School groups, grades 3 and up, experience catch-and-release fishing and learn about the geographic and ecological history of the Hudson River in exciting experiencial visits to Wagner Park. Also offered in May and June 2020.
To find out more, email: [email protected]
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Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures. An ideal choice for participants of all ages. No program 5/24, 7/5, 8/30, 10/11.
Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike both long and short poses for participants to draw. Artists/educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. All drawing materials are supplied.
This class takes place in South Cove near Battery Place & Second Place and is for adult participants (age 18 and up).
School groups, grades 3 and up, experience catch-and-release fishing and learn about the geographic and ecological history of the Hudson River in exciting experiencial visits to Wagner Park. Also offered in May and June 2020.
To find out more, email: [email protected]
Filed Under: Tagged With: outdoors, School-age Kids
School groups, grades 3 and up, experience catch-and-release fishing and learn about the geographic and ecological history of the Hudson River in exciting experiencial visits to Wagner Park. Also offered in May and June 2020.
To find out more, email: [email protected]
Filed Under: Tagged With: outdoors, School-age Kids
Join this inclusive class that weaves together gentle yoga/chi kung and guided relational meditation exercises. Relational meditation uses mindfulness of breathing, eye-contact, and compassion meditation to help people connect, promoting deep listening, presence and open heartedness.
9/12: Basic Presence
Experience what it’s like to connect with others while releasing thought. Discover how, on an embodied level, being with others can impact you.
9/19: Self Compassion
Deepen the sense of kindness, understanding, and spaciousness toward yourself while connecting with others.
9/26: Common Humanity
Recognize the common threads that tie together all people and rest your attention at this basic level of connectedness.
10/10: Extending Compassion
Connect with your innate sense of compassion and then extend it to people you may not always think to include.
Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike both long and short poses for participants to draw. Artists/educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. All drawing materials are supplied.
This class takes place in South Cove near Battery Place & Second Place and is for adult participants (age 18 and up).
School groups, grades 3 and up, experience catch-and-release fishing and learn about the geographic and ecological history of the Hudson River in exciting experiencial visits to Wagner Park. Also offered in May and June 2020.
To find out more, email: [email protected]
Filed Under: Tagged With: outdoors, School-age Kids
Join Landscape Architect and Horticulturist Nancy Seaton for a thought-provoking tour investigating how landscapes are often the receptacle of art– the context within which sculpture is placed. Explore how the landscapes of Battery Park City is the art, in places such as South Cove and Teardrop Park. Discuss how basic principles of design and conceptual thinking transcend media, and the phenomenal elements that are especially well expressed through landscape.
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Join us for an autumn celebration of intricately woven harmonies along the Hudson River. Get inspired by the vocal stylings of the finest college a cappella groups in the Northeast. Six ensembles will showcase their pitch-perfect vocal renditions from a diverse mix of musical genres. Bring a blanket, a picnic lunch and enjoy the music with New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty as backdrop!
FEATURED PERFORMERS:
THE N’HARMONICS THE NOR’EASTERS
New York University Northeastern University
NOTES AND KEYS OFF THE BEAT
Columbia University Univerity of Pennsylvania
THE OPPORTUNES PITCH SLAPPED
Harvard University Berklee College of Music
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