March 2006

 

MARCH 23, 2006 MARKS AN HISTORICAL EVENT - THE FIRST FULL LIVE PERFORMANCE IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED THEATER SINCE 40 YEARS AGO.

 

 The Bare Bones Theatre Company presents the Long Island premiere of "Brooklyn Boy," by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies. The play will run for seven performances, on March 23, 24, 25, 30, and 31 at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, April 2 at 3:00 p.m. Location is Northport Theatre for the Performing Arts, 250 Main St, Northport. Tickets are $20 and $18 for senior/students. Available at 866-811-4111 or www.TheatreMania.com    Other info: www.barebonestheater.com or 631-757-3627.

 

 

NAC EVENTS

A Poet in the Heart – A tribute to poetreeman, John Kicker will take place on Wednesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Northport Library, 151 Laurel Avenue Rd., Northport. (Between Rte. 25A & Main Street, near Scudder Avenue.)  Parking is available behind the building.  Please join us in a celebration of Jay’s life.  Come with music, words, and joy.  Participating poets and musicians include Alan Semerdjian, Barbara Reiher Meyers, Binnie Pasquier,  Bruce Johnson,Tara Kavanagh, Isabella Eredita Johnson and more!

Please call Isabella at 631 261-2387 if you would like to be part of the tribute.

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Friday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. (Fourth Friday of the Month)

Northport Arts Coalition presents Poets in Port, featuring Binnie Pasquier,

Hosted by Kate Dellis-Stover at Café’ Portofino; 249 Main Street, Northport, NY  11768 (Across from the Post Office)

 

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The Village Hall Art Show opening (see below) was well attended and is a delight.  Stop in and see the works of “Generations of Northport Artist” (4 generations of Northport Artists) including Grace Taylor, Janet Simpson, Margita Hatfield and Kathy Ferrara show curated by Margita Hatfield.

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The Northport Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that a funding grant was awarded by the Huntington Arts Council for its popular Happenings on Main Street program for 2006.  The Northport Chamber of Commerce works closely with the Northport Arts Coalition and the Incorporated Village of Northport to continue this very popular Main Street musical project.  Happenings on Main Street began 8 years ago in 1999 and is a landmark project featuring easy listening music including jazz, children's and original music by local artists of all ages and presented free on Friday evenings during the summer.

 

DANCE

 

POSEY DANCE REPERTORY COMPANY and THE CHILDREN’S DANCE COMPANY will perform on Sunday, April 9. Two performances at 2:00 and at 4:00. Phone 757-2700 to reserve space. Suggested donation $5 per ticket. Sponsored by Dance Education Services of Long Island, performances will be held at Posey School 57 Main Street, Northport Village.

 

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Danskinetics (also called Yoga in motion) Let Ghislaine lead you into a deep dance experience that will inspire you to find your true self-expression movement. Breathing, stretching, fun workout, spontaneous group creation will carry you throughout your days with a renewed body and spirit connection.  NO dance or Yoga background necessary.    Weekly classes.                                Thursdays: 10:00 am. Posey School of Dance, 57 Main Street, Northport.                            Saturdays:   9:45 am. Variations, 180 spring rd, Huntington.    Please call: 631-262 7844.

 

 

 

FILM

Celebrate International Women’s Day

Code Pink Long Island, Woman 4 Peace & Cinema Arts Centre Present  

How War & Violence Affect Women

How Women Can Wage Peace

 

Sunday, March 12 • 11:30am—4:30pm (welcome reception with refreshments 11:30am—12 Noon)

$20 Public • $10 Students

 

Keynote Speaker: Medea Benjamin Intl. Peace Activist & Code Pink Co-founder

Invited panelists include Iraq War veteran Nicole Goodwin, Grandmothers Against the War, Victims Information Bureau (VIBS), Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans for Peace.

 

Featured films: Sisters in Resistance, with special guest filmmaker Maia Wechsler

Interview w/author Alice Walker by Amy Goodman, discussing Alice’s arrest at an anti-war rally

 

Lunch Buffet!  Music!  Raffle!

Network with Local Peace & Women’s Groups!

For advanced tickets call the Cinema Arts Centre at (631) 423-7611.  Seating is limited

 

MUSIC

 

The new Northport Community Band (www.ncb.homestead.com) website offers a wealth of information – an About Us section, a roster of playing members, a list of the group’s sponsors, photos from the 2005 concert season, helpful links, directions to the bandstand (including accommodations for boaters and a list of local eateries) and a link for making programming suggestions, inquiring about sponsorships and obtaining media information. As summer approaches, the Concert Schedule page will provide specific information about concert dates, a programming overview and concert programs (which will be posted a day or two before each concert). Bob, Don and the members of the band look forward to seeing area music lovers during the group’s 2006 summer season and hope concertgoers will find the website to be a valuable resource.

 

Last Licks Cafe Coffeehouse at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington

109 Browns Road Huntington (631) 427-9547 Saturday March 25th. Open mic at 8, headliners at 8:30 $10 $8 students and seniors Lastlickscafe.com, http://www.myspace.com/lastlickscafe  Presents: The Times Three Tour: RAY NEAL, CHRIS BUSKEY and FRANK CRITELLI: 3 songwriters performing their original works in-the-round, solo, duo and trio performances that may have you laughing one minute and deeply considering the meaning of your existence the next. 

 

At the Trattoria Grasso in Cold Spring Harbor in March: 

- Wayne Sabelle, Noriko Ueda & Ernie Byrd = Wed 1,8,15 & 22

- Art Hirahara Trio  - Piano, bass & drum - Thur 2

- Marguerite Juenemann Trio - Vocals, piano and bass - 9 & 10

- Wayne Sabella & Guest with bass - 16 

- Danny Mixon Trio - Piano, bass & drums -   23 & 24

- Sue Giles & Company - Vocals, piano & bass - Fri 3

- Phoebe Austin & Company - Vocals, piano & bass - Fri 17

Ernie Byrd, Dave LaLama, & Noriko Ueda - Vocals, piano & bass – SATURDAYS

At the Cold Spring Harbor Arts Center 631-367-7062

 -  Ray Charles' "Raylette" alum Cynthia Scott performs in concert with John diMartino, piano Essiet Essiet, bass and Dwayne "Cook" Broadnax, drums  5-7 PM  $30.00   631-367-7062 -  Sun 5,

 -Jim Dawson w/ Seth David Walter performs in concert  5-7 PM  $25.00 - Sun 12, 

 

POETRY

 

HAIKU and BEYOND – Learn about haiku as a way of life, literary genre and creative hobby.

Presented by Mankh.  Thursday, March 9, 7:00-8:45pm at Smithtown Library

1 North Country Rd, Smithtown – (631)265-2072

 

Locust Valley Library Poetry Society features GEORGE WALLACE and YOLANDA COULAZ

Open mic follows. Hosted by Mankh. Sunday, March 26, 2:00 – 4:00pm, 170 Buckram Road, Locust Valley – (516) 671-1837

 

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THE NORTH SEA POETRY SCENE FIRST ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST

Guidelines:   

1. Send your contact information and the titles of the poems on a separate cover letter

 2. Send 3 copies of each poem, with no contact information on the poem but with your age and

     category in the upper left hand corner. (Age Categories: Children 12 & under, Teens 13 to 19,

     Adults 20 and above)     

 3. Please limit the poem to forty lines or less.

 4. Only previously unpublished poems.
 5. Reading fee is $5.00 for up to three poems.
  6. Entries must be postmarked by March 15^th, 2006.

  Awards will be presented on April 30, 2006. 

  First prize: Adult $200.00,   First Prize: Teens $ 100.00    First Prize: Children $ 50.00

  Judges:  Allen Planz, Gladys Henderson & Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan Send from 1 to 3 poems, along  with    

  a check or money order to:  The North Sea Poetry Scene, 33 Woods Lane, Southampton, NY 11968-1719

  

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You Are Cordially Invited to join in the celebration of a new and historic anthology of Suffolk County Poetry entitled, The Light of City and Sea, edited by Suffolk Poet Laureate Daniel Thomas Moran and published by renowned Long Island Publisher, Street Press. Dan Moran and his associate editors Graham Everett, Allen Planz, Virginia Walker and Vince Clemente in cooperation with Stony Brook University will host a reception at The Wang Center on the Stony Brook University Campus Wednesday April 5th at 4 pm.

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Wednesday, March 8^th, 7:30 pm

A memorial tribute to Jay Johnson (John Kicker) will be presented by the Northport Arts Coalition, and Laura De Salvo. The program will include poets, musicians, and more.

Isabella Eredita Johnson will to play a short Brahms Intermezzo, Tara Kavanagh will sing, and Bruce Johnson will read Jay’s poetry at Northport Public Library

151 Laurel Avenue, Northport, NY 11768 phone: (631) 261-6930. 

 

Friday, March 10^th, 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.

PPA presents featured poets, Irv Abram and Barbara Reiher-Meyers at

Barnes and Noble Bookstore, 380 Walt Whitman Road

(Route 110; accessible from all East/West highways)
Huntington Station, NY 11746   421-9886

 

Sunday, March 12^th, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

George Wallace is reading, as part of a gallery talk at the exhibit of Stanley Twardowicz' tribute to Jack Kerouac; hosted by the Curator and poet, Kate Kelly, at

The Art League of Long Island, 107 East Deer Park Rd., Dix Hills, NY 11746 631 462-5400, on route 231. You make a right at the first traffic light just north of Northern State and it's the brick building on the left. It's just after the Dix Hills Fire Dept.

 

Monday, March 13^th, 7:00 P.M.

PPA presents featured poets, Ginger Williams and Barbara Reiher-Meyers, hosted by Gladys L.Henderson at Cool Beanz Cafe (Coffee House)

556 North Country Road (Rte 25A), St. James, 11780.  (Just East of Lake Ave.)

 

Friday, March 17^th, 8:00 P.M.

The Poetry Cafe at Huntington Historical Society Barn welcomes featured poet, Charles Fishman, at HHS Conklin Barn, Corner High St/Rte 110,

Huntington (Route 110 and High Street, two blocks south of Main Street)

Open reading to follow

 

Sunday, March 19^th, 1:30 p.m.

Long Island Poetry Collective and Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Open Poetry Reading. Walt Whitman Birthplace; 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd, South Huntington (Across road from the Walt Whitman Mall) Phone: (631) 427-5240

 

 

Tuesday, March 28^th, 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.

PPA presents featured poet, Larry Shoots, hosted by Geoff Kubilis at

Borders Book Store, 68 Veterans Memorial Highway, Commack, N. Y.

(631) 462-0569

 

 

Friday, March 31^st, 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.

PPA presents featured reader, Russ Perry, hosted by David Fox, at

Starbuck’s Coffee, 1706 Veterans Memorial Hwy, Islandia NY, 11749

Open reading to follow.

 

 

 

PERFORMING ARTS

 

Come Blown Your Horn-Performed by The Minstrel Players of Northport. Performances will be on Saturdays, February 25, March 4 & 11 at 8 PM and Sundays, February 26, March 4 & 12 at 3 PM at Trinity Episcopal Church located at 130 Main Street in Northport Village. Prices are $14 Adults and $12 Seniors. Opening night special of $10 for all seats. On March 11 there will be a special dinner theatre performance at 6:30 for $30. Reservations are recommended 

Crew/House Staff needed – The Minstrel Players of Northport are looking for Crew and House Staff for future productions. Crew Staff should be handy and lighting experience is a plus. House staff would be needed for show dates to sit guests and sell concessions. For more information, please call 1-800-260-2390 or 631-754-4246 or visit us online at www.minstrelplayers.org

 

 

 

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Gene Connor directs "Grease!" at Syosset High School.  Performances are Thursday 3/16 at 7pm, Friday 3/17 and Saturday 3/18 at 7:30pm, and Sunday 3/19 at 2pm.  Tickets are $8 general admission and are available at the door.

 

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A new play reading group is forming in Northport.  It will meet periodically to do unrehearsed performances of a variety of scripts.  By changing the cast throughout the reading, several actors can participate.  Audience members are welcome. There is no charge.  Our first reading will be of the Terrence McNally play “Lips Together, Teeth Apart,” a riveting comedy about a brother and sister and their spouses attempting to celebrate a 4^th of July weekend on Fire Island, while fighting the uncertainty of their affluent habits and petty prejudices.  

If you are interested in either reading or just attending, please contact Jo Ann Katz, jak@cosmeticmall.com for further information.

 

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VISUAL ARTS

 

ART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND
Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, 107 E. Deer Park Rd. Dix Hills

On View through March 19, 2006

       Exhibit Curators:  Kate Kelly, Nancy Olivier

The featured artists are Christopher Burke, James Holland, Ellen Kahn, Joseph Karoly, Elizabeth Knowles, Mario Naves, Robert W. Pillsbury, Doris Rowe, Anthony Smith Jr. and Stanley Twardowicz.

 

 

MEMBER NEWS

 

Tai Chi/ Qi Gong

Please join us, beginners to advanced, we welcome you all!

Tai Chi classes on Wed. evening at 7:30-8:30 

Qi Gong classes Tues. evenings 7:30- 8:30

at Posey Dance Studio 57 Main Street Northport.  Tuition is $15.00 per class.  For more information call Judi Hason 631-368-8701  wudangsoul@yahoo.com

 

 

THE JOY RIDE OF LIFE: An Enlightening Retreat

This full-day retreat incorporates inspirational talks, songs of reflection, relaxing meditation, and self-awareness workshops all geared towards happier living.  Breakfast and lunch included.  Saturday, March 11, 2006, 8:30am-5:30pm., 65 Seaview Avenue, Northport. $200 pp or Bring a Friend, ONLY $150 each.  Presented by Jim Ryan and Maggie Kalas.  Reserve NOW 754-7636 or jimryantalks@yahoo.com

 

 

A.R.T.S. MEETING

Any interested artist is invited to attend a fellowship of artists (writers, painters, actors, dancers, etc.) who share experiences, strengths and hopes with one another to overcome common problems.  "Our primary purpose is to express our creative gifts and achieve artistic freedom."

Hauppauge Library: 3/9, 4/6, 5/11 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Art League of Long Island: 3/28, 4/25, 5/30 Room 2 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Cathy Moschella can be reached at (631) 348-0550 or carlcat@optonline.net

 

 

 

NEW MEMERS:  A record 31!

Joyce Spencer, Laurie Kafalidis, Blue Spruce Cloggers  www.bluesprucecloggers.com , Ratamacue   www.ratamacue.info

Anne Mayer, Andy and Donna Reid Giffin, Ross Behrenfeld, Dennis and Wendy Tannenbaum. Tom Dunn. Gerald Allen

Michael Casano, Michael Suchocki, Jessica and Don Strasser, Philip Marone, Annette Kirk, Chris and Larry Chorowski

Louise Trinche, Terri and Joel Lucks, Nancy Anderson, Robert Olenuk, Richard and Melissa Holt. Diane Lobaugh

Bank of Smithtown www.bankofsmithtown.com. Peter Vannucci, Phyllis Sherwood

 

If you would like to become a member, Please send a check for $25 to NAC, P. O. Box 508, Northport, NY 11768

One of the many advantages of joining is a free art related announcement in this on-line newsletter and a link to your webpage on ours which is www.northportarts.org  (George Hart, Webmaster)

 

Pat Bond, Editor

 

Circulation almost 750!  Working on 1,000!