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SUMMARY:"Our Stories\, Our Space" Reception
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Manny Cantor Center\nEducational Alliance invites you to experience the vibrant creativity and cultural contributions of older New Yorkers during the 5th Annual CelebratEArts Festival\, a month-long arts festival held in May in honor of Older Americans Month. \nThis milestone year continues the celebration of creativity\, expression\, and connection through the arts. Our theme\, The Power of Belonging\, invites reflection on lived experience\, creative process\, and the stories that connect us. \nThe festival brings together five Educational Alliance sites\, including the 14th Street Y\, Co-Op Village NORC\, Sirovich Center for Balanced Living\, Weinberg Center for Balanced Living\, and Project ORE. Throughout the month\, you can enjoy a diverse array of gallery exhibitions\, performances\, ceramic and craft sales\, and intergenerational programs. \nCelebratEArts provides a dynamic platform for older adults to share their art\, express themselves\, and connect with community. \n\nOUR STORIES\, OUR SPACE\nManny Cantor Center\, Jewish Communal Fund Gallery (Lobby)\n& Rubenstein Gallery (M Level)\nMonday – Friday | 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM\nSaturday – Sunday | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM \nAn exhibition highlighting artwork created by members of the Weinberg Center and Co-op Village NORC. The collection features a wide range of artistic expression\, including origami\, watercolor\, acrylic\, drawing\, Chinese beading\, handbuilding\, knitting\, collage\, ink blot\, poetry\, art therapy\, AI music\, and more. Created by artists aging in place\, these works reflect lived experience\, ongoing creativity\, and the spaces we shape—and are shaped by—through art and community. \nMCC GALLERY RECEPTION\nThursday\, May 14 | 1:30 – 2:30 PM\nManny Cantor Center\, Rubenstein Gallery (M Level) \nJoin us for the Our Stories\, Our Space Gallery Reception\, where you can engage with the artists\, explore their work\, and enjoy light refreshments. Celebrate the creativity\, lived experience\, and artistic expression reflected in each piece.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/our-stories-our-space-reception/
LOCATION:Manny Cantor Center\, 197 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10002
CATEGORIES:Exhibit,Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Take Over + Whose Neighborhood is it Anyway? w/ Peter Kinoy
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\nMoRUS will be screening films about squatting in the Lower East Side. After each showing\, there will be a discussion and Q&A with special guests! More info to come!\nDOORS at 6pm every THURSDAY April 23rd till May 28th 2026\nLocation: 155 Loisaida Ave NY NY 10009 \nFILM SCHEDULE:\n4.23…El Corazon de Loisaida + Viva Loisaida w/ Special Guests\n4.30…Your House is Mine + Survival Without Rent w/ Elana Heiserman\, Katie Meyers\, and Caroline McCaughey\n5.7…Squat or Rot + How to Squash a Squat w/ Franck Lazare and Special Guest\n5.14…Take Over + Whose Neighborhood is it Anyway? w/ Peter Kinoy\n5.21…Squatters: A NYC Documentary w/ Catalina Santamaria\n5.28…Tompkins Square Riot Footage w/ Clayton Patterson
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/film-screening-take-over-whose-neighborhood-is-it-anyway-w-peter-kinoy/
LOCATION:Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\, 155 Avenue C\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:Block by Block: Mapping the Evolution of Chinatown and Yiddish New York
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Museum at Eldridge Street\nIn anticipation of the Museum at Eldridge Street’s 25th Annual Egg Rolls\, Egg Creams\, & Empanadas Street Festival on June 21\, join multimedia journalist Aaron Reiss and Dr. Agnieszka (Agi) Legutko\, Director of the Yiddish Language Program at Columbia University\, on Thursday\, May 14th at 6pm Eastern Time on Zoom to discuss the role of digital mapping in tracing the evolution of Chinese and Yiddish-speaking communities in New York City. \nIn his journalism work\, Aaron Reiss uses maps as visual arguments and storytelling tools. In 2022\, he co-reported an interactive map and story for The New York Times chronicling the origins and disappearance of Chinatown’s Chinese street signs\, investigating the history of the neighborhood on a hyperlocal scale. Since 2014\, Dr. Agi Legutko has worked with Columbia University’s students on Mapping Yiddish New York\, an online archive documenting the historic sites of Yiddish New York\, from Yiddish record labels to iconic theaters and restaurants. The ongoing project invites users to discover the spaces\, people\, and events that shaped Yiddish culture in the city. \nPlease see the Zoom link in your order confirmation email. This program is entirely virtual. \nRegistration for this Zoom program is pay-what-you-wish. The following are suggested amounts for each ticket type:\nAdults $12\nSeniors $10\nStudents $8 \nREGISTER HERE \n\nAaron Reiss was raised in a coastal California town called Encinitas. He went to Yale University and majored in Urban Planning and Environmental Studies where he fell in love with mapping as beautiful means for talking about we live our lives. For the last decade plus\, he has been making maps\, taking photographs\, shooting video\, writing articles\, and recording audio to explore how people imagine and shape the places they inhabit – from rural villages in China\, to the outer boroughs of New York City. His work focuses on interactive journalism – combining different kinds of media (visual and otherwise) to tell rich and complex stories. Aaron spent 6 years\, on and off\, researching the Chinese names of streets in New York City. \nDr. Agi Legutko specializes in modern Yiddish literature\, language\, and culture\, women and gender studies\, spirit possession in Judaism\, as well as in American and European modern Jewish literatures\, theater\, and film. Her research interests also include trauma\, memory\, performance\, and the body represented in modern Jewish cultures. She is interested in new approaches to content-based foreign language teaching and developing new Yiddish pedagogy in the post-method era\, as well as in employing digital humanities in teaching language and literature. \n\nAbout the Museum at Eldridge Street:\nThe Museum at Eldridge Street is housed in the Eldridge Street Synagogue\, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that has been meticulously restored. Opened in 1887\, the synagogue is the first great house of worship built in America by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Today\, it is the only remaining marker of the great wave of Jewish migration to the Lower East Side that is open to a broad public who wishes to visit Jewish New York. Exhibits\, tours\, public programs\, and education initiatives tell the story of Jewish immigrant life\, explore architecture and historic preservation\, inspire reflection on cultural continuity\, and foster collaboration and exchange between people of all faiths\, heritages\, and interests. \n\nImage Credit (left to right): Carl T. Gossett/The New York Times; Courtesy of Jewish Studies at Columbia University
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/block-by-block-mapping-the-evolution-of-chinatown-and-yiddish-new-york/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Talk
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SUMMARY:Tigers on a Tightrope: Around the World in 50 years!
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Bond Street Theatre\nJoin us for an immersive hour celebrating 50 years of Bond Street Theatre’s global impact through a vibrant mix of stories\, images\, and video. As part of Lower East Side History Month\, this event highlights the company’s deep roots in New York City alongside its remarkable theatre projects in Afghanistan\, Myanmar\, India – 60 countries around the world –  showcasing how art bridges cultures.  It is a heartfelt tribute to a half-century of humanitarian theatre and the enduring spirit of creative adventure. \nFree! RSVP: info@bondst.org
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/tigers-on-a-tightrope-around-the-world-in-50-years/
LOCATION:Downtown Art\, 70 E 4th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month
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