Transforming lives and building community through housing

2018/2019Transforming lives and building community through housing and the arts

Photo by B. Wolfe Photography

Tito Puente, Jr. performsat Salsa Under the Stars on Safe Harbors Green

Zip Zap Public Trapeze Workshopsand Kids Circus(more inside)

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Activation of Safe Harbors Green As an ever growing, ever evolving organization, there is typically a stand out event, program or project that defines the year at Safe Harbors. This year, that stand out was the activation of Safe Harbors Green.

Though it officially opened in 2017, over the past year, the Green has come alive! Alive with spontaneous community vigils; concerts, Salsa and dance. It has been host to Zip Zap Circus, and had community members soaring over its gardens on a flying trapeze. Tito Puente, Jr. brought his famous Latin sounds to the

park for hundreds of dancing fans. The City of Newburgh presented its summer film series on its lawn; we honored the Queen of Soul with a tribute concert in memory of Aretha Franklin; and local artist Judy Thomas was inspired to create a site specific work which was installed on the Green for the Newburgh Open Studio Tour. There are benches which invite neighbors to sit and enjoy the peace and quiet of the space, the ever changing colors in the gardens and the monarch butterflies descending en masse in late August.

Winter is upon us, so the park will go quiet for a while, but in the spring, watch for the buds and the greening grass; rest on a sun-warmed bench; or bring a chair to enjoy a concert, dance performance or an event the community will dream up that we haven’t even thought of yet!

In the pages of this newsletter, you will see the many ways Safe Harbors is transforming lives and building community through housing and the arts. We thank you for your support and hope to see you around the building soon!

A Message from Executive Director, Lisa Silverstone

Board of Directors

Stiles NajacPresident

Elizabeth RowleyVice-President

Virginia SmithTreasurer

Allison CappellaSecretary

Theresa BrownImmediate Past President

Lauren Berg

Burke Blackman

Jonathan Deull

Corey Glover

Robert Grunnah

Virginia McCurdy

Angela Paul-Gaito

Martha Soto

Jose Vasquez

Remembering Judy Kennedy Newburgh lost its greatest cheerleader and champion when it lost Mayor Judy Kennedy in April, after her long battle with ovarian cancer. Mayor Kennedy, Safe Harbors 2014 Cornerstone of the Community Award recipient, typified the spirit of that award by giving tirelessly of her time and talent to make Newburgh a healthy, strong community for all its residents. She welcomed newcomers, encouraged unity and collaboration, supported local businesses and was a fierce advocate for the City in Goshen and Albany. Mayor Kennedy was a pragmatic, visionary leader who brimmed with hope and enthusiasm for her adopted hometown. RIP Mayor Kennedy, you are missed.

Tito Puente, Jr. performs at Salsa Under the Stars - June, 2018.Photo by B. Wolfe Photography


On the GreenAnnual Gala - Celebrating CommunityHonoring Maritza Calderon-Caballero and Ulster Savings BankSafe Harbors Green came alive again on September 20 as we celebrated the work we are doing in the community and the people who make it possible! We were proud to honor Newburgh Champion, Maritza Calderon-Caballero and Corporate Good Neighbor, Ulster Savings Bank as our 2018 Cornerstones of the Community. We are grateful to our Cornerstones for their belief in the work we do, for their generous support and for their commitment to our community.

We thank our sponsors, donors and attendees for their support.

Lisa Silverstone presents the Cornerstone of the Community Awards to the 2018 Honorees - Corporate Good Neighbor, Ulster Savings Bank, received by Bill Calderara, President & CEO (left); and Newburgh Champion, Maritza Calderon-Caballero (right).

Safe Harbors Green is full of activity ... 1. Newburgh Illuminated and Ritz performance stage; 2. Volunteers enjoy relaxing at a barbeque in the park after our annual Newburgh Community Cleanup event; 3. & 4. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, a tribute concert to Aretha Franklin and Art of Fashion; 5. Zip Zap Public Trapeze Workshops; 6. Tito Puente Jr. performs at Salsa Under the Stars; 7. City of Newburgh Movie Nights throughout the summer.

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A Park Brings a Community TogetherPhoto by B. Wolfe Photography


East End ApartmentsSafe Harbors is proud to be partnering with affordable housing developer RUPCO, providing the property management for 45 apartments in 15 beautifully rehabilitated buildings in the neighborhoods just northwest of the Cornerstone. Safe Harbors’ own Eric Robinson, resident and Superintendent of East End Apartments, is proud to be part of the solution in making a better Newburgh.

A run-down of Safe Harbors Annual Events These are a few of our favorite things …Cupcake-a-PaloozaPeople love the cupcakes! Hundreds of community members came out to enjoy the sweetest event of the year! Congratulations to Paloma Cuevas of Abeille Delights for winning Public Favorite!

“Without volunteers, we would be a nation without a soul” - First Lady, Rosalynn Carter

Volunteer and In-Kind Donor Appreciation DinnerA HUGE thank you to Mary Lippincott and the Newburgh Rotary Club, our individual and group volunteers of the year; and to our in-kind donor - Friehofer’s Bimbo Bakeries, for their endless generosity!Giving is not just about making a donation; it’s about making a difference. - Kathy Calvin, CEO and President of the United Nations Foundation

Bells on Broadway Holiday MarketSafe Harbors continues to spread holiday cheer with unique crafts, delicious food, entertainment and, of course, Santa and Frosty!

Community Clean UpThank you to our clean up partners Jim Taylor of Taylor Montgomery, LLC for the donation of the dumpsters; our friends at City of Newburgh DPW; and the hundreds of community members who come out each year to clean up our city streets. Civic pride is alive and well in the City of Newburgh!

Off Broadway 5KFitness, fun and downtown activation are the hallmarks of this annual fundraiser. Thank you to our generous local business sponsors, donors and race participants for making this another successful event.

See, Hear, and Learn More About Safe HarborsEnjoy this beautiful new video which features the stories of our Cornerstone residents, our community outreach and cultural programming. Special thanks to Brian McDonnell and Joe Vlachos of Timeline Productions for their work in capturing our mission. The video is available on our website and on YouTube.


Cornerstone Education - Thanks to our partner SUNY Orange, the Cornerstone GED program enters its 12th year with 27 graduates to date! In 2018 we expanded that partnership to include a college prep class, from which 6 students have begun their college journey.

Entrepreneurship - The Cornerstone Collective is going strong! With support from Tenant Services, entrepreneurial members of the Cornerstone community are successfully selling their work at local fairs, festivals and events. Get out the Vote! Safe Harbors provides support and encouragement to our residents to register to vote and to get involved and informed on the issues that affect their lives and their community. Many Cornerstone residents attended a Disabilities Services and Support rally in Albany and had the opportunity to discuss these important issues with their elected officials. Volunteerism and Employment - Community volunteerism, both in the Cornerstone and in the local community, is at an all-time high. Vocationally, Safe Harbors has increased the number of residents working on-site and continues to offer support and opportunities for employment in the local community.

Health and Wellness - Cornerstone Fitness, which includes Zumba, Pilates, Open Movement dance, DYBO and Tai Chi, continues to thrive, with residents working out alongside their community neighbors. A newly formed walking club has residents enjoying the City of Newburgh while staying fit. Flu shots were offered to all staff and residents in the building; and we invited a guest from the Alzheimer’s Association to speak to our residents about the disease.

Outings, Experiences and Events - The Cornerstone Community continues to flourish with a variety of events, activities and access to the arts. An ever growing Vet-to-Vet program provides opportunities for our veterans to participate in music, writing, art and performance. All residents are invited to enjoy our many performancs, visual arts events, programs and on-going classes and cultural celebrations.

Resident Spotlight Anthony Moorer grew up in NYC and went to college where he studied both visual and music arts. Mr. Moorer, a veteran of the armed services, has had many hurdles to overcome, but a great attitude has helped him to deal with them head on. Once he moved to Newburgh, Anthony got involved right away, cultivating a wide variety of like-minded friends and creating a support system for himself in the community.

Anthony has a myriad of interests and skills and always finds ways to marry the two. He is an avid motorcyclist and a ‘professional’ amateur photographer and videographer. Anthony is an accomplished musician who enjoys jamming with other musicians including his fellow vets in the Cornerstone’s Vet2Vet group.

Anthony has a huge love of the outdoors and devotion to taking photographs of the local landscape. Overcoming what he believed to be a huge obstacle, Anthony finally got his driver’s license. With this newfound freedom, he is able to take jobs outside the area and visit other parts of the Hudson Valley.

News and Noteworthy at The Cornerstone


A Year of Timely and Thought-Provoking ExhibitionsThe celebration of fall ushers in cooler weather and a more colorful palette in nature. Here at the Ann Street Gallery we celebrated fall with our last exhibition of the season Forget Me Not. This exhibition was an exploration of art produced by three generations of American veteran-artists, to mark the centenary of Armistice Day and in honor of Veterans Day. Visitors gained an in-depth look into the ways these artists utilized the art-making processes to attain personal goals, ranging from using art for its ability to heal; to the chronicling and communicating of complex veteran experiences; to the usage of art as a platform for bringing a fresh perspective to who they are as individuals; and the development of a personal creative practice unrelated to service or military culture.

Earlier in the year, the gallery presented a timely exhibition entitled ANTHROPOCENE. This exhibition drew attention to the impact of the changing climate and its devastating results on our environment, while acknowledging that humans are the dominant force of this global catastrophe and the Earth’s current transformation.

In conjunction with this exhibition, we had the good fortune to have Melissa Fleming, author and creator of The Weather Gamut blog, present a gallery talk. To a full house, Ms. Fleming discussed the basic science of climate change and how artists from around the globe are reacting to its impact with possible solutions. To our great delight, the works in the Anthropocene exhibition were selected for an eight-page feature article in the Spring issue of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine magazine!

On a more local level, the Vista Panorámica exhibition offered visitors an alternative view of the artistic practices Hudson Valley Latino artists are making within contemporary art. The exhibition captured the diverse ways these artists are working today, not confined to one style of aesthetic production, but offering a panoramic view of modes of creating which challenged audiences’ expectations of Latino art while highlighting their contribution to American culture.

Our exhibitions and programs work to connect art to audiences locally, across our region and beyond. If you have not already visited the gallery or attended one of our exhibitions, we hope to see you soon!

Gallery Hours:Wednesday and Thursday: 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 - 4 p.m.Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.Last Saturdays: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.


Community Paint-In — A Hands-On, Collaborative, Community Event

Photo by Faheem Haider Photo by Darren Bryant

The Ann Street Gallery drew hundreds of community members to the gallery at its annual Community Paint-In. This unique event harnesses the creative talents of our community members in creating beautiful, collaborative works of art! Special thanks to our wonderful volunteers and event sponsors Rhinebeck Bank, Stewart’s Shops and M&T Bank.


Blues on Broadway Thank you to talented producer/promoter Joe Mack for bringing performance greats Big Joe Fitz, Slam Allen, Willa Vincitore, Murali Coryell, Bruce Katz and Jeremy Baum to the Lobby stage for our Blues on Broadway concert series. Thanks to our friends at The Wherehouse for partnering with us to provide delicious vittles for our audiences. Partnership and collaborations strengthen our programming and increase our impact on the community.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) Safe Harbors continues our partnership with the HVSF and was thrilled to host a series of community workshops and the set design and fabrication for the HVSF 2018 Full Circle Summer production of Rip Van Winkle.

Dance, dance, dance The Lobby was the venue for Mise-en-Dance and Small Plates – a choreography festival featuring a series of interactive creations and performances produced by Beth Elliot of Haven Movement Company. This year, that program expanded to include a Young Choreograpahers Workshop, further engaging our young neighbors in the transformative impact of the arts.

Newburgh Open Movement, produced by Ophra Wolf, of Force and Flow, continues to encourage people from all walks of life to come together for playful dancing and mindful movement accompanied by world-class musicians, held in the Lobby at the Ritz on select Saturdays throughout the year. Please see our website for dates and times.

2018 In Review

2019 Looking Ahead

Thank you to our sponsors for their continued support of the Lobby at the Ritz Performance Series.

Following the success of our open air performances, Safe Harbors is planning more outdoor concerts and events in 2019.

Celebrating the Disco craze, in February we will host a Disco dance, complete with Jeff Selby teaching his internationally-known New Style Hustle class, live music and a dessert reception.

Alan Douches of West West Side Music will be collaborating with Safe Harbors to create an internship program for students in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District (NECSD) and other school districts for sound production and podcasts.

Ritz Kidz is working with the NECSD and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra to create a musical appreciation program for upper-elementary and middle school students we hope to launch in 2019.

We will continue to expand our programming to celebrate the diversity that is the City of Newburgh. Salsa Under the Stars was a huge success in 2018 with audiences ranging from 400 to 600 people. Starting in January 2019, we will present a complete arts experience by offering educational arts programming highlighting the indigenous dances, music and art/handicrafts of Latin American countries.

In 2018, we presented a Black History celebration with and for our youth. On February 24, we will expand and explore Black History and its cultural impact on the world with activities for all ages.

We are excited to announce that Safe Harbors, Washington’s Headquarters and the NECSD have received a grant for The Washington Project: History Comes Alive, a collaborative program which will engage students in the research, exploration and retelling of the historic events that took place in Newburgh at the end of the Revolutionary War. The student-created work will be performed on February 15-17 at Washington’s Headquarters with more performances to follow.



The Art of Balance and The Art of ComedyBuilding on the success of Zip Zap Circus, Ritz Kidz introduced The Art of Balance and The Art of Comedy, weekly circus arts programming which combines dance, mime, circus, theatre, vaudeville and comedy. Students of the Art of Balance Performed in several community events in 2018. We look forward to the newly formed Art of Comedy troupe performing in the coming year.

Ritz Kidz Children’s Theater WorkshopAspiring thespians worked with teachers from the NECSD at Ritz Kidz two-week Children’s Theater Workshop where they wrote, directed, designed and starred in their own original works!

Ritz Kidz Zip Zap Summer Circus ProgramCommunity support for the Zip Zap Circus Arts Program has been overwhelming! In its second year, 25 area students between the ages of 12 and 16 spent two weeks immersed in the world of circus arts with an amazing coaching team. Circus students learn confidence, self-reliance and team work while juggling, miming, clowning, tight rope walking and flying high on a trapeze!

On a rainy August day, the weather cleared just in time for the culminating community performance which entertained a crowd of over 400 friends, neighbors and family members. This year, Trapeze Workshops were opened to our community as a unique opportunity and fundraising effort to help fund the circus program.

El Aire de NewburghSalsa Under the Stars inspired our young friends to create a band of their own! Ritz Kidz welcomes El Aire de Newburgh, youth Salsa band.

Your support makes a real and lasting impact on your community!

Thank you to the following generous sponsors, foundations and individuals for their continued support!

Your donation to Safe Harbors changes lives!Show your support for Safe Harbors of the Hudson and help us continue to fulfill our mission:Transforming Lives and Building Community through Housing and the Arts.

Make a donation and make a difference today!Visit our website www.safe-harbors.org for simple online giving.

Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.

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Become a Volunteer!Safe Harbors, Ritz Theater and Ann Street Gallery have a variety of volunteer opportunities. We are seeking dependable, enthusiastic people interested in: marketing, development, special events, performing and visual arts, GED tutoring and computer class instruction. For more information call (845) 784-1107 or e-mail [email protected].

Celbrating International Day of Happiness!We celebrated International Day of Happiness with free activities, food and fun for all ages. Many thanks to Allison Cappella for bringing this fun, communtiy event to fruition. Save the date for next year - March 20th!

The Ritz Showcases NECSD Student ArtworkThe Lobby at the Ritz was proud to showcase the beautiful artwork of our NECSD students. Students and families were invited to attend the opening reception for the annual art show, which remained on display for public enjoyment.

Special Thanks!Thank you to Angela Paul-Gaito, of APG Pilates, for holding Pilates classes in the building on Newburgh Last Saturdays and donating the proceeds to Safe Harbors Raising the Roof on the Ritz restoration project.


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