All Things Auspicious!

Warm appreciation to all of my friends, colleagues, and clients for a phenomenal year.

Here's to good health, happiness, and all things auspicious in 2015!

Shostakovich For The Children Of Syria

Kinan Azmeh opens the evening with "Sabah hazeen, Kul Sabah" for solo clarinet.

  

It was an incredible evening at Carnegie Hall, when 125 concert masters and principal musicians from New York's premier orchestras joined George Mathew, in performing Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, to benefit the Doctors Without Borders' humanitarian programs surrounding Syria.

 

 

It's heartwarming to witness what a community of musicians and scientists are able to accomplish when an agreement to a common goal is set.

Please listen in on the concert and make a contribution.

www.music4lifeinternational.org

Winter Sale for Friends this Saturday!

Beautiful Snow!

Miki Katagiri Hats!

Warm Blessings

 

 

For the Future of Happy and Healthy Thanksgivings!

 

On Veteran's Day

 

 

 

It might be nice to re-visit FDR's Four Freedoms.

 

 

 

www.fourfreedomspark.org

 

Autumn Triology Photo Update!

 

agencepistache.see.me/

 

 

 

Big Apple Circus Holiday Family Benefit!

Saturday, November 16, is the day to enjoy Affordable Family Fun at the Big Apple Circus. 
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center.

 Benefit tickets for LUMINOSITY start at $25/Children and $50/Adults.

Catered boxed lunches and special activities galore, while supporting the Big Apple Circus' 5 exceptional community outreach programs!

Join the Fun and Hope to See You There!

Tickets for the Holiday Family Benefit performance available online at:

www.bigapplecircus.org

Happy and Safe Adventures

 

With the Great Pumpkin!!!

Be Brazil's Hottest Innovations!

A great smile and fabulous footware from Havaiana!

 

 

"Be Brazil" at 372 West Broadway, in Soho. 

October 15 - October 22

 

 

From fine liquors, eco-friendly jewelry to ice cream scented rubber pumps and infrared anti-cellulite clothing...there's something to enjoy, amuse, and bring home for everyone!

Happy Eid ul-Azha

YAANY Hosts Foodtober: Food for Thought

 

 

Eating for a Sustainable Planet and Personal Health

 

 

How a forward thinking food service director collaborates successfully 

with his research and academic colleagues to offer students and faculty at Yale

a healthier and more sustainable diet.

 

A refreshing reception by Alison 18!

 

NYC's 2013 Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Work Project

Morning pyramid for House # 5

 

Quality Control is in the House!

Double Your Rescue and Refugee Support Dollars

Deadline:   Sunday, October 6, 20013.

Make a meaningful contribution to the IRC's New Roots project and
help support the refugees resettled in El Cajon and beyond. The farmers
market here offers high quality foods at affordable prices and wonderful
programs to help with the integration of many in the communities lower
income bracket.

The Newman's Own Foundation will match your gift of $250.00 -
$35,000.00!

Learn more about the New Roots project by visiting the IRC's October 4,
New Roots: Picture a Farmer blog post!


www.rescue.org

Recycle eWaste Responsibly!

This Saturday, October 5.  Tekserve partners with the Lower Eastside Ecology Center to recycle eWaste!  Bring in your old electronics, for responsible recycling and a chance to win a MacBook Air
and receive a green karma coupon good toward the purchase of a new computer at Tekserve.

Saturday, October 5, 2013
Tekserve 119 West 23 Street
10:00am-4:00pm

www.tekserve.com/service/recycling

Sapna NYC's Taste of South Asia Gala

Sapna NYC Invites you to join them for a delightful South Asian Food tasting and silent auction to support their programs and services benefitting the under-served immigrant communities in New York. 

The evening's program honoring Faiza Patel and Rini Banerjee, will be hosted by Quratt Ann Kadwani. 

 

Taste of South Asia

 

Wednesday, October 2

Aicon Gallery

35 Great Jones Street

6:30-9:30pm

 

 

 

 

Tickets:  http://tasteofsouthasia.brownpapertickets.com

 

$60 / $40 non-profit / $25 student

 

 

www.sapnanyc.org

www.aicongallery.com

An Autumn Equinox Glimpse of the Day

       Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation. A smile, a face on the subway,
the sight of a small flower growing in the crack of  cement pavement, a fall of rich cloth in a shop
window, the way the sun lights up flower pots on a windowsill.  be alert for any sign of beauty or
grace.  Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments, to "the news that is always arriving out of silence."

       Slowly, you will become a master of your own bliss, a chemist of your own joy, with all sorts of remedies always at hand to elevate, cheer, illuminate, and inspire your every breath and movement.
  
                                                                                                                                     Rigpa Glimpse of the Day



Thank you to Larry Mark Goldblatt for his selfless dedication to his art and friends!

www.larrymarkgoldblatt.com






    

Pillow Project

 















September 21 - October 26.

84 Oak Street Gallery officially launches as an art venue this Saturday, September 21 with textile artists Brenda Colling and Sascha Ascher's "Pillow Project." The opening reception for the inaugural exhibition at the former pillow factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is from 6:00-8:00pm.


The opening reception is catered by Chef Marcos Gouvea from Brazil On The Table.




wwww.brendacolling.com
www.brazilonthetable.com

Our Fragile Earth

This past Thursday, was an exceptional day for art openings. The first was Pat Musick and Jerry Carr's extraordinary collaboration on "Our Fragile Home," at the Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, CT. Through November 2.

Nurture   Protect   Sustain   Reconcile  
Steward   Conserve   Preserve   Love              Pat Musick 2009

This exhibition about words, is Pat Musick's direct response to the first United Nations Earth Day celebration, that Jerry Carr was honored to speak at in 1970. Carr was one of six international astronauts and cosmonauts to share his reponse to seeing earth from the vantage point of space.

Hope and respect for our planet earth, resonates deeply in the serenity and awe of the artists' visual translation of these words and Museum Director, Robin Zeller's installation of "Our Fragile Earth."

The uncanny relevance of this inspiring body of work, is without question, worth a visit to the Housatonic.

www.hctc.commnet.edu/artmuseum/exhibits/2013/fragileEarth/index.asp

www.camusart.com

                                                                  Pat Musick and Jerry Carr. 
                                                                  They All Said the Same Thing, 2011.
                                                                  Kozo paper, acrylic, beeswax.
                                                                  Courtesy of Steve Wirth and Jill D'Argostino