Art Walk on Flagler Avenue, held the fourth Saturday each month (except December) is FREE to the public.
Beat the heat at Surfs Up Art Walk Aug. 22
Beat the heat in August at the Surfs Up Art Walk on historic Flagler Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22.
Visitors can enjoy a wide variety of art works, entertainment and a special prize drawing presented by the Gallery Group as they explore the quaint five-block area of Flagler Avenue between the Indian River and the ocean.
DJ Dennis will be at the gazebo at the corner of Flagler Avenue and Pine Street, playing favorite surfing tunes and making announcements throughout the day.
Public Event: "your word" Teen Creative Writing Residency INsideOUT
7 - 9 PM
Public Reception and readings of works-in-progress by teen participants in the "your word" Teen Creative Writing Residency.
This is the culminating public event for Atlantic Center for the Arts' second annual "your word" Teen Creative Writing Residency held July 26 - August 8, 2009 on the grounds of the main campus. ACA's2009 "your word" residencyis an international program offering 21 teens an extraordinary opportunity to explore and expand the power of their individual voices through multi-genre writing workshops with contemporary masters, including Master Writers Terrance Hayes, Ander Monson, Victoria Redel, and the 2009 "your word" Fellow, Arisa White.
Atlantic Center for the Arts' "your word" Teen Creative Writing Residency is made possible through generous support from The Surdna Foundation, Darden Restaurants Foundation, State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts Volunteer League, Dex Imaging, Graywolf Press, B & M Trees, Charles and Lynn Steinmetz, Doug McGinnis, Patricia Fawsett, Art and Kit Litowitz, Jim and Mari Moye, Ann Christiansen, and J. Michael.
Free; Public Invited; Reservations requested. 386.427.6975
JoanJamesHarrisTheater, AtlanticCenter for the Arts
ACA's "your word" Teen Creative Writing Residency:
This residency mirrors the quality of ACA's existing artist residency program and contributes to teens' abilities to explore their own identities and relationships to the world, offering educational activities of the highest quality.
In addition to three Master Writers-in-Residence, one "your word" Fellow is
chosen annually to provide mentorship to participating teens. The 2009 "your word" Fellow is Arisa White who was an ACA Associate Artist-in-Residence with Sharon Olds in 2006. Arisa White is also a Cave Canem fellow and holds a MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Factory Hollow Press published her chapbook Disposition for Shininess in late 2008. She received a Poets & Writers grant in 2008 and was awarded the 2007 Pavel Strut Fellowship in Poetry from the University of Western Michigan for a month-long fellowship in Prague. In 2006 she received the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Bios for 2009 "your word" Master Writers - Terrance Hayes in poetry, Ander Monson in creative nonfiction/memoir and Victoria Redel in fiction:
·Terrance Hayes, Master Writer in Poetry is the award winning author of "Wind in a Box" (Penguin, 2006), "Hip Logic" (2002), which won National Poetry Series, and "Muscular Music" (1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. About his work, Cornelius Eady said: "First you'll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you'll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world." He has been a recipient of many honors and awards, including a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry selection, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at CarnegieMellonUniversity and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family.
·Ander Monson, Master Writer in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is the author of three books: "Neck Deep and OtherPredicaments," creative nonfiction/memoir (Graywolf Press 2007), "Other Electricities," fiction, (Sarabande Books 2005), and "Vacationland," poetry, (Tupelo Press 2005). Monson is Professor of English at the University of Arizona and a recent recipient of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award. His nonfiction has been collected in "The BestCreative Nonfiction Volume 2"and"The Best American Essays 2008." He is the designer, editor, and publisher of "Diagram Magazine," and New Michigan Press. Of Monson's memoir, Robert Polito, Judge for the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, said, "Every time I turn to it I'm astonished all over again by the majesty of this book."
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Victoria Redel, Master Writer in Fiction is the critically acclaimed author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her latest novel "The Border of Truth" (Counterpoint 2007) weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter's awakening to the history and secrets of her father's survival and loss. "Loverboy" (2001, Graywolf; 2002, Harcourt), was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. "Loverboy" was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Her most recent collection of poems, "Swoon"(2003, University of Chicago Press), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including "O the Oprah magazine," "Redbook," and "Bomb."Redel has received fellowships from the NEA and the Fine Arts Work Center. She is on the faculty of SarahLawrenceCollege and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at ColumbiaUniversity.
Generously sponsored by Atlantic Center for the Art's Volunteer League
The children's summer art camp culminates by celebrating the imagination and creativity of our campers. The exhibit will feature art and handmade souvenirs from the participants' travels through time.
Free/Public Invited
AtlanticCenter for the Arts' Harris House Gallery
214 Riverside Drive, New SmyrnaBeach
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM
Auditions for roles in our opening show for the 2009-10 season are scheduled for this coming week-end - Sunday, July 19 and Monday, July 20, 2009, at 7 p.m. at the Little Theatre in the rehearsal hall. Details follow:
Jerry Sloan is a successful writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple is the not so happy Abe Dreyfus, Jerry's curmudgeon of a father-in-law. The situation is exacerbated when Jerry's mother (Mildred) loses her house in a fire and needs a place to stay. Since the wedding, Abe and Mildred can't stand each other. This play is one hilarious confrontation after another until the heart warming finale.
Characters: 4 men, 3 women (ages 30's - 70's)
Jerry Sloan: A professional jingle writer (sings, plays the piano) Alice Sloan: Jerry's pregnant wife and a successful attorney Abe Dreyfus: Alice's funny and stubborn father, retired New York cab driver, lives with Alice and Jerry Hector Lopez: Puerto Rican handyman who spends most of his time in the W.C. Mildred Sloan: Jerry's mother Sol Wasserman: retired pharmacist and Abe's friend Mrs. Fisher: governess/nanny
Helpful hints from the director when auditioning for roles in Squabbles: Male actors may want to audition with Jewish and/or Spanish dialects as characterizations in this play would be enhanced with these particular accents.
Auditions are open to the public, and stage experience is not necessary. Readings will be from the script and a copy is available at the reference desk at the New Smyrna Beach library. For add'l information contact the LT office at 386-423-1246 or e-mail info@NsbPlayers.org.
THE LITTLE THEATRE OF NEW SMYRNA BEACH IS LOCATED AT 726 THIRD AVENUE ON THE BEACHSIDE. Mailing address: POB 114, New Smyrna Beach FL 32170-0114
Atlantic Center's 134th residency is a special Project Residency on Performance with Mark Applebaum whose solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and electroacoustic work has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia; Carole Kim, an interdisciplinary artist working on live video performance and performance-based video installation to create multi-sensory immersive environments; and Heather Woodbury, an award-winning performer and writer known for her ground-breaking "performance novels"- expansive, multi-character works which combine the immediacy of performance art with a novel's length and scope; and 24 Associate Artists.
The essence of AtlanticCenter's Artists-in-Residence program is to provide talented artists the opportunity to work and collaborate with contemporary masters. Selected through a competitive application process by the master artists with whom they wish to work, these associate artists come from around the world, and are university professors, post-graduate students, professionals, or full-time writers, dancers, painters or composers.
During their stay, the artists spend a portion of the day working with the master artist and their group in meetings, workshops, casual conversations and other activities. They are free to spend the remainder of their time pursuing their own projects. The residencies culminate with a public presentation of works-in-progress accomplished during the residency.
Extended by Popular Demand: Take Out and From Gutter to Gallery exhibitions
at the Brevard Art Museum
MELBOURNE, FL - In response to the public's appreciation for the whimsical variety of Take Out and the graphic vibrancy of graffiti art in From Gutter to Gallery, the Brevard Art Museum has extended the run of both exhibitions through August 11, 2009.
Meet graffiti artist Cynic on Thursday, July 23 at 2:30 p.m. for a gallery walk and book signing. Cynic and other writers are featured in Miami Graffiti by James and Karla Murray, the first book documenting the graffiti scene in Miami.
Each Thursday through July, from 4 to 5 p.m., the Museum offers a free hands-on art activity for kids featuring a take out box, the basis of the exhibition currently on display. No registration required. Recommended for ages 3 and up.
"I've come to see Take Out four times and I still find surprises each time," remarked Rose Wiley, a Guild volunteer at the Museum.
Using a restaurant take out container as a jumping off point, artists were invited to create artwork with few limitations. This national exhibition allowed artists of all levels to participate. The one common denominator was the take out container. The range of responses demonstrates that though everyone started from the same beginning, each journey was unique.
About the Brevard Art Museum:
The Brevard Art Museum is a non-profit organization supported in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Florida Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; Brevard County through the Brevard Cultural Alliance; the Brevard County Tourist Development Council; and by members of the Brevard Art Museum.
Visitor Information
Location: 1463 Highland Avenue in the Eau Gallie Arts District of Melbourne.
(321) 242-0737
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m., and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., sponsored by Gatto's Tires & Auto Service.
Admission: Adults $5; seniors $3; children and students with I.D. $2. Free for Museum members. Free admission on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. sponsored by Gatto's Tires & Auto Service. Special rates and tours are available for groups of 8 or more, and can be scheduled by calling Tina at 242-0737 at least two weeks in advance.
Cinematique to open Tulpan Friday July 3rd. China, 1 hour 40 min, Not Rated, Comedy/ Drama, subtitled
Friday 7/3 & 7/10 at 7pm Wednesday 7/8 & 7/15 at noon Thursday 7/9 & 7/16 at 7pm Saturday 7/11 at 2pm The Bookstore Cafe: 410 S. Nova Road, Ormond Beach www.cinematique.org, (386) 252-3778
Synopsis: Acclaimed documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy's debut narrative feature, TULPAN, is a work of extraordinary filmmaking bravado, an exhilaratingly alive and sweet-natured fairytale set in the barren landscape of a Kazakh steppe, an environment where only shepherds live. Asa (Askhat Kuchinchirekov) returns from military service to live with his sister, Samal (Samal Yeslyamova), her husband, Ondas (Ondasyn Besikbasov), and their three children. Asa's dream is to have his own flock of sheep, but his boss tells him that until he gets married, his wish will never be granted.
The only trouble is that in this particular case, the candidates for potential wife can be counted on one finger. Her name is Tulpan, and though he's never seen her entire face, Asa is certain that she is the one for him. Unfortunately, she doesn't appear to feel the same way, complaining that his ears are too big. Yet Asa remains hopeful, envisioning the day when his dream will come true.
with the 16 piece big band the Frank Vardaros Jazz Orchestra
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Showtime 7:30PM
Admission $10
The event is located at the Deltona Arts Center. Tickets can be purchased in advance at 682 Deltona Blvd, Deltona, FL or for more information call 386-775-BAND (2263).
Show Biz National Talent Dance Competition is at the Volusia County Ocean Center this week. Nearly 3,500 participants and supporters are expected to attend the June 23 - 28 event. It's Show Biz's 15th year at the 500,000-square-foot facility in Daytona Beach.
Show Biz is the championship dance competition involving dance studios from across the country competing for the top prize. The championship is one of four this year at various locations throughout America.
The private event is the result of a joint booking effort of the Ocean Center and Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Learn more about the Show Biz National Talent Dance Competition at www.showbiztalent.com.
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The Ocean Center aims to be recognized as the premier second-tier convention facility in the Southeast. The Ocean Center offers competitive rates, excellent customer service and is conveniently located in east Central Florida. A service of Volusia County Government, the Ocean Center can accommodate meetings of 10 to 10,000 and offers more than 205,000 square feet of interior exhibit, meeting and convention space. Learn more at www.oceancenter.com.
Children can get creative at the Lake Helen Public Library with a variety of programs this summer.
The Friends of the Library will sponsor these programs at 10:30 a.m. Thursdays: - Music by the Earthlings Washboard Band - June 25 - Magic show with Sammy Smith - July 9 - Magic show with Greg Phillips - July 16 - "Clowning around" with Nancy Barber - July 23
The programs are geared for school-age children, but all ages are welcome.
The Lake Helen Public Library is open Tuesday through Saturday at 221 N. Euclid Ave. For more information, please call (386) 228-1152. Learn more about Volusia County's 16 libraries at www.volusialibrary.org.
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Pat Kuehn, APR Community Information Specialist Volusia County Government 123 W. Indiana Ave., Room 301 DeLand, FL 32720-4612 e-mail: pkuehn@co.volusia.fl.us From DeLand, call (386) 822-5062, ext. 2934 From Daytona Beach, call (386) 239-7756, ext. 2934 From New Smyrna Beach, call (386) 423-3868, ext. 2934 Cell: (386) 748-3989 Fax: (386) 822-5072
