Blogging Workshop
SATURDAY, January 16, 2010 | 1-4pm
$30

Join instructor Shawn Hill in this introduction to blogging.  Refine your skills if you've been blogging for awhile, or jump right in to starting your own blog.  Class will be taught in a PC lab - students may choose to bring their own Mac or PC laptop to class.

Web Design Workshop
SATURDAY, January 23, 2010 | 1-4pm
$30

Learning the basics of web design can open doors for you to enhance your ability to communicate, do business and share ideas.  This intensive workshop will explore the low-cost and no-cost options available to you to start putting your thoughts, images and videos on the web.  Class will be taught in a PC lab - students may choose to bring their own Mac or PC laptop to class.

Workshop Discount: Sign up for our
Blogging and Web Design Workshops
at the same time pay only $50!

Comic Book Workshop
Parts 1 & 2
SATURDAY, January 23 | 1-4pm
Each part is $15-stay for both sessions for only $25.  Gallery admission included in workshop price.

Two consecutive one and a half hour workshops for artists who are interested in learning the ins and outs of sequential art.  Part one of the workshop will focus on the basics of creating art for the comics page.  Part two will move into a more advanced class for those looking to hone their skills and feature the more fantastic elements of bringing mutants and monsters to life in the comic book.

Music Blossoms Keyboards: Introductory Workshop
Gwen Pond
SATURDAY January 30 | 11 AM- 12 PM
$10 for 1st parent and child; $5 each additional child

This introduction to the keyboards will bridge early childhood music and movement experience and groundwork for future growth with the keyboard or other instruments.  A full 16-week course will be offered at Green Street during the spring session - don't miss this unique opportunity to sneak preview the class!

Creative Sound Workshops
January 28, February 4, 25, March 4, 18 | 6:30-8:30 PM
$5 non-members/ $3 members/students/seniors
Drop-ins welcome
The Creative Sound Workshops present the opportunity to approach the world of music in new ways.  Sound is used as a raw source; we as music makers will mold and twist this raw source as a sculptor might shape a lump of clay.

Series 1: Rotations - led by Benjamin J Mansavage Klein

The Rotations Series allows participants to interact with a variety of instruments, those familiar and unfamiliar, traditional and invented, all within one piece of music.  In this series, we will work with a number of compositions in which the participants are asked to move from one instrument to the next; only until every instrument has been played by every participant is a composition complete. New colors of sound will hopefully emerge as each participant contributes their own unique approach to each instrument.   Participants will be invited to submit their own strategies for rotation. All meetings are open to new involvement; participation in the initial informational meeting not mandatory. Click here for more information on specific workshops.

Flash Forward Photography Meet-Up
TUESDAY, January 12 & February 9
7-9pm
$5 Non-Members; $3 members/students/seniors

This series is a chance for photographers and photo enthusiasts to share work, tips, questions and opportunities!  Bring up to five recent works to share with the group, or participate in monthly photo projects and share results online at http://www.flickr.com/groups/flash51/.  Acclaimed local photographer Matt Kabel will lead the discussion for the first meeting of Flash Forward! in 2010.

Writers Out Loud: Literary Open Mic
THURSDAY, January 14 & February 11
6:30-9pm
$5 Non-Members; $3 members/students/seniors

Green Street offers writers a night to share works-in-progress, socialize and seek out constructive comments.  Readings are limited to prose short stories or excerpts under 10 minutes. Open mic sign up begins at 6:30 PM, readings begin at 7:00 PM.  Each evening will be limited to six readings, with time for one-on-one feedback and sharing afterward.

Comic Book Artist Guild Meeting
SATURDAYS, January 16, February 20 1-3 PM

The Comic Book Artists Guild brings aspiring and professional writers and artists together to improve their skills and offer them opportunities to have their work published.  Members receive feedback on their work, participate in exercises to enhance their skills, and discuss the process of comic book creation.  Workshops teach the writing, artistic, production, and business skills that are needed for producing comic books, including storyboarding your ideas, copyright protection, and how to get the most out of convention attendance.  Meetings are open to the public.

Vintage Notion
FRIDAY, January 15, 2010
7pm
$8 non-members; $5 members/students/seniors

Come hear the fresh sounds of this band out of Moodus, CT.  Chris DiSalvo, Johnny Barbi and Massimiliano Nikita Barbi form this trio of cutting edge progressive rock music.  All original material, all the time; don't miss the opportunity to see Connecticut's best young musicians live in concert!

Comic Book Gallery Show & Tribute to Artist Rusty Haller
FRIDAY, January 22, 2010
7-10pm
$10 non-members; $8 members/students/seniors

The unique gallery showing will feature work from some of the hottest up and coming artists in the comic book industry.  The show will also feature a retrospective of work from acclaimed comic book artist Rusty Haller, whose work included a wide range of comics including The Flintstones, Looney Tunes, Alf, and his own creation, Ace and Queenie.

Our Elders, Our Youth
Documentary Film Screening
FRIDAY, January 29, 2010 | 6pm
$5 suggested donation

Join Green Street's After School program students and local senior citizens in the gala premiere of a documentary film that attempts to bridge the gap between the oldest and youngest generations of Middletown residents, while confronting the perceptions each side has about the other.  Acclaimed actress and director Janis Astor Del Valle and Middlesex Community College adjunct instructor of Videography Dan Nocera will introduce the film and lead a post-film discussion.

Sunday Salon with Peter Patton
SUNDAY, February 21, 2010 | 1pm
$5 Non-Members; $3 members/students/seniors
Wesleyan students gratis

Peter C. Patton is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Wesleyan University.  He has received research grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Long Island Sound Research Fund.  Professor Patton has studied the impact of catastrophic floods on river systems and the geologic history of river systems in semiarid climates.  For nearly a decade, he studied the geomorphology of the Escalante River basin on the northern Colorado Plateau.  In Connecticut, his research has focused on the hydrology and geomorphology of the Connecticut and Housatonic estuaries and the geologic development of the small coastal coves on the Connecticut shoreline.  In addition to his publications in scientific journals, he coauthored "A Moveable Shore: The Fate of the Connecticut Coast."