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Sat & Sun! African Film Festival | FREE! Cinema Connex Staten Island

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Staten Island Arts is excited to welcome the African Film Festival to Staten Island as part of the Cinema Connex Downtown Dinner & A Movie series. The African Film Festival—a…

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		1 May Day May Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 1, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy May 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: May 1, 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: May 1, 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: May 1, 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: May 1, 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: May 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 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: May 1, 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: May 1, 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: May 1, 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: May 1, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 1, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	2 National Truffle Day National Truffle Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 2, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Truffle 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: May 2, 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: May 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 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: May 2, 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: May 2, 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: May 2, 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: May 2, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: May 2, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	3 National Paranormal … National Paranormal Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 3, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Paranormal 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: May 3, 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: May 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: May 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 Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 3, 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: May 3, 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: May 3, 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: May 3, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: May 3, 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 Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: May 3, 2024 - 8:30 pm Location: National Lighthouse Museum, 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • •	4 National Star Wars D… National Star Wars Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 4, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy National Star Wars 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: May 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 Yoga on the lawn at … Yoga on the lawn at Alice Austen House with Be Yoga SI Starts: 8:00 am Ends: May 4, 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 #3 Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 4, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Icahn Stadium, 10 Central Rd, New York, NY 10035, USA Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Ocean Breeze WaveRunners Youth Challenge Series Meet #3 https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2794&sport_id=6 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Ocean Breeze Fitness Expo Starts: 10:00 am Ends: May 4, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex, 625 Father Capodanno Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10305, USA Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Ocean Breeze Fitness Expo https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2773&sport_id=7 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: May 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 Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 4, 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: May 4, 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: May 4, 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: May 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: May 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 Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: May 4, 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: May 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 Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 4, 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: May 4, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	5 Open Studio Art Stro… Open Studio Art Stroll at Snug Harbor Cultural Center Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 5, 2024 - 5:00 am Location: 1000 Richmond Ter, Staten Island, NY 10301-1114, United States Description: The popular stroll through the art studios of Snug Harbor Cultural Center will be happening again on the afternoon of Sunday May 7. A chance for you to see what is happening behind the 12 closed doors of local artists. View a variety of art styles and talk to the artists about their process and inspiration. https://www.facebook.com/events/1581405689380611/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Cinco De Mayo Cinco De Mayo Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 5, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Cinco De Mayo! 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: May 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 Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 5, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: May 5, 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 • • • • • • • • •
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Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: May 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 Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: May 6, 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: May 6, 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: May 6, 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: May 6, 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: May 6, 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 • • • • • • • • •	7 National Homebrew Da… National Homebrew Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 7, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Homebrew 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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: May 7, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • •	8 National Have a Coke… National Have a Coke Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 8, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Have a Coke 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: May 8, 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: May 8, 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: May 8, 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: May 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 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: May 8, 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: May 8, 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: May 8, 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: May 8, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 8, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	9 Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 9, 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: May 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 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: May 9, 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: May 9, 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: May 9, 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: May 9, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: May 9, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • •	10 National Receptionis… National Receptionists Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 10, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Receptionists 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: May 10, 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: May 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: May 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 Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 10, 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: May 10, 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: May 10, 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: May 10, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: May 10, 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 Staten Island Museum… Staten Island Museum Gala Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: May 10, 2024 - 11:00 pm Location: Richmond County Country Club Description: Join us for a sparklingly good time … HONORING Alice B. Diamond New York State Nurses Association The Reid Family Gabri Christa – Idea Reid – Vernon Reid $325/$300 for Museum Members $3,000 for a Table of Ten $1,500 for two tickets plus a full page journal ad Learn more and get tickets by visiting https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/gala2024/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1929884694134906/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • •	11 National Twilight Zo… National Twilight Zone Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 11, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Twilight Zone 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: May 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 Yoga on the lawn at … Yoga on the lawn at Alice Austen House with Be Yoga SI Starts: 8:00 am Ends: May 11, 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 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: May 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 Roc-A-Natural Cultur… Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc's Art In The Parks Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 11, 2024 - 2:00 pm Location: Tappen Park- Stapleton Description: ROC'N WEDNESDAY! Art In The Parks at Tappen Park, Saturday, May 11, 2024. Everyone is invited to join Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation Inc in collaboration with Partnerships for Parks, NYC Green Fund and Community Partners at the Art In The Parks event on Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 11am to 6pm. The theme for this Art in the Parks event is "We Love Our Parks" and open to kids ages K to 12 and will include live art mural and/or youth art workshop, music by DJ General Tactics, live performances by MCDC Miss Cheryl's Dance Company, Open Mic, Vendors and more! Register to become a z Xhere: https://www.eventbrite.com/manage/events/862608343777/details Follow IG @rocanaturalculturalfoundation & FB @rocanaturalculturalfoundation Please LIKE, COMMENT & SHARE #rocanatural @rocanatural @rocanaturalculturalfoundation #rocanaturalculturalfoundation #arts #cultural #becomeavendor @partnershipsforparks #youth #partnershipsforparks @nycparks #nycparks @tappenpark #poetry @nycgreenspace #entertainment #reimaginetappenpark #tappenpark #communityservice #volunteer #unite #cleanenvironment #greenparks #communityevents #statenisland #ilovestatenisland #sinycliving #arts #siartists #visitstatenisland #sinycliving #sichamber #communityaffairs @downtownsinyc @downtownsinyc https://www.facebook.com/events/381708961313088/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 11, 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: May 11, 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: May 11, 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: May 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: May 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 Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: May 11, 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: May 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 Lung-ta : Windhorse … Lung-ta : Windhorse - Prayer flag for positive energy and transformation Starts: 2:30 pm Ends: May 11, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Description: In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Embark on a journey of creativity and mindfulness through the creation of Lung-ta prayer flags. Lung-ta, or Windhorse, symbolizes Peace, Prosperity, and Healing within oneself and the World. Inspired by the profound tradition of Buddhist prayer flags showcased in an installation by artist Asha Kama Wangdi of Vast Bhutan at the Rubin Museum of Art's 'Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now' exhibition, this workshop will immerse attendees in the beauty and symbolism of these flags. We are honored to have artist Chimi Zangmo, Vast Bhutan will be in person with Rubin’s Himalayan Programs and Communities Ambassador Tashi Chodron. Together they will share the meaning, symbolism, and benefits and blessings of prayer flags All attendees will engage by sharing their prayers, hopes and wishes on a card. Both of the artists will be on hand to share the meaning and symbolism of Prayer flag. Contribute your own prayers, wishes and hopes and learn about the symbolism of prayer flags, participants can take home a prayer flag to usher in good health, prosperity and transformation. Hanging prayer flags is believed to bring forth good luck and blessings. It is believed that when a prayer flag is blown by the wind, the prayers purify the environment and help bring peace and healing to the world. Additionally, we will explore the profound connection of our Maitreya Bodhisattva statue collection, enhancing our understanding of Buddhist art and culture. The workshop will conclude with a 20-minute guided meditation session led by Tashi Chodron, exploring different practices such as mantra, mudra, and mindfulness, deepening our connection to the practice and the symbolism behind prayer flags. As an exciting addition, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Rubin Museum of Art, enriching our members' experiences. Participate in our exclusive JMM members' tour at the Rubin Museum on July 5th at 6 pm, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition "Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now," which transforms the entire museum with new commissions, some site-specific, and existing works juxtaposed with objects from the Museum’s collection, inviting new ways of encountering traditional Himalayan art. After the tour, enjoy cocktails and a DJ at the K2 Lounge of the Museum. https://www.facebook.com/events/1843650912807324/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 11, 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: May 11, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	12 National Fibromyalgi… National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 12, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Fibromyalgia Awareness 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: May 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 Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 12, 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 Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Mother's Day Bingo Brunch Starts: 10:00 am Ends: May 12, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Mother's Day Bingo Brunch https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2753&sport_id=7 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: May 12, 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 • • • • • • • • •
13 National Apple Pie D… National Apple Pie Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 13, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Apple Pie 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: May 13, 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: May 13, 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: May 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 Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: May 13, 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: May 13, 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: May 13, 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: May 13, 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: May 13, 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 • • • • • • • • •	14 Ocean Breeze Athleti… Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Recreation Ocean Breeze Open House Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 14, 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=2745&sport_id=7 More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events DeMatti Tiny Tot pro… DeMatti Tiny Tot program Starts: 10:00 am Ends: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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: May 14, 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 • • • • • • • • • • •	15 National Chocolate C… National Chocolate Chip Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 15, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Chocolate Chip 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: May 15, 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: May 15, 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: May 15, 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: May 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 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: May 15, 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: May 15, 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: May 15, 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: May 15, 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: May 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 DeMatti Drop in prog… DeMatti Drop in program Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: May 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: May 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: May 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 Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 15, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	16 National Piercing Da… National Piercing Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 16, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Piercing 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: May 16, 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: May 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 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: May 16, 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: May 16, 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: May 16, 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: May 16, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: May 16, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	17 National Pack Rat Da… National Pack Rat Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 17, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Pack Rat 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: May 17, 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: May 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: May 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 Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 17, 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: May 17, 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: May 17, 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: May 17, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: May 17, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • •	18 National Cheese Souf… National Cheese Souffle Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 18, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Cheese Souffle 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: May 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 Yoga on the lawn at … Yoga on the lawn at Alice Austen House with Be Yoga SI Starts: 8:00 am Ends: May 18, 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 Local Organics Recov… Local Organics Recovery: Mariner's Harbor Mobile Market Starts: 9:30 am Ends: May 18, 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: May 18, 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 Memoir Writing Works… Memoir Writing Workshop Starts: 10:30 am Ends: May 18, 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 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: May 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 Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 18, 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: May 18, 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: May 18, 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: May 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: May 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 Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: May 18, 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: May 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 SWAP IT LIKE ITS HOT… SWAP IT LIKE ITS HOT THRIFT SHOP PARTY Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: May 18, 2024 - 8:00 pm Location: 12 Broad Street Description: JOIN OUR SECOND SWAP PARTY THIS YEAR!! Its Spring Cleaning time and we want you to come and bring your gently used items to the swap party. Bring something Take something! Shop for FREE! Click on the link below to participate in this event. YOU MUST RSVP TO ATTEND! DONATIONS ARE ACCEPTED SAME DAY OF! This is a local community based event. Everything is FREE! Were also looking for local licensed food vendors for pot luck to feed the community. Send us an email to participate at Createdforyouartmarket@gmail.com or register online thru our website at www.createdforyouartistsmarket.com Hey, our event SWAP IT LIKE ITS HOT THRIFT SHOP PARTY is live now! Tickets are available on AllEvents. For more details: https://allevents.in/staten%20island/800026305768640 https://www.facebook.com/events/1088624732207007/ More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 18, 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: May 18, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	19 Picturing the Water:… Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 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 Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 19, 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 Great Staten Island … Great Staten Island Lighthouse Hunt Starts: 10:00 am Ends: May 19, 2024 - 4:00 pm Location: The Staten Island September 11th Memorial, Bank St, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: Start time at either the Conference House in Tottenville or the Postcards (The Staten Island September 11 Memorial, Bank St, Staten Island, NY 10301) near the National Lighthouse Museum in St. George between 10am – 11am to allow ample time to finish before 4pm at either location. Follow map and visit lighthouses in Staten Island. Take selfies or group photos with lighthouses in the background, receiving your lighthouse stickers at each site. Learn about the ten lighthouses on and off shore Staten Island. Have a family-friendly fun day learning about Staten Island’s lighthouse history. Participation Admission: $35 per carload & $15 per bicycle or motorcycle INCLUDES: Lighthouse Hunt Tote Bag (1 per bike/motorcycle & 2 per vehicle included with admission fee, each additional tote is $5) containing self directed maps to lighthouse locations both on and off shore, commemorative stamps, & fun giveaways! Hunt Participation Award Ribbon upon completion of the route to remember this special day! RULES: We suggest two or three participants – designated driver/navigator, and photographer. Post pictures on Facebook or Instagram and tag us @NationalLighthouseMuseum. Get your tickets today! 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: May 19, 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: May 19, 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. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • •
20 National Strawberry … National Strawberry Picking Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 20, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Strawberry Picking! 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: May 20, 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: May 20, 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: May 20, 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: May 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 Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: May 20, 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: May 20, 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: May 20, 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: May 20, 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: May 20, 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 • • • • • • • • • •	21 American Red Cross F… American Red Cross Founder's Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 21, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy American Red Cross Founder's 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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: May 21, 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 • • • • • • • • • • •	22 National Maritime Da… National Maritime Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 22, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Maritime 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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: May 22, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	23 National Taffy Day National Taffy Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 23, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Taffy 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: May 23, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	24 National Scavenger H… National Scavenger Hunt Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 24, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Scavenger Hunting! 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: May 24, 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: May 24, 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 GACBE Community Advo… GACBE Community Advocacy Project Expo Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 24, 2024 - 1:00 pm Location: SI University Hospital Community Park SI Ferry Hawks Stadium,75 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA Description: NYC students researched and took action to address issues that impact their communities. Come out to learn more and join them in their causes! 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: May 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 Vulnerable Landscape… Vulnerable Landscapes Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 24, 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: May 24, 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: May 24, 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: May 24, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Kidz Cook STATEN ISL… Kidz Cook STATEN ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: May 24, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • •	25 National Tap Dance D… National Tap Dance Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 25, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Tap Dance 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: May 25, 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: May 25, 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 VO2Max Track Club Preseason Invitational Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 25, 2024 - 12:00 pm Location: Mount Vernon High School Description: Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Ocean Breeze WaveRunners VO2Max Track Club Preseason Invitational https://oceanbreezenyc.org/calendar.aspx?game_id=2796&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: May 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 Saturday Zoofaris Saturday Zoofaris Starts: 11:00 am Ends: May 25, 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: May 25, 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: May 25, 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: May 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: May 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 Faber Open Access Faber Open Access Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: May 25, 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: May 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 Tai Chi class Tai Chi class Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 25, 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: May 25, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	26 National Blueberry C… National Blueberry Cheesecake Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 26, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Blueberry Cheesecake 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: May 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 Open Run: Conference… Open Run: Conference House Park Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 26, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Ballroom Dance for B… Ballroom Dance for Beginners Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: May 26, 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 • • • • • • • •
27 National Grape Popsi… National Grape Popsicle Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 27, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Grape Popsicle 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: May 27, 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: May 27, 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: May 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 Faber Drop-In Youth … Faber Drop-In Youth Power Hours Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: May 27, 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: May 27, 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: May 27, 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: May 27, 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: May 27, 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 • • • • • • • • •	28 National Hamburger D… National Hamburger Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 28, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Hamburger 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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: May 28, 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 • • • • • • • • • • •	29 New York City Center… New York City Center Administrative Apprenticeship Program Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 29, 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: May 29, 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: May 29, 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: May 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 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: May 29, 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: May 29, 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: May 29, 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: May 29, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Faber's First L… Faber's First Lego League Robotics Program Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: May 29, 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 TECHCONNECT In-Pers… TECHCONNECT In-Person: Advanced Mac Starts: 4:30 pm Ends: May 29, 2024 - 5:30 pm Location: 5 Central Ave, Staten Island, NY, United States, New York 10301 Description: Event: fb://event/1333609581374668 Explore advanced features of the Mac operating system, such as creating custom shortcuts, taking screenshots, organizing your open apps with Virtual Desktops, sharing files with AirDrop, and more. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	30 National Mint Julep … National Mint Julep Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 30, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Mint Julep 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: May 30, 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: May 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 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: May 30, 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: May 30, 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: May 30, 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: May 30, 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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: May 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 Exhibition Opening: … Exhibition Opening: The Sea, the City, and the Golden Hour Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 30, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: The Noble Maritime Collection Description: Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/exhibition-opening-the-sea-the/808280017808711/ Join us on Thursday, May 30 at 6 PM for the opening of the new exhibition The Sea, the City, and the Golden Hour: Impressionist Maritime and Urban Landscapes by Robert Padovano. Each painting will focus on the impact the light at golden hour has on the waterways and infrastructure of New York City. This exhibition will be on view in the museum's library and run through September 1. This exhibition was made possible, 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 Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events Exhibition Opening: … Exhibition Opening: The Sea, the City, and the Golden Hour Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 30, 2024 - 9:00 pm Location: The Noble Maritime Collection Description: Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/exhibition-opening-the-sea-the/808280017808711/ Join us on Thursday, May 30 at 6 PM for the opening of the new exhibition The Sea, the City, and the Golden Hour: Impressionist Maritime and Urban Landscapes by Robert Padovano. Each painting will focus on the impact the light at golden hour has on the waterways and infrastructure of New York City. This exhibition will be on view in the museum's library and run through September 1. This exhibition was made possible, 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 Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. More details... Staten Island NYC Living Events The Pipes Are Callin… The Pipes Are Calling Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: May 30, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	31 National Save Your H… National Save Your Hearing Day Starts: 12:00 am Ends: May 31, 2024 - 11:59 pm Description: Happy Hearing! 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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: May 31, 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 • • • • • • • • • • • •

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