CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)

How to See Our Physical Needs
2023-12-17 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States

CRS Presents Paradise Laboratory: Beyond Flute Trio
2023-12-17 17:00 - 18:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
CRS invites you to the next program of its Paradise Laboratory experimental music series, this time with music by Cheryl Pyle (flutes), Rema Hasumi (synthesizer), and Yuko Togami (drums) inside the cocoon-like White Room at CRS. Working together long distance during the pandemic, Cheryl and Rema recorded and released “Musique Libre Femmes 2022.” This will be their first time playing together live in the same room.

https://remahasumi.bandcamp.com/track/rema-hasumi-cheryl-pyle-musique-libre-femmes-2022
PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and/or dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.
Tickets are $10 for students/seniors and $20 general admission.
TICKET LINK:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crs-presents-beyond-flute-trio-tickets-720169294747

VENUE LOCATION:
The White Room at CRS
123 4th Ave FL3
New York, NY 10003
212-677-8621
DIRECTIONS:
CRS is located on the 3rd floor of a walk-up building above Think Coffee, between 12th & 13th streets, one block east of The Strand Bookstore. There is no elevator or wheelchair access.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
4/5/6, N/R/Q, L trains to 14th St / Union Square
Cheryl Pyle, the versatile flutist received her BA in music from the University of California at Berkeley, having received her Associates Degree from Mesa College. Her teachers included Merrill Jordan, Janet Maestre, Francis Watson, and Jayn Rosenfeld. Since moving to New York in the fall of 1980, Ms. Pyle has been heard in a variety of settings. As well as composing, Ms Pyle has performed and recorded with such fine musicians as Joe Lovano, Fred Hersch, Tom Harrell, Billy Bang, Danilo Perez, Billy Hart, Ben Monder, Duduka Fonseca, Charlie Haden, James Williams, John Abercrombie, Paul Motian, Bern Nix, Ratzo Harris, and many other great musicians. Recording her first quartet cd for her own 11th street music label, she and her jazz groups have been playing many clubs and concerts. The 11th street music label has released many original cds and mp3 cds. Her most recent free jazz groups in 2023 are the Beyond Flute Group and the all women Musique Libre Femmes.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/member-cheryl-pyle
Rema Hasumi is an experimental pianist, vocalist, producer and writer who is based out of Brooklyn, NY. Hasumi was born in 1983 in Fukuoka, Japan, and moved to the United States in 2002 to pursue her passion for music, which was nurtured through more than ten years of classical piano study and the listening experiences of her audiophile parent’s record collection. Hasumi has performed at venues across NY, the United States and Asia.
In 2009 she performed at the Kennedy Center as one of the four finalists of Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Pianist Competition. In 2014, upon invitation by acclaimed vocalist Jen Shyu, Hasumi presented her solo work “The Patterns of Duplicity” at a series of “Solo Rites” concerts by Ms. Shyu. The piece featured the poetry “Spring and Asura” (1925) by Kenji Miyazawa interpreted in multiple languages, exploring the possibilities of musical ideas unique and inherent to each language. Hasumi has also worked extensively as both pianist and vocalist in many other projects, including a series of collaborations with the saxophonist Darius Jones in which they performed the music of Alice Coltrane. She has also worked as the vocalist in the guitarist Todd Neufeld’s new two-drummer group. Hasumi’s new trio premiered in June 2015 in two nights of concerts in NYC. It featured compositions she wrote for piano and voice, performed alongside the great Randy Peterson and Masa Kamaguchi.
Her first record “UTAZATA” was released in May 2015 from Ruweh Records, which she runs as a co-founder. It features the highly sympathetic cast of Todd Neufeld (guitar), Thomas Morgan (bass), Billy Mintz (drums), and fiery guest musicians Ben Gerstein (trombone) and Sergio Krakowski (pandeiro). The group interprets the themes of Japanese Gagaku and ritual music. This record was made as a result of mindful searching on femininity, mythology and rituals in Japanese performing arts. In 2016, Hasumi released a trio recording “Billows of Blue” featuring Randy Peterson and Masa Kamaguchi. Her most recent album and a solo recording, called “Abiding Dawn”, reveals Hasumi’s sound world all alone, layering and unlayering voice, piano and analog synthesizers in a seamless journey of eight gorgeous tracks. The word and the wordless, the pitched and the unpitched all meet in Hasumi’s voice, while her piano honors the influences of Alice Coltrane and Masabumi Kikuchi, met squarely on her own honest terms. The use of synthesizer, a vintage Korg Delta DL-50, serves to encompass and meld the sonic meal.
https://remahasumi.bandcamp.com
Yuko Togami is a drummer and composer currently based in New York City, originally from Saitama, Japan. She was exposed to music from a very early age as she was always watching her mother teach piano and Eurhythmics. She started taking Eurhythmics classes and playing piano when she was about 5. Later on, she also started playing marimba and studied classical music until she graduated from high school. While she was in high school, she got attracted to drums and began taking drum lessons. A couple years later, she started performing as a drummer based in Tokyo. In 2013, she moved to New York City to pursue further musical studies at the City College of New York. She received a scholarship from The Kaye Scholars Program, and studied privately with Adam Cruz, Nasheet Waits, and Ben Street. She graduated with her BFA degree in jazz performance and The Pro Musica Award from City College, and has performed with many different musicians and projects including Steve Wilson, Mike Holober, Scott Reeves, Ben Paterson, Mark Wade, Jakob Dreyer, Takaaki Otomo, Nori Naraoka, Berta Moreno, Maksim Perepelica, Latvian Concert Choir, Musicsnake, Kijima Sound System. Her debut album “Dawn” was released in April 2018, and has won a Silver Medal at the 2018 Global Music Awards for Outstanding Achievement.
https://www.yukotogami.com/
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is an ongoing sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.
https://crsny.org

CRS Presents Crossing Boundaries 21: gamin x yuniya edi kwon: OO / LL / IM
2023-12-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand St, New York, NY, 10002, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the 21st concert in its Crossing Boundaries series, gamin x yuniya edi kwon: OO / LL / IM, curated by gamin, at Abrons Art Center as part of the @Abrons Series. OO / LL / IM is an interdisciplinary ritual performance – a passageway through which grief, entanglements, and historical cycles might reverberate and be witnessed. As artists of a diverse Korean continuum, gamin and kwon approach performance as spiritual spaces containing at once tradition and experimentalism, and through their explorations of improvisation, composition, text, and movement, they create openings for new syncretic lineages to emerge.
As a duo, gamin and yuniya edi kwon will experiment with movement, ancient / contemporary sounds, improvised melody, literature, and space to create a ritualistic journey toward healing. gamin and edi enter the crossroads with different identities but similar interests. gamin was born in Korea and influenced by traditional culture while she practiced traditional music, but she has a strong bond with contemporary music, exploring ideas of openness and freedom. edi is Korean American, influenced by American culture while practicing violin in various contexts but also strongly connecting with Korean shamanic ritual through her unique and beautiful presence.
TICKET LINK:
https://shorturl.at/hyCJ6

ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES
CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a concert series devoted to dissolving boundaries between performers and audiences, the traditional and contemporary, classical and experimental, and the culturally specific and the global. Series curators are given the opportunity to create unique performance events in collaboration with musical, visual, and/or movement artists of their choosing. The series was conceived in 2018 by the Korean traditional wind player and composer gamin, who has continued to help curate the series each year. https://crsny.org/crossing-boundaries-concert-series/
Crossing Boundaries is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and administered by LMCC. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
gamin (b. 1976 – also known as Gamin Kang) is a distinguished soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays 3 traditional winds, and is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Piri Court Music and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Republic of Korea. gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation with world-acclaimed musician presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin’s scheduled Carnegie Hall début for 2020 March, as featured soloist, with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra, was postponed due to covid. Since 2018, gamin has curated performances at the Center for Remembering and Sharing. For 2020, gamin was selected as artist-in-residency at the HERE Arts Center, NYC and released her solo album, “Nong” by Innova Records. In 2021, the Jerome Foundation awarded gamin a 2-year Fellowship, and Howard Foundation awarded their prestigious fellowship in 2023. gamin teaches graduate and undergraduate ethno-musicology as Adjunct Faculty at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA.
gaminmusic.com
yuniya edi kwon (b. 1989 – also known as eddy kwon) is a violinist, vocalist, poet, and interdisciplinary performance artist based in Lenapehoking, or New York City. Her practice connects composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer space & lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections, textures & movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, she performs and collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Tomeka Reid, Holland Andrews, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kenneth Tam, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Moor Mother, and Degenerate Art Ensemble. She has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, Nicole Mitchell, Cory Smythe, Henry Threadgill, Susan Alcorn, Carla Kihlstedt, Jessika Kenney, Lesley Mok, Satomi Matsuzaki, and others. In 2023, she founded SUN HAN GUILD, a sound and performance collective with composer-improvisers Laura Cocks, Jessie Cox, DoYeon Kim, and Lester St. Louis. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award in Music/Sound, an Arts Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts, and a United States Artists Ford Fellow.
eddykwon.net
TICKET LINK:
https://shorturl.at/hyCJ6

Tickets can be purchased online or at Abrons Art Center reception. The Abrons Art Center box office opens 1 hour prior to showtime. No phone sales.
VENUE LOCATION:
Abrons Art Center
466 Grand St
New York, NY 10002
DIRECTIONS:
Abrons Art Center is located between Pitt and Willet streets in Manhattan.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
East Broadway Station Essex Street (F train)
Delancey Street Station at Essex Street (F/M/J/Z trains)
“The @Abrons Series Program is a subsidized theater rental program that provides access to our spaces as well as subsidized production services including labor provided at-cost. While @Abrons is not curated, priority is given to shows and events that align with our mission and that are committed to anti-oppression. For shows, events or artistic projects working to build community projects that are socially or civically inclusive – yet have very small budgets – there is an application for an extra–subsidized rate.”
One of the first arts facilities in the nation designed for a predominately low-income population, Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the historic Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performances, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.

New Year’s Eve Guided Meditation with Yasuko Kasaki
2023-12-31 16:00 - 17:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Please join us on Sunday, Dec 31 at 4 pm for our annual year-ending guided meditation with CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki. This year the meditation will be held in our award-winning White Room and space is limited so registration is required. Please RSVP by email to etsuko@crsny.org.
Let’s join our minds in stillness to remember who we are and prepare to begin the new year with a clear mind and renewed intention to see and share only love.
What would love have me do?
Where would love have me go?
What would love have me say, and to whom?

CRS Presents Paradise Laboratory: Caroline Davis and Lorin Benedict
2024-01-07 17:00 - 18:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
CRS invites you to the next program of its Paradise Laboratory experimental music series, featuring Caroline Davis and Lorin Benedict, who will be presenting a set of new compositions for saxophone and baritone voice. Honing their unique duo sound intermittently over the past 5 years, their connection is rooted in the system of groove and line-inspired improvisation.
PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and/or dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.
Tickets are $10 for students/seniors and $20 general admission.
TICKET LINK:
https://shorturl.at/c0136
VENUE LOCATION:
The White Room at CRS
123 4th Ave FL3
New York, NY 10003
212-677-8621
DIRECTIONS:
CRS is located on the 3rd floor of a walk-up building above Think Coffee, between 12th & 13th streets, one block east of The Strand Bookstore. There is no elevator or wheelchair access.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
4/5/6, N/R/Q, L trains to 14th St / Union Square
ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Saxophonist, composer, and vocalist Caroline Davis’s expression covers a wide range of styles, owed to her shifting environment as a child, though she calls New York her home. As an improviser and saxophonist, she has released seven albums under her name and has won Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll Rising Star. Through the years, her work continues to garner praise in domestic and international publications. Davis has shared musical moments with Lee Konitz, John Zorn, Angelica Sanchez, The Femme Jam, Matt Mitchell, Terry Riley, Nicole Mitchell, Miles Okazaki, Rajna Swaminathan, and Billy Kaye, among many others. She regularly sings and writes songs with the experimental R&B band, My Tree. Her composition work has led her to be a resident fellow at MacDowell, The Jazz Gallery, The Rockefeller Estate, and ICE Ensemble Evolution; and she has been awarded Jerome Hill, CMA, and NYFA fellowships. Her compositions often integrate science and music, influenced by her Ph.D in Music Cognition. Caroline is an advocate for gender equity (This Is A Movement, The New School) and carceral justice (Justice for Keith LaMar).
https://carolinedavis.org/
Lorin Benedict is an improvising vocalist (scat singer, essentially) who works in the areas of jazz and related music. He co-leads several small groups dedicated to playing highly structured music in a manifestly loose and playful way. This includes the duo Bleeding Vector, the trio The Holly Martins, and duo projects with drummer Sam Ospovat, vocalist Ron Heglin, and bass player Logan Kane. He has also, over the past two decades, appeared as a side-man in groups led by musicians such as Howard Wiley and Sheldon Brown, among many others.
https://lorinbenedict.com
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts.
Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is an ongoing sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.
https://crsny.org

CRS Presents Sound Bath with Beyond Flute Trio
2024-01-14 17:00 - 18:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
CRS invites you to lie down, close your eyes, and bathe in the sounds of Cheryl Pyle (flutes), Rema Hasumi (synthesizer), and Yuko Togami (drums) inside the cocoon-like White Room at CRS.

https://remahasumi.bandcamp.com/track/rema-hasumi-cheryl-pyle-musique-libre-femmes-2022
PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and/or dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.
Tickets are $10 for students/seniors and $20 general admission.
TICKET LINK:
https://bit.ly/3SO2TG3

VENUE LOCATION:
The White Room at CRS
123 4th Ave FL3
New York, NY 10003
212-677-8621
DIRECTIONS:
CRS is located on the 3rd floor of a walk-up building above Think Coffee, between 12th & 13th streets, one block east of The Strand Bookstore. There is no elevator or wheelchair access.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
4/5/6, N/R/Q, L trains to 14th St / Union Square
Cheryl Pyle, the versatile flutist received her BA in music from the University of California at Berkeley, having received her Associates Degree from Mesa College . Her teachers included Merrill Jordan, Janet Maestre, Francis Watson, and Jayn Rosenfeld.Since moving to New York in the fall of 1980, Ms. Pyle has been heard in a variety of settings. As well as composing , Ms Pyle has performed and recorded with such fine musicians as Joe Lovano, Fred Hersch, Tom Harrell, Billy Bang, Danilo Perez, Billy Hart, Ben Monder, Duduka Fonseca, Charlie Haden, James Williams, John Abercrombie, Paul Motian, Bern Nix, Ratzo Harris, and many other great musicians.. Recording her first quartet cd her own 11th street music label, her jazz groups have been playing many clubs and concerts. The 11th street music label has released many original cds and mp3 cds. Her most recent free jazz groups in 2023 are the Beyond Flute Group and the all women Musique Libre Femmes.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/member-cheryl-pyle
Rema Hasumi is an experimental pianist, vocalist, producer and writer who is based out of Brooklyn, NY. Hasumi was born in 1983 in Fukuoka, Japan, and moved to the United States in 2002 to pursue her passion for music, which was nurtured through more than ten years of classical piano study and the listening experiences of her audiophile parent’s record collection. Hasumi has performed at venues across NY, the United States and Asia.
In 2009 she performed at the Kennedy Center as one of the four finalists of Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Pianist Competition. In 2014, upon invitation by acclaimed vocalist Jen Shyu, Hasumi presented her solo work “The Patterns of Duplicity” at a series of “Solo Rites” concerts by Ms. Shyu. The piece featured the poetry “Spring and Asura” (1925) by Kenji Miyazawa interpreted in multiple languages, exploring the possibilities of musical ideas unique and inherent to each language. Hasumi has also worked extensively as both pianist and vocalist in many other projects, including a series of collaborations with the saxophonist Darius Jones in which they performed the music of Alice Coltrane. She has also worked as the vocalist in the guitarist Todd Neufeld’s new two-drummer group. Hasumi’s new trio premiered in June 2015 in two nights of concerts in NYC. It featured compositions she wrote for piano and voice, performed alongside the great Randy Peterson and Masa Kamaguchi.
Her first record “UTAZATA” was released in May 2015 from Ruweh Records, which she runs as a co-founder. It features the highly sympathetic cast of Todd Neufeld (guitar), Thomas Morgan (bass), Billy Mintz (drums), and fiery guest musicians Ben Gerstein (trombone) and Sergio Krakowski (pandeiro). The group interprets the themes of Japanese Gagaku and ritual music. This record was made as a result of mindful searching on femininity, mythology and rituals in Japanese performing arts. In 2016, Hasumi released a trio recording “Billows of Blue” featuring Randy Peterson and Masa Kamaguchi. Her most recent album and a solo recording, called “Abiding Dawn”, reveals Hasumi’s sound world all alone, layering and unlayering voice, piano and analog synthesizers in a seamless journey of eight gorgeous tracks. The word and the wordless, the pitched and the unpitched all meet in Hasumi’s voice, while her piano honors the influences of Alice Coltrane and Masabumi Kikuchi, met squarely on her own honest terms. The use of synthesizer, a vintage Korg Delta DL-50, serves to encompass and meld the sonic meal.
https://remahasumi.bandcamp.com
Yuko Togami is a drummer and composer currently based in New York City, originally from Saitama, Japan. She was exposed to music from a very early age as she was always watching her mother teach piano and Eurhythmics. She started taking Eurhythmics classes and playing piano when she was about 5. Later on, she also started playing marimba and studied classical music until she graduated from high school. While she was in high school, she got attracted to drums and began taking drum lessons. A couple years later, she started performing as a drummer based in Tokyo. In 2013, she moved to New York City to pursue further musical studies at the City College of New York. She received a scholarship from The Kaye Scholars Program, and studied privately with Adam Cruz, Nasheet Waits, and Ben Street. She graduated with her BFA degree in jazz performance and The Pro Musica Award from City College, and has performed with many different musicians and projects including Steve Wilson, Mike Holober, Scott Reeves, Ben Paterson, Mark Wade, Jakob Dreyer, Takaaki Otomo, Nori Naraoka, Berta Moreno, Maksim Perepelica, Latvian Concert Choir, Musicsnake, Kijima Sound System. Her debut album “Dawn” was released in April 2018, and has won a Silver Medal at the 2018 Global Music Awards for Outstanding Achievement.
https://www.yukotogami.com/
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is an ongoing sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.
https://crsny.org

In-Person Guided Meditation & Spiritual Healing Clinic with Yasuko Kasaki & CRS Healers
2024-01-27 13:00 - 15:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
We are happy to invite you back to CRS in person for an afternoon of meditation, healing, and spiritual community! Let’s witness the light in one another and share stillness and peace of mind. We’ll begin with a short talk and guided meditation by Yasuko and then share our one-on-one spiritual healing with you. After we can enjoy some social time together.
Bring any issue you are facing right now — physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually. With eyes closed (you will be seated and a healer will stand nearby; no touching is involved), a CRS healer, trained in A Course in Miracles and spiritual reading/healing, will observe you with his inner sight, free of any judgments, as your truly are, a perfect shining spirit. Together, will ask the Holy Spirit (or Inner Guide if you prefer) to bring us directly to whatever seed thought is causing your current issues and ask for guidance about how your spirit really wants to make use of your present situation for its growth and sharing of love. After about 10 minutes of meditation, we will share the inspirational guidance that we receive.
Suggested Donation $20 cash. No one turned away due to lack of funds.
RSVP REQUIRED to etsuko@crsny.org
Proof of vaccination is not required but you are welcome to wear a mask while present. And if you have any COVID/cold symptoms, please do not come this time.
We share healing quietly and provide you with an opportunity to come to rest, reflect, and remember who you truly are, in a supportive, non-judgmental, meditative environment. We’d like to offer you an opportunity to experience stillness of mind and peace so that you can return to harmony with your true nature and purpose. Then you will find that rather than needing “solutions” to “problems” you will realize that you have no problems except those that you project.
We call this spiritual healing but it is not religious nor connected with any church or group. It is simply a practice of meditating together on our true nature and connecting with universal spirit/energy or what you will.
A Note About the Role of Words in Healing: “Strictly speaking, words play no part at all in healing. The motivating factor is prayer, or asking. What you ask for you receive. But this refers to the prayer of the heart, not to the words you use in praying. Sometimes the words and the prayer are contradictory; sometimes they agree. It does not matter. God does not understand words, for they were made by separated minds to keep them in the illusion of separation. Words can be helpful, particularly for the beginner, in helping concentration and facilitating the exclusion, or at least the control, of extraneous thoughts. Let us not forget, however, that words are but symbols of symbols. They are thus twice removed from reality….” — A Course in Miracles Manual for Teachers, Section 21
“Since only the mind can be sick, only the mind can be healed. Only the mind is in need of healing.” —”PSYCHOTHERAPY: Purpose, Process and Practice,”Supplements to A Course in Miracles

CRS Presents Paradise Laboratory: Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Shoko Nagai (piano/accordion) & Sita Chay (violin) with friends Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) & Yuka Yamamoto of The Fugu Plan
2024-01-28 19:00 - 20:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the next installment of its Paradise Laboratory concert series featuring improvisation and songs by Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Shoko Nagai(piano/accordion) & Sita Chay (violin) with friends Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) & Yuka Yamamoto(vocals/ukelele) of The Fugu Plan, walking the fine line between sacred music and the avant-garde.
PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and/or dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.
Tickets are $10 for students/seniors and $20 general admission.
TICKET LINK:
https://shorturl.at/rswxM<
VENUE LOCATION:
The White Room at CRS
123 4th Ave FL3
New York, NY 10003
212-677-8621
DIRECTIONS:
CRS is located on the 3rd floor of a walk-up building above Think Coffee, between 12th & 13th streets, one block east of The Strand Bookstore. There is no elevator or wheelchair access.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
4/5/6, N/R/Q, L trains to 14th St / Union Square

Omatsuri mambo Shoko Nagai’s Tokala @ Greenwich House of Music 10 14 23

The Fugu Plan – Pettanko ぺったんこ (Official Music Video)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was ‘Macumbia’ with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to Miami, U.S. where he began working as an arranger/producer as well as a performer.
In 1987 he produced ‘Morning Ride’ for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the Middle East where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded in vast variety of genre, from world music, jazz, contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music with musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, MIchael Attias, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.
Shoko Nagai is a versatile musical artist who improvises and performs with world-renowned musicians on piano and accordion and composes original scores for films and live performances. As a teenager in her native Japan, Nagai was trained on Yamaha’s electronic organ, the “Electone,” to perform popular music. Since moving to the U.S. from Japan and studying classical, jazz music, and compositions at Berklee, she has adapted her mastery of the keyboard to prepared piano, accordions, and other keyboard instruments, often inspired by the minimalist approach of composer Toru Takemitsu. Whether she is performing Klezmer, Balkan or experimental music, Nagai is a charismatic presence onstage, who hypnotizes audiences with her intense focus and virtuoso sound.
http://www.shokonagai.net/
“Whether traipsing over a steady, rolling rhythm or swimming through a collage of abstract sound, Nagai, a pianist, treat every moment as an opportunity for deep synchronicity.” — GIOVANNI RUSSONELL, New York Times
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz is an American bassist and oud player who has recorded and performed with John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Ravi Coltrane, Fred Sherry, Satoshi Takeshi, Hank Roberts, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell Jr., Tony Malaby, Will Connell, Jon Madof, Daniel Zamir, Jenny Scheinman, Daniel Kelly, Eyal Maoz, Avishai Cohen, George Garzone, Okkyung Lee, Brad Shepik, William Winant, Jim Puglesie, Jim Black, Jamie Saft, Anthony Coleman, Mark Dresser, Charlie Burnham, Sonny Simmons, Ned Rothenberg, Marty Ehrlich, Trevor Dunn, Sylvie Courvoisier, Susie Ibarra,Tyshawn Sorey, Min Xiao-Fen, Michiyo Yagi, Kazu Uchihashi, Makigami Koichi, Kazutoki Umezu, Cyro Baptista, Marc Ribot, Kenny Wollesen, Joey Baron, Anton Fier, Eric Friedlander, Mark Feldman, Roberto Rodriguez, Louie Belogenis, Ikue Mori, and many more!
Sita Chay is a violinist, composer, and producer who won a 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best Mariachi Album, as violinist with the Flor de Toloache. She is also an awardee of New York Foundation for the Arts Women’s Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund, Joe’s Pub Working Group, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement Grant for various projects she is envisioning. Ms. Chay is the director and a founder of the Korean Shaman Music Ritual, SaaWee, which was received by international critics as a “delicate powerhouse”. For SaaWee, she has interwoven her theatrical experiences from Broadway shows, folkloric spirituality from Korean shaman rituals, and contemporary music flare from New York jazz scenes. SaaWee’s Return of Songbirds debuted at the Lincoln Center as part of #Retartstage project in 2021 and was invited to Ars Electronica Festival 2021. SaaWee won the California Music Video Awards 2022 in Best World Music category. She has appeared as a speaker and a lecturer at Chamber Music America Conference 2019, New York Musical Festival 2018, Seoul National University, Colombia National University, and Joong Ang University.
Sita often performs at artistically acclaimed venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, Apollo Theater,Madison Square Garden, and was invited to the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2015, London K-Music Festival in 2018, Global Fest 2018 and to the New York Sanjo Festival 2017 and 2018 to premiere her original and commissioned compositions. She has appeared as a guest violinist for critically acclaimed Broadway shows, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Ain’t Too Proud, Hello Dolly, Sweeney Todd, On the Town, Fiddler on the Roof and Sunset Boulevard. Frequent TV and NPR appearances include “Tonight Show”, “Mozart in the Jungle,” and Randy Cohen’s “Person Place Thing”. She has collaborated with such artists as the Lionel Loueke, the Eagles, Kenny Werner, Billy Drewes, Sandeep Das, Frank London, Edward Perez, Balla Kouyate, Emerson String Quartet, Natalia Laforcade, Duksoo Kim, Bette Midler, Alicia Hall Moran, Alan Ferber,Taebaek Lee, Pamela Frank, Nadia Solemo Sonenberg, Frank Huang, and Robert Craft, the student of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Her album credits include Stereography Project 1st and 2nd album, Miho Hazama’s M Unit “Dancer in Nowhere, Flor de Toloache “Las Caras Lindas.” http://www.sitachay.com
Yuka Yamamoto is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Sado Island, Japan , a place of banishment for difficult or inconvenient Japanese figures starting in the 8th century. The Fugu Plan’s MukashiBanashi is based on the secret customs and ancient folktales of Japan, exploring traditions of ritual, tribal, and spiritual music, which pays tribute to the island’s preservation of the traditions of old Japan through ceremony, art, music and magic, while incorporating a mixed bag of musical influences including Ennio Morricone’s film music, psychedelic rock, free improvisation, and prayer.
https://thefuguplan.bandcamp.com/

CRS Presents Meditation & Sound Bath with Beyond Flute Trio
2024-03-16 18:00 - 19:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Please join us for our final sound bath in the coccoon-like White Room at CRS. Lie down, close your eyes, and bathe in the gentle guided meditation by CRS Director Christopher Pelham and the soothing sounds of Cheryl Pyle (flutes), Rema Hasumi (synthesizer), and Yuko Togami (percussion).
Let’s take this time together to be conscious of whatever we are feeling. Let’s give ourselves permission to experience the wholeness and magnificence of who we really are. We are waiting for you.

Tickets are $20 general admission.
TICKET LINK:
https://shorturl.at/bcktL

VENUE LOCATION:
The White Room at CRS
123 4th Ave FL3
New York, NY 10003
212-677-8621
DIRECTIONS:
CRS is located on the 3rd floor of a walk-up building above Think Coffee, between 12th & 13th streets, one block east of The Strand Bookstore. There is no elevator or wheelchair access.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
4/5/6, N/R/Q, L trains to 14th St / Union Square
Cheryl Pyle, the versatile flutist received her BA in music from the University of California at Berkeley, having received her Associates Degree from Mesa College . Her teachers included Merrill Jordan, Janet Maestre, Francis Watson, and Jayn Rosenfeld.Since moving to New York in the fall of 1980, Ms. Pyle has been heard in a variety of settings. As well as composing , Ms Pyle has performed and recorded with such fine musicians as Joe Lovano, Fred Hersch, Tom Harrell, Billy Bang, Danilo Perez, Billy Hart, Ben Monder, Duduka Fonseca, Charlie Haden, James Williams, John Abercrombie, Paul Motian, Bern Nix, Ratzo Harris, and many other great musicians.. Recording her first quartet cd her own 11th street music label, her jazz groups have been playing many clubs and concerts. The 11th street music label has released many original cds and mp3 cds. Her most recent free jazz groups in 2023 are the Beyond Flute Group and the all women Musique Libre Femmes.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/member-cheryl-pyle
Christopher Pelham is Director and co-founder with Yasuko Kasaki of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), a healing and art center grounded in the study and practice of A Course in Miracles and meditation. He is also a healer, writer, photographer, filmmaker, occasionally an performer, and a curator/producer of music, dance, theater, film and visual arts events, as well as the organizer of a Sufi Dance Community.
https://chrispelham.com
Rema Hasumi is an experimental pianist, vocalist, producer and writer who is based out of Brooklyn, NY. Hasumi was born in 1983 in Fukuoka, Japan, and moved to the United States in 2002 to pursue her passion for music, which was nurtured through more than ten years of classical piano study and the listening experiences of her audiophile parent’s record collection. Hasumi has performed at venues across NY, the United States and Asia.
In 2009 she performed at the Kennedy Center as one of the four finalists of Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Pianist Competition. In 2014, upon invitation by acclaimed vocalist Jen Shyu, Hasumi presented her solo work “The Patterns of Duplicity” at a series of “Solo Rites” concerts by Ms. Shyu. The piece featured the poetry “Spring and Asura” (1925) by Kenji Miyazawa interpreted in multiple languages, exploring the possibilities of musical ideas unique and inherent to each language. Hasumi has also worked extensively as both pianist and vocalist in many other projects, including a series of collaborations with the saxophonist Darius Jones in which they performed the music of Alice Coltrane. She has also worked as the vocalist in the guitarist Todd Neufeld’s new two-drummer group. Hasumi’s new trio premiered in June 2015 in two nights of concerts in NYC. It featured compositions she wrote for piano and voice, performed alongside the great Randy Peterson and Masa Kamaguchi.
Her first record “UTAZATA” was released in May 2015 from Ruweh Records, which she runs as a co-founder. It features the highly sympathetic cast of Todd Neufeld (guitar), Thomas Morgan (bass), Billy Mintz (drums), and fiery guest musicians Ben Gerstein (trombone) and Sergio Krakowski (pandeiro). The group interprets the themes of Japanese Gagaku and ritual music. This record was made as a result of mindful searching on femininity, mythology and rituals in Japanese performing arts. In 2016, Hasumi released a trio recording “Billows of Blue” featuring Randy Peterson and Masa Kamaguchi. Her most recent album and a solo recording, called “Abiding Dawn”, reveals Hasumi’s sound world all alone, layering and unlayering voice, piano and analog synthesizers in a seamless journey of eight gorgeous tracks. The word and the wordless, the pitched and the unpitched all meet in Hasumi’s voice, while her piano honors the influences of Alice Coltrane and Masabumi Kikuchi, met squarely on her own honest terms. The use of synthesizer, a vintage Korg Delta DL-50, serves to encompass and meld the sonic meal.
https://remahasumi.bandcamp.com
Yuko Togami is a drummer and composer currently based in New York City, originally from Saitama, Japan. She was exposed to music from a very early age as she was always watching her mother teach piano and Eurhythmics. She started taking Eurhythmics classes and playing piano when she was about 5. Later on, she also started playing marimba and studied classical music until she graduated from high school. While she was in high school, she got attracted to drums and began taking drum lessons. A couple years later, she started performing as a drummer based in Tokyo. In 2013, she moved to New York City to pursue further musical studies at the City College of New York. She received a scholarship from The Kaye Scholars Program, and studied privately with Adam Cruz, Nasheet Waits, and Ben Street. She graduated with her BFA degree in jazz performance and The Pro Musica Award from City College, and has performed with many different musicians and projects including Steve Wilson, Mike Holober, Scott Reeves, Ben Paterson, Mark Wade, Jakob Dreyer, Takaaki Otomo, Nori Naraoka, Berta Moreno, Maksim Perepelica, Latvian Concert Choir, Musicsnake, Kijima Sound System. Her debut album “Dawn” was released in April 2018, and has won a Silver Medal at the 2018 Global Music Awards for Outstanding Achievement.
https://www.yukotogami.com/
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is an ongoing sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.
https://crsny.org

In-Person Guided Meditation & Spiritual Healing Clinic with Yasuko Kasaki & CRS Healers
2024-03-24 12:00 - 16:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Please join us for the final Guided Meditation & Spiritual Healing Clinic in our White Room at 123 4th Ave. The next time we gather it will be at a new location.
Let’s witness the light in one another and share stillness and peace of mind. We’ll begin with a short talk and guided meditation by Yasuko and then share our one-on-one spiritual healing with you. After we can enjoy some social time together. We have a number of things for which we need to find new homes so please stay and shop as well!
Bring any issue you are facing right now — physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually. With eyes closed (you will be seated and a healer will stand nearby; no touching is involved), a CRS healer, trained in A Course in Miracles and spiritual reading/healing, will observe you with his inner sight, free of any judgments, as your truly are, a perfect shining spirit. Together, will ask the Holy Spirit (or Inner Guide if you prefer) to bring us directly to whatever seed thought is causing your current issues and ask for guidance about how your spirit really wants to make use of your present situation for its growth and sharing of love. After about 10 minutes of meditation, we will share the inspirational guidance that we receive.
Suggested Donation $20 cash. No one turned away due to lack of funds.
RSVP REQUIRED to etsuko@crsny.org
Proof of vaccination is not required but you are welcome to wear a mask while present. And if you have any COVID/cold symptoms, please do not come this time.
We share healing quietly and provide you with an opportunity to come to rest, reflect, and remember who you truly are, in a supportive, non-judgmental, meditative environment. We’d like to offer you an opportunity to experience stillness of mind and peace so that you can return to harmony with your true nature and purpose. Then you will find that rather than needing “solutions” to “problems” you will realize that you have no problems except those that you project.
We call this spiritual healing but it is not religious nor connected with any church or group. It is simply a practice of meditating together on our true nature and connecting with universal spirit/energy or what you will.
A Note About the Role of Words in Healing: “Strictly speaking, words play no part at all in healing. The motivating factor is prayer, or asking. What you ask for you receive. But this refers to the prayer of the heart, not to the words you use in praying. Sometimes the words and the prayer are contradictory; sometimes they agree. It does not matter. God does not understand words, for they were made by separated minds to keep them in the illusion of separation. Words can be helpful, particularly for the beginner, in helping concentration and facilitating the exclusion, or at least the control, of extraneous thoughts. Let us not forget, however, that words are but symbols of symbols. They are thus twice removed from reality….” — A Course in Miracles Manual for Teachers, Section 21
“Since only the mind can be sick, only the mind can be healed. Only the mind is in need of healing.” —”PSYCHOTHERAPY: Purpose, Process and Practice,”Supplements to A Course in Miracles

Stop Calling Them Dangerous: Cinema Has Power vol. 9
2024-05-25 14:00 - 16:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival & CRS present Stop Calling Them Dangerous: Cinema Has Power vol. 9 with Sarah Möller. This program will celebrate the artistic legacy and profound influence of the intermedia artist and composer Phill Niblock (1933-2024, USA), who was an artist whose fifty-year career spans minimalist and experimental music, film and photography. The foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent. Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. On January 8, 2024, at the age of 90, Phill Niblock bid farewell to the world. We invite the audience to join us for a curated selection of his films, to celebrate his legacy and the profound influence and deep inspiration he had on the artistic landscape. The event will be moderated by Yoshiko Chuma with Sarah Möller, Christopher McIntyre and David Gearey.
Doors open at 1:45pm. No admission after 2:20pm. Admission is $10 – $30 at the door.
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival continues to support La MaMa’s commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience’s perception of dance by featuring performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists’ engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue.
Sarah Möller, one of the artistic directors of the Berlin dance film festival POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM. Since 2016, under the name SHINE – NEW YORK TRACES, the festival has been featuring films from the New York dance and experimental film scene of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Sarah Möller is an artist-curator based in Berlin. She is one of the co-directors of the international dance film festival POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM. Especially interested in the various ways of interweaving cinematic and physical movement, she regularly offers workshops and training in the field. Additionally, she has been invited as a film programmer, lecturer, and jury member for several international dance film festivals and exhibitions. In 2021, she founded the Shine Collection which represents 16-mm films by artist Yoshiko Chuma created between 1979 and 1983.
www.sarahmoeller.de
‍www.shine-collection.de
‍www.pool-festival.de
‍www.shine-collection.de
Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other predetermined category. She is an artist on her own journey. A path that has taken her to over 40 “out of the way” countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing her company The School of Hard Knocks in New York City in 1980.
Movement played a pivotal role in the visual work of the intermedia artist and composer Phill Niblock. His films are characterized by textures of rhythms, pulsations, vibrant imagery, and masterful play with light and time. Niblock’s work with numerous choreographers and dancers, including Elaine Summers, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton and Becky Arnold, Meredith Monk, Ann Danoff, Barbara Dilley, and Dana Reitz, showcased his dedication to exploring the intersection of movement, visual expression, and music. On January 8, 2024, at the age of 90, Phill Niblock bid farewell to the world. We invite the audience to join us for a curated selection of his films, to celebrate his legacy and the profound influence and deep inspiration he had on the artistic landscape. The event is initiated by Yoshiko Chuma, Conceptual Artist, Choreographer, and Director of The School of Hard Knocks, and curated by Sarah Möller, artistic co-director of the Berlin dance film festival POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM.Since 2016, under the name SHINE – NEW YORK TRACES, the festival has been featuring films from the New York dance and experimental film scene of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. www.pool-festival.de
Phill Niblock (1933-2024, USA) was an artist whose fifty-year career spans minimalist and experimental music, film and photography. Since 1985, he has served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. Known for his thick, loud drones of music, Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. In 2013, his diverse artistic career was the subject of a retrospective realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and Musée de l’Elysée. The following year Niblock was honored with the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award.‍
www.phillniblock.com
www.experimentalintermedia.org
THE PROGRAM
The Magic Sun (1966-68) – 17 minutes
Filmed by Phill Niblock, with members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, music by Sun ra and Arkestra.
Filmed with a high contrast Black and White 16mm film, transferred to video.
Trio Film (1968) – 14 minutes
A film by Yvonne Rainer, Cinematography by Phill Niblock, Performance by Becky Arnold and Steve Paxton.
Black and white 16mm film transferred to video, no sound.
Annie (1968) – 8 minutes
A film by Phill Niblock. A portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff, with a sound collage sound track.
Color 16mm film, transferred to video.
Max (1966 – 68) – 7 minutes
Filmed by Phill Niblock, edited by Dave Gearey. An image collage film / portrait of Max Neuhaus, with a collage sound track by Max Neuhaus.
Black and White 16mm film, transferred to video.
3 Locations (1974) – 7 minutes
Film by Phill Niblock, dance by Dana Reitz.
3 Locations, 3 perspectives, 3 intensities – Dana Reitz explores three different environments: brick patio (jumping), hillside (crawling/rolling) and tree trunk (balancing).
Color 16mm film, transferred to video, no sound.
Terrace Of Unintelligibility (1985) – 20 minutes
Filmed by Phill Niblock. Composition, Performance and Lighting Design by Arthur Russell.
Recorded at Experimental Intermedia Foundation September 22, and October 27, 1985.
Note: The opening and closing credits of the film Max contain a strobe effect.
More details:
https://pool-festival.de/2024/05/14/cinema-has-power-phill-niblock
https://www.lamama.org/shows/cinema-has-power-vol-9

Guided Meditation with Chris in English (on Zoom)
2024-05-28 18:30 - 19:00 | Zoom
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81541160040
Call-in info:
Meeting ID: 815 4116 0040
One tap mobile: 1-929-436-2866
Suggested class donation $20 via PayPal to https://www.paypal.me/crsny
(no one turned away due to lack of funds)
Please join me in the sharing of miracles. Here, your mind can come to rest and you can remember true peace. No experience with meditation is required, and everyone is welcome. I ask only that you make it your intention to sit still, quiet in body and mind, and to listen to, receive, and follow my instruction to the best of your ability. You will learn to meditate as you practice.
Our meditation may take the form of creative visualization, or instruction about the nature and purpose of meditation, or about our true nature and relationship to ourselves, to one another, and to the world. In a sense, this is both a meditation practice and a meditation class. At the end of the meditation you will have a chance to respond briefly if you like.
Some students have been practicing regularly for a number of years. Others drop in and out as they have time or need. Some come to learn and grow, others more so simply to calm down, to take time out from the frenetic pace of their busy lives. If you are new and feeling uncertain or shaky, do not hesitate to introduce yourself to some of the other students, to ask questions before or after. Try to observe and emulate the stillness and concentration of others around you whom you sense are most grounded. Soon, you, in turn, may provide inspiration and guidance for others.
While the principles are based on A Course in Miracles (ACIM), it does not matter if you are unfamiliar with ACIM or are not prepared to study it outside of this meditation. You can still take from this practice some very practical, effective lessons, tools, and experiences that can enable you to lead a more peaceful, purposeful, fulfilling and loving life.

Stop Calling Them Dangerous: Love Story Palestine vol. 10
2024-06-01 14:00 - 16:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival & CRS present Stop Calling Them Dangerous: Love Story Palestine vol. 10 with Ryuji Yamaguchi. “Love Story Palestine” is about war, and borders, centered around Palestine, and from the viewpoint of Ryuji Yamaguchi — dance artist and educator based in Jordan for the past 16 years. The performance features stories and images of numerous Palestinians, including those from Gaza, whom Yamaguchi has lived alongside.
Doors open at 1:45pm. No admission after 2:20pm. Admission is $10 – $30 at the door.
Statement: We refute the idea of an immigration travel ban — America is a nation of immigrants. We want the participants and our audience to see the other parts of the world in a new light. This is about sharing experiences — sharing experiences of other lives and other worlds. And through our sharing, explore what can and can’t be felt through our varied cultural and historical differences.
*Acknowledgement: Yoshiko’s experience in Palestine with dancer and activist Noora Baker (one of the leading dancers and directors of the El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe company in Ramallah, Palestine) has been a substantial inspiration for this project.
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival continues to support La MaMa’s commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience’s perception of dance by featuring performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists’ engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue.
Ryuji Yamaguchi first came to King’s Academy in Jordan in 2007 as the dance program coordinator. In 2022, he was appointed dean of residential life. Born in Nagoya, Japan, He grew up in Japan and the USA. He received his B.A. in East Asian studies from Harvard University and a M.A. in educational leadership at Columbia University. His dance activities have spanned the Middle East, Europe, Japan and the United States, and he has performed in works by such choreographers as Yoshiko Chuma, Douglas Dunn, Brenda Divelbliss and Christopher Williams. Mr. Yamaguchi has collaborated with numerous Jordanian and Palestinian artists, and has invited over 40 Japanese and American artists to Jordan. As a core member of Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks (SOHK), Yamaguchi has created over 10 SOHK productions in Jordan and Palestine since 2007. In 2013, he founded Jordan Youth Dance Exchange.
Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other pre-determined category. She is an artist on her own journey. A path that has taken her to over 40 “out of the way” countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing her company The School of Hard Knocks in New York City in 1980.
Founded by the Japanese writer/lecturer/healer Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham in 2004, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) offers arts and cultural programming as well as spiritual mind-training rooted in the non-dualistic teachings of A Course in Miracles (ACIM), which reminds us that we are limitless spiritual beings and encourages us to remember our true nature by committing to a practice of deep, non-judgmental inquiry. CRS produces the Crossing Boundaries and Paradise Laboratory concert series conceived by gamin, publishes the web magazine only love.art, offers grants to artists, and is an ongoing funder of Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M3).

In-Person Guided Meditation & Spiritual Healing Clinic
2024-06-15 12:30 - 14:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
We are happy to invite you back in person for our first afternoon of meditation, healing, and spiritual community in our new location at 41 E 11th St 11th Floor! Let’s witness the light in one another and share stillness and peace of mind. We’ll begin with a short talk and guided meditation by Yasuko and then share our one-on-one spiritual healing with you. After we can enjoy some social time together.
Suggested Donation $20 cash. No one turned away due to lack of funds.
RSVP REQUIRED to etsuko@crsny.org (Space is limited!)

CRS Presents Crossing Boundaries 22: gamin x elizabeth hoffman
2024-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 | NYU Bobst Library, Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series vol. 22, gamin x elizabeth hoffman, curated by gamin, in the Immersion Room, Avery Fisher Center, on the 7th Floor of NYU’s Bobst Library on Washington Square South.
This concert explores the profound theme of crossing boundaries, a continuation of our series that invites reflection on the values of transcending limits. Whether these boundaries are forbidden zones, mental constructs, or cultural divergences, the performance seeks to bring them into mutual awareness. Through a powerful blend of music and meditation, this event challenges audiences to rethink the divisions that shape our world and to discover the unity that lies beyond. Join us for an evening of immersive soundscapes and thought-provoking artistry as we journey across these borders together.
RSVP is required by 12 p.m. on 9/21, the day of the concert. NYU will receive your name and email address and email you a pass, which you will need to enter the Bobst Library building.
TICKET LINK:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crs-presents-crossing-boundaries-22-gamin-x-elizabeth-hoffman-tickets-1002133707897

VENUE LOCATION:
Immersion Room, Avery Fisher Center, 7th Floor, Bobst Library, NYU
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
DIRECTIONS:
NYU’s Bobst Library is located on the south side of Washington Square between Schwartz Plaza and LaGuardia Place.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
8th Street N/R/W
Astor Place 6
W 4th St/Wash Sq. A/C/E/B/D/F/M
ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES
CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a concert series devoted to dissolving boundaries between performers and audiences, the traditional and contemporary, classical and experimental, and the culturally specific and the global. Series curators are given the opportunity to create unique performance events in collaboration with musical, visual, and/or movement artists of their choosing. The series was conceived in 2018 by the Korean traditional wind player and composer gamin, who has continued to help curate the series each year. https://crsny.org/crossing-boundaries-concert-series/
Crossing Boundaries is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and administered by LMCC. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
gamin (b. 1976 – also known as Gamin Kang) is a renowned Korean musician and multi-instrumentalist, celebrated for her mastery of traditional wind instruments, particularly the piri (double-reed bamboo oboe), taepyeongso (conical oboe), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated master for Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46. Trained under the mentorship of living national treasure, Jeong Jae-guk, gamin has reinterpreted Korean classical music while exploring contemporary and experimental sounds. Her performances have captivated audiences worldwide, blending the rich heritage of Korean music with innovative improvisation. As a former principal player of the National Gugak Orchestra, gamin continues to expand the boundaries of Korean music through her solo projects and collaborations with global artists.
gamin was awarded a Jerome (Hill) Foundation Artist Fellowship 2021-2023. Since 2022, gamin has taught graduate and undergraduate ethnomusicology as Adjunct Faculty at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. In 2023, gamin was awarded an artist fellowship by the Howard Foundation. Since 2018, gamin has curated performances for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she conceived.
gaminmusic.com
Elizabeth Hoffman, composer (NYC), works in acoustic, electroacoustic, and computer media, and has created collaborative projects with performers including Ivan Goff, Jane Rigler, Margaret Lancaster, gamin, Marianne Gythfeldt, Elena Demyanenko, String Noise, Azalea Twining, and a recent work for Glass Farm Ensemble’s Nieuw Amsterdam – New York album on Innova. Elizabeth teaches in NYU’s Arts and Science Music Department. Her electroacoustic music is published by Empreintes DIGITALes. She has received Bourges, Prix Ars, Pierre Schaeffer, and Sonic Circuits prizes; and MacDowell, NEA, Seattle Arts Commission, and Jerome Foundation grants and an International Computer Music Association commission. Her interactive music connects computer processes to acoustic instruments in textural, tuning, and spatial explorations, or algorithmic application as in a permanent installation in Bobst Library Atrium. Her interest in feminist re-tellings and in the imprint of society on subjectivity, in dialogue and intervention through music, is a long-standing focus. She is also a pianist.
https://wp.nyu.edu/elizabeth_hoffman/
https://as.nyu.edu/departments/music/people/faculty/elizabeth-hoffman.html
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts.
Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.
https://crsny.org

Guided Meditation with Christopher Pelham in English (on Zoom)
2024-10-21 18:30 - 19:00 | online
Please join me in the sharing of miracles. Here, your mind can come to rest and you can remember true peace. No experience with meditation is required, and everyone is welcome. I ask only that you make it your intention to sit still, quiet in body and mind, and to listen to, receive, and follow my instruction to the best of your ability. You will learn to meditate as you practice.
While the principles are based on A Course in Miracles (ACIM), it does not matter if you are unfamiliar with ACIM or are not prepared to study it outside of this meditation. You can still take from this practice some very practical, effective lessons, tools, and experiences that can enable you to lead a more peaceful, purposeful, fulfilling and loving life.
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81541160040
Call-in info:
Meeting ID: 815 4116 0040
One tap mobile: 1-929-436-2866

M³ Festival 2024
2024-10-25 19:00 - 22:00 | Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11217, United States
We’re so proud to support the 3rd annual M³ Festival 2024 on Friday & Saturday, October 25 & 26, at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, NY!
The 2-day festival will feature Linda May Han Oh, Fabian Almazan, Craig Taborn, Krissy Bergmark, Jessica Jones, Sattvitri, CC Sunchild, Naomi Nakanishi, Aline Frazão, Kavita Shah, Gwen Laster, Dafna Naphtali, & Rani Jambak.
In relentless pursuit of balance and diversity, this lineup of composer-performers was thoughtfully curated to embody innovation across genres. The M³ Festival is a testament to the power of inclusivity, demonstrating that when intentions focus on fostering a diverse & inclusive community of musicians and creators, it unlocks a world of boundless possibilities. We can’t wait to see you there!
SEE THE FULL LINE UP

CRS Presents Crossing Boundaries 23: “Unfolding Circle” by Oto Mugen
2024-12-10 19:30 - 20:30, 2024-12-10 21:00 - 22:00 | The Jazz Gallery, 1160 Broadway #5th floor, New York, 10001, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series vol. 23: “Unfolding Circle”by Oto Mugen. Led by Rema Hasumi (composition, piano, keyboards, vocals) with Adam Lane on acoustic bass and Randy Peterson on drums, the trio curates an immersive auditory journey, crafting a diverse array of soundscapes that gently lead listeners from introspective meditation to transformative catharsis.
Sets start at 7:30 and 9 pm and one ticket is good for either set or both. Drinks are available in the Jazz Gallery lounge before and after each set.
The audience will experience fleeting yet profound interplay between tension and release, chaos and calm. The concert creates a space where we share a moment of unfolding, where what we carry transforms in the presence of collective experience.
Oto Mugen
The group came together in 2022 as a project led by Rema Hasumi (piano, synthesizers, voice), joined by Randy Peterson (drums) and Adam Lane (acoustic bass). Hasumi and Peterson had previously collaborated on an album, during which they developed a distinct approach to improvisational interplay. The name “Oto Mugen,” meaning “infinite sounds” in Japanese, reflects the group’s vision of crafting boundless soundscapes that push the edges of musical exploration, venturing into uncharted sonic territories.
Rema Hasumi is a New York-based sound designer and improviser whose eclectic background spans classical, jazz, and experimental music. Her recent work involves compositions and improvisations with analog synthesizers, electronics, and vocals. Her musical influences range from Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra to Masabumi Kikuchi, Paul Bley, and Ran Blake, among others.
http://rema-hasumi.com/
TICKET LINK:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crs-presents-crossing-boundaries-23-unfolding-circle-by-oto-mugen-tickets-1044380990657

VENUE LOCATION:
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway 5th floor
New York, NY 10001
DIRECTIONS:
The Jazz Gallery is located on the northeast corner of Broadway and 27th Street.
NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:
28th Street R/W
23rd Street F/M
23rd Street or 33rd Street 4/6
ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES
CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a concert series devoted to dissolving boundaries between performers and audiences, the traditional and contemporary, classical and experimental, and the culturally specific and the global. Series curators are given the opportunity to create unique performance events in collaboration with musical, visual, and/or movement artists of their choosing. The series was conceived in 2018 by the Korean traditional wind player and composer gamin, who has continued to help curate the series each year. https://crsny.org/crossing-boundaries-concert-series/
Crossing Boundaries is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.
ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CO-FOUNDER GAMIN
gamin (b. 1976 – also known as Gamin Kang) is a renowned Korean musician and multi-instrumentalist, celebrated for her mastery of traditional wind instruments, particularly the piri (double-reed bamboo oboe), taepyeongso (conical oboe), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated master for Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46. Trained under the mentorship of living national treasure, Jeong Jae-guk, gamin has reinterpreted Korean classical music while exploring contemporary and experimental sounds. Her performances have captivated audiences worldwide, blending the rich heritage of Korean music with innovative improvisation. As a former principal player of the National Gugak Orchestra, gamin continues to expand the boundaries of Korean music through her solo projects and collaborations with global artists.
gamin was awarded a Jerome (Hill) Foundation Artist Fellowship 2021-2023. Since 2022, gamin has taught graduate and undergraduate ethnomusicology as Adjunct Faculty at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. In 2023, gamin was awarded an artist fellowship by the Howard Foundation. Since 2018, gamin has curated performances for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she conceived.
gaminmusic.com
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts.
Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.
https://crsny.org

New Year’s Eve Guided Meditation with Yasuko Kasaki
2024-12-31 17:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Please join us on Sunday, Dec 31 at 5 pm for our annual year-ending guided meditation with CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki. This year the meditation will be held in our new home at 41 E 11th St 11th FL and space is limited so advanced registration is required. Please RSVP by email to etsuko@crsny.org.
Let’s join our minds in stillness to remember who we are and prepare to begin the new year with a clear mind and renewed intention to see and share only love.
What would love have me do?
Where would love have me go?
What would love have me say, and to whom?

In-Person Guided Meditation & Spiritual Healing Clinic
2025-01-26 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-03-02 14:30 - 16:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
We are happy to invite you back for our first in-person meditation and spiritual healing clinic of the new year. Let’s witness the light in one another and share stillness and peace of mind. We’ll begin with a short talk and guided meditation by Yasuko and then share our one-on-one spiritual healing with you. After we can enjoy some social time together.
Suggested Donation $20 cash. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
RSVP REQUIRED to etsuko@crsny.org (Space is limited!)
Please arrive 5–10 minutes early as late comers may have trouble entering the building.
Bring any issue you are facing right now — physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually. With eyes closed (you will be seated and a healer will stand nearby; no touching is involved), a CRS healer, trained in A Course in Miracles and spiritual reading/healing, will observe you with her inner sight, free of any judgments, a perfect shining spirit. Together, we will ask the Holy Spirit (or Inner Guide if you prefer) to bring us directly to whatever seed thought is causing your current issues and ask for guidance about how your spirit really wants to make use of your present situation for its growth and sharing of love. After about 10 minutes of meditation, we will share the inspirational guidance that we receive.
We share healing quietly and provide you with an opportunity to come to rest, reflect, and remember who you truly are, in a supportive, non-judgmental, meditative environment. We’d like to offer you an opportunity to experience stillness of mind and peace so that you can return to harmony with your true nature and purpose. Then you will find that rather than needing “solutions” to “problems” you will realize that you have no problems except those that you project.

A Course in Miracles Class with Yasuko Kasaki (on Zoom)
2025-01-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
from 7 – 8 pm
Preceded by Guided Meditation from 6:30 – 7 pm (same Zoom link)
Together, let’s come to rest and remember true peace. Each class usually contains some lecture on concepts from A Course in Miracles, some discussion and Q&A, and a meditation, creative visualization and/or spiritual reading practice in order to experience mind change.
Our primary goal in these classes is for each student to learn to listen to the guidance of Holy Spirit and live his/her life with certainty and peace. Slowly, you will re-train your eyes to see the world around you without judgment. You will learn to communicate with your holy spirit. Students of all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome!
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81541160040
Call-in info:
Meeting ID: 815 4116 0040
One tap mobile: 1-929-436-2866
Suggested donation $20 via PayPal to https://www.paypal.me/crsny
(no one turned away due to lack of funds)
You can find the text of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) online here (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles), among other places.
Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miraclesthroughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles in New York City. She has taught and worked with thousands of people from around the world to help resolve their mental and physical issues and witness miracles. She presents at the CMC’s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan. She has also been presented internationally at ACIM conferences and workshops in the U.K., Spain, Germany, and Israel.
Yasuko is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes: An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko’s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice.
You can listen to a sampling of Yasuko’s recent guided meditations here:
http://crsny.podbean.com

Kotohogi: The Embodiment of Time
2025-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | NY
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is continuing its support for the KOTOHOGI arts and healing project as it moves to Düsseldorf, Germany for The Embodiment of Time​, A Performative Evening and artist talk in collaboration with Thomas Klein (musician, Düsseldorf) on March 9 presented by TAIFUN Project, International art platform for cultural initiative. This presentation of Kotohogi: The Embodiment of Time is made possible, in part, by a travel grant from the Center.
LOCATION:
Flurstraße 11, 40235 Düsseldorf, Germany
In Japanese philosophy, water embodies both “linear time” (flow, decay) and “cyclical time” (purification, renewal). Aging and mortality are not resisted but accepted as part of a cosmic rhythm. This worldview fosters a serene acceptance of life’s impermanence, shaping Japan’s unique perspective on existence, time, and the beauty of transience.
Since PLUS – a project for an aging world (2021-2024), as a further development on the theme of “aging” and a further exchange of cultural comparisons with Germany and Japan on this topic, TAIFUN Project is pleased to invite Yuko Kaseki (Butoh dancer, Berlin-Japan), Kanako Sehara (Logogram & Calligraphy artist, Zen monk, Osaka), and Miho Tsujii (Performance artist, trained in Noh dance&vocals, Osaka) of performance team Kotohogi to come to Düsseldorf in March 2025. With the warm support by Kabawil e. V., artists from Japan and Germany will collaborate again, to create a special performative evening in the early spring of this year. By integrating the modalities of Butoh dance, Noh performance, sound/vocalisation, visual art and poetic storytelling, this event “The Embodiment of Time” is to present a special interpretation of Japanese philosophy on aging, life and the concept of time.
“Kotohogi” are words in Japan that have the functions of spell, blessing, and celebration. Words (koto) can invoke the action of “shu” (curse/prayer/magic) through sounds and letters. The word and sound purify the body through the body. This is the origin of Kotohogi, which is to celebrate (hogu) with words.
“KOTOHOGI” is a series of performances by three artists from different genres, based on Butoh, calligraphy, Noh, singing and storytelling, that is developed through engagements with site and people in local communities.

¿Qué tal si aclaramos la Confusión de niveles?🌟Yasuko Kasaki
2025-03-12 20:00 - 21:00 | NY

Earth Day Initiative’s Earth Day 2025 Festival in Union Square
2025-04-17 12:00 - 18:00 | Union Square, Union Square, New York, NY, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is delighted to support Kaeshi Chai, Han Luckybee, Patricia Gonzalez, and Hila the Earth’s dance theater action at Earth Day Initiative’s Earth Day 2025 Festival in Union Square on Thursday, April 17, 2025, from 1 – 2 pm and again from 4 – 5 pm.
We’re coming together to tune in, go green, and call for climate action. Join the climate conversation at a pivotal time! Let’s be present together in solidarity, standing up for sustainability, cooperation, mindfulness, connection, and peace.
Mindfulness, creativity, and nature have a synergistic relationship. As long as we regard ourselves as separate beings struggling to survive, we cannot be what we are born to be. When we allow ourselves to be present in nature, we automatically quiet our minds and connect to the endlessly creative Oneness of what is. We remember who we are. When we embrace our spiritual limitlessness, we can let go of the temptation to destructively exploit our world to try to survive.
The Festival will run from 12 – 6 pm in the north end of Union Square in Manhattan and will feature

Exhibits by dozens of environmental non-profits, climate campaigns, green living experts, and sustainable businesses (see line-up below)
A special Clean Energy Exhibition, in partnership with Con Edison, featuring great green groups creating a clean energy future (see details below)
Interactive workshops
Live performances from Hila the Earth and APO HAHA CALYPSE (see schedule below)
Climate art
Kids’ activities
Sustainable foods

Check below for details!
https://www.earthdayinitiative.org/earth-day-2025-festival
Kaeshi Chai is an educator, dancer, choreographer, designer, producer, and director whose life mission is to serve our precious planet and empower others through the vehicle of art. She co-founded PURE Globe, an international community focused on healing and social change, the Bellyqueen company and school, as well as Djam NYC shows featuring live music and dance. She has taught / performed in 48 states and 39 countries and is an alumni member of the Bellydance Superstars, Bellydance Evolution, Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth) and Spector Dance. As a producer, Kaeshi has organized over 600 events (shows, tours, conferences). Kaeshi holds multiple certifications in movement (dance, fitness, pilates, yoga), created the Bellyqueen Teacher Training program and graduated with honors in a degree in Design from the University of Technology, Sydney. She meditates daily and practices NVC (Non Violent Communication).
Current projects include “Ocean Stories” integrating art and science for environmental awareness, and “Becoming – Exploring Identity”. Kaeshi contributes dance and movement meditations for events organized by Unity Earth, Purpose Earth, and the Global Peace Tribe. Kaeshi performed in “Wildfires” by Spector Dance, at the opening night of “Plantasticas” by the Exploratorium Museum, and was commissioned to create a dance piece about the root systems of forests for the Exploratorium on May 4th. She is a proud member of Evolutionary Leaders, a circle of innovative thinkers (including Deepak Chopra) who have dedicated their lives and work to human, social and planetary transformation.
https://linktr.ee/kaeshichai
Hila the Earth is an Eco-Rapper, Comedian, and Content Creator.
She performs as Planet Earth and writes songs and makes videos about ecological topics such as; trees, vegetables, compost, soil health, water, mushrooms, reducing plastic waste, and the list keeps growing. Her hope is that by making Earth science accessible, musical and super fun, more people will take action to protect their environments and help life thrive on Earth.
https://hilatheearth.com
Graduating from The National Ballet School of Cuba in 2012, Patricia de la Caridad Gonzalez Vega had the opportunity to dance professionally with renowned companies such as The National Ballet of Cuba, the Contemporary Dance Company of Cuba, and AcostaDanza among others, where she had the opportunity to perform choreographies from classical and contemporary repertory.
At the University of the Arts in Cuba she received a deeper approach to ballet pedagogy that later developed in imparting the Cuban Ballet Method at the Cuban National Ballet School Fernando Alonso, where she worked for over four years, training future generations of ballet professionals.
She is currently a faculty member of Brooklyn Ballet School. She has also created a fusion that mixes ballet with other styles of dance as belly dance as an alternative dance training.
Han Luckybee is a New York based performer and dance instructor that is fluent in Chinese, Spanish and English. She is passionate about culture, movement and expression. Her dance journey first began when she fell in love with belly dance while training at the Bellyqueen School of Dance. Han completed the 40 hour Bellyqueen Teacher Training course in 2017 and 200 hr yoga teacher training in 2019 in India. She continues to grow her passion for dance by exploring different styles such as Traditional Chinese dance, West African, Contemporary Indian, Ballet, Street Jazz and Reggaeton.
She is featured regularly at “Casa La Femme”, an Egyptian restaurant in the west village. Other notable performances include dancing in Bellyqueen’s “Journey along the Silk Road’ in Milan, Italy, Brooklyn Ballet’s “Nutcracker”, with the band “Beats Antique” at Brooklyn Steel, and “Ravens Night” at the Birchmere in Washington DC.
She believes in the power of dance and music to connect with oneself, nature, and with others. She loves sharing the joy that dance brings her by guiding her students in her classes.

Guided Meditation with Christopher Pelham in English (on Zoom)
2025-04-21 18:30 - 19:00 | Zoom
from 6:30 – 7 pm
Followed by ACIM Class from 7 – 8 pm (same Zoom link)
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81541160040
Call-in info:
Meeting ID: 815 4116 0040
One tap mobile: 1-929-436-2866
Please join me in the sharing of miracles. Here, your mind can come to rest, and you can remember true peace. No experience with meditation is required, and everyone is welcome. I ask only that you make it your intention to sit still, quiet in body and mind, and to listen to, receive, and follow my instruction to the best of your ability. You will learn to meditate as you practice.

CRS at La Mama Moves! Dance Festival: Please Cry by Megumi Eda
2025-04-25 19:30 - 21:00 | La Mama Etc., 74 East 4th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY, 10003, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is honored to participate once again in the La Mama Moves! Dance Festival. This year we co-present the US premiere of Please Cry, a solo dance/theatre work created and performed by Berlin-based artist Megumi Eda with original music by Reiko Yamada and lighting by Clifton Taylor. Performances take place at The Club at La Mama on April 25 and 26 at 7:30 pm and on April 27 at 3 pm on a shared program with Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss.
“One day, I discovered a photograph revealing that my grandmother had been a military nurse for Japan during World War II. Later, I watched a documentary about a woman who, like her, had served in the war, sharing long-buried trauma. Had my grandmother endured something similar? I don’t really know…” — Megumi Eda
Please Cry is a deeply personal solo performance blending dance, live video, and music to explore intergenerational trauma, resilience, and the lingering impact of war. Inspired by the silence surrounding Megumi’s grandmother’s past, the piece expresses how unspoken histories echo across generations. Through movement, Megumi seeks to embody these inherited emotions, giving form to what words cannot express. War’s trauma is never just history—it lingers, passed down like an unbroken chain.
The 80th anniversary of the end of WWII is fast approaching. The number of people who experienced the war personally is dwindling. Their memories are passing into history. We at CRS choose to share this powerful meditation on the multigenerational traumas of war so that those who have not known war can better relate and, hopefully, choose to stand for peace.
The Club
74 East 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10003
Tickets:
Adults: $30
Students/Seniors: $25
First 10 tickets are $10 (limit 2 per person)
Ticket link: https://www.lamama.org/chartrand-gareiss-megumi-eda/
The premiere of Please Cry in 2022 was co-produced by Megumi Eda and DOCK ART, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, and supported by Tir Danza. https://www.tirdanza.it/megumi-eda/ The NY production is made possible by a travel grant from CRS.
“Beautiful ballerinas are often caught in their own beauty. They definitely don’t know how to mug. But Megumi can morph in a flash from small boy to impossibly regal diva to a small squirrel chewing on a nut.” — Laurie Anderson
Megumi Eda is a dancer and filmmaker creating multimedia works at the intersection of theater, dance, and film. She began her career at 17 with the Hamburg Ballet, later joining the Dutch National Ballet and Rambert Dance Company. In 2004, she moved to New York as a founding member of Armitage Gone! Dance, collaborating on over a dozen new works and winning the Bessie Award that year. Her long-term collaboration with Yoshiko Chuma has led to innovative performance projects. Now based in Berlin, she focuses on exploring Multi-Generational War Trauma, Women’s Rights, and Institutional Abuse in the Dance World through works like fish άɪ lens (2025), Please Cry (2022), and DIVINE (2023) with Yuko Kaseki.
https://megumieda.com
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival continues to support La MaMa’s commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience’s perception of dance by featuring performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists’ engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue.
https://www.lamama.org/la-mama-moves-2025/

LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART Exhibition
2025-07-21 - 2025-07-26 | Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A W 13th St, New York, 10011
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART, an exhibition of five artists who are mothers — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria), Aline Müller (Brazil), Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam), Katie Heller Saltoun (USA), and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26, 2025.
This exhibition explores the profound interconnection between motherhood and art. These photographs and 2D works depict experiences and challenges—limited time, institutional exclusion, competing responsibilities, societal expectations—that mother artists face every day, ultimately reframing motherhood as an experience that requires constant creativity and is a radical, generative force within artistic life.
Art making and mothering are both rooted in nonjudgmental attention, intuitive responsiveness, and unconditional love. Both require the practitioner to notice what others may overlook and respond creatively with care. This exhibition, along with the series of Mother Artist Salons being held in conjunction, celebrates the creative labor of mothers and mother artists, envisioning a culture that embraces caregiving, inspiration, and interdependence as central to both life and art.
EXHIBITION HOURS
Monday, July 21 – July 26, 2025 (closed July 25)
Mon – Thu 12 – 6 pm, Sat 12 – 3 pm
TENRI GALLERY LOCATION
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, 43A W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
In addition to the above gallery hours, the exhibition will be on view during several receptions and salons being held in conjunction with the exhibition. These are all free events and no RSVP is required.
July 21 7 pm
Opening Reception & Artist Salon featuring live music by mother artist Eunbi Kim + Q&A
July 23 7pm
This Is a Movement Artist Salon featuring live music by mother artists Goussy Celestin and Amma Whatt + Q+A with artists and Niama Safia Sandy, co-founder, This Is a Movement
July 24 7 pm
Artist Salon featuring live music by mother artists Layale Chaker (violin) and Maeve Gilchrist (harp) + Q&A
July 26 3 pm doors / 3:30 pm program starts
Closing Reception & Artist Salon featuring live music by Sita Chay (violin) and Rema Hasumi (keyboard) + Q&A with the exhibition artists + talk by mother artist and author / peacemaker / philanthropist Le Ly Hayslip on Lessons Not Learned from the American War in Vietnam
“Being an artist is to experience a vigorous, experimental life of the mind and of the senses. Parenthood is another enriching experience: primal, haptic and life-affirming. Why are the two still seen as incompatible?” — Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)
How often do we ask a man how he balances work and parenting responsibilities? How frequently do we assume that a mother has no time for making art or that motherhood and child-raising are not only not creative but less worthy subjects for art? Of course, it’s hardly shocking to announce that pregnancy and childcare require time and energy and that women supply the bulk of it. But this alone does not explain the relative paucity of mothers and women in general represented in galleries and museums. You might be surprised to learn that more women than men graduate from art schools today. We hope you will also be excited to learn that many obstacles facing female-identifying artists can be remedied.
While the asymmetry between parenthood and the world of work is an issue for parents in any profession, the art world – with its informal, often temporary forms of relations – can be a particularly precarious environment in which to make one’s living. Artists rarely receive contracts of employment nor benefits such as maternity leave, pay rises and pensions. Opportunities such as exhibitions and artist residencies come rarely, and even once in a lifetime. Does one have to choose between creativity and family?
— Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)
Despite societal demands, stigmas, and limitations that restrict a mother’s creative expression in the public realm, mothers nevertheless exercise their creative faculties constantly. Just as creating a compelling work of art starts with seeing without judgment what others have overlooked and channeling one’s creative response into form, nurturing a child requires seeing the child as he/she/they are and responding authentically and imaginatively. Both are intuitive processes of receiving and giving. Both are creative exercises of unconditional love.
“…Motherhood and artistic practice have to be mutually enriching…. …Little does society know that these things actually can work really well together.” — Catherine Rickets, from Artist/Mother Podcast: 160: The World Needs Art that Only Mothers Can Make with Catherine Ricketts, Nov 4, 2024
We aim to bring greater visibility to their inspiring art and life-making work, as well as to the creative and life-affirming contributions of mothers who are not professional artists. The exhibition will next be on view at Gallery Maronie in Kyoto, Japan, during Kyotographie from April 13 to May 10, 2026, and then at Le Deco Gallery in Tokyo, Japan from May 18 – 24, 2026.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Stuck by Daniela Kostova
Daniela Kostova is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans photography, installation, video, and performance. She explores themes of geography, cultural identity, and the complexities of translation and communication across borders. Her projects have been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Queens Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), and Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel), among others. In 2019, she created one of Europe’s largest public art installations, Future Dreaming, covering Vienna’s Ringturm building.
Kostova has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Unlimited Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art and residencies at A.I.R. Gallery (NYC), ZK/U Berlin, and ArtsLink at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She has also contributed as a curator, notably leading the BioArt Initiative at RPI, where she taught digital imaging. Her work has been featured in major publications such as The New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, and Art in America. Now based in New York City, she has served as Director of Curatorial Projects at Radiator Gallery, Artist Mentor at NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program and Board Member of CEC Artslink.
https://danielakostova.com
Photo by Aline Müller
Photographer Aline Müller, born in the Brazilian Amazon and now working between Rio and New York, brings an elemental understanding of nature’s power to her intimate portraits of women. In her series curated for Life is Art Motherhood is Art, she captures mothers at different stages of their journey through evocative, almost surreal photographs that reveal the mystical within the everyday of a mother.
Müller’s mothers emerge water-soaked from rivers, beaches, and showers with goddess-like splendor. They inhabit moments of joyous presence captured in delicate close-ups that refuse to hide or pose, but rather document dreamlike moments of maternal reality.
With her generous and almost metaphysical gaze, Aline has the uncanny ability to depict what photography often editorializes out of women’s lives: fluids, curves, small gestures, and all that seems small and menial in life, yet speaks volumes to the internal world of women.
https://www.alinemuller.com

Photo by Alex Nguyễn
Quỳnh “Alex” Nguyễn is a writer, photographer, and independent cultural practitioner based in Central Vietnam. Her interdisciplinary approach, spanning journalism, interviews, photography, artistic programs, and nurturing of daily life itself, stems from a desire to explore alternative narratives rather than accepting the mainstream, deemed self-evident. She believes that the interpretations we hear profoundly shape our beliefs and responses to life’s issues. Furthermore, the challenges faced by modern society are inherently interconnected as consequences of the many problems layered atop one another. Through flexible artistic forms, she seeks to expand the possibilities of alternative narratives, guiding those around her and her readers to explore new dimensions of contemporary issues.
https://alexnguyen.contently.com

Studio Interruptions by Katie Heller Saltoun
Katie Heller Saltoun is a visual artist based in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York. Her work primarily utilizes oil paint, ink, photographic collages, and woodcut printing to explore the multifaceted experiences of motherhood and caregiving. Saltoun captures the humor, frustration, monotony, and profound love inherent in caregiving, drawing inspiration from her own life and the diverse narratives of mothers and caretakers she encounters. Her compositions often depict dynamic scenes of energy and chaos, as well as repetitive imagery such as refrigerator shelves, spice racks, and rows of snacks, reflecting the repetitive yet vital tasks of domestic life.
Saltoun holds a BFA from the University of Michigan, an MA from Columbia University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Her recent exhibition, “Bifocal: Motherhood and Creativity,” was held at the Elza Kayal Gallery in Tribeca, New York. This multidisciplinary show explored the intricate interplay between creativity and motherhood, highlighting the often-overlooked experiences of artists who navigate both roles. Additionally, her work was featured in The American Scholar magazine in an article titled “Tenderness and Grit.”
Saltoun continues to create and exhibit work that resonates with audiences, offering a profound and authentic portrayal of the complexities inherent in caregiving and domestic life. For more information and to view her portfolio, please visit her website at www.katiehellersaltoun.com.
https://www.katiehellersaltoun.com/
Photo by Satomi Shirai
Satomi Shirai playfully explores themes of cultural identity, feminism, motherhood, and the evolving meaning of home, both in the context of migration and as a universal psycho-spiritual experience. Her photographs, often set in domestic spaces, reveal the quiet tensions between order and chaos, belonging and estrangement, the visible and the unseen.
Shirai’s work has been exhibited widely, including at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her photographs are held in the collections of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K’MoPA).
After earning a Full-Time Certificate from the International Center of Photography in 2007 and an MFA from Hunter College (CUNY) in 2010, Shirai lived and worked in New York City for over a decade. In 2015, she returned to Japan to raise her daughter and now lives and works in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture. Though she has exhibited less frequently since her return, she continues to create new work, often in collaboration with her daughter.
https://satomishirai.com

LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART: Opening Reception & Mother Artist Salon with pianist Eunbi Kim
2025-07-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A W 13th St, New York, 10011
Photo: a still from ‘Saturn Years’ video by new media artist Xuan
Please join us on July 21, 2025, from 7 – 9 pm for the Opening Reception for the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. At the reception, mother artist Eunbi Kim will give a solo piano performance and share musings on the transformative connections between motherhood, music, and identity. Kim and her husband just welcomed their second child.
The event will take place at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. Admission is free and no RSVP is required. Families with children are welcome!
The event is the first of a series of Mother Artist Salons being held in conjunction with the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. Check the exhibition announcement or CRS calendar for details.
ABOUT THE ARTIST AND PROGRAM
Pianist Eunbi Kim explores childhood, family, and identity through multimedia programs that combine music, visual projections, and spoken text. She creates sonic memoirs that invite audiences to meditate on their past, present, and future selves and how they all coexist. In “it feels like a dream,” created shortly after becoming a new mother, she asks the audience, “What are the dreams we carry? What are the dreams we pass on?” Working in close collaboration with cutting-edge composers and artists of different mediums, she creates projects that offer audiences the opportunity to tap into their unconscious pool of memories, dreams, and desires.
https://www.eunbikimmusic.com
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART is an exhibition of five artists who are mothers of different generations — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria), Aline Müller (Brazil), Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam), Katie Heller Saltoun (USA), and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26, 2025.
“Being an artist is to experience a vigorous, experimental life of the mind and of the senses. Parenthood is another enriching experience: primal, haptic and life-affirming. Why are the two still seen as incompatible?” — Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)
This exhibition highlights the inspiring works being created worldwide by mother artists and examines the multifaceted relationship between motherhood and art-making. Through their diverse photography and 2D works, we invite you to consider the challenges that working mother artists face and reflect on motherhood and child-rearing as fundamentally creative acts, inseparably intertwined with art-making, deserving of our loving attention, respect, and support. Learn more…
EXHIBITION HOURS
Monday, July 21 – July 26, 2025 (closed July 25)
Mon – Thu 12 – 6 pm, Sat 12 – 3 pm
TENRI GALLERY LOCATION
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, 43A W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
212.645.2800
