August 2022
Art for Ukraine 🌻 Fundraiser
The Watercolor Artists of Oyster Bay and the teacher, Roberta Erlagen, organized the Art for Ukraine fundraizer. The paintings are on display at Planting Fields Arboretum Haybarn in Oyster Bay during the month of August daily, 10 AM to 4 PM. Please stop by to see all the beautiful paintings of SUNFLOWERS 🌻 done by some very talented artists. These originals will be part of the silent auction, and available for Giclee prints or lovely, waterproof placemats. The proceeds will…
Find out more »Learn-to-Row Camp for Students in Underserved Communities
Port Rowing, a non-profit rowing organization located at Bar Beach in Port Washington, is going to hold a free, one-week, “Learn to Row” camp for girls and boys in the surrounding underserved communities. Port Rowing also offers scholarships for its full-time program, which runs after school throughout the entire school year. So if any of the students decide that rowing is a sport they would like to continue, they would be able to do so through Port Rowing’s scholarship program.…
Find out more »Webinar: National, State and Local Resources to Assist Ukrainian Arrivals to New York State and Their Sponsors
>>> Register here <<< The NYS Office for New Americans (ONA) invites you to an important webinar featuring national, state, and local resources to support Ukrainian arrivals and their sponsors in New York State. In April of 2022, the federal government announced Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) which provides a pathway for Ukrainian citizens and their immediate family members who are outside the United States to seek refuge in the United States and stay temporarily in a two-year period of parole.…
Find out more »Children’s Play: “Mom via Skype”
The play was created by a group of children from a Lviv theater "School of Arts of the Free and Caring", directed by Oleg Oneshchak based on the book of the same name "Mom via Skype". In a bomb shelter in Lviv, Ukraine, April 26, 2022 being a young soldier on duty, Oleg rehearses this play with a cast of 9 children between the ages of 10 and 14 including his own daughter. This story raises the irritating and ambiguous…
Find out more »Children’s Play: “Mom via Skype”
The play was created by a group of children from a Lviv theater "School of Arts of the Free and Caring", directed by Oleg Oneshchak based on the book of the same name "Mom via Skype". In a bomb shelter in Lviv, Ukraine, April 26, 2022 being a young soldier on duty, Oleg rehearses this play with a cast of 9 children between the ages of 10 and 14 including his own daughter. This story raises the irritating and ambiguous…
Find out more »Children’s Play: “Mom via Skype”
HELP UKRAINIAN CHILDREN SUPPORT UKRAINE: YOUNGSTERS' CRIES FOR SAFER SKIES This play was created by a group of teenage actors from the Lviv, Ukraine theater studio "School of Arts of the Free and Caring", directed by Oleg Oneshchak, based on the book of the same name "Mom via Skype". The story raises the irritating and ambiguous topic of social orphanhood as a consequence of labor migration and, more broadly, the communication gap between parents and children. The premiere of the…
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