Interview with Kelli Sherelle Scott, Founder of Irvington Juneteenth, Chef Activist and Food Story Teller. Aaron Paige (AP): Juneteenth in Irvington is one of the more recent celebrations of Juneteenth in Westchester County. How did Irvington’s Juneteenth together last year ? Kelli Sherelle Scott (KS): Last year we were going through two…
Interview with Jonette Mines, President of White Plains Juneteenth Heritage Inc. and Darryl J. Jenkins, Co-Founder of the White Plains Juneteenth Heritage Festival and Parade Aaron Paige (AP): Please share a little about the history of Juneteenth in White Plains. How did you come to be the first City to organize…
ArtsWestchester will reopen its gallery for the first time since the pandemic, welcoming guests to a monumental exhibition that features 200+ artists and the works they created during the past year.
Westchester Craft Crawl came about as a result of the pandemic. Now it is expanding with more artists and ten locations across the County.
Matthew Cole is the winner of Pelham Art Center’s 11th Biennial Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting. Read about his journey to the top… of a museum.
Thank You to Our State Lawmakers for Securing $1 Million For Our Restart the Arts Grants Program. Read more about the Restart the Arts program. “The pandemic has put Westchester arts on life support. We need to pump State money into Westchester arts so they continue to inspire and drive the…
What does one do when they cannot present dance live on stage? In the case of choreographer/dancer Maxine Sherman and composer/videographer Steven Brent, they create a new way of seeing movement that cannot be accomplished in person. When the two met at a RiverArts event several years ago, they decided…
After a year since the COVID-19 pandemic shut them down, movies are coming back to Westchester as local film theaters reopen and announce their opening dates this May. The Picture House Regional Film Center (TPH) in Pelham is one of these local theater venues that has reopened at 25% capacity,…
During the reign of King Louis XIV, a time in which France’s population was decimated by the plague, the King turned to the arts for relief. At that time, what is known to be the first dance troupe was formed – established by an actor, a dancer and a composer….
Juneteenth commemorates the declaration that all Black people in Galveston, Texas were “free.” This announcement, made on June 19, 1865, came more than two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and is considered by Black people in the United States as “Emancipation Day.” The date is celebrated annually…
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