The Global Search for Education: Celebrating Alice – Listen to the Real Alice…
Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves and President Nicholas Murray Butler Columbia University at the 1932 Centenary Celebration of Lewis Carroll’s birth When you hear the voice of the Real Alice In Wonderland – Alice Pleasance Hargreaves – extending her thanks to President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University at the spectacular centenary celebrations held in the old Columbia gymnasium on May 4, 1932, you will...
I Want it Made in New York
“The industry generates billions of dollars to the local economy and employs 130,000 New Yorkers behind the scenes.” — Commissioner Cynthia López (Scene from “Elementary” is courtesy of Jeff Neumann and CBS) Highly successful, long-running shows such as Sex and the City, The Sopranos, 30 Rock, Gossip Girl, Person of Interest, Elementary, Girls, and Ugly Betty have graced the stages of Queens based...
Have you Heard about the Haring?
Over a 3-day period, 1000 CityKids from all 5 New York City Boroughs helped Keith Haring create CityKids Speak on Liberty, which exhibits the personal interpretations of what liberty meant to them. Keith Haring, the globally renowned celebrity, artist and activist who socialized with the likes of Andy Warhol, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Roy Lichtenstein and Boy George had already been the subject of 100 solo and group exhibitions by the time...
And The Award Goes To — From Brooklyn
“Film Festivals are still an important outlet for people to find great films. We were able to bring together a significant number of American indie and international films created with limited resources but still incredible art.” – Bryce Renninger 3979 miles from Cannes, 4147 from Venice and 3000 from Los Angeles, a diverse international crowd gathered at the Brooklyn Film Festival (now in its 18th year) to celebrate...
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