Ongoing Programs

Youth market

Riverdale Neighborhood House invites local residents to visit the Riverdale YouthMarket every Thursday at 5521 Mosholu Ave.

The market will be set up at Riverdale Neighborhood House’s Dodge building on the corner of Mosholu Avenue and West 256th Street.

Summer hours of operation are 3 to 7 p.m. beginning on Thursday, July 9. The market will continue throughout October.

The YouthMarket, a collaboration between RNH, The Riverdale YM-YWHA, and Community Supported Agriculture is a variation of a traditional farmer’s market. It’s run by the teens that RNH serves through its Youth Internship Program. The YouthMarket will also offer activities such as nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, gardening, composting, recycling and yoga.

For more information, contact Jerome Harris at jharris@ riverdaleonline.org or call 718- 549-8100.

Math tutors

A certified math tutor will meet for free with any middle school students in grades six through eight who need help with summer class work, test preparation, or homework, through August 10 this summer at the Grinton I. Will Library in Yonkers, located at 1500 Central Park Ave.

The tutor will be available on Mondays from 2 to 3 p.m.

Registration is preferred.

To register, visit the fine arts/young adult desk of the library or call 914-337-1500 ext. 311 or 317.

Summer talks

The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, 4450 Fieldston Road, will host informal summer discussions every Sunday at 11 a.m.

Replacing the society’s weekly platforms for the summer, the discussions will be followed by a “greet and eat” lunch.

This week’s topic is: “Has Healthcare Reform a Chance of Passing Legislative Obstacles?” The society’s vice president, Stefan Mayer, will facilitate.

Discussions are open to the public.

For more information, call 718-548-4445.

Art workshops

The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, located at 4450 Fieldston Road, will offer art workshops on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from Wednesday, July 1 through Thursday, August 27.

Sessions meet from 2 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays and noon to 3 p.m. Thursdays.

The workshops will help develop individual artist expression in an informal setting, with a focus on building self esteem and self empowerment through self expression.

The workshops are for beginner and intermediate art students. Students will use various art materials as well as natural, green and recycled materials.

Abdelilah Ennassef, an art instructor at Union Theological Seminary, has studied at the Ecole Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris and received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts. Mr. Ennassef lives in Riverdale.

The cost for nine sessions is $200.

For more information, call 718-548-4445.

Growing food

The New York Botanical Garden, off Exit 7W of the Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road, will host a summer celebration of growing your own food through Sunday, Sept. 13.

“The Edible Garden” features exhibits ranging from edible tropical plants to culinary herbs, from how to save heirloom species to how scientists worldwide are conducting botanical research. An audio tour, narrated by Mario Batali and Bette Midler with commentary from chef Dan Barber, is available.

Throughout the summer, the garden will host celebrities such as Mr. Barber, Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, Lidia Bastianich, Daisy Martinez, Aida Mollenkamp, Sunny Anderson and Anne Burrell.

An All-Garden Pass, which includes admission to seasonal gardens and exhibitions, is $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and students with identification, $8 for children ages 2 to 12, and free for children 2 and under. Groundsonly admission is $6 for adults or $5 for adult Bronx residents, $3 for seniors, $2 for students with ID, $1 for children 2 to 12 and free for children 2 or younger. Grounds admission is free all day on Wednesdays and from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.

For more information, call 718-817-8700 or visit www.nybg.org

Tai chi chuan

There will be classes in the Chinese martial art of tai chi at Wave Hill, West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, every Saturday morning, but not Saturday, July 4.

A beginners’ class will be held at 10 a.m., and a class for intermediate students will be held at 11 a.m.

Participants should meet at the Perkins Visitor Center.

Tai chi is a sequence of gentle movements that often emulate images found in nature.

Classes are held outdoors; inclement weather forces cancellations.

To confirm a class, call 718- 549-3200 ext. 245 by 8 a.m. the day of the class.

The fee is $10 for members and $18 for non-members; preregistration is not required.

Pottery exhibit

The Spuyten Duyvil Library, located at 650 W. 235th St., is hosting an exhibition of stoneware pottery by Brenda Spooner through Tuesday, September 15.

The exhibition is open to the public.

For more information, call 718-796-1202.

Tree museum

Wave Hill, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, will host a public art exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bronx’s Grand Concourse, through Monday, Oct. 21.

Artist Katie Holten’s work was created on the Grand Concourse, but Wave Hill is hosting a satellite exhibition. Ms. Holten created a tree museum that features an audio guide compiled from hundreds of stories she’s collected, to the trees of the Grand Concourse.

For more information, call 718-543-6065 ext. 302.

Marketplace art

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, will present “Living and Dreaming: the 29th edition of its milestone “Artist in the Marketplace” exhibition series, through Sunday, September 13.

The exhibition features a range of works by 36 artists from New York City and nearby areas who have completed the most recent of the museum’s highly competitive 13-weeklong series of Artist in the Marketplace seminars. Many of the works on view spring from a powerful current of personal narrative, as well as from a pull towards the fantastical, ethereal, and mythological, according to independent curator and critic Micaela Giovannotti, who organized the exhibition.

For more information, call 718-681-6000.

Elisa Tucci show

Elisa Tucci Contemporary Art Gallery in Riverdale, located at 5622 Mosholu Ave., will exhibit “Fantastic Worlds: Landscapes and Cityscapes” through Wednesday, July 29.

The new group show of emerging and mid-career artists explores imaginary worlds and the life that inhabits them. Each artist explores a variety of media and techniques from dry pigment and Sumi ink on handmade paper or Japanese papers, to marker and ink on mylar to pen and ink drawings inspired by music and sound.

For more information, go to www.elisatucciart.com, e-mail lisa@elisatucciart.com or call 212-729-4974.

This is part of the July 2, 2009 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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