March 2008
NAC SPONSORED EVENTS
Poster by Doris Rowe
READERS’ THEATER
The Northport Reader's Theater will be meeting on March 17 at 7:30 at St Paul's United Methodist Church, 270 Main St, Northport. They will be reading ”Ripeness Is All" and "Endings" by Dan Levin, two one-act plays about relationships.
All are welcome to read or to listen. To sign up to read or for further information contact Jo Ann Katz 631-261-5089 or jak@cosmeticmall.com.
The next meeting of the Northport Reader's Theater will be on April 28.
Poets in Port
March 28,2008 -
Poets in Port
will take place at
Caffé Portofino,
249 Main St., Northport, opposite the theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Poets in Port evenings include a featured poet plus open reading - the
audience is encouraged to bring their poems and participate.
March's featured poet is
Michelle Whittaker and
Kempton van Hoff.
Michelle Whittaker creates poetry at her computer early mornings while eating Clementine’s. She holds a Bachelor of Music in composition and piano. She won a scholarship for her collection of poems “Building a Backbone”. Michelle currently enjoys reading at various Long Island venues and teaching music.Kempton Boone Van Hoff earned a BFA in Writing from Green Mountain College in 2002. Since then, he's brought his interdisciplinary approach to life in various fields and cities, though he'd always rather be in, on, or near the ocean. He is currently a teacher, writing assistant, and student at C.W. Post.
Next Month the Northport Arts Coalition celebrates its 10th Anniversary! We hope that all those who were there at the beginning and all our present or prospective members will join us on April 9th at the Northport Library to look back and to look forward.
Northport’s Second Annual Plein Air Painting Event! June 20th -22nd “ plein air; to paint outdoors in natural light”
Photo by John Ellsworth
Look for applications & the prospectus for the upcoming Plein Air event at www.northportarts.org
Watch for Sunday Art in
the Park. Applications will be posted on
www.northportarts.org
A BIG
Thank you to Charlotte Koons and Diana
Cherryholmes who traveled all the way to Albany on February 26 to attend
Arts Advocacy Day promoting the arts in our community!
MUSIC
RIDOTTO CONCERT
Sunday March 2 at 4 pm LANDSCAPES of the MIND Music for violin, piano, voice and the rarely heard electronic instrument, the theremin. Renowned duo Anna Rabinova, violin, with Tatiana Goncharova, piano, play the Violin Sonata “Landscapes of the Mind” by Marga Richter, the nostalgic and humorous Sonata IV (“Children’s Day at the Camp meeting”) by Charles Ives, and the dashing, virtuosic Tzigane by Ravel. The theremin is performed by Kip Rosser. The wonderful, humorous piece by Maurizio Kagel: “Rrrrrraaa…..” is performed by Matt Koraus and Charlie Blueweiss, voices, with Isabella Eredita, piano. CONCERT at Old First Church, 125 Main Street in Huntington (opp.Town Hall). Tickets $10 students, $20 general admission; $18 seniors; $15 members; $12 group rate (min.10 pp.)
OPERA NIGHT
Join us for a festive celebration of Long
Island's finest voices. Friday, March 7th 2008 Chamber
Music at 7:30 pm, Opera at 8:00 pm 270 Main St., Northport. $5
suggested donation.
www.myspace.com/operanight or
call 631-261-8808
Opera Night, the musical series on the first Friday of each month in Northport, needs artists and costume designers interested in designing costumes for Opera Night singers. Projected date: May 2nd, 2008. Kindly contact Isabella at: Vivaldi222@aol.com
SUNDAY MARCH 9 Denis Romas at 2PM with Ira Perlman in the LONESOME TRAVELER, a musical narrative about Lee Hays and the Weavers, at the East Islip Public Library http://eipl.suffolk.lib.ny.us/ Free. All are welcome .
SATURDAY, MARCH 15 7:30 pm at the Folk Music Society of Huntington's Hard Luck Cafe www.fmshny.org as part of the Island Songwriter's Showcase.
Denise also has a newly-released CD, "Inspired". Info at her website. www.deniseromas.com
The Wiyos Perform Vaudevillian Ragtime-Blues and Hillbilly Swing - At Last
Licks Café in Huntington on March 29
On Saturday, March 29 the Last Licks Café presents The Wiyos, a
Brooklyn-based trio whose repertoire stems from the American musical idioms
of the 1920s and ‘30s. With instrumentation of washboard, harmonica, kazoo,
resonator guitar, banjo, upright bass and three-part vocal harmony, The
Wiyos perform old standards and their original compositions. The Café is
located at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 109 Brown’s Rd,
Huntington, New York. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. with an open mic at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $15; $13 seniors and $5 students. Information:
www.lastlickscafe.org.
Phone: 631-427-9547.
The
Last Licks Cafe Presents:
Saturday, April 26th at 8:30 PM
Cheryl Wheeler
w/ Kenny White $25 General - $23
Seniors/Students Only 280 tickets are available for this
rare coffeehouse performance. Tickets available now
at Brown
Paper Tickets
by clicking
here
Northport High Powdered Wigs Presents
LES MISERABLES
SCHOOL EDITION
Performed entirely by students; A musical by ALAIN BOUBLIL; And CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG ;
School Edition specially adapted
and licensed by MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL And CAMERON
MACKINTOSH
Performances @ Northport High School Auditorium:
Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:00 PM $8.00 Ticket Price
Friday, March 14, 2008 8:00 PM $10.00 Ticket Price
Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:00 PM $10.00 Ticket Price
Senior Citizen Discount Ticket Price $7.00 for all performances
For Further Information Call:
Low Warringer –
262-6748
VISUAL ARTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KDBeQhtj0
Embracing Our
Differences – Long Island 2008
The Suffolk Center on the Holocaust,
Diversity & Human Understanding, Inc. (CHDHU) invites submissions for its
2008 Embracing Our Differences exhibition. The deadline for
submissions is June 2. Details are in the Call to
Artists, which can be obtained by contacting CHDHU at 631-451-4700 or at
chdhu@sunysuffolk.edu.
The brochure is also available on
NAC NEWS MARCH '08.doc.
This year's exhibit will be on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of
Art as well as Heckscher Park and other locations to be announced.
Artists are invited to submit their work for Exhibition to be held on the
grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art and Heckscher Park Call or write
for a detailed announcement. Technical
assistance will be available.
You may submit questions or request assistance by contacting us at:
chdhu@sunysuffolk.edu
Telephone (631) 451-4700 Fax (631) 451-4697
Note:
The NORTHPORT ARTS COALITION’s logo
appears in the supporter column this year to honor NAC after all our
work to bring Kate Kelly's and Doris Rowe’s work home
to Northport and the Long Path of Diversity: A Chalk Walk at the Northport
Village Park!
Direct from a successful show at the
Connecticut Flower and Garden show in Hartford CT, Mary Ahern, the Botanical
Fine Artist, will be showing her Digital and Traditional Fine Art Botanicals
at the Sugarloaf Festival in Somerset New Jersey on March 7 through 9, 2008.
These stunning florals represent the passion of her career as a full-time
Fine Artist.
Mike Soloway of North Shore Musikgarten will present free toddler music performances for children ages 0-5 on the following WEDNESDAYS in:
March 5 Borders Books, 68 Veterans Memorial Highway, Commack. 631-462-0569. 10:30 AM.
March 12 Borders Books, 2130 Nesconset Highway, Stony Brook. 631-979-0500. 10:30 AM.
March 19 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 380 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station. 631-421-9886. 10:30 AM. North Shore Musikgarten offers music classes for children from 4 months
through 3 years old at the Posey School in Northport Village and other
locations (www.NorthShoreMusikgarten.com
631-470-0523
In celebration of Women's History, the
Huntington Division of Women's Services is planning an Inter-Generational
Art Exhibit and Reception at Town Hall on March 28th from 4 to 7 p.m.
Rhonda Shepardson is asking Women Artists to submit their work. They
can contact her or send a picture of their work to her at
rts@town.huntington.ny.us
James Twomey III (fine art photography)
and Victoria Twomey (digital art) will both be featured in the Village
Connection Magazine's February and March issues. For more information, go to
www.twomeygallery.com
or call 631-754-1009.
Jane McGraw-Teubner won the Mortimer Freehof Memorial Award at the Salmagundi
Members Show in February.
Jane will be having a one woman show the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
at Stony Brook and a three person show with John Mansueto ans Sharon
Way-Howard at Christopher Gallery, Stony Brook.
A call for artists:
from Nora Nolan, a member of St. Baldrick’s and NAC.
Funds raised through St. Baldrick's
events are helping some of the world's finest researchers find cures for
childhood cancer.
This year,
at the children's event which is being held on Friday, March 7th, they are
expanding their fundraising efforts with a silent auction. Can any
artists in NAC donate a piece of their artwork for their auction? If
so, please use the "in-kind" donation form for tax purposes, as it is a
charitable donation.
www.stbaldricks.org/includes
THEATER
The TOWNSHIP THEATRE GROUP will hold its next
monthly meeting on Tuesday March 18th at the Countrywood School, 499
Old Country Road, Huntington Station. TTG’s monthly meetings are open to the
public at no charge, and include one act plays, scenes and workshops
presented after a brief business meeting. Call (631) 421-9832 for
information or visit our web site at
WWW.TownshipTheatreGroup.Com.
THEATER WITH A COUNTRY-WESTERN FLARE AT THE JOHN W. ENGEMAN THEATER IN ALWAYS . . . PATSY CLINE
Contact: Paul DeGrocco, Director of Marketing
631-261-9700 x.16 Fax: 631-261-9720
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
FILM
Amy Connor and Charlotte Koons
are appearing in "The Vagina Monologues" as part of Cinema Arts Centre's
celebration of V-Day's 10th anniversary on Sunday, March 30.
"The Vagina Monologues" was written by Eve Ensler to raise awareness of and
end violence against women. CAC's program begins with brunch, followed
by a screening of "Until the Violence Stops." A live performance of
"The Vagina Monologues" comes next, and the day ends with a buffet reception
catered by the Thatched Cottage. Tickets can be purchased for the
film/brunch ($12 members/$15 non-members), the performance/buffet ($25
member/$35 non-members), or the film/brunch/performance/buffet ($35
members/$45 non-members). More information is available at the Cinema
Arts Centre website (www.cinemaartscentre.org)
or by calling 631-423-7611.
Sunday, March 9 – Cinema Arts Centre and Codepink Long Island presents the Third Annual Celebration of “International Women’s Day. “Stop the Next War Now” 12 noon-5 pm. Tickets $40 Adults, 35 Seniors & Members, $20 Students with ID. “A tribute to Nobel Peace Prize Winning Women performed by the students from the Department of Performing Arts at Adelphi University.
POETRY
An Invitation
Sunday, April 13, 2 to 4 p.m.
Walt Whitman Birthplace
Old Walt Whitman Road (off
Rt. 110), Huntington, NY
The program will include: an
hour family reading. Art exhibit by family members. Performance of Matthew
Pierce's musical composition, "November" (poem by David Axelrod) performed
by Ron Meixsell, baritone and Ruthann Turekian, soprano, Isabella Johnson,
pianist and chamber ensemble. Participants in Suffolk Young Poets Mentoring
Program are invited to read a poem.
Refreshments will be served.
RSVP by email, please: Dr. Axelrod, axelrodthepoet@yahoo.com
or call, 631-451-0478
DANCE
Posey School students are busily
choreographing new dances for a concert at the Laurel Avenue School in
April. If you would like an invitation to the performance, send an email to
posey@optonline.net.
We welcome new students to our spring term. You can find class schedules on
our website,
www.poseyschool.com.
The Blue Spruce Cloggers will appear at the Huntington Library on March 9, 2008 at 3PM, 338 Main St (25A) Huntington, NY 11743 at no charge to the public. Tel: 631 427-5165.
On March 16, 2008, the Blue Spruce Cloggers appear for free at the Harborfields
Library in Greenlawn starting at 2PM
31 Broadway Greenlawn, NY 11740. Tel: 631 757-4200
MEMBER NEWS
Welcome to our newest Board Member – Marsha Bartley
Starting March 1st, NAC member, Yvonne Suzuki Licopoli will be teaching a beginners yoga class on Saturdays at 11:30 AM and Wednesdays at 5:30 PM at Jabari Yoga located at 52 Broadway in Greenlawn. If you've been wanting to try yoga, this is a great place to start. Learn the fundamentals of yoga's basic standing and seated postures in a safe, gentle environment. For more experienced yogis, Yvonne is also teaching power yoga on Tuesdays at 9:30 AM
Editor, Pat Bond
Webmaster, Kevin McMahon
NAC BOARD
Lauren Paige, Executive Director
Pat Bond, Director
Charlotte Koons, Outreach Specialist
Terry Lister, Public Relations
Marsha Bartley – Treasurer
ADVISORY BOARD – Laura DeSalvo, Membership
Craig Fligstein, Grant consultant
Kate Kelly, Visual Art
Kevin McMahon, Web Manager
Mary Ellen Moll, Library Liaison
Daniel Paige, Community Liaison
George Rehn, C.P.A.
Doris Rowe, Graphic Consultant
Arlene Handel, Community
Consultant
NAC WEBSITE
A Chronological List of
Events:
SUNDAY, MARCH 2 – Riddotto Concert – Old First Church in Huntington
WED. MARCH 5 – Mike Holoway
FRIDAY, MARCH 7 – St. Baldrick’s Children’s Event
FRIDAY MARCH 7 - Opera Night.
SUNDAY MARCH 9 - LONESOME TRAVELER, a musical narrative about Lee Hays
SUNDAY MARCH 9 – International Women’s Day – 2-4 pm Cinema
WEDNESDAY – March 12 – Through the Seasons with Japanese Classical Dance
WEDNESDAY – MARCH 12 – Mike Holoway
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY 13,14,15, - Les Miserables – Northport High School
SATURDAY, MARCH 15 - at the Folk Music Society of Huntington's Hard Luck Cafe the Island Songwriter's Showcase
SUNDAY, MARCH 16 – The Blue Spruce Cloggers at Harborfield Library Greenlawn.
MONDAY, MARCH 17 – Reader’s Theater Reading “Ripemess is all” and “Endings” by Dan Levin
WEDNESDAY – March 17 – Mike Holoway
TUESDAY, MARCH 18 – Township Theater Group
FRIDAY – MARCH 28 – POETS IN PORT with Michelle Whitaker & Kempton Van Hoff
FRIDAY, March 28 – American History month at Cinema Arts – NAC artists will be participating 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, March 28 – Art Exhibit & Reception Town Hall
MARCH 29 - at Last Licks Café in Huntington - The Wiyos Perform Vaudevillian Ragtime-Blues and Hillbilly Swing
SUNDAY, MARCH 30 - "The Vagina Monologues" was written by Eve Ensler