Final week, Harlem Hospital introduced a e book drive in collaboration with Harlem Arts Alliance (HAA) and Manhattan Theatre Membership (MTC). This partnership is the newest arts initiative between the HAA and the hospital to serve the neighborhood.
Just a few dozen books, out of the hundreds donated — from novels and Black historical past classics to self assist — had been on show throughout a press convention at Harlem Hospital, which featured Voza Rivers, director of the New Heritage Theatre (NHT) and Harlem Arts Alliance; hospital CEO Georges Leconte; and Marcia Pendleton, guide of Viewers Growth for MTC and founding father of Stroll Tall Woman Productions. The drive was impressed by the Broadway play, “Eureka Day” from Jonathan Spector which takes place in a library and performed its ultimate efficiency on Sunday at MTC.
“Books dwell with you. And to have the ability to come to the hospital to present books to sufferers, to present books to households, is such an exquisite marriage. And I’m so glad that the Harlem Arts Alliance, New Heritage and, in fact, Manhattan Theatre Membership, have come collectively to present books to the sufferers, to their family, and to have them for the employees,” Rivers shared.
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Rivers says the hundreds of books had been donated over a two week interval, after releases had been despatched out from HAA and from MTC, and that there was barely any room to maneuver at his places of work situated on one hundred and thirty fifth Road between St. Nicholas and Eighth Avenue.
The books can be donated to the grownup inpatients on the hospital in addition to age-appropriate books for pediatric sufferers within the clinic and emergency room.
“The partnership with the Arts Alliance is actually a type of nice partnerships that basically works, not only for Black Historical past Month, which is particular, however all 12 months spherical. It’s one thing that permits us to have the ability to give artwork to our affected person inhabitants,” Leconte stated. “Arts does assist heal plenty of people, and we’ve been utilizing that right here at Harlem (Hospital) for a few years.”
Final 12 months, by means of the NHT and Neighborhood Works, numerous artists provided to donate the “harlem is . . . Music, Theater & Dance” exhibit completely to the hospital. The set up highlights the wealthy Harlem historical past of assorted figures and is out there to go to on the second ground outdoors the Herbert Cave Auditorium. Different photographs and items of artwork in partnership with the HAA may be discovered all through the hospital together with the brand new Mural Pavilion gallery.
Rivers celebrates NHT and HAA being down the block from the hospital and in addition to their work collectively alongside the historic one hundred and thirty fifth St.
“It’s a pleasant relationship that our theater firm is on one hundred and thirty fifth Road, the doorway to this hospital and the unique constructing is on one hundred and thirty fifth Road, and that the Schomburg Heart for Analysis in Black Tradition is on one hundred and thirty fifth Road,” Rivers stated. “And it’s Malcolm X Blvd. This is a vital hall, and I’m glad to be part of it within the contributing legacy of this explicit space, as a result of I grew up right here.”
