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LIC BID Annual Meeting
06/22/2009
9 AM - 10:30 AM
LIC BID 2009 Public Annual Meeting
Keynote: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
Monday, June 22nd, 9 - 10:30 AM
Silvercup Studios, 42-22 22nd Street, 4th Floor, LIC, NY
Join the LIC BID and area business leaders as we review the past year's work, discuss future plans for the commercial core of Long Island City, and celebrate our fourth year. Networking and continental breakfast, no charge to attend. The LIC BID will honor Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney for her steadfast advocacy for the revitalization of Queens Plaza, as well as Raymundo Vasquez of Atlantic Maintenance.
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Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney
http://maloney.house.gov/
First elected to Congress in 1992, Carolyn B. Maloney is recognized as a national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women's issues.
Her career has been a series of firsts. Maloney is the first woman to represent New York's 14th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City's 7th Councilmanic district (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and is currently the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee, a House and Senate panel that examines and addresses the nation's most pressing economic issues.
As a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee (and immediate past chair of its Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee), she has worked to modernize financial services laws and regulations, strengthen consumer protections, and institute more vigilant oversight of the safety and soundness of our nation's banking industry. Also a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Maloney legislation has saved hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars.
As co-founder of the House 9/11 Commission Caucus, Maloney helped author and pass legislation to implement all of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for improving intelligence gathering.
As a champion for domestic and international women's issues, Maloney helped pass legislation that targets the ‘demand' side of sex trafficking; provides annual mammograms for women on Medicare; the Debbie Smith Act which increases funding for law enforcement to process DNA rape kits, termed ‘the most important anti-rape legislation in history.'
New York City has no stronger advocate in Congress than Maloney. She has doggedly fought for full federal assistance to help the city rebuild from 9/11, most recently helping secure federal aid to fund the health care needs of those made sick by the toxic air at Ground Zero. She has also delivered significant federal funding-- $486 million in the most recent round of funding-- for the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access transportation projects, both of which run through her district.
The Village Voice characterized her as "a tiger in the House on every dollar due New York." The New York Sun said "her entire career has been marked by a kind of personal courage." And The New York Times said, "New York's Congressional delegation stands out for their moxie, kind of the way New Yorkers themselves often do. Among the brashest members is Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat of Manhattan."
For Immediate Release
April 10, 2009
TRANS-POSITIONS along the Queensboro Bridge:
Contemporary art production bridging the boroughs
A Special Exhibition across five venues in Long Island City, Queens marking the centennial of the Queensboro Bridge
May 28 - July 31, 2009
Opening Reception the evening of May 30, 6 - 8 p.m. at these venues:
Clocktower Building, 29-27 Queens Plaza North, ground floor
Holiday Inn; 39-05 29th St., 718.77.3700
Packard Square Lobby, 41-34 Crescent Street, LIC, 718.707.9449
Space Realty Group; 29-09 39th Avenue, LIC 718.606.2947
Press Reception the evening of May 28, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. at
Henry DeFord III Gallery at Citi, Jackson Avenue and 44th Drive
Viewing hours: Monday - Friday, 9a.m. - 5p.m. at all five venues
Curated by Judith Tolnick Champa for LICArtists, Inc.
Long Island City-TRANS-POSITIONS Along the Queensboro Bridge presents a wide range of contemporary and traditional artwork, including video. Concerned with the notion of spanning, the work explores the place of the artist as well as where art is made. Conjuring a wide range of seeing and knowing, the exhibition features many artists new to exhibiting in the immediate area. In addition to the artwork, the exhibition has prompted new partnerships within the business community.
Judith Tolnick Champa is an Independent Curator with considerable expertise in modern and contemporary art curating, including working in public and private academic settings. She is a member of ArtTable, the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts and IKT, the international association of contemporary art curators.
Long Island City Artists, Inc. has a 23 year history as a high-visibility organization of professional visual artists working in the Long Island City area, actively creating and promoting public art events and projects for the cultural enrichment of the Queens community. The Centennial anniversary of the Queensboro Bridge is a major event focus this spring for The Queens Council on the Arts, whose mission is to foster the arts in the County.
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world....'Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge,' I thought; 'anything at all...'"
From THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Copyright (C) 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, an Imprint of Simon &Schuster, Inc, NY.
For more information, please contact Karen Fitzgerald, 646.369.7184 or kbfitzgerald@gmail.com. Please also visit www.LICArtists.org
This project is made possible in part with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered by Queens Council on the Arts Queen
"I want to draw the mind of the viewer in a direction it's not used to. I want to help the viewer discover something he or she wouldn't have discovered without me - a particular accent or relationship that enables us to identify, to realize that it isn't just a man or a woman or an object or a vision, but one particular man, woman, object or vision. I want to produce what remains when the mind has forgotten all the details."
- Moishe Kampin
The opening is this Saturday Nite - March 28th @ 10 PM
Dominie's Hoek
48-17 Vernon Blvd
Long Island City
(718) 706-6531
How to Get There:
7 Train to Vernon/Jackson. (First stop out of Grand Central / Manhattan)
G Train to 21st St/Van Alst.
E Train to 23rd/Ely (But that one's a little further).
Conceived, directed and choreographed by Chocolate Factory Artistic Director Brian Rogers, redevelop (death valley) is inspired by his experience of living and working in Long Island City, Queens (the site of an ongoing massive redevelopment project) for many years; and by his fascination with the Gold Rush-era ghost towns of the American west. redevelop (death valley) will juxtapose found footage and field recordings of ghost towns, precisely executed miniature dances, and video captured in real time to construct a series of interweaving visual narratives around ideas of shared, temporary and abandoned living spaces.
Separated from the audience by movable translucent panels made from industrial plastic (which also serve as projection surfaces), barely-seen on-stage movements will be performed, captured in extreme close-up by moving video cameras, then repeated, cut up, and mashed atop one another, leading to a sort of densely layered accumulated history of many people in one space over time. Assembled from field recordings and video filmed during visits to ghost towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California (Death Valley); video interviews with lifelong LIC residents; dances made from mortgage calculators and real estate ads; Ennio Morricone-inspired sounds; text compiled from FDR's fireside chats, statements by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and poems by Greg Vargo; and a meal prepared and eaten onstage; redevelop (death valley) will unfold as a gradual unveiling, demolition, and removal of the performance and the space itself.
redevelop (death valley) features concept, direction and choreography by Brian Rogers; video design by Brian Rogers and Madeline Best; scenic design by Brad Kisicki; lighting design by Chloe Z. Brown; sound by Chris Peck with Brian Rogers; costumes by Maggie Dick; stage management by Alexandra Rosenberg; and creation & performance by Brian Rogers, Jennifer Lee Dudek, Sheila Lewandowski, Yoko Myoi, and Mark Sitko. Additional collaborators include Josh Hoglund, Mike Rugnetta, and Greg Vargo.
February 12-28, 2009 Thurs-Sat @ 8PM (add'l performance Mon 2/24 @ 8PM) $15
Buy Tickets https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/238
The US and global economies are rapidly embracing shaping, and joining the green economy. Please join the Queens Chamber of Commerce and its partners to set a standard for New York's other boroughs and communities around the country at this groundbreaking and informative summit. The Queens Green Business Summit will both challenge and identify ways to innovate in a green economy by setting attainable, measurable, and sustainable business practices.
Attendees will include decision makers at every level of New York metropolitan-based businesses, government officials, Queens Chamber of Commerce members and non-members alike, and Corporations seeking to do business in Queens who embrace the emerging Green economy.
The summit will consist of exhibitors, speakers, and informative, provocative panel discussions. Exhibitors and speakers will gain exceptional exposure in the press and community, an attendee list, and enumerable benefits. Sponsors will have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in greening our borough, setting new standards, and leading the charge of the Queens Business Community in adapting green practices.
For information on sponsorship options, please contact Alliah Sheta at 212-289-8506 x 312
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Buy tickets here. Never before seen in New York, Target Margin Theater is proud to present Williams\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' elegant compact first version of what became his much-celebrated play. In 1948 Elia Kazan first workshopped these scenes at the Actors Studio, and that work grew into the legendary Camino Real. Directed by David Herskovits, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. on behalf of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Buy $15 tickets now with the discount code TENCHOC at TargetMargin.org or by calling 212.352.3101.
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