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Children’s Health Fund Seminar on Returning
to the Schools The Children's Health Fund is adding group seminars
to its program of psychological services for Lower Manhattan residents.
The first seminar, "A Psychologically Safe Return to Your Child's
Home School," will take place this month in Battery Park City. For
time and place, email Steve Manin at smanin@chfund.org.
The Fund offers free counseling and other mental health services at its
mobile Community Support Unit, across from 70 Battery Place, on Tuesdays
and Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. T.O.A.S.T. (Tribeca Open Artist’s Studio Tour)
invites Tribeca artists to join the sixth annual tour, which this year
is expanded to three days and will include photographers. The first meeting
is on Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m at White Street Studio, 50 White St. The tours
will take place April 27-29. The entry fee is $60 until Jan. 21, $70 after.
For more information or to sign up, email Rebecca at therebecca@aol.com
or call 219-1388. Groups Publish
9/11 Resource Guides Seedco, an organization administering a grant program
for downtown businesses, last month published a World Trade Center Small
Business Resource Referral Guide. Free copies can be requested at 473-0255.
The New York Arts Recovery Fund, a relief fund spearheaded by the New
York Foundation for the Arts, published two guides that list and compare
government and private resources for artists and nonprofit arts groups.
For more information, or to order, go to www.nyfa.org/9-11.htm. After being forced uptown last fall, Tuesday Evening Hour, the long-running weekly slide show series, returns this month to the community room in IPN’s 310 Greenwich Street building. On Jan. 15, photographer and naturalist Vlasios Pyrpyris presents a slide lecture on the the South Pacific, and on Jan. 22, Marsha Slomowitz gives a show on "Lost New York," creative storefronts, community gardens, shrines and other personal worlds tucked amid the city’s chain stores. Architectural historian Joe Zito talks about London’s architectural and urban design history on Jan. 29. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m. For information, call 385-3650. Murray Street Library Branch Reopens The New Amsterdam library branch on 9 Murray St. reopened
in early December, after being shut down since Sept. 11. Hours are Mon.,
Tues., Thurs. and Fri., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wed. 12 to 8 p.m. and Sat.
1 to 5 p.m. De Niro Plans Tribeca
Film Festival in Spring Who needs Cannes? Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Productions
recently announced the launch of the first annual Tribeca Film Festival,
which will run May 1–5 and include feature films, documentaries,
shorts and student works in juried competition. The festival has long
been in development, but De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal decided to
move ahead this spring to try to help revitalize Lower Manhattan. Films
will be screened around Tribeca and downtown, and the event will include
workshops, a free outdoor screenin and a coming-of-age film retrospective.
For deadlines, submission forms and other information, go to www.tribecafilmfestival.net. Soho Photo Gallery is accepting submissions for its annual National Photography. Jennifer Blessing, curator at the Guggenheim Museum, will serve as juror. The first place winner will receive a month-long solo show at the gallery and a $500 cash prize. Approximately 20 second-place winners will appear in a group show. Entries of up to six 35mm slides must be recieved by March 16. The entry fee is $30. For information and entry rules visit www.sohophoto.com.
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