Elizabeth Burkhauser has invited you to the event ‘2010 International Interdependence Hexagon Project’ on NAEA Secondary Teachers! If you are an art educator - or know art teachers - check it or send it on to someone you know who might be interested - THAT’S called Interdependence!
Time: June 30, 2010 at 6pm to October 1, 2010 at 7pm
Location: The Melberger Arts Center
Organized By: Beth Burkhauser, George Barbolish, Sarrah Dibble
Event Description: International Interdependence Hexagon Project
Deadline: June 30, 2010
Exhibit opens: September, 2010
For: Jr. High, Middle School and High School Students
Please plan soon to engage your students in real-world themes and experiences - allow them to create individually or collaboratively. Allow them to choose from, research and respond to the many themes: global issues such as social justice, women’s and children’s rights, ecology and environment, poverty, civil society and democracy. Participate in the International Interdependence Hexagon Project - create in any media inside an interlinking hexagon template[s]!
Deadline for this international project, in its 4th year, is June 30, 2010. Your students’ hexagons will be exhibited for the month of September at the Melberger Arts Center, Scranton, PA, opening on Friday, September 3, 2010. Recognition is given to students who demonstrate outstanding responses to the themes of Interdependence in a variety of media. Please feel free to contact me, Hexagon Project Chair, at bburkhauser@msn.com with any questions and if you plan to participate..
Thank you! Hope to hear from you soon.
Beth Burkhauser
P.S. Please spread the word – this is what Interdependence is all about! Thanks!

See more details and RSVP on NAEA Secondary Teachers:
http://naea-secondary-teachers.ning.com/events/event/show?id=3249634%3AEvent%3A6135&xgi=2vCixin4B9qYUl&xg_source=msg_invite_event

Homemeade Soup for Sale on March 5, 2010, on First Friday in downtown Scranton
Where: Afa Gallery
Times: 4 - 5:30 and 6:00 - 9:00 PM
What: Hand-crafted Vegetarian Chili or Manhattan Clam Chowder by Annmarie Noone and Gretchen Ludders
Cost: $5.00 for a 12 oz container, 3 for $12 - OR buy “virtual soup” by sending donation to AM Noone RD 1216 Dunn Hill Rd. Union Dale, PA 18470
Details: Soups will be frozen. Other soups will be available the day of the sale
TO PRE-ORDER SOUP, CALL 587-5298
e-mail: amnoone@nep.net or bobgretchen@cs.com
Why: Afa member Marianne Milks is presently in Haiti setting up a soup kitchen for 2000 men, women and children [mostly children] who have fled Port au Prince to a small town outside San Marc. They have nothing and are in great need. Please help Marianne with the recovery! $1.00 can feed 4 -5 people a good lunch! You will DIRECTLY affect many Haitians through your donations! ALL proceeds from this sale go to this effort

Beth Burkhauser and Marianne Milks invite you to a Nepali Tea and Sale. On sale will be wonderful items of paper, wood, ceramic, silver and pashmina (Nepali cashmere), all fresh from Nepal. Marianne and Beth traveled to Nepal in January to visit schools and deliver two laptops and an LCD projector to a very poor public school in southern Nepal, Butwal. The mission was accomplished successfully. They also gave Interdependence Workshops to high school students as part of the International Interdependence Hexagon Project and also Marianne’s newly-founded OneBig Boost.
All proceeds from the sale of the glorious goods from Nepal will go to both Haiti and future OneBig Boost projects. Marianne is intimately involved with Haitian relief efforts and will probably go over there when she gets the go-ahead from her close friends. She and her son will be working on a soup kitchen project that is being set up there.
Please come and enjoy the sale!
The sle will take place at Beth’s home at 815 Clay Avenue, Scranton on Sunday, January 31 from 1 to 4 PM. Questions, call 877-1653 (B) or 470-2697 (M).

In January, theElectric Theatre Company presents Mark Twain’s ‘The Diaries of Adam and Eve’ by David Birney. This is a Regional Premiere directed by Barbara Blackledge and featuring Heather Stuart & Conor McGuigan.
This delightful adaptation of Mark Twain’s stories is set in a formal garden as the first couple struggles to come to grips with creation. Adam is puzzled by the odd new arrival in the garden, and is suspicious of her disturbing appetite for fruit. Eve, believing herself to be a kind of experiment, is curious about the other experiment in the garden, surmising that it might be a rather strange genre of architecture. Eve gives names to everything and, as Adam tries to ignore this, she seeks companionship among the animals — particularly with a certain snake. Twain’s characters are as charming as they are human, and the play, filled with his wit and humor, also touches us and tells us something about how we live.
January 13 - 31
Previews: January 13 & 14
Opening Night and Party: January 15
The Electric Theatre, 326 Spruce Street, 2nd Floor, Downtown Scranton
Wednesday & Thursday at 7, Friday & Saturday at 8, Sunday at 3
Full Price $20, Seniors (60+) $15, Students (-25) $7
Tickets and details: 570/558-1515 or www.electrictheatre.org

‘Here We Are In Spain’, a local improvisational comedy team, will be at the AFA Gallery AFA on November 14 at 8 PM. $7.00 per ticket. They have worked at Mt. Airy Resort, the University of Scranton, Del Close Marathon and several other venues in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Come down and laugh with us for two hours! Forget all your worries. ‘Here We Are In Spain’ is the most well-versed, exceptional improv group in the area. If you like “Whose Line is it Anyway?” You will love this show!
Also, if you are interested in us you can go to hereweareinspain.com, and if you are interested in classes, you can contact us at info@hereweareinspain.com or 570-604-1874.
eareinspain.com or 570-604-1874.

‘Pride & Prejudice’, written by Jane Austen, adapted by Joanna Norland, and directed by Heather Stuart and Barbara O’Brien, will premier on November 6th at 8:00 PM and continue thru November 15th at the Vintage Theater.
This world premier adaptation (based on the novel by Jane Austen) was written by Joanna Norland of the UK. With nine actors portraying over fifteen roles in about an hour – this performance takes all the wit and beauty of Austen and her story, while omitting any lavish costume or set.
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm / Sundays at 3:00 pm. You may call the theater at 570 344 6344 or going to www.scrantonsvintagetheater.com

Electric Theatre Company presents ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, arranged for voices by David Zarko.
December 11 & 12 at 8:00 pm, December 13 at 3:00 pm
James Langan as Scrooge, with Barbara Blackledge, Jerry Durkin, Greg Corin, David Hunisch, Michael Maria, Conor McGuigan, Michaela Moore, Heather Stuart, and Mary Ethel Schmidt.
This is ETC’s famous orchestration for voices of the great holiday classic; every year the interpretation is a little different. One thing stays the same, though, every one of Dickens’ words is there in all its glory for you to savor and enjoy. This is a Carol like you’ve never heard before, full of wit, irony, lyricism, and love.
A party in The Ballroom follows every show; all are invited!
For tickets at details: www.electrictheatre.org or 570/558-1515

‘Art Under the Sun’ is the title of the Annual Art Auction of the Wyoming Valley Art League. It will be held at the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Plans on Friday, Nov. 6. Preview begins at 4 PM, with the Gala Reception at 5 PM. The cost is $30 per person. For further info, call 288-1020.

Susan Dowling, co-creator of Art 21, a national prime-time PBS series that features contemporary visual artists now in its fifth season, will host a talk and video presentation on Wednesday, October 28th, beginning at 7 PM, in the Latour Conference Room, on the Main Floor of Nazareth Hall at Marywood University. During the presentation, MEET Art 21, Dowling will talk about the finest and most inventive visual artists of our time and develop the idea of the artist as a model for creative thinking. Before her association with Art 21, Susan Dowling had been a television producer in the field of visual arts for 25 years. She was originally with the WGBH New Television Workshop in Boston, which produced historically important work in the early years of video art. Subsequently, she was the Co-Director of the Contemporary Art Television Fund. She then served as Executive Producer of New Television that presented a wide range of experimental work by independent artists and filmmakers from around the world. Susan Dowling now serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Art 21. She also serves as a consultant to not-for-profit arts organizations.
MEET Art 21 is sponsored by Marywood University Art Galleries and Insalaco College of Creative and Performing Arts, The Everhart Museum, and Artists for Art. The program is open to the public and admission free of charge. For more information about Art:21 educational programs, books, web sites and initiatives worldwide, visit http://www.pbs.org/art21. For further information about MEET Art 21 contact gallery@marywood.edu or 570.348.6211×2428 or www.marywood.edu/galleries.

The Jewish Federation of NEPA will preesnt the N. E. Pennsylvania Jewish Film Festival on Oct 24 & 25th, 2009. It will take place the the Albright Memorial Library, Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple and the Mellow Theater of Lackawanna College. The Festival will include films, food and fun, with celebrities and thoughtful discussions.

Mulberry Poets and Writers Association is happy to tell you about the inaugural
PAGES & PLACES BOOK FESTIVAL Saturday October 3rd in downtown Scranton, PA
Pages & Places will host 30 nationally recognized writers, scholars, and editors. Some have won MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships, NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and major literary awards. On Saturday, October 3rd, they will convene nine panels and workshops on subjects ranging from green living to the state of our national poetry to the current renaissance in independent publishing to book-making as art.
The festival’s panels and workshops will be held in nine of the city’s most impressive venues—an integration of literature and architecture that distinguishes Pages & Places from any other book festival in the country.
For complete program and ticket details, visit http://pagesandplaces.org

Visit ‘Isaiah’s Corner: Dino Nation!’ at the Everhart Museum’s Interactive Gallery for Children, opening June 12, 2009.
Looking for a place where children can learn about natural history, science and art in an interactive setting? Come and visit Isaiah’s Corner at the Everhart Museum where children can experience an exhibit space designed with our youngest visitors in mind. The theme of Isaiah’s Corner changes with and complements each of the museum’s temporary exhibits, so there is always a new environment with fresh topics for children to learn about in a hands-on way.
Beginning June 12th and continuing through September 7, 2009, let your need to explore lead you to Isaiah’s Corner: Dino Nation! where you can find fossils, rocks, and dinosaurs! Investigate fossil records, solve puzzles, create fossil art, and more in our hands-on activity center for children. Touch, play, create, and learn about the underground world captured in our Ancient Microworlds exhibit!
For more information, contact the museum at 570-346-7186 or email general.information@everhart-museum.org.

The Red Shoes Dance Company will present “Kaleidoscope” on June 20th at 7:00pm at the Scranton Cultural Center’s Shopland Hall. Tickets are 12.00 for adults and 8.00 for children and a special price for seniors.
Guest Artists include Sujata Nair-Mulloth, Sabah, Mark Wodyatt, Rainey Walsh and Dancers, and Tres Cubanes.
There will be a chance to meet the Red Shoes afterward with an art exhibit including works by members of the AFA Gallery.

The Annual Susquehanna River Canoe Trip (originally an AFA event with Gary Grossman in 1992) will be on the July 25-26 weekend this year. We will be doing the traditional route between Ulster and Wyalusing (Terrytown Access). We start sometime around noon on Saturday at the bridge in Ulster and spend the night at the mouth of the Towanda Creek. Then we paddle on down to Terrytown the next day with a stop for lunch at French Azilum or Standing Stone. The total distance is about 25 miles with most of that distance done on Sunday. We usually finish late in the afternoon on Sunday. You may come for just Saturday or Sunday or do the whole trip. Bring your instruments for playing around the campfire and art supplies for painting and drawing. We leave some of our instruments etc near the campsite so our boats are not overloaded. Of course bring all your own gear, food and
camping stuff if your spending the night.
You can bring your boat or rent canoes and kayaks from David and Melody Buck at Endless Mountain Outfitters in Sugar Run, PA. Call them to reserve your boat at 570-746-9140 or kayaks@ptd.net or http://endlessmountainoutfitters.com/

A slide lecture on the Sistine Chapel of St Peter’s in Rome will be the subject of this presentation given by Brian Keeler Tuesday, May 12, at 7 p.m., at the Blue Heron Gallery, at 121 Main Street in Wyalusing in the T/W Community Room Gallery. $5 donation requested to benefit the Wyalusing Community Corporation (WCC).
The paintings of Michelangelo, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel encapsulate the ethos and energizing myth of the entire Renaissance- which was to unite the classical past with Biblical teaching of the Catholic church of the 1500’s (cinquecento. This lecture will simplify the structure, process of creation, the immense challenge, the controversial restoration, the revealed color and much more. The lecture is designed to acquaint those who visit the chapel with Brian during the June or September tours.
The presentation is open to all. Light refreshments served. Please callfor information - RSVP requested. 570-746-1187 or 746-4922 or bkeele@epix.net

LA VOCE directed by Dolores Dominick-Noll presents Johann Strauss’ DIE FLEDERMAUS
at The Afa Gallery, Saturday, March 28th, 7:00 PM
Admission - $10 Students - $5

On April 20 at 7:30 pm, don’t miss ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’, a Monday Night on Broadway benefit performance for Electric Theatre Company featuring a dozen or more performers from the Broadway casts of ‘Aida’, ‘Chicago’, ‘White Christmas’, ‘Grease’, ‘Young Frankenstein’, ‘The Lion King’, and more. These incredibly talented singers and actors are taking their night off in Scranton to present a dazzling evening of songs from the American musical, and all in support of professional theatre in the heart of Scranton! The show will be hosted by Richard Kline of television’s ‘Three’s Company’, and ‘Broadway’s November’. The grand ballroom of the Old Hotel Jermyn, which was many years ago host to the greats of Broadway, comes alive again with some of the finest musical theatre talent New York has to offer; The Electric Theatre, 326 Spruce Street, second floor in downtown Scranton. Tickets start at twenty five dollars, with a post-show party with the performers for an additional ten dollars. For tickets and details, visit electrictheatre.org, or call 558-1515.

There’s a gathering at the Stegmaier Mansion on Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5pm, April 19th, and YOU”RE INVITED!
Organized by Jennifer Morris of Siegel Artist Management on our behalf, $20 of each ticket price of $60 will be a tax-deductible contribution to the Cultural Council! An Afternoon Affair featuring hand-made truffles trifle by Mary Hepner of Ah! Some Chocolates along with music, mingling and more in support the Cultural Council of Luzerne County.
Take a step back in time to the Victorian Era and have your breath taken away at the Frederick Stegmaier Mansion painstakingly brought back to life by owner/proprietor Joseph Mateo. If you haven’t seen this jewel of downtown Wilkes-Barre, that alone is a good reason to come.
But if all this isn’t enough, perhaps you will join us to greet and thank Shelley Pearce for her many years of volunteer service to the Council. Shelley is turning over the reins as board chair, and we need to express our appreciation for her dedicated leadership. We hope to see you there!
All are welcome, and if you haven’t seen this AMAZING place at 304 South Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre, this is your chance! Good company, good comestibles, a good cause, and a place that is just NOT to be missed. (Click HERE if you don’t believe me!) Maybe we can get Joe to play a few riffs of Rachmaninov in the parlor!
We hope you will join us! Openings are limited and if you want to come, you MUST call Jennifer at 824-2266 by FRIDAY, APRIL 10th!

Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson, will begin performances at the Electric Theatre Company with Pay-What-You-Can Previews on March 25th and 26th at 7 p.m., and on March 27th at 8 p.m. Opening Night is Saturday, March 28th, when a party featuring craft beer tastings provided by L.T. Verrastro will follow the show. Party admission is $5 along with a ticket or ticket stub to any performance of the show.
The show features ETC member Heather Stuart who will be joined by New York actor Tony Zazella. Brilliant Traces is directed by ETC member Mary Ethel Schmidt, scenic design is by Andrew Mannion (who also designed The Very Nearly Perfect Comedy of Romeo & Juliet), lighting by ETC member James Langan, costumes by Rachael Miller, and properties by Liz Feller.
With dazzling language, humor and compassion, playwright Cyndy Lou Johnson forces two people, imprisoned by an Alaskan blizzard, to come to terms with past heartaches that threaten to destroy them. If they cannot meet their memories head-on and go forward into life, the consequence will be an isolation and detachment not unlike the brutal whiteout of a snow storm that surrounds them.
Johnson creates character and situation with a boldness that rings true from the play’s first to its last extraordinary moments, and resounds throughout with a reminder of the courage it takes to love. In choosing love we must necessarily choose its possible loss, but without that choice we remain, like the formidable landscape of the Alaskan wild, empty and without horizon.
Brilliant Traces plays Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 8, and Sundays at 3 through April 11. Wednesday April1st and 8 are Cheaper-Than-a-Movie nights when all tickets are $7.
This production is sponsored by Centris Consulting.

Calling all jazz fans!
What: Concert with Jazz Vocalist Ilona Knopfler & Friends
When: Friday, March 20, 2009, 6:30 PM
Where: Old Brick Theater, 124 West Market Street, Scranton, PA
Tickets: $25 each
Join us for an evening of food, friends and music!
Pre-Concert Reception and Buffet
6:30 PM, Stirna’s, 120 West Market Street, Scranton, PA
Concert featuring French Jazz Vocalist Ilona Knopfler & Friends
8:00 PM - Old Brick Theater, 124 West Market, Scranton, PA (adjacent to Stirna’s)
Post-Concert Meet n’ Greet with the artists to follow at Stirna’s.
Tickets are $25: To reserve your tickets or for more information email pajazz@mac.com
Tickets will also be available the day of the event.
All proceeds go toward the production of this year’s Scranton Jazz Festival, August 7-9, 2009.
The Scranton Jazz Festival will be celebrating it’s 5th year at the historic Lackawanna Station Hotel this summer and we want you to be a part of it. Attracting international and regional jazz, blues and world beat artists, the S.J.F. has proven the true potential to become a long term musical event. With your support the festival can continue to have an enormous impact on the cultural and economic development of our region. Spread the arts throughout the northeast by helping us raise money for a wonderful event!

The Endless Mountains Council of the Arts will hold its second Open Poetry Reading on Sunday, March 8, from 2-5 PM. Theme for this event is GREEN Poetry….and green can mean what you want, be it Ireland, Money, Jealousy, Spring or the Environment. Attendees are invited to read their own work, or they can recite from the works of their favorite poets. There is no admission fee for this event and refreshments will be provided. The reading takes place at the EMCA Gallery, 302 West Tioga Street, Tunkhannock. For more information, call the Gallery at 836-3622, or call Virginia Cody directly at 945-7621.