7351 Ext 238 or email ksforza@northfieldldc.org mailto:ksforza@northfieldldc.org $75.00 Per Person includes 1 Door Prize Raffle Ticket https://northfieldldc.org/uncategorized/592/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 25, 2024 - 10:00 pm Location: Saint Alban's Episcopal Church, 76 St Albans Pl, Staten Island, NY, United States Description: The Pipes are Calling... Join Richmond County Pipe & Drums A Staten Island community Bagpipe & Drum band proudly serving Staten Island and the greater NYC area for almost 40 years Free Lessons on Bagpipes & Drums Every Thursday Night, except holidays 7:30pm - 10pm St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Eltingville Family Fun / Bring a Friend No Experience Necessary! We will teach you everything you need to know Please email ahead in case of any unforeseen cancellations: richmondcountypipesdrums@gmail.com More Info: http://www.richmondcountypipesanddrums.com Any other questions: Kathy Burke 917-837-3272 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	26 National Pretzel Day National Pretzel Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 26, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Pretzel Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 26, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 26, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 26, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 26, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Senior Game Day Senior Game Day Starts: 12:30 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Arts and Crafts Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Senior Gameday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: Staten Island Children's Museum, 1000 Richmond Terrace building m, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Learn different cooking techniques at the museum. It's different each month! Free with museum admission Also at 4 PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events One Night of Queen One Night of Queen Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 11:00 pm Location: St. George Theatre Description: Sale Dates and Times: Public Onsale : Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 12:00 PM SGT Member Presale : Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 12:00 PM https://www.facebook.com/events/3402101786766718/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • •	27 Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 27, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Yoga on the lawn at … Yoga on the lawn at Alice Austen House with Be Yoga SI Starts: 8:00 am Ends: April 27, 2024 - 9:00 am Location: Alice Austen House @ 2 Hylan Blvd, New York, New York, New York, New York, 10305, United States Description: All levels Gentle Flow by Donation. Must pre-register for class at www.beyogasi.com. Only students who are registered my attend class. Occupancy 24 students. Social distancing will be practiced and masks are required to and from mat. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring yoga mat, towel, water, and anything else you need for practice. Portion of proceeds benefit the Alice Austen House Museum. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Ocean Breeze WaveRunners Youth Challenge Series Meet #2 Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 27, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Icahn Stadium Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Ocean Breeze WaveRunners Youth Challenge Series Meet #2 https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2793&sport_id=6 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 27, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 27, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Staten Island Zoo, 614 Broadway, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: The Staten Island Zoo is happy to introduce our Saturday Zoofari program. We have created six exciting programs for children in PreK through 6th grade. This is a four hour (10am - 2pm) drop off program at the zoo. Please pack a lunch for the day. There is no refrigeration for the lunches at the zoo so the lunches need to be non-perishable. You can register for any number of sessions or all six! There is a 15% discount on the total price if you register for all six sessions. Register here: http://statenislandzoo.doubleknot.com/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2446149&OrgKey=3637&ReturnURL=%2fOpenRosters%2fViewActivitySpaceAvailable.aspx%3fclassificationid%3d55250%26orgkey%3d3637# More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 27, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Meditation Class Meditation Class Starts: 11:30 am Ends: April 27, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: The Museum's meditation class is held Saturdays at 11:30 AM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/meditation-classes More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 27, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 27, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 27, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Faber Building Open Access More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 27, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 27, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA Description: Tai Chi is held on Saturdays at 3:30 PM. The fee for the class is $12/$10 for members. Learn more at http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/tai-chi More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tavern Concerts @ Hi… Tavern Concerts @ Historic Richmond Town Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: April 27, 2024 - 11:00 pm Location: Guyon Tavern, Richmond Road, Staten Island, 10306 Description: Tavern Concerts — Historic Richmond Town This indoor winter concert series will take place in the newly restored Guyon Tavern, located on Richmond Road. The Tavern boasts a wood-burning stove, flickering candles, live music and the true feel of a 19th century saloon. Beverage options harken back to the period and include hot spiced apple cider, scratch made mulled wine, as well as a refreshing selection of beers. Restoration projects recently completed at the nearly 200 year old historic Guyon Tavern, repaired damage from a 2017 car accident as well as structural and cosmetic work giving the building a functional tavern space that is true to its 1820s heritage. Shows are scheduled for every Saturday, at 6:00:PM and 8:00PM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • •	28 Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 28, 2024 - 11:59 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Alice Austen House and the Noble Maritime Collection present a collection of never-before-seen nautical photographs of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Living and working on Staten Island during the Gilded Age, Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of the first women photographers to work outside the confines of a studio, employing a visionary documentary style that was ahead of its time. Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to both local and international waterways and the vessels that traverse them. The newly printed photographs, reproduced from Austen’s glass plate and film negatives, will be framed in John Noble’s signature handmade frames, reflecting on parallels between the artists’ visions. This exhibition was guest-curated by Alice Austen House Executive Director Victoria Munro with collections assistance by Kristine Allegretti. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 28, 2024 - 10:00 am Location: Conference House Park, 298 Satterlee St, Staten Island, NY 10307, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Sundays @ 9 a.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: Off Hylan Blvd., next to the parking lot, on the path that leads to the water More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Flotsam/Jetsam: Ocea… Flotsam/Jetsam: Ocean Oddities Harvested from Staten Shores...LAST DAY! Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 28, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Conference House Park Description: Today is the last day to visit the ongoing FLOTSAM/JETSAM exhibit at the Conference House Visitors Center. Gail Middleton cleaned the Staten Island Beaches and turned F/J into a collage and sculpture exhibit along with photographs and posters from Ms. Campbell's PS35 Kindergarten class. This is your last opportunity to see what has been gathered and created. https://www.facebook.com/events/1442105650010316/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Farm Day Farm Day Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 28, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Staten Island Zoo Description: Gear up for a day of farmyard fun at the Staten Island Zoo! Get up close for sheep shearing thrills and uncover the secrets behind how the zoo cares for animals that call Children’s Center home. Join us for a fantastic day packed with woolly wonders that is fun for all ages! Professional sheep shearer Pete Sepe of Sepe Farms will demonstrate how the wool is expertly sheared! Free with Zoo admission. Powered by ConEdison. Note: Reserving admission tickets in advance is recommended but not required. Click the ticket link http://www.statenislandzoo.org/tickets/ and choose Sunday, April 28th. Please note that general Zoo admission is valid for 1 day. Guests must enter the Zoo at the Clove Rd. entrance. Our Broadway gate is currently closed. https://www.facebook.com/events/1150253876004224/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE … GRAPHITE LIGHTHOUSE DRAWINGS will be Displayed at the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 28, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum @ 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: New Exhibit: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli Saturday, June 3, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW EXHIBIT: Graphite Lighthouse Drawings by Greg DiNapoli OPENING RECEPTION – Saturday, June 3, 2023 2pm-4pm Exhibit will be up until June 30th, 2023 Light refreshments will be served. PRINTS and POSTCARDS will be for sale. Greg DiNapoli is a New Jersey based graphite artist working in the style of REALISM. He specializes in architectural subjects, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. Greg has been an architecture enthusiast since childhood and is still fascinated by skyscrapers, LIGHTHOUSES, and other large structures. EACH drawing takes anywhere from 40 to 100 hours, depending on the complexity of the subject. Greg’s work has been displayed in multiple galleries across the United States, and he has been recognized in several international competitions. Museum is adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry... For information, available parking 718 390 0040 ADD TO CALENDAR More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 28, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Staten Island Museum @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Richmond County, New York, 10301 Description: Vulnerable Landscapes depicts an island at risk in the heart of the Nation’s largest city. This interdisciplinary exhibition centers the shorelines at the forefront of climate change in one of New York City’s most vulnerable landscapes: Staten Island. The borough faces particular challenges due to its geography and history, with industry and community concentrated where water meets ground. This exhibition examines the shared space between the built and natural environment and highlights local individuals advocating for climate justice and a deeper connection to where we live. Themes of resistance, access, change, and recovery are conveyed through new works of contemporary art, scientific endeavors aimed at resiliency efforts, and art and archival materials from the museum’s collection. Vulnerable Landscapes circumnavigates Staten Island illuminating the past to shed light on the future. Featuring Billion Oyster Project, James Vincent Brice, Nate Dorr, Sarah Nelson Wright & Edrex Fontanilla, Nataki Hewling, HERShot students: Madison Davis, Alexandria Anderson, Savannah Washington, Soojin Yoonsmith), Nathan Kensinger, Living Breakwaters: SCAPE, Michael McWeeney, Beryl Thurman, and Sarah Yuster. OPENING EVENTS Members’ Preview: Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Click here to become a Museum Member) Public Opening: EARTH DAY! Saturday, April 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Celebrate Earth Day at the Museum with the opening of our newest exhibition as well as crafts and activities for all ages. Enjoy free seedlings from the NYC Native Plant Center (supplies are limited), try your hand at charcoal landscape drawing with Freshkills Park, make plantable seedpaper, examine habitat los More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Workshop : '�… Workshop : '' How to Deal With Negative Emotions ''with Dr. Chock Tenzin Monlam Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 28, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Description: HOW TO DEAL WITH NEGATIVE EMOTIONS — TIBETAN BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY AND METHODS Learning some simple and effective methods on how to deal with our negative emotions, especially, when we are surged and overwhelmed by negative emotions. Many of us do not know how to cope with our negative emotions. Modern science and psychology do teach how to deal with them. Do they work? Tibetan Buddhist science and psychology teach many ancient methods on how to temporarily subside/suppress and how to uproot our negative emotions such as anger, desire, fear, ego, jealousy, sadness, guilt, loneliness, resentment. The workshop covers the following topics: 1. Some breathing techniques: breath and mind inseparable and invisible 2. Some yoga/exercises: body, breath and mind are interdependent 3. Some single-pointed meditation techniques using breath 4. What is the main source of our negative emotions? It is important to know where and how our negative emotions arise. Understanding this concept, we will learn some analytical meditation techniques. Target Audience: All, young and old, need happiness and mental well being. Please note, that this is a Buddhist Meditation Class not a Yoga Class. Lecture, interactive, practice, Q&A, handout will be given. What to bring: Pillow Blanket Water bottle Class Fee: $35 About Dr. Chok Chok Tenzin Monlam is an accomplished teacher who has dedicated his career to preserving Tibetan Buddhist culture and language in modern society. A practicing academic, teacher, and healer, he teaches many modalities, from Tibetan language to Tibetan yoga, meditation, and Buddhist science and philosophy. Ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he studied and practiced as a Tibetan monk for ten years. Having advanced his studies through institutions for two decades, Dr. Chok has obtained multiple Buddhist and Tibetan studies degrees, including his Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He has studied and trained for decades in Buddhist studies, Tibetan yoga, healing, and meditation under the direction of many major and minor Tibetan Buddhist traditions teachers. He served as the Research and Translation Department Head at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala for 13 years until he relocated to the United States in 2019. An author, translator, and certified language instructor, Dr. Chok has written two books on the Tibetan language, translated over 35 books and many articles, and taught both Tibetan and English language courses affiliated with multiple learning institutions. His passion, however, lies in Tibetan yoga and meditation. The Tibetan style of yogic practice is exceedingly rare, and few people are qualified to teach it today. Dr. Chok is qualified to teach yoga in this Tibetan tradition and is certified in the Indian tradition. To share the health benefits of Tibetan yoga to the body, energy, and mind, he has taught prolifically in India, the United States, and over a dozen other countries. Dr. Chok is also qualified to practice healing modalities, including Chöd, pranic healing, mantra healing, and more. Since the pandemic, Dr. Chok has taught virtual courses all over the globe. He teaches Tibetan Yoga and Meditation at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art in Staten Island, NY, Tibet Center, Chicago. He is a Brooklyn Public Library’s University Open Air program instructor. Dr. Chok offers diverse and inclusive teaching series on Tibetan yoga, meditation, healing, and Buddhist science and philosophy in partnership with multiple organizations. Dr Chok learned Chöd practice in a three-month Chöd retreat in Sankhu, Nepal, in 2017. He received the Chöd empowerment and oral transmissions from Lama Chödrak (Forest Lama) in Nepal and from Lama Wangdue (Nepal, Portland) and Lama Jigme (Tso Pema, India). He also learned how to perform the Chöd ritual from Chödpa Kunsang Dorjee (Khandro Labdon Shije Chod Institute, Nepal). https://www.facebook.com/events/1114186929904842/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Andrea Doria: Rescue… Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 28, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea, an exhibition about the 1956 sinking of the SS Andrea Doria and the rescue of her passengers. The exhibition will be on view from June 16, 2022 through June 2023. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6 to 8 PM. The SS Andrea Doria was the pride of postwar Italy. A glamorous transatlantic ocean liner, she was a “floating art gallery” and a marvel of midcentury modern design. She carried celebrities as well as Italian immigrants to new opportunities in America. On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history. The Andrea Doria foundered 11 hours after the collision, and now lays on her starboard side 250 feet below the surface, about 50 miles from Nantucket. The exhibition will feature objects and artifacts from the extensive collection of diver and researcher John Moyer, Salvor in Possession of the Andrea Doria. In addition to numerous rare photographs and artwork, on display will be a lifering from the Andrea Doria, as well as china from all passenger classes, pottery, glassware, silverware, and the ship’s brass bell, recovered by Moyer and a team of divers. The exhibition was developed with the guidance of survivor, educator, author, and filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, who is the gatekeeper of Andrea Doria survivor stories. She is the author of the books Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History and I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria! The Titanic of the 1950s Archival newsreel footage of the Andrea Doria’s maiden voyage, the collision, and the rescue of her passengers—all provided by the Sherman Grinberg Library—will be shown in the exhibition on a converted Firestone television from 1956, the year of the sinking. The exhibition also includes underwater footage shot by Bill Campbell and Billy Deans of John Moyer and a team diving to the wreck and recovering two 1,000-pound ceramic mural panels by Italian artist Guido Gambone (1909-1969). In 1993, Moyer was awarded an Admiralty Arrest in US Federal Court and named Salvor in Possession of the wreck. In the ruling, US District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez stated Moyer’s “research and archeological documentation of his effort indicate a respect for the Andrea Doria as something more than just a commercial salvage project.” Photographs of some of the Andrea Doria survivors are featured in the exhibition, including Simpson, who, at nine years old, was immigrating to the United States with her grandparents, Pietro and Domenica Burzio, to start a new life with her mother Vivian, who had moved to Detroit eight years earlier to pursue the American Dream. Simpson wrote and produced the 2016 documentary Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome. To mark the 66th More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Arc of Twenty Years Arc of Twenty Years Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 28, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Noble Maritime Collection @ 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY, 10301 Description: The Noble Maritime Collection presents Arc of Twenty Years, an exhibition independently curated by photographer Michael McWeeney and painter Sarah Yuster featuring art created in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The exhibition will be on view from August 12 to October 3, 2021 in the museum’s library. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, August 11 from 6 to 8 PM. Arc of Twenty Years will feature the work of Ghanim Khalil, Scott LoBaido, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Kristi Pfister, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and Sarah Yuster, all Staten Island artists. It is a multimedia exhibition about the emotional impact and socio-political changes on Staten Island after the attacks. A lithograph featuring the World Trade Center by John A. Noble (1913-1983), the museum’s namesake, will also be included in the exhibition. Curator Sarah Yuster states, “In the twenty years since 9/11, much of our populace has notably changed. The way we see ourselves and each other as individuals, as Americans, took a marked trajectory spurred by one event. The exhibition catalogues and explores major aspects of these permutations through art, photography, written word and short films.” Ms. Yuster continues, “Staten Island is, in many ways, a microcosm of the United States in terms of ethnicities, economics, and ideologies. An immediate and long-term aftermath of that day rippled through the nation. The initial agony of three thousand innocent lives lost at once, the ensuing spasms of fury and fear were felt most intensely here. Empathy, camaraderie, selflessness and unity soared for weeks, galvanizing New Yorkers, but quickly dissipated into dissenting factions. The art and response from all factions will be displayed.” Curator Michael McWeeney added, “This is not just a memorial; it’s a look at how we as a society have grown over the past 20 years. The artists take you through their personal stories and contemplate how all of our lives have been altered by the 9/11 attacks.” Sarah Yuster’s painting The Firefighter, on loan from the Staten Island Children’s Museum, as well as three paintings depicting the changing skyline in Lower Manhattan from 1985 to 2014, will be on display. “Witness,” a poem by Staten Island’s first Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas, will be featured in the exhibition. Rivas first wrote the poem as an email to a friend in Colorado immediately after the attacks, and it is now part of the National September 11th Museum’s online collection. Ann Marie McDonnell contributed two bronze sculptures, The Missing and The Faithful, which honor the lives of those lost and the loved ones who mourn them. Diane Matyas contributed a multimedia work incorporating a painting with an apron and napkin, which she made to honor the lives of the Windows on the World restaurant employees. Scott LoBaido will exhibit a reproduction of an oil painting that he completed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks; it originally hung in Cargo Cafe in St. George, a local gathering place for the community at that time. Kristi Pfister will display six paintings, five of which are on ceramic tiles, and one drawing completed in the aftermath of 9/11 depicting people in various states of digging and waiting, searching for answers. Michael McWeeney will display a photograph of the Tribute in Light taken in March 2002, the first time those lights were lit, as well as a series of portraits with accompanying audio in the subjects’ own words about the Muslim experience after 9/11, as conceived by scholar Ghanim Khalil. The John A. Noble lithograph Ghost of a Bygone Ferry will be on display from the museum’s collection. This print is his reaction to the passage of time and the decline of numerous ferry routes in New York Harbor by the 1970s; the Twin Towers, under construction, figure prominently in the background of the composition. For more information about the exhibition, visit noblemaritime.org/arc-of-twenty-years. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. The Noble Maritime Collection, located in a former mariners’ dormitory at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, New York, is open from 12 until 5 PM, Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is by donation. For more information about the museum, call (718) 447-6490 or visit noblemaritime.org. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Holi Festival on the… Holi Festival on the North Shore Esplanade Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: April 28, 2024 - 3:00 pm Location: North Shore Esplanade Description: RESCHEDULED DUE TO RAIN. > New Date: Sunday, April 28th Get ready to immerse yourself in the colorful and joyous celebration of Holi, the traditional Indian festival of colors, at SI North Shore Esplanade on Sunday, April 28th from noon to 3 pm. This event promises a cultural extravaganza filled with traditional Indian dancers, delectable food, Holi crafts for children, a lively DJ, engaging family activities, intricate henna designs, and the highlight of the day - the famous color powdered throws. Holi is a festival that signifies the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring. It is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervor in India and among Indian communities worldwide. The event at SI North Shore Esplanade aims to bring this rich cultural experience to the local community, offering a unique opportunity for all to partake in the festivities and traditions of Holi. "We are thrilled to bring the spirit of Holi to Staten Island and invite everyone to join us for a day of fun, laughter, and cultural exchange," said Nidhi Khanna, one of the organizers. "This celebration is a testament to the diversity and richness of Indian culture and we are excited to share it with our local community." https://www.facebook.com/events/1355163235101575/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 28, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Concerto di Primaver… Concerto di Primavera 2024 Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 28, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: St. John's University, Staten Island Campus Description: The Richmond County Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Alan Aurelia will feature "Romeo and Juliet" and excerpts from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky with Marguerite Maria Rivas Staten Island's first poet laureate and Harmonica Soloist Jia-Yi He from America's got Talent! Win a very special raffle prize! Free for Students and Children, Get your tickets now and save! https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6286821 This program is made possible in part with public funding from the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, St Johns'' University or membership and you! Live Music Matters! Thank you for your support. https://www.facebook.com/events/409711198676418/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • •
29 National Zipper Day National Zipper Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 29, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Zipper Day! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 29, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 29, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 29, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 29, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 29, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Teen Movie Monday We… Teen Movie Monday West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 29, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: West New Brighton Library, 976 Castleton Ave, Staten Island, NY 10310, USA Description: Teen Movie Monday More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 6:30 pm Ends: April 29, 2024 - 7:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Participants are welcome to explore the arts through different mediums including dance, theater, music, comic book creation, woodcarving, painting, and drawing as well as attend a lecture, panel, or talk. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Anxiety & Stress… Anxiety & Stress Solutions: Weekly Classes to Learn How to Reduce and Remove Anxiety & Stress Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 29, 2024 - 8:30 pm Location: 1698 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA Description: Location: Act Adult Day Care 1698 Victory Blvd. Castleton Corners Staten Island, NY 10314 These class are offered free with a suggested donation of $10. To attend this workshop, please click here: https://goo.gl/pPnvWM or TheCompassionCenter.com For more information, contact Dan Globus at (888) 377-7761 or e-mail info@TheCompassionCenter.com About Act Adult Day Care ACT is a comprehensive educational/social program which focuses on strengthening, stimulating and retraining the brain of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's/Dementia. Our mission is to keep people with AD/D involved in carefully planned activities that have been shown to significantly improve cognitive and physical health. About The Compassion Center The Compassion Center teaches Meditation classes to people and organizations seeking anxiety solutions, stress relief, depression treatment, anger treatment, ways to deal with emotional trauma, loss and grief. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • •	30 National Adopt a Pet… National Adopt a Pet Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: April 30, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Pet Adopting! Impress your friends and Learn More More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 30, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks for simple yet fun programs that offer games and activities structured for toddlers. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 10am-1pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tot Time Tuesdays Tot Time Tuesdays Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 30, 2024 - 11:30 am Location: Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center, 2351 Veterans Rd W, Staten Island, NY 10309, USA Description: Explore a different nature theme each week during this indoor play group. Story time starts at 10:30am followed by a short hike at 11:00am, weather permitting. Ages 0-3. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Evan's House of… Evan's House of Games Starts: 1:15 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 2:15 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Program is intended to help keep members social and mentally active with the use of memory games, puzzles, board games and cards. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Intro to Microsoft Intro to Microsoft Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 2:30 pm Location: Media Lab (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Assist members in learning and becoming fluent with Microsoft and its various products Excel, Office, Powerpoint and Word More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: DeMatti Park Fieldhouse (in De Matti Park) Description: Join NYC Parks at DeMatti fieldhouse for fun arts and crafts activities and interactive games. This program is offered Tuesday through Saturday 2pm-6pm. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Outdoors at Faber Park Recreation Center (in Faber Pool and Park) Description: Drop in for activities such as sports, fitness, arts and crafts, STEAM, and more. Children ages 6-18 are provided with academic support and physical activities in a safe structured environment. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events GBRC Performance Wor… GBRC Performance Workshop Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 3:30 pm Location: Multi-Use Room (in Blood Root Valley) Description: Games and exercises based on theatrical disciplines to assist and teach members how to read sheet music. write songs, and create improv skits. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Jennifer's Play… Jennifer's Playground Afterschool Program Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 6:00 pm Location: Jennifer's Playground Field House (in Jennifer's Playground) Description: Children ages 6-13 are provided with academic support and physical activity in a safe, structured environment on weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. including program built around sports, famous artists, and STEAM. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Open Run: Silver Lak… Open Run: Silver Lake Park Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: Silver Lake Park Rd, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Join New York Road Runners for FREE weekly runs in your neighborhood! Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on a leash are welcome. No advance registration is required, but is encouraged For more information visit openrun.nyrr.org DAY & TIME: Tuesdays @ 7 p.m. DISTANCE: 3.1 m (5k) WHERE TO MEET: At the lake bridge, down the hill from the intersection of Victory Blvd. and Eddy St. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Adult Acting Class -… Adult Acting Class - Adults 18 and over Spotlight Studios Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: April 30, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: 358 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: ADULT ACTING ~ Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:00pm ~ ages 18 - adult Also back by popular demand! This acting class is open to all experience levels. Participants will explore the fundamentals of acting through monologue work, scene study, improvisation, story-telling, and journaling. The class size is limited to 8 actors. There will be a final presentation. This class is taught by Mary Lee Aloia, Meggan Herod, and John Stewart. 8-week session starts October 18, 2022 Fee: $150 More details... 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