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Providence Singers Announces 08-09 Season

Friday, May 30th, 2008

The Providence Singers announces its 2008-09 concert season: four

programs reflecting a broad spectrum of choral music, each presented

in collaboration with regionally acclaimed artists and organizations.

The season opens in November with Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning

composer Dominick Argento’s cantata, Jonah and the Whale, presented

with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project at the FirstWorksProv

Festival. December reprises last season’s sold-out Messiah with the

Rhode Island Philharmonic, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. In March,

the Singers presents an “Anniversaries” program with the Junior

Providence Singers, featuring masterworks by celebrated composers and

poets with anniversaries in 2009. The Singers completes its season in

June with the vibrant music of internationally acclaimed 30-year-old

British composer Tarik O’Regan, presented with the Aurea Ensemble and

featuring a guest appearance by the Rhode Island Children’s Chorus.

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Cumberland-Lincoln Community Chorus presents “The Fab 4 + 2 More!”

Friday, May 30th, 2008

 

The Cumberland-Lincoln Community Chorus & their Teen Apprentices invites YOU

and your friends to attend, “The Fab 4 + 2 More!” this weekend at the

Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket. This

year’s “British Invasion” features well-known hits of The Beatles along with

the witty, whimsical music of Gilbert & Sullivan. Beatles selections

include All You Need is Love, Yellow Submarine, Blackbird, Sgt. Pepper’s

Lonely Heart’s Club Band, etc. Gilbert & Sullivan selections feature songs

from HMS Pinafore, Gondoliers, The Mikado and more. This eclectic two hour

show will delight and entertain the entire family!

 

Showtimes are Saturday, May 31 at 7:30pm and Sunday, June 1 at 3pm. Tickets

are $10/advance and $12/door. They may be purchased by calling the Stadium

Theatre Box Office at 401-762-4545 or in person at the Box Office. For more

information, please contact Mary at 401-334-9310 or visit CLCC’s website at

http://www.clccmusic.org The Stadium Theatre is handicap accessible and is locatedat 28 S. Main Street, Woonsocket, RI 02895.

Please help us spread the word!

Hope you can join us!!

auditions for chilidren’s theatre

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

http://www.fosteringarts.org/smct/ Hello all. A job well done goes out to the cast & crew for their great performances of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.Next on the calendar, Swamp Meadow Summer Children’s Theatre opens its third season with the production of “Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights” adapted for Swamp Meadow by Heather Christie (Director). Scheherazade  is a wonderful tale of adventurous emperors, fire-breathing demons, and trickery beyond all reason. Perfect for the whole family to enjoy!Audition dates are June 4th-6th from 5 to 8 PM, the doors will close at 7:30. These are open auditions for all children ages 6 to 16. A wallet size photo is needed. Auditions will consist of a 30 second memory piece and a cold reading and will be held at Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster Center Rd. Foster RI 02825.

Play dates- August 13 to 17, for more info contact Heather Christie at hrcworld1@gmail.com, Or swampmeadow@aol.com Our summer theatre is a mentoring theater which gives youth and children opportunities to perform on stage as well as learn and participate in the direction and production end of theater.  Also we have Swamp Meadow Community Theatre/ Foster Ole Home Days open auditions for our very own “FOSTER IDOL”. Auditions will be held on Friday, July 11 from 5-9 PM and on Saturday, July 12 from 3-7 PM at the Foster Town House, Howard Hill Rd. Foster RI. Contact Bob Hollis and he will fill you in on information you need to try out for this event. Bob can be reached at 401-397-4740 or revbobh@aol.com Now, I saved the best for last, our very own Samantha Pike was nominated for best female lead performance by Motif in 2007 for her role as Charlotte, from our production of Charlotte’s Web.Sam also performs with our Victorian Carolers, she has acted in The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, Treasure Island and just finished up with Twelfth Night. She will be on the directing team for Scheherazade.Watch for up coming dates for SMCT’S productions; A Christmas Carol (Fall 2008) and The Wizard of Oz (Spring 2009).Keeping you posted,

SMCT NEWS

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Newsletter - week ending 5/24/08

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

www.pawtucketartscollaborative.org  

MISSION STATEMENT

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing the highest level of the arts for the community and its artists. We do this by creating awareness, education and involvement through its members.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing,  but you can’t take the process too personally.

:::_Joseph Barbera_ (aoldb://mail/quotes/quotes/j/josephbarb350997.html) :::

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PAWTUCKET TALKS - FRIDAY, MAY 30

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

PLEASE JOIN USONE EVENING… THREE EVENTS

AS WE CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE THE ARTS WITH PAWTUCKET TALKS

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008

Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibition Gallery Talk. 245 Main Street

5:30 to 6:30 pm

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative “Crossing Borders, redefining the dream”

Gallery Talk 6:30 to 7:30 pm

Blackstone Valley Visitor Center Gallery

Featured Artists are Pablo Alvarez, German Betzalel Ortiz Cadena, John

Clark, Iris Donnelly, Donald Gerola, Ana

Flores, Ann Johansson, Bruce Kaplan, Eric Owen Moss Architects, Clare

Nesdall, Agnes Novak, Anthony Osorio,

Dusan Petran, Helena M. Stockar, and Tsao & McKown Architects.

Slater Mill exhibit and panel discussion “Photography Across A

Century” 7:30 pm

Blackstone Valley Visitor Center Theater

The Blackstone Valley Visitor Center is located at 175 Main Street,

Pawtucket

Map to Visitor’s Center:

http://www.pawtucketartscollaborative.org/currentthings/Events/visitorsCenter.html