Arden Club Calendar (302) 475-3126 2126 the Highway, Arden DE 19810 NOVEMBER 2019 Printed on 100% Post-Consumer Fiber Paper
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Arden Club Calendar www.ArdenClub.org (302) 475-3126 2126 The Highway, Arden DE 19810 NOVEMBER 2019 Printed on 100% post-consumer fiber paper . AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2019 1 Arden Club Calendar CONCERT GILD Saturday November 16, 2019 - 8 PM ALBERT CUMMINGS $20 Members/ $25 Guests “The blues is best served up live, with an enthusiastic audience and a killin' band, and that's exactly what guitarist Albert Cummings does…” - Guitar Edge Magazine. Albert Cummings is a triple-threat singer, songwriter and guitar player extraordinaire. Famous for his incendiary live shows, Cummings’ latest album, Live at the ‘62 Theatre, earned a Blues Music Award nomination for Best Live Album. He has fronted Double Trouble, and has played with blues legends B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Johnny Winter. You can find him at the crossroads where blues meets southern rock … and at the Arden Gild Hall. Saturday, November 23, 8 PM, $30/$25 JUDY GOLD Judy has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO. She has written and starred in two critically acclaimed, Off-Broadway hit shows: The Judy Show – My Life as a Sitcom (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (GLAAD Media Award – Outstanding NY Theater, Drama Desk Nomination – Actor). Friday, December 27 at 8 PM -- $20 / $17 SPRING STANDARDS It’s our annual holiday concert extravaganza, featuring our favorite bicoastal band! This year it’ll be the day after Boxing Day so you can have all of your boxes thrown away and then come to Arden Gild Hall for music ! Tickets by email via [email protected] for Club members DRUM CIRCLE -- Come join us for a drum jam every 3rd Sunday, January to November, 1 to 3 pm; and a Special third or fourth Friday of December evening of drumming, twirling, and dancing. Our location is inside the Gild Hall in cold or foul weather, or outside on the Shady Grove stage in warmer weather. You can bring a comfy chair if you need something special to sit upon for playing outside. Bring your drums, percussives, and positive energy. Events are free and donations are requested. To be added to our e-mailing list, contact Allan Kleban at [email protected] WRITERS GILD The Arden Writers Gild gathers on the second Tuesday of every month at 7PM for a two-hour mini retreat. We meet in The Arden Gild Hall Library. Our casual and inclusive family is open to anyone looking to be inspired by the power of words. You don't have to be a writer to join our family, just be willing to listen respectfully and to respond in positive and affirming ways. Warm cookies are provided as an added incentive! BRIDGE GILD The Bridge Gild meets regularly in the Bratton Room (downstairs) in the Gild Hall on the first and third Thursdays of the month. DINNER GILD Nov 2 Day(s) of the Dead: David deGarmo, Hope, Trish, and friends: Tortilla soup (chicken or veggie), Mexican street corn casserole, salad, rice, chips and salsa and assorted Days of the Dead-inspired small bites, with sopapillas for dessert November 16, Culinary Dinner by Edmund Bischoof and crew: Butternut Squash and Apple Soup topped with a wild mushroom Garni. Crispy Fried Brussel Sprouts, Bacon- Aioli, Pickled chili pepper mash topped with crumbled Bacon fat. Roast Breast of Chicken, Confit thigh meat, Grain Mustard Gnocchi, Braised Collard Greens served with Thyme-Chicken Jus. Dessert will be Caramel Apple Cheese Cake. Vegetarian Option: Sautéed whole Grain Potato Gnocchi, Wild Mushrooms and Braised Collard. Meal will be served at 6:00PM, so please be on time! NB: For this dinner, Price is 30.00 per person. There are only 75 seats available, and No Permanent reservations will be honored, so please let Claire at know if you’re going to join us! ([email protected]) Please remember: For “regular” dinners, reservations MUST BE MADE BY 6PM on the Thursday before the dinner. Email Claire at [email protected]. Please, no late reservations!! Take your chances by stopping by on Saturday night to see if there are any extras. No guarantees! Also, please make sure you arrive by 6:20 for your meal -- once the line is complete, the cooks get to eat. If you arrive late, this upsets everything! Our prices are now: Members $12; Non-Members $15; Children $7 and Leftovers $7 LIBRARY GILD CALLING ALL BOOKS: PLEASE COME HOME, WE MISS YOU To all you avid readers in the Ardens (and environs), The Library Gild is looking for a few good (lost) books. Please take a few moments and look around your shelves and tables for anything that has an Arden Library Gild label on it. We are currently offering Overdue Book Amnesty until the end of this year. Beginning January 1st 2020, we will start sending out overdue book notices AND fines for overdue books are going up to $1 per book per week. Patrons will also responsible for the replacement cost of lost or damaged books. Patrons with outstanding fines will need to clear them before lending privileges are renewed. Yes, we know this sounds like a major change, we just ask you to look at it from our standpoint -- our resources are limited and we need to be good stewards of the material under our care. If you would like to see our new material as it comes in, consider volunteering to be a librarian. The time commitment is modest, we ask for one day per month and our open times are only an hour and a half. If you are interested, please contact Elizabeth Varley at [email protected] for more information. New Books This Fall The Testaments by Atwood, Margaret Fifteen years after the events of the handmaid's tale, the theocratic regime of the republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. City of Girls by Gilbert, Elizabeth a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. The Fifth Risk by Lewis, Michael Lewis discusses the federal Government and the possible consequences of the Trump Presidency. Talking to Strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know by Gladwell, Malcolm Looks at . our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. A Spark of Light by Picoult, Jodi Picoult delivers another riveting yarn about a hot-button issue—this time, it's abortion rights, with a unique narrative format: the story is told backward chronologically over the hours of a tense hostage situation in a women's clinic. AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2019 3 Arden Club Calendar SHAKESPEARE GILD The Shakespeare Gild held its annual meeting and elected the following officers: Gildmistress, Tanya Lazar; Assistant Gildmistress, Mary Catherine Kelley; Business Manager, Tom Wheeler; Secretary, Elaine Hickey; and Club Liaison, Jan Westerhouse. We have also selected the director for next summer’s production. Mary Catherine Kelley will be directing the decennial production of As You Like It in the Field Theater next June. This is the play from which Arden took its name, as much of the action takes place in the magic wood of Arden. It has become our tradition to present the play every 10 years in the costumes of 1900 as a tribute to the beginnings of the villages. Auditions will be held in March. The Young Actors Workshop will hold its annual audition/registration on December 7 for children ages 6 to 16. This year the audition will be held at the Buzz Ware Village Center from 1 pm to 3 pm. This is a wonderful introduction for young actors to perform the works of the Bard. They work on scenes from the various plays, guided by adult members of the Shakespeare Gild. The culmination of their efforts is presented on February 9 on the stage of the Gild Hall. The Shakespeare Gild meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30. All are welcome. GARDENERS GILD On October 21, our Gardeners Gild enjoyed potting bulbs with the help of Tom Borkowski – his savvy, his potting soil, and his pottery shards. We are so grateful! Then, Betty ORegan gave us a fascinating presentation about flower arranging principles. She also brought bunches and bunches of flowers, greens, seeds, and other useful and decorative items with her, and we brought our containers – and even more bunches and bunches of flowers, greens, seeds, and more! Afterwards, our arranging session felt like a party, because everyone had such a good time making stunning arrangements, many making two or more! So don’t even think about missing our November 18 meeting, when Lorene Athey from the (nearly legendary) Delaware Nature Society will give as her presentation, Winter Survival and the Birds in Your Backyard. We’re looking forward to learning what we can do to help our beloved, flying, feathered friends live longer lives. We hope you will join us -- your neighbors want to make you feel welcome. Third Tuesday evening, 7:30 PM in the Lower Gild Hall. In December, that’s December 23. We won’t be having a GG meeting in December. SCHOLARS GILD Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at 7:30 pm in the Lower Gild Hall Travel Songs and Charango Man—a Peruvian Musical Journey Film-maker Zachary Humenik will show his short documentary, Charango Man, and discuss the year-long music education project in Cusco, Peru that inspired it.