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Good morning, I hope you are doing well!
I wanted to share a few of the special upcoming programs on the Virtual Senior Center during the month of April. Virtual Senior Center/enliveo participants can join using the Virtual Senior Center/enliveo page: https://vsc.enliveo.com/home.
Thank you so much and have a wonderful day!
Best Wishes,
Jess Gianna
enliveo (Virtual Senior Center)
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Virtual Violin and Piano Recital with Bargemusic
Thursday, April 3rd at 2pm
| | Join Mark Peskanov and Doris Stevenson from Bargemusic as they play a beautiful selection of violin and viola music for us. Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge since 1977, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.” | | |
1. Call-in for audio show
Phone: 16468769923
After the voice prompt, dial the meeting ID:
94798421588
followed by the # sign.
Then after the next voice prompt, press # again.
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Zoom into Shabbat with Chaplain Betsy
Friday, April 4th at 1pm
| | Please join us for songs, stories, and blessings as we welcome in the Shabbat as a community. You will have the opportunity to share your favorite Shabbat memories and melodies with the group. This is an opportunity to connect together as a sacred community. | | |
1. Call-in for audio show
Phone: 16468769923
After the voice prompt, dial the meeting ID:
92929452775
followed by the # sign.
Then after the next voice prompt, press # again.
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Virtual Tour of The Jewish Museum- The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Thursday, April 10th at 3pm
| | Jan Steen, The Wrath of Ahasuerus, 1668–70. Oil on canvas, 32 x 38 ¾ in. (81.2 x 98.5 cm). Museum Bredius, The Hague, Netherlands. | | In the age of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669), the biblical Book of Esther was a key source of inspiration for diverse communities in Holland, both Jewish and Christian. Traditionally, the Esther story is read annually on the Jewish holiday of Purim. For immigrant Jewish communities living with new freedom in more tolerant Amsterdam, celebrating Purim—notably through finely produced Esther scrolls and theater productions—became meaningful expressions of Jewish culture. For the Dutch, Queen Esther’s heroism came to represent their emerging nation’s identity. Rembrandt and his contemporaries depicted essential scenes of Esther’s story in paintings, prints, drawings, and decorative arts. This exhibition gives expression to this full range of the Book of Esther’s popularity and meaning in Rembrandt’s time. | | |
Virtual Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Pam
The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910
Monday, April 14th at 4pm
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
This exhibition presents a bold new history of American photography from the medium’s birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. Drawn from The Met’s William L. Schaeffer Collection, major works by lauded artists such as Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton Watkins, and Alice Austen are shown in dialogue with extraordinary photographs by obscure or unknown practitioners made in small towns and cities from coast to coast. Featuring a range of formats, from daguerreotypes and cartes de visite to stereographs and cyanotypes, the show explores the dramatic change in the nation’s sense of itself that was driven by the immediate success of photography as a cultural, commercial, artistic, and psychological preoccupation. In 1835, even before the nearly simultaneous announcement of the invention of the new art in Paris and London, the American philosopher essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson noted with remarkable vision: “Our Age is Ocular.”
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Virtual Passover Celebration with Chaplain Betsy
Friday, April 18th at 1pm
| | Join Chaplain Betsy and your VSC friends for our Virtual Passover Celebration. | | |
1. Call-in for audio show
Phone: 16468769923
After the voice prompt, dial the meeting ID:
91662228367
followed by the # sign.
Then after the next voice prompt, press # again.
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Virtual Yom HaShoah Commemoration with Chaplain Betsy
Thursday, April 24th at 4pm
| | Join Chaplain Betsy for our Yom HaShoah Commemoration. | | |
1. Call-in for audio show
Phone: 16468769923
After the voice prompt, dial the meeting ID:
94829348678
followed by the # sign.
Then after the next voice prompt, press # again.
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Virtual Tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with Ronit
Thursday, April 24th at 4pm
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) was founded in 1870 and opened its doors in 1876 in Copley Square. It began with a small collection of paintings, prints, and decorative arts, but as its reputation grew, so did its need for space. In 1909, the museum moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue, where it has since expanded multiple times to accommodate its world-renowned collection.
Today, the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the United States, with over 500,000 works spanning thousands of years. It houses masterpieces from ancient Egyptian artifacts to Impressionist paintings by artists like Monet, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt, as well as a significant collection of American art, Japanese prints, and contemporary works.
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Virtual Tour of the Museum at Eldridge Street with Scott
A Virtual Tour of the Changing Lower East Side
Wednesday, April 30th at 2pm
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Over the past century, the Lower East Side saw unparalleled growth and change as waves of immigrants moved through the area, praying, playing, working, shopping, and attending school, building their new lives in a new land. Today, there are signs of the past hidden within the modern streets.
Join us for a Zoom tour with Scott Brevda of the Museum at Eldridge Street as we follow in the footsteps of these immigrants with photographs from the turn of the century and the Museum’s latest exhibition: Lower East Side, 1975: Portrait of a Changing Neighborhood.
This program is supported, in part, by the Laura B. Vogler Foundation.
| | Virtual Senior Center/enliveo participants can join through the VSC/enliveo page | | Social services for Jewish Nazi victims have been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. | | | | |
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