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The Alliance of NYS Arts Organizations announces
NATIONAL ARTS ADVOCACY DAY in Washington, D.C.
The 21st annual Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of America’s cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts.
LEARN how to lobby congress.
NETWORK with other attendees from your state and across the country.
BE HEARD by your members of Congress when you visit them to make the case for the arts and arts education.
Advocacy Day Highlights:

• March 31: 21st Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy
  Daniel Pink is a best-selling author and an expert on innovation, competition, and the changing world of work.
  
• March 31: Emerging Arts Leaders Networking Reception
  
• April 1: Congressional Arts Breakfast Hear from members of Congress and celebrity guests.
  

View the schedule, register, and book your hotel at the Americans for the Arts web page.

Elmira Regional Art Society presents
Folk Artist MARY SHELLEY
Arnot Art Museum, 235 Lake Street, Elmira, NY 14901-3191, Telephone (607) 734-3697
7 p.m
Folk artist Mary Shelley of Ithaca, NY, will be presenting a slide presentation of her painted wood sculptures. Visit her website to see her Americana folk art.

FINGER LAKES ARTS TRAIL PROGRAM The Finger Lakes Arts Trail Program helps to promote arts and cultural heritage to both year round Finger Lakes residents and seasonal visitors. The area encompassed represents most of central and western NY and is specifically being expanded to include Livingston and other counties this year. The program consists of: 1) A trail map designed as a rack brochure; 50,000 copies are slated for printing and placement in thruway rest stops, brochure racks across the region, relocation packages, chambers of commece, museums and more; and 2) A web site featuring the trail map, with a built in page for each participant with links to individual sites and other information. This program includes the following counties: Cayuga, Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne and Yates. Listing categories for the program include: Artist/Studio, Museums/Galleries, Theatres (opera houses, drive-ins, movies), Performing Arts, Festivals, Arts Business, Arts Organizations, Culinary Arts, and Hospitality. Cost/How to Join: The cost for individual artists with studio or business is $55/each. Arts organizations, cultural groups, restaurants, wineries, lodging and chamber businesses are $110/each. Application forms are available on the artstrail website. The deadline has been extended until April 4, 2008. Contact: Sarah Britting, at 315/789-1671 or at slbritting@aol.com Mary Beth Springmeier, Executive Director, Phelps Community Historical Society, who is managing the Finger Lakes Arts Trail Program. Phone: 315/548-4940; email: histsoc@fltg.net; or visit www.fingerlakesartstrail.org.

AMERICAN PLAY: SPORTS, GAMES, ENTERTAINMENT, AND FANTASY IN AMERICAN CULTURE
A special international interdisciplinary conference jointly sponsored by the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association and the Great Lakes American Studies Association in Rochester, New York, in cooperation with the Strong National Museum of Play. Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York
Registration (includes cost of Friday tour, reception, and dinner; Saturday breakfast and luncheon; free admission to museum):
General $70
Students $50
Make checks payable to “Penn State University” and send before March 14 to MAASA-GLASA Conference, c/o Sue Etter, American Studies Program, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898
For more information, contact Professor Simon J. Bronner, 717-948-6039 or email: sbronner@psu.edu.
A special international conference jointly in cooperation with the Strong National Museum of Play. A special international conference jointly sponsored by the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association and the Great Lakes American Studies Association in Rochester, New York, in cooperation with the Strong National Museum of Play.

Schedule:
Friday, April 4
1:00-2:00 p.m. Board Meeting of the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association
2:00 p.m. Registration Begins
2:00- 3:00 p.m. “Behind the Scenes“ tour of Strong National Museum of Play Collections (note: please indicate interest on Registration form)
3:30-5:00 p.m. Session I.
Panel 1. What is Play?: Concepts, Artifacts, and Exhibits
Panel 2. What is Sport?: For Players, Fans, and Media
5:30-6:30 p.m. Keynote Address from Gary Cross:
“Streetcar Saturnalias, Family Fun, & Cool Rides: Changing Venues of Playful Crowds”
6:30-8:30 p.m. Dinner & Reception, Strong National Museum of Play

Saturday, April 5
8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00 a.m. Session II.
Panel 1. Jewish Women in American Sport Documentary Film: Ethnicity, Gender, Sporting Culture and Public Culture
Panel 2. Look What’s Playing: Song, Story, Stage, Screen
Panel 3. Playing Hard: Working Out, Going Shopping, Letting Go
Panel 4. Playing Grounds: Venue & Spectacle
Panel 5. Playing at College: Sports and American Campus Life
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Session III.
Panel 1. Undergraduate Roundtable
Panel 2. Who’s the Fairest at the Mall?: The Meanings of Princess Products and Play
Panel 3. Playing with Boundaries: International Pastimes and Portrayals
Panel 4. We Got Game: Gender, Disability, Power, & Play
Panel 5. Playing for Keeps: African American Dimensions
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch & Awards Presentation
1:30-3:00 p.m. Session IV.
Panel 1. Watch and Learn: Child’s Play and Scientific Study
Panel 2. Playing Around: Dating, Courtship, Sex
Panel 3. Playful Escapes: Fantasy, Role-playing, and Cyberculture
Panel 4. Play on Display: the Material Culture of Toys, Costumes, and Amusements
3:00 p.m. End of Conference & Time to Tour

*Strong National Museum of Play will remain open until 5 p.m. Admission is free to Conference registrants. Spouses and children enjoy 50% off admission.

Hotel Information: Hotel Information: MAASA and GLASA have reserved a block of rooms and brokered a special conference rate at the Hyatt Regency Hotel of Rochester: $110 per room (for up to 4 persons in one room); $220 for standard one-bedroom suite, and $330 for standard two-bedroom suites. To secure the conference rate, you must reserve your room by March 14, 2008 and mention “American Studies Association.” Please make your reservation by calling: (585) 546-1234 or 1-800-233-1234.

2008 SACRED STEEL CONVENTION
7 p.m.
April 4 and April 5, 2008
Ft. Pierce Westwood High School, Fort Pierce, FL
Cost: $7 in advance, $10 at the door
Contact Elton Noble at nobleandnoble@bellsouth.net or call 772-323-5526 for ticket purchase and more information
See video invitation. Two outstanding nights filled with the dynamic sounds of legendary and up and coming steel guitar players. Special guest appearances by Maurice “Ted” Beard, Calvin Cooke, Sonny Treadway, and Aubrey Ghent. See Voices article about the Sacred Steel tradition.

A CELEBRATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE
Featuring the Reveillons! From Montreal
April 4 and 5, 2008
Sheffield, MA
All events are free
Artists: When you come to these events you are welcome to bring your CDs to sell at the media sales table
For more information, e-mail info@deweymemorialhall.com or paulschm4@aol.com or phone 413-229-7907 or 413-229-9052
This free, family, three-event weekend is a cooperative effort of: The Friends of the Sheffield Senior Center, The Sheffield Friendly Union, Tom Ingersoll, (Chair of the Dewey Hall Folk Concert Series), The American Legion Auxiliary, The SBRSD Elementary and High Schools (Coordinated by Neal Chamberlain and Bob Law). The event is planned to celebrate and promote a greater public awareness of: The Sheffield Senior programs and progress toward a Senior Activity Center Building, the “First Saturday Dewey Hall Folk Music Series“ the “Fourth Saturday Traditional Contra Dance Series” at Dewey Hall; and the American Legion Auxiliary service to the community.
Friday evening at 7:30 pm, at Dewey Hall, Main Street, Sheffield
“From Sheffield, England to Sheffield, Massachusetts“
1) Folk music of England, David Berthiaume of Reveillons
2) Folk music of Sheffield, “The Dewey Hall Folk Series,” “The Fourth Saturday Contra Dance Series”
3) The Reveillons! From Montreal, Quebec’s Traditional Music— Based on an amalgam of French, Scottish and Irish styles.
Saturday afternoon at 2 p. m. at Dewey Hall Reveillons! Workshops: Step-dance, feet-as-percussion; fiddle, jaw harp
Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Berkshire Regional School, Undermountain Elementary Cafeteria, 491 Berkshire School Road, Sheffield
Dance and Show The Reveillons! From Montreal, Canada The Reveillons! bring to this Celebration the exciting traditional fiddle, dance and vocal music of Quebec. Richard Forest, venerable fiddler; Jean-Francoise Berthiaume, using step dance as a percussion instrument, and dance calling into song; David Berthiaume sings and plays the jaw harp; Marc Maziade brings the rich tradition of folklore with his guitar.

Mary Shelley Folk Art: One Weekend Show
Friday, April 4, 2008: 5-8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, April 5-6, 2008, by appointment
109 Park Place, Ithaca, NY, 607-272-5700
Come to a show at folk artist, painter and a wood carver, Mary Shelley’s home gallery and see some of her best work all together in one space before it scatters to other shows throughout the summer. A regular at the Ithaca Farmers’ Market, she has a booth on Saturdays, beginning at the end of April. She will demonstrate woodcarving at Folk Fest, a historic re-enactment craft fair at Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA, on May 10-11.

Old Songs Contra Dance
Old Songs, Inc.
8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: $10
Contra Dance to live music with Alan Thomson & Friends and caller Bob Nicholson. Beginner’s session at 7:30. No partner needed. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. Last dance of the season!

Long Island Museum presents
LATINO MUSIC SERIES
2-4 p.m.
Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
For more information, telephone 631-751-0066 x212, or e-mail: mail@longislandmuseum.org
Cost: $7/adults, $6/seniors, $3/students 6-17
Segunda Quimbamba, a percussion and dance ensemble will perform authentic Bomba and Plena music of Puerto Rico. Includes bilingual interpretation and ethnic food.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents the
The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies
Spring 2008
The American Myth Through Architecture: Modernism and Anti-Modernism
Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College, CUNY
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan
Free and open to the public.
Presentation begins at 6 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
Building management requires people attending events after business hours to pre-register with the Calandra Institute by calling (212) 642-2094. You will need to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge.
Italian intellectuals Giuseppe Giacosa, Emilio Cecchi, Mario Soldati, Italo Calvino, and Furio Colombo traveling to the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries confronted an enigmatic reality, one they found to be exciting and fascinating. For them, this encounter was an opportunity to meditate on the significance of modernity. They understood, with varying viewpoints, that what was happening in the United States would eventually influence the destiny of Europe. In her book Narrative di viaggio urbano: Mito e anti-mito della metropoli americana (Bononia University Press, 2006), Giulia Guarnieri addresses the interpretation of American architecture, both metropolis and iconic symbol, as a quintessential metaphor of American identity expressing modernity, pragmatism, spontaneity, and mental openness. Counter positions, instead, comment negatively on urban architecture, defining the extravagant heights as “americanate” that reveal a resistance towards modernity and recognize the repercussion of capitalism and rampant consumerism.

The Gotham Center presents the next program in their 2008 History Forum series:
From Rags to Riches: An Evening of Stories from Garment Industry Manufacturers
Sponsored by the Leon Levy Foundation as part of its “Garment Industry History Initiative”
6:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue @34th Street, New York
Cost: Free. Seating is limited
Admittance will be on a first come, first served basis, no reservations
For more information: 212-817-8460
Join historians Richard Greenwald, Drew University, and Suzanne Wasserman, Director, The Gotham Center/CUNY, as they interview veterans of the garment industry. This evening will focus on the Jewish manufacturers who worked and still work in every aspect of the industry, starting in 1945 — from manufacturing custom-made doormen uniforms to marketing the first pair of women’s blue jeans.

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library presents the
Live! Santa Cruz River Band
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Charles R. Wood Theater, 217 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Cost: Free
For more information, call 518/792-6508.
Ted Ramirez, Michael Rondstadt and Gilbert Brown on tour from Tucson Arizona offering outstanding vocal harmonies and powerful acoustic music rooted in the American southwest and Mexico. Third of 4 free concerts presented by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library in downtown Glens Falls and made possible by NYSCA-Folk Arts.
See also March 13 and 27, and April 24 events.

2008 Joint Conference: COLLECTIONS, COLLECTIONS, COLLECTIONS
sponsored by The Middle Atlantic Folklife Association, the New York Folk Arts Roundtable and Cooperstown Graduate Program

Cooperstown, NY
Our colleagues from throughout the region will join with us in a convening devoted to the topic of collections. It will utilize the exceptional resources of the Cooperstown Graduate Program (CGP), New York State Historical Association and Farmers Museum.

This annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association, held this year jointly with the New York Folk Arts Roundtable, marks the largest gathering of folklorists in Cooperstown since the days of the American Folk Culture Program, and we are greatly excited by the opportunities to be brought about to connect more closely to our Cooperstown colleagues and the students at CGP. The meeting will occur during the glorious days of early Spring, in the Cooperstown museums and Cooperstown Graduate Program facilities by the shores of “Glimmerglass,” Otsego Lake, as well as other locations in the village. The meeting will begin on the evening of Thursday, April 10th, with Cooperstown’s annual Bruce Buckley lecture, delivered by Amanda Dargan and Steve Zeitlin of City Lore. It will be followed by a reception sponsored by the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association.

On Friday, MAFA’s annual meeting will begin with a workshop where you will learn what you need to know when planning the digitization of your audio and visual collections. It will provide essential information about how to prepare to make materials you’ve collected more enduring and widely accessible through digitization. Later that day there will be a presentation on laws and ethics relating to archives, and sessions providing an overview of NYSHA’s major collections of New York State folklore and folklife and a presentation of how archival collections are being made more widely accessible through the web and other methods.

On Saturday morning, we will discuss readings about Louis Jones and Cooperstown’s contributions to folklife studies, followed by a behind-the-scenes tour of the Farmer’s Museum and a discussion of issues relating to outdoor living museums. In the afternoon, you will have a choice of behind-the-scenes tours at various locations.

There will be plenty of fun time for socializing and partying, including the reception on Thursday following the Buckley lecture, meals together and a harvest celebration dinner with live music and liquid refreshments in a local church. The meeting will conclude with a wrap-up session on Sunday morning.

Download Conference Schedule and Registration Form here.

World Music Institute presents
National Heritage Masters: Fiesta Mexicana
Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, José Gutiérrez y Los Hermanos Ochoa, and Santiago Jiménez
8:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Cost: $32; WMI Friends $27; Students $15
This program showcasing the rich diversity of Mexico’s Hispanic musical heritage features Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, for 40 years a driving force in mariachi — considered by many to be the national musical expression of Mexico; José Gutiérrez y Los Hermanos Ochoa, celebrated exponents of the lively jarocho harp music of southern Veracruz, with its distinctive instrumentation and soaring vocal harmonies; and the brilliant conjunto accordionist/singer Santiago Jiménez and his ensemble with their festive Tex-Mex dance music.

Women’s Music Circle
Old Songs, Inc.
Friday, 7:30 p.m. Open Mic; Saturday workshops 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Saturday Concert 8:00 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: Fri., Open Mic: donation. Saturday all day: $50. Saturday all day + Concert: $65
Our 2nd annual musical retreat for women with presenters Peggy Seeger, Anne Hills, and Jane Rudden. Saturday Workshops: Feminist View of Anglo-American Song - Peggy Seeger; Songwriting - Anne & Peggy; Vocalization - Anne Hills; Drum Circle - Jane Rudden

Peggy Seeger & Anne Hills in Concert
Old Songs, Inc.
8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: $17/adults; $5/ages 12 and under
A living legend, Peggy Seeger is known for her excellent renditions of Anglo-American folksongs and for her activist songwriting. Anne Hills is a singer of superb clarity and pure tone and a writer of poetic precision.

World Music Institute presents
Masters of Indian Music
Shujaat Husain Khan
8:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Cost: $35, $30; WMI Friends $30, $25; Students $15
Shujaat Husain Khan is a highly expressive sitarist who has become a leading Indian classical musician of his generation. Son and disciple of the late Ustad Vilayat Khan, he is the seventh in an unbroken line in a family that has produced many musical masters. His style, known as gayaki ang, is imitative of the subtleties of the human voice. Mr. Khan has been acclaimed for his solo appearances of Indian music, as well as for his tours and recordings with the Indo-Persian Ghazal Ensemble. Tabla (drums) accompaniment by Subhankar Banerjee.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center’s
Third Annual Fun-Raisers Dance
FUNKADELIC 70’S JAM
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 Midnight
Co-op City Dreiser Community Center, 177 Dreiser Loop, Bronx, NY 10475
For more information contact, Mind-Builders, 718-652-6256
Tickets: On sale now - $30, standard ticket; buy 10, get 1 free
Additional donation categories: $100, contributor; $500, sponsor; $5,000+, builder
Live Performances of the Hot Oldies! Dress for the 70s — Funky Costume Contest. Hot Hors D’oeuvres. BYOBB. This is a fundraiser for Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center, a non-profit cultural organization that develops skill in a variety of art forms for children, teens, and adults

Tarahumara: Dances of the Raramuri Natives of the Sierra Madre in Northern Mexico
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
7:30 p.m.
Ballet Hispanico Studio Ten, 167 West 89th Street (b/t Columbus and Amsterdam Ave.), Manhattan
Cost: Free
You’re invited to free workshops that will explore the Tarahumara dances through dialogue, performance, and interactive movement led by Calpulli’s artistic directors. The event is part of the Mayor’s Immigrant Heritage Week 2008. Calpulli Mexican Dance Company researches the powerful, ritualistic dances of the Raramuri natives through a series of free workshops open to the public throughout early 2008. The workshops will explore the history of a disappearing culture through the dances that are valued dearly by its members. With this knowledge, the company will develop a new choreographic work. You are cordially invited to be part of a unique dialogue and witness our first steps in the creation of this repertoire. See brochure.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents the
“Documented Italians” Film and Video Series
Spring 2008
“Louis Prima: The Wildest!” (2000), 82 min.
Don McGlynn, dir.
Screenings takes place at the Graduate School of Journalism, 230 West 41st Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, Room 308, Manhattan
Free and open to the public.
Presentation begins at 6 p.m.
Seating is Limited
Building management requires people attending events after business hours to pre-register with the Calandra Institute by calling (212) 642-2094. You will need to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge.
Jazz trumpeter and consummate showman Louis Prima came to epitomize the night club and lounge scene of the 1950s and 1960s while reaching American homes through television appearances and recordings. His successful act juxtaposed Prima’s exuberant performances with the deadpan shtick of his wife singer Keely Smith. His Italian-American numbers “Felicia No Capicia” and “Bacciagaloop (Makes Love on the Stoop),” among others brought a playful sense of ethnicity to a national audience. The film “Louis Prima: The Wildest!” documents Prima’s Sicilian upbringing in New Orleans where he absorbed the styles of Louis Armstrong and King Oliver to his Las Vegas shows to his performance as King Louis in Disney’s 1967 animated adaptation of “The Jungle Book.” Archival footage and interviews with Keeley Smith, saxophonist Sam Butera, author Nick Tosches, among others, reveals an influential yet underrated musical talent.
Post-screening discussion with producer Joseph Lauro led by Anthony Tamburri, Calandra Institute.
This film and video series is co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism (CUNY) and the National Italian American Foundation , in conjunction with the Pesaro Film festival’s “New Italian-American Cinema.“

The Dutchess County Arts Council and the New York Folklore Society announce Getting to the “Roots”: Teaching with Traditional Music in the Classroom An Arts-in-Education Workshop for Educators and Traditional Musicians Monday, May 12, 2008 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Cunneen Hackett Theater, 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY For more information, e-mail shauna@danceafrocuba.com Cost: Free but pre-registration is required. Participants must register by calling the Arts Council at 845-454-3222, no later than Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Space is limited so don’t wait to register. Organized by the Dutchess County Arts Council and the New York Folklore Society, with support from The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, this workshop is open to all Pre K-12 educators, administrators, teaching musicians/artists, traditional musicians and PTA members in Dutchess and Ulster counties, as well as surrounding Mid-Hudson Valley counties. Participants in this three-hour workshop will learn about creating music-centered Arts-in-Education (AIE) partnerships between schools and traditional musicians and/or nonprofit cultural organizations offering traditional music programs. Traditional musicians are practitioners of culturally-specific instrumental or vocal musical traditions. These men and women sing and/or play music indigenous to their cultural, ethnic or religious heritage. Most often these musicians have learned their repertoire through informal transmission. That means that instead of being formally trained in conservatories, these men and women learned their craft from community elders highly respected for their musicianship. Through their art, traditional musicians share information about and perpetuate their heritages. During this workshop, musicians and traditional artisans will learn about creating partnerships for Arts In Education programs and possible funding sources for these programs; educators will learn how traditional musicians’ culturally rich and unique perspectives can enhance the curriculum in many subjects and will observe performance examples of successful AIE programs from teaching musicians. Both artists and educators will benefit from a session about the nuts and bolts of AIE, including aligning program activities to a curriculum and the New York State Learning Standards. Participating teachers will receive a Certificate of Completion, which they may submit to their districts to request Professional Development credits. For additional information, contact Polly Adema or Loretta Spence at the Arts Council (845-454-3222).

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Digitization Workshop Scheduled for Albany, NY
Digitization and Museums: Bringing Your Collections into the 21st Century
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
This workshop, sponsored by AASLH, will be taught by Leigh Grinstead of CDP@BCR and will offer in-depth training on digitizing historic collections. Participants can register for single days of the workshop or the entire three days. Day 1 presents issues surrounding the digitization of primary source materials. Day 2 focuses on basic digital imaging techniques. Day 3 introduces creating metadata for digital objects. Topics to be covered include:

• Introduction to the issues involved in digital project management
• Why digitize?
• Defining an audience
• Legal Issues
• Tools for deciding what to digitize
• Dublin Core Metadata
• Digital Capture Best Practices
• Digital Glossary
• Funding Options
• Writing Competitive Grants
• Benefits of Collaboration

Registration Deadline is March 16, 2008!! You can register today at www.aaslh.org/workshop.htm. The host hotel for this workshop is the Clarion Hotel of Albany. The AASLH rate is $89.99 per night plus tax. Call 518-438-8431 before March 20 to guarantee this rate. The rate includes free airport transportation, continental breakfast, and high-speed Internet access.

Tantshoyz: Yiddish Dance Workshop with Live Klezmer Band
7 - 10 p.m.
Jewish Community Center, 334 Amsterdam, (76th and Amsterdam), Manhattan
For more information, contact Peter Rushefsky, Executive Director, Center for Traditional Music and Dance, 212/571-1555 x 36, e-mail prushefsky@ctmd.org
Admission: $10; $8 for JCC and Workmen’s Circle members
Center for Traditional Music and Dance presents a Tantshoyz (Yiddish for “Dance House”) Yiddish Dance Workshop/Party at the JCC in Manhattan (334 Amsterdam at 76th St.) from 7:00PM - 10:00PM. Klezmer revival pioneer Zev Feldman leads the dancing and will teach you the steps. A live klezmer band will feature some of New York’s hottest klezmer musicians —- Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl - the traditional hammered dulcimer of klezmer music). The event is targeted to adults with beginners and teens absolutely welcome.

Yiddish Dance is the traditional dance of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. For hundreds of years, Jews have practiced a diverse repertoire of traditional circle and couple dances, including freylekhs, shers, bulgars and horas. While klezmer music has experienced a world-wide revival over the past 30 years, the Tantshoyz series presents a rare opportunity to learn to dance to the music.

Heritage-in-Arts Forum
Envisioning a Reconnected Canalway Through Public Art and Arts Trails
9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie, NY
Cost: $15, includes buffet lunch and refreshments
Call Hannah Blake at 518/237-7000 x 202 or e-mail hannah_blake@nps.gov for additional information.
Registration due by April 8, 2008
Join us in Canajoharie for this one-day lecture and roundtables. The lecture will be delivered by nationally recognized planner and place-making expert, Ronald Lee Fleming of the Townscape Institute. Community leaders, arts and community development professionals, canal enthusiasts are all invted to share your thoughts and to help shape the direction of heritage-based arts initiatives in your community and throughout the Canalway.

Vasen — Traditional Music of Sweden with a Modern Attitude
Old Songs, Inc.
8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: $20/adults; $5/age 12 and under
Three great Swedish musicians: Olov Johansson on the nyckelharpa (a keyed fiddle unique to Sweden), Mikael Marin on viola and Roger Tallroth on guitar. Together they create more electricity on their acoustic instruments than most rock bands can generate with their amps turned all the way up to “11.”

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester presents
COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS: ACROSS BORDERS ROCHESTER
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, 277 N. Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607
RSVP to Leah Buttery: 585-473-4000, extension 222 or lbuttery@artsrochester.org
ASL interpreting services provided. Wine and cheese will be served.
Successful community collaborations can have enormous benefits to the individuals and organizations involved, and to the community as a whole. But for a collaboration to be successful you have to have the right partners and the right project—and a commitment to the success of the collaboration as a whole. Across Borders Rochester, a model collaborative effort developed by Memorial Art Gallery and Nazareth College Arts Center to showcase the diversity of Latin American and Latino arts and culture, has all these elements. It was conceived as a way to tie together related events and exhibitions at Nazareth College Arts Center and at the Memorial Art Gallery, but quickly grew to a year-long, community-wide promotional effort, including over 35 events and exhibits at participating organizations across the community, including Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, George Eastman House, Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. The Arts & Cultural Council is pleased to have Debora McDell-Hernandez, Memorial Art Gallery’s Coordinator of Community Programs and Outreach; and Rachel DeGuzman, Nazareth College Arts Center’s Marketing and Publicity Manager, speaking about the future of Across Borders, and about other models for community collaborations at our April Networking Event. They will also talk about the next phase of Across Borders which will showcase arts and culture from the eastern hemisphere.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents
Writers Read Series Spring 2008:
“Verba volant, scripta manent”
Danielle Trussoni reads from Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan
Free
Presentation begins at 6 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
Building management requires people attending events after business hours to pre-register with the Calandra Institute by calling (212) 642-2094. You will need to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge.
Growing up in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Danielle Trussoni was fascinated by stories of her dad's adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Ultimately, she came to believe that when the man she adored drank too much, beat up strangers, or mistreated her mother, it was because the horror of those tunnels still lived inside him. Eventually her mom gave up and left, taking all the kids except Danielle. In Falling Through the Earth (Henry Holt and Co., 2006) the author trails her father through nights at Roscoe’s Vogue Bar, scores of wild girlfriends, and years of bad dreams with a voice that is defiant, funny, and heartbreaking. This vivid and poignant portrait of a father-daughter relationship is filled with anger, stubbornness, outrageous behavior, and battle scars that never completely heal.
“The affection, respect and humor she brings to the task of revealing this complicated individual is testimony both to her creative abilities and to the generosity of her spirit.” —Kathryn Harrison, New York Times Book Review

World Music Institute presents
Sounds of the Desert
Etran Finatawa
8:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Cost: $32; WMI Friends $27; Students $15
Etran Finatawa, from the West African country of Niger, incorporates the diverse traditions of two nomadic cultures — the Wodaabe, known for their striking face painting, percussion and polyphonic songs, and the Kel Tamashek (Tuareg), noted for their “desert blues.” The group’s haunting music has enthralled audiences at Mali’s Festival of the Desert and at venues throughout Europe and North Africa. In 2007, Etran Finatawa was nominated for a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music. First New York appearance.

World Music Institute presents
Rumba Cubana!
David Oquendo’s Raices Habaneras & Habana Tres with special guests Candido & Roswell Rudd
8:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Cost: $32; WMI Friends $27; Students $15
The remarkable composer-arranger, guitarist, tres player and singer David Oquendo, a leading name in the new generation of Cuban artists, presents two of his groups for an evening of fiery rumba and new sounds. His Grammy-nominated folkloric conjunto Raices Habaneras boasts a stellar array of percussionists, vocalists and dancers, including Xiomara Rodriguez; his Havana Tres performs original music written and exquisitely arranged for four voices, bass, percussion, saxophone and flute. Master conguero Candido, a legend in Afro-Cuban jazz, and trombonist extraordinaire Roswell Rudd will appear as guest artists.

Polish Community Center presents
Polka Dance with Maestro’s Men
3-7 p.m.
Polish Community Center, 225 Washington Ave. Ext.
For more information or to make reservations, contact Tom Raymond at 518-283-0129 or Frank Koslow at 518-456-1961
Kitchen will be open! Take-out available.

The New York State Council on the Arts, the NYS Music Fund, and Syracuse University present the
MAYFEST FOLK ARTS
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Main Campus, The Quad, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244
Cost: Free
For more information, contact: Felicia McMahon, Dept. of Anthropology, 315-443-2200 or frmcmaho@maxwell.syr.edu
A wide range of folk artists from the city of Syracuse will represent older and newer communities, such as the Onondaga Nation, Ukrainian and Vietnamese, to newer communities of Ahiska (Meskhetian Turks of Russia),Sudanese, Mandingo (Liberian) and Congolese. The continuous traditional arts demonstrations and performances will be held in The Folk Arts Tent at Syracuse University.
Campus parking for the event is free for the public and available in all university garages.

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library presents the
Adesso performs “Ode to Odetta” for Women’s History Awards
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Cost: Free
For more information, call 518/792-6508.
All are welcome to celebrate the 6th annual awards for essays written by local 5th graders for Women’s History Month. Special guest, local artist-illustrator-musician, Stephen Alcorn and his group, Adesso, will perform his own “Ode to Odetta” along with other thoughtful songs that celebrate womanhood. Stephen will also sign his book, “A Poem of Her Own” given by the Folklife Center to the winning essayists. This free event is co-hosted by the American Association of University Women and the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, made possible in part by NYSCA-Folk Arts, a government agency.

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library presents the
Live! Mike & Ruthy
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Cost: Free
For more information, call 518/792-6508.
Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda (of the Mammals) have struck off on their own, promoting their gorgeous new acoustic folk recording, The Honeymoon Agenda. Fourth of 4 free concerts presented by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library in downtown Glens Falls and made possible by NYSCA-Folk Arts.
See also March 10 and 27, and April 10 events.

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester presents
Classroom Success Stories: Models for Arts Integration
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Arts & Cultural Council, 277 N. Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607
RSVP to Leah Buttery: 585/473-4000 x 222, email lbuttery@artsrochester.org Join us for an afternoon of presentations by Arts in Education practitioners about programs and partnerships funded by the Arts & Cultural Council’s Education through the Arts program. Hear stories from the field and learn how the arts are integrated into classroom learning.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute presents
Italians in the Americas Conference
Thursday, 6:00-9:00 p.m., 17th floor
Friday, 8:30 a.m.- 6:30 p.m., 18th floor
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., 18th floor
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan
All activities of the conference are free and open to the public. RSVP at 212/642-2094.
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) announces a conference dedicated to the Italian experience in the Americas. A unique opportunity for scholarly communities in North and South Americas to come together and interrogate the past one hundred twenty-five years of diasporic experience in the Americas: the experience, that is, of all “Italian Americans” in the Western Hemisphere.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Welcome
Keynote Lecture
“Beyond the Immigrant Paradigm: Identities and the Future of Italian American Studies”—Fred L. Gardaphè, Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies Reception
Friday, April 25, 2008, 18th Floor
8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Contested Identities in Italian America
10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Working Aesthetics
11:30 a.m. -12:45 p.m. “Italians” in the “Americas”
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. LUNCH
2:15 - 3:30 p.m. Reflections in Psychology
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Re-imagining/Re-presenting 5:15-6:30 p.m. Is There an Italian/American Politic?
Saturday, April 26, 2008, 18th Floor
8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Personal Readings of Key Cultural Texts
10:00 - 11:15 a.m. First Encounters, First Conflicts
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Mapping and Visualizing Italians
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. LUNCH
2:15-3:302:15 - 3:30 p.m. Women as Authors, Women as Subjects
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Italian Americans after World War II
5:15-6:30 p.m. Imagining Italians

World Music Institute presents
National Heritage Masters
Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion
8:00 p.m.
Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York
Cost: $45, $35, $25; WMI Friends, $40, $30, $20; Students, $15
This dazzling display of drumming with virtuosos from India’s classical and folk traditions is under the direction of percussion legend Zakir Hussain, the premier tabla (kettledrums) player of his generation and one of India’s most esteemed cultural ambassadors. The program features tabla solos and duets, sitar and sarangi, exhilarating ensemble collaborations, and a breathtaking segment with Meitei Pung Cholom, the dancing drummers of Manipur who are noted for their acrobatic choreography. Ustad Sultan Khan will not be appearing on this program as previously advertised.

Voza Rivers/New Heritage Theatre Group in association with Mind Builders, Community Works, and the Museum of the City of New York present
THE ROGER FURMAN READING SERIES:
THE SESSION
2:00 p.m.
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York City
Admission: Complimentary with Museum admission and for friends of New Heritage Theatre Group, Community Works, Mind Builders, and Harlems Arts Alliance.
Reservations are required: Call 212/926-2550 x 21
Written and directed by Jamal Joseph. Composed and inspired by Roy Cambell. Featuring Charles Mack and Michael Lewis. A young hip-hop artist at the crossroads of life and death runs into a jazz musician in a fateful and perhaps fatal recording session.

The Coby Foundation announces a new grant initiative: For exhibitions of textile and fashion collections at museums that have not mounted such exhibitions in the past three years. The Foundation is offering planning and implementation grants, and the deadline for inquiries is April 30, 2008. Funding is limited to non-profit organizations in the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The Foundation is welcoming preliminary inquiries leading to a formal application. The Coby Foundation is offering a limited number of two-stage grants to art and history museums with significant collections of costumes or textiles. Institutions must have an annual operating budget of at least $500,000 and not more than $50 million. Support will be in the form of exhibition planning grants for up to $50,000 and exhibition implementation grants for up to $100,000. In order to qualify for funding, applicant may not have mounted a significant exhibition of items (25 or more) from its textile collection in the past three years. If the collection comprises both costumes and textiles, if an institution has mounted a textile exhibition in the past three years, it may still apply for support of a costume project, and vice versa. If a museum has textiles in more than one department—e.g., African textiles in the African art department and American textiles in the decorative arts department—the department that has not mounted an exhibition may submit an application. Applicants should first submit a preliminary inquiry and then, upon receipt of a positive response, a formal application. For more information, visit the website: http://www.cobyfoundation.org/new.html.

Call for Papers Neapolitan Postcards The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject March 20-21, 2009 Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008. The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY, USA) and the International Centre for Music Studies (Newcastle University, UK), in collaboration with the Archivio Sonoro della Canzone Napoletana (RAI, Naples, Italy), announce a two-day conference dedicated to the Neapolitan song. The conference will be held in Manhattan on March 20-21, 2009. The organizers see this conference as a unique opportunity to address the relatively unknown transnational aspects of the Neapolitan song. The canzone napoletana has been one of the first international popular musics of the modern era, traveling beyond the city of Naples and the borders of Italy. Its success was due, to a large degree, to Italian immigrants in the New World who composed, performed, recorded, sold, and consumed the music in the forms of sheet music, piano rolls, 78 rpm recordings, and performances. Classic songs like “Core ngrato” (1911), “Senza Mamma” (1925) and “A cartulina ‘e Napule” (“Neapolitan Postcard,” 1927) were composed and introduced in New York City; the Piedigrotta Neapolitan Song Festival was held also in Harlem during the 1920s. The histories of composers and singers like Francesco Pennino (1880-1952) and Gilda Mignonette (1890-1953) have been all but lost. During this era of mass immigration, the larger American public was also consuming the Neapolitan song at the same time Italian immigrants were victimized as racialized others. In addition, non-Italian immigrant performers added Neapolitan songs to their repertoires. In Argentina, artists adapted Neapolitan melodies to the tango’s rhythms, as did Carlos Gardel with his 1931 hit song “Como se canta en Nápoles.” Over the course of the twentieth century, singers and musicians such as Charles Aznavour, Count Basie, Enrico Caruso, Mario Merola, Elvis Presley, Caetano Veloso, Frank Zappa, and others would record and further disseminate the Neapolitan song internationally. Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to: critical biographies of composers, lyricists, and performers like the Neapolitan song as a source of “ethnic identity,” outside of Italy; the role of aesthetics, taste, and nostalgia; gendered readings of the Neapolitan song; cultural and economic histories of the recording industry, publishing houses, and neighborhood stores; the transnational relationships vis-à-vis the Neapolitan song between Naples, New York, Buenos Aires, and other points in the Italian diaspora; old and new “contamination” and “hybridization” of the genre; the Neapolitan song in literature and film; issues concerning documentation and archiving; and new approaches to the Neapolitan song in Italy. The symposium organizers will entertain suggestions of panel discussions with contemporary performers, film screenings, and performances. The official language of the conference will be English. Papers should last no longer than twenty minutes, including audio and visual illustrations. Abstracts (up to 250 words, plus a note on audio-visual requirements, and a brief curriculum vitae) should be sent, by email as Rich Text Format (.rtf) files, by May 1, 2008, to both Goffredo Plastino (goffredo.plastino@ncl.ac.uk) and Joseph Sciorra (joseph.sciorra@qc.cuny.edu), to whom other enquiries may also be addressed. Abstracts should clearly display the knowledge of previous research and should indicate theoretical perspectives. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously through peer review and authors may expect to be advised of their acceptance or otherwise by August 1, 2008. The conference will result in a publication of refereed essays from papers delivered.

COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOR STATEN ISLAND, STATEN ISLAND, NY SEEKS STAFF FOLKLORIST The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island seeks a Staff Folklorist to run a year-round Folk & Traditional Arts Program in the culturally diverse borough of Staten Island. Applicant should have an advanced degree in folklore or a related field and be experienced in the following: creating and producing public events, working with a wide variety of artists/organizations, and conducting field research (interviewing, recording, transcribing, photography/videography.) Proficiency with computers is expected (MS Word, Excel, email, Internet.) Additional skills preferred, but not required, include the ability to work with a wide variety of artists and organizations, knowledge of Spanish and/or languages other than English, grantwriting experience, and a familiarity with the cultural traditions of Staten Island communities. Job duties will include conducting regional fieldwork to identify and document folklife practitioners; planning and presenting at least four significant public programs based on field research each year; networking with local and regional organizations; and providing technical assistance to local artists and organizations. The Folklorist will participate in organization-wide activities and assist the Arts Council staff secure resources to support folk programs. The staff folklorist is a salaried position averaging 24 hours per week. Weekly hours are flexible, fluctuate with demands of programs and frequently involve evening and weekends. Compensation is commensurate with experience. Please send letter of interest, resume and references to: mcohn@statenislandarts.org Deadline for applications is April 30, 2008. For more information call 718-447-3329.

Slate Valley Museum, a growing and dynamic professional museum in Upstate New York on the Vermont border, seeks a full time Assistant Director/Educator beginning August 1, 2008. The museum interprets the history of the region’s slate industry with emphasis on geology, immigration, and tools and technology. A new visitor/interpretive center addition that will house an exhibit of large quarry machinery will open in June 2008. Ideal candidate is an energetic generalist with education background who will 1) work closely with the Executive Director in exhibition research, collections care and management, public programming, and grant research; and, 2) direct school programs, adult group programs, and volunteer docent training. Minimum requirements are a B.A. in museum studies or closely related field, familiarity with standards-based school programming, excellent writing skills, strong public speaking ability, and willingness to share responsibilities in a small museum setting. Year-round, Tuesday through Saturday work schedule, some evenings. Salary is $30,000. Please send cover letter, resume, and list of three references to Mary Lou Willits, Executive Director, via e-mail at mlw@slatevalleymuseum.org or regular mail at Slate Valley Museum, 17 Water St., Granville, NY, 12832 by May 10, 2008.

New York Foundation for the Arts STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY STIPENDS (SOS) SOS, a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, is designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development. Support ranges from $100 to $600 for specific, forthcoming opportunities that are distinct from work in progress. The next deadline for opportunities in July - October is Wednesday, May 28. For more information go to the NYFA website or call 273-0552x229.

Community Art$Grants for not-for-profit organizations Community Art$Grants for Organizations is a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, created to encourage and promote the development and strengthening of arts and cultural activities in local communities throughout New York State. Grants of up to $5000 are available to qualified not-for-profit organizations and municipalities in Albany, Rensselaer and Schenectady counties, to provide arts and cultural programming of high artistic quality. Deadline grant for 2009 programs is Thursday, October 9, 2008. Application seminars will be held throughout the three counties beginning in July. For more information on these seminars and to download a copy of the guidelines and application, visit http://www.artscenteronline.org/grants/orggrants.aspx or call 518/273-0552x229.

Thread to the Past: Ukrainian Folk Art from the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), New York, NY
Wed. thru Sun. 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(212) 228-0110, info@UkrainianMuseum.org
Organized by Lubow Wolynetz, curator of the Museum’s folk art collection, the exhibition revisits the Ukrainian pavilion at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and traces the determination of the UNWLA’s (Ukrainian National Women’s League of America) leadership to obtain and exhibit a representative collection of Ukrainian folk art. More than 100 of the 600 items purchased by the UNWLA for display in Chicago — and viewed by almost 2,000,000 visitors to the Ukrainian pavilion — are included in the exhibition.
October 7, 2007 - May 4, 2008

Lace, the Spaces Between: Domestic Lace making and the Social Fabric of the Italian American Community in Corning
Presented by the ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes and the Corning Painted Post Historical Society
Benjamin Patterson Inn Museum, 59 W. Pulteney St., Corning, NY
For more information, please call the Corning Painted Post Historical Society, 607-937-5281 or The ARTS, 607-962-5871 x222
You are invited to share the joys and hardships of the Italian American immigrant experience through the practice of lace making. Lace, the Spaces Between: Domestic Lace making and the Social Fabric of the Italian American Community in Corning. Domestic handmade lace is a metaphor for the Italian American experience in Corning. It symbolizes cultural continuity as well as the cultural change. It carries social meanings about the role of women, beauty and cleanliness, the home, the immigrant experience and tradition. Rejecting domestic lace is a means of embracing modernity and Americanization. Lace is a way to tell the particular story of Italians in Corning and the common story of change through immigration and between generations.
February 22 - December 19, 2008

Never Routine: Women in the Course of their Everyday Lives (Juried Art Exhibition, Contest and Panel Discussion)
9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Grace Institute Gallery, 1233 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10021
For more information, contact Curator, Jennifer Kamara: 212-832-7605, or e-mail jkamara@graceinstitute.org
Cost: Free
In celebration of Women’s History Month, and Grace Institute’s continued commitment to see women succeed, Grace Institute Gallery presents a new juried art exhibition that commemorates all aspects of a woman’s daily talents and achievements both in and out of the workplace.
March 3 - April 25, 2008

The Pysanka and the Rushnyk: Guardians of Life
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), New York, NY
Wed. thru Sun. 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(212) 228-0110, info@UkrainianMuseum.org
Each spring, the Museum mounts a new exhibition of pysanky — Ukrainian Easter eggs. This year’s exhibition, entitled The Pysanka and the Rushnyk: Guardians of Life, features over 200 of the unique eggs and includes a selection of exquisitely embroidered rushnyky (ritual cloths) by noted Ukrainian American folk artist, researcher, and educator Myroslava Stachiw, who recently donated her collection to the Museum. The pysanka and the rushnyk are two of the items most commonly used in Ukrainian ritual practices.
March 7, 2008 - June 30, 2008

Long Island Museum presents
Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement
Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sun., Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
For more information, telephone 631-751-0066, or e-mail mail@longislandmuseum.org
Cost: $7/adults, $6/seniors, $3/students 6-17
Bilingual exhibition featurning 27 individuals and one extended family whose stories of risk taking, innovations and leadership are told through specially commissioned color photographs and biographical profiles. Each individual tells a distinct story but all share common Latino experiences, values and ideals.
April 1 - June 8, 2008

Long Island Museum presents
Bohemian Paradise: David Burliuk, Nicolai Cikovsky and the Hampton Bays Art Group
Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sun., Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
For more information, telephone 631-751-0066, or e-mail mail@longislandmuseum.org
Cost: $7/adults, $6/seniors, $3/students 6-17
Exhibition includes original paintings by various 20th century Russian and European emigre artists with similar ideologies and very different styles who met in NY and established a flourishing summer art colony on Long Island’s east end.
April 1 - July 13, 2008

The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), New York, NY
Wed. thru Sun. 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(212) 228-0110, info@UkrainianMuseum.org
The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799, includes 42 original maps published by European mapmakers over a 250-year period. A majority of the maps in the exhibition are from the Museum’s Marie Halun Bloch Collection, which consists of 52 maps bequeathed to the Museum by the Ukrainian American writer of children’s books upon her death in 1998. Dr. Bohdan Kordan, the curator of the exhibition, is Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Department of Political Studies, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
See May 9 calendar listing for concert of Ukrainian ballads held in conjunction with this exhibit.
April 20, 2008 - October 5, 2008

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