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THE CELTIC CRUISE: BACK TO OUR REGULAR BOARDING LOCATION THIS YEAR!

On Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 the Celtic Cruise will board at its usual time of 6PM at the usual boarding location. The vessel management company had informed us we’d have a new location and vessel, but we insisted on returning to our usual arrangements. We apologize for any confusion about a new location–we’ll be back on the usual vessel, the Spirit of New York, departing from the Chelsea Piers (West 23rd Street and West Street a/k/a the West Side Highway) for a visually stunning tour of New York Harbor. As before, there will be a delicious full course buffet dinner and open bar, with multiple bands across multiple decks, to dance the night away! The Cruise is the AOH Division 7’s annual fundraiser on behalf of Emerald Isle Immigration Center, to help support our immigration legal and social services to clients of over 100 nationalities! Tickets and sponsorships are available at https://celticcharities.org.

TWO Fabulous Irish / West African Concerts at NYIC 4/29 & 5/11

Intersections: West African Ghanaian & Irish Traditional Musics
Saturday, April 29 | 7PM

Join NY Irish Center as we explore the commonalities between Irish traditional music and West African Ghanaian music. Lively blended compositions drawing from Irish traditional music and West-African Ghanaian music that will be performed by renowned musicians from the Ghanaian drum ensemble Ekome Femo including Amos Gabia (voice/djembe/ dun dun), Raymond Odai Laryea (djembe/dun dun/ gankogui), Julian Bortey Kwandahor (djembe, voice, dance), Dylan James (Banjo), Matt Christian (fiddle), and ethnomusicologist and performer Colin Harte (vocals/piano/bodhrán/djembe).

GET TICKETS HERE

The EIIC Creatives Concert: Irish, Malian, and Newly Composed
Songs of Spring, Rebirth, and Renewal
Thursday, May 11th | 7PM

Join the EIIC Creatives, artists in residence at the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, for an evening of Irish, West African (Malian) traditional and newly composed songs from internationally known Malian (Songhai) musician and singer Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure (guitar, gurmi), Irish traditional singer Mary Courtney (guitar/bodhrán), Irish singer/songwriter Allen Gogarty, and Chinese American blues musician Jeff Lum, plus a display of visual arts on the theme of spring, rebirth, and renewal.

This event copresented by EIIC and NYIC, with generous funding from Creatives Rebuild New York.

GET TICKETS HERE
 

Paint Me A Story

Painting  stories  as  community  history  workshop  with  Colombian  painter Alejandro  Pinzón  and  friends

Join Colombian painter Alejandro Pinzón and other artists on the Creatives Rebuild NY team in residence at Emerald Isle Immigration Center (EIIC) for an afternoon painting workshop, to learn how to turn a personal or community story into a beautiful painting to preserve its meaning. The class will be accompanied by acoustic music from EIIC Creatives Jeff Lum (blues), Abdoulaye Alhassane (West African) and Allen Gogarty (Irish/new compositions). Learn more about

the immigration legal and social services available through the EIIC!

Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 3-5pm

at 34th Avenue Open Streets (Queens)

(outdoors at 93rd St & 34th Ave, Jackson Heights, NY 11372)

Admission is free–RSVP at bit.ly/3yIbvTJ