We strive to increase participation in and access to the arts for all of the people we serve.  In addition to arts instructions and performance throughout our programs, we present art performances to the entire East Side community, free of charge through our Community Theatre and Second Sundays performance series. 

The Visual and Performing Arts Department integrates arts instruction into nearly all of the Neighborhood House’s programs.  The Department runs the RealArts Education Program and RealArts Summer Camp and provides weekly instruction to the 141 low-income children in our Early Childhood Center in visual art, creative movement, music and drama instruction.  These children perform throughout the year for each other and their families. 

Additionally, we run a drumming circle, fine arts class and crafts class for the homeless, mentally ill women in our Women’s Mental Health Shelter and work with clients in most of our other programs throughout the year.

We strive to provide a number of Intergenerational arts activities with children from our Early Childhood Center and RealArts Education Program and our programs for older adults.  Activities include writing groups that focus on playwriting, poetry and prose for older adults at both senior centers and staged public readings of these unpublished writers through our Community Theatre events.

From November 3-6, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Players Presented the 12th Annual Community Theatre One-Act Play Production: Play, Dare, Chaperon!

Including:
The Chaperon by Robert Kerrigan
Daring the Dark by Peggy Garrison
Play with Your Food by William Kozy

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s Second Sundays is a performance series for all ages that offers presentations by professional music, dance and theater groups. There is a suggested donation of $5.00, children 12 and under are free and there is complimentary admission for members of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House programs. All performances are at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, 331 East 70th Street at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of every month unless otherwise noted.

Click here to see the 2011-2012 Second Sundays calendar!