We have a wonderful concert coming up on December 3rd at 7:30 pm, where a very special and fantastic vocalist and violinist, Christina Courtin, and other classical musicians will be doing a Holiday Concert at Good Shepherd for the Roosevelt Island Concert Series. The program is called "Baroque Covers," and Christina will be singing her own re-inventions of pop tunes from the 1970s to the present. (Cyndi Lauper, the Kinks, etc) with a baroque chamber ensemble... plus we will play some Bach as well as holiday tunes.
Sunday, December 3, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - Good Shepherd Center 543 Main Street Roosevelt Island
Christina Courtin, vocals, violin, composer/arranger
Baroque ensemble led by Aisslinn Nosky, violin, Yiheng Yang, harpsichord.
Pop Hits from the 1960s to today, re-imagined for singer and baroque chamber ensemble. Songs by Cyndi Lauper, The Kinks, The Delfonics, and many more. Also including original holiday songs by Courtin, and some classic baroque chamber music too!
As winter approaches and the cold weather arrives, Roosevelt Island Historical
Society (RIHS) President Judy
Berdy shows us how to keep warm and celebrate Roosevelt Island history too.
Get ready for fun at our Winter Holiday Camps at Roosevelt Island Racquet Club (RIRC). Come for the day, choose a week, or two – it’s up to you! There are two levels of instruction:
QuickStart Camp for younger players
Ages 4-8 (Red ball level)
Perfect opportunity to get your little one more time on the court
Games and drills improve kids’ agility, balance and technique
Junior Tennis Camp for tennis lovers
Ages 8-17 (Orange, green, yellow ball level)
Designed for players seeking fun and intensity!
Girls and boys develop proper tennis technique, improve rallying and point play skills
Cold weather? No problem! There's no better time to play tennis. Come check out Roosevelt Island Racquet Club, located steps away from the Roosevelt Island Tram! pic.twitter.com/rBuOIqxn38
Yesterday afternoon was one of the rare times when both Roosevelt Island Tram cabins were traveling in the same direction at the same time over the East River to Manhattan 2nd Avenue Station.
One cabin was being used by passengers and the other was being used by the Tram staff for maintenance inspection with a worker riding on top of the cabin and Tram employees in the cabin waving a friendly hello to passengers in the passing cabin.
OPEN DOORS would be honored by your presence at our FIRST ANNUAL NHLM
GALA!
Featuring performances by the Reality Poets and our community, join us for an
evening of poetry, mingling, and celebration as we look to the future of
#NursingHomeLivesMatter!
Wednesday, Nov 29th, 2023
5:00PM ET
TATA INNOVATION CENTER, 1st Floor
11 E Loop Rd, New York, NY 10044
(Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island)
Attire: Come as you are!
There will be light snacks and drinks, and the Reality Poets and featured
guests will perform between presentations. We can't wait to see you there!
NHLM Gala is free to attend. However, we encourage attendees with financial
means to consider making a donation to OPEN DOORS to help us offset cost of
the event and continue to provide support for the Reality Poets, educational
workshops, and community activism.
Even if you cannot attend, you are still welcome to make a donation!
Before we officially came together as the Reality Poets, we were a loose group
of wheelchair users who would sit outside the massive brick building at the
tip of Roosevelt Island, smoke and share stories. Many of us were gun violence
survivors and all of us felt there was nothing to do living in the nursing
home. In 2016 a local artist started a project for us called OPEN DOORS, and
from there the Reality Poets were born. Thanks to our vision and leadership
OPEN DOORS is now a dynamic creative collective, educating our youth and
producing artistic collaborations, including a
poetry anthology,
original play
and
hip-hop album.
During the pandemic we were dehumanized and confined inside our nursing
home. Realizing we had the microphone at the center of the storm, we began
advocating for all those living and working in long-term care, particularly
Black and brown nursing home residents who saw twice the amount of COVID
deaths as their white counterparts. In 2020 we launched the Nursing Home
Lives Matter movement and are now warriors with a mission to end racism and
ableism in long-term care.
Powerful a nursing Home Lives Matter Message Projected on wall of Roosevelt Island Coler Nursing Facility last night at end of vigil remembering those who died and in support of those still in lockdown during Covid 19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/95xPgWNhKT
... Coler residents and
Open Doors Reality Poets
teamed with documentary filmmaker
Alexis Neophytides to show what it was like at the Coler nursing home during the early
days of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Fire Through Dry Grass
is a documentary film about the experience of residents and workers at the NYC
Health & Hospitals Corp
Coler nursing facility
on Roosevelt Island during the Covid pandemic....
Roosevelt Island is a mixed income, racially diverse waterfront community situated in the East River of New York City between Manhattan and Queens and is jurisdictionally part of Manhattan. The Roosevelt Island Tramway, which connects Roosevelt Island to the rest of Manhattan, has become the iconic symbol of Roosevelt Island to its residents.
The Purpose of this Blog is to provide accurate and timely information about Roosevelt Island as well as a forum for residents to express opinions and engage in a dialogue to improve our community.
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