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SUMMARY:CelebatratEArts 2026: 'Our Stories\, Our Space' Exhibit (May 1-31)
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Educational Alliance – 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/celebatratearts-2026-our-stories-our-space-exhibit/
LOCATION:Manny Cantor Center\, 197 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10002
CATEGORIES:Exhibit,Lower East Side History Month
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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:Community Quilt
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Relative Arts with Catalyst\nJoin us at Relative Arts (367 E 10th St NY NY 10009) for Lower East Side History Month and take part in a collective quilt-making project. On May 15th anytime from 12–6pm\, participants are invited to drop by and design a quilt square that will become part of a larger quilt installation led by Emily Johnson/Catalyst\, with Korina Emmerich from Relative Arts hosting the event as Materials Caretaker and Exhibitions Steward. \n\nUsing guided prompts\, contributors will reflect on questions like:\n“What do you want for your well-being?\nWhat do you want for the well-being of your chosen friends and family?\nWhat do you want for your neighborhood\, town\, city\, reserve\, Nation\, world?\n“What are our non-negotiable care actions?”\n“How do we disrupt the misuse of these terms: great\, free\, he\, she\, illegal\, migrant\, border?”\n“How do we defend land in the city?”\n \nThis is an open invitation to gather\, create\, and contribute to a living archive of collective thought. No experience or materials needed\, just bring your voice. \n 
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/community-quilt/
LOCATION:Relative Arts\, 367 E 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Artist Legacy Work on Film: The White Rose + Flying Lessons
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Anthology Film Archives in partnership with Soft Network/AFELL and Noble Gas Media\nBruce Conner\nTHE WHITE ROSE\n1967\, 7 min\, 35mm\nA work born of Bruce Conner’s profound friendship with artist Jay DeFeo\, THE WHITE ROSE captures the 1965 removal\, from her first-floor San Francisco apartment\, of DeFeo’s eponymous painting\, a monumental work that she began in the late 1950s and worked on obsessively for eight years\, eventually layering over two thousand pounds of paint onto the canvas. The intimate black and white film captures the fabled painting’s last moments in the apartment’s bay window recess\, a space covered in chunks of paint as though an extension of the work\, which Conner likened to a site-specific environment and “a temple”. Sutured by Conner’s sharp\, rhythmic editing and set to music from Miles Davis’s album “Sketches of Spain”\, THE WHITE ROSE is a tender document of artistic friendship\, and an affectionate record of a key moment in Beat Generation art history. \nElizabeth Nichols\nFLYING LESSONS\n2024\, 84 min\, DCP\nAt a community meeting held to address their gentrifying landlord’s aggressive treatment of longtime tenants\, filmmaker Elizabeth Nichols meets Philly Abe\, an older punk artist who swiftly becomes the younger woman’s muse\, attentive neighbor\, and friend. While tracking Philly’s activism and struggles in the face of harassment\, Nichols surfaces her life story through extraordinarily candid conversations\, as well as a gloriously SD video archive of concert footage and DIY downtown New York films by the likes of Todd Verow and Mike Kuchar in which the fabulously brash Abe starred. The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious\, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished. \nTotal running time: ca. 95 min. \nFollowed by a Q&A.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/artist-legacy-work-on-film-the-white-rose-flying-lessons/
LOCATION:Anthology Film Archives\, 32 2nd Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month
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