Common Threads Project: Exhibit extended to September 2023
“Please tell our story. We want the world to know.” (Story cloth circle participant)
Events
Several of the Illumination Fund’s grants are centered on events that are open to the public or to targeted audiences. The Fund has also held convenings of grantees, partners and thought leaders, as well as press conferences to launch major initiatives.
Pregones/PRTT’s Abrazo / Embrace Micro-theater project in the Bronx
Sept 2022: Playwright Alejandra Ramos Riera deploys humor and surprise to make difficult and personal subjects more open to consideration and healing.
Dr. Mitchell Katz receives the Aspen Institute’s 2021 Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership
The Award recognizes individuals who have had a positive impact on their communities who embody the broad Aspen Institute ideal of values-based leadership.
Hunger Free America honors the Illumination Fund, Senator Charles Schumer, and Tom Colicchio
The Illumination Fund joined Senator Charles Schumer and Tom Colicchio as honorees at Hunger Free America’s annual benefit on November 13, 2021.
Unveiling The Spirit of Sea View
Jan 13, 2021: Enjoy a video about the unveiling of The Spirit of Sea View, the final mural of New York City Health + Hospitals 2020 Community Mural Project. Although the celebration was delayed by the pandemic, the Sea View staff and guests from NYC H+H, the Illumination Fund and the Staten Island community celebrated the mural with an unveiling and small gathering.
Community Access to Present “Changing Minds Young Filmmaker Festival” Virtually on April 9
Amidst the pandemic and heightened concerns over wellbeing, young people challenge the stigma surrounding mental health needs in original short films Shadille Estepan of Lady Gaga’s Born this Way Foundation to Moderate Filmmaker Q&A (New York, NY)—Community Access, a New York City-based mental…
Watch a 5-borough virtual tour of the Community Murals Project hosted by Untapped New York
On Jan 12th, Untapped New York’s Insiders featured a virtual tour of the New York City Health + Hospitals Community Mural Project and an inside look at H+H’s art collection, a New York jewel that includes more than 3,000 works located throughout the City’s public hospital system.
Theater of War Frontline opens healing, constructive dialogue to healthcare workers struggling with the toll of the COVID pandemic
The Theater of War Frontline NYC series fosters connection, community, moral resilience, and positive action for healthcare workers struggling with the emotional toll of COVID.
Theater of War Frontline NYC online / Join us Dec 08
Join Theater of War Frontline NYC online, Noon-2pm on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2020. Acclaimed actors Kathryn Erbe, Frankie Faison, Marjolaine Goldsmith and David Strathairn offer raw performance of scenes from ancient Greek tragedies to catalyze live, interactive discussion with frontline medical providers from Montefiore Medical Center about the emotional toll of COVID on healthcare workers in the Bronx.
Who knew Frances McDormand rocks Greek tragedies?
Join Theater of War Frontline NYC online with live discussion with frontline medical providers
November 19, 2020, 7pm
Illumination Fund Rolls Out Arts in Health Initiative by Convening 2018 Grantees to Support Exchange and Collaboration
In addition to making grants, in the first year of the Arts in Health initiative the Illumination Fund convened its grantee partners, health experts, New York City arts leaders, foundations, philanthropists and community partners to share ideas and demonstrate impact. Each event focused on a…
Conversation on the Future of Journalism with Andrew Lack and Rebecca Blumenstein
On June 6th, Aspen Institute’s Walter Isaacson sat down with Andrew Lack, Chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, and Rebecca Blumenstein, Deputy Managing Editor of The New York Times to discuss the future of journalism in a difficult financial and political climate. Both Andrew and…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Receives Preston Robert Tisch 2016 Award in Civic Leadership
On December 8th, Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, received the Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership for her distinguished career of judicial service. As the first Latina justice, Sotomayor explained how her upbringing in the South Bronx and her Puerto Rican identity, as…
1,000 Voices Energize Lincoln Center Plaza
On August 13th, Lincoln Center celebrated its 50th Anniversary of the Mostly Mozart Festival by pulling out all the stops—or in this case singers—to present the world premiere of the public domain, a bold and exciting participatory contemporary choral work of 1,000 NYC-based professional and…
David Miliband Reflects on the Refugee Crisis
Worldwide, 1 in 120 people are fleeing conflict at the moment, 20 million of them are refugees, 40 million of them are internally displaced. This global refugee crisis in an intractable issue that many state leaders and United Nation agencies are attempting to address through…