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NYS Arts presents its Bootstraps Music Webinar Series: Developing Your Music Career NYS ARTS introduces our latest professional training Webinar Series BOOTSTRAP YOUR MUSIC to help musicians, composers and performers achieve success in the marketplace. NYS ARTS BOOTSTRAP YOUR MUSIC is a series of online seminars (webinars) offered in real time, comprised of three courses with three different instructors. The first course has three sessions during the month of June. You can sign up for each session individually at $10, or for all three at a discounted rate of $25. Register today. Space is limited. Once you sign up we will give you the web address and log in information so you can participate fully. High speed internet access is required. A Blog is up throughout the series to help you share and get information, find resources and post questions. Our first BOOTSTRAPS webinar course is "DEVELOPING YOUR MUSIC CAREER" by Paola Prestini. This 3 session course will address the important issues of “Building your Website” (June 4, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.), “Grant Writing Tips” (June 11, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.), and “Balancing Collaborative and Personal Trajectories” (June 25, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.). See descriptons in events listings below for each online seminar. Each webinar is accompanied by an informative Blog.

NYS Arts presents its Bootstraps Music Webinar Series:
Developing Your Music Career:
SESSION 1: Building your Website: Goals & Mission
12:30- 1:30 p.m. Webinar
See announcement at top of page for more information about series and other sessions (June 11 and June 25)
Session cost: $10; all three sessions, $25
Register on-line
This session will help you create a map to your career through the web, with an emphasis on personal mission statements and the use of imaginative marketing tools. Defining one’s self as an artist is a difficult task. It takes the patience to constantly redefine and edit one’s achievements and goals, an understanding of your peers and crititcs, and a keen ability to explain yourself in direct and attractive terms.

NYS ARTS present a RURAL WORKSHOP:
Building a Vibrant Community Identity
5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council 201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY, 585-343-9313, phawley@goart.org
Cost: $10
The workshop will focus on identifying the perception of your organization in your community: a self-evaluation of who you are, who you serve, and how you are doing in terms of your mission and goals. It will also include suggestions for building new audiences, branding/marketing your organization and effective collaborations and partnerships.

Northern Forest Center announces
Ways of the Woods: People and the Land in the Northern Forest
2008 Tour
Paul Smith’s College, Route 86 & 30, Paul Smiths, NY 12970-0265
For more information, contact Carolyn Graney, cgraney@northernforest.org
The Center’s mobile museum about the changing relationships among people and the land. This traveling exhibition combines interactive displays with live performance and demonstration to showcase the history, culture and heritage of the Northern Forest. In 2008, the tour visits schools, forestry expos and logging festivals, recreation and heritage events and a host of state and county fairs. For additional dates and locations, see the 2008 Tour Schedule.

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company presents
Tarahumara: Dances of the Raramuri Natives of the Sierra Madre in Northern Mexico
June 7 - 12 p.m.
June 8 - 2 p.m.
Topaz Arts, 55-03 39th Ave., Woodside, Queens
Cost: Free
For more information, call 718/507-2617
The free events will explore the dances of the Raramuri natives through performance, lecture, and interactive workshops. It is the concluding event in the free series of workshops about Calpulli’s new work.

NYS Arts presents its Bootstraps Music Webinar Series:
Developing Your Music Career:
SESSION 2: Grant Writing Tips for the Artist from the Artist
12:30- 1:30 p.m. Webinar
See announcement at top of page for more information about series and other sessions (June 11 and June 25)
Session cost: $10; all three sessions, $25
Register on-line
This resource will help you access more grants, show you how to keep a grant schedule, and address the recurring questions fournd in the grant-making art world. Grants are out there. It’s a matter of having the right database and understanding how to position your ideas into required grant fields.

Neighborhood Preservation Center presents:
Preserving Local Retail: Screening, Presentation & Discussion
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Parish Hall, St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue, New York
RSVP to info@smhlf.org or call 212-228-2781
Plan to attend the screening of Twilight Becomes Night, a short documentary set in New York City which explores the pivotal role of neighborhood stores in our lives and our communities. After the screening, students at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment will present their study of the East Village conducted on behalf of the East Village Community Coalition and recommend strategies for retaining local businesses in the neighborhood. This will be followed by a discussion with film-maker Virginie-Alvine Perrette led by Vicki Weiner, Director of Planning & Preservation at the Pratt Center for Community Development. This event is sponsored by the Center in partnership with the East Village Community Coalition, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the Historic Districts Council, Place Matters, Pratt Center for Community Development and the Pratt Graduate Center for Planning & the Environment.

Polish Community Center presents
Polka American Buffet
3-7 p.m.
Polish Community Center, 225 Washington Ave. Ext., Albany, NY
For more information, call 518/456-3995.

Northern Forest Center announces
2008 Tour: Ways of the Woods: People and the Land in the Northern Forest
St. Lawrence Power and Equipment Museum 26th Antique Engine and Spring Planting Expo, Goolden-Mann Farm on State Hwy. 345 in Madrid, NY
For more information, contact Carolyn Graney, cgraney@northernforest.org
See June 7 listing above for more information

The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents
The Fence Show: Members’ Salon
The Fence Show got its name 43 years ago when members’ artwork was exhibited on the iron fence surrounding Washington Park in Troy, New York. Today the Exhibition represents a wonderful cross-section of artists and media. To be part of the Fence Show, artists must be Members of The Arts Center. Exhibiting artists, ranging from youthful novices to seasoned professionals, have their work viewed by thousands of visitors. During a four-week long Salon period, all artwork entered by members is displayed and the invited jurors select works for the Fence Show. These Fence Select Works 2008, some of which are for sale, are then displayed for more than a month in the Arts Centers Main Gallery. See the prospectus, guidelines, and entry form at the Arts Center’s website.

American Evolution: Arts in the New Civic Life
Americans for the Arts 2008 Convention
Philadelphia, PA
Convention Headquarters: Sheraton Philadelphia City Center, 17th & Race Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Philadelphia is the birthplace of American democracy, and today it is a leader in the evolution of civic life. From history to hip, the city is alive with creativity. Cultures abound in Philadelphia, an open and engaged metropolis that welcomes a diverse community of artists, innovators, and creators. From the opening event at the Kimmel Center to the closing event at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you’ll get a true sense of the arts community in our host city. Check out the schedule—including the new Preserving Diverse Cultures Track—bringing you more than 90 educational sessions along with Americans for the Arts Year in Review and Federal Update, keynote speakers, and our Public Art Year in Review.

Take advantage of one of the 10 Advance Workshops on Thursday, June 19. New to the schedule this year, these in-depth workshops allow more time to focus on specific topics that matter to you and your work. Led by field experts and Americans for the Arts staff, you𔂿ll walk away with new tools and concepts as well as great examples from across the country.

Register Online Today and plan your visit

Summer Session: Calpulli Children’s Dance Program
11:00 a.m. - 1 p.m., Saturdays and 11:00 a.m. - 1 p.m., Wednesdays (beginning July 2)
The Arts Center, 33-24 Northern Blvd., Long Island City, Queens
Cost: Voluntary donation
For more information, contact Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, 718/507-2617
Calpulli’s award-winning children’s dance program provides childen 5 years to 14 years of age an enriching learning experience via traditional Mexican dance. The summer session of the donation-based program will conclude with a recital.

NYS Arts presents its Bootstraps Music Webinar Series:
Developing Your Music Career:
SESSION 3: How to Balance Collaborative and Personal Trajectories
12:30- 1:30 p.m. Webinar
See announcement at top of page for more information about series and other sessions (June 11 and June 25)
Session cost: $10; all three sessions, $25
Register on-line
Learn tools for developing long-standing collaborations, understanding interpersonal skills that will help you maintain them, and gain useful commissioning tips, and the standard protocol for collective and individual realization. A long-standing career is full when the individual and collaborative processes can weave themselves simultaneously throughout life.

NYS ARTS present a RURAL WORKSHOP:
E-Marketing the Arts
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, 7 Lapham Place, Glen Falls, NY, 518-798-1144 Ext.2, Patrice Jarvis-Weber, gallery@larac.org
Cost: $20 or $15 for LARAC MEMBERS
The workshop will cover tools for building an online identity useful in building membership and new audiences. Instructors: Chris Andreola and Kevin Newman.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Land of Our Return: Diasporic Encounters with Italy April 23-25, 2009 Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2008. The The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, (Queens College, CUNY) announces its annual conference to take place in Manhattan, April 23-25, 2009, on the theme of “The Land of Our Return: Diasporic Encounters with Italy.” For Virgil’s Aeneas, Italy was “the land of our return,” the place his ancestor Darnanus left generations earlier. The Aeneid is thus an epic recounting of the Trojan hero’s return, or nostos, to Italian soil. This poetic conceit offers numerous possibilities to explore the political, economic, social, and cultural impact of historical and contemporary travel and communication by Italian immigrants and their descendants to Italy. Italian immigration was one of the largest movements of free labor in world history with over twenty-six million people immigrating between 1870s to the 1970s. Italian immigrants’ objective was, for the most part, to make enough money to return home. Forty-nine percent of the immigrants traveling to the Americas returned between 1905 and 1920. According to historian Donna Gabaccia, “The paese [town] had created its diaspora, but the diaspora in turn transformed the paese.” What was the impact of returning immigrants and their descendants on the home society? The political dimensions of return are evident in the transnational movement of anarchists, as well as Risorgimento and later anti-fascist refugees. Religious belief and practice have long been a critical aspect of immigrant return, with remittances sent as donations pinned to the processed religious statue and post-World War II workers visiting the hometown during the annual festa. After World War II, Italian Americans traveled to Italy increasingly as tourists and by the 1970s tourist companies began catering to this “ethic roots” market. There they experienced the disparity between personal connections to an ancestral paese and the ever changing reality of the larger nation state. In recent years, a growing number of descendants of Italian immigrants are reclaiming their Italian citizenship for various reasons. The imagined and actual “return” has historically been a source of creativity in all genres, from comedian Eduardo “Farfariello” Migliaccio’s 1917 song “Pascale e’ Turnato d’all’Italia” to author Helen Barolini’s 1979 novel Umbertina, to director Frank Ciota’s 2002 film Ciao America. This interdisciplinary conference is open to authors, cultural studies scholars, filmmakers, literary critics, performers, social scientists, and visual artists. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Return migration Economic impact Return of political refugees Return as religious pilgrimage Reclaiming Italian citizenship Metaphoric and mediated returns, e.g., radio, film, television, web sites The senses of return, e.g., nostalgia, curiosity, displacement, etc. Return as “ethnic roots” tourism Study Abroad programs as return Learning Italian Italian reception of cultural imports by artists such as John Fante, Astor Piazzolla, Martin Scorsese, and others Return as creative inspiration, e.g., literature, photography, cinema Reclamation of folk culture, e.g., music, dance, storytelling Comparative experiences from different parts of the diaspora Papers should last no longer than twenty minutes. Email abstract proposals (up to 250 words, plus audio-visual requirements, and a brief curriculum vitae) by September 1, 2008 to calandra@qc.edu, to whom inquiries may also be addressed. In like fashion, creative writers must email a copy of their work they wish to present; visual artists must email samples of their work that they wish to discuss as jpg files, along with their abstract proposal; and filmmakers must mail a DVD copy of their work for review. Include title, name, affiliation, and postal and email addresses as part of the submission. Contributors will be advised of their acceptance or otherwise by November 15, 2008. The official language of the conference will be English. The conference will result in a publication of refereed essays from papers delivered. Send all correspondence to: The Land of Our Return Conference John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 10036 Tel: 212.642.2094 Email: calandra@qc.edu

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.

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

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

UNDER OPEN SKIES: “Painting Nature Past and Present”
Presented by the Genesee Country Village & Museum in partnership with Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters, Inc.
John L. Wehle Art Gallery, Genessee Country Village & Museum, Mumford, NY
10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekends, holidays and Tuesday-Friday in July and August
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday in June (beginning June 3) and September
Closed Mondays, except for May 26, Sept. 1 and Oct. 6.
For more information, contact Shirley Figueroa, 585-538-6822 x260 or Shaunta Collier-Santos, 585-538-6822 x249
Admission Fees (subject to change): Art Gallery Only: adults $6, seniors 62+ & students with ID $5, youth (ages 4-16) $4.
The 5,000-square foot exhibition offers breathtaking vistas of nature captured by artists past and present, from the late 18th-century through the 21st-century. The exhibit unites the rarely seen collections of the Rochester Historical Society with stellar sporting art collected by Genesee Country Village & Museum founder, John L. Wehle. Complimenting the 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century art will be the 150 juried paintings from the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters, Inc., a locally based artist association who continue the 19th-century passion for “plein air” painting, or painting outdoors in the open air using natural light. Artist members of the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters began this themed project of capturing 19th-century urban and rural life in spring 2007. They have focused on the regional farming industry (grain production, animals, fishing), transportation systems (Erie Canal, river, railroads, Finger Lakes), 19th-century urban industry and business (historic sites, homes and structures in Rochester, Buffalo and historic towns and villages), the War of 1812 (lighthouses, on shore location of battles).
May 11 - October 13, 2008

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