Bronx Children’s Museum to host ARTSPOT
Bronx Children’s Museum will host ARTSPOT, its fi rst ever pop-up art-making festival
on the shores of the Harlem River in Mill Pond Park.
Photo courtesy of Bronx Children’s Museum
Beginning Saturday, September 21,
Bronx Children’s Museum will host
ARTSPOT, its fi rst ever pop-up artmaking
festival on the shores of the
Harlem River in Mill Pond Park.
For four consecutive Saturdays this
fall families and their children can
visit the Bronx Children’s Museum -
right in the Museum’s own backyard
- to participate in playful and educational
STEAM-based art experiences
geared for children ages 3-9.
Each Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
museum teaching artists and guests
will lead children and their adult companions
in a variety of nature-themed
crafts, bridge-building challenges, interpretive
dance, water experiments, and
more. Featuring the Museum’s Waters
On the Go! suitcase exhibit, other activities
scheduled include music, drawing,
sculpting and water play.
Participants can drop in anytime
throughout the day to learn about animal
habitats and their life cycles, watercolor
chemistry, nature patterns,
animal sounds, and engineering. A
different theme of activities will be
featured each Saturday. Activities are
ongoing throughout the day.
Also on site each week will be the
museum’s big purple ‘Museum On the
Go!’ bus open for free tours. The bus
features the mobile exhibit Waters On
the Go! where visitors can explore the
natural habitats and animals of the
Harlem River and Orchard Beach.
Mill Pond Park is located on Exterior
The Sisters, Servants of Mary Auxiliary
cordially invite you to celebrate their
ANNUAL LUNCHEON & AUCTION
TO BENEFIT THE SISTERS
Guests of Honor
James McQuade
Schuyler Hill Funeral Home
and
Dr. Carmen Garcia Albarrán
Dr. Julio E. Albarrán
SOMOS Community Care
Sunday, October 20, 2019
11:30 am - 3:30 pm
Marina Del Rey
One Marina Drive, Bronx, NY 10465
SSOM Auxiliary
3305 Country Club Road
Bronx, NY 10465
www.servantsofmary-ny.org/events
for more information call 718-600-1165
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, SEPTEMBER 2 54 7-OCTOBER 3, 2019 BTR
Street at East 150th Street opposite
the Bronx Terminal Market near
Yankee Stadium. ARTSPOT runs for
four consecutive Saturdays beginning
September 21 going through October
12 and is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All
activities will take place at the park’s
outdoor classroom. Admission is free.
Children require the supervision of an
adult in order to participate. Activities
vary each weekend.
Funding is provided by New York
State Council on the Arts with the support
of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
and the New York State Legislature,
and the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs. Additional support
provided by Michael’s and Gotham
Stadium Tennis Center.
For more information visit
www.bronxchildrensmuseum.org/
artspot19.
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The Public Theater (artistic director,
Oskar Eustis; executive director,
Patrick Willingham) announced complete
casting for the major New York
revival of A Bright Room Called Day,
written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Tony Kushner. Directed by Oskar
Eustis, this scorching new version
of Kushner’s fi rst play will begin performances
in the Anspacher Theater
with a Joseph Papp Free Preview performance
on Tuesday, October 29 and
an offi cial opening on Tuesday, November
19. A Bright Room Called Day was
originally scheduled to close on December
8 and has been extended one week
through Sunday, December 15.
Complete casting for A Bright Room
Called Day includes Michael Esper
(Vealtninc Husz), Grace Gummer (Paulinka
Erdnuss), Nikki M. James (Agnes
Eggling), Crystal Lucas-Perry (Zillah),
Nadine Malouf (Rosa Malek), Mark
Margolis (Gottfried Swetts), Michael
Urie (Gregor Bazwald), and Max Woertendyke
(Emil Traum), joining the previously
announced Linda Emond (Annabella
Gotchling), Jonathan Hadary
(Xillah), and Estelle Parsons (Die Älte).
Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prizewinning
playwright, reunites with
longtime collaborator and Public Theater
artistic director Oskar Eustis in a
scorching new version of his fi rst play,
the prescient 1985 masterwork suggesting
the possibility of the Reagan counter
revolution eventually giving rise to
American fascism. Agnes, an actress
in Weimar Germany, and her cadre
of passionate, progressive friends, are
torn between protest, escape, and survival
as the world they knew crumbles
around them. Her story is interrupted
by an American woman enraged by
the cruelty of the Reagan administration,
and a new character, grappling
with the anxiety, distraction, hope,
and hopelessness of an artist facing
the once unthinkable rise of authoritarianism
in modern America. Funny,
brilliant, and devastating, this new
production of A bright room called day
revisits an epic work that takes a piercing
look at the vulnerability of American
democracy, and demands to know:
when the devil takes up residence in
your country…will you act?
A Bright Room Called Day will feature
scenic design by David Rockwell,
co-costume design by Susan Hilferty
and Sarita Fellows, lighting design by
John Torres, sound design by Bray Poor,
and projection design by Lucy Mackinnon.
Continuing The Public’s mission
to make great theater accessible to
all, The Public’s Joseph Papp Free
Preview initiative will continue this
fall; free tickets to the performance on
Tuesday, October 29 will be available
beginning Wednesday, October 23 via
TodayTix mobile lottery, and on Tuesday,
October 29 via the lottery in the
lobby of The Public Theater at Astor
Place, with entries starting at 11 a.m.
and winners drawn at noon.
Public Theater Partner and Supporter
tickets are available now. Single
tickets, starting at $75, can be accessed
by calling (212) 967-7555, visiting publictheater.
org, or in person at the Taub
Box Offi ce at The Public Theater at 425
Lafayette Street.
The performance schedule is Tuesday
through Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday
and Sunday at 1 and 7 p.m. (There
is no 1 p.m. performance on Saturday,
November 2 or Sunday, December 8.).
The Open Captioned performance
will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November
23. The Audio Described performance
will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday,
December 7. The American Sign Language
Interpreted performance will
be announced at a later date. For more
information, visit publictheater.org/
accessibility.
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