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Bronx Children’s Museum
Gala raises half a million $$
BY ALEX MITCHELL
With its anticipated
2020 arrival on the borough’s
Harlem River waterfront,
the Bronx Children’s
Museum raised a
massive $500,000 during
its third annual benefi t
gala on Tuesday, May 7,
at Manhattan’s Gotham
Hall.
Dedicated to the children
of the Bronx past,
present and future, the
gala honored and celebrated
some of the borough’s
most notable like:
famed acting icon Rita
Moreno, hip-hop production
mogul Shawn ‘Pecas’
Costner, gala co-chair
Kerry Washington, The
View’s Sunny Hostin,
Borough President Ruben
Diaz, Jr., actress Sonia
Manzano, formerly
‘Maria’ of Sesame Street,
and Grammy-nominated
drummer Bobby Sanabria.
Hostin was once again
hosting the evening,
while Moreno delighted
guests with a personal
story of her arrival in the
Bronx as a young child
from Puerto Rico, and encouraged
those in the audience
to dream big.
“It is important for all
children to have a museum
available to them
for every reason in the
world that you can think
of for creative reasons
or reasons of curiosity, “
said Moreno.
Currently, the Bronx
Children’s museum functions
as a ‘museum without
walls,’ serving almost
18,000 Bronx youngsters
annually.
It’s through innovative
mobile programming
that the wall-less museum
engages children
and adults in the arts and
sciences using its bus as a
roving learning environment.
The museum also
has temporary exhibits
and ongoing afterschool
and summer programming
throughout the borough
at community based
organizations, schools,
shelters, libraries, local
festivals and parks.
The evening of the
gala, the borough president
Sean ‘Pecas’ Costner (l) and Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.
Bronx Children’s Museum
had the pleasure of
introducing his friend
and the ‘Roc Nation’ executive
and hip-hop community
leader Costner to
the stage, presenting him
with one of the 2019 Bronx
Children’s Museum Imagination
Awards given out
that evening.
After that, Diaz shared
very kind words regarding
the museum and its
mission.
“I am so proud of the
work being done by Bronx
Children’s Museum. We
believe in this vision
because we know what
happens when you give
a Bronx girl or a Bronx
boy an opportunity,” Diaz
said.
He continued on, saying
how ‘Bronx DNA’ and
an opportunity to conquer
the world do go hand
in hand.
“It allows them to
dream, to expand their
imagination,” Diaz said.
Other attendees included
Councilwoman
Vanessa L. Gibson, philanthropist
Amber Sabathia,
the Voice of New
York, Angie Martinez,
former Def Jam executive
Steve Bartels and retired
New York Giants wide
out, Victor Cruz.
Also honored was prolifi
c landscape architect
Jonathan Marvel, who
was a notable force behind
the Bronx’s Mill
Pond Park.
Marvel’s own ecological
marvel will eventually
neighbor the museum
in roughly a year.
Currently, he’s also
piloting some ambitious
solar energy projects in
his native Puerto Rico
in response to the damage
caused by hurricanes
Irma and Maria.
Another highlight of
the evening was an endearing
dance routine
performed by four second
grade children in the museum’s
Dream Big After
School program, which of
course prompted a standing
ovation.
The evening concluded
with a performance by
Sanabria, which brought
the enthusiastic audience
to the dance fl oor.
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