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OCTOBER 2017 ARTSNEWS on Broadway (photo credit: Joan Marcus) Ghost: The Musical White Plains Performing Arts Center – ArtsWestchester – The Capitol Theatre – Ghost: The Musical Give Us the Vote Modest Mouse Artwork by Alfredo Ponce for ArtsWestchester (photo credit: Chelsea Lauren) Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman in A publication of ArtsWestchester artsw.org/artsnews This issue is sponsored by: A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS OCTOBER 2017 from the from the CEO County Executive As County Executive, I am proud of Westchester’s thriving art and cultural scene. Art exhibits, museums, gardens, music venues, theaters and much more – there’s Keeping the Dream Alive something for everyone here in Westchester. Thanks to ArtsWestchester, ArtsNews is the best way to by Janet Langsam, ArtsWestchester CEO stay on top of all the great arts and cultural events that take place in Westchester each month. The October issue features: • Where to find Halloween fun for the whole family (page A5) • Highlights from the upcoming fall season at eight of Westchester’s top performing arts centers (pages A6-7) • New Rochelle ArtsFest, which features three days of arts events and activities throughout the towns of New Rochelle and Pelham (page A10) ArtsNews is available in various locations and publications throughout the county, including the Westchester County Business Journal and The Examiner. Now, ArtsNews is also distributed though The Brief, the county’s weekly email newsletter. For an additional way to receive ArtsNews every month, readers can now visit westchestergov.com and subscribe to The Brief. Its free and an easy way to stay in tune with the arts. Thank you, Robert P. Astorino, Westchester County Executive For reasons I can hardly fathom, voting has always meant a lot to me. The work of ArtsWestchester is made possible with support from Perhaps that explains why as a young married living in Queens, I allowed Westchester County Government. myself to be dragged (not kicking and screaming, but reluctantly) to a meeting of the Northeast Queens League of Women Voters (LWV). There Robert P. Astorino Michael Kaplowitz I was, trapped in an upscale living room with 20 stunningly smart women, County Executive Chairman, Westchester Board of Legislators all of whom seemed much smarter and more well-informed than me. WESTCHESTER BOARD OF LEGISLATORS Statistics on air and water pollution filled the room with other facts and figures that seemed to trip lightly off their tongues, as if they were reciting Catherine Borgia Kenneth W. Jenkins MaryJane Shimsky poetry. Sure, I had a college degree, but I didn’t know any of this stuff. It Benjamin Boykin James Maisano John G. Testa struck me then that if the torch of women’s suffrage was lit by the ladies Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte David Tubiolo of Seneca Falls, it is also true that it has been kept alive by the LWV. Only Francis T. Corcoran Catherine Parker Alfreda A. Williams in retrospect did I realize how the LWV changed my life. I began to look Margaret A. Cunzio Virginia Perez Lyndon Williams deeper into issues. I found ways to measure them by research and not David B. Gelfarb by partisanship. I began to believe that I could make a difference. And, for the first time in my life, I had a mentor. ArtsWestchester is proud to Thanks to our generous supporters be partnering with the League of Women Voters of White Plains for our upcoming exhibition, Give Us The Vote, which previews on October 7th in Joseph and Sophia Abeles Foundation, Aetna Foundation, Anchin Block & Anchin, AvPorts, Bank of America, Bloomingdales, Benerofe Properties, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, CBRE, Clarfeld Financial our White Plains gallery. The exhibition celebrates 100 years of women’s Advisors, Con Edison, Curtis Instruments, Empire City Casino, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, The Examiner, suffrage in New York State with a shout-out to the ladies of the league who Inspiria Media, Jacob Burns Foundation, JMC Consulting, P.C., The Journal News, The Liman Foundation, keep the dream alive. For more about Give Us The Vote, visit: Macerich Co. Cross County Shopping Center, Macy's, MAXX Properties, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, artsw.org/GiveUsTheVote. Peckham Industries, Inc., People’s United Bank. Pernod Ricard USA, Reckson, A Division of SL Green Realty, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Smart Family Foundation, VENU Magazine, Wells Fargo Foundation, Westchester Family, Westchester Magazine, Westchester Medical Center, Westfair Communications, White Plains Hospital and Wilson Elser D OF L AR EG O I B S Y L T A T Don’t miss Janet’s weekly blog UNT N CO Y O U R O S C 1683 W O . D Y E R E . S G A I Z N T N , C Y H T posts at: thisandthatbyjl.com E N STER COU /ArtsWestchester | @ArtsWestchester OCTOBER 2017 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS A3 ARTSWESTCHESTER | 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains | 914.428.4220 ArtsNews (artsw.org), your guide to arts news in brief and culture in Westchester County, NY, is published by ARTSWESTCHESTER, a Youth Theatre Interactions Two Local Arts private, not-for-profit organization established in 1965. The largest of its kind in New York Appoints New Executive Organizations Team Up State, it serves more than 150 cultural organizations, numerous school districts, Director For the first time, during its 2017-18 hundreds of artists, and audiences numbering more than one million. The goal of season, Westchester Philharmonic ArtsWestchester is to ensure the availability, accessibility, and diversity of the arts Youth Theatre Interactions, Inc. (YTI) (WP)’s concerts will be a part of the in Westchester. recently announced the appointment of Ricardo Lima as its Executive Performing Arts Center at Purchase Robert W. Roth Janet Langsam Debbie Scates Director. Lima aims to strengthen the College (PAC)’s official programming. Chief Executive Officer Director, Marketing & Board President organization’s growth, “boosting it While WP has rented the stage at PAC Communications John R. Peckham Mary Alice Franklin to the next phase of its service.” He for its first 34 years, this anniversary Board Chairman ArtsNews Editor & Erika Reinhart recently worked with Westchester season will mark a re-definition Froma Benerofe Communications Manager Sr. Designer & Creative Manager Jewish Community Services (WJCS), of its relationship with the Center, Board President Emeritus Rocío De La Roca Alfredo Ponce where he was a language arts and during which the two preeminent arts Contributor & Graphic Designer social studies teacher. Along with organizations will co-present its main Communications Associate his Master’s Degree in Educational stage orchestral shows. While both Theatre from New York University’s organizations will remain separate Steinhardt School of Culture, independent entities, this arrangement ArtsNews Contents Education, and Human Development, creates a cost- and revenue-sharing artsw briefs .....................................................A4 Lima also has an in-depth knowledge model that streamlines their original of YTI, after having been one of partnership with new efforts aimed halloween highlights ........................................A5 its students, teachers and, most at growing the audience for classical performing arts season highlights .................A6 recently, board members. YTI provides music in Westchester County. professional-level arts training at economic impact report...................................A8 affordable rates to youth aged 6 to 19. event highlights................................................A9 calendar ...........................................................A16 exhibitions and workshops .............................A21 Art$WChallenge Doubles Donations Made to Local Arts Groups The Art$WChallenge was announced by ArtsWestchester at a ROCKLAND COUNTY recent press conference. By donating to one of fifty 2018 2018 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY eligible arts organizations through December 15, for Artists and Cultural Organizations donors can double the Westchester County Legislators David Tubiolo and Francis Grants are available in three categories: Corcoran, ArtsWestchester board members Marie Smith and impact of their gift. Gerard Curran, ArtsWestcehster CEO Janet Langsam and ArtsWestchester, with • Project Grants support community-based arts and cultural projects. ArtsWestchester Board President Robert W. Roth (photo credit: support from Westchester • Artist Grants support the creation of new work related to the community. Leslye Smith) County government, will • Arts Education Grants support in-school, after-school, and match every new dollar donated (up to $5,000 per organization until all available H aver str funds have been allocated). For more info on Art$WChallenge, see page A11 and lifelong learning activities developed by artists or cultural aw R iv e visit: artsw.org/artswchallenge. organizations in collaboration with educators. r A r t s Grant applications are due Wednesday, November 7, 2017, 11:59 pm. Funding Opportunity Deadline for Applicants are encouraged to attend a Westchester Artists and Arts Groups: Oct. 4 pre-application workshop. For info and to access Arts Alive grants support arts activities throughout Westchester the application, visit artsw.org/rocklandgrant County to help ensure that residents have access to the arts in their communities, particularly in areas where access is limited. These This program is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the grants are distributed in