SEPTEMBER 2007
The entire NAC Board hopes you had a
wonderful, creative summer. We are now back in full swing.
NAC thanks the East Northport Chamber of Commerce for giving the NAC
Executive Board and NAC aritsts a 10 by 10 space at their Annual Arts and
Crafts Street Fair Festival on Saturday and Sunday September 8th and
9th between 11AM and 5:30PM. We will be there on the 8th.
All are invited!
Tara Kavanagh, director of the Northport Opera Company is attending New Jersey City University to pursue a master's degree in opera performance. She was accepted into the opera performance program at NJCU (New Jersey City University). She has already begun rehearsals for Violetta in La Traviata, which will go up in mid-October. She has assured us that she will stay in touch and be involved with the the Northport Opera Company. BRAVO, TARA! We welcome Terry Lister who has replaced Tara’s position as secretary and is now a member of the executive board.
We are currently writing grants to help us support and bring the arts to our community and meeting with NAC program coordinators. We are also looking into showing old films at Northport Park, working on our next Plein Air Event, planning two Sunday in the Park Events for next summer, and reorganizing NAC Poets in Port. We are especially pleased with our growing membership and are pleased to hear their suggestions and ideas which help us promote the arts and look forward to a great year ahead! Lauren Paige executive Director
NAC SPONSORED EVENTS
The
Northport Reader's Theater
The Northport Reader's
Theater, under the auspices of the Northport Arts Coalition, will kick off
the new season with "The Battle of Broadway" by Claude Solnick, a behind the
scenes comedy about the production of a big Broadway musical and how the
producer did an end run around the NY Times critic Frank Rich using some
very creative PR. The playwright will be leading a discussion abut the play,
along with Mike DeLuise, the PR consultant the play is based on. We will be
meeting on September 10, 7:30 at St Paul's United Methodist Church,
270 Main St, Northport. Readers and audience are welcome. Contact Jo Ann
Katz at
jak@cosmeticmall.com or 261-5089 if you would like to read.
Doing
Music
Do-Ing Music Update:
The next Do-Ing Music concert is Oct. 26th,
featuring Lisa Pike of the Long Island Philharmonic on French Horn and
Isabella Eredita-Johnson on piano. Exciting details to follow next month!!
Poets in Port
Poets and poetry lovers will meet at
Café Portofino on Friday, September 28 to share and appreciate
the poetry of Edgar Carlson.
NAC WEDNESDAYS
Come join us on September 26 (a
date switch for September). It’s the 4th
Wednesday at 7:00 pm
MUSIC
Opera Night, Friday, September 7th
at 7:30 pm. St. Paul's Methodist Church, 270 Main Street, Northport, $5
donation If you haven't yet attended a recent Opera Night at St. Paul'
Methodist Church, you don't know what you are missing!
www.myspace.com/operanight
or call 631-261-2387
Noontime Recital Series - Wednesday, September 26th, 12:15 pm First Presbyterian Church of Northport 330 Main St., Northport Ruthann Turekian, soprano (accompanied by Isabella Eredita-Johnson)
> HAPPENINGS - NORTHPORT ARTS > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
(Video courtesy of Doris Rowe)
A Singer’s Studio:A Master Class with vocal
coach Daniel Ragone. Hear 6 fine singers work on their art. Saturday,
September 29, at 7 pm. St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Donations:
$5.00
VISUAL ARTS
John Ellsworth, fine-art photographer: The Times of Northport
published "Romancing the sea with John Ellsworth" by Elise Pearlmanin
the July 26th edition in the "Arts and Lifestyles" section. To read it,
lick http://www.johnellsworth.com
In August, John won "Honorable mention for photography" at the Montauk Outdoor Art Fair. On Sunday, September 16, he will be exhibiting at the Cow Harbor Day Art Fair at the Northport Village Green. John's work is currently on exhibit at Wilkes Gallery and Caffe Portofino in Northport. His website is http://johnellsworth.com
David T. Haussler -
Artist / Sculptor~ Learn to Weld !!! "Welded Steel Sculpture Workshop
Basic/Advanced Course"
starts October 20th. Sign up as a Be-giner or Advance to learn or develop
your ability to weld steel sculptures with classes covering all methods of
steel sculpture fabrication through electric stick welding, wire feed MIG
welding, plasma cutting, gas cutting, cool and hot bending, grinding, and
finishes.Saturday class AM/ PM. Visit his website for more details at
http://www.dthsculptor.com and
click on sculpture classes.631-266-1400 *3
James Twomey III (fine-art photography)
and Victoria Twomey (digital art and poetry) will exhibit their work
at Gallery North' s
42nd Annual Outdoor Art Show,
90 North Country Rd Setauket, NY Sept.
15th & 16th, 10am to 5pm. Booths
B53 & B54. Victoria's work can be seen at the
Huntington Arts Councils Masters Show,
Main Street Petite Gallery, Huntington from August 24th - September
24th.
ANTHONY DAVIS & JANE MCGRAW TEUBNER
Two of Long Island’s most accomplished Pastelists
August 26th –September 30th
CHRISTOPHER GALLERY
131 Main Street Stony Brook, N.Y., 11790
(631) 689-1601
Congratulations to NAC Advisory Board
members Doris Rowe and Kate Kelly on the acceptance of their posters
designed for the township of Huntington’s exhibit to celebrate difference.
The billboard show will be set up in the
Village Green on SEPTEMBER 26.
This design was selected for the giant billboard
art exhibition Embracing Our Differences, September 26 –
October 28, 2007, Village Green, Huntington, NY.
. The exhibition, consisting of 39
billboard-sized (16 feet wide by 12 feet high) artworks, will be displayed
throughout the month of October 2007 at Heckscher Park in downtown
Huntington Village. Since 2004, a similar project in Sarasota Fl. has been
viewed by more than 250,000 visitors, including 13,000 students and teachers
who participated in the discussion of the importance of diversity in our
lives
THEATER
BREE WILLIAMSON FROM ABC’S ONE LIFE TO LIVE STARS IN BAREFOOT IN THE PARK AT THE JOHN W. ENGEMAN THEATER AT NORTHPORT ON AUGUST 23
The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, Long Island’s only year-round professional theater company, is pleased to announce its next production, BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. The production will feature Bree Williamson of ABC’s ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Todd Lawson, Susan Bigelow, Robert Lydiard and Frank Stellato. Neil Simon's second play, BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, is the classic romantic comedy about a conservative young lawyer Paul Bratter and his free-spirited newlywed bride Corie. The comedy follows the young couple as they move from the giddy joy of a six day honeymoon at The Plaza, into the crazy reality of starting married life in a fifth-floor walkup in New York City. Of course it doesn’t help that the apartment is absolutely bare of furniture, the paint job came out all wrong, the skylight leaks snow, there isn't room for a double bed, and an outlandish neighbor who lives in a loft on the roof uses it, and the window ledge, as the only access to his padlocked premises. A joyful night of comedy for all! BAREFOOT IN THE PARK will run from August 23, 2007 through September 23, 2007.
Single tickets are now on sale and are $45. 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.
TOWNSHIP THEATRE GROUP SEPTEMBER MEETING SEPTEMBER 11th
TOWNSHIP THEATRE
GROUP, the longest continuously operating community theatre organization on
Long Island, offers theatre lovers dozens of opportunities to enjoy
performing on-stage or expressing their creativity backstage. The
group welcomes people interested in painting or building, costuming or
ushering, as well as those who enjoy acting, and no special skills are
necessary to learn the process of putting on a theatrical production.
Township Theatre Group is a membership troupe as well, holding monthly
meeting where members have a chance to try their hand at performing or
directing small workshop presentations for the enjoyment of their
colleagues. So, if you’re tired of singing in the shower to no
audience come join us September 11th. Call (631)
421-9832, or visit our web site (TOWNSHIP THEATRE
GROUP.COM)
for more information.
Creativity Film Series@Cinema Arts Center – Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 7:30 pm only. Call 631 423-7611
“Jack Mitchell: My Life is Black and White”
Guest Speaker: Renowned photographer Jack Mitchell
Director Craig Highberger follows his acclaimed documentary Superstar in a Housedress with this exceptional portrait of Jack Mitchell, a pivotal photographer of the arts for more than five decades. Through hundreds of his beautiful images, recollections from Jack and from Bob Pavlik, his partner of nearly 50 years, as well as interviews with luminaries including playwright Edward Albee, Broadway star Patti LuPone, critic Clive Barnes, dance greats Merce Cunningham, Judith Jamison, and Kevin McKenzie, and author/composer Ned Rorem, among others, Highberger reveals his fascinating life and the art world he documented for Dance Magazine, The New York Times, After Dark and countless other publications.
http://jackmitchellphotographer
POETRY
THE NORTH SEA POETRY SCENE is proud to announce a poetry reading and book signing by
CHARLES Adés FISHMAN Saturday, September 8, 2007 7:00 pm North Sea Community House
130 Noyac Rd Southampton, NY
11968
PERFORMING ARTS
Bare Bones Theater Company www.BareBonesTheater.com
ACTING CLASSES: The Bare Bones Theater
Company of Northport announces registration for our Fall semester of acting
classes for adults. We have three sessions: two are open to all actors,
including beginners; the third is an Advanced class designed for actors with
stage experience. All will find Bare Bones engaging and energizing. Classes
run weekly for ten weeks beginning September 24, and are held
evenings from 7:30-9:30 at The Posey School in Northport.
Registration is by appointment only; call Jeff Bennett at 631-757-9616.
Visit
www.barebonestheater.com
for additional information.
Constant Wonder, the children's
performing duo will appear at KidsFest! At Old Westbury Garden on
Sunday, September 16th at 2:00 PM. The show is FREE with
general admission to the Gardens.
On September 22nd and 23rd, Constant Wonder takes their show to The
Long > Island Children's Museum. There are two shows each day at 1pm and
3pm.
On Sunday September 29th, you can catch a Constant Wonder
performnace at > the Pumpkin Fest at Suffolk County Farm and Education
Center in Yaphank. > For details on these and other upcoming shows, check
out Constant Wonder's >
website at
www.constantwonder.com
Auditions - The Minstrel Players are
holding open auditions for parts in Charles Dickens "A Christmas
Carol" on Wed 9/19 at 7:30 PM at Trinity
Episcopal Church located at 130 Main Street in Northport Village. Men,
Women, and children (ages 5+) are invited to come down. Please bring a
resume and a headshot. Production will be December 7-9. For more info,
please call 631-732-2926 or visit us online at
www.minstrelplayers.org
.
DANCE
POSEY SCHOOL will hold an Open House on
Wednesdays, August 29th and September 6th
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We are celebrating our 55th year
in Northport Village! Tell your friends and neighbors about us—we will
appreciate your recommendations and so will they! Classes begin on Thursday,
September 7th. We have grown from a dance school into a center
for arts education with classes for everyone in our community from toddlers
to seniors. Dance classes, art classes, music classes and acting classes for
you or your children. Great programs for teens in jazz, modern dance, tap
and ballet. Evening classes for adults who are just beginning as well as
experienced artists. Come for a visit. We’d love to see you. Schedule for
classes at
www.poseyschool.com
or call us at 631-757-2700.
The Blue Spruce Cloggers will appear
at the Lake Ronkonkoma Fall Festival on Sunday, September 29, 2007 at
Michael Murphy Beach on the showmobile.
YOUTUBE
MAKING VIDEOS PUTS WONDER IN
YOUR LIFE - Doris Rowe needs a little help with new voices
and creative noise to accompany her short QuickTIme animations.
Watch video on Youtube.com
in less than one minute, one in particular that needs audio help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Here is the link to a performance by NAC
member Shenole Lattimer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
NAC BOARD
Lauren Paige, Executive Director; Pat
Bond, Director; Board Members: Charlotte Koons and Terry Lister
NAC ADVISORY BOARD
Laura DeSalvo- Membership; Craig Fligstein-Grant Writer; Mary Ellen Moll-Library Liaison, Kate Kelly-
Poetry/Art; George Rehn, CPA; Doris
Rowe-Graphic Designer- Kevin McMahon- Web Master
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Thank you to all our
members for their support!
To contact us, go to
nacnewsletter@gmail.com
Pat Bond, Editor
Kevin McMahon – Webmaster
Web address:
www.northportarts.org
Northport Arts Coalition
P. O. Box 508
Northport, NY 11768
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