Special Events & Workshops
Fall 2009
Call (860) 685-7871 for more information or to register.
Check out our full Fall 2009 Catalog!
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(Not Just) Keeping
Time
First Meeting: Saturday, October 24th, 2009
1 PM
$3 participation fee
New! a percussion meet-up group at Green Street Arts
Center Beginning Saturday, October 24th there will
be a monthly gathering of people interested in the
world of drum and percussion. We will listen to,
explore, and then attempt to play examples from
various traditions around the world. Featured
speakers will guide us through aspects of different
playing styles. So bring a drum or a stick, your
hands or your feet, to Green Street...anything goes
as we try to engage with the wide world around and
create a Middletown tradition and sound. |
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Saturday Passport
Series
FREE AND FOR ALL AGES!
Green Street Arts Center presents a unique workshop
series for families and friends to discover some of
Green Street's newest treasures.
Enrollment is limited to 25 participants for each
event.
To register, call (860) 685-7871. |
Salsa with Jason
Pepin
SATURDAY, September 19, 2009, 1pm
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Connecticut based salsero Jason
Pepin will discuss and demonstrate the rhythmic
structures of Salsa dance in this workshop designed
to engage all ages and abilities. No partner
necessary, participants will learn basic dance moves
and explore the ways in which Salsa is different
from other forms of Latin dance. |
South Indian Music
and Dance with the Wesleyan Student South Indian
Music and Dance Group
SATURDAY, September 26, 2009, 1pm
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Middletown's vibrant Carnatic
music and Bharata Natyam dance performers join
together for an afternoon of performance,
demonstration and audience participation. Musicians
will demonstrate their instruments and discuss basic
South Indian musical principles. Dancer Anand
Venkatachalam will demonstrate and explain hand
gestures, footwork and talk about the differences
between Abhinaya (storytelling) and Nritta
(pure dance). |
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Creative
Collaboration with Brian Parks
SATURDAY, October 3, 2009, 1pm
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In this class, children and
parents work together to create and carry out
musical works. The teacher facilitates the process
by animating some elements crucial to music
composition, including silence and noise, groups and
soloists, pulses and events, and melody and
accompaniment. Children and parents take ownership
of musical pieces and perform them in each class.
Check out Brian's class offered this fall! |
Balinese Dance with Shoko Yamamuro and Peter Steele
SATURDAY, October 10, 2009, 1pm
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Balinese dance has its roots in
ancient Hindu ceremonial practices and is widely
admired for its beauty and for involving the
performer's whole body. For these reasons, Balinese
dance has long fascinated artists and choreographers
the world over. Ms. Yamamuro is Japan's leading
teacher and performer of Balinese dance, with over
20 years experience. Mr. Steele has been studying
the Balinese performing arts for nearly a decade. |
Irish Music Workshop:
The Ballads of Ulster
MONDAY, September 14, 2009, 7 to 9pm
$18 non-members; $15 members
Green Street is pleased to host a workshop for
musicians and singers of all levels and interests
with acclaimed Ulster Ballad singer Len Graham.
Among his other accolades, he was awarded "Keeper of
the Tradition" from the Tommy Makem Festival of
Traditional Song and the US Irish Music Award in the
"Sean-Nos Singing" category. In this workshop, Len
will be sharing insightful stories and background
information about some of Ulster's most prominent
singers including Geordie Hanna, Joe Holmes, John
Campbell and John Tunney. Graham will be utilizing
Sam Henry's Songs of the People, a collection
from the 1940s to which his family contributed many
of their own songs. This collection displays a
wealth of song types from drinking songs and
farewell songs to songs of emigration and lost love.
This workshop will please both the beginning and
advanced singer alike. Len and musician Brian Hart
will be available throughout the week for private
lessons; contact ohairt@yahoo.com for more info.
This event is co-sponsored by the T. Viswanathan
Fund for the World Music Archives and the Middletown
House Concert Series. |
Flash Forward
Photography Meet Up
Second
THURSDAYS,
7-9pm
Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Dec. 10
$3 members, $5 nonmembers |
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/.
September 10:
Sarah-Jane Ripa, Green Street Arts Center open
forum. Photographers can recommend activities and
speakers for the upcoming seasons.
October 8: Shawn
Hill, Introduction to Electronic Photo Portfolios
for the World Wide Web: Flickr and Google-Blogging
November 12:
John Sillasen, Great Adventures in Astrophotography:
Photographing the Heavens with tips for film,
digital camera and video.
December 10:
William L. Brault, Professional Techniques for
Matting and Framing Photographs |
Writer's Outloud-Literary
Open Mic
Second
THURSDAYS,
7-9pm
Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Dec. 10
$3 members, $5 nonmembers |
Haul those pages out of your
drawer, dust them off and sharpen your prose. 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. Each evening will be limited to six readings, with
time for one-on-one feedback and sharing afterward. |
Sunday Salon
Discussion
Series |
Manju Hingorani & Bob
Lane
Science and Film
Sunday, September 27, 2009, 2 to 4pm
$3 members, $5 non-members
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The presenters have recently
developed a general
education course at Wesleyan in which science
student
collaborate with film students in the making science
documentaries, including the writing, filming, and
editing.
Some of the films produced will be screened and the
overall academic initiative will be discussed. |
Magda Teter & Shawn
Hill
Traditional Society, Traditional Values?: Sex and
Family Before Modern Times
Sunday, October 25, 2009, 2 to 4pm
$3 members, $5 non-members
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In today's "culture wars,"
conservatives paint themselves as defenders of
"traditional values," threatened by liberals and
modernity. Many claim that "traditional" society and
family are destroyed by liberal "ideology" promoting
sex and freedom. But what "traditional society" are
they referring to? Magda Teter will discuss Western
ideas of sex and family before the dawn of modern
times. NB Explicit images and texts from 16th
century archival materials will be presented.
Drawings by Shawn Hill will be on exhibition. |
Indira Karamcheti
Reading the Nobel Prize Writers
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 2 to 4pm
$3 members, $5 non-members
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Since 1901, Nobel prizes have
become the most prestigious international
recognition of achievement. They are earned by a
broadly international register of scientists,
activists, and authors. This salon will selected
readings from the works of recent Nobel Laureates
together with a discussion of the criteria for
establishing Nobel's ideal of the "greatest benefit
[to] mankind," as it relates to literature. |
Comic Book Artists
Guild
SATURDAYS, 1 to 3pm
September 19, October 24, November 21, and December
19, 2009
FREE
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. |
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