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The Ringwood Friends of Music Ringwood Friends of Music heralds the new Year with a Jan. 3 concert at 8 pm featuring four young performers which will be followed on Jan. 25 at 7 pm with pianist dr. Adam Kent, whom The Times hailed as having “…a wonderful sense of authority and technical flair.” dr. Kent is on the piano faculty of Brooklyn College and new Jersey City University. He has performed in recital as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music on most every continent. He made his new York recital debut at weill Recital Hall in 1989. dr. Kent also received top prizes in the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competitions and is a recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize and the Harold Bauer Award. The Young Artists Showcase on Jan. 3 will feature Victoria Hilario, Alexandra Meakem, Emily Piziak and Maximilian Ploshchansky. Pianist Dr. Adam Kent, at right, performs in Ringwood on Jan. 25. The 31st Anniversary Season Young Artists Other Upcoming PC Arts Events Showcase on Jan. 3 will feature solo and ensemble performances by pianist Victoria Jan. 1: First Day Hike, NJBG, Ringwood Hilario, soprano Alexandra Meakem, guitarist Jan. 10: New Haven’s Garment Workers Exhibit, Haledon Emily Piziak and pianist Maximilian Jan. 11: Backstage at the YMCA Concerts, Wayne Ploshchansky. These teenaged musicians are Jan. 14: Friends of the Wayne Library Lunchbox Learning recipients of many prizes, awards and Jan. 17: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jazz Festival, Clifton scholarships that judges feel are “evidence of Jan . 19: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service, Paterson their promising musical future.” Jan. 25: Arts Connection 11 Juried Show Opens , MSU A non-profit organization founded and led by Jan. 30: Passaic County Film Festival Deadline, Totowa donaldo garcia, Ringwood Friends of Music Like us on Facebook at stages free performances in the Community www.facebook.com/PCCHC Presbyterian Church, 145 Carletondale Rd., Ringwood. Call 973-835-5862 for info. Pg. 2 • january 2015 artsnews @ passaic county

The 11th Annual Passaic County Film Festival is a juried exhibition of students’ and independent filmmakers’ work showcasing a wide range of film projects created by those who live, attend school, or work in Passaic County. All 10- minute entries must be the sole effort of those submitting the work. The application deadline is 4 pm on Jan. 30. There is no submission fee, entry to the festival on April 25 will be free, and screenings will take place at the Fabian 8 Theater in historic downtown Paterson. For info, call 973-569-4720 or e-mail [email protected].

ATC Studios’ 2015 Young Bundle up and enjoy a convivial start to the New Year at a First Day Hike on Playwrights Project is open to Jan. 1 at the New Jersey State Botanical Gardens in Ringwood. Begin at 1 pm at middle and high school students and the Carriage House Visitor Center and allow 90 minutes for the hike. Staff will be on the trail for assistance if required. The walk will be cancelled in case of snow; is accepting short (10 minutes or call 973-962-7031 for more information. Photo by Tom Grissom. under), one-act scripts that reflect the concept Dreams & Nightmares. Scripts, written for one The Paterson Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta to 10 , with simple technical requirements can be Sorority will reinstate its Rev. dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. submitted to ATC by emailing as a .doc or .docx to service to celebrate the life and legacy of the civil rights [email protected]. deadline is March 15. Scripts leader. The Jan. 19 event is at 11 am at grace Chapel will be read and evaluated by professionals and teachers. Baptist Church, 26 Haledon Ave, Paterson, and the dr. From all submissions, six to 12 will be selected for public MLK choir will perform. Also the 2nd Annual Youth performance, and cast and produced through ATC. Empowerment Conference will be held on Jan. 31 at the The audience and a panel of professional theater judges JFK High School, 61 Preakness Ave., Paterson. god’s will select three winners to be featured on the internet. Anointed Mime group will perform and special guest Complete guidelines are at atcstudios.org. Located in speaker and author Caseen gaines will lead the downtown Clifton, ATC Studios has been training actors, discussion. For info, call 973-495-3322. singers, and dancers since 1990 . Classes are available in The 20th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Jazz Festival acting, including TV/film, , and dance for ages and Dinner is Jan. 17 from 6 pm to midnight at the four to seniors. ATC Studios is a non-profit 501(c)3 Church of the Assumption, 35 orange Ave., Clifton. charitable corporation. Featured performers are the george Byers, Jackie Jones, The Harmony Singers of Wayne, a professionally Madame Pat Tandy & Jazz Ensemble, Jazzy Bear & directed mixed voice, multi-generational community Friends, Audrey & Jazz 4 Soul and Cynthia Holiday. chorus, is beginning their 50th season this year. do you Tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door. Call Seifullah love to sing? do you read music or have group singing Ali Shabazz at Shabazz Productions, 973-478-4124. W experience? do you derive satisfaction from being part of high quality performances? Rehearsals for the Harmony Paterson: An Altered Reality is an exhibition of mixed Singers begin in January for a golden Anniversary Concert media drawings by Paterson artist Marcos Salazar. to be presented in May. The group meets from 7:30 to 9:30 working predominately in pen and ink, the people, places pm on Tuesday evenings at the wayne Civic Center on and architecture of the city provide inspiration for Salazar. Hamburg Turnpike. Soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices His artwork is on view in the Broadway & LRC galleries are invited to attend a few rehearsals without obligation to at PCCC through Feb. 27, Broadway at Memorial drive in see if your voice, the time commitment and the Harmony downtown Paterson. For info, email [email protected] or singers are a fit. details at harmonysingersnj.org W go to pccc.edu/art/gallery. W january 2015 artsnews @ passaic county • Pg. 3

Backstage at the Y is a series of the prestigious annual exhibition. The four concerts at the wayne YMCA’s “Art Connections” exhibition series is Rosen Performing Arts Center. an annual fund-raiser that supports Tickets are $12 with an additional $5 the mission of the gallery, which is charge for the optional brunch. The named in honor of renowned series opens on Jan. 11 when Steve American sculptor george Segal, who Alexander and the Jazz generation died in June 2000. The 7, 200-square- perform traditional jazz selections and foot facility is on the fourth level of standards. Maestro Robert w. Butts, the university’s Red Hawk parking a conductor, composer, educator, deck, adjacent to the Alexander writer and lecturer will discuss Kasser Theater. For hours and info, Puccini Passion—The of call 973- 655-3382. Giacomo Puccini and His Contemporaries on Jan. 19. Concert New Haven’s Garment Workers: pianist Carolyn Enger will share her An Elm City Story, an exhibit on passion for the 88 keys on Jan 25. loan from the greater new Haven Carolyn Enger brings passion to She will be followed on Feb. 8 by Labor History Association, opens on the Y’s piano on Jan. 25. Matt daniel’s Piano Creations Jan. 10 at the American Labor performing nearly all genres of music. Museum/Botto House national The Theater League of Clifton Tickets are $12 and may be purchased Landmark, 83 norwood St., Haledon. (TLC) is entering its 10th season. at the wayne YMCA’s welcome Through photographs and artifacts, The mission is to cultivate arts and Center, one Pike dr. or at the exhibit presents a portrait of the entertainment and to create a wayneymca.org. lives, victories, struggles and connection with its citizens through sacrifices of a group of working theater. Entertaining, enlightening and The George Segal Gallery at people in the clothing industry in uplifting, TLC has made a difference Montclair State University has new Haven. in 1932 and 1933, to in education as well, by awarding selected three pastels ( Glacial Rocks, combat sweatshop conditions, scholarships to graduating Clifton Central Park below) by Clifton artist workers undertook a large-scale High School seniors involved in the Michael gabriele for its Art unionization of the industry that arts. Upcoming productions include: Connections 11 juried show. An resulted in improvements in wages, Once Upon a Mystery , a dinner opening reception is on Jan. 25, at 2 working conditions and hours. info at theater murder mystery fundraiser while the display will be exhibited labormuseum.net. at Mario’s Restaurant in Clifton on through Feb. 21. This is the fourth Feb. 27, 28 and March 1, 6, 7 and 8. time during the last eight years that The Wayne Public Library That will be followed by the musical gabriele’s work has been accepted for Lunchbox Learning Program hosts South Pacific in May at the Aprea tenor Salvatore Chiarelli on Jan. 14. Theater Scoles Ave., Clifton. Ticket Chiarelli was vocally trained in italy prices, membership info and more and for the details at theaterleagueofclifton.com stage and has taught music in the or call 973-928-7668. nYC public school system for decades. He will discuss his career Silk City Love Affair: Photos, and opera, and perform an aria or Poems, Prose, and More about two. doors open at noon for this free Paterson, New Jersey is an exhibit program and patrons may bring a of 30 black and white photographs brown bag lunch. Refreshments will taken in 1977 by artist Joseph Verilla. be served by the Friends of the His poems and prose are also an wayne Public Library. The program integral component of the show at the begins at 12:30 pm. The Library is at Paterson Museum, 2 Market St., 461 Valley Rd. For info, write displayed through Jan. 19. Suggested [email protected] or admission is $2. Call 973-321-1260. call 973-694-4272. Pg. 4 • january 2015 artsnews @ passaic county

The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College is now accepting submissions for its four annual contests. The awards are as follows: • The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, honoring Allen ginsberg’s contribution to American Literature. First prize, $1,000; second, $200; and third, $100. The entry fee of $18 covers the cost of a subscription to The Paterson Literary Review, in which the winning poems will be published. Postmark deadline Dar Williams and Mary Fahl perform at the Ringwood Public Library. is April 1. New Legacy concerts at the Ringwood Public Library begin another season with dar williams returning on Jan. 25 at 2 pm. Hendrik Hertzberg of the • The Paterson Poetry Prize , a The New Yorker has described williams as ‘one of America’s very best $1,000 award for a book of poems, singer-songwriters.’ Then on March 1, also at 2 pm, it will be Mary Fahl, an 48 pages or more in length, with a expressive, emotional singer and songwriter who first achieved fame as lead minimum print run of 500, for a book singer of the chamber-pop group, . Tickets for all new published in 2014. Postmark deadline Legacy concerts are available during regular hours at the Ringwood Public is Feb. 1. Library, 30 Cannici dr, Ringwood, (973-962-6256) or at ringwoodlibrary.org. • The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, a $500 award for a book published in 2014, in each age category (Pre-K – grade 3, grades 4 – 6, grades 7 – 12). Postmark deadline is March 15. • The Paterson Fiction Prize, a $1,000 award for a novel or collection of short fiction published in 2014. Postmark deadline is April 1. For more info, visit pccc.edu/poetry or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Maria Mazziotti gillan, Executive director, Poetry Center, Passaic County Community College, one College Blvd., Paterson, 07505- 1179. Be sure to mark your envelope with the contest name.

The Poetry Center’s next event will take place on Feb. 7 at 1 pm, when the 2014 Allen ginsberg Poetry Award winners will read at the Hamilton Club Building, 32 Church St., Paterson.

The New Jersey Poetry Calendar offers a list of readings in the state. For events and info on how to subscribe, go to pccc.edu/poetry.