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Open House
Free Classes • Free Gym + Swim Time!
Sunday, September 7, 10 am - 3 pm
Bring your friends and family to try the Y at our annual Open House. There is no charge for any of the following!
1/2 of the gym will be available for pick-up games under the supervision of our Director of Sports and Recreation. The pool will be open for family open swim. Try a fitness class:
Pilates Mat 9:10 -10:05 am Instructor: Susan Graham
This class incorporates techniques that increase strength and flexibility, while focusing on proper alignment and core stability. These exercises focus on lengthening muscles and maintaining alignment. The emphasis is placed on form and control, and is aimed at increasing body awareness.
Cardio Fusion 10:10 -11:05 am Instructor: Susan Graham
This multi-impact class, including a sculpt segment, will help develop your cardiovascular system and enhance your muscular endurance.
Supreme Sculpt 11:10 am - 12:05 pm Instructor: Susan Graham
This total body conditioning class involves the usage of light weights, bands, and therapy balls.
NIA 12:15-1 pm Instructor: Rachel Duvall
Neuromuscular Integrative Action or non-impact aerobics class; blends 9 movement forms from martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts into a complete cardiovascular fitness class.
Extreme Interval Circuit 1:15 - 2:00pm Instructor: Carmen Davis
This high intensity cardio sculpt class will incorporate intervals of strength & cardiovascular segments.
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Welcome New Staff!
We welcome new fitness staff members:
Terry Roche who is available for personal training and orientations in the mornings;
Sal Berrios, available for orientations in the evenings.
New staff in our group exercise department include:
Rachel Charlop-Powers who will be teaching Bronx Tough in Van Cortlandt Park on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm and Franklin Gillette who will be teaching Kundalini yoga.
Broadway Stars to Perform at Y's
PerformanceSpace Opening Gala:
Mark your calendars now for our first annual Broadway Under the Stars, Sunday, September 7 at 7 pm outside on the back deck. PerformanceSpace is proud to announce this unique opening night fundraising gala, which will feature some well known Broadway performers as well as performances by Riverdale Rising Stars, Junior Rising Stars and Riverdale Repertory Company. Our gala will set the stage for 2008-2009 theatrical season! You don't want to miss this exciting evening of song and dance!
Tickets: $25 (including light refreshments).
Featured performers are expected to include:
Michele Pawk - Tony Award winning actress from HAIRSPRAY, CRAZY FOR YOU
Beth Leavel - Tony Award winning actress from DROWSY CHAPERONE, CRAZY FOR YOU, 42ND STREET
John Dosset - GYPSY, RAGTIME
Jim Walton - THE MUSIC MAN, 42ND STREET, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Bob Walton - DROWSY CHAPERONE, CITY OF ANGELS, I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT
Brad Musgrove - FOSSE, THE PRODUCERS
Joe Kolinski - LES MISERABLE, TITANIC
David Hibbard - SPAMALOT, A CLASS ACT, CATS
Lynn Wintersteller
Allison Kolinski - FOSSE, THAT'S DANCIN
Emily Walton - SAVED
Riverdale Rising Stars Summer Stock presents:
"A Little Night Music"
Make plans this summer to attend our traditional Riverdale Rising Stars Summer Stock production. The dates this summer are: Sunday, August 3, Wed, August 6, Thursday, August 7, Saturday, August 9 and Sunday, August 10.
Check the website for times and ticket prices.
This show will feature the talents of our Alumnin Rising Stars including: Emily Walton, Ben Becher, Jake Levy, Zak Kampton, Joanna Levinger, Kristen Mahoney, Max Frampolski, Anthony Malchar, Jeanine Frumas, Drew Lewis, Janine Elliot as well as recent grads, Katleen Lozada, Elia Rangel, and current Rising Stars including Alex Walton, Danny Berger, David Newman and more. The summer show will be Stephen Sondheim's sophisticated musical, A Little Night Music. Hope to see you there! It's a great way to spend a summer evening.
End of Summer Camps
Multi-Sports Camp at Henry Kaufman
August 18-22, 9am-6 pm
Camp Session II starts on July 24
Call ext. 206 for information on available spots!
Experience more than 15 different sports in one week with the US Sports Institute. The multi-sport program is the only summer camp program dedicated to the truly sports-minded youngster.
Campers will receive technical instruction in each sport and will then experience the sport in a realistic game situation. After lunch all campers will participate in the USSI Olympic Games and World Cup. This is the true sports camp experience with so much to do in so little time! Over 15 Sports From Around the World. All campers will enjoy two swims daily!
$400 Members/$450 Guests
Soccer Camp
August 25-29, 9am-3pm or 9am-6pm
‘A World of Fun at Your Feet'. This soccer camp, held at the Y, pushes the fun factor for children aged 5 - 12. Each day players will enjoy learning soccer skills from around the world while putting them to the test in fun challenges and games. Countries will face off against each other in daily soccer matches where the emphasis is on the excitement of playing.
$195 members, $235 guests for 9 am - 3 pm; $255 members; $295 guests for 9 am - 6 pm.
Arts Camp
Includes Visits by and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
August 18-22, 9 am (8 am early drop off available) - 3 pm
or 9 am- 6 pm
Kids in grades K-6 will have an enlightening experience, immersed in creative activities, with a variety of art instructors offering an array of expertise. Some of the subjects offered will be basic skills in art, sculpture, model and still life drawing, mixed media and music-inspired art. This week also includes a bonus: "Meet the Met" educators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art will visit the Y Art Studio twice to offer slideshow presentations and projects with the children. In addition, we will visit the Museum twice for follow-up tours. Don't let your child miss this amazing opportunity to get a diverse and exceptional insight into Art!
Other activities during the Arts Camp day will include, karate, dance, cooking and crafts. We provide snacks, please pack bagged kosher lunches (please no peanut products!)
Enrollment in Arts Camp is limited to 12 children -- register early! Arts Camp registration deadline is August 11.
$235 / $195 for Y members for 9 am - 3 pm
$295 / $255 for Y members for 9 am - 6 pm
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The Green Box
The Green Box is the newest addition our monthly newsletters, featuring the Y's greening updates and tips for the community.
We've "Greened" our Cleaning!
What's that fresh, clean, non-toxic feel at the Y? We have recently switched to Greening the Cleaning, a program of the Diedre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology. The cleaning products provided by this program are made up of naturally derived ingredients with the least level of toxicity. Best of all, in the words of Will Reynoso our facilities manager, "they work!"
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Early Childhood News
Midnight Run
The Story of Creation and the PreSchool Camp
As our young campers explore our world and celebrate all of natures wonderments, we realize our very important role in preserving the beautiful blueprint set forth in the story of Creation. Weve fed the animals with homemade milk-bones and discovered organic vegetables. Weve researched those animals that have become extinct and weve planted seeds that will become flowers. Weve looked for our shadows and we felt the power of the suns rays. Now its time to celebrate people! Some of our neighbors have not been blessed, as we have, in having a roof over their heads and our children are helping them out. Weve earmarked a morning of camp to make meal bags for some of NYCs homeless poor. With our change collected for "tzedakah," were buying the necessary ingredients to make over 100 lunch meals that will be picked up and distributed to those less fortunate than us by a representative of the Midnight Run organization.
Midnight Run is a volunteer organization dedicated to finding common ground between the housed and the homeless. In over 900 relief missions per year, Midnight Run volunteers from churches, synagogues, schools and other civic groups distribute food, clothing, blankets and personal care items to the homeless poor on the streets of New York City.
As we help the homeless poor, at the same time, bring in our loose change for tzedakah, we can begin the process of teaching our children that we can all make a difference.
Ronnie Brockman, Director
Pre School Day Camp
Limited Nursery School Space Avail.
Limited spaces remain in the 2008-09 Nursery School program. Full and half Day options available, as well as extended child care between 8-9 AM and 3-6 PM. To arrange for a tour of the facility and discuss enrollment options call Carolyn Singer ext. 220.
Nursery School Beginnings Schedule
Thursday, September 4, 6:30 PM Parent Orientation
Monday, September 8 Home Visits and Classes Begin
Priority Registration for Early Childhood Enrichment Classes begins in August. Check out new offerings and register through the Y's website www.riverdaley.org
Try a Class on Us:
Register for free Demonstration Classes; call Ronnie at ext. 221 to reserve a space.
Fun to Be One Wednesday, September 10, 9:15 AM
Wiggle, Jiggle and Move Wednesday, September 10, noon
Senior Center News
August 20
Atlantic City Trip
Surf's up at the Simon Senior Center
Surf and slot machines - a great summer combination! An air-conditioned Coach bus will whisk you out of New York to the Showboat Casino in another city that never sleeps. Where to start? Casino gaming, spas, world-class entertainment, the Atlantic Ocean, the Boardwalk, golf, fishing, water sports, and shopping. Take a trolley tour and see the city's culture-rich attractions including the Atlantic City Historical Museum and Art Center on Garden Pier, the Absecon Lighthouse and the aquarium. Or find a bench by the beach and sketch the scenary, write poetry and breathe in the delicious air.
Bus departs on Wedneday, August 20, at 8:30 and returns, approximately 8:30 pm. The $30 fee includes roundtrip transportation and a picnic lunch. The casino gives each tour member $20 cash back and a $5 meal voucher.
August Events
Creative Writing Workshop,
Wednesdays, 9:30 - An ongoing one-hour class of retrospective and writing. Share your experiences and memories with a non-critical group in a no-pressure setting, under the guidance of an award-winning journalist. As we review and relive the past, discover forgotten triumphs and traumas. Class includes homework, in-class writing, exercise, and reading. Completed work will be kept at the senior center in individual loose leaf binders - yours upon demand. You will be amazed at your own productivity.Free
August 12, 10:30 am
Las Vegas ShowTime with Gary Lovett
An energetic and powerful performance featuring 1940's classics and songs from such legendary artists as Frank Sinatra, Barry White, Donna Summer, The Temptations, Elvis Presley, The Village People and more. Free
August 13, 9:30 am
Join us on a trip to the Brooklyn Museum and a deli lunch out. A new exhibit "From the Village to Vogue: the Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith" showcases the gift of 21 pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by Brooklyn-bred Arthur Smith, one of the leading modernist jewelers of the mid 20th century. Although, sometimes massive, his jewelry, dynamic in size and form, is lightweight and wearable. Price not yet determined.
August 20, 8:30 am
Trip to Atlantic City
Return approx. 8 pm. $30- Surf, slot machines and a picnic lunch - a great summer combination. An air conditioned Coach bus whisks you off for a day of gambling, shopping, and world-class entertainment in salt-scented air. The Showboat casino gives $20 cash back and a $5 meal voucher to each tour member. Atlantic City also has a historical museum and art center, the Absecon Lighthouse and an aquarium.
August 26, 10:30 am
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an on-site slide show and lecture of the current J.M.W. Turner exhibition, the first U.S. retrospective of his work in more than forty years. Approximately 140 paintings and watercolors portray the artist's iconographical views of historical subjects and scenes from his imagination. Free
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Members: Free guest passes - bring a friend to the Y!
During the month of August, Y members can receive two free guest passes to bring a friend to the Y!
If your friend joins, you will receive one free month and your friend will receive 50% off their initiation fee. Come try a class! Take a swim!
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Summer Movies on the Back Deck -
2 dates left ...
Bring the family and enjoy movies outdoors this summer on the Y's back deck. We'll set up mats for the kids (who are invited to come in their PJs or favorite film-themed costumes) and parents should bring lawn chairs. We'll start with cartoons before sunset.
You can purchase tickets online with no service charge at www.RiverdaleY.org ($7 per person, including free popcorn and lemonade!) See you outside under the stars.
School of Rock
Sunday, August 17, 7:30 pm
The Princess Bride
Thursday, August 21, 7:30 pm
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Painting the Green Market in Summer
2 sessions with Instructor Julia Gran, Professional Illustrator
Meet at the Y and walk over to youth-led Green Market at Riverdale Neighborhood House.
We provide portable easels if you don't have one; bring your own choice of art supplies (watercolors highly recommended). Paint the market, or use the fresh fruits and vegetables for a still life painting, naturally lit by the sun!
Dates: Thursday August 7 (rain date 8/14) and August 21 (rain date 8/28).
Time:4:30pm-6:30pm
Price:$60 / $50 for Y members
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From the Visual Arts Department this summer:
Nat Gold Famous Jewish Faces
Gallery 18 presents an encore show of Nat Gold's wonderful "Famous Jewish Faces" during July and August.
These signed and numbered artists prints are for sale, framed or unframed, and offer an unusual addition to your home or make great gifts! Stop by Gallery 18 anytime to see these extraordinary works.
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Breadfest:
Food for the Mind, Body and Spirit
Sunday, September 7, 9am-12pm $40 /$35 for Y members + $5 materials fee
The morning will integrate a hands-on bread making experience with exceptional baker and teacher Judy Matthews with an exploration of the personal, cultural and spiritual dimensions of bread baking with Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield. We will be making, shaping and baking a variety of flatbreads-the world's oldest breads:
- Snowshoe Naan,indigenous to Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and India Bedouin Barley Bread, served with dukka
- Noon Shabbata, Persian Sabbath bread Tashkent Onion and Garlic Bread
While the bread is rising or in the oven, we will explore questions such as: What did bread mean to the generations who came before me? What role has bread and baking played in my life? How does my relationship with bread and food fit into the larger ethnic and cultural context in which I live? Now imagine doing all this surrounded by the warm scent of baking bread!
Judy, a social worker in Riverdale, has trained at the San Francisco Baking Institute and taught baking at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, Wave Hill and the Riverdale Y. Her challah has won a prize at the West Tisbury Agricultural Fair in Martha's Vineyard, and her whole grain breads, babkas and rugelach are prized by friends, neighbors and family members.
Rachel, Director for Program Development and Jewish Life at the Riverdale Y, holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature with a focus on Hebrew and Judaic studies. She has developed numerous curricula and is an award winning educator who has taught in a variety contexts including U.C. Berkeley, The Curriculum Initiative and at the Riverdale Y. She also loves to cook and bake!
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