WQXR Announces 2021 STAR (Salutes The ARts) Initiative
STAR (Salutes The ARts) is a multi-pronged effort to support New York City s cultural landscape.by BWW News Desk
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep New York City s performance stages dark, WQXR, New York City s classical music station, has announced STAR (Salutes The ARts), a multi-pronged effort to support New York City s cultural landscape.
STAR kicks off with four projects aimed at helping individual artists and organizations: grants for NYC-area musical talent, complimentary radio airtime for New York cultural nonprofits, a weekly radio series featuring performances recorded live at New York City and regional performing arts organizations, and several ongoing partnerships with New York City institutions.
Chinese New Year celebration at Snug Harbor goes virtual: How to attend
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
Families gathered for the Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration at Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Livingston February 9, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/ Amanda Steen)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Chinese New Year celebrations, which typically attract a crowd at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in Livingston, will happen virtually this year due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The virtual event, which will take place over Zoom from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, will mark the beginning of the “year of the Ox.”
Those who join the Zoom will make traditional crafts, hear stories of Chinese New Year and join in a “virtual parade” with homemade percussion to “scare off evil spirits.”
‘The Landfill Fashionista’ – environmental justice art exhibition opens at Snug Harbor
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 01, 2021
The Wall of portraits, part of The Landfill Fashionista exhibition at Snug Harbor, is shown on January 21, 2021 (Staten Island Advance/ Giavanni Alves)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island Urban Center’s Young Women’s Leadership Group (YWL Group) has chosen art as a vehicle to bring awareness to Staten Island’s environmental challenges.
YWL Group describes “The Landfill Fashionista: Image, Environment, and Culture Through the Lens of Girls of Color” as “a multimedia art exhibition that highlights the need for environmental justice against the backdrop of the beautiful hope that exists for Staten Island’s North Shore communities.”
Composting the right (and wrong) way on Staten Island
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
At the compost station at the St. George Greenmarket on Saturdays shoppers might find, from left to right, Snug farmer Ezra Pasackow, Makela Elvy and Susannah Abbate. (Staten Island Advance/Pamela Silvestri)
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STATEN ISLAND N.Y. The composting crew was back at the St. George Greenmarket last Saturday for the first time since the pandemic started. And who would think spirits could be so high over seeing Staten Islanders dump their trash?
Well, it’s not just any rubbish it’s the organic stuff of the borough, according to Susannah Abbate, Director of Education and Engagement at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens, Livingston. The Snug campus now hosts a compost program through the Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Recycling and Sustainability and the City Council’s allotted funding.
Cop car careens into fence at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
A marked NYPD careened into a fence at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden on Richmond Terrace in Livingston on Jan. 15, 2021. The fence remained broken as shown in this photo taken on Jan. 20, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Three officers sustained minor injuries when a marked police car hit a pothole, careened out of control and struck a fence at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in Livingston, police said.
The single-vehicle crash occurred at about 11:55 p.m. Friday in the vicinity of Richmond Terrace and Tysen Street, according to a spokeswoman for the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.