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Adult/Senior Events with the New Museum

please join us in Partnership with the New Museum for two special events:

Sign up now!

Introduction to the Museum & Museum Tour

The New Museum and Hamilton Fish Computer Resource Center invite adult members of the recreation center to participate in an introduction to the New Museum and contemporary art. Following the introduction, participants are invited to take part in a conversation-based tour of the museum’s current exhibition, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus. Please contact Nicole
Jaquis at the Hamilton Fish Computer Resource Center to sign up for these two sessions.

event #1 - Introduction to the New Museum
Friday, May 22, 2009
1:00 pm – 2:00pm
Location: Hamilton Fish Recreation Center
128 Pitt St New York, NY 10002
(212) 387-7688

event #2 - Art Museum Tour - please note there are only 20 spots available for this tour.
THE GENERATIONAL:
Younger Than Jesus
Friday, May 29, 2009
1:00 pm – 2:00pm



download flyer as pdf

visit the New Museum website

CRC schedule adjustments

please note the CRC will be CLOSED (there will be no class) the following days/timeslots due to meetings:

Tuesday, April 14th - CRC will open at 3pm
Friday, April 17th - no 11am-12pm Senior/Adult MAC/PC Basics (first time users) - this class will begin the following week 4/18

Spring Classes

registration is now open

Winter 2009 CRC Schedule

Course Descriptions and syllabi

Classes begin January 15th, read the linked pdf to find out what you can learn this January at the Hamilton Fish CRC.

register now for Winter 2009 classes!

MONDAYS:
1:30 – 2:30 PM - SENIORS - Make a Blog-Online Journal
6 – 7:30 PM - ADULT - ELECTRONIC MUSIC


TUESDAYS:
12 – 1PM - SENIORS - MS OFFICE (Beginner)


WEDNESDAY:
11AM – 12 PM - SENIORS - INTERNET (Beginner)
1:30 – 2:30 PM - ADULT - MULTIMEDIA (Advanced)


THURSDAYS:
12 – 1PM - SENIORS - MS OFFICE (Beginner)
6 – 7:30 PM - ADULT - WEB DESIGN (Advanced)


FRIDAYS:
11AM – 12 PM -SENIORS - INTERNET (Beginner)
1:30 – 2:30 PM - ADULT - MULTIMEDIA (Advanced)

email nicole.jaquis@parks.nyc.gov to register!

NEW CLASSES in 2009 - Mondays

Mondays 6-8pm starting in January
learn to create your own music!!!!

NEW CLASSES in 2009 - Wednesdays

Exploring Neighborhood and Gentrification through audio and video technologies...
Come share your stories about what it was like living in the LES before it started going through all its changes...
Learn to do audio pod-casts and video blogs to share your stories online!

SCHEDULE UPDATES December

December OPEN HOUSE Mondays
4-6pm YOUTH
6-8pm Adults / Seniors

FALL SCHEDULE

note: the official After School Program (ASP) begins the week of Sept. 15th. only those registered in the program can attend those particular time slots. All other youth can attend Tuesdays 4-6pm (10-12 year olds) and 6-8pm (13-17 year olds).

LIMITED END OF SUMMER SCHEDULE

please note the changes for the next couple weeks as we wind down the summer and get ready for the fall....

SUMMER SCHEDULE

please note all summer programming begins Monday September 7th.

SPRING SCHEDULE CHANGES

due to staff schedule changes, please see the new revised spring crc room schedule, affective April 14th.

CLOSED for staff mtg April 15th till 3pm

The CRC will be
CLOSED
TUESDAY APRIL 15th
for staff monthly meeting

and will re-open for the
After School Program at 3pm

Thank you for your cooperation.

NEW ADULT CLASS - VIDEO EDITING 101

STARTING APRIL 16TH

Please note, this class is best for someone who already has shot something and just wants to edit the footage.
We have 8 Macs with FCP, but if you have your own camera with a fire wire cable, I would recommend bringing it the first day, as we may not have enough decks for everyone to digitize the footage at once.

please follow up via email nicole.jaquis@parks.nyc.gov if you would like to sign up for the class.

2008 SPRING SCHEDULE

general advert. flyer

closed for CRC coordinators' meeting

Due to a CRC coordinators’ meeting, we are CLOSED Wednesday, Jan 16th, until 1:30pm.

Thank you for your patience.

new class for adults and seniors

2008 CRC Patron Survey

HAPPY 2008!

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Nicole Jaquis, the new CRC / RECYouth Coordinator at Hamilton Fish CRC. Though I am new to HamFish, I am not new to CRC and RECYouth. I started teaching RECYouth programming through City Parks Foundation’s Hook Productions at the Red Hook Recreation Center during the summer of 2005. Over the years I joined Oja Vincent and designed the Video and New Media side to our youth media program, ultimately developing Hook Productions into a full service youth production house, where teens could produce and record music, shoot and edit videos, design and print materials to market their creations, as well as learn to create web pages to host their portfolios online.
I officially joined Parks and CRC this summer, as I led a group of SYEP girls in a photography project in Sunset Park. By the Fall I was a floating RECYouth Coordinator, moving between Sunset Park, Tony Dapolito (in the West Village) and helping Mari and Carlo out in the Chelsea office.

So as Mari and Carlo have moved on to bigger and better things, and Ana Campos steps up to take their place, I am finally given a CRC home of my own in the LES! I am very excited to get to know all of you who use the HamFish CRC and to move our center technologically forward into 2008.

To help me develop programming that will serve the needs of our diverse patrons, please take the time to fill out this two page in depth survey. This way you can see all that we can offer, and I can see what you know and what you are interested in learning. You can download the survey via this link, print it out, fill it out and return it to one of our staff members in the CRC.

Thanks in advance!
Nicole

please download and fill out the 2008 CRC Patron Survey

2008 WINTER SCHEDULE

WINTER SCHEDULE 07-08

THE CRC at Hamilton Fish will be closed on Mondays through the winter. Keep an eye out for course descriptions and 1-day workshops and sign up when you find one you like!

NOVEMBER 07 SCHEDULE

IN NOVEMBER THE CRC WILL BE OPENING AT 10:00 AM instead of 9:00 AM.

FALL/WINTER SCHEDULE

CAS/RECYOUTH/NYUP PROGRAM FALL 07!

CHECK OUT THE PICTURES OF RECYOUTH PARTICIPANTS THIS FALL by clicking on the heading above!

These very talented youth are making music, planning a fundraiser, and making a killer video about Urban Youth Unemployment!

NY Cares teaches a photoshop class on Wednesday nights!

Lucas is the volunteer coordinator keeps everyone on their toes. To check out the projects click the title above!

Baruch Place Mural - Local kids names inscribed on wall!

This week the young people from Hamilton Fish Summer Fun and Henry Street Settlement Summer Youth Employment project who worked on the wall at Baruch place will have their names inscribed on the mural to record their tremendous contribution to the project! Take a minute to check it out.

October 2007 Class Schedule

SEPTEMBER CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

NY CARES ON SATURDAY

ON SATURDAYS, NY CARES Volunteers Teach classes from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m.
ADULTS - ONGOING: Volunteers from the professional ranks teach a range of classes including Movie Maker, Web Design, E-mail, Internet Tools and Microsoft Word. Just drop by . No registration required when you are a Parks Recreation Center Member!

CHILDREN: We are now taking registration for youth based classes BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2007. Classes will run from 2:00-4:00 on Saturdays for ages 9-15 and will focus on digital media using the Apple Macintosh computers.

SUMMER RECYOUTH!

Believe it or not, the summer programming at the CRC at Hamilton Fish Park is winding down. August 16th is our last day!

We’ve done some great projects this summer, from creating animation using computers to creating a Hamilton Fish Park Blog focusing on the Basketball program and the swimming program at Hamilton Fish Park.

The teens we recruited from Henry Street Settlement are extremely talented and capable and they’ve learned lots about using computers to create news, animations,
illustrations, stories, photography, narrative film, and music videos. Some of them may be around this fall to work with younger people and we are excited about their projects. Thanks to each and every one of them.

To see some of their projects check back in a week or two as we finish our hamfishsummer07 blog!

SUMMERTIME SCHEDULE - CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE!

ASP SCREENING AT HAMFISH FRIDAY JUNE 15th 5:00!

CAS AND NYUP COLLABORATION AT HAMFISH

Click the title above to see the great pictures of the term-long collaboration at Hamilton Fish CRC between the Students of City As School High School and the New York Unemployment Project!

Thanks Andre!

JUNE 2007 NEWSLETTER (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

JUNE 2007 SCHEDULE (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

Welcome Preston!

Welcome to the Hamilton Fish CRC Preston! Preston Coston is a new CRC coordinator. He is with us for the month of May and June and then he will be at Al Smith. But while Preston is here, all is good. Preston is a great addition to the CRC's in New York!

Whats Up Emile!

Emile is our resident youth musician for the month of June! He is in several bands and after 2 days he is fully immersed in Garage Band and ProTools! Hopefully he'll share some of his music on the HamFishBlog!

ASP PROGRAM OPEN HOUSE JUNE 15th, 2007

JUNE 15th:
AFTERSCHOOL OPEN HOUSE AND OPENING!
Come see prints and videos and other cool things the kids have made this spring in the Computer Resource Center. We will have an open house from 5:00-6:00 on Friday June 15th, 2007!

NEW VIDEOS BY TEENS!

Check out the new video work by local intern John and his friends.... It's a HamFish CRC promo, done with expertise.... VERY COOL! Thanks John!

Intern John Huang explores Sketchup and then teaches it to kids...

Resident Intern John Huang is here working on his tech credits from City as School High School. While here he has been learning to use Sketch-Up. To do what? Well, design his dream house, of course...

Come in to the center to do the same. Design a park, a car, invent and visualize!

Wednesday Night Web Night - ADULTS

HTML-PHOBIC?

This class is the easiest way to get the basics of Web Design and more! Wednesdays from 6:00-7:30.

This month we are doing basic HTML to start and Web Design using imaging software to bring it all together.

THis is an ongoing class so come any time.

Seeking Higher Ground!.. Be College Bound!

Interested in College? Don't know the first thing about it? Go to the links below on the left to get started! Check it out!

AFFORDING COLLEGE.PDF
Apply to 35 Colleges all at once.
Como Pagar la Universidad
FAFSA_Financial Aid Application
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Minority Scholarship Gateway
New York Colleges_ Private
New York Financial Aid Programs
NUMBER2 - Free SAT Prep
PETERSONS College Guide

Directors in our midst. John Huang and Arkah LaCharles

Stay tuned for the feature film of John Huang. He is making a film about two kids going to the park.... our park.

Arkah LaCharles is working on a historical monologue about the history of Graffiti, set to period tunes (Blondie and others...) and narrated by, Ms. Arkah LaCharles....

Welcome High School for Dual Languages Students!

Students from the health class at High School for Dual Languages partnering with the Museum of Television and Radio, NYU, and the CRC at Hamilton Fish Park are here this month to do post production on their health PSAs. We look forward to the final edits!

MAY NEWSLETTER

MAY CLASS SCHEDULE POSTED

SPRING SCHEDULE POSTED

POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY - Friday, April 27th

ASP Kids write poems, about spring, and other things...

POVERTY BUM

LINDA D, Age 11

They are on the street
Every day of the week can’t read or write or fight they are probably on drugs and dress like thugs he
Is on his knees' begging me,
Please leave me some change
I won’t be filled with range
That’s the least you can do,
Or my life is through
I’m a helpless bum
And many call me dumb,
They punch me in my face
Then spray me with mace
I don’t want your keys,
Or your sneakers called the 3’s
Just help me please,
I don’t want to be labeled a POVERTY BUM,
Ill be called my name and have no game, I wont be a shame of the blame
That people say I do but THANK YOU

The Girl!!

KATHY P, Age 11

There once was a girl who went to the beach
then sat on a bottle of bleach
while eating a pieach.
One day
she went to preach
and started to screech!
Each of her students ran out to teach,
and tried to find a leach.

THE QUEEN AND THE SKY

GABBY M, age 9

The sky sings a song on a sunny day at
the nice queen.
But she says she doesn't like it.

It's Spring at Hamilton Fish Park

The season is upon us. Check out the stuff going on at Hamilton Fish Park and some of the pictures the kids, and your CRC coordinator, have been taking!

This Friday is Poem in Your Pocket day for Arbor Day and we will be celebrating!

See what's up!










photos by kids of the AfterSchool Program

CITY AS SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Welcome back City As School and NYUP People! CRC is truly looking forward to seeing your edited documentary projects and other things. Use this space to post your accomplishments!

Welcome to the Hamilton Fish Blog Spot

Here is where you'll find the latest Hamilton Fish CRC news and information. Link to this blog to get regular emails about what's going on in the digital world for Seniors, Adults, Youth and Teens! Keep your eye out for our May schedule.... Coming in a couple of days!

Welcome Sadia Pearson!

Sadia Pearson is a new CRC Hamilton Fish assistant and comes to us from the YES program as part of Parks and Recreation. She is a positive force at the Hamilton Fish CRC and we are very excited to have her here! Sadia will be here on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm!

PACE VOLUNTEER WRAP_UP

A great thanks to all of the volunteers from Pace University who have been helping us in April to grow our adult/senior population in the mornings.

They have helped the CRC at Hamilton Fish with a senior resources website and offered their evaluations of ways that the CRC might increase and improve on its senior technology services. Thanks to Tatanya, Vicki, Courtney, Mike, Sandy, and Monique. You all have been great to have around!