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06/06/2010 - Ensemble ACJW brings the 09-10 MOSA season to a close

 
Sunday, June 06, 2010, 5:00:00 PM

According to Time Out New York, they have "consistently one of the best games in town" and The New York Times raves "you are likely to remember the concerts, since the players are top-notch and the programming adventurous." Ensemble ACJW--the performing arm of The Academy, a program jointly run by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and The Weill Music Institute--plays a program that includes Mozart's Quintet for Horn & Strings in E-flat major and Bartok's String Quartet, No. 6. The performance is part of a series of free concerts at Music at Our Saviour's Atonement, presented in collaboration with the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series.

 

05/22/2010 - Kidfit in the Heights, Community Health Fair

 
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 11:00:00 AM

Bring the family to a ifferent kind of Health Fair to raise awareness in the community about childhood obesity prevention. Offering exercise mini-classes, athletic demonstrations, nutritionists giving healthy cooking demos with recipes and tasting samples. Kkids and their families can experience how exercising and being fit, as well as eating healthy, can be fun.

Kids can try fun activities: relay races, obstacle course, tug-of-war, yoga, salsa or hip hop dance, capoeira, play soccer, shoot baskets, hula hoop or try the dance machine. Nutritionists, the Green Market, Just Food and other groups will be on site to give cooking demonstrations, promote fresh fruits and veggies, offer healthy recipes and to answer questions. Water and healthy snacks will be available.

Partner organizations include: CHALK (Choosing Active & Healthy Lifestyles for Kids) through Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, the NYRR Mighty Milers program, the Family Fitness Program at the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood, Bent on Learning Yoga, and ABADA Capoeira and many more.

 

04/29/2010 -  Youth Program

 
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 6:30:00 PM

The Fort Washington Collegiate Church in Washington Heights invites teenage girls in grades 9-12 to participate in this tuition-free leadership development program designed to aid in their maturation process and help them set personal goals. Weekly activities include a wide range of cultural trips, workshops, and community service projects.

 

04/21/2010 - Manhattan Independent Film Festival 2010: The Horse Boy

 
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6:30:00 PM

The Arts, Culture and Fun Series at Manhattan Recreation is pleased to partner with ITVS Community Cinema from San Francisco and the Independent Lens series of PBS to bring powerful documentaries into our recreation centers. Please join us for a first look at these films before their national debut on PBS.

After each screening, audience members will have the opportunity to participate in facilitated discussions/conversations about each film with a special guest speaker.

The fourth film in this series is The Horse Boy by Michel Orion Scott. How far would you travel to heal someone you love? For one Texas couple, it means a spiritual journey halfway around the world to Mongolia. When their son is diagnosed with autism, they seek the best treatments but nothing works, until they discover their son's connection to horses and the effect it has on him.

These screenings are free and open to the public.

 

04/18/2010 - Scandia String Quartet plays works of Scandinavian origins and emulations at MOSA

 
Sunday, April 18, 2010, 5:00:00 PM

Scandia String Quartet (Mayuki Fukuhara, violin; Elizabeth Miller, violin; Frank Foerster, viola; Lawrence Zoernig, cello) offers works by Scandinavian composers and works related to Scandinavia by composers living in Northern Manhattan, joined by guest Hanne Ladefoged-Dollase, contralto. The performance is part of a series of free concerts at Music at Our Saviour's Atonement.