Feb 12, 2012
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Henry Street Settlement—Abrons Arts Center
Henry Street Settlement—Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street(at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
Tel: (212) 598-0400
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Henry Street Settlement was founded in 1893 to provide health and human services to immigrant populations on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Similarly, its arts program was started to cultivate the aesthetic sensibilities of disadvantaged persons and thereby improve their lives. Today, in addition to individual and family counseling services, Henry Street Settlement offers performances, exhibitions and arts classes to a diverse, underprivileged community. The Louis Abrons Arts Center, which opened in 1975 at 466 Grand Street, was designed to serve a diverse lower-income population. It presents exhibitions in all media by artists-in-residence, faculty and local artists. Shows have included photographs of the Lower East Side from the 1940s and 1950s; On the Way Home, works by homeless women in collaboration with their artist instructors; and Voices of Henry Street, photographic portraits of people helped by the organization over the past 75 years. Theater performances have included a selection of new works by young playwrights and readings of stories set on the Lower East Side. Professional artists, students, children and adults converge at the center for instruction in the arts. Current instructional offerings include instrumental music, modern dance, creative writing and cartooning. Henry Street Settlement also offers the Arts for Family Series and the Family Literacy Program and sponsors various ethnic arts festivals.
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