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EDUCATION AND MEMBERSHIP
The Picture House calendar is overflowing with great events over the next few weeks, but before we even talk about that, there's a very exciting new development we want to share with you: TICKETS ARE NOW CHEAPER!
Since it started on September 17th, there have been arrests, the use of pepper spray by police, but the national and international demonstrations continue, as Occupy Wall Street activists keep growing in numbers and their chants are heard louder. Wall Street ways must STOP NOW!
These appear to be folks from different walks of life, who are also frustrated protesters speaking out against many wrongs. Economic inequality, corrupt government, greed, student debt, along with the obvious benefit of being at the media center of the universe, which is right here in New York City.
NY Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, (D-Bronx/ Westchester), (left) honored Amelia Romano McCann on her 100th Birthday. McCann, a former second grade teacher at Holy Rosary Catholic School, was presented with a proclamation thanking her for her years of service to the greater Allerton Community. Also pictured: City Councilman James Vacca and members of the Allerton Avenue Homeowners Association.
NYC Council member Jimmy Vacca will be on hand to celebrate Hispanic Heritage at Throggs Neck Senior Center tomorrow.
LIU's new Dean spoke before a packed house of talented visual arts staff and faculty members for the first time this week. Dr. Noel Zahler, a highly respected composer, researcher and administrator, who has led departments, schools of music and interdisciplinary programs at universities across the nation, started his hew job as LIU Dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the C.W. Post Campus.
Apple computer founder Steve Jobs has died at 56: His peers and followers fondly remember legendary inventor.
Fellow high-tech peers and even Jobs' competitors lamented his death, hailing him as a genius and a genuine innovator. Here is Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN ICON. Jobs Was Apple Visionary.
PALLIN SAYS SHE'S NOT RUNNING. GOP VP Wont Go Away.
OCCUPY WALL STREET. Protesters in Their Third Week.
BLOOMBERG FEELS THE HEAT. FDNY Discrinination.
10 YEARS LATER. Life is Bleak in Afghanistan.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 3 pm | $25
Home of David Lewis and Anne Ackerley
407 West 246th Street | $25
KELLY HALL-TOMPKINS, Violin
JAY LEE, Piano*
Beethoven - Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No.2 - First movement
Chopin - Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
Ysaÿe - Ballade (Sonata No. 3 for solo violin, "George Enescu")
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5
Hofmann - Octet
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 at 3 pm
Home of Geoffrey and Sarah Gund
690 West 247th Street | $25
CHRISTINE DOOKIE, Flute*
IRINA MOROZOVA, Piano
A Concert Dedicated to Johannes Somary
Piazzolla - Tango Etude for flute
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined dozens of parents, community members and members of Local 372 to protest the impending layoffs of over 700 school aides. The rally took place at P.S./I.S. 218/Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School on Gerard Avenue. In the Bronx, 121 school aides face layoffs.
In celebration of new directions at the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA), and in anticipation of its 50th anniversary (2012), BCA announces the APPLAUSE Awards 2011 on Thursday, November 10, 2011.
The APPLAUSE Awards honor five dynamic Women of Bronx Arts and highlight the achievements of these phenomenal cultural leaders, and the important organizations that they serve.
There will be a silent auction featuring work by Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) winners and more. A dance party featuring DJ1in2 (NYC’s Jaime Glover) will immediately follow the dinner.