by Danielle Sopchak
Monday, June 17, 2013
Senior Writers
Merrick Senior Centers' creative writing workshop presented their works of literary art on June 12, 2013 at the Merrick Theatre and Center for the Arts.
Writing styles varied from poetry to monologues while topics ranged from technology to current events. The participants enthusiasm and knowledge of the topics they discussed made the performance even more enjoyable. Writers read in a song like manner with liveliness and props to enhance their performance and it was evident the writings had double meanings. The first meaning was what the writing meant to the audience at surface level, but deep inside every work of art was a special and personal meaning to its writer.
Flawlessly, they told stories about reflecting back on their life experiences. The writers entranced listeners with perspectives of the recent Boston Bombing and past stories of their upbringing. One artist spoke of her Sicilian mothers tradition of putting a thumb print in the center of a meatball to know it's yours. Another artist who is blind spoke of his first ever experience communicating with a deaf person and how technology has made lifes difficulties easier.
The ability to write well comes from not writing what you think, but writing what you know.
Writers came together to thank their audience with a song at the end of the reading. The video is below.
BaconEagle Productions
BaconEagle Productions
Andrew Ryan launches new YouTube channel.
Currently a communications sophomore at Adelphi University and a Merrick native, Andrew Ryan launches his YouTube channel BaconEagle Productions. The channel includes movie trailers, news reports and music videos including a video for South Shore Sounds formerly interviewed artist Noreen Prunier.
Hello, my name is Andrew Ryan and I am a sophomore at Adelphi University majoring in communications. My concentration is in production so I decided to create a channel to showcase all of my different videos for my friends and family. Any support is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Channel link: http://www.youtube.com/user/arryan2016
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Senior Writers
Senior Writers Take to the Stage
The Merrick Senior Center’s Creative Writing Workshop will hold its annual presentation Wed. June 12 at the Merrick Theater and Center for the Arts, 2222 Hewlett Ave., Merrick from 1 – 3 p.m. Admission is free, and a coffee hour will follow.
The writers will read samples of their work, which includes poetry, prose, memoirs, fiction and “vignettes” or mini dramas, the latter prepared especially for the stage. The group was invited to share its efforts with the public several years ago by directors Tony Georgan and Joe Mauro of the Merrick Theater and Center for the Arts after Mr. Georgan attended a classroom session and was impressed with the talent and dedication of the participants.
This is a special year for the program, as it is celebrating the 25th anniversary of “Musings of Maturity,” a booklet that is published in the fall. The workshop is sponsored by Poets and Writers, Inc. and the Town of Hempstead Department of Senior Enrichment and meets for 16 weeks between February and June. The instructor is Paula Rodenas of Merrick.
The workshop was originally initiated almost 30 years ago by Helen-Marie Keogh of the Hempstead Department of Senior Enrichment. She is now retired, but has handed over the reins to Lisa Wetterau, who continues to encourage its progress. Many of the writers have been attending for years, proving that age is no deterrent to learning and growth.
For information call the Merrick Senior Center, 516-474-0268, the Town of Hempstead Department of Senior Enrichment, 516-485-8100 or the Merrick Theater and Center for the Arts, 516-868-6400.
Holocaust Center Nassau County
PRESS RELEASE
HOLOCAUST CENTER PARTICIPATES IN NYS MUSEUM WEEK
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) will offer docent-led tours during NYS Museum Week from Monday, June 10 – Saturday, June 15 at 1:30 p.m. each day.
“In keeping with this year’s NYS Museum Week theme, we hope the Long Island community will join us to walk through the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s "Path Through History,” says Steven Markowitz, Chairman of the Board of Directors. The experience our visitors have is unlike any other available to them on Long Island.”
The HMTC’s museum had its grand reopening in 2010. The museum presents a detailed and comprehensive chronicle of the Holocaust, and utilizes multimedia displays, artifacts, archival footage, testimony from local Survivors and Liberators, and encompasses an additional gallery for special exhibits that represent the diverse ethnic, cultural, religious, and other communities across Long Island.
The first gallery, also known as “Portraits of European Jews, Our Family Album,” displays prewar family photographs of local Survivors. Visitors then walk through a series of galleries devoted to the history of the Holocaust culminating with liberation and postwar experiences.
The museum ends with a call to action and a moving film featuring a local Holocaust Survivor, David Gewirtzman, and a Rwandan genocide Survivor, Jacqueline Murekatete, underscoring the HMTC’s message that the world still has much to learn. HMTC visitors leave with the feeling of empowerment and the knowledge that they too can choose to be an Upstander and make a difference in their community.
The special exhibits gallery currently features “Portraits of Our Past: Greek Jews and the Holocaust” provided courtesy of the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture and Kehila Kedosha Janina, Synagogue and Museum.
About the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is the pre-eminent Holocaust resource on Long Island, with a contemporary museum and is one of the largest and most comprehensive education program providers in the region. Since 2007, nearly 210,000 students, educators, employers and law enforcement personnel have participated in the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center’s education programs.
Under construction and scheduled to open in late 2013, the Claire Friedlander Education Institute will accommodate four classrooms with state-of-the-art audio-visual aids and cutting edge technical equipment for specialized Holocaust and Tolerance video-conferencing programs and a wide variety of workshops for youth and adults.
With the Louis Posner Memorial Library, the Center offers over 7,000 volumes of Holocaust, genocide, multicultural, anti-bias and anti-bullying material for youth and adults, from Kindergarten through post-graduate researchers. It is the largest such collection on Long Island. Additional information is available online at www.holocaust-nassau.org.
Seaford Craft Fair
Seaford Craft Fair June 15 & 16 at Seaord Train Station
Press Release
The Craft fair sponsored by the Seaford Chamber will be held at the Seaford train station June 15 &16.The fair is organized by Showtiques.
Calhoun Artists Unveil Mural
Challenge Day Mural
Calhoun high school seniors celebrated the end of the school year by unveiling a new student driven and student inspired mural on Thursday, June 6th 2013.The challenge day mural is located above the cafeteria entrances and spans across the entire hallway.Challenge day's initiative is "challenging you to be the change."
Seniors Cassidy del Orfono, Kaitlyn Moy and Eric Chan led then project with help from other students to depict the unity within the Calhoun student body. Interests and hobbies of the students are represented in the mural.
After about two months of hard work, Calhoun seniors left their mark on the school and started a tradition of school beautification. Next year's seniors are already planing how they want to leave a mark on Calhoun.
The reoccurring theme of puzzle pieces throughout the mural allows the senior's message to be heard. It doesn't matter what the students are interested in because just as every piece fits in a puzzle, every student fits uniquely into Calhouns student body.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Rob Bartlett returns to Bellmore ShowPlace
Long Island comedian Rob Barlett, Don Imus’s funnyman sidekick for over 21 years on the “Imus In The Morning” radio program and Broadway actor, will return to the Bellmore Movies-ShowPlace on Saturday, June 22, at 8 p.m. to pick up where he left off in December, when he last appeared at the ShowPlace. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Mr. Bartlett started his standup career in the Long Island comedy clubs, including the Brokerage Cabaret in Bellmore, but began acting and singing on Broadway in 1998. Last year he began his comedic comback at the Bellmore Movies – though he still keeps his day job as Imus’s sidekick.
Of Broadway – in which he appeared in “Chicago” – he says he loved the camaraderie of the casts he worked with, marching in the Thanksgiving Day parades and doing other public events that helped promote the shows he has been in.
Now back in standup, he says he practices new routines regularly and may offer a few surprises for the Bellmore Movies show.
“It’s always good to come back home,” he told this newspaper recently. “It’s an intimate theater, and it will require some new routines.” But he makes clear he will still showcase his older characters and routines.
Tickets are on sale now at the Bellmore Movies box office by calling 783-3199 or visiting 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore.
Or you can visit the website NYEntertainmentClub.com or call 785-4234.
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