SU-CASA 2023 Public Events
SU-CASA is a community arts engagement program that places artists and organizations for residencies at senior centers across New York City. Learn more about SU-CASA here.
Join the SU-CASA resident artists and senior center communities in their culminating celebrations!
Joy Lau
Sidewalk Storybooks : Lower East Side Edition
Wednesday, May 31st, 2:00 PM
Educational Alliance Weinberg Older Adult Center (197 East Broadway)
Sidewalk Storybooks : Lower East Side Edition is a public viewing of SU-CASA student work created during 12-weeks of afternoon classes with art, tea, and cakes, taught and baked by Joy Lau. The multicultural and multilingual group of students at the L.E.S. Weinberg Center created, colored, and collaged books displaying their stories with details reflective of their daily lives in the quickly changing neighborhood.
JoAnna Powell
Rhythms of Life Dance Circle
Friday, June 16th, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Central Harlem Kennedy Older Adult Center (34 West 134th Street)
We welcome you to join us as we celebrate Juneteenth with music, dance, and refreshments! It's our final day at Central Harlem Senior Center, so come play with us!
Roni Gross
Celebrating Our Books From the Recipe/Remedy Workshop
Friday, June 16th, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Center on the Square Older Adult Center (20 Washington Square North)
A showing of handmade books containing family recipes and remedies. Cyanotypes, painting, collage and pop-up are incorporated into the books, which have many different structures. Come share the stories of the process, and food memories.
Leonardo Sardella
Milonga Party
Tuesday, June 20th, 9:00 - 11:00 AM
RAIN Inwood Older Adult Center (84 Vermilyea Avenue)
A morning of milonga with our teaching artist Leonardo Sardella and senior participants. There will be live music, performances, and food at this culminating event of “Tango For Wellness.”
Teresa Fellion
BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance
Thursday, June 22nd, 10:00 AM
Center at Lenox Hill Older Adult Center (343 East 70th Street)
BodyStories in collaboration with SU-CASA will hold our public performance as a culmination of our series My Creative Aging. We will have a reception and short talkback where the participants can answer questions about their work, the process, and share reflections with the audience over light refreshments.
Leah Reddy
Dreams for My Family
Thursday, June 22nd, 11:00 AM
Gaylord White Older Adult Center (2029 2nd Avenue)
Join the members of the Gaylord White Older Adult Center for a multimedia exploration of dreams for their families and themselves. Refreshments will be served, and guests will be invited to share their own dreams through movement, writing, drawing, and speaking.
Sindy Isabel Castro
Maps of My Life
Friday, June 23rd, 11:00 - 11:45 AM
Canaan Senior Service Center (1428 5th Avenue)
Maps of My Life is a sharing that explores who we are and where we come from. We will be sharing through storytelling, performance, song, and dance to celebrate our mapping of our memories. We've mapped our lives through music, through the subway, through Harlem, and Coney Island. There will also be a gallery of visual stories, maps, and drawings that capture the different maps of our lives available for viewing.
Simone Coonrod
We Swing - Can you?
Friday, June 23rd, 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Educational Alliance Sirovich Older Adult Center (331 East 12th Street)
It’s a Swing Dance Event! Live Band, Swingadelic! Performance by our own Cool Cats! See what they’ve been up to these months! EVERYONE’S included dancing, with a swing lesson in the beginning, and off to a hi-de-ho as cheering the Cool Cats in their Big Apple Dance. We’ve got the Shim Sham too! Afterward open dancing to the band! Bring your truckin’ finger and your swag! And we’re topping it off with ice cream sundaes!
Julio Valdez
Monotypes and Collage Exhibition
Friday, June 23rd, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
East Side House Borinquen Court Mitchel Older Adult Center (295 East 138th Street)
An exhibition of monotypes and collages created during the SU-CASA program by over 20 participants, exploring non-toxic contemporary printmaking and collage processes. The exhibition will be on view from June 23rd to August 23rd, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
Carmen Paulino
Crochet Art
Monday, June 26th, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
STANLEY M ISAACS NORC (415 East 93rd Street)
This is a mini crochet fashion show, and an unveiling of the garden yarn bomb. We will display the crochet work completed by participants at Stanley Isaac senior center.
Natacha Voliakovsky
THE ART OF EXPRESSING | Social Practice Encounters
Monday, June 26th, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Riverstone Senior Life Services Older Adult Center (99 Fort Washington Avenue)
In this powerful final event we will use various forms of self-expression and performance-based pedagogy to display visual messages based on the stories of the participants, to compose a symbolic critical mass as a collective message, as a form of popular demand. What is denied in our stories can be claimed and shared as an act of collective reparation through the art of expressing ourselves.
Walter Perez
Fiesta!!!
Tuesday, June 27th, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Phipps Plaza West NORC (320 East 26th Street)
Fiesta !!! Join the Norc members, Su Casa artist Walter Perez and guest artist Mariana Parma for the culminating event of the "Latin dance & exercise for older adults" program. Dancing, catering food, seniors and professionals performances. Tuesday June 27 ,11-1 pm at Phipps Neighborhoods Norc
Joyce Griffen
St. Peter's Theater All-Stars Presents!
Tuesday, June 27th, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Older Adult Center at Saint Peter's Church (619 Lexington Avenue)
A SHARING - Poems, Monologues, and Short Plays written by our St. Peter's theater workshop participants. Honed from their memories and imaginations, our workshop members have crafted touching, sweet, funny, (and sometimes racy) vignettes of life, love, and things they've learned.
Sloka Iyengar
Utsav
Wednesday, June 28th, 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Washington Heights Neighborhood Older Adult Center (STAR Older Adult Center)
650 West 187th Street
Utsav will celebrate the times Sloka has spent at STAR Senior center with a short performance followed by community dances. We will have food and festivities, Indian-themed arts and crafts, as well as a display of the art work participants have done over the last few months.
Megumi Shauna Arai
Our Hands Our Stories - Exhibition
Thursday, June 29th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Meltzer Social Club Older Adult Center (94 East 1st Street)
Over the course of two months, participants in the Our Hands Our Stories project at Meltzer Center in the East Village have learned embroidery techniques and made patchwork pieces while sharing stories. On June 29th those pieces will be on display in the common area of the center, stitched together to make one communal tapestry. Please join us to celebrate the work of the members who have made this artwork ! Refreshments will be provided.
Marta Blair
Art Exhibition - Mixed media & mosaics on Latin American festivals
Thursday, June 29nd, 1:00 PM
ARC XVI Fort Washington Older Adult Center (516-520 W 181th Street)
We will be joining the Father's Day celebration in the ARC Senior Center with our Art show with the projects made in our residency during the last few months. Participants will display their mixed media work, masks, collective mural, painting, and the final project in the cafeteria.
Taylor Geu
My Story
Thursday, June 29th, 1:00 PM
FIND Aid Woodstock Older Adult Center (127 West 43rd Street)
Participants in the creative writing workshop "My Story" will be presenting their work during a public reading on Thursday, June 29, 2023 starting at 1:30 at Woodstock Older Adult Center, 127 W. 43rd St. A book of the work will also be distributed at the event.
Julia Justo
Share Your Story
Friday, June 30th, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
UJCES Lillian Wald Older Adult Center Center (12 Avenue D)
An opening reception will be held Friday June 30th from 10 am to 1 pm at Lillian Wald Older Adult Center. This exhibition is the culmination of work created by senior artists during art classes led by teaching artist Julia Justo. This exhibition features textiles and mixed media pieces exploring different themes that produce compelling works to communicate their ideas.
Noël Simoné Wippler
Savor! El sabor del barrio / the flavor of Spanish Harlem
Friday, June 30th, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Washington Lexington Satellite Older Adult Center (2029 2nd Avenue)
Come join the seniors of Washington Lexington center as they celebrate el sabor del barrio: the flavor of Spanish Harlem!! All ages are welcome! Live painting, live music, refreshments and food games and raffles!
John Clayton Doyle
Filmmaking at JASA
Friday, June 30th, 12:00 PM
JASA Club 76 Older Adult Center (120 West 76th Street)
On Friday, June 30th, Filmmaking at JASA will present brief excerpts of video and audio recordings captured as part of the SU-CASA Filmmaking workshop. The culminating event will also be a filmmaking “experience” that anyone attending can participate in. There will be stations set up to capture on-camera and audio recordings of participating guests around the theme of birthdays.
Ash Marinaccio
Documentary Theatre Ensemble Performance
Friday, June 30th, 1:30 PM
Carter Burden Luncheon Older Adult Center (351 East 74th Street)
Join the Carter Burden Center For The Aging documentary theatre ensemble for a final performance of material created by our spring 2023 participants. The 45-minute performance will include theatre, poetry, comedy, and multimedia work written and created by participants in our weekly Friday documentary theatre workshops. The final performance is directed by teaching artists Ash Marinaccio and Maria Litvan.
Tami Tyree
The Power of Inspirational Music
Friday, June 30th, 1:30 - 3:30 PM
FIND Aid Clinton Older Adult Center (530 West 55th Street)
Participants in the workshop "The Power of Inspirational Music" will present a choral concert of gospel music and other song favorites which empower and motivate. The performance is the culmination of a four-month study of gospel music; recognizing how oppressed people throughout centuries crafted a song style which continues to bring joy and compassion among diverse members of a shared community. Tami Tyree- facilitator, singer, conductor as Artist-in-Residence; Stephanie Falcon-Director of Clinton Older Adult Center.
Kevin Mooney
Bon Odori Festival
Friday, June 30th, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Westbeth Older Adult Center (55 Bethune Street)
Experience an authentic Japanese festival with traditional Bon Odori dances, including new dances created by students from Westbeth Older Adults Center! Bon Odori dances are simple and easy to learn, so anyone can join in and dance with our incredible students. These new dances are culled from each student's experiences and tell the story of each of their lives.