Arts& Letters May/June 2006 Vol. 17 • No. 3 Council on the Arts and Humanities for

Celebrate summer on Staten Island! Fun for the whole family! The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Greenbelt Nature Center, and the Wagner College Spotlight Gallery are just a sample of this year’s JuneFest locations. Bring a picnic and enjoy the day as the Tri-County Ramblers bring bluegrass to the Conference House. Unwind at a concert of Italian opera arias with Rebekah Nye at the NYPL, Richmondtown Branch. For contemporary art, see Henry Kim’s presentation of Reveal.ation, a video documenting his art process, and the art- work itself, at Kevin Barry Gallery. Or see Judy Hugentobler’s sculpted clay portraits at the Staten Island Hotel. JuneFest is a series of FREE performances and art exhibitions in public spaces throughout the Island in June. In its 14th year, JuneFest has showcased the creativity of local artists. 2 Readings COAHSI has recognized performing, exhibiting, folk, and now literary artists with monetary awards to present their work as part of JuneFest. 4 Folk Artists Folk & Traditional Arts Program 8 Art Exhibits COAHSI’s Folk & Traditional Arts Program presents “Honored Traditions: Honored 8 Performances Artists” as part of our JuneFest celebrations. The purpose of COAHSI’s Folk & Traditional Arts Program is to identify, support and present the traditional arts and artists that enrich our ALL FREE! lives here on Staten Island. THIS YEAR’S PERFORMING ARTS AWARD RECIPIENTS

Lammermoor), Violetta (La Traviata), and Micaela (Carmen). She QUEEN TIPSY is the recipient of many awards and has performed with the Wed. June 14 • 6pm Center for Contemporary Opera, the Mozart Festival Opera, and Rain date: June 21 Teatro Lirico D’Europa. Joseph Turrin has produced many works Museum © Copyright Fine Art Fotos © Copyright © Copyright Kevin Leboeuf © Copyright as a composer. Among the many commissioned works in his cat- alogue, highlights include Hemispheres for Kurt Masur’s final This cool, sophisticated concert with the Philharmonic, which was taken on quartet will wow you tour to Europe and Asia. He has composed numerous solo and with original songs and chamber works to spotlight the talents of many musicians. He has musical favorites by appeared as a conductor with various symphonies and his works Randi Newman, Aretha are recorded with many labels. Franklin, Muddy Water, Bessie Smith, Etta James and others. BOB WRIGHT Thursday, June 15 • 7pm The set is a journey from heavy blues–rock to a few ballads, to Greenbelt Nature Center several dance numbers. Queen Tipsy’s original song, “Next Bob Wright will be joined by fellow members of the Harbortown Drink’s on Me,” is a sultry bossa nova sure to move everyone Revue to present an acoustic Americana concert of original mate- who hears it. rial about Staten Island and the greater area, including tunes from their CD, Harbortown, and new songs and Kioke Yuki © Copyright Queen Tipsy is a local musical quartet made up of Phyllis compositions—a modern snapshot of old sensibilities. Forman (vocals), Jon Specter (guitar), Rich Peterson (bass), and Nat Seeley (drums). Their eclectic mix of blues, rock and jazz Bob Wright sings and writes much of the original material. He are a combination of classics and original compositions by Jon also plays guitar, banjo, and mandolin. Wright was a finalist at the Specter and Phyllis Forman. They’ve been performing in New Merlefest songwriting competition, and International Bluegrass York City hotspots since 2001. Music Association leadership class member. Bob Conroy and Norm Pederson are songwriters, singers, and multi-instrumen- talists who have performed internationally. Singer, writer, guitarist NEW GENERATION Friday, June 16 • 7pm REBEKAH NYE Caroline Cutroneo joins bassist Bill Doerge and singer Mara West Brighton Community Center, 230 Broadway Saturday June 3 • 2:30pm Levine complete the Harbortown Revue. A newly formed musical group, New Generation presents an NYPL, Richmondtown eclectic mix of jazz and classical, bossa nova and latin, rhythm and Branch MELODY ALESI blues, rock, hip-hop, funk, and more to create a new original Rebekah Nye © Copyright A concert of Italian opera arias, Thursday, June 29 • 7pm sound. New Generation’s interpretations and original composi- from Mozart through Puccini, St. Alban’s Church tions are guaranteed to energize audiences, and make them get presented by Rebekah Nye, Melody Alesi, soprano and up and dance! soprano, and Martin Yazdzik,

© Copyright Melody Alesi © Copyright Joseph Turrin, pianist, will pres- pianist. This will be a special ent as a recital team. Ms. Alesi’s New Generation includes Jesse Blum (on trumpet and keyboard), concert devoted to the develop- vocal color is particularly ex- Rich Bennett (on guitar), Eiji Obata (on guitar), Kazuo ment of Italian opera arias. It is pressive. Alesi and Turrin have Nakamura (on bass), and Jerrold Kavanagh (on drums). perfect for the passionate opera lover or for those interested in been a recital team for over five Nakamura, who also composes, has played with the Richmond getting to know opera a little bit better. years. Specializing in American County Orchestra, Bronx Symphony Orchestra, and A&B songs and works by contempo- Company. Jerrold Kavanagh, who does performances around Rebekah Nye, lyric soprano, and Martin Yazdzik, pianist and rary composers, Ms. Alesi and New York City, is on staff at Julia Music School. His studio work conductor, finished a two-year contract with an opera house in Mr. Turrin have been sited for having the romantic charm and includes albums with distribution overseas. Jesse Blum has Germany. Nye has a doctorate from the University of Michigan, consummate professionalism of the famed team William Balkin played with Heart & Soul Theatre Group, The Corporation, and where she studied with Lorna Haywood. She has performed at and Joan Morris. They made their debut as a recital team at with Censor. Rich Bennett has recorded and toured with Friendly the Landestheater Neustrelitz, Neubrandenburg Philharmonie, Caramoor, Festival of the Arts and are recording a CD of Mr. Bears, Hotels, and Rebecca Pronsky Band. He’s been commis- L’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Opera Grand Rapids, and the Turrin’s vocal works for Summit Records. sioned to write chamber music for Pample-mousse, and his newest Chicago Chamber Orchestra. Yazdzik began his career at project, Monocle, has contributed a track for an international re- Theatre Royale de la Monnaie in Brussels, then trod the old- A native New Yorker, Melody Alesi was born to professional lease. Eiji Obata has performed with New York City’s Yaz Band fashioned path from coach to conductor while working in many singers. Growing up in the arts, she was a choreographer for the and the Eric Paulin Quartet. He has also performed at the Blue European theatres. Rebekah has had engagements at Boris Goldofsky Opera by the age of 17. She has played numer- Note with his band, Yukiju-rushi, has two CDs. Obata also tours Klagenfurt, Braunschweig, Theater an der Wien, and, ous operatic roles including Gilda (Rigoletto), Lucia (Lucia di internationally. most recently, Aachen. 1 THIS YEAR’S PERFORMING ARTS AWARD RECIPIENTS (continued from page 1)

FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES VALERIE Sat., June 10 • 2pm QUINLAN Lynn Rogers © Copyright Rain date June 17 © Copyright Valerie Quinlan Valerie © Copyright Sunday, June 11 Fountain Cemetery, 2pm Ramblers Tri-County © Copyright Tompkins Court off JCC North Shore, Richmond Terrace, Senior Lounge near Broadway Valerie Quinlan, violin- A “living tour” will be ist, will perform a recital given by actors repre- of classical violin music, TRI-COUNTY RAMBLERS senting a cross section accompanied by pianist June 4 • 2pm • The Conference House Outdoor Art Show of historical people laid Josu de Solaun Soto. A Rain date June 17 to rest in the Fountain Cemetery. Visitors will take a tour with a broad range of musical Bluegrass comes to Staten Island as the Tri-County Ramblers guide, and then listen as “passed” Islanders tell their stories in selections representing the baroque, classic, romantic and mod- perform this all-acoustic form of American country music. monologues that will appeal to all. ern styles of classical music will be presented. Quinlan and Soto Audiences will listen to instrumentals, as well as to solos, duets, will present the work of Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate and and trio vocals. And the keys will be as varied as the tempos. Donna Dimino has been acting for the past 10 years and has of Czech violinist Josef Suk, two well-known virtuosos who were The Tri-County Ramblers will also perform some of their origi- performed in many productions on the Island. Marjorie Decker also composers. Mozart and Leclair both played the violin mas- nal compositions. The band members include Chick Marrone Johnson, Staten Island Advance Woman of Achievement 1991, terfully, and works from their repertoire will also be included. (guitar, lead vocals), Doug Nicolaisen (5 string banjo), Mark is a founding member of Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, a Farrell (fiddle and mandolin, lead and tenor vocals), and Allen well-known historian and genealogist. She co-writes a monthly Violinist Valerie Quinlan is a native of California who has made Cohen (upright bass, baritone vocals). Staten Island Advance column for the Staten Island Preservation her way to Staten Island. She’s been performing as a recitalist, League, and has worked for decades with Richmond Town chamber musician, and orchestral soloist in many parts of the The Tri-County Ramblers came into being at a “picking party” Historical Society. Lynn A. Rogers is Executive Director of United States, as well as in Mexico, Germany and Italy. In the in the yard of guitarist Chick Marrone in 1973. Bass player Allen Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, a genealogist and researcher. Metropolitan area, Quinlan has performed at the Bruno Walter Cohen enjoyed the jam so much, he returned every Friday for She has coordinated previous interactive cemetery tours and has Auditorium at Lincoln Center, the Donnell Library Center of years. Also present at that first jam were dobro player “Big Walt” researched hundreds of Staten Island families and veterans of the New York Public Library, the Museum, and the Birnbaum, and banjo player Kenny Schmand. At the time, the the Civil War. Joseph Smith has been acting for the past 11 New York Historical Society. She is the founder and director of musicians were scattered through three of New York City’s years, and most recently appeared in “You Know I Can’t Hear Serenade, a concert series presented at Christ Church in New counties—Kings, Richmond and Nassau—so the band became You When The Water’s Running” at Seaview Playwrights Brighton. known as the Tri-County Ramblers. The band has since per- Theatre. In 2005, he joined Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries formed throughout the New York City area. Their CD, Big Time, of Staten Island to perform two events. His portrayals have has been heard on over 600 U. S. radio stations, as well as on included Edward Sargent, a Staten Island architect; John quite a few stations worldwide. Needless to say, the reviews Crabtree, a silk factory owner; and Staten Islands’ third Borough have been most favorable. President, Calvin Decker Van Name.

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CHANDINI and making the “Crossing” to the surprising environment of PINILLA Staten Island has transformed Brickhouse’s work as well. The JENNA NYPL, exhibit will feature oils on canvassed wood panels, and paintings LUCENTE St. George Branch in gouache on paper. Cromwell Artist Talk on June 17, Center, © Copyright Jenna Lucente © Copyright at 2pm, St. George For Farrell Brickhouse, art is a personal odyssey to carry for- At Pier #6 and © Copyright Chandini Pinilla © Copyright Library Auditorium ward and find deeper unity in what is happening in and around Murray Hulbert Pinilla’s paintings depict himself. His work is experiential, non-formulaic. Farrell was Avenue landscapes of her home, born in NYC. He’s been a painting instructor at School of Visual Jenna Lucente’s India. The landscapes are Arts since 1980. His work has shown at Pamela Auchincloss, paintings are very of the lovely and famous Max Protech, and Julian Pretto galleries. His art has been in accessible works done in a colorful, rhythmic, graphic style. The city of Mysore, which is group shows in Texas and NYC. Cromwell location, says the artist, “is a friendly environment for studded with palaces and temples, and is known as a cradle for everyone who comes to see my art.” Raised in Staten Island, the arts, music, dance, and folklore under the kings and the royal Jenna Lucente received her BFA at Syracuse University, then family. JUDY HUGENTOBLER earned her MFA from College. Group shows include Staten Island Hotel Art in General, ISE Cultural Foundation, Borough Hall, and Art Chandini Pinilla was drawn to fine arts at a very young age. This presentation will be an Lab. She was public art finalist on two MTA projects. Lucente is She’s won prizes and awards in several nationwide art competi- opportunity for Hugentobler to a swimmer who is creatively inspired in the pool or gymnasium. tions. She has a Masters degree from Mysore University and a © Copyright Judy Hugentobler © Copyright present her series of portraits. Lucente teaches at several places, including Wagner College. diploma in Fine Arts and Indian Classical Dance. She has The portraits were recently com- served in the Central Institute of Indian Languages (Ministry of pleted, since her return to Staten Education) as an Art Executive. Her art is in collections in India Island in 2005. The exhibition and abroad. She’s lived here for 10 years. will feature a grouping of anony- ROBERT mous portraits in clay, which the BUNKIN Spotlight Gallery artist conceived as an experiment at Wagner College in casting and surface treatment. Channel Graham © Copyright Fresco artist and painter For Hugentobler, the process of Robert Bunkin’s exhibit, construction and decoration of “Under Construction,” each portrait is integral to the content. The artist see each por- is a collective portrait of

© Copyright Farrell Brickhouse © Copyright trait as an opportunity to investigate family history and memory, —and homage to—the “a somewhat ambiguous documentation of a personal narrative,” Chinese artisans who says Hugentobler. The exhibit is intended for general audiences, came here in 1998 to and is not specific to any age group. FARRELL BRICKHOUSE build the New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden in the Staten Spotlight Gallery at Wagner College While living in upstate New York, Hugentobler developed an Island Botanical Gardens at Snug Harbor Cultural Center. The Works selected for this exhibit were produced beginning just interest in clay as a sculpture medium. Influenced by the West portraits are painted in true fresco, on contemporary, mass-pro- before 9/11, and include the artist’s subsequent move to Coast ceramic sculpture movement, she adopted clay as a cast- duced cement blocks similar to those used in the foundation Stapleton on Staten Island. Living downtown for nearly 30 years ing material. Trials through slab rolling and hand-building walls of the garden. The exhibition is at Wagner College, the site allowed Brickhouse to develop a specific vocabulary techniques brought her to the present cast forms, relying on of another of the artist’s frescoes, “Cenacolo,” painted in 1993, that included the architectural drama of the narrowed molds to achieve certain effects. “These are works in progress, then removed, conserved and reinstalled by Jonathan Sherman 2 part of the Island between the Rivers. Leaving Tribeca as my fascination with classic portraiture continues to evolve.” Art Conservation in a rehearsal space at the College. (continued) EXHIBITING ARTS AWARD RECIPIENTS • ON VIEW JUNE 1-30 (continued from page 2)

Robert Bunkin is a figurative painter, art historian (faculty of Parsons School of Design) and freelance curator. He has an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he taught himself fresco. He’s studied fresco technique with James Hyde, Rhoda Yohai Andors, Stoney Conley and at the Henry Kim © Copyright © Copyright Arrow Mueller © Copyright Tintori School for True Fresco in Vainella, Italy. HENRY KIM Kevin Barry Gallery STUART Henry Kim’s, “Reveal.- KUHLMAN ation,” is a video docu- Kevin Barry Gallery mentary of his painting Untold numbers of process, and will accom- travelers have taken pany his art exhibition. ARROW MUELLER © Copyright Stuart Kuhlman © Copyright the Staten Island Kim’s unique artistic approach includes a variety of mediums. In Beanie’s Coffee Shop Ferry daily. Most are particular, by painting with transparent adhesive, Kim is unable Arrow Mueller’s art addresses the distance between the old and in transit to work and to predict how the composition will actually play out. He uses the new, as revealed in the historical residue in architectural are preoccupied with fire to burn in images, creating a moment of revelation and dis- forms that have been created recently. The artist hopes his work the mundane tasks ahead of them. Some are working on their covery as the image is revealed. By watching his exceptional relates to both hot architectural issues currently being raised in laptops and Blackberries, and miss the extraordinary views from process, Kim hopes that exhibit–goers will be transported. Staten Island, and to the contemporary art dialogue. Recently, the ferry en route to . This exhibit will focus on the Visitors to the Kevin Barry Gallery will be amazed by the origi- Mueller had been working on restoring historical objects. daily visions of the ferry that are taken for granted. nality of thought behind a creative process that would seem to However, he is taking a step back and creating ruinous forms be purely spontaneous. with a ruinous feeling to them. Stuart Kuhlman grew up on Staten and moved to the West Coast, where he explored photography, and showed his work as Henry Kim received his BFA from School of Visual Arts in 2005. Arrow Mueller has exhibited in several group shows, including part of a collective at 1078 Gallery in Chico. Since moving here, He is involved in shooting, editing and screening video presen- at PS1. His work over time had brought him to think more about Kuhlman has photographed the urban landscape with a digital tations at All Nations Church on Staten Island, and is a teaching time itself, and to concentrate on how time can be represented camera, and is exploring 35mm black-and-white film. artist assistant at the Guggenheim Museum. by what is left behind.

THIS YEAR’S FOLK ARTS PARTICIPANTS THIS YEAR’S LITERARY Practitioners of traditional arts promote continuation ARTS AWARD RECIPIENTS and recognition of these forms. Folk life, and folk and traditional arts, are based in community. They express EDWARD FIORELLI the values, ideas and beliefs of a culture. Help us cele- Literary Artist

brate folk arts and cultures of Staten Island. Curated by DeSilva Tanya © Copyright Thursday, June 8, 12 noon Jean Crandall, folk and traditional arts specialist. Garibaldi-Meucci Museum Edward Fiorelli will do a public © Copyright Edward© Copyright Fiorelli TRADITIONAL reading of his essay, “The IRISH MUSIC & DANCE Dancing Barber,” part of a col- Tuesday, June 13 • 6:30pm lection of short stories, sketches NYPL, Port Richmond Branch and personal essays on the NATIONAL WOMEN’S DANCE theme of ethnicity—particularly © Copyright Dawn DAniels © Copyright Come see Dawn Daniels, Niall O’Leary, Sunday, June 25 • 4pm Linda Hickman, and Tony De-Marco as TROUPE OF SRI LANKA the Italo-American experience in an “urbanized village” envi- Calvary Presbyterian Church auditorium they perform traditional Irish dance and and ronment like that of Staten Island. The theme is our human The Troupe will present traditional Sri Lankan dance (Kandyan music. O’Leary is an All-Ireland and World need for spectacle as a way of coping with the harsher realities Dance), highlighted by discussion and description. The dancers Champion Irish dancee. Niall O’Leary Irish of life. “The Dancing Barber” is brief and humorous, and will wear elaborate costumes, and are accompanied by a drum called Dance Troupe has performed at St. Patrick’s appeal to all Staten Islanders. the Geta Beraya, and a small pair of cymbals knows as the Day Ball. Daniels graduated from the Irish Thalampota. Dancer, teacher and choreographer Tanya DeSilva An associate professor of English at St. John’s University, Arts Center, and studied with Niall O’Leary. She placed 2nd, 3rd dances with the Citrasena Dance Company. Her group has per- Edward Fiorelli recently began writing fiction and narrative es- and 4th in the North American Irish Dance Championships and formed at the Smithsonian Institution, Asia Society and College says. His stories have been published in the United States and eastern regionals. Hickman and DeMarco are fine practitioners of Staten Island. Canada. One of his prize-winning essays is being published in a of Irish music, and will join the dancers in this presentation of tra- limited edition anthology, Writing Beyond History. ditional Irish music and dance. THE ART OF ED WEISS MELODY UKRAINIAN EGG Literary Artist OF DRAGON, DECORATING Saturday, CHINESE © Copyright Jean Crandall © Copyright (PYSANKY) June 24 at 2pm

MUSIC Sat., June 24 • 2pm Edward Weiss © Copyright NYPL, ENSEMBLE Todt Hill-Westerleigh St. George Branch

© Copyright Melody of Dragon © Copyright Sat., June 17 Branch of the New York Ed Weiss will read ex- 2pm • NYPL, Public Library cerpts from his first New Dorp Branch Creating Pysanky is a folk art from Ukraine in which eggs are dec- novel, Peter Pigeon of Melody of Dragon, orated in many colors and intricate designs by skilled artists. The Snug Harbour. This book is written in the tradition of the “bil- Inc., is a Chinese ensemble of four musicians from the leading beautiful designs of pysanky are written on the surface of an egg dungsroman,” a novel that tells the story of growing up and conservatories in China. The JuneFest audience will learn about with heated wax. Pysanky artist Tanya Snihur is a Ukrainian finding oneself. The story is about a baby pigeon discovered in and hear Chinese instruments performed by some of its finest American who came to the U.S. at age 10. She learned of pysanky a snow storm by retired sailors at Snug Harbor. practitioners. Chen Tao, master of the dizi (bamboo flute) and at Ukrainian Scout Camp, and later devoted herself to mastering Chen Sisi, a soloist of the yangqin (dulcimer), are joined by the art form. She also makes Ukrainian bead necklaces. She will After graduating Bennington College as a fine arts major, Weiss Zhang Bao-Li, master of the erhu (two-string fiddle); Liu li, a be joined by guest artists Roksolyana Gladoun, Marta Melnyk wrote and performed in the East Village, appearing at Pyramid performer of the guqin (zither); and Zhou Yi, a pipa soloist. They and Tania Turzer. They will demonstrate the art of pysanky. A Club, 8BC, La Mama, Theater For The New City, BAM, The have performed widely, including at Lincoln Center, Juilliard limited number of spaces will be available for those who wish to Kitchen and The Mark Taper Theater complex (L.A.). His non- School and University of Cambridge. make their own pysanky under the guidance of the artists. fiction writing has appeared in dozens of magazines and in books published by Prentice Hall and Carroll & Graf.

JuneFest is a series of FREE exhibits and performances by Staten Island artists, presented by the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island. JuneFest Exhibiting Arts Awards are made possible through JPMorgan Chase Regrants in partnership with COAHSI. Additional support for Junefest is pro- vided by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Program Services Unit, Verizon, North American Data Forms, Time Warner Cable of New York, Washington Mutual, Con Edison, and Poets & Writers, Inc. COAHSI Folk Arts Programs are made possible in part by generous support from the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program. SAVE THE DATES! JUNE 1-4 SI Cultural Venues Directory Advanced Arts Center of Tottenville (800) 791-2787 www.advancedARTS.org African Violet Society of SI (718) 356-7763 Aleray Performing Arts School (718) 981-9777 American Institute of Architects / SI (718) 720-0710 1st Annual Film Festival www.aiasiny.org/pages/569137/index.htm Archaeology Society of SI (718) 448-1395 www.assi-aia.com Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (718) 816-9796 www.asci.org Art Alive (646) 522-3672 Salutes Staten Island’s Art Lab, Inc. www.artlab.info (718) 447-8667 Artists Federation (718) 987-6371 Clay Pit Pond State Park Preserve (718) 967-1976 www.nysparks.com Collaborative Projects, Inc. (718) 447-1347 Cultural Diversity www.brickhaus.com/amoore Columcille Irish Cultural Center (718) 667-8842 www.statenislandirish.org Something is Happening Here... Conference House Association (718) 984-6046 www.theconferencehouse.org You may have noticed more films being shot in your neighborhoods here on Staten Island. In fact, according to the Council on the Arts & Humanities (718) 447-3329 Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, Staten Island is one of the City’s most requested film locations, for SI (COAHSI) www.statenislandarts.org Crayonblu (718) 980-1341 in part because it can stand in for not only New York...but just about anywhere! Last summer’s blockbuster “War of www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html the Worlds” (below), shot on Korean War Veterans Parkway, employed over 950 extras one Sunday in Fall 2004 of Cromwell Recreation Center (718) 816-6172 CSI Center for the Arts (718) 982-2787 primarily Staten Island residents who were afforded a once in a lifetime opportunity to appear in a feature film. The www.csi.cuny.edu/arts same year, the Board of Directors of the Staten CTV - SI Community Television (718) 727-1414 www.sictv.org Island Economic Development Corporation Danzaisa www.danzaisa.org (718) 876-9392 realized the need for an exciting public event Enrichment Through The Arts (718) 982-5678 www.theatertrips.org that would exemplify the vibrancy of Staten Fifty Plus www.vetarchive.com (718) 447-7880 Island’s communities. As the City of New York’s Film Society of SI (718) 727-0963 www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html smallest Borough, Staten Island is often over- Four Bridges Stitchers (718) 442-3328 shadowed by the larger events and activities www.members.tripod.com/4BridgesANG/ fourbridgesstitchers/index.html that occur in the City, leading many to believe Friends of Alice Austen House (718) 816-4506 that the Island is devoid of its own artistic, cul- www.aliceausten.org Friends of (718) 317-1732 tural and economic identity. Staten Island is www.preserve2.org/blueheron/blueheron.htm about to show the world who they are made of! Friends of Westerleigh Park (718) 442-0336 www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html “War of the Worlds” being shot on Garibaldi-Meucci Museum (718) 442-1608 www.garibaldimeuccimuseum.org Korean War Veterans Parkway Gateway Camera Club (718) 477-6362 Courtesy of Paramount Pictures www.gatewaycameraclub.com First Annual Staten Island Film Festival: Community and Culture Gateway National Recreation Area (718) 354-4500 The first annual Staten Island Film Festival, presented by the Richmond County Savings Foundation, is an opportu- www.nps.gov nity for Staten Islanders to celebrate their community through the presentation of high-quality independent films at Get Set, Go Theatre Company, Inc. (718) 967-0907 The Gifted Twist www.giftedtwist.com (718) 442-0762 several venues across the borough including the historic St. George Theatre, Staten Island Academy, College of Greenbelt Conservancy (718) 667-2165 Staten Island, Mt. Loretto, Snug Harbor and Richmond County Bank Ballpark, Staten Island Hotel, Noble Maritime www.sigreenbelt.org Jacques Marchais Museum (718) 987-3500 Collection, SI Museum, and the Staten Island Ferry. The inaugural theme “Community and Culture” aims to pro- of Tibetan Art www.tibetanmuseum.org mote interaction between the Island’s new and established communities as a variety of diverse, unique, dynamic, Jewish Community Center of SI (718) 981-1500 www.sijcc.org and memorable independent films like “Cugini,” “Under the Roller Coaster,” “Duel at Red Table,” and “Tomorrow’s Julia Music Performing Arts School (718) 273-8700 Yesterday,” are screened for the Staten Island and the surrounding borough audiences. www.juliamusicschool.com Kids on Stage (718) 816-6172 www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html Four Days in June: Something for Everyone Lifeblood Theater www.lifebloodtheater.org The festival launches June 1, and runs though June 4, 2006. This four-day exhibition of 113 culturally diverse films Loris Bend Foundation, Inc. (718) 720-9369 www.geocities.com/lorisbend including features, documentaries, shorts, animation, student projects, youth and family-oriented films, from local, Lynne Robbins Steinman Foundation (718) 273-6800 national and international filmmakers was selected from over 400 entries. To view the full Staten Island Film Festival www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html Mariners Marsh Conservancy (718) 815-2184 Program, log on to www.sifilmfestival.org. Tickets will go on sale May 1st, 2006. For tickets to the St. George Mighty String Demons (718) 390-0747 Theatre, Snug Harbor and College of Staten Island Williamson Theatre attendees can purchase online at www.tick- www.mystatenisland.com/servlets/WebPage?actionid=9 50&eid=45893 etweb.com. Individual ticket sales will be available at all venues during the Festival. To purchase All Access Passes Moonlight Quilters (718) 984-6603 (access to all films and most events) and Screening Passes (access to all films) please call 718-477-1400 x 23. The www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html Music at St. Alban’s (718) 984-7756 Staten Island Film Festival hopes to entertain and enlighten our audiences as well as help to build a bridge between www.musicatsaintalbans.org the many varied cultural and ethnic communities on the Island. Music Together of SI (718) 524-1083 —Jeannine Marotta, Film Festival Director www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble (718) 815-5786 For a complete listing of the festival activities visit www.sifilmfestival.org. To volunteer prior to the Festival and www.mcensemble.org during the Festival, contact Jeannine Marotta at 718-477-1400 x 23 or at [email protected]. National Lighthouse Museum (718) 556-1681 www.lighthousemuseum.org Photo courtesy of the Borough President’s Office Network of Cultural Centers of Color (718) 556-6282 www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html In Memoriam: Dick Dickenson NeverLand Theatre Company Many of us were saddened to learn that Dick Dickenson, a friend www.csi.cuny.edu/arts/ensemble.html to many in the arts and cultural communities, had passed away New Direction Services, Inc. (718) 447-3786 at age 76. Staten Island’s official historian since 1991, Dick had a www.newdirectionservices.org passion for uncovering and documenting Staten Island’s history, New Radio & Performing Art (917)548-7780 especially the history of African-Americans who have lived and www.turbulence.org or www.somewhere.org New York Institute of Anthropology (718) 815-6302 worked here throughout the centuries. An elegant, thoughtful www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html and accomplished man, he authored books and articles, and Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (718) 448-2500 x260 taught at several colleges, including the College of Staten Island, www.snug-harbor.org and had a passion for cleaning up and preserving the cemetaries Noble Maritime Collection (718) 447-6490 of Staten Island. In fact, he founded Friends of Staten Island www.noblemaritime.org Abandoned Cemeteries, a group that devotes itself to literally Perking Latte (718) 442-1505 www.perkinglattecafe.com uncovering the past by cleaning up abandoned cemetaries. Dick Preservation League of SI (718) 980-1551 served on Community Board 1, was a historian for the Snug www.preservesi.org Harbor East Civic Association and was deeply involved with Sandy Pro Musica Corp. (718) 720-5354 Ground Historical Society. Mr. Dickenson is survived by his wife, Protectors of Pine Oaks Woods (718) 761-7496 Antoinette; his daughter, Leonore; his son, Ramsey; his stepson, www.siprotectors.org Robert Lopez, and five lovely grandchildren. He will be missed. Red Storm Dance and Drum Troupe (718) 727-5956 www.rboldeagle.bravepages.com Thanks to Lisa Schneider of the Advance for some of this information. Richmond Choral Society (718) 448-3656 Indicates COAHSI www.richmondchoral.com Grantee Exhibition, Richmond County Orchestra (718) 390-4306 www.richmondcountyorchestra.8k.com Performance, or Event AROUND THE ISLAND Richmond County Pipes & Drums (917) 837-3272 www.mystatenisland.com/servlets/WebPage?actionid=9 Ongoing Programs and Events Around Staten Island 50&eid=46238 Richmond Roundsingers (718) 720-5987 Historic Richmond Town Snug Harbor Julia Music School www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html Old Bags: Purses Plain and Fancy Cultural Center Artists’ Federation Exhibit Richmond Theatre Collection (718) 966-6137 A new exhibit of vintage hand bags. Delightful Diversions: 12-7pm. Reception May 10, 8pm. Riverside Opera Company, Inc. (718) 390-4306 Find inspiration among more than 50 Notable Staten Island Collectors Through June 30. www.riversideoperacompany.8k.com examples, from about 1825 to 1940. Highlights from remarkable private Mauro Graphics Through Oct. 15. collections on SI and focuses on the Roza Promotions, Inc. (718) 556-3237 Celebrating Pastiche individuals behind them. Through www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html Toys! Toys! Toys! Archival digital images of 15 artists May 28. Sandy Ground Historical Society (718) 317-5796 More than 200 of the best-loved and dressed as well–known visual artists of www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html most fondly remembered toys from Journey to China’s Southwest the 20th-21st century. June 3–28. Sea View Hospital Museum (718) 317-3221 the 1840s through the 1990s. Hands- Photos, costumes and folk art objects Blue Heron Park Sea View Playwright’s Theatre (718) 351-6147 2006 EXHIBITS on activities for young visitors. introduce visitors to the culture of Irma S. Bohorquez-Geisler southwestern China. June 17–Sept.17. Sepoy Rebellion (718) 448-7896 JUNE 1–30 • COAHSI The Story Museum Nature photographs. Through May 31. e-mail to: [email protected] Every Thurs. at 11:30am. $3. Preschool Farrell Brickhouse: Hudson Crossing SI Botanical Garden The Perking Latte Cafe Serenade (718) 273-3668 Spotlight Gallery of Wagner College. kids ages 3-5. Stories, crafts, music, Peony Festival Susan Ledwith Exhibition: Serpentine Arts & Nature Commons (718) 442-3105 dancing and singing. Enjoy the Chinese Tree Peony collection Robert Bunkin: Under Construction Florence, Through My Lens www.preserve.org/serpentine/serpentine.htm in full bloom. Located near the White Spotlight Gallery of Wagner College. Jacques Marchais Reception May 3, 8-10pm. May 2-14. SI Academy of Performing Arts (718)815-4267 Garden. May 6: tours at 11am and Judy Hugentobler: Museum of Tibetan Art SI Ballet Theatre (718)980-0500 Highlights from the 12:30 pm. Through May 7. Crayonblu Ceramic Sculptural Portraits Daily Afternoon Art Classes SI Barbarshop Chorus (718)494-2619 Permanent Collection Staten Island Hotel. Tai Chi in the Scholar’s Garden 4– 5:15pm. For children 3 and older. SI Borough Historian (718)816-2137 Primarily Tibetan Buddhist art from 10:30-11:30am. Tai Chi with sifu Henry Kim: Video & Visual Artist Registration is ongoing. www.statenislandusa.com Tibet, Mongolia, and northern China William Phillips. Every Mon. May 1 to Kevin Barry Gallery. SI Botanical Garden (718)273-8200 from the 15th to early 20th centuries. Oct. 2, except holidays. 6 sessions Sandy Ground www.sibg.org Stuart Kuhlman: Ferry Reflections Protector deities. Thangka paintings, $65/$60. Pre-registration required. Historical Society SI Camera Club (718)727-6733 Kevin Barry Gallery. artifacts, and photos of cultural, aes- Tour Sandy Ground SI Children’s Museum Sandy Ground is the oldest surviving www.statenislandmuseum.org Jenna Lucente: Paintings thetic and spiritual significance. Tots Time Plus Cromwell Recreation Center. “Free Black” community in the U.S. The SI Chamber Music Players, Inc. (718)356-2094 Teapots and Butter Tubs: 11am–1pm. Every Tues. & Thurs. Pre- www.sichamberplayers.org Arrow Mueller: Sculpture & Paintings Tibetan Vessels Historical Society’s Museum and schoolers and their parents can spend Library is dedicated to researching, SI Chapter of Embroiderers’ Guild (718)351-3753 Beanie’s Coffee Shop. Rare, historic vessels highlight the hours creating art, singing and listen- of America, Inc. food and drink of traditional Tibetan preserving and informing visitors Chandini Pinilla: Paintings & Drawings ing to stories in the Walk-in Workshop. about Sandy Ground’s history. Letters, SI Children’s Museum (718)273-2060 St. George Library Auditorium. culture. Through Dec. 31. www.statenislandkids.org Music, Movement & Make Believe photos, film, art, rare books, quilts and Mustang: archaeological artifacts are in the col- SI Children’s Theater Association (718)981-7288 12–1pm. Every Friday. Led by a pre- The Last Tibetan Kingdom lection. Tues.- Sun.1–4pm. SI Conservatory of Music (718)720-5354 school specialist, preschoolers will Alice Austen Museum Photos by Don Gurewitz depict an have a great time moving their wee SI Ferry/V.I.S.I.T. Center (718)447-3329 Clay Pit Ponds State Park Alice Austen: Art of the Game expedition to Mustang, a semi-secret, bodies and their vast imaginations. SI Geologyical Society (718)984-6653 semi-feudal, semi-independent region Exhibit Photos of the sports activities of Geological evidence back to 10,000 BC. SI Handspinners & Weavers (718)987-2771 of Nepal nestled on the Tibetan border. Tots ‘n Blocks Austen’s friends. Through May 17. 12–1pm. Every Wed. Parents and kids SI Historical Society/ (718)351-1611 Sponsored in part by public funds are encouraged to visit Block Harbor Historic Richmond Town www.historicrichmondtown.org Overland: Photos from the NYC DCA. May 20–Nov. 31. Tour the Guardian of Work by Dave Anderson and Andy where they can build play and pretend. SI Museum (718)727-1135 One of the oldest U.S. military installa- Ryan. May 21–July 14. Exploring Tibet: www.statenislandmuseum.org In Search of the Salween Clay Day tions. Wed.–Sun. 10:30am; 2:30pm. SI OutLOUD (718)907-0709 Art Lab at Snug Harbor Exhibit tells the story of a British expe- Free w/admission. Play with clay every Visitors Ctr open: Wed.–Sun.10am–5pm. SI Poetry Society (718)442-2119 Cultural Center dition in Tibet in the 1930’s. June 17 Wednesday from 11:30am-4:30pm. High Rock Park SI Shakespearean Theatre (718)390-6616 Walk-In Life Drawing Studio through September 17. Crafty Kids Walk High Rock’s Nature Path www.sishakespearetheatre.org Thursdays, 7–10pm. 3 hr. sessions. $10. Every Tues. 1:30-4:30pm. $5. Kids can Free. The park’s loop road is fairly level, session. Thurs. through June 29. Newhouse Center for SI Writers (917)442-0448 Contemporary Art dig into our box of materials and cre- paved, and dotted with signs featuring SI Zoo (718)442-3174 Art Exhibit: About Faces Zeuxis: Facets of Perception and ate their own masterpiece. some of the park’s natural attractions. www.statenislandzoo.org Faces of all ages, shapes and sizes— Abstract Landscapes SI Museum Accessible to wheelchairs. Snug Harbor Cultural Center (718) 448-2500 even our furry friends! May 6–28. Both exhibits curated by Trevor Wink- Lunch Time Break Muddy Cup Coffee House www.snug-harbor.org Painting Student Showcase field. In “Facets of Perception” Zeuxis A Guided Tour. Every Tue., 1–2pm. Live Entertainment South Shore Artists Group (718) 979-8069 Amazing and original works by this painters incorporate a tumbler in their Explore SI’s oldest Museum. Every Thursday–Sunday evening. www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html year’s students. May 6–28. imagery. “Abstract Landscapes” paint- ings reveal new approaches to the Wall of Insects Off-Island Exhibits of South Shore Band (718) 948-0688 Fascinating butterflies, cicadas, and College of Staten Island subject of landscape. These exhibits Staten Island Artists www.southshoreband.org beetles burst with colors and different Denise Mumm: Plazoleta del Tango Imagining Childhood: stretch the limits of traditional genres. St. George Theatre/Richmond Dance Ensemble, Inc. Living with HIV in Delhi shapes. Through Dec. 31. Tango prints at Klatch, 9-11 Maiden www.StGeorgeTheatre.com (718)442-2900 Through May 14. College Art Gallery, 1P-112. A selec- The Lenape: First Staten Islanders Lane, NYC. Mon.-Fri. 7am-7pm; Sat. Sundog Theatre, Inc. (718) 816-5453 tion of photographs by Sunil Gupta. Noble Maritime 8am-5pm. Through May 27. www.sundogtheatre.org A glimpse into the life of America’s Co-sponsored by CSI’s Women’s Collection Artists Federation 32nd Tattfoo Gallery (718) 442-3375 Dormitory Room original inhabitants, before European Center. Through May 13. Settlement. Anniversary Members’ Exhibit www.tattfoo.com A recreation of a Sailors’ Snug Harbor Broome Street Gallery. Through May 7. The Actors Workshop (718) 987-3611 Graduating Seniors Art Exhibition dormitory room ca. 1880. Fire & Ice: Geology on SI Student Art Gallery, 1P-118B. A selec- The Fine Arts Print Group (718) 351-4832 John A. Noble Houseboat Studio This exhibit explains the creation of Bona Biennial ‘06: Three Alumni www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html tion of our graduating students’ work . the New York metropolitan area. Don’t Works by Staten Islander Joyce Malerba See the restored studio of artist, John Exhibit continues through June 1. miss our Fluorescent Rock Room, Goldstein; also Ed McCartan and Leslie The Industrial Ranch (718) 556-2696 A. Noble. Permanent exhibit. www.theindustrialranch.com/2005/ where glow-in-the dark minerals. Finley Eliet. St. Bonaventure University Garibaldi-Meucci Museum Writing Room The Talisman Players (718) 667-1098 Tours Staten Island Ferry: The First Quick Center, Olean, NY. Tues.-Fri. www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html Historic home of inventor, Antonio The museum encourages professional 10am to 5pm; Sat. & Sun. 12-5pm. and committed writers to use our 100 Years of Municipal Service The Tenderloins Improv & Sketch Comedy Troupe Meucci, and hero, Guiseppe Garibaldi. A “must see” for anyone traveling the Writing Room, used 160 years ago by Storytime/Read Aloud at the NY www.thetenderloins.com (718) 404-3900 Historical tours, educational programs SI Ferry. Exhibit features photos, art- mariners to write letters and stories. Public Library. Call for days, times: Theatre Rehabilitation for Youth (718) 983-1990 for children and adults. School class works, ship modelsfrom past ferries. www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html trips, Italian Language classes for CloseKnit Tottenville Branch 718-984-0945 Theatre SanGreal (718) 876-9305 adults and teens. Rare and out-of- Sessions at 2pm and 7pm. The knitting The Artist and the Baseball Card Richmondtown Branch 718-668-0413 Over a hundred American illustrators www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html print books open to the public. group meets the first Thurs. of each Dongan Hills Branch 718-351-1444 interpret the baseball card. Sponsored Tottenville Historical Society (646) 291-7005 month to knit items for mariners at sea. Port Richmond Branch 718-442-0158 Greenbelt Nature Center in part by Citibank. Through July 30. Stapleton Branch 718-727-0427 www.tottenvillehistory.org Yoga in the Greenbelt... Spring Poetry Workshop Tri-County Ramblers (718) 984-3790 Six Sat. sessions, May 6–June 10. Our St. George Library Center 718-442-8560 ...with Nancy Kaufman, Sat. mornings South Beach Branch 718-816-5834 Universal Temple of the Arts (718) 273-5610 annual spring poetry workshop. Write The Otters Have a New Home! and Wed. evenings. All fitness levels. Huguenot Park Branch 718-984-4636 www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html and share! All levels welcome. Watch them frolic from every angle. Series of 8 classes is $75/$80 non- West New Brighton 718-442-1416 Urban Park Rangers (718) 667-6042 members. Per class fee $10/$12 Tide Lines Exhibition Wagner College Galleries New Dorp Regional 718-351-2977 Viva Voce Chamber Ensemble (718) 273-3250 non-members. An exhibition of contemporary prints Art Dept. Student Exhibition Todt Hill-Westerleigh 718-494-1642 www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural.html by 12 local artists. Through Oct. 1. Exhibit continues through Sept. 15. Vlepo Gallery & The Gifted Twist (718) 442-0764 www.vlepogallery.com (now only online) Wagner College Academy of the Arts (718) 390-3391 www.wagner.edu/academy Wagner College Gallery (718) 390-3150 Inc. Wagner College Music Department (718) 390-3313 See Pages Wagner College Theater (718) 390-3223 Marilyn Ajose • INTERIOR DECORATING SERVICE www.wagner.edu 7 & 8 for Walsh Theatrical Dance Company (718) 448-4280 HunterDouglas Authorized Dealer Waterways Project of Ten Penny Players (718) 442-7429 Express Yourself! We’ll Put It All Together! dates! www.tenpennyplayers.org • PROJECTS, SPACE PLANNING, COLOR SCHEME • CUSTOM FURNITURE AND FURNISHES: ON LINE: Visit www.statenislandarts.org/cultural/cultural. ACCENT PIECES, BEDDING, WINDOW TREATMENT, html/ to connect to most of SI’s cultural organizations. COVERS, PILLOWS, RUGS, UPHOLSTERING Phone (718)982-0782 5 song, performance, thoughts, with or with- Sun Catchers Indicates COAHSI out drum accompaniment. No sign-up. SI Children’s Museum. See May 13. Open drumming between sharings. A brief Grantee Event, Performance, or Exhibition Mother’s Day Tea Party MAY 2006 session on “Imagineering.” Greenbelt Nature Center. 1pm. Enjoy a spot Queen Tipsy Blues Band of tea; learn how animals tend their young. Spring Walks! Concerts! Performances! Migrating Birds! 55 Bar, NYC. 10pm. $5. Stroli with the kids and Dad. 13 MAY SATURDAY Guys and Dolls 03 MAY Carousel Opening Day Careers with Animals Workshop Series: Weekend Ecology Walks . 12-5pm. $1. Be the first So You Want to be a Nutritionist? Music Hall, Snug Harbor. 2pm. See May 13. SI Museum (venue varies each month). WEDNESDAY to ride the Carousel in 2006! Enjoy a petting SI Zoo. 1-3pm. For 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th The Playboy of the Western World Photos by Susan Ledwith: 7am. Big Day Bird Count. Florence, Through My Lens zoo (entrance fee), free puppet perform- graders. Visit live animals; do activities, Sea View Playwright’s Theatre. 3pm. See Forest Restoration Workshop May 6. Opening reception. The Perking ances at 1 and 3pm. Rain date: May 7. tours, lab work. Registration required. $25 Greta Moulton at High Rock. 10am-2pm. Latte Cafe. 8-10pm. Free. Greenbelt Conservancy. for 1 class, $20 each additional class. Free. If you are late, walk to the first bend of 16 MAY TUESDAY Through May 14. Bamboo 101 Trees and Wildlife Staten Island Bluebelt the entry road and follow the yellow to the SI Botanical Garden. Bamboo basics with Dr. Clay Pit Ponds State Park/Preserve. SI Botanical Garden. 7pm. Learn about SI’s green trail. Gloves, plants, tools and drinks. 04 MAY Ron Altman. 1pm at the Garden Gift Shop. 1-3:30pm. Free. See the trees and wildlife in fascinating watershed system. Protectors of Pine Oak Woods. THURSDAY Includes a tour in the Scholar’s Garden. this mini pine barren. In Chaos We Trust It’s My Park Day Indigenous People’s Week Reservations required. Just You and a Cardboard Box Every Thing Goes Book Cafe 7pm. Music, CSI, Lab Theatre, 1P-110. 8pm. Greenbelt Nature Center. 10am. Free. Come Redstorm Drum and Dance Troupe SI Children’s Museum. 1-4pm. $5. Bring lectures, films, crafts, stories. $10. Theatre piece written, per- volunteer to beautify the park. formed by the students of Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve. 1pm. your imagination! Spring Recital by the Young Artists Free. Celebrate Native American culture and Family Science Favorite Things Series of the CSI Music Program George Sanchez. CSI, Dept. of Albanian Poetry SI Museum. 10-11:30am. See May 6. Performing & Creative Arts. craft. Original and children’s songs to be CSI, Recital Hall, 1P-120. 7:30pm. $5. performed. Clay Pit Ponds State Park Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 2pm. Free. Mother’s Day Craft Contemporary Albanian poetry (English SI Camera Club: Digital Preserve. Reservations required. Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve. 17 MAY WEDNESDAY and Albanian). Staten Island OutLOUD. Photography Workshop 10:30am. Free. Make Mom a beautiful Lunch and Learn SI Museum. 8pm. Explore the Kid’s Mother Day Card Workshop Ayder Turkish Restaurant, 1400 Forest Historic Richmond Town. 1:30pm. $8. Walking Tour: Moravian Cemetery - flower pot arrangement and a personalized world of digital photography. Avenue. $24/$20 members. Fresh, Familiar Make your own Mother’s Day cards. Moravian Cemetery. 2pm. $10. Join a card. Reservations required. and Exotic! SI Museum. 05 MAY FRIDAY Ancient Indian Storytelling guided tour of our beautiful burial park. . JR. Zoofari Volunteers Sign Up Day SI Botanical Garden Serenade: Spirit of the Baroque SI Zoo. 10:30am. Students finishing 9th Recital: The CSI Chorus with Manju Prasad-Rao CSI, Recital Hall. 2:30pm. $5. Directed by Annual Plant Sale Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art. Christ Church New Brighton. 3pm. 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AROUND THE ISLAND Marina Alexander. SI Botanical Garden. Sale in 2pm. Ancient stories from India told with harpsichord, baroque oboe, and violin. volunteering for our summer Zoofari camp. front of Glass House. Members Recital: The CSI Jazz Ensemble dance, mime, song and spoken word. Archaeology in the Upper Reservations required. only on Friday evening. Become Sponsored in part by DCA. CSI, Lab Theatre. 7:30pm. $5. Directed by a member! Valley: A Seminar Red Storm Native Michael Morreale. Batter-up Dada from Day de Dada Spiro Hall, Room C-2. 3:00pm. $5. Dr. Queen Tipsy Blues Band American Gathering Indigenous People’s Week SI Museum. 2pm. Day de Dada event. Sure David Starbuck of Plymouth College. Near SI Children’s Museum. 11pm-5pm. Perking Latte Cafe. 8pm. Free to be delightful and amusing. Archaeology Society of SI. Every Thing Goes Book Cafe and admission. Free. Native American culture through Neighborhood Stage. See May 16. The Face of Staten Island’s Heritage The Playboy of the Western World music, dances from Native people from Music: The Street Hawks Historic Richmond Town. 2pm. Free. Sea View Playwright’s Theatre. 3pm. See May 6. all over the country. Food, crafts, jewelry. 18 MAY THURSDAY Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. Comment on the designs submitted for the Lantern Tour of Fort Wadsworth 8pm. Free. Acoustic early-roots 08 MAY MONDAY Intergenerational Gardening Where-to-Turn Project—murals to replace Senior Recital: Keith Canavan Fort Wadsworth Visitor Center.7-9pm. Free. blues masters. SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. Explore this historic site by night! Bring a graffiti-filled walls of the Island. CSI, Recital Hall, 1P-120. 7:30pm. Free. CSI, flashlight. Reservations required. Gateway In Chaos We Trust Nylon Wound Neighborhood Concert Dept. of Performing & Creative Arts. Sun Catchers NRA National Park Service CSI, Lab Theatre, 1P-110. See Jefferson Market Library. 2pm. Free. Guitar SI Children’s Museum. 11:30am-4:30pm. $5. May 4. Monthly Meeting Create a beautiful decoration. duo Gregory Askins & Joseph Parisi perform Kairos House at Wagner College. 8pm. Spring Dance Recital 06 MAY music from the ballet and blues, including a Monthly meeting of the land trust. Long Pond Park: SI’s Newest Park. 12- CSI, Williamson Theatre. 7:30pm. $7. SATURDAY series premier. UBS Matching Gift Program. Serpentine Art and Nature Commons, Inc. 2pm. Free. A 1-to-2-mile tour. Meet at PS 6, SI Camera Club Competition Cape May Weekend Opening Reception: About Faces; 09 MAY TUESDAY on Page Ave. and Academy Place. Protectors SI Museum. 8pm. Monthly member compe- SI Zoo. Bird watching, nature also, Painting Student Showcase Sunset Owl Walk of Pine Oak Woods. tition in slides, prints. and ocean strolls, relaxing Art Lab, Inc. 2-4pm. Free. Light refresh- Conference House. 7pm. Free. Take a wildlife Dharma Trilogy: Buddhist Way of Life Indigenous People’s Week - Every Thing downtown shopping and a trip ments and two great shows! tour of the before Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art. Goes Book Cafe and Neighborhood Stage. to the magnificent Cape May Crystal Gayle and after sundown. Bring a beverage. 2pm. Free. First of 3 lectures by Tibetan See May 16. Zoo. Registration required. Center for the Arts, CSI. 8pm. Performing Protectors of Pine Oak Woods Buddhist lama Pema Wangdak. 37th Annual Spring Ten Mile 19 MAY FRIDAY favorites like, “Don’t Make My Brown Eyes 11 MAY THURSDAY Mother’s Day at the Big Oak Tree Why Some People Photograph Walk in the Greenbelt Blue” and “We Must Believe in Magic.” Reading Club SI Museum. 2pm. $10. Children’s Concert 7:30pm. Art Lab. Cafe Society panel discus- 9:30am-4pm. Free. Ten moder- Reservations required. SI Museum. 7:30pm. $5. Members free. with an original tale by Nancy Sima and sion. Free to public; light refreshments ate miles. Rich woodlands, “Poetry from a Thoughtful Life” by SI author, distant ocean vistas. Meet at In Chaos We Trust Tamara Keshecki. Get a free coloring A. D. Coleman moderates. Louise Luger, Ed CSI, Lab Theatre, 1P-110. See May 4. Kathryn Capofari. the foot bridge to Clove Lakes book! Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble. Davin and John Patrick Naughton discuss Café. Bring lunch, camera, Canarsie Ken: Blues Harmonica Songs Recital: The CSI Guitar Ensemble what inspires them to photograph. CSI, Recital Hall. 7:30pm. $5. CSI, Dept. of binoculars, field guides. Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm.Free. It’s Guys and Dolls Performing & Creative Arts. Music Hall at Snug Harbor. 8pm. A gambler PAPA PLAYGROUND Protectors of Pine Oak Woods. Ken’s birthday! This Harmonica Man has a Cromwell Center. 7pm. A musical about woos a Salvation Army lass; a showgirl repertoire of over a thousand songs from In Chaos We Trust Joseph Lee, who in 1890 invented the play- SI Botanical Garden hooks founder of “the oldest, floating crap the world history of blues. CSI, Lab Theatre, 1P-110. See May 4. ground, and the kids affected. Plant Sale game in New York.” Reservations required. SI Botanical Garden.10am-4pm. The Playboy of the Western World 12 MAY FRIDAY John Rutter’s Mass of the Children and Club Cicada: See May 5. Sea View Playwright’s Theatre. 8pm. $15. Movie Night in the Greenbelt Bob Conroy’s Folk Music Jam EVERYTHING THAT’S GOING ON THAT’S EVERYTHING Greenbelt Nature Center. Missa Hilarious of PDQ Bach Art Fair Produced in 1907, this play pushed the lim- SI Museum. 8pm. Some of our favorite 7pm. Free. Enjoy “Fly Away Home,” (PG) Center for the Arts, CSI. 8pm. $25. A per- Alice Austen House Museum. 10am-4pm. its of decency, stoking a nationalistic fire. musicians play banjos, guitars, mandolins. about a 13 year old and her father, who formance by 2006 Elsie Bennet Memorial $2. Join over forty of Staten Island’s best Queen Tipsy Blues Band Scholarship Winner. Seniors: $20. Guys and Dolls artists on the lawn. Paintings, photos, sculp- learn about family by teaching orphaned Killmeyer’s Bavarian Restaurant. 10pm. Music Hall, Snug Harbor. 8pm. See May 13. ture, jewelry, pottery. Get a gift for Mother’s geese to fly. Reservations required. Bastard Trio 07 MAY SUNDAY Mt. Moses Sunset Moonrise Walk Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm. Free. The Johnny Maestro & Day! An all day event. Yankee Peddler Day Propagating Plants 7:30pm. Free. Sunset is at 8:04 p.m.; moon- Bastard Trio explores improvisation. The Brooklyn Bridge Historic Richmond Town. 10am-5pm. $2. rise shortly after. Bring drinks, a flashlight. St. George Theatre. 8pm. $45, $35, $25. SI Botanical Garden. 10am. Propagation Antiques, collectibles. Christopher Kent from In Chaos We Trust Protectors of Pine Oak Woods. CSI, Lab Theatre, 1P-110. See May 4. Opening Act is SI’s very own Afterglow. methods and a take-home project with Joe the television show, “A Flea Market Mania,” Gobin. Reservations required. The Band, AMERICA The Playboy of the Western World Indigenous People’s Week offers free appraisals in the Time Warner Center for the Arts, CSI. 8pm. $42. “A Family Science Favorite Things Sea View Playwright’s Theatre. 8pm. See Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. See May 16. Booth. Don’t miss this opportunity! Horse with No Name” made the band called SI Museum. 10am-11:30am. Free. Guest May 6. Weekend Ecology Walks America famous! Reservations required. 20 MAY SATURDAY instructors will bring favorite lessons and SI Museum (venue varies each month). 7am. 14 MAY WEDNESDAY Spring Migration Birdwalk demo’s including bugs, birds, & physics. In Chaos We Trust Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve. 9- . Car pools meet at museum. CSI, Lab Theatre, 1P-110. See May 4. Mothers’ Day Migration Intergenerational Gardening . 8-10am. Free. Migration 10:30am. Free. See the spring migrations SI Children’s Museum. 11am-12pm. Plant, Reiki I Certificate Class The Playboy of the Western World is in full swing. Join Seth Wollney for a walk with naturalist Nancy Zawada Clair. weed, water and harvest vegetables and Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art. Sea View Playwright’s Theatre. 8pm. See through Clove Lakes Park. Protectors of Pine Reservations required. 9am. Join reiki master Margaret Pucci. flowers that will be grown by residents from May 6. Oak Woods. Greenbelt Flowers and Mt. Moses Clove Lakes Nursing Home. Cinco de Mayo Piñata Full Moon Drumming, Mother’s Day at the Zoo Spring Forest Vista Cinco de Mayo Piñata SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. Open Mic & Imagineering SI Zoo. 10am-4:45pm. Bring your mom to Meisner Ave. Pond. 9am-12pm. Free. Join SI Children’s Museum. 11:30am-4:30pm. Annual Plant Sale Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8:30pm. Free. see the animals and she’ll will receive free Dick and photographer Sandra for a stroll. $5. Decorate it, stuff it, and pop it! SI Botanical Garden. 2-4pm. See May 5. Bring a drum or use ours. Share a poem, admission! Pack lunch. Protectors of Pine Oak Woods.

THE ARTISTS’ FEDERATION Take your kids to make a Cinco de Mayo Piñata— PRESENTS then stop by R.H.TUGS for a family treat! Psychoanalysis & the Arts • • A Group Art Exhibit Part-time program leading to NYS License in cooperation with 1115 Richmond Terrace Staten Island, N.Y.10310 as a Psychoanalyst. JULIA MUSIC PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL (718) 447-6369 In The Brian Rehr Dance Room EMail: [email protected] International School for Mental Health Practitioners (SI) • MAY 10 – JUNE 30 • RAY HEFFERNAN PETER ROSKOWINSKI (718) 698-0700 6 Call (718) 273-8700 for hours Junior Science Club: Horseshoe Crab Walk to explore springtime changes in the park 22 MAY MONDAY Memorial Day Mural Getting off the Ground Crescent Beach. 7:30pm. Free. Crescent since her winter explorations. Meet in the Beauty and the Beast SI Children’s Museum. 12:30pm-4:30pm. SI Museum. 10am–12pm. $8/5 members, Beach in Great Kills. Registration parking area off Hylan Blvd., opposite St. George Theatre. 10am and 6:30pm. $5. Create a mural for our museum atrium. for children ages 8–13. required. SI Zoo. Buffalo St. Reservations required. Auditions: Memorial Day Ceremony Family Science Favorite Things Verdi’s La Traviata Coffee Filter Butterflies Oleanna by David Mamet Fort Wadsworth Battery Weed.1pm. Experi- SI Museum.10-11:30am. See May 6. St John’s University. 8pm. $15. Full SI Children’s Museum. See May 20. Sea View Playwright’s Theatre. 7:30-9pm. ence a Civil War encampment as a part of Intergenerational Gardening orchestra and award–winning singers! Shear Madness at the SI Zoo Director Frank Manzi. Gateway NRA’s SI Unit Memorial Day SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. Riverside Opera Company Inc. 1-4pm. A professional sheep shearer will Acoustic Monday Ceremonies. Join the National Park Coffee Filter Butterflies Laughter Arts Festival: Italian Night shear the wool from our flock. Spinners Julia Music Performing Arts School. 8pm. Service and Veterans for a wreath laying. SI Children’s Museum. 11:30am-4:30pm. Center for the Arts, CSI. 8pm. $42. The and weavers will show how wool is spun $5. Julia Music Guitar Ensemble! Bistro- Grown Folk Comedy Show $5. Watch the colors melt together and funniest paesanos dish hilarious comedy. into yarn. All proceeds benefit the Zoo. style seating, BYOB. Proceeds benefit the Muddy Cup Coffee House. 8pm; 10pm. then make your own! Father Guido Sarducci, Tammy Pescateli! Guys and Dolls Julia Music Scholarship Fund. $10-$20. Every last Sat. of the month come enjoy comedians from Comedy Reservations required. Music Hall, Snug Harbor. 2pm. See May13. Life in the Intertidal Zone 23 MAY TUESDAY Central, HBO, BET. Presented by J.P. Conference House Beach. 12-2pm. Free. Chris Niles: Ambient Passage Auditions: Oleanna by David Mamet Curator’s Slide Lecture: Justice. Beachcomb the high tide line for a variety Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm. Elec- The Artist and the Baseball Card Sea View Playwright’s Theatre. See May of crabs, snails, clams, worms and small tronic looping by this SI guitarist. SI Museum. 2pm. Slide Lecture by Murray 22. 28 MAY SUNDAY fish. Protectors of Pine Oak Woods. Tinkelman: A special presentation. Free Mt. Loretto & Its Breeding Birds 21 MAY SUNDAY 24 MAY WEDNESDAY Mt. Loretto Unique Area. 8-10am. Free. Urban Advantage Exit Project Exhibit with admission. Student Film Series BOROUGH HALL Howie Fischer, expert in the breeding SI Zoo. 1pm. Celebrate the hard work our Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm. Mini- 100TH ANNIVERSARY Cello Recital, Leo Singer, Winner of birds of Staten Island, leads visitors. Urban Advantage teachers and students fest of short films by students from 2–6pm, Borough Hall in Wagner College Young Musicians Protectors of Pine Oak Woods. have done in learning how to use the Zoo Staten Island and Manhattan. Organic St. George will be open Competition 2005 in creating their 8th grade exit projects. Campus Hall. 3pm. Leo Singer was the espresso, exotic teas, and yummy snacks. Memorial Day Mural so the public can see a SI Children’s Museum. See May 27. AROUND THE ISLAND National Maritime Day winner of the Young Musicians Competi- piece of their heritage. 25 MAY THURSDAY Noble Maritime Collection. 1-5pm. Learn tion in Level I, ‘05. Student Film Series Southwest Latourette: the maritime history of Staten Island and The celebration coincides with the date Where History and Nature Meet SI Chamber Music Players Concert Every Thing Goes Book Cafe and toast the mariners with a cup of Grog! the building was first occupied. Borough Latourette Park. 12-4pm. Free. The park is President Molinaro has invited former Veterans’ Memorial Hall. 3pm. William Neighborhood Stage. See May 24. Bamboo in the Chinese Garden Grant Still’s Summerland, Samuel Barber’s the site of historic events that have play- Borough Presidents Ralph Lamberti, Guy ed out over the centuries. Bring lunch and SI Botanical Garden. 1pm. Learn about Molinari, and their families to the cele- Summer Music, Roger Goeb’s Prairie Songs. 26 MAY FRIDAY uses of bamboo in your garden, with Dr. Student Film Series beverage. Protectors of Pine Oak Woods. bration. Come see our beautiful munici- Late Bird Migration and Horse Ron Altman. Reservations required. Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. See May 24. pal building, designed by Carrere, design- Shoe Crab Love at Conference House Careers with Animals Workshop: So er of the New York Public Library on 5th Conference House Park. 4-6pm. Free. Find You Want to Be a Behaviorist? PAPA PLAYGROUND 27 MAY WEDNESDAY SI Zoo. 1-3pm. Last in a series! Learn Ave. in Manhattan. Activities, refresh- horseshoe crabs on the beaches, mating. Intergenerational Unitarian Church Hall. 4pm. $5. A more about careers working with animals. musical about Joseph Lee, who in 1890 ments, live music! Tours of the recently Protectors of Pine Oak Woods . Gardening SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. Pre-registration required. invented the playground. DramaTune. renovated first and ground floors will be Cello Recital, Valeriya Sholokhova, available. Walking Tour: Moravian Cemetery Winner, Wagner College Young WaFoo Spring Concert 2pm. $10. Staten Islanders who served in Finals of the Young Musicians Musicians Competition, 2005 St. Peter's Church. 8PM. Japanese folk Competition Serene Mt.Loretto: Migration Peak the Civil War. Historian Richard L. Music Performance Center, Campus Hall, music and elements with Western Simpson points out people who shaped Music Performance Center, Campus Hall, 8-10am. Free. See migrating field, wood- Wagner College. 5:30pm. music, produce a synthesis of electrify- SI. Actors portray Civil War-era Islanders. Wagner College. 7:30pm. First Prize land and shore birds. Meet in the Hylan Blvd. parking lot near Mt. Loretto CYO. Beauty and the Beast ing jazz. This concert will feature Reservations required. Winners of the Young Musicians music representing spring and summer. Competition 2006, perform before judges Protectors of Pine Oak Woods. St. George Theatre. 6:30pm. $20, $18, 29 MAY MONDAY and you, the audience, for the Grand Migration Marvels of $15. Experience the excitement that live Family Science Favorite Things Memorial Day Mural Prize. 9am-12pm. Join naturalist Arleen O’Brien musical theater can provide! A classic. SI Museum. 10-11:30am. See May 6. SI Children’s Museum. See May 27.

Indicates COAHSI Grantee Event, Levi’s efforts to marry Horace Vander- 1 JUNE Performance, or Exhibition THURSDAY gelder, the well-known half-a-million Staten Island Film Festival aire, and send his money circulating JUNE 2006 among the people as her late husband Venues across Staten Island. The taught her. Holy Family Parish Players. first annual Staten Island Film Spring Walks! Concerts! Performances! Flowers! Festival will be an outstanding Queen Tipsy Blues Band opportunity for Staten Islanders Perking Latte Cafe. 8pm. Howie Fischer who patiently points out the Staten Island Film Festival to celebrate their community People’s Independent Film Experiment birds he sees and gives you interesting Venues across Staten Island. See June 1. observations of their habits, their songs and through the presentation of Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm. Staten their breeding. We know that the orchard 6 JUNE TUESDAY high-quality independent films Island and beyond! Independent and experi- oriole, as well as many other songbirds, Pug Day at venues across the borough. mental art, stories and expressions. Happy Birthday Dada The Alice Austen House Museum. 10:00am-

EVERYTHING THAT’S GOING ON THAT’S EVERYTHING breed here. The Willow flycatcher has been The festival will exhibit a variety Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 12pm. Staten Island Film Festival seen for many years as well. See the colorful 3:00pm. $3. As so many do, Alice Austen of films including features, documentaries, Celebrate with us at a Dada Birthday Party Venues across Staten Island. See June 1. birds like the orioles and the indigo bunting loved Pugs. Each year therefore the Pug shorts, animation, student projects, youth with open mic, cake, and performances. that have been identified there. Dog Club of New York gather on the Austen films (under 18), and family-oriented films, 3 JUNE SATURDAY Party Games? Of course! Day de Dada lawn with their Pugs for a day filled of fun. from local, national and international film- Happy Trails! Performance Art Festival. Moonlight Quilters Quilt Show See Pugs race. See Pugs dressed up. You makers. SIEDC. At High Rock Park Historic Richmond Town. 11:00am-5:00pm. have to be there to believe it. Staten Island High Rock Park in the Greenbelt. 9am to JUNEFEST 2006: Rebekah Nye See quilts made by members of the Nylon Wound Neighborhood Film Festival Screening dusk. Did you know that the Greenbelt Richmondtown Library. 2:30pm. Free. Moonlight Quilters. Demos, kids crafts, offers 35 miles of hiking trails? Join our resale table, vendor. Winner of raffle quilt Concert Series Snug Harbor Music Hall. 7pm. $5. The Noble Concert of Italian opera arias. COAHSI. Ottendorfer Library. 6pm. Free. Experience staff and other volunteers maintain and to be chosen. Proceeds to be donated to the Maritime Collection presents “Saps at Sea” the beauty, diversity and wonder of the beautify the trails and natural areas. SI Chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. with the beloved slapstick duo, Laurel and Artists as Artists: Celebrating Pastiche Classical Guitar . Duo guitarists, Gregory Refreshments, tools and a lot of gratitude Moonlight Quilters of SI. Hardy, followed by classic Popeye cartoons. Mauro Graphics Ltd. 3pm. Opening recep- Askins and Joseph Parisi, perform music will be provided. Noble Maritime Collection. tion for exhibit. Costumes are welcome! Rhythmic Instruments Weekend from the ballet, blues and beyond. UBS 2 JUNE FRIDAY SI&Bank & Trust Festa Italiana Surprise events. Pastiche photos of artists SI Children’s Museum. See June 3. Matching Gift Program. SI&Bank & Trust Festa Italiana Staten Island Zoo. See June 2. we love. This exhibition, composed of SI Zoo.10am-4pm. The SI Zoological Society Family Science archival digital images of fifteen visual JUNEFEST 2006: 8 JUNE THURSDAY and the South Shore Rotary Club of SI, in Favorite Things Series artists dressed as other well known visual Tri-County Ramblers JUNEFEST 2006: artists of the 20th-21st century, is a Helen Conference House. 2pm. Free. Bluegrass Ed Fiorelli cooperation with the Garibaldi Meucci SI Museum. 10am-11:30am. See May 6. Garibaldi-Meucci Museum. 12pm. Free. Museum present the First Annual SI Bank & Levin, Robert Grant, Ed Davin collaboration. concert. Rain date: June 17. COAHSI. “The Dancing Barber” and other essays. Trust “Festa Italiana Weekend.” Feast on Walk on the Wild Side Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve. 11am. People’s Independent Film Experiment COAHSI. Italian specialty foods, enjoy Italian music, Walking Tour: Moravian Cemetery - Free. Discover the fascinating world of wild Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm. See June 2. dancers and even learn a little Italian. Rides, Moravian Cemetery. 2pm. $10. Join histo- 9 JUNE FRIDAY a Bocchi ball Tournament, Italian Cranial edible and medicinal herbs in this walk the Hello, Dolly! rian Richard Simpson on a tour of this Holy Family Church, Parish Center. 8pm. Crunch and more will bring the sights, trails with Herbalist Glenn Cronick. beautiful burial park. Learn about people Memories of You Concert. See June 2. 7:30pm. Port Richmond High School sounds and tastes of Italy to the Zoo. Some Intergenerational Gardening who shaped the history of SI, hear descrip- Auditorium. Swing, Big Band Era Music activities and food for additional fee. SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. Staten Island Film Festival tions of gravestones and mausoleums. Venues across Staten Island. See June 1. sung by Ruth Croson. Dancing music Hello, Dolly! Rhythmic Instruments Opera for Everyone by Port Richmond High School Jazz Band. Holy Family Church, Parish Center. 8pm. Weekend Workshops 4 JUNE SUNDAY Christ Church New Brighton. 3pm. Dress up and bring your dancing shoes! $15. There is a $1 surcharge per ticket for all SI Children’s Museum. 11:30am-4:30pm. Mt. Loretto and late breeding birds Scenes from famous operas. Serenade. Port Richmond HS Music Department . credit card orders. The story of Mrs. Dolly $5. Every week features a new instrument. 8-10am. Free. A second chance to join

7 June 18 and he will receive free admission Summer Solstice Dance Indicates COAHSI (when accompanied by a paying child). Give Noble Maritime Collection. 7pm. Help us mom and dad the thanks they deserve with celebrate the Summer Solstice and dance Grantee Event, Performance, or Exhibition JUNE 2006 a trip to the SI Zoo. the night away to live music provided by the Father’s Day Free for ALL Dads! Manhattan Rhythm Section. Irish Fair! Concerts! Bird Watching! Day de Dada! Junefest 2006! SI Children’s Museum. The Melody Lingers On Veterans’ Memorial Hall. 8pm. See June 23. Hello, Dolly! Planting a Dish Garden Reading Club Rhythmic Instruments Holy Family Church, Parish Center. 8pm. SI Botanical Garden.10am. $25/$20 mem- SI Museum. 7:30pm. $5/members free. Weekend Workshops SI Children’s Museum. See June 3. 25 JUNE SUNDAY See June 2. bers. Planting a Dish Garden with Leslie Music and Literature with the St. John’s Breakfast With the Beasts: 10 JUNE SATURDAY Heffner. Learn how to make dish plantings University Academics. Stout Concert Rainforest Restaurant SI Irish Fair with cacti and succulents. Noble Maritime Collection. 2-4pm. The SI Zoo. 8:30-10am. Meet fascinating eaters 16 JUNE FRIDAY from exotic places. Join the staff as we feed SI Rodeo Grounds, Midland Beach. 10am- Health and Wellness Fair musical group, Stout, performs with JUNEFEST 2006: New Generations monkeys, bats and other critters from the 7pm. Continuous popular Irish entertain- Greenbelt Nature Center. 11am-3pm. Get British folk musician, Hughie Jones, who West Brighton Community Center. 7pm. rainforests. ment, step dancers, food, cultural exhibits, healthy! A day of health awareness. recorded the CD Live at Snug Harbor with Free. Contemporary fusion music with a Bob Conroy of Stout at the Noble Rhythmic Instruments vendors, arts, crafts, jewelry, kid’s rides, Acupuncture, massage therapy, hiking and cutting edge. COAHSI. prizes, and games. Great fun for family and chiropractic care will be on hand. Collection in 2003. Weekend Workshops friends. Columcille Irish Cultural Center. Rhythmic Instruments Bloomsday OutLOUD IV!!!!! 20 JUNE TUESDAY SI Children’s Museum. See June 3. A Wetlands Tour Weekend Workshops Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm. For Celebratory Book Signing, Reception Learn About Birds of Prey SI Botanical Garden. 10am. $25/$20 mem- SI Children’s Museum. See June 3. the fourth year, SI OutLOUD celebrates SI Museum. 6-8pm. Realms of History: The Greenbelt Nature Center.1pm. Fee $10 non- bers.The Wetlands at SIBG with Lucy Bauer. Meadow Maze: Harry Potter Days James Joyce’s comic epic Ulysses. Come Cemeteries of Staten Island by Pat Salmon. members/ $9 members. Family of four and read along with us! (Adults only, non-members $38/ members $ 36. Take a stroll around the newly restored wet- SI Children’s Museum. See June 10. please). SI OutLOUD. 21 JUNE WEDNESDAY lands with naturalist Lucy Bauer. Lunch and Learn Presented by the Theodore Roosevelt Bird Registration required. Sanctuary. See live hawks, owls and falcons. JUNEFEST 2006: Valerie Quinlan Club Cicada: Allergic to B’s Walking Tour of Prince’s Bay. $24/$20 mem- Junior Science Club: Polymer JCC North. 2pm. Free. Classical violin SI Museum. 8pm. A new band featuring bers. Box lunch provided. Rain Date: June Walking Meditation in the Greenbelt Chemistry–Plastics! with piano accompaniment. COAHSI. ukulele and guitar playing of original and 22. The SI Museum. Greenbelt Nature Center. 2pm. Banta SI Museum. 10am–12pm. $8/5 members, for Walking Tour: Moravian Cemetery 20th century popular music. Free with Pangnatissa Thero, of the Staten Island children ages 8–13. Hands-on science led by American Living Workshop: Buddhist Vihara, will lead a meditation walk 2pm. $10. Join historian Richard L. Simpson museum admission. Clay Wollney. Hop, Skip and Jump in the Greenbelt Park. Jacques Marchais on a tour of our beautiful burial park. Learn Lee Ann Womack in Concert Greenbelt Nature Center. 1pm. Games from Museum of Tibetan Art. Father’s Day Craft about people who shaped the history of St. George Theatre. 8pm. $50, $65, $85, days-gone-by stimulate creativity, team Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve. 10:30- Staten Island, hear architectural descrip- $100. Country Music’s Hottest Female building and physical activity. Free program. Meet the Getzlers: 11:30am. Create a special personalized tions of gravestones and mausoleums. Singer was a big winner at the CMA Awards Ages 8 and up. Registration required. Made A Minor League Family Affair picture frame for Dad for Father’s Day. We Chanting and Chatting for single of the year, “I May Hate Myself In possible in part by an Encore Grant from SI Museum. 2pm. Dreaming of owning a will decorate frames with pine cone scales team? The Staten Island Yankee’s father and Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art. the Morning.” Hear this great performer! COAHSI, with public funding from NYSCA. for a rustic look. Don’t forget a photo! son duo tell their story. 3pm. 1 hour of chanting, a form of medita- 17 JUNE SATURDAY Summer Solstice Celebration Intergenerational Gardening tion and prayer, will be presented by the The Melody Lingers On Herbs for Survival Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8pm. Drum- SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. saffron robed monks from the Staten Island Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve.11am- Veterans’ Memorial Hall. 2pm. See June 23. ming, singing, stories, open mic. Rhythmic Instruments Buddhist Vihara. 12:30pm. Join herbalist Gert Coleman to JUNEFEST 2006: Weekend Workshops learn how to grow and use 10 colorful, 23 JUNE FRIDAY How Birth Order Prescribes Your Life The Melody Lingers On Tanya DeSilva Sri Lankan SI Children’s Museum. See June 3. Every Thing Goes Book Cafe and Neighbor- scented herbs not just to flavor food, but for Veterans’ Memorial Hall. 8pm. A tribute to Dance Troupe hood Stage. 4pm. Birth order expert, Robert common ailment and emergency situations. Happy Birthday to Zoo Irving Berlin. Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Calvary Presbyterian Church. 4pm. Free. SI Zoo. 1-3pm. Guess who’s turning 70? The Esposito, will discuss how your ranking in Intergenerational Gardening Sri Lankan dance as well as make-up SI Zoological Society has opened its doors your family’s birthing sequence determines SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. 24 JUNE SATURDAY demo. COAHSI. for 70 years. We are celebrating a big aspects of your life and experience. Intergenerational Gardening Hike with the Urban Park Rangers SI Children’s Museum. See May 6. achievement, celebrating our animals. 12 JUNE MONDAY Greenbelt Nature Center. 11am. Hike the 26 JUNE MONDAY Meadow Maze: Harry Potter Days Serpentine Art & Nature Commons, scenic, 4-mile round trilp, red trail with the Rhythmic Instruments All Sailors Sew Camp SI Children’s Museum. 1-4pm. $5.Movies, Inc., Annual Meeting of the Trust Urban Park Rangers. Bring water. Weekend Workshops Noble Maritime Collection. 9:am-12pm discussions, quiddich. Kairos at Wagner College. 8pm. Rhythmic Instruments SI Children’s Museum. See June 3. ($175) or 4pm ($300).Back by popular Learn Basic Yoga demand this week-long camp is offered in JUNEFEST 2006: Rest in Peace Parks Weekend Workshops 13 JUNE TUESDAY SI Children’s Museum. See June 3. Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve. 12-1pm. the summer for children ages 7-12. Sewing, Historical Staten Island Cemetery. 2pm. JUNEFEST 2006: Dawn Daniels Enjoy a peaceful afternoon and learn yoga knitting and embroidery are taught. Free. “Anthologies from Historical SI NYPL, Port Richmond Branch. 6:30pm. JUNEFEST 2006: Melody of Dragon with Clarissa Alliano. Wear loose clothing; 29 JUNE THURSDAY Cemetery.” Rain date: June 17. COAHSI. Free. Irish step dancing. COAHSI. Chinese Ensemble (Zhang Bao-Li) bring a towel or mat. NYPL, New Dorp Branch. 2pm. Free. Full Moon Drumming, Producing a Bountiful Harvest, JUNEFEST 2006: 14 JUNE WEDNESDAY Chinese music lecture, as well as a music Native American Style Melody Alesi Concert Open Mic and Imagineering demonstration. COAHSI. Every Thing Goes Book Cafe. 8:pm. Bring a JUNEFEST 2006: Queen Tipsy Greenbelt Nature Center. 1pm. Slide lecture St. Alban’s Church. 7pm. Free. Concert by drum or use one of ours. Share your poem, Alice Austen House Museum. 6pm. Free. An Afternoon Performance on farming and gathering techniques of recital team: Alesi, soprano, and Joseph song, performance, with or without drum- Blues, rock, jazz concert on the lawn. with Emily Ellison various North American Indian communi- Turrin, pianist. COAHSI. ming accompaniment. Imagineering: Celebrate Flag Day. Bring a blanket, lawn SI Children’s Museum. 3pm. $5. ties. We will visit farms and gardens covered chair, food and beverage; relax and enjoy by Indian Country Today, the nationally imagine how you want to see in the world. Alice Austen: Gala Dinner 30 JUNE SUNDAY Hello, Dolly! the music. Rain date: June 21. COAHSI. distributed Indian owned newspaper. Learn The Melody Lingers On Alice Austen House Museum. Two loyal about environmentally friendly methods of Holy Family Church, Parish Center. 8pm. See Veterans’ Memorial Hall. 8pm. See June 23. supporters, Betsy Dubovsky and Michael farming. Free. June 2. 15 JUNE THURSDAY JUNEFEST 2006: McMahon, will be honored with the 11 JUNE SUNDAY Bob Wright & Harbortown Revue Museum’s prestigious Clear Comfort Award JUNEFEST 2006: under the tent on our front lawn. It prom- A READING BY EDWARD WEISS SI Irish Fair Greenbelt Nature Center. 7pm. Free. Bob SI Rodeo Grounds in Midland Beach. ises to be an elegant, fun-filled evening. NYPL, St. George Branch. 2pm. Free. A Wright & Harbortown Revue present a See June 10. reading of Peter Pigeon of Snug Harbour, a concert offers acoustic based music with 18 JUNE SUNDAY Weekend Ecology Walks Fathers Day at the Zoo book that is sure to please the young a Staten Island influence. COAHSI. people in the audience. COAHSI. SI Museum. 7am. Blue Belt Tour. SI Zoo.10am-4:45pm. Bring your dad on

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8 CULTURAL TOURISM NEWS: COAHSI’S ANNUAL Historic Partnership Launches a Mobile POTLUCK NETWORKING Audio Tour to Lure Tourists Off the Ferry & GATHERING • Beginning May 2006 Talking Street’sTM Latest Mobile Audio Tour of New York Friday June 30, 7:30PM City Harbor, Staten Island Ferry Sites and the Community of St. George, Joins Share some food with friends. Pioneer-ing Audio Tours of Lower Manhattan, Boston and Washington, DC! Bring tales of your artistic and creative ventures, adventures New York City’s Newest Mobile Audio Walking Tour is and accomplishments to this Narrated by Award-Winning Actor Paul Sorvino Visitors begin their audio tour right on the ferry (Sheila Rohan, above), then continue on to points of interest in St. George, like Borough Hall (below). annual, backyard gathering Audio Tour will feature world famous attractions viewed on for Staten Island’s community the Staten Island Ferry, including And Ellis of musicians, visual artists, Island, as well as historic stops in St. George, Staten Island. poets, writers and performers. ABOUT THE TOUR Bring your slides, a poem, a This is a completely new and entertaining way to discover song, or a new work to share. our NY Harbor legacy, and to learn about the Staten Island Ferry and about Staten Island. Tourists and Staten Island RSVP 718-720-8849 Ferry goers will learn, firsthand, about world famous sites JOYCE MALERBA GOLDSTEIN viewed from the Ferry, and about St. George, one of New “BRING A DISH!” York City’s most historical and exciting destinations. In partnership with leading Staten Island–based business HOW DID THIS IDEA TAKE SHAPE? and arts organizations, Candide Media Works has an- While the old ferry terminal was being demolished, and FINE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW & nounced Talking Street’s™newest tour, “Staten Island the new Whitehall terminal was emerging, COAHSI was SALE • Saturday June 3, 2006 Ferry: Bridging the World’s Harbour,” the first–ever cell- trying to think of new ways to lure tourists OFF THE BOAT. 9am–2pm, at the St. George Municipal Parking phone and audio walking tour in Staten Island and the We approached the folks at TALKING STREETTM, who liked Lot, intersection of Hyatt St. and Central Ave., third tour in New York City. Narrated by award-winning the concept, and were willing to branch out to Staten next to the Greenmarket. Thirty talented Staten actor Paul Sorvino and in partnership with the Staten Island if we could raise the funds. Linda Baran, Exec- Island artisans are participating in the event, in- cluding photographers, potters, jewelry design- Island Museum, Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, utive Director of the Staten Island Chamber of Com- ers, painters and other artists. The Riverside COAHSI and the Downtown Staten Island Council, “Bridging the World’s merce, asked Laura Jean Watters, Executive Director of Ensemble will provide entertainment. Co-spon- Harbour” will be available in May, 2006. “Bridging the World’s Harbor” narrates of many COAHSI, to collaborate on a contest sponsored by New of the top sites you can see when you ride on the Staten Island Ferry. Cornelius Vanderbilt sored by the West Brighton Local Development York State Chamber of Commerce to put your communi- Corporation (WBLDC), Downtown Staten Island and his family’s history with Staten Island, Staten Island’s state–of–the–art ferry terminal, ty “on the map.” The audio tour idea was fleshed out and the newest ferry boats are included in the tour. Council, Northfield Local Development Corpora- and submitted, and won an award in 2005. The Staten tion, and COAHSI. Made possible by a grant from HOW IT WORKS The tour is as simple to use as an audio guide in a museum—except Island Museum was approached as a partner, and they you use your own cell-phone, or other audio listening device. You simply choose a stop, the NYC Department of Small Business Services. were happy to contribute their expertise and support. Call 718-816-4775 or email [email protected]. call the local number, 718-297-8687, and listen to an audio segment about the place where Last but not least, the voice of Downtown Staten Island, you are standing. You can visit the stops in eager to attract new visitors and residents to St. George, West Brighton Local SPECIAL OFFER for COAHSI Members, any order you want, at your own pace. joined as full partners. SI Bank & Trust Foundation gave Develpment Corporation/ Fellow SI Ferry Riders and Friends: FREE There are 16 stops, and each lasts about us encouragement and financial support. “This will do Business Outreach Center and two minutes. You can enjoy the tour in a great things for Staten Island,” said Betsy Dubovsky, COAHSI Join with Staten Island Arts AUDIO TOUR for the first 2 weeks in May. single day, or over the course of a week. If Executive Director. With first year funding in place, the Community in New Gallery Venture Call the COAHSI office, and ask for your you choose to visit every stop, the tour partners sought new funding in 2006, and looked to the COAHSI is pleased to serve on the advisory com- will take about two hours including walk- mittee for the new Red Carpet Art Gallery, with “access code” OR…STOP BY THE VISIT Arts & Business Council’s cultural tourism initiative, a ing time—but only about 40 minutes of photographer George Roos, Flint Gennari of the CENTER in Whitehall Ferry Terminal and funding program made possible by the New York State cell-phone time. The price of the tour is Creative Photographers’ Guild, Steve Nutt, pot- Council on the Arts get your free map and key to the tour. $5.95. Visitors and members can listen to . The grantee panel was impressed. ter, and Meg Ventrudo, Jacques Marchais Muse- Sign up for our newsletter and free email a free preview, and can pick up a map and Janet Wong, coordinator of the ini- um of Tibetan Art. The gallery is a project of the alerts listing Islandwide events so you their complimentary passes at the Staten tiative, agreed. The Council awarded West Brighton Local Development Corporation/ $20,000 to the project. “Yes, it’s a won’t miss all the exciting and fascinat- Inland Ferry Terminal, local area hotels Business Outreach Center. The LDC has long pro- and kiosks. You can also buy passes and challenge for partners to work to- vided business expertise to artists, and this ing things to do and places to see, right get more information or download a map gether, but it’s worth it!” says Susan venture creates an exhibit and retail space at here—on Staten Island. at www.talkingstreet.com. McAnanama, project manager for their headquarters at 1207 Castleton Ave. Candide Media. WBLDC is looking for artists and fine crafters to display their work for sale in the gallery. Business development courses for artists are available to those who participate. Contact JoAnn Regan, the Deputy Director, WBLDC, at [email protected] or at specialprojects@wbcldc. WBLDC, 1207 Cast- leton Ave., SI, NY 10310. Call: 718-816-4775/Fax: Fan Tango • www.fantango.org • (718) 873-6027 718-816-7234. Hours: 9am to 5pm.

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NEWS ’s Artists! SIGN UP! COAHSI Announces the Recipients of the 2006 what Are you a poet? Singer? Performer? JPMorganChase Organizational Grants (JPMC) & up? Painter? Musician? Dancer? the 2006 Organization Stabilization and Development Grant (OSD). COAHSI’s Artist Registry often gets calls about professional op- The 2006 JPMorgan Chase Grants (JPMC) portunities that are available for artists, performers, writers, are for Staten Island non-profit arts organizations and non-profit organizations that provide art services to the crafts people, instructors and others in Staten Island’s arts Staten Island community. JPMC Grants offer programmatic support for organizational needs derived from the ap- community. Our database listing is free, and can bring new plicant’s proposals. Grant amounts range from $1,000 to $3,000. The program is funded by the JPMorgan Chase work and exposure for your career. To register, or to update your current listing, complete this form and return to: COAHSI, 1000 Regrant program in partnership with COAHSI. Richmond Terrace, SI, NY 10301 / Fax(718) 442-8572. The 2006 Organizational Stabilization and Development Grant (OSD) Name offers support for non-programmatic, organizational Organization/Business Name building initiatives. There is one grant awarded for Address $3,000. The program is funded by COAHSI membership. After School Programs Integrating Resource Exchange (ASPIRE) Phone/Fax/E-mail 2006 JPMorgan Chase Grants (JPMC) Awardees... COAHSI is a member of the ASPIRE (After School Programs DESCRIBE YOUR WORK (150 words or less): Tottenville Historical Society $2,500 Integrating Resource Exchange) Steering Committee. Please be as specific as possible (ie: if you are a painter, specify which Sea View Playwright’s Theatre 3,000 This new network seeks to identify and share resources media, technique, school or form you use.) Attach an extra sheet of paper if necessary. Universal Temple of the Arts 3,000 between organizations that provide outside-of-school- Ten Penny Players (The Waterways Project) 1,500 time services and activities to Staten Island youth and Sundog Theatre 3,000 their families. ASPIRE will launch its first “match-making” Staten Island Chamber Music Players 2,000 event on May 5 at the SI Children’s Museum. To find out Staten Island Philharmonic Orchestra 2,000 more e-mail Jo Anne Kavanagh at arts.in.ed@ statenis- Sea View Historic Foundation 3,000 land arts.org, or call 718-447-3329. Preservation League of Staten Island 1,300 Creative Photographers Guild 1,000 West Brighton writer, actor and play- Richmond County Orchestra 1,500 GOOD NEWS! wright Marian Fontana will receive an honorary law Alice Austen House, Friends of 1,200 degree from Massachusetts School of Law on June 2. Ms. 2006 Organizational Stabilization & Fontana is author of Widow’s Walk, the story of her first Development Grant Awardee... year living without fire fighter husband Dave Fontana, Riverside Opera Company $3,000 who lost his life in the World Trade Center attack. Congratulations to the NESC Congratulations to the National Executive Service Corps for spear-heading April’s Art of the Game project, a col- I understand that the information I have supplied here may be provided to laboration of 20 cultural organizations around sports individuals/organizations who have professional opportunities available themes. We give special kudos to Robin Locke Monda to Staten Island artists which COAHSI deems appropriate. who worked with NESC as their community liaison. (Please initial)

What’s on Your Wish List? In June, applications for COAHSI’s Arts-in-Ed “Wish List” Get a t-shirt featuring this original work of art by Chim Chin. Grants will be available for public, private, parochial Get a COAHSI T-Shirt! schools and social service providers seeking funds to Become a COAHSI member—or renew your membership at the supporting develop/enhance arts initiatives in/out of school. For level ($50)—and receive a special edition t-shirt designed by artist and This form can be downloaded at the COAHSI Board Member Chim Chin that tells the world you support Staten information, e-mail Jo Anne Kavanagh at arts.in.ed@ Island arts. Members also receive a weekly e-mail calendar that updates “Professional Development Resources” section on statenisland arts.org or call 718-447-3329. you on everything that’s happening on Staten Island. COAHSI’s website: www.statenislandarts.org.

The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island fos- Support the Arts and Humanities ters and promotes arts and cultural activities by providing services to a borough-wide COAHSI constituency of individual artists of all disciplines, arts groups and cultural institutions and on Staten Island–JOIN NOW the general public. Our programs and services include re-granting programs,VISIT Center, seminars and workshops, and newsletter.COAHSI programs and services are supported by EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts; Laura Jean Watters Lorna Harris, President YES! I WANT TO BE A COAHSI MEMBER!! Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro; New York City Councilmen;, GRANTS DIRECTOR New Member? Renewal? Thoughtful Gift? Michael McMahon, and Andrew Lanza; New York State Senator John Marchi; New York Christopher Benbow State Assemblymen John Lavelle and Robert Matthew Mirones;The Carnegie Corporation; Ben Jacobs Chim Yi Chin The Empire State Development Corporation;The New York City Department of Economic NAME DATE Development; Jpmorgan Chase Foundation; Time Warner Cable New York; The Arts & PROGRAM ASSISTANT/ Christine Johnson Business Council/NYSCA Cultural Tourism Grant Program;SI Bank & Trust Foundation; VISIT CENTER MANAGER Hal Minsky Richmond County Savings Bank Foundation;The New York Council on the Humanities;The Veronica Carle ADDRESS Staten Island Advance; Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority;Alfred G.Vanderbilt; Sheila Rohan International Speedway Corp. and by many Staten Island individuals and businesses includ- DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY MARKETING Bob Shick ZIP ing Staten Island Board of Realtors,The Alice Austen House Museum,The Jacques Marchais AND MEMBERSHIP RELATIONS Museum of Tibetan Art, Mitchell family and Inform Business, Inc. and our membership Andrew Wilson Erika Schaefer-Hellstrom PHONE(S) EMAIL JOIN the more than 300 individual, families, businesses and organizations who are COAHSI members! Last year over $10,000 in membership dues helped support SI MORENYC TOUR COORDINATOR COUNSEL TO THE BOARD Membership Level COAHSI programs and services that strengthen arts, cultural and humanities activ- Susan McAnanama ities on Staten Island, like this newsletter and the activities described in our Christina Curry, Esq. $20 Individual $30 Family organizational column.While membership dues are modest, the combined message LCB ARTS–IN–EDUCATION DIRECTOR is that we think an active cultural community is an essential component of our Jo Anne Kavanagh $50 Supporting: Receive Special Edition T-shirt community’s life. (See Above) NEW AND RENEWED MEMBERS NEWSLETTER EDITOR & DESIGNER $50 Organization Level 1 (Budget $0–500,000) Dorri Lynn Aspinwall, George & Susan McAnanama, Barbara Solan, Loretta Kasper,Joseph Robin Locke Monda A. Martino, Theatre for Rehabilitation of Youth, Robert Bunkin & Jenny Tango, Diane $100 Organization Level 2 (Budget $500,000 & above) Darconte, Helen Cusack, Salvatore Busacca, Victor Zucconi, Susan Grabel & George ARTS & LETTERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Rappaport, Patricia Whitehouse, Staten Island Chamber Music Players, Marilyn Gritz, Angela D’Aiuto, Community Rep. Tina Sher, Graphic Designer $200 Business Membership William Higgins,Viva Voce Chamber Ensemble, Edward & Maria Fiorelli, Ellen & George Pratt, Malin Abrahamsson & Carlos Alves, Robert & Catherine Blue, Billie Ludders, Robert & David Fetherolf, Composer Gail Larkin, Writer & Educator Additional tax deductible contribution Joyce Wright,Anna Connors, Mario Casciano, Guy & Jan Klucevsek, Carolyn Corbo, Herman Vincent Verdi, Photographer Julie Laudicina, Community Rep. & Sylvia Zaage, Scott Lambdin, Edward & Kathy Fieramosca, Joan & Gary Moore,Francesca Louise Luger, Photographer Silva Popaz, Community Rep. $ Cole, Kenneth Frye,Eleanor Mintz,Marion Coolen,Margot Higgins, Denise Mumm, Margaret Robinson, Cynthia Selmon & family, Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Angie Mangino, Sanchie Tom Doty, Musician Robert Jones, Community Rep. Bobrow, Greenbelt Conservancy of Staten Island, Susan Ledwith & Anthony Butera,The Art I Want to Help COAHSI More... Lab,Vincent Mottola,A E Baldasarre, Snug Harbor Cultural Center,Marcia Bujold, Friends COAHSI’s newsletter is a bi–monthly publication. The opinions expressed within are those of the I’m interested in committee service. of Alice Austen House, Staten Island Inter-Agency Council on Aging, Gary Bartels & family, authors and do not reflect the views of COAHSI, its staff or volunteers. All rights reserved. © 2006. Andrea Phillips & family, Jean Watters, Teresa Caliari Olya, Anne Taylor, James Hazard, Articles written for the newsletter are welcome, subject to normal editorial review. Cultural, arts, Jayrene O’Shaughnessy, Eva Gabriel. and humanities organizations should submit information regarding talks, exhibits, theater, music Please send me additional information. etc. for free posting on the most complete list of cultural events on Staten Island. WWW.STATENISLANDARTS.ORG • 718.447.3329 Arts Opportunities! 2006 DEADLINE: JUNE 20 work in front of a group of market executives as well as a di- Camera Club of New York 2006 verse panel of peers. This festival promises to be a fruitful National Photography Competition venture for all involved. So, if you have a pilot or an idea for Open to all US residents 18 years or old- one, check us out and get in on the ground floor. er. Antonin Kratochvil, photographer and www.itvfest.org Application fee: $50 documentarian, will be our Juror. Each entry will consist of either 6 digital en- DEADLINE: JUNE 20, 4:30pm tries or 6 slides with a fee of $35.00. 2006 SUNROOM PROJECT SPACES Deadline for receipt of CD or slides is The Visual Arts Program at Wave Hill presents work by contem- June 20, 2006. Chosen artist will receive porary artists who explore, demonstrate, or otherwise reflect a one-person exhibition in our Alfred upon the dynamic relationship between people and nature. Lowenherz Gallery and a cash award of Works are exhibited in several venues: Glyndor Gallery, gener- $300.00. Other finalists will participate ated@wavehill, and Sunroom Project Spaces, and a range of in a group show. Visit www.cameraclub- public programs accompany the exhibitions. The Sunroom ofnewyork. org for rules and information. program replaces Wave Hill House Gallery as a venue for New York area emerging artists. The sunroom and sun porch of DEADLINE: MAY 15 Glyndor House are both approximately 16 feet square. These HOWL! FESTIVAL CELEBRATES rooms have significant natural light and cannot be complete- THE PUBLIC SPACE ly darkened for video projection. Five artists will be chosen for Art in Odd Places (AiOP)(New York NY) solo exhibitions for 6 weeks in the spring and fall of 2007. We invites artists, artist teams, and per- are looking for artists who will develop a special project or formers to submit project proposals for new body of work to exhibit in the unique setting. Work in all AiOP 2006 held during the 4th annual media will be considered and artists are encouraged to ex- HOWL! Festival on September 8-16 in the periment with the parameters of traditional display and , Manhattan. AiOP 2006 exhibition formats. Selected artists will receive an honorari- projects examine current public space um of up to $1,500. Exhibit Periods: March 3, April 15 & 18, potential, spaces that have recently May 28, Sept. 13, Oct. 15 & 18, Dec. 16, 2007. Open to profes- been privatized, and the boundaries of sional emerging artists not represented by a commercial YOU USE! CAN public space. AiOP artists are encour- gallery, who live in a 50-mile radius of Wave Hill. Visit: www. aged to explore these spaces, and ask wavehill.org/arts/galleryphotos. Call 718-549-3200 x397, or how the “public” in public space can be e-mail visualarts@ wave-hill. org or visit www.wavehill.org, reclaimed. Artists should uncover spaces or write: Visual Arts Curator, RE: Sunroom Project Space, Wave that are possibilities for new public Hill, 675 West 252 Street, Bronx, NY 10471. spaces and/or spaces that are out of the way/off the beaten track. Like a scav- DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2006 enger hunt, the audience with map in 2ND BRANDENBURG BIENNIAL hand roams the Lower East Side to find COMPOSERS COMPETITION each location, or another discovers the The Association of Friends of the Brandenburg Symphony art on the way home from grocery shop- Orchestra announces a competition for composers of sym- ping. Visit www.artinoddplaces.org. phonic music. Any nationality; there is no age limit. The jury consists of composers, scholars of music, and persons in the NEWS DEADLINE: JUNE 19 music community. ART OF MUSIC EXHIBITION Smithtown Township Arts Council (St. James, NY) seeks entries BRANDENBURG COMPOSERS’ PRIZE: The winner of the Bran- for the Art of Music Exhibition, held at the Mills Pond House denburg Composers’ Prize will receive a commission (5.000 Gallery July 15 thru August 19, 2006. Artists in all media are Euro) to compose an orchestral work for the Brandenburg encouraged to submit works that take music as subject mat- Symphony Orchestra or the first performance of an unper- ter, and/or works that explore the connections between art formed composition. The premiere will be in the Industrial and music. Works may not exceed 54 inches in width. Artists Museum, summer of 2007. may submit their works by JPEG (300 dpi or greater) on CD BRANDENBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRIZE: only. Entry deadline: June 19. Entry fee: $20 for up to three The winner of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra Prize will entries. Send SASE to STAC, 660 Route 25A, St. James NY 11870 get the invitation to compose an orchestral composition or or visit www.stacarts.org for a prospectus. (631) 862-6575 the first performance of an unperformed composition by the ART SALES CONSULTANT WANTED Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra during the 2007-08 season. Mimi Ferzt Gallery (New York NY), a contemporary art gallery Works will premiere in Brandenburg City Theater. in SoHo, is seeking a full-time Art Sales Consultant. The posi- Applications must be submitted by May 31, ‘06 (postmark): tion requires at least five years of gallery experience. A Wallstrae 15, D-14770 Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, background in Art History with a knowledge of contemporary Att: Andrea-Carola Goentsch, Organization: Foerderverein art is preferred. The applicant must possess excellent oral Brandenburger Symphoniker. tel: +49-(0)3381-22 88 22 /fax: and written communication skills with strong attention to +49-(0)3381-22 88 66. email: biennale@foerderverein-bran- detail. Ideal candidate should be self-motivated with an denburger -symphoniker.de. / www.foerderverein-branden- ability to work directly with clients. Responsibilities also in- burger-symphoniker.de. clude assisting the Director with special projects. Salary commensurate w/experience. Excellent benefits. Send re- THE HUMAN FORM NATIONAL JURIED sume, cover letter to [email protected] EXHIBITION—DEADLINE: JUNE 15 “The Human Form” is open to all US artists, 18 years or older. PERCENT FOR ART IN NYC: IMAGE REGISTRY All media except video. Juror: Chuck Gniech, Illinois Institute The Department of Cultural Affairs’ Percent for Art Image of Art. Awards: Solo Exhibition. Additional awards may be giv- Registry is an important component of the DCA’s Percent for en. Juror results will be mailed by June 22. Up to 3, 35mm Art Program that allows artists to participate by maintaining slides in accepted. Fee: $25. To download an application a record of their work. The registry is consulted by the archi- form, visit: http://fac.aii.edu/~ art332/350schedule.html. tects, panelists, and City agencies for each project. Staff prepares a slide presentation from the registry for each pan- DEADLINE: JUNE 30 el meeting. Artists who are interested in submitting their work GIBSON GUITAR NEW MUSICIAN COMPETITION for review may print out the application or call (212) 643- Only original work considered. A song/instrumental can have 7770, or write for an application: Percent for Art, Department co-writers, but only one name is allowed on the application of Cultural Affairs, 330 West 42 St., 14th Floor, NYC, NY 10036. and only one award will be made. Each song/ instrumental can only be submitted once. No more than one original work ATTENTION “NEW MEDIA” ARTISTS: will be accepted per entrant. Open to amateur and profes- DIGIT MEDIA EXPO DEADLINE: JUNE 1 Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (Narrowsburg, NY) sional songwriters. Entry Fee $30. The winner chosen by a DIGit will award $5000 in cash for the Best in: Narrative, panel of judges from the entertainment industry. The winner Documentary, Animation, PodArt, Music/Sound, Experimen- will be selected by Sept 19, 2006. PRIZE will be a trip to tal, and Student/Youth. Media, movies, and art will be Bozeman, Montana; opportunities to perform and get public- presented in our galleries, theaters and podcasts, and fea- ity during HatcHfest; and a Gibson Acoustic Traveling tured in 7 venues and on Yasgur’s Farm. Sunday, August 27: A Songwriter guitar. For the submission form, visit:www.hatch- feature event at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on the 1969 fest.com/2006/submissions.html#gibson Woodstock site will open at 6 p.m. with Podstock. Attendees will be invited to bring their iPods and share their creations Italiana Festa with other folks, while selected PodArt is shown on two 20 x 15 1st annual foot screens. As darkness envelopes the 4800-seat, outdoor, covered amphitheater, an awards presentation and screen- “My Beautiful Pet ings of the Best of DIGit 2006 will take place on a 30 ft. Photo Contest ” screen. www.ArtsAllianceSite.org. Application fee: $25 Presented by the SI Zoological Society & South Shore Rotary in cooperation with Garibaldi Meucci Museum & The Creative DEADLINE: MAY 30 Photographers’ Guild. Free and open to the public. Photo- INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL: graphs may be of any animal normally considered a pet and SUBMISSIONS WANTED!! may include people. Entrees will be judged on the quality and The first annual Independent Television Festival to be held this originality of the image. The winning images will be enlarged, summer in Los Angeles, California, is seeking independently matted and framed and will be included in the Creative produced television pilots in the categories of: Comedy, Photographers’ Guild exhibit on view at the SI Zoo during the Drama, Reality, Family and Game Show. Independent televi- “Festa.” Winners will receive an award certificate and their sion now is on the verge of blowing up the way that print framed. 1st, 2nd, 3rd place & 5 honorable mentions will independent film did in the early 90’s. The only thing that’s be awarded. been missing, until now, was a viable platform to showcase For application form, such work. The itvf will do just that. Like Sundance and email: [email protected]. Tribecca, the ITVF will provide an opportunity to screen your Deadline for submissions: May 10 11 NEW TOURISM 1-3 JUNEFEST 2006 INITIATIVE with... 4 SI’s First Annual Film Festival 4 Dick Dickenson Remembered

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