Photo Gallery
On April 17th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer spoke about the need to keep Long Island City High School open at a public hearing held by the Department of Education. Council Member Van Bramer has been a vocal opponent toward the DOE’s Panel for Educational Policy’s proposal to close eight schools in Queens, one of which is Long Island City High School that serves a significant amount of children in Council Member Van Bramer’s district.
On April 17th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer visited the Museum of the Moving Image’s (MMI) After School Program at PS 150 in Sunnyside. Council Member Van Bramer awarded a $20,000 for the Cultural After School Adventures (CASA) Grant which allows MMI instructors teach the students a wide-range of film, design and animation techniques and will show their movies at the museum at the conclusion of the program.
On April 17th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer stood with hundreds of children, parents, and the three City Council Caucuses – the Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus; the Women’s Caucus; and the Progressive Caucus - to request that the Mayor not cut child care and after-school programs for 47,000 children throughout New York City. The event was organized by Campaign for Children, a partnership of The Emergency Coalition to Save Child Care and the NYC Youth Alliance, who is urging the Mayor to stop penalizing the people who work hard every day to build better, brighter futures for their families – and to fully fund child care and after-school programs.
On April 17th, Council Members Jimmy Van Bramer and David Greenfield came together with numerous non-profit leaders to fight the City’s effort to start charging non-for-profits for City garbage collection.
The Council Members announced an amendment to new legislation which will exempt nonprofit organizations from being charged by the City for trash pick-ups.
Council Member Van Bramer helped alter Council Member Greenfield’s legislation to include nonprofits such as public libraries, museums, botanical gardens, arboretums, memorial buildings, aquariums, zoological gardens as well as similar facilities.
Joining the announcement, and pictured, are Amy Hau, Director of Administration and External Affairs for the Noguchi Museum, Tomoko Kawamoto, Public Information Manager for the Museum of the Moving Image, John Hatfield, Executive Director of the Socrates Sculpture Park, Peter Katz, Chief Operating Officer for MoMA PS 1, Valerie Green of Dance Entropy, Adrian Bordoni, Executive Director of Woodside on the Move, Margaret Honey, President and CEO of the New York Hall of Science and President of New York City’s Cultural Institutions Group, Dan Wempa, Vice President of External Affairs for the New York Hall of Science, Bishop Mitchell Taylor, President and Founder of the East River Development Alliance, Council Members Van Bramer and Greenfield, Rosemary De Luca, Assistant Director at Wildlife Conservation Society, Sheila Lewandowski, Founder and Executive Director of the Chocolate Factory and Richard Mazda, Artistic Director of the Secret Theatre.
On April 16th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer attended the Alliance of Resident Theaters’ (ART) 40th Anniversary Gala. Founded in 1972, ART has earned a reputation as a leader in providing progressive services to its members. In this photo, Council Member Van Bramer speaks to an audience of over 200 about the great work of both Executive Director, Ginny Louloudes and ART.
On April 16th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer attended a pop-up performance benefit at HERE in Manhattan. HERE nurtures artists as they create innovative hybrid live performance in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media and visual art. In this photo, Council Member Van Bramer is joined with HERE’s Artistic Director Kristin Marting and HERE’s resident artists Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan. Jake and Nick are two visual performance artists developing a performance/installation called “A MARRIAGE: 1,” which will be produced at HERE in the Spring of 2013.
On April 16th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer held a hearing on the economic impact of libraries in New York City. The hearing explored the contributions of public libraries to the City’s economy at a time when to the Mayor’s preliminary budget proposal threatens to make nearly $100 million in cuts to the City’s three library systems. In this photo, Council Member Van Bramer, Chair of the Libraries Committees discusses the cultural programming provided at 214 local libraries throughout New York City with, Tom Galante, CEO of the Queens Public Library; Linda Johnson, President & CEO of the Brooklyn Public Library; and Tony Marx, President & CEO of the New York Public Library.
On April 14th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer attended Drama Circle’s ‘Pohela Boishakh’ (Bangla New Year) Celebration in Dutch Kills. Well over 1,000 attended the annual event which celebrates the first day of the Bengali New Year through cultural dance and musical performances.
On April 14th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer held his District 26 Mobile Office at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City.
At Council Member Van Bramer’s second Mobile Office, constituents had the opportunity to voice their questions and concerns directly to Council Member Van Bramer and members of his staff. Since taking office in 2010, Council Member Van Bramer has made accessibility his priority. By getting out in to the community, Council Member Van Bramer believes constituents who do not have the opportunity to visit his district office during the work week can have their concerns heard at their convenience.
On April 13th, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer visited the Opening Night of Dance Entropy’s Green Space Blooms Festival of Dance and Music in Long Island City. Council Member Van Bramer has given $7,000 to the local dance organization which performs throughout New York City. In this photo, Council Member Van Bramer is joined by Valerie Green, Founder of Dance Entropy.