NAC EVENTS
NAC WEDNESDAY
INTERACTIVE
PERFORMANCE featuring RUTHANN TUREKIAN.
On Wednesday, October 10th
at the Northport Library, Northport Opera Company's RUTHANN TUREKIAN
(a Spinto Soprano, native of Northport) wll present an interactive
performance where audience members will be able to choose from a grab bag of
arias. Ruthann has performed at many opera centers, including Des Moines
& Central City. She received her degrees from the CUNY Queens Aaron Copland
School of Music and Manhattan School of Music. Looking forward to a
delightful evening!
POETS IN PORT
Friday, 7:00 p.m, October 26,
at Caffe Portofino, 249 Main St., Northport, opposite the theatre.
Featured Poet plus Open Reading - the audience is encouraged to bring their
poems and participate. - Peter Dugan
http://www.poetryvlog.com
For more information, contact Steve Schmidt:
stevenschmidt@optonline.net
NORTHPORT OPERA COMPANY
Members Gina Haver, Tara Kavanagh & Ruthann Turekian , of the Northport Opera Company accompanied by James Greening-Valenzuela perform with flamenco dance company Sol Y Sombra on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 3pm. Sagtikos Theater in the Arts Building of the Suffolk Community College Brentwood campus. Performance will include various styles of flamenco dance and Spanish influenced songs & arias. . Pieces include works by Berlioz, Obradors, Villa Lobos, excerpts from Carmen and more!
DOING MUSIC
Do-Ing Music Friday, Oct. 26th Lisa Pike, of the Long Island Philharmonic and Isabella Eredita-Johnson in : Music Among Friends: a wonderfully varied program for French Horn and Piano.
Don’t miss it!!!
Meet the Artist Reception following program.
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After viewing the Cow Harbor Day Parade, Pat & Lauren got to say thank you to Andrew Raia for his part in NAC’s receiving a grant to help promote the arts in our community. JoAnn Raia, our Town Clerk, was there celebrating as well. A few days earlier, we met many NAC members who were celebrating the East Northport Festival. We are delighted to report that our e-mail list is now well over 1,000 and are working on getting to 2000. We are planning several projects to support and encourage the arts.
DANCE
Danskinetics...
...A wonderful dance class where you can express yourself, discovering the joy of creating your own movement in a non judgmental environment. Yoga stretch, breathing techniques and relaxation will give you new energy to go back into your daily life. NO dance or yoga background necessary. Class starting, Thursday October 4th 10:00 am. Posey school of Dance, 57 Main street. Northport
For registration please call Ghislaine: 631- 262 7844
Posey School introduces Power Yoga for
Dancers*. Session I begins October 14th. Classes will be held on
Sunday mornings 9:30 - 11:00. Call Posey School for more details: 757-2700.
(*It's not just for dancers.)
The Blue Spruce Cloggers will appear at the
Deepwells Farm Fall Festival Sat Oct 6 at
2PM Moriches Rd & 25A in St James. Also at the Riverhead
Country Fair Sun Oct 7
about 2PM in Riverhead. Also at the Connetquot Library in Bohemia on
Oct 28 at 2PM
for a spectacular 2 hour show including the Blue Detour Bluegrass Trio.
PERFORMANCE ARTS
Constant Wonder, the
children's performing duo, is excited to spread their wings and head to
Philadelphia to perform three shows at the Please Touch Museum on
October 6th! Then back home to perform at the Oyster Festival
in Oyster Bay on Sunday, October 14th. On October 28th,
they saddle up and head to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens for the
gigantic Ghouls and Gourds Festival! To find out details about these
and other upcoming shows, check their website at
www.constantwonder.com.
“International Performing Arts
Soiree, Oct. 24, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm. Thatched Cottage 6th
Annual Women’s Networking Day & Awards Ceremony. General Public Welcome $10
p.p. & 8$ for Seniors. RSVP (631)351-6605
POETRY
The Northport Arts Coalition would like to thank Kate Dellis Stover for coordinating Poets in Port over the past year. Kate told us that she can no longer run Poets in Port as she travels quite a distance every month to do this event. She mentioned that she did this as a labor of love. We thank her for her time and effort!
Steven Schmidt, husband of the late poet, Jean Stainbeck, has volunteered to coordinate Poets in Port and is working on some new and exciting ideas for this event. If you are interested in finding out more about Poets in Port you can contact Steven at stevenschmidt@optonline.net
Book Announcement & Readings--
primal sanities! a Tribute to Walt Whitman an Anthology of Poems and Essays
edited by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) and George Wallace
.
* Monday, October 1, at 7pm, Graphic
Eye Gallery, 402 Main Street, Port Washington (516)883-9668
* Monday, October 22, at 7pm, Smithtown Library, 1 North Country Road, Smithtown (631)265-2072
For more information or to order books: mankh@allbook-books.com or (631) 716-1385
www.poetz.com/longisland
is a calendar of Long Island poetry events.
MUSIC
Singer-songwriter Patricia Shih from Huntington has garnered more honors. Not only did her latest CD for families “The Power of One” win the highest award this summer from the National Parenting Publications organization, the NAPPA Gold award, but she was also honored by the Long Island Press as a “Long Island Woman Making a Difference.” She and seven other notable women are to be celebrated at a dinner and networking night at Oragin in Farmingdale on Oct. 1, where Channel 12’s news anchor Carol Silva will be speaking
Ridotto Concert Sunday October 14 at 4 pm: A RENAISSANCE TRIPTYCH: Love- Beauty- Death. Music and Dance from Italy and England from the 1600’s. Music by Bassano, Negri, Poliziano, Dowland and Morley is performed by a stellar group of musicians and dancers: Christopher Morrongiello –lute, Rainer Beckmann (Germany) –recorders, Rosamund Morley –viola da gamba, Philip Anderson (Broadway’s ‘Coram Boy’) –voice. Dancers are Dori Olsson and Mark Mindek of the renowned Historical Dance Co. of New York. Margaretha Maimone reads poetry.
Parish Hall of Old First Church, 125 Main Street (25A) Huntington (opp.Town Hall) Tickets: $20; $18 strs.: $15 mbr; $10 students; $12 group rate (Min.10 pp) For tickets/info call (631) 385 – 0373. www.ridotto.org
October 5th Opera Night 7:30
pm 270 Main Street, Northport $5 donation see why our audience keeps
growing........ For additional information on Opera Night, visit web
site:
www.myspace.com/operanight
November 2nd, Opera Night 7:30 pm featuring David Axelrod, Suffolk Poet Laureate 270 Main Street, Northport $5 donation (In this event, composer Matthew Pierce will be setting Axelrod's Poetry to Music, and sung by Ruthann Turekian, soprano and Ron Meixsell, baritone. There will be a theme of music that has been inspired by Poetry. Example: Music of Schubert with words by Goethe. Music of Debussy, text by symbolist poets. Vaughn Willams/ Shakespeare, etc.....)
This will be a very memorable evening!
Glenn Baldwin and Friends of Jazz will
present a variety of jazz standards on Sunday, October 21, at
the Harborfields Public Library, Broadway, Greenlawn. The group
features Glenn on piano, Steve Witthoft on trombone, Peter Kaufmann on
trumpet, Craig Becker on bass, Andy Squillaciotti on drums, and vocalist
Alice Weiser. Over the last five years, these musicians have performed from
Mattituck to Manhattan and produced three CD's. Their free concerrt begins
at 2:00 p.m.
Friday-Sunday, October 19-21, 2007
Choral Festival Weekend at First Presbyterian Church 330 Main Street,
Northport Ms. Heather Buchanan from Montclair State University, NJ, guest
conductor/clinician. Further details and to register to sing, please contact
musicnministry@gmail.com
CANTA LIBRE
C H A M B E R E N S E M B L E
Sally Shorrock, Artistic Director
52 School Street • Northport • NY 11768 • 631.261.9364 • • laser86298@optonline.net
Paumanok has arrived!!!!!
Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble has two
exciting performances of a World Premier Commission by composer Jerry Ulrich
for soprano, narrator, harp, flute and strings, based on the poetry of Walt
Whitman and Shinnecock David Martine. Don't miss their appearance at Sunwood
Estate in Stony Brook on Oct. 7th, and The Boulton Center on Oct.
14th. Both performances 2:00.
See
www.cantalibre.org
for directions.
Details can be
found on the Canta Libre website,
www.cantalibre.org
VISUAL ARTS
ONLY HUMAN, paintings by Elizabeth Ehrlichman
at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Art Gallery, Huntington, 109 Browns
Road, 11/ 2 - 26, 2007, Mondays - Fridays, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM. Reception,
Sunday, November 4, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. Ehrlichman's life drawings are
paired with words to make for a lively interplay of form and emotional
content. Still lifes with a wooden anatomical model evoke the search
for an understanding of what it is to be human.
A unique unveiling of a sail mural took place
at Coneys Marine, Halesite September 19th, 2007. The recycled
sail, provided by Doyle Sailmakers of Huntington Station, in addition to
paint sponsored by Aboffs, aided the artists, Thea Lanzisero and Sydra
Nightingale in creating a majestic 44ft tall x 22ft wide mural. Entitled
“Smooth Sailing; Beyond the Event Horizon”, the mural has begun its
exhibition journey by being unfurled at Coneys Marine in Halesite, NY. For
more information visit
www.thealanzisero.com
or email
artdirectorsydra@yahoo.com
.
Kathy Ferrara is having a show of her
work, pastels and photography at the Katarina Gallery in Greenlawn 72
Broadway 262-0100. There will be an opeing on Oct 20th at 3pm
(a very small sample of a very large billboard by Kate Kelly)
(just a little bitty piece of
the whole)
Doris Rowe and Kate Kelly,
members of the Northport Arts Coalition advisory board of the,
have been chosen to exhibit their artworks as part of the 1st Annual
Outdoor Art Exhibition Celebrating Diversity on Long Island. EMBRACING
OUR DIFFERENCES A Project of the Suffolk Center on the
Holocaust,Diversity & Human Understanding, Inc. 35 billboard-sized
artworks (16 feet wide by 12 feet high) will be on display during the
October Fall Festival, September 29 - October 24, 2007
Heckscher Park The Village Green Huntington
Opening
Celebration: October 16, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. will feature artists and
musicians to celebrate diversity.
Congratulations
to Doris Rowe and Kate Kelly on their
acceptance of posters designed for the township of Huntington’s wonderful
exhibit to celebrate difference.
View full size
From the Courtship of Cherie Series..."My Cherie II"
Jo-Ann Corretti is
exhibiting her Long Island Paintings & Giclee prints at Fiedler Gallery in
Greenport...Gallery is usually open 7 days a week and the hours are usually
10am-4pm...Call Gallery at 477-4242...or Jo-Ann at 631 298-1078, email thru
her website at JoannCorretti.com
David T.
Haussler - Artist / Sculptor~ Learn to Weld !!!
"Welded Steel
Sculpture Workshop Basic/Advanced Course"
starts October 20th
Welded steel sculpture classes
starting October 20th. This is a fantastic experience for beginners
and advance individuals to enjoy getting into welding and creating a welded
steel sculpture! For more detail visit the site of David T.
Haussler-sculptor
http://www.dthsculptor.com
John Ellsworth, fine-art photographer, will be exhibiting on October 6 & 7 at the Greater Westhampton Beach Juried Fall Arts & Crafts Fair on the village green between Mill Road & Main Street--space #9. His work can also be seen at Wilkes Gallery on Main Street in Northport.
His website is:
http://johnellsworth.com.
Photo below is titled "Aspire"
THEATER
The TOWNSHIP THEATRE GROUP (TTG) presents its fall comedy Odd Couple by Neil Simon, directed by Tom Donnarumma. The hilarious trials and tribulations of those mismatched roommates, one sloppy and one neat, as they face the single life in New York City. Oscar and Felix are arguably the most memorable characters that playwright Simon has ever created. Odd Couple was the 1965 Tony Award winner for Best Author, Actor, Director and Scenic Design. Performances are October 26, 27, 28 & November 2 & 3 at the Performing Arts Center, Walt Whitman High School, South Huntington, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm. Tickets are $20.00, and students and seniors receive a $2 discount. For information call 631.421.9832 or visit www.townshiptheatregroup.com.
JEKYLL & HYDE BURSTS INTO NORTHPORT AT THE
JOHN W. ENGEMAN THEATER ON
OCTOBER 4, 2007
JEKYLL & HYDE will play the following performance schedule: Thursdays at 8:00 p.m., Fridays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. IN ADDITION, there will be matinees on the following days: Saturdays at 3:00 p.m. October 13, October 27, and November 10. Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. on October 18 and November 1.Tickets are now on sale and are $55. Tickets may be purchased by calling (631) 261-2900, by visiting www.engemantheater.com, or at the Engeman Theater Box Office at 250 Main Street, Northport. Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted.
JEKYLL & HYDE is directed and
choreographed by David Swan. David directed and choreographed the
Korean premier of JEKYLL & HYDE this past year.
FILM
A fascinating documentary about legendary portrait painter Alice Neel
ALICE NEEL
Thursday, October 18 at 7:30pm only @ Cinema Arts Centre
Alice Neel was one of the 20th century’s most influential and prolific portrait painters. Achieving some fame eventually, most of her life was a struggle to gain recognition. When abstract expressionism was in vogue, portrait paintings were regarded as too conventional. In the spirit of his tenacious grandmother, Mr. Neel paints an intimate portrait that is penetrating and inspiring. CReatiVitY Film Series @ CINEMA ARTS CENTRE Sponsored by Ginger and Stuart Polisner http://www.aliceneelfilm.com/
A fascinating documentary about legendary portrait painter Alice Neel
ALICE NEEL
Thursday,
October 18 at 7:30pm only @ Cinema Arts Centre
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
Connor's Army
www.ConnorsArmy.org
Gene Connor is a one-man army in the war
against cancer. After three siblings and his mother were all diagnosed
with different cancers within two years, Gene took to his bicycle. See
how you can support him as he cycles 2,000 miles to raise funds for the
American Cancer Society.
Tara Kavanagh, our illustrious, former
board member tells us “I was
just cast as Musetta in NJCU's Fall 2007 production of La Boheme” We
miss her. Pat Bond, Editor
NAC BOARD- Lauren Paige, Charlotte Koons, Terry Lister, Pat Bond
ADVISORY BOARD- Laura DeSalvo- Membership, Craig Fligstein, Grant Writer, Kevin McMahon, Web-
Site Manager, Mary Ellen Moll, Library Liaison, Kate Kelly, Poetry/Art, George Rehn, C.P.A., Doris Rowe, Graphic Consultant