Monday, February 28, 2011

"The Rally for Resources"


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"The Rally for Resources"

               This conference features keynote speaker Woody Tasch, 

President of Slow Money

$150 for the day $100 for lunch only

For more information visit www.sustainableli.org

Katie Kelly 516.873.0230 – kkelly@sustainableli.org 

Time is running out!

Friday March 4 - 2011
8AM - 2:30PM

Carlyle on the Green, Bethpage, NY


Thursday, February 24, 2011

INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CELEBRATION HONORS THE REGION’S DIVERSITY



 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:  Mark Segal
                  631-283-2118, ext 22
                  segalm@parrishart.org



INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CELEBRATION
HONORS THE REGION’S DIVERSITY


SOUTHAMPTON, NY 2/24/11 — After an enthusiastic response from the community to last year’s event, the Parrish Art Museum, in collaboration with the Rogers Memorial Library, will again host the International Cultural Celebration on Sunday, March 6, from 1:30 to 4 pm. Admission is free, and no advance registration is required.
          This year’s festival will celebrate the East End’s cultural diversity with traditional dances and music, art workshops, and light refreshments. Scheduled performers include Grupo Folklorico Xochipilli, The Hamptons Hellenic Dancers from the Greek Orthodox Church of Southampton, Kildare Academy of Irish Dance, Kings Chapel Church of God in Christ Showers of Blessings Choir, Shinnecock Thunderbird Singers and Dancers, and an interactive instructional demonstration of Poi Arts by Susan Blacklocke.

         

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.



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Thursday, February 17, 2011

RENÉE FLEMING STARS IN FILM OF LA TRAVIATA



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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CONTACT:  Mark Segal
                  631-283-2118, ext 22
                  segalm@parrishart.org


RENÉE FLEMING STARS IN FILM OF LA TRAVIATA
 FROM LONDON’S ROYAL OPERA COMPANY


SOUTHAMPTON, NY 2/17/2011 —As part of Emerging Pictures’ Opera in Cinema series, the Parrish Art Museum is presenting the Royal Opera Company’s 2009 production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata on Sunday, February 27, at 2 pm. The production stars the celebrated American soprano Renée Fleming, as well as renowned Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja and the American baritone Thomas Hampson.
          One of the most popular operas in the canon, La Traviata was composed in 1853 and based on the play La dame aux camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title means “the fallen woman” and refers to the heroine, Violetta Valery, a courtesan in nineteenth-century France. Pursued by Alfredo Germont, she at first rejects his declaration of love, but by Act II she and Alfredo are sharing a country house near Paris. Their idyll is doomed, however, by the intercession of Alfredo’s father, jealousy, misunderstandings, and ill health, among other dramatic events.
          According to Emerging Pictures’ cultural programming curator Christiana Little, “The role of Violetta is widely considered one of the most challenging (if not most feared!) in the soprano repertoire. The score requires a vast range of vocal pyrotechnics from the performer, and also sheer endurance—Violetta is onstage for nearly the entire opera.”
          Tickets to La Traviata are $14 for Parrish members, $17 for nonmembers. The running time is 136 minutes.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.


About the Parrish Art Museum

The Parrish Art Museum is an American art museum located in Southampton, New York. Founded in 1897, the museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End, one of America’s most vital creative centers. Since the mid 1950s the Museum has grown from a small village art gallery into an important art museum with a collection of more than 2,600 works of art from the nineteenth century to the present. It includes such contemporary painters and sculptors as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses among of the world’s most important collections of works by the preeminent American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and by the groundbreaking post-war American realist painter Fairfield Porter. A vital cultural resource serving a diverse audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and engaging public programs including lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. On July 19, 2010, the Parrish broke ground on a new building designed by internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple the Museum’s current exhibition space and allow for the simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions and installations drawn from the permanent collection.


Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Long Island Violin Shop

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The Long Island Violin Shop
 
On Friday, February 25th at 7 pm at the 
Long Island Violin Shop:  

!Flamenco!  

Features the flamenco-themed poetry of Sandy McIntosh and Annabelle Moseley, 
and the Spanish guitar of Gerry Saulter.
It will be the February event of our Fourth Friday Studio Series, 
sponsored by String Poet.


It will be an exciting night, filled with a tribute to everything Spanish/flamenco. 
 
We will fill the studio with sounds and images of duende to heat the chills of winter.  
Admission is $5  
Open mic poetry to follow.
 
The Long Island Violin Shop
8 Elm Street
Huntington, NY 11743

 
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Friday, February 11, 2011

PARRISH ART MUSEUM

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:  Mark Segal
                  631-283-2118, ext 22
                  segalm@parrishart.org

RIGOLETTO AGAIN?
PARRISH PRESENTS NEW VERSION FILMED IN THE STREETS AND PALACES OF MANTUA, WITH PLACIDO DOMINGO IN THE TITLE ROLE


SOUTHAMPTON, NY 2/11/2011 — Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto is one of the best known and most performed works in the opera canon. As part of Emerging Pictures’ Opera in Cinema series, the Parrish Art Museum is presenting a unique interpretation of Verdi’s masterpiece on Sunday, February 20, at 2 pm. This version, also known as Rigoletto in Mantua, was filmed not in an opera house but in the streets, alleyways, palaces, and courtyards of Mantua over a two-day period in 2010 by noted Italian film director Marco Bellocchio.
          The real Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, replete with Andrea Mantegna’s early Renaissance ceiling frescoes, is only one star of this production. Placido Domingo, who has performed the tenor role of the Duke of Mantua many times, here undertakes the baritone role of Rigoletto. According to Domingo, “When [producer] Andrea Andermann invited me to interpret the part of Rigoletto, I replied that there were so many good baritones in the world who could sing it. But Andrea said that he wasn’t looking for a baritone, but rather for the Rigoletto whom I, Placido Domingo, could bring to life.” The role of the Duke is played by tenor Vittorio Grigolo, who is one of the hottest young opera stars performing today.
          According to Anne Ozorio of Opera Today, “Realism never comes more authentic than this Rigoletto filmed live on location in Mantua, Italy…Just as Verdi indicated, each Act unfolds at the correct time of day, in the place indicated in the libretto. No ordinary theatre has the capacity to create a production as loyal to the composer’s instructions as this.” Tickets to Rigoletto are $14 for Parrish members, $17 for nonmembers. The running time is 153 minutes.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.


About the Parrish Art Museum

The Parrish Art Museum is an American art museum located in Southampton, New York. Founded in 1897, the museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End, one of America’s most vital creative centers. Since the mid 1950s the Museum has grown from a small village art gallery into an important art museum with a collection of more than 2,600 works of art from the nineteenth century to the present. It includes such contemporary painters and sculptors as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses among of the world’s most important collections of works by the preeminent American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and by the groundbreaking post-war American realist painter Fairfield Porter. A vital cultural resource serving a diverse audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and engaging public programs including lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. On July 19, 2010, the Parrish broke ground on a new building designed by internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple the Museum’s current exhibition space and allow for the simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions and installations drawn from the permanent collection.

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Friday, February 4, 2011

Long Island Black Artists Association

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Long Island Black Artists Association
February 6 – March 25
Molloy College Art Gallery
Artists Choose Artists

The Molloy College Art Gallery will host an "Artists Choose Artists," exhibition. The event is based on the mentoring of established artists with young community artists. 

Artists Reception: Sunday February 6, 2011
3-5 PM
1000 Hempstead Avenue 
Rockville Centre, NY 11571
(516) 678-5000