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    Building Confidence and Memories at Broadway Bootcamp
    Rachel Dowling with photos by Irina Island Images
    • Aug 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Building Confidence and Memories at Broadway Bootcamp

    Next week launches the final week of the enormously popular Broadway Boot Camps at Main Street Theatre Dance Alliance (MSTDA), and there...
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    With Humor and Courage, Open Doors Presents FADE
    Rachel Dowling with photos by Irina Island Images
    • Jun 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    With Humor and Courage, Open Doors Presents FADE

    Fade is what they refuse to do. Disappearing into the background is not going to happen. Fighting to ensure their fate does not befall...
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    Adventure in the Great Wide Somewhere: Island Kids Take the Stage with Beauty & the Beast Jr.
    Rachel Dowling with photos by Irina Island Images
    • Jun 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    Adventure in the Great Wide Somewhere: Island Kids Take the Stage with Beauty & the Beast Jr.

    This weekend 48 Roosevelt Island kids in three different casts will take the stage in the Main Street Theatre and Dance Alliance (MST&DA)...
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    Vernissage XVIII- The Newest Group Show at RIVAA Gallery
    Rachel Dowling with photos by Alexandre Tolipan
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Vernissage XVIII- The Newest Group Show at RIVAA Gallery

    The month of March has brought yet another exciting and eclectic art exhibit to the RIVAA (Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association)...
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    Riveting Theater Comes to Island Audiences
    Rachel Dowling with photos by Irina Island Images
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Riveting Theater Comes to Island Audiences

    We have great theater all around us in New York City, and you don’t always need to travel across the river to see it. Oh What A Lovely...
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    Coler Based Reality Poets Publish Anthology and Host Poetry Share
    Lauren Blankstein
    • Feb 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Coler Based Reality Poets Publish Anthology and Host Poetry Share

    Artists’ and the neighborhoods where their careers took flight can become inextricably linked – Allen Ginsberg and the East Village,...
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    Get Your Inner Artist On and Make Way for Figment
    Rachel Dowling
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 7 min

    Get Your Inner Artist On and Make Way for Figment

    Things are going to start to get colorful around here come June, and it won’t just be the typical color of summer abloom. Roosevelt...
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    RIVAA Celebrates Black History with 'Cultural Preservation' Exhibit
    Rachel Dowling
    • Feb 11, 2019
    • 5 min

    RIVAA Celebrates Black History with 'Cultural Preservation' Exhibit

    The RI Jazz Collaborative Band, featuring Lynn Beville, provided live music at the opening, by Alexandre Tolipan This year’s annual Black...
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    MST&DA: Gearing up for an Exciting Spring Season
    Rachel Dowling
    • Jan 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    MST&DA: Gearing up for an Exciting Spring Season

    Three casts comprising a total of 49 children from Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance (MSTDA) Musical Theater Class will produce the...
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    Oculus Sculpture Trades Octagon For Island House
    Briana Warsing
    • Nov 3, 2018
    • 5 min

    Oculus Sculpture Trades Octagon For Island House

    When the historic Octagon building, formerly an insane asylum, reopened in 2006 as an apartment building, Victoria Thorson’s sculpture,...
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    Octagon Trades an Art Gallery for Rental Office Space
    Rachel Dowling
    • Oct 6, 2018
    • 4 min

    Octagon Trades an Art Gallery for Rental Office Space

    Although it is still listed as one of the “amenities” on the Octagon website, the 10-year old art gallery in the historic landmark insane...
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    Roosevelt Island Featured in Exhibit on
Museum Mile
    Dottie Jeffries
    • Oct 4, 2018
    • 5 min

    Roosevelt Island Featured in Exhibit on Museum Mile

    Roosevelt Island's distinguished history in medicine, healthcare, and treatment of communicative diseases, is on display as part of the...
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    'The Monkey King' Returns with Polish and Depth
    Rachel Dowling
    • Jul 28, 2018
    • 4 min

    'The Monkey King' Returns with Polish and Depth

    Kimbirdlee and Jonathan Fadner of Common Man Musicals (CMM) are bringing a grown-up version of their new production, The Monkey King,...
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    New Exhibit Explores FDR's Freedoms
    Briana Warsing
    • Jun 25, 2018
    • 4 min

    New Exhibit Explores FDR's Freedoms

    Looking at the women featured in Sara Bennett’s photos, currently printed across stretched canvas on the grassy slope of Four Freedoms...
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    Violinist Brings Art of Tango Home
    Briana Warsing
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 6 min

    Violinist Brings Art of Tango Home

    As a featured performer on multiple Grammy- and Latin Grammy-awarded albums, Leonardo Suarez Paz can have his pick of concert venues. The...
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    RIOC Unveils New Public Art
    Briana Warsing
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 4 min

    RIOC Unveils New Public Art

    On Wednesday morning, a few dozen Islanders and art lovers sat in front of a podium on the hill that connects Good Shepherd Plaza with...
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    A Night of Art and Poetry That’s Bigger Than the Chair That Binds Them
    Briana Warsing
    • May 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    A Night of Art and Poetry That’s Bigger Than the Chair That Binds Them

    Andres “Jay” Molina is tired of talking about his wheelchair. As part of the Open Doors program, he and a small group of fellow Coler...
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    Calling All Artists
    briana644
    • May 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    Calling All Artists

    The Main Street WIRE is seeking art submissions on an ongoing basis for our Letters section. In the last few issues, we have featured...
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    MST&DA: Nurturing a Love of the Stage – and Launching Careers
    Dottie Jeffries
    • May 1, 2018
    • 7 min

    MST&DA: Nurturing a Love of the Stage – and Launching Careers

    Over the last 37 years, the Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance (MST&DA) has offered acting, dance, and music classes to hundreds of...
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    MST&DA Children’s Theatre Brings New Musical to Life
    Kelly Turner
    • May 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    MST&DA Children’s Theatre Brings New Musical to Life

    Island audiences will soon be the first to watch a brand-new musical, The Monkey King, premiering at the Main Street Theatre & Dance...
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