[tagline_box description=”As a City, we are committed to expanding access to the arts for all our residents, and that’s why we are proud to have partners like Hospital Audiences, Inc. and the New York Community Trust. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of HAI’s Summer Program….which has allowed 100,000 elderly and disabled residents to attend performances by The Metropolitan Opera, The New York Philharmonic, and the Public Theatre. I also want to thank the Departments of Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs. Their collective efforts have yielded tremendous benefits for our residents, and I applaud them for their commitment to ensuring that the arts are able to enrich the lives of all New Yorkers. — Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, NYC, July 13-14th , 2010“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”Since its beginning a quarter century ago, your organization has made significant contributions to our country’s vibrant artistic culture and the lives of millions throughout the New York area. By helping people with disabilities to express themselves through the performing arts, you have given hope and encouragement while advocating equal rights for all our citizens. I am pleased to commend your founder, Michael Jon Spencer, and all who have dedicated themselves to the success of HAI over the years. You can take great pride in the work you have done to lend dignity and opportunity to so many lives. – Bill Clinton, President, U.S.A., April 6, 1994“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”During its long rich history, HAI has been the well-deserved recipient of many awards and has earned the immense respect of all who have had the privilege of witnessing their tireless efforts on behalf of others. I salute them for a job well done… — Andrew M. Cuomo, NYS Attorney General, July 30, 2009“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”Since founding Hospital Audiences in 1969 you have brought pleasure into the lives of large numbers of disabled, the elderly and those confined to institution. Your achievement has been to widen the audiences for art in a manner at once pioneering, constructive, and humane. — Ed Koch, Mayor, NYC, Ceremony, Arts and Culture Award, June 23, 1981“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”Hospital Audiences, Inc. is the essence of community services. Their extraordinary commitment to a too-often overlooked community , and the creative resources they apply to that commitment make them a unique resource within the city… — Mary Schmidt Campbell, Comm. NYC DCA, April 25 1989“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”HAI has an outstanding reputation both within the mental hygiene community and among the general public as an innovative and creative agency. — Sara Kellermann, Commissioner, NYC DMH April 27, 1989“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”I read with great interest, and agreement, your letter describing the program of Hospital Audiences, Inc. The spirit and generosity of local community resources here in Topeka has enabled us to participate in such programs with our own patients for a great many years. The usefulness of these opportunities in helping patients to recover their sense of being in touch with what is best in the world cannot be overemphasized. Your program is certainly an imaginative and exciting effort to do that for many forgotten and forsaken people of the world. — Roy Menninger, M.D., The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 14, 1970“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”Our attention has been called to the splendid work now being done by your organization in the NYC area to enable many thousands of institutionalized mental patients to participate in the cultural life of their community. We want to congratulate you and express our appreciation to you for such a worthwhile endeavor. It is an outstanding example of citizen support in furtherance of the objectives of community psychiatry. May your concept prove contagious and spread in many other cities throughout the country. — Robert S. Garber, M.D., President, American Psychiatric Association, Nov. 6, 1970“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”AARP is celebrating 50 years of helping people achieve independence, choice, and control throughout their lives. In honor of its 50th Anniversary, AARP New York is recognizing 50 New Yorkers who have been champions of social changed and have been champions of social changed and have helped to build a better future for all New Yorkers. I am delighted to notify you that you have been selected as a recipient of our AARP 50th Anniversary Social Impact Award. Your work and achievements in creating and expanding Hospital Audiences, Inc. epitomize the philosophy of AARP’s founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus. — Lois Aronstein, NYS Director, AARP, New York, Oct. 2008“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”Help for the bedridden. Herewith a hearty bravo for Michael Spencer, founder and director of Hospital Audiences, inc. for his good work in helping bedridden and disabled folks to enjoy the pleasures of outdoor concerts. More than 500 of them, including several on special mobile stretcher wagons used by Spencer so that they may enjoy the great cultural advantages of the city, were on hand in Central Park the other night for a performance by the New York Philharmonic. It was a stirring night — a great tribute to the ingenuity and humanity of a man who has dedicated himself to helping others. — Editorial…Daily News, August 12, 1983“][/tagline_box]
[tagline_box description=”It is in regularly taking people out of all sorts of confined settings that Hospital Audiences does what no other organization in the New York does, and it is this — allowing people to escape the monotony of institutional life — that the experts say is the strongest medicine against the assaults of aged and illness. — Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, September 3, 1984“][/tagline_box]
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