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January 2012
Volunteers Repaint Arts Center
Pat and Phyllis Bolgosano, Anne Campbell, Marty Collins, George and Kate Davison, Dave and Jean Ehnebuske, Ellie Haggerty, Casey Hendricks, Don and Rita Longabucco, Curtis Watkins, and lots of drop-ins joined staffers Ed Durkee and Jason Buccieri to paint the Center over the weekend so classes could resume on Tuesday January 17.
December 2011
Grants Announced
The Putnam Arts Council has announced that Arts on the Lake will receive support in 2012 for its Summer Concert Series and also its new program of Sunday afternoon Community Workshops. The official ceremony making the awards will be on Tuesday, February 28, at 6 pm at the Putnam Arts Council in Mahopac. We appreciate this support and all the support that members and friends have offered this past year.
Playwright/President Vaclav Havel Dies
Playwright and democratic Czechoslovakia’s first president Vaclav Havel died Sunday. Writing of the job he was forced to take at a brewery under the Communists, his play Audience was seen at Arts on the Lake in June 2009.
Complimentary Membership
At closings, Holly Real Estate is now welcoming each new homeowner to our town with a one-year complimentary membership in Arts on the Lake.
November 2011
Jim Dale Carries On
Our neighbor and supporter Jim Dale joins Rosemary Harris and Carla Gugino in the Roundabout Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca. The play is in previews at the American Airlines Theatre on 42nd Street in preparation for a January 17 opening.
Thanksgiving Baskets
Board Member Marty Collins reminds us that currently the baskets the Putnam Community Action Program will be distributing next week have a shortage of pies (boxed, fresh or frozen) and breakfast cereal or other breakfast item (e. g. pancake mix). Donations may be brought to the CAP Office, 121 Main St., Brewster, until 6:30 on Wednesday, 8:30-4:30 on Thursday and Friday, and 11-6:30 on Saturday and Sunday this week only.
October 2011
Food and music to save the Tompkins Corners Church in Putnam Valley
Members Kate and Jan Hoekstra, Lisa and Tim Pitt and others are organizing a Fall Festival at Niese's Maple Sugar Farm, 136 Wiccoppee Road, Putnam Valley, on Saturday and Sunday, October 8 and 9, to help save the Tompkins Corners Church as a center for the community. Food will be served from 9 am on. Music by many of the performers you love – jazz, country, folk, Irish, old time – begins at 11. Hayrides too.
September 2011
New Grimm Play
Members Judy Allen, Chris Blossy and Jeff Green along with Elizabeth Breslin, Joe Niola, Simon Skolnik and Lew Zwick are the cast of Things Are Looking Grimm, a hydro-fractured fairy tale that is part of the Collaborative Concepts installation at the Saunders Farm, 853 Old Albany Post Road, Garrison, NY. This Apple Tree Production - remember Cinderella, the green musical at AotL in May 2009? - will be performed this Saturday, Sept 17, at 3 pm (rain date: Sept 18). Arrive early - the stage is at the top of a wonderful hill.
August 2011
Maria Calegari to be honored
It has been announced that AotL Advisory Board Member Maria Calegari will be one of twenty-six former and current performers with the New York City Ballet who worked with the choreographer Jerome Robbins to share this year’s award for excellence in dance from his foundation. The Robbins Awards will be presented by Chita Rivera, who collaborated with Robbins on the original production of “West Side Story,” at a performance of the NYC Ballet on September 30 at Lincoln Center.
Poet Laureate from Detroit
Arts on the Lake would like to congratulate our new poet laureate, Philip Levine.