 | | Title | October 8, 2009 | | | | COOL Cultural E-Blast is emailed every week by the Cultural Organization of Lowell in conjunction with the Lowell Cultural Roundtable. *Send new items to scromwell@lowellma.gov. *Deadlines: To insure your posting is in the coming week's e-blast, we must receive it by the previous Friday. *To subscribe, send an email to scromwell@lowellma.gov. The text should read, "I'd like to subscribe to the COOL cultural e-blast." *To unsubscribe, scroll down to the bottom of this e-newsletter and use the "SecureUnsubscribe" link. *If there is an upcoming event that you would like to put on the COOL calendar, www.cultureiscool.org , please email LZ Nunn at LZNunn@lowellma.gov to obtain a password. |
| | E-Blast Staff: Publisher: LZ Nunn, lznunn@lowellma.gov Editor: Suzzanne Cromwell, scromwell@lowellma.gov | | | Poetry for All Ages at the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival! | | The 2nd Annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival comes to downtown Lowell for events on Thur., October 15 - Sat., October 17 with additional special events in Boston at the Boston Children's Museum on Sun., October 18. Simultaneous regional kick-off events will take place on Thur., October 15 in Amherst, Salem, New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, Worcester, Boston, Berkshire County, and Lowell. Highlights include:
* Friday and Saturday night headline events
* Intercollegiate and MFA student readings
* A late-night Poetry Slam competition
* Youth and family programming at the Boston Children's Museum
* Weekend panel discussions, poetry readings, poetry & music performances, poetry & dance performances, and more!
Featured readers include Anne Waldman, Afaa Weaver, Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, Franz Wright, Ellen Watson, Dara Wier, Erica Funkhauser, Joan Houlihan, Fred Marchant, Lisa Olstein. All events are free and open to the public! For a complete schedule of events, visit www.masspoetry.org. | | | Lowell Launches "Buy Art" Campaign | | Organized by the Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) and local arts organizations and galleries, Lowell's exciting upcoming Buy Art Campaign aims to make the process easier and more fun for all involved by introducing potential buyers to the local art opportunities in Lowell. Lowell's Buy Art Campaign will offer tours of galleries and studios, meetings with art liaisons trained in helping patrons and businesses buy art, and seminars on the value of buying local art for your home or place of business. The campaign event will take place Thur., Nov, 12. 6-8pm. Drop in to see the art, network with your peers, hear about the value of buying local art from satisfied patrons in the business community, and pick up a copy of our new guide to buying art in Lowell. For more information, contact LZ Nunn at lznunn@lowellma.gov or call 978-674-1480. | | | "Rock-Paper-Scissors" at the ALL Gallery | | The Lowell Poetry Network presents "Rock-Paper-Scissors," on exhibit Saturdays and Sundays at the ALL Arts Gallery, 246 Market Street, Lowell, from October 10 - 18. Eighteen Lowell area artists have combined their love of poetry and the visual arts to create some very unique woven blends using many different media, from metal to fabric to found objects. Come meet the artists on Sat., Oct. 17 from 2 - 3pm during the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival! | | | Image Theater's "IMPASTO" at Whistler House Museum of Art | | Image Theater in collaboration with the Whistler House Museum of Art proudly present "IMPASTO," a fully staged reading of the world premier play by Regina Eliot Ramsey, directed by Ann Garvin. Please call the Whistler House at 978-452-7641 for more information and seating or visit www.imagetheater.com. Limited seating is available! Suggested donation of $20 to benefit Image Theater and the Whistler House Museum of Art. Sat., Oct. 10, 7pm, Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen Street, Lowell | | | The Edgar Allen Poe Show at Athenian Corner | | Morgana presents:
"The Edgar Allen Poe Show"
... a poem, a dance, a dream within a dream Featuring readings of Poe's works by Meg Smith, Eric Stanway, Mark Schorr, and other surprise guests. Oriental dance illuminations of Poe classics by Morgana, Badriya Al-Badi'a, Nadia, Alizah Afet, and Troupe Moirae, with special guest, Wysteriax. Tickets $15, advance sales only, payable to Meg Smith, PO Box 8797, Lowell, MA, 01853. Sun., Oct. 18, 7pm, Athenian Corner Restaurant, 207 Market Street, Lowell | | | Moses Greeley Parker Lectures presnts "A View From the Bridge" | | Join Moses Greeley Parker Lectures for the following independent film screening: "View From the Bridge"
The bridge in the town of Mitrovica has become a flashpoint in the continuing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Roma (Gypsies). Through riveting first-person accounts the dreams and nightmare of Kosovars unfold. Muslims who love America, Christians who despise it. Roma (Gypsies) dying of lead poisoning. Orphans of war, wives of the missing, parents of the murdered. Families who just want to go home. Their vivid stories reveal powerful insights into the religious and ethnic conflicts raging around the world today. Thurs., Oct. 15, 6:30pm, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack Street, Lowell. Free admission | | | Landscapes, Found and Imagined | | Katharine Bell & Charlie Boynton Landscapes, Found and Imagined is an exhibit of art by the brother and sister team, Katharine Bell and Charlie Boynton. This exhibit is currently on view at the Owen Smith Shuman Gallery in the Groton Public Library until Sat., Nov, 21.There will be a reception with the artists on Thurs., Oct, 15, 7-9pm. in the gallery. This event is free and open to the public. Children are welcome and light refreshments will be provided. Katharine Bell and Charlie Boynton are a brother and sister team who often produce work from the same geographic locations. Katharine is a well-known advocate of the arts in Groton and Charlie Boynton has been a student of photography for many years while working as a Professor of Economics and Finance.
Sat., Sept, 5 - Sat., Nov, 21. | | | Celebrate Broadway at UML Through Film | | Join us for a film screening and discussion with executive producers Bonnie Comley '81 and Stewart Lane! The evening will include a screening of the documentary "Show Business: The Road to Broadway," followed by a discussion with executive producers Comley and Lane. The film looks at the inner workings of four high-profile Broadway musicals ("Wicked," "Taboo," "Caroline or Change" and "Avenue Q") on their dramatic journey to the Tony Awards. The director's unprecedented backstage access reveals a rare view of the creative process from casting to curtain call that captures all of the heartbreak and hilarity that is the glorious business of show. To RSVP or for further information please contact Jacqueline Ledoux at 978-934-3140, or Jacqueline_Ledoux@uml.edu. Thurs., Oct. 15, 6:30pm, Comley-Lane Theatre, UMass Lowell South Campus. Free and open to the public.
| | | Hazardous Training Workshop | | Hazardous Training Workshop in the Arts with Monona Rossol (Chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist of ACTS-Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety in NYC)
This FREE Hazardous Training Workshop in the Arts is a golden opportunity to learn from and work with one of the most seminal industrial hygienists who specializes in the arts. Rossol will cover personal safety and health principles that apply to art, craft, museum, and theatrical work. This lecture will specifically focus on material and studio safety in painting & drawing, ceramics, printmaking, photography, metalwork, woodworking, sculpture, and papermaking. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information, please contact Anna Isaak-Ross: anna_isaakross@uml.edu or 978.934.3484 Fri., Oct.16, 12-3pm, Umass Lowell, OLeary 222 ,OR Western Avenue Studios, 5:30-7:30 pm | | | Take Your Best Shot! | | A visual celebration of Lowell National Historical Park and the City of Lowell has begun with the start of the inaugural Lowell Photography Contest. The contest runs from September 26th, 2009 to January 31st, 2010. Both teens and adults can enter up to three photographs taken any time in 2009. Prizes include public exhibition in a Park gallery, nationwide National Park Passes, a behind-the-scenes tour with a Park Ranger, an invitation to a special photography event at the Park, and official recognition from the National Park Service. Entry forms and complete contest information is available at http://www.nps.gov/lowe/
| | | Insights and Observations at the LDG | | David Barton and Jessica Cohen explore human reality with drawing and 3-d paintings. Their work is a journey through daily life and dream imagery. The public is invited to a reception for the artists on Fri., Oct. 9, 6-9pm. The Loading Dock Gallery is open on Wed.-Sun., 11-4:30pm. For more information at: http://www.theloadingdockgallery.com | | 1st Annual Hallow-Green Fundraiser & Costume Party
| | Keep Lowell Beautiful (KLB)'s 1st Annual Hallow-Green Fundraiser and Costume Party featuring Matt Murray & the Motivators!
Best Costume, Prizes & Raffles, $20 per person (Costumes optional) Fri., Oct, 23, 7-11pm, Dom Polski Club, 10 Coburn St. Tickets available at the door, or by calling Steve Greene at 978-703-1283 or Deb Harding at 978-761-5902. Proceeds to benefit Keep Lowell beautiful and its subcommittees. Function hall space generously donated by the Dom Polski Association. | | | Save the Date: "At Home in Utopia" Screens in Downtown Lowell | | What does it take to get housing that's good for our children? What does it take to build a community where we want to live? Does it take a movement?
During the 1920s, thousands of immigrant factory workers managed to build cooperative apartment houses that they owned and ran themselves. When they were hit by the Great Depression, they fought alongside others to win the social safety net that we are now in danger of losing. The film "At Home in Utopia" tells their story. Join a dynamic panel discussion following the film with the following Guest
Panelists: Michal Goldman, Filmmaker; Bob Forrant, Professor/Regional Economics and Social Development; Lindolfo Carballo, Community Action to Support Affordability (CASA) For more information on the film visit:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/athomeinutopia/ Thurs., Nov. 19 / 6:30 pm (Refreshments), 7 pm (Screening)Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street
Free admission | | | Upcoming at the Chelmsford Library | | Art Exhibits at the Chelmsford Library through the end of October 2009
In the Open Gallery: The paintings of Priti Lathia http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/programs/exhibits/priti_lathia.html In the McCarthy Room Gallery:
Photographs of New England by Bruce Magnuson
http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/programs/exhibits/bruce_magnuson.html Author Joan Hiatt Harlow at the Chelmsford Library
Joan Hiatt Harlow, internationally known writer for children, will be visiting the Chelmsford Library Wed., Oct 7 at 7pm. She will talk about writing children's books, answer questions about her work and give us a sneak preview of her latest book, "Secret of the Night Ponies." Joan was a resident of Chelmsford for 30 years and raised her family here. Please join us in welcoming her home! Joan is the author of several novels, including "Star in the Storm," "Thunder from the Sea," and "Blown Away!" Ms. Harlow now lives in Venice, Florida. Her acclaimed books, magazines stories, and articles have appeared in major children's publications throughout North America, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. Read about her and her books at www.joanhiattharlow.com. "Poetry on Stage"
The Chelmsford Public Library and the Lowell Poetry Network will be hosting two poetry performances at the Chelmsford Public Library, 25 Boston Road, Chelmsford. The performances are free and open to the public. Jack McCarthy, "Your Stand Up Poetry Guy," known for his story-style poems will perform on Sat., Oct. 31 at 2:30pm. Poet Tom Daley will take the stage on Sat., Nov. 7 at 2:30pm to present his one-play "Every Broom and Bridget: Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants." Details and poet bios at http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/programs/programs/poetry_on_stage.html | | | MCC Artist Fellowship Program Guidelines | | Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowships program offers fellowships of $7,500 and finalist awards of $500, as direct support to individual artists in recognition of artistic excellence. Deadlines for Artist Fellowships cycle is now 2010.
Applications are currently being accepted in the categories of Drawing, Painting, and Traditional Arts (deadline: Oct. 13, 2009). Applications in the categories of Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry will be accepted beginning Dec. 1, 2009 (Deadline: Jan. 25. 2010). For more information please visit: 1) Program guidelines: http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/applications/fellows_guidelines.html. 2) Apply on line: https://www.culturegrants-ma.org/index_artists.php. | | | Calls to Artists | | From the 119 Gallery in Lowell:
Call for entries: Fifth Annual Juried Exhibit, Material is Language THEME / Material is Language is open to all media. The theme is the media or materials. 119 Gallery's artists and exhibits blur the line between traditional and non-traditional media. None-the-less the material is the language. How do your materials articulate your idea? JUROR / Nick Capasso, Senior Curator, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, MA. DATES / November 25- December 20, 2009. Reception Saturday Dec 5 3-6 pm. ELIGIBILITY / Open to 119 Gallery members, Creative Level and above. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND FEES / If you are not a gallery member, the entry fee is $40, which entitles you to Creative Level membership. See our membership page. Actual works will be judged. All media accepted. Limit 2 pieces. Wall pieces must be neatly framed, wired and ready to hang. Entries must be accompanied by entry fee. Work should not exceed 4 feet wide. Each piece should be labeled with artist's name, title, medium, date and price. Unless otherwise specified, all art in the exhibit is for sale and 119 Gallery takes a 30 percent commission on pieces sold. More information: www.119gallery.org | |
Links: Lowell Memorial Auditorium, http://www.lowellauditorium.com/eventlistings.aspx Merrimack Repertory Theatre, www.merrimackrep.org The Bridge Review: Merrimack Valley Culture, http://ecommunity.uml.edu/bridge/ Website for Lowell artists, www.lowellisart.com Art community chronicle, www.vyumagazine.com Arts League of Lowell, www.artsleagueoflowell.org Western Avenue Studios, www.westernavenuestudios.com Ayer Lofts, www.Ayerlofts.com The Brush Art Gallery and Studios, www.thebrush.org The Image Theater, www.imagetheater.com Whistler House Museum of Art, www.whistlerhouse.org For a fuller listing of links see the COOL website, www.cultureiscool.org | | | This e-mail was sent from Cultural Organization of Lowell
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