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…we raised the funds necessary to secure our Matching Grant opportunity in May! You answered our call and your gifts to the Cinema Arts Centre in the month of May were matched by the Alpern Family Foundation at the full value of the Matching grant, $20,000! Thanks so much to the Alpern Family Foundation for doubling your gifts in May. And THANK YOU for coming through for our Cinema community.

While we raised the necessary funds to secure our matching grant, we are still short of reaching our full campaign goal. For that reason, we are extending the deadline on our "Reopening Star" plaque that will have a permanent place at the Cinema. This plaque will acknowledge donors who make/made a contribution of $1,000 or more from the day of our temporary closure in March 2020 through to the end of this fiscal year, June 20, 2022. For more information, please contact rene@cinemaartscentre.org.

Our Sky Room Café, garden, and gallery space was packed last Saturday with artists, performers, craftspeople, and community members to kick off Pride Month. Curated by local artist Anu Annam, the Born This Way Performances and MOSAIC LGBTQIA+ Art Exhibit, a Celebration of Queer Arts and Culture celebrated its sixth year at the Cinema Arts Centre. The day began with a Meet-the-Artists reception, and included live music, poetry, drag performances, visual art, food and libations, and concluded with a dance.

This event was presented at the Cinema Arts Centre by the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Transitioning to the Long Island PRIDE Festival this year!) and BOPPI (Bisexual, Open, Pansexual People of the Islands) and made possible by funding from Suffolk County. Community Sponsors also included Project Hope Stony Brook Medicine.

At the event, the following statement was shared: "Welcome queers and allies! We have explored the uniqueness of our intersectional experiences in our vibrant LGBTQIA+ community. What are the things that the varied letters in our alphabet soup of identities have in common? What connects us? We’ve explored boundless concepts of “Love” and “chosen family”. We stick together and stick up for each other when in need. Today, we are celebrating our commonalities and what drives us to unite, through all the flavors of life, with our vastly different expressions of gender, relationship style, sexual orientation and it’s intersections with class, race, culture, and generation. We have essentially found it. 'The Rainbow Connection' - the lovers, the dreamers and us…"

Culinary Artists included Cindy Hand, John Schindler, and Stacey Richter. Teen Culinary artists included Over the Rainbow Pastries-Corey Richter and Dahlia Soto.

Performances were emceed by the fabulous Saline Dijon, who was also a featured performer, and included Toni Homeperm, LaBelle, Rusty Rose, Bri Onishea, Terri Muuss, Jerome Lewis, the Long Island Gay Men’s Chorus, Rorie Kelly, Brandon Ramirez, Kyle Royce, René Bouchard, Delaney (of Belle Curves), Andreleia Buch, and Zephyr Chuaprasert.

The MOSAIC LGBTQIA+ Art Exhibition included visual artists Eileen Novack, Rob Stenzel, Mark Propper, Sam Neuk, Puneeta Mittal, Laura Resurreccion, Robyn Bellospirito, Con Artist, John Schindler, Billy Gotharts Levenberg, Nicole Franz, Carol J. Amodeo, Dan Seagraves, Greg Fox, and Anu Annam. Teen visual artists included, Zephyr Chuaprasert, Leila Barrett, and Leo Gagliardo.

This exhibit will be up throughout Pride Month. Come see it the next time you come to the movies.

Additional support for this event provided by:

Rorie Kelly, sound and stage

Stephen Flynn, Head Concept Consultant

Brian Atkins, Event Concept Consultant

Danielle Davis, Marketing and Design

Seneca LaBelle, Marketing and Design

Sam Neuk, Marketing and Design

Stacey Richter, Marketing and Design

Isabella Sheehan, Photography

Dan Seagraves, Videography

And volunteers from the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Soon to be The Long Island PRIDE Festival)

The Cinema Arts Centre is so proud to have hosted this diverse and dynamic festival. We express our gratitude to everyone involved.

Collage compiled from photos taken by Isabelle Evelyn Sheehan.

Our Patron Membership is $43.75/month (or $525/year.) Membership benefits include ONE FREE TICKET to ALL regular screenings and special events priced $12 or less for members. Patron Membership also includes ONE FREE popcorn and soda with your member ticket. There are many other benefits to Patron Membership. CLICK HERE for details.

Our Director's Circle Membership is $83.33/month (or $1,000/year) and includes TWO FREE TICKETS to ALL regular screenings and special events priced $12 or less for members. Director's Circle Membership also includes TWO FREE popcorns and sodas with your member tickets when you come to the movies. See all the benefits of membership HERE.

If you are a frequent movie-goer, these membership levels are a great deal. Participating in these membership levels with a monthly payment makes them more accessible, and helps the Cinema predict monthly revenue. Patron and Director's Circle Memberships are great for movie-goers, and great for our independent community cinema.

For more information, please contact rene@cinemaartscentre.org, or visit our Box Office.

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