PS 15 Benefit next week

One of the Red Hook’s social events of the year takes place next week at Pioneer Works.

The 4th Annual PS 15 Spring Celebration will be held on Thursday, March 29, at 159 Pioneer Street.

Anybody who is anybody in Red Hook makes an appearance at this posh event which benefits long suffering and high achieving PS 15 – The Patrick F. Daly Magnet School of the Arts. Led by principal Peggy Wyns-Madison and Assistant Principal Julie Cavanagh, PS 15 has become one of the borough’s leading grade schools.

The school has long served children from the Red Hook public housing development just to the south. In recent years, as Red Hook has gentrified, it has also attracted children of the newcomers.

Studio in a School offers art instruction and Marquis Studio runs puppetry classes. Young Audiences and Brooklyn Youth Chorus bring in theater, dance and music. Fifth graders work on engineering and design projects with a local architectural firm, according to the schools yearly plan. In one science project kids collected litter on the sidewalks, and along Jamaica Bay beach, tallying up what they found in order to educate the community, for example, they suggested shop owners place trash bins outside their stores to cut down on littering.

The administration tries to reach both advanced and struggling students. In addition to following the reading and writing approach from Teachers College, Columbia University, which gets kids excited about writing and reading, teachers lead extra phonics and grammar lessons in the early grades.

There will be music, prizes, food and cocktails on the 29th. PS 15 family tickets are $25 each or pay-what-you-can. Raffle tickets will be sold, and by the way – the food is always local and always good!

You can purchase a ticket at the door. They will also  be on sale Tuesday morning at PS 15, 77 Sullivan Street.

The event goes from 6-9 pm. For more information, email celebrateps15@gmail.com

Share:

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn

Comments are closed.

READ OUR FULL PRINT EDITION

Our Sister Publication

a word from our sponsors!

Latest Media Guide!

Where to find the Star-Revue

Instagram

How many have visited our site?

wordpress hit counter

Social Media

Most Popular

On Key

Related Posts

Film: “Union” documents SI union organizers vs. Amazon, by Dante A. Ciampaglia

Our tech-dominated society is generous with its glimpses of dystopia. But there’s something especially chilling about the captive audience meetings in the documentary Union, which screened at the New York Film Festival and is currently playing at IFC Center. Chronicling the fight of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), led by Chris Smalls, to organize the Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Staten

An ode to the bar at the edge of the world, review by Oscar Fock

It smells like harbor, I thought as I walked out to the end of the pier to which the barge now known as the Waterfront Museum was docked. Unmistakable were they, even for someone like me — maybe particularly for someone like me, who’s always lived far enough from the ocean to never get used to its sensory impressions, but

Quinn on Books: In Search of Lost Time

Review of “Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance,” by Kevin Brown Review by Michael Quinn   “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: / To make a poet black, and bid him sing!” – Countée Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” Come Thanksgiving, thoughts naturally turn to family and the communities that shape us. Kevin Brown’s “Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance” is a

MUSIC: Wiggly Air, by Kurt Gottschalk

Mothers of reinvention. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been,” according to writer George Eliot, who spoke from experience. Born in the UK in 1819, Mary Ann Evans found her audience using the masculine pen name in order to avoid the scrutiny of the patriarchal literati. Reinvention, of style if not self, is in the air