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PLEASE LIST through 3/15/15: REGISTER FOR NYC PARKS EXPERIENCE SUMMER DAY CAMP

MNYC Parks www.nyc.gov/parks

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PLEASE  LIST through March 15, 2015 IMMEDIATE

 

REGISTER FOR NYC PARKS EXPERIENCE SUMMER DAY CAMP

                       

                                   

 

DETAILS:                   The NYC Parks Experience Summer Day Camp is one of New York City's most affordable camp programs. We provide 7 weeks of fun-filled days for children ages 6-13, at locations across the city. Campers will go on trips throughout the five boroughs, participate in sports, fitness and outdoor adventure activities, and much more. Campers are supervised by experienced CPR and AED certified staff.

 

HOW TO

REGISTER:                A registration lottery is open from Friday, March 6 – Sunday, March 15, 2015.  Applicants will be notified of the lottery results by e-mail after the registration period closes.

 

CAMP SESSIONS:     Monday, July 6 – Friday, August 21, 2015

 

COST:                         Regular Day Camp Rate (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday – Friday): $500 per child for 7 weeks

 

                                    Extended Day Camp Rate (8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday – Friday): $575 per child for 7 weeks (available at select sites)

 

More details on enrollment and the application process, and a full list of summer camp locations can be found at nyc.gov/parks/summercamp.

 

Also check out  8 Ways Our Summer Camp Kids Won Last Summer

 

 

Contact:

Meghan Lalor

pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov

(212) 360-1311

 

(PLEASE LIST through 3/29/2015) ON VIEW AT THE LENAPE GALERY: NATIVE ENSEMBLE: ARTISTS CHRONICLE STATEN ISLAND’S NATURAL SPACES

Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP Commissioner, NYC Parks www.nyc.gov/parks

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PLEASE  LIST through March 29, 2015 IMMEDIATE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ON VIEW AT THE LENAPE GALERY: NATIVE ENSEMBLE: ARTISTS CHRONICLE STATEN ISLAND'S NATURAL SPACES

 

 

DATE:                        Friday, February 13 – Sunday, March 29, 2015

 

TIME:                          Weekdays, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Saturdays, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 

LOCATION:               Lenape Gallery

Conference House Park Visitor Center

                                    STATEN ISLAND

 

DETAILS:                   Join NYC Parks at the Lenape Gallery for its current exhibit Native Ensemble: Artists Chronicle Staten Island's Natural Spaces, featuring eight local Staten Island artists exploring Staten Island's natural elements and open spaces in conventional and unconventional techniques. 2-D and 3-D works created in a variety of mediums present allusions to the human narrative in works that give way to an effort to shape the poetic and elusive concept of time and nature.

   

                                    The eight artists featured in the show are: David DeLillo, Ann Marie McDonnell, Michael McWeeney, Gail Middleton, Bill Murphy, Kristi Pfister, Melissa West and Sarah Yuster.

 

Lenape Gallery is free and open to the public. Hours are Monday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., and Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. For additional information please contact Frank Gessner at 718.227.1463 or visit www.nyc.gov/parks.

 

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Contact:

Tara Kiernan

(212) 360-1311

 

 

 

 

 

(PLEASE LIST through 2/28/2015) GAME ON! A DAY OF SPORTS FOR GIRLS

NYC Parks www.nyc.gov/parks

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PLEASE  LIST through February 28, 2015 IMMEDIATE

 

GAME ON! A DAY OF SPORTS FOR GIRLS

 

 

DATE:                                    Saturday, February 28, 2015

 

TIME:                          11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

 

LOCATION:               Chelsea Recreation Center

                                    430 West 25^th Street

                                    (Between 9^th & 10^th Avenues)

                                    MANHATTAN

 

DETAILS:                   Celebrate the incredible achievements of female athletes!

                                    Join NYC Parks for Game On!, a free event commemorating National Girls and Women in Sports Day.

 

                                    Kids will get instruction in sports like volleyball and soccer from collegiate athletes. Plus, there'll be fun fitness classes for adults, so bring the whole family! You'll also hear the inspiring stories of women who made their mark in the world of athletics.

   

                                    Special note: Activities include aquatic sports for kids, so if you're interested, please ensure your kids bring a swimsuit, swim cap and towel for the swimming pool. Those items are mandatory to participate.

      

                                    Arrive early on to receive a free t-shirt. RSVP is strongly encouraged, but not required. For more information, visit nyc.gov/parks and search “Game On”.

 

                                   

 

Contact:

Sam Biederman / Meghan Lalor

(212) 360-1311

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press Invite/ Piehole's Old Paper Houses @ Irondale Center 2/27-3/15

Dear ,

I would like to invite you and a guest to attend the World Premiere of Old Paper Houses, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented by Piehole at the Irondale Center (85 South Oxford Street between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn), February 27-March 15. Reserve your press tickets now by contacting Emily Owens PR at emily@emilyowenspr.com or by calling 917-408-3677.  

Press Performances:

Saturday, February 28 at 7:30pm

Monday, March 2 at 7:30pm

Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30pm 

Runtime: 75 minutes, no intermission

In New England, the winter is five months long. Everybody eats beans, the pipes always freeze, and everything's buried under six feet of snow. Moving from dreary 1970s New England to an 1840s Transcendental utopia and beyond, Old Paper Houses follows a group of wavering idealists searching for meaning and purpose in all the wrong places. Combining paper dioramas, ecstatic small-town parades, live feed projection and poetry by Bernadette Mayer, Old Paper Houses cycles through faith and doubt to ask: how do we continue to find things to believe in, even when it's really, really cold?

Piehole has been developing Old Paper Houses since the particularly brutal winter of 2013. After finding solace in Bernadette Mayer's struggle through the New England winter in The Golden Book of Words, which references Nathaniel Hawthorne, they found themselves enmeshed in Hawthorne's satire on Transcendental utopian angst, The Blithedale Romance. Through workshops over the course of 2013 and early 2014, Piehole delved more deeply into research on Brook Farm, the 19^th century commune on which the novella was based, and incorporated more text from Mayer's Midwinter Day, to create an exploration of the American utopian pursuit in its many forms—past, present, and potential; artistic, political, and social. A workshop of Old Paper Houses was presented at the Connelly Theater in March 2014, and a selection of it was curated into Prelude14 at CUNY Graduate Center.

We look forward to seeing you at the show!

Best regards,

Emily Owens

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(PLEASE LIST through 2/20/15) EXPLORE THE NATURAL WORLD WITH NYC PARKS "KIDS WEEK"

NYC Parks www.nyc.gov/parks

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PLEASE  LIST through Friday, February 20, 2015

 

EXPLORE THE NATURAL WORLD WITH NYC PARKS' "KIDS WEEK"

 

 

DATE:                                    Monday, February 16 – Friday, February 20, 2015

 

LOCATIONS:                        Citywide

               

TIMES:                                   Varies

 

DETAILS:                               School is out for the week and it’s a great time to get outside and enjoy the city’s natural classroom -parks! Bring your kids out to New York City's parks to experience the natural world in a hands-on and fun way, guided by our Urban Park Rangers. Explore  birding, insects, reptiles and amphibians and become a Conservation Ranger through nature walks, crafts and more. Activities offered daily during Winter Recess. For more information on times and locations, please visit www.nyc.gov/parks and search "Kids' Week". 

             

 

Contact:

Sam Biederman / Sabirah Abdus-Sabur

(212) 360-1311

 

(PLEASE LIST THROUGH 2/20/2015) LEARN TO SWIM VACATION CAMP

NYC Parks www.nyc.gov/parks

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PLEASE  LIST through Friday, February 20, 2015

 

LEARN TO SWIM VACATION CAMP

 

 

DATE:                        Monday, February 16 – Friday, February 20

 

 

TIME:                          One-hour slots between 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

(varies by site)

 

LOCATIONS:            Bronx

St. Mary’s Recreation Center

450 Saint Ann’s Avenue (at 145^th Street)

(718) 402-5155

 

Brooklyn

Brownsville Recreation Center

1555 Linden Boulevard (at Hegeman Avenue)

(718) 485-4633

 

Metropolitan Recreation Center

261 Bedford Avenue (at Metropolitan Avenue)

(718) 599-5707

 

St. John’s Recreation Center

1251 Prospect Place (between Troy and Schenectady Avenues)

(718) 771-2787

 

Queens

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Aquatics Center

125-40 Roosevelt Avenue (between Avery Avenue and College Point Boulevard)

(718) 271-7572

 

Roy Wilkins Recreation Center

177^th Street & Baisley Boulevard

(718) 276-8686

 

DETAILS:                   Over the Mid-winter Recess school break, NYC Parks offers children between the ages of 6 and 17 the opportunity to learn how to swim, stay active and exercise during their break from school. These free classes include both aquatic safety and fitness benefits and are a great way for children to have fun in the winter.

 

                                    Parents interested in signing up their kids for this opportunity should reach out to one of the Recreation sites listed above to register. There are three vacation camp sessions throughout a school year: Winter Recess, Mid-Winter Recess and Spring Recess. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/parks.  

                                     

Contact:

Sam Biederman / Sabirah Abdus-Sabur

(212) 360-1311