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HVCCA exhibitions and programs are generously
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SIZE MATTERS: IMAGE AND SCRIPT
In a collaboration between the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and stage director Mara Mills, SIZE MATTERS: IMAGE & SCRIPT will be presented at HVCCA. Six 5-10 minute short scripts inspired by paintings in Size
Matters: XXL, an exhibition of monumental size works by 31 international artists, will be performed in HVCCA's galleries with each respective painting serving as a backdrop for the selected plays. Featuring works by winning playwrights by William Coyle, Barbara Fischer, David Fox, Ron Frankel, Theodore D. Kemper and Joshua A. Kashinsky.
Each respective painting serves as a backdrop for the plays. The audience will move from one painting to another as the performance progresses. Audience is limited to 30 people a showing. Additional performance times will be added by demand. There will be time after the performance to view the entire exhibit. Seating is on the floor or standing.
Featuring:
-Nearer My God to Thee by Theodore D. Kemper with Jay & Irene Howard and Tom Beck inspired by Tjebbe Beekman's "Untitled", 2007
-Living Room by William Coyle with Kurt Lauer and Joan Cavallo inspired by Richard Jackson's "Living Room", 2004
-Mothership by Barbara Fischer with Teri Anzalone inspired by Francesca DiMattio's "Mothership", 2006
-The Great Divide by Joshua A. Kashinsky with Nadine Greco and Joan Cavallo inspired by John Newsom's "The Great Divide", 2005/6
-Self-Portrait by David Fox with Neil Schleifer inspired by Yan Pei Ming's "Self Portrait", 2007
-You Owe Me One by Ron Frankel with Kurt Lauer and Tom Beck inspired by Toba Khedoori's "Holes", 2006
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 with wine & cheese reception to follow
Time: 8:00PM
Admission: $16 HVCCA & Hudson Valley Writers Center members, $20 non-members
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Time: 3:00PM
Admission: $12 HVCCA & Hudson Valley Writers Center members, $15 non-members
For Tickets: Call 914.788.0100 or email info@hvcca.org
ABOUT HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER
Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1988 with a mission to advance the art and craft of writing by encouraging writers and readers at all levels to participate in and enjoy the literary arts. It offers classes for professional and amateur writers, presents public readings by well-known and emerging prose writers and poets, does outreach work in several community sites, and publishes at least one book of poetry each year under the imprint Slapering Hol Press. Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center are made possible in part by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.
ABOUT MARA MILLS
Mara Mills has been a professional storyteller, stage director, producer and arts educator for more than twenty years. She is the author of Rites of Passage, an integrated curriculum on script writing (National Middle School's Association Journal, February 1990), and a chapter on children as storytellers in the text Integrating Curriculum through the Arts, as well as a book of poetry, Ashes and Tea. Recently, she worked with Domestic Abuse Survivors to create a choral script. Mara created Drama Departments for The Mead School in Greenwich and The Learning Community in Westport and was the Artistic Director of the successful Herbert Mark Newman Theatre from 1991 - 2004. She received the 1996 award for outstanding service to theatre from the national theatre association and the 2007 Cab Calloway award for her work in theatre in Westchester.
Tom Kramer As Director: Follies, Our Town, 1776, Gypsy, Violet, Falsettos, The Grapes of Wrath, Master Class, Sunday in the Park with George, A Midsummers' Night Dream, Evita, Chicago, A Little Night Music, Tintypes, Love, Valour, Compassion, Nine, The Miracle Worker, Fiddler on the Roof. As actor: Ben Franklin in 1776, Buzz in Love, Valour, Compassion, Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency, Malviolio in Twelfth Night, Max in The Sound of Music. As playwright: Ain't Murder a Drag with Jamie Whitfield, Celluloid Ghosts.
| Image Credit: John Newsom: The Great Divide, 2005/6, Oil on canvas, 90 x 120 inches, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles |
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