To wrap up 2017, Broadway Stages has created an annual newsletter for the public! Take a look at this year's highlights with Broadway Stages and the many amazing organizations we have worked over the past year. We would like to thank all our supporters and the organizations we have supported for helping make 2017 an incredible and unforgettable year. We hope we can make 2018 an even better year!
It has been another amazing year for Hunter College, one of New York’s leading educational institutions. This year alone Hunter College jumped from the 48th spot to the 28th "Best Regional Universities, North," a testament to its commitment to continuously improve its educational criteria.
Gina Argento, President of Broadway Stages, encourages residents to support local educational institutions. Empowering our students with quality educational resources can lead them to a life of success beyond the academic scope. Having always been a contributor to local colleges, like Hunter College and Kingsborough Community College, Gina wanted to express her belief in making education accessible to everyone. Donations like hers help make scholarship programs that open doors to learning opportunities possible. Scholarships provide students with critical educational resources that can transform their academic studies into career paths.
Gina hopes that fellow New Yorkers join her in supporting and providing undergraduate scholars with the educational tools necessary to transform their lives.
What better way to start off the New Year than by supporting education for New York City students! As a participant in the Futures in Education Angels program, Gina Argento, CEO of Broadway Stages, helps young scholars in elementary and intermediate schools get the necessary educational resources to continue to receive a quality Catholic education.
Her contributions as an Angel significantly reduce or in some cases completely subsidize a child's educational cost. Recipient families are relived of most or all financial obligations from school tuition for their children. Gina sees her support for the Angel program as more than just helping students receive a quality education. It is a positive investment in each child.
In fact, Angels and student recipients interact on a personal level through handwritten letters and artwork. Angels can then personally see the success of each student that they support and can be more involved in helping each student be the best they can be.
Gina encourages everyone to join her in participating in the Angel program offered by Futures in Education this year and make a difference!
St. Ignatius School (SIS) empowers students in the South Bronx to succeed in their academic careers as part of the school's drive for encouraging personal wellbeing.
The middle school structures its main curriculum around seven subjects: English, writing, mathematics, social studies, science, religion, and music. The school also offers a range of daily extracurricular activities in the form of after-school clubs that satisfy diverse interests ranging from anime, film, and photography to math, fitness, and leadership. SIS attends to the academic, creative, and physical wellbeing of its students.
Gina Argento, President of Broadway Stages, would like to congratulate the St. Ignatius School for supporting, educating, and benefitting the students of the South Bronx by providing quality educational programs for over two decades. To show her support for the SIS community, Gina has made a financial contribution to sponsor a student of the SIS community. She hopes that her donation will benefit the academic and personal growth of the student and others to come. Broadway Stages would also like to wish SIS many more years of success to come, and we look forward to positively impacting many more students in the future!
Welcome to the new year!
Broadway Stages wants to wish all our supporters a happy new year! 2017 was an incredible year for us, and we would love to thank the New York community for allowing us to participate in dozens of charitable, educational, and community events. Whether working with great educational organizations like NY Sun Works and Kingsborough Community College or community organizations like the YMCA or Catholic Charities, Broadway Stages was happy to be a part of our community and contribute programs that benefit local families.
Our community involvement has only continued to increase over the years, and in 2018 we plan to be even more active across the five boroughs, with the goal of spreading our support without limits. Look out for us in 2018. Broadway Stages will make its greatest positive impact yet!
The most enjoyable gift to give during Christmas at Broadway Stages is the gift of giving!
This Christmas, Broadway Stages surprised students at PS 114, a local elementary public school, with Christmas presents. Students selected from a range of toys, board games, and art books. The coordinated effort came from a collaboration between Broadway Stages and fellow teachers at the school who were seeking donations. After learning that teachers were seeking donations for Christmas, Broadway Stages wanted to give as many presents as possible.
The event was a fun and exciting experience for students, teachers, and Broadway Stages staff, who helped coordinate the event and arrange for the delivery of the presents. Nothing means more to us than seeing young students receive their desired presents and helping out our local Brooklyn schools. Broadway Stages would like to wish students and teachers at PS 114 happy holidays!
Broadway Stages would like to thank our local 94th Precinct for serving the Greenpoint Community and its residents. We believe that Greenpoint's wellbeing is a top priority and requires lots of hard work and dedication to keep it safe for our families and friends.
We would like to thank you wholeheartedly for your continued dedication to making our neighborhood a place we can enjoy with our families. Your family at Broadway Stages would like to wish all the officers at the 94th a merry Christmas and happy holidays. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and we will continue to support you and the Greenpoint community for the years to come!
Broadway Stages hosted our largest Christmas event of the season at our annual toy drive this Christmas weekend. We encouraged local Brooklyn families to visit our Kingsland Avenue studio spaces to celebrate with a day of festivities, fun, and laughter.
We filled a large open space on the fourth floor of our Kingsland studio with catered food, beverages, and photo booths. Attendees enjoyed chicken tenders, pasta, fresh vegetables, and much more! We also provided cookies and tasty pastries for children and families to grab for dessert. Each table included Christmas arts and crafts for children to create, color, and decorate.
We expected over a hundred people to attend our event, and the community did not disappoint, as over 400 parents and children attended! All seats and tables filled up, so staffers brought additional chairs and tables to accommodate every family.
Of course it wouldn't be Christmas without Santa Claus. At the peak of the afternoon, Santa arrived with his reindeers and helpers to welcome each child and listen to their Christmas wish. Most children wished for presents, which they received a few minutes later!
Broadway Stages came prepared with over 500 toys ranging from board games to sports equipment, cars to action figures, and much more. Each child selected their own present for Christmas, and all left with happy faces and big smiles! We want to thank the community for coming to our Christmas toy drive and wish you all happy holidays!
Christmas spirit filled the air at Irving Square Park this past weekend. Residents and neighbors gathered on Saturday to embrace the holiday spirit together! Broadway Stages and other neighbors, including a local brass band, the 83rd Precinct, and Fidelis Care, helped organize the event. Councilman Rafael Espinal of District 37 welcomed attendees and thanked sponsors for their contributions.
Local students kicked off the event with a song, and the crowd joined in. Following their performance, a local volunteer orchestra played classic Christmas songs including "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "Feliz Navidad." After the performances, Santa Claus himself made an appearance! While families and children waited their turns, they enjoyed delicious cookies and beverages.
We hope everyone had a great time at the Irving Square Christmas event and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
Santa Claus is coming to town!
This Saturday, December 16, join Broadway Stages at the Cooper Park Houses and Brooklyn Steel at noon to celebrate Christmas. Attendees will include Tommy Torres from the 34th District and Martin Dilan of the New York State Senate. The event is open to all New Yorkers, and the first 50 children that arrive will get gifts personally from Santa!
Bring your family, neighbors, and friends to share an exciting and fun Christmas event. Share a beautiful moment with your fellow Brooklynites and capture the cheer of the winter holidays!
Long Island Girl Talk (LIGT) is an enrichment program designed for teen girls to dive deep into creating their own media content. Providing onsite training in all aspects of film and television production, LIGT assists teens in developing their own unique style and independence in media creations. Moreover, LIGT staffers train girls to develop longstanding relationships with one another beyond the scope of operating camera gear or editing software. The goal of the program is to enrich teen lives emotionally and socially in addition to boosting their future careers in media.
As a woman in New York's film and television industry herself, Broadway Stages President Gina Argento is inspired by LIGT's mission. Naturally, as one of the few woman CEOs in the industry, Gina supports training young women in media, but more importantly she appreciates the organization's push for the women to support each other.
LIGT's dedication to girls pursuing media has inspired Gina to become a supporter and sponsor to its fifth annual Holiday Benefit Party. The event on December 16 at Nassau Community College is to generate donations from the public to supply the girls with new equipment and program activities. Contributions made by Gina and Broadway Stages will be used by LIGT to directly improve learning resources, allowing the students to pursue even greater success in media. Gina is excited to see young, aspiring women join the industry and cannot wait for the future of film and TV in New York City.
Who doesn't love ice cream? The residents of the Cooper Park Community sure do! They did not stop eating delicious ice cream cones until more than 300 were served at the ice cream donation event led by Broadway Stages.
The event spread throughout the community, with lines of families, children, and neighbors all waiting in line to grab a cone. Simple acts and gestures, such as serving our neighbors ice cream and seeing their smiles, make us so happy! Broadway Stages staffers loved seeing members of the community enjoying a day out together.
The ice cream truck donation was part of Broadway Stages President Gina Argento's continued gestures to give back to the community whenever possible. Whether it be scholarships, donations, or ice cream, Gina loves to give back and positively impact the Brooklyn community and all its members.
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