Fall-Winter, 2012
Hello, Community Members,
It is going to be nearly impossible to thank all of the people who have made the Eastport Arts Center’s spring and summer season the success that it was. The fear of leaving someone out is a good reason for me to not even start this list, but here goes!
For Arts Bloom, thank you to Richard Klyver and Joyce Weber for the planning and scheduling it took to keep the art classes going for the high school students. For the Concert Series, thank you to Greg Biss, Marged Higginson, Lois Grossman, Frank Dudish, Mark DeVoto and Vivian Taylor, who put on a great season of concerts with delicious receptions afterward.
Thank you to Eastport Gallery members Dan Butler, Marlys Farn-Guillette, June Hallowell, Joyce Weber, Elizabeth Ostrander, Diana Young, Arthur Cadieux, Gary Guisinger and David Orrell for embellishing our season with your talents and expertise, and to all other members of the Gallery for putting on an eclectic season.
Thank you to Eastport Strings participants and parents, and
especially to Alice St. Clair for bringing up our future musicians, and to
interns Jacob Curtis and Eustacia Landrum for all the work of the residency program, which brings fresh shine to our local gem.
To members of the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra,
notably Helen Swallow, George McBride, June Gregory, Nancy Asante, Doug and Dovie Gaither, Lee-Ann Frost, Holly Whitehead, and conducted by Trond Saeverud, who volunteers far beyond his paid time. Thank you for all the work of creating this amazing group; you reach out, and share, regionally and internationally, your rich talents and opportunities.
Thank you to Jon Bragdon who, with Alice Chen and Joyce Weber, as Northern Lights Film Society, keeps great films screened all year.
Stage East has a nearly endless list of volunteers. The three directors who deserve our thanks for this year’s season were/are Barbie Wilson, Elaine Abbott, and Lou Esposito. In the past directors got a stipend for all of the work they do but now all of the work it takes to put on a production is done by volunteers. Each show has a producer (thank you, Barbie Wilson, Carolee Bier, and Lauren Simpson); a house manager (thank you, Kari Medieros, Dom Noe, Michaelyn Cecire); lights and sound technicians and operators (thank you, Lou Esposito, Bernie Cecire, Bill Rowley, Roland Bechard, and Frank Schuth); a stage manager and crew (thank you, Caitlyn Stellrect, Kerry Jackson, and Kathleen Esposito); set construction (thank you, Steve Grannis and all cast and crew helpers, Dave Simmons, Kerry Jackson, Brian Duffy, John Widelski, and Maxine) ; and we have often had the costuming, make-up and hair expertise of Tina Shannon, thank you, and to Sally DeCicco who is pitching in with costuming on the production of Proof. Thank you to back stage helpers who include Caitlyn Stellrecht, Kathleen Esposito, Mary Bragginton, and Sue MacNichol. Thank you to all of the reception supporters and the ticket sellers as well.
The actors! You put yourselves out there for our entertainment; without you it would be impossible to have a community theater! Thank you! In Dixie Swim Club were Mary Braginton, Anna Baskerville, Joanna Nicholson, Barbara Smith, and Nancy Tintle; In Sylvia were Kathleen Esposito, Ann Cornelison, Dan Butler, and Anthony Giard; In Proof were Caitlyn Stellrecht, Anna Baskerville, Anthony Giard , and Scott Sortman.
I would like to thank the volunteers who help to put on the extra programming that emerges from the community.
Thank you to Ben and Hillary Georgia for putting together the
Roaring 20’s Dance event. They were able to produce this successful event which raised $450 for the arts center and the same amount for the local community fuel fund. They are hoping to do it again next year. Thank you to Gretchen Gordon who brought to my attention the band Hymn For Her, and then made everything possible for them to come. The couple, with their 5 year old daughter doing a small set, came and gave a great concert. They also want to come again next year.
Anne Grant has been the inspiration and, with her husband Raffi Hopkins, has worked to make possible the Eat Local Pot Luck gatherings on the last Sundays of the month. Volunteers from the area also helped set up, and clean up afterwards. Thank you, Anne and Raffi , for a great community gathering. Monies went to pay expenses and the band, Keltic Schmeltic. Any leftover money went toward the kitchen renovation fund.
Thank you Yoga and Mindful Movement teachers Christine Felker, Samantha Williams, Asher Woodworth, and Marit Wilson for bringing new people in the doors.
Thank you David Gholson and Jean Wilhelm for all of the work you have done to keep the arts center afloat and sailing along into the future. Thank you to Carolee Bier for keeping our web site up to date.
Last, but certainly not least, are our patrons. We continually need people in the seats to make this all happen. Thank you for coming in the doors and warming the seats and giving us a reason for continuing what we do.
Fall – Winter Schedule
September through October
Photography Show by Susan Cardona “In Washington County”, in our Washington Street Arts Center Gallery (at the EAC!).
September 6 - The PBSO has begun rehearsals in preparation for the fall concerts to be held on Friday evening November 16 Centre Street Church, Machias, Saturday evening the 17th at the Eastport Arts Center, and Sunday afternoon the 18th at the High School ( Sir James Dunn Academy) in St Andrews.
September 5th began rehearsals of Stage East’s fall production of Proof.
Wednesdays at 3-4 Mindful Movement exercise classes with Samantha Williams will restart in the spring.
Sunday night films continue every Sunday at 7 unless otherwise noted.
Tuesdays at 5:00– 6:00 Yoga with Christine Felker -October 2 through November 20
October 19- The Stage East production Proof opens.
Proof is a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning drama written by David Auburn. This play centers on Catherine, the daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, as she tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his genius or his insanity. Lou Esposito, who recently directed both Doubt and the very popular Death Trap, will be directing this production. Performances October 19,20,21,26,27,28
( Not recommended for children under 14)
October 20-Eastport Strings begins its Fall season Saturday mornings, 10:00-2:00.
October 28- EatLocal Eastport’s seasonal potluck! Set up at 4:30, come help! Dinner 5:00-6:30, Bring a locally derived dish to share. Enjoy music and locally made food. $3 per adult, family price $5
eatlocaleastport@gmail.com
October 28 at 7:00 Film, Betting the Farm filmmaker Cecily Pingree and local farmers Aaron Bell and Carly DelSignore of Tide Mill Farm will be on hand to discuss the film. Pull Start Films,www.pull-start.com.
Tide Mill Organic Farm, www.tidemillorganicfarm.com
Sundays in November- Film 7:00 – Northern Lights Film Society
Tuesdays in November- 20th Yoga with Christine Felker 5:00pm-6:00
Thursdays in November – 15th. PBSO rehearsals 6:00pm-10:00
Saturdays in November– Eastport Strings 9:00am—2:00
November 6-Let’s Dance! NEW! Dance Anyone? Tuesdays 7-9 Tuesday evenings 7 – 9 P.M. at Eastport Art Center.
Gina Gaetani will step us into 9 evenings of waltz, swing, and tango beginning November 6th. (Dance with others on Christmas and New Year Day.)$45 per dancer for the series supports EAC and Gina’s two hour commute. Talk to lauren.seeley@yahoo.com or send $45 to EAC,
P.O. Box 153, Eastport ME 04631. Also payable with card by phone.
November 16- Wes McNair, Poet Laureate
7:00. The Eastport Art Center is pleased to announce a reading with Maine’s Poet Laureate, Wesley McNair, on Friday, November 16 at 7:00PM. McNair is the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Foundations, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in literature, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for Creative Writers, and in 2006 a United States Artists Fellowship of $50,000 as one of "America's finest living artists." Other honors include the Robert Frost Prize; the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry (for Fire); the Devins Award for poetry; the Eunice Teitjens Prize from Poetry magazine; the Theodore Roethke prize from Poetry Northwest; the Pushcart Prize, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal (also awarded to Robert Frost, Donald Hall, Maxine Kumin, Robert Lowell, May Sarton, Arthur Miller, Richard Wilbur, et. al.) for his "distinguished contribution to the world of letters."He has received four honorary degrees for literary distinction.
A two-time recipient of Rockefeller Fellowships for creative work at the Bellagio Center in Italy, Wesley McNair has twice been invited to read his poetry at the Library of Congress and has given readings at a wide range of colleges and universities. A television series aired over affiliates of PBS on Robert Frost for which he wrote the scripts received an Emmy Award. Featured on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (Saturday and Sunday programs) and 16 times on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, his work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Annual, two editions of The Best American Poetry, and over sixty anthologies and textbooks. He has served four times on the nominating committee for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Some of the magazines and journals in which his poems and essays have appeared are: Agni, The Atlantic Monthly, Five Points, Gettysburg Review, Green Mountain Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Margie: An American Journal of Verse, Mid-American Review, New Criterion, New England Review, Ohio Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry International, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, Slate, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Yankee. Wesley McNair is currently Professor Emeritus and Writer in Residence at the University of Maine at Farmington, where he directed the creative writing program and received the Distinguished Faculty Award and the Libra Professorship. He also served as a visiting professor in creative writing at Colby College, which acquired his personal papers in 2006.
Tickets for the event are $10 with students under 17 free.
November 17- Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra in concert. 7:00 The Orchestra has begun rehearsals in preparation for the Fall Concerts to be held on Friday evening November 16 Centre Street Church, Machias, Saturday evening the 17th at the Eastport Arts center, and Sunday afternoon the 18th at the High School ( Sir James Dunn Academy) in St Andrews.
Pianist Greg Biss will be featured playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor. A great work in all senses, it is large, dramatic, moving, lyrical, sometimes thunderous and both difficult and thrilling for the orchestra and the soloist!
Mendelssohn’s Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture takes the audience to sea on ship becalmed far, far from shore. The crew waits for the wind to come to blow them homeward. A movement in the air, a breeze….the sails fill, vigor and joy the shore is within sight!
El Salon Mexico by Aaron Copland, named for a dance hall in Mexico City, completes the program. Copland heard the voices, music and excitement coming from the café and composed this piece based on the melodies of three spirited and familiar Latin tunes. Percussion plays a big part including temple blocks, and a xylophone, and practically all of the orchestra’s brand new” batterie” (percussion set). The time signatures come and go, the instruments trade off bits of songs, and the audience is transported to busy corner of Mexico City on a Saturday night!
Sundays in December- Northern Lights Film Society Film 7:00
Tuesdays- Dance Anyone? 7:00-9:00
December 8th- Holiday Market
The Eastport Arts Center will host their annual winter holiday market on Saturday, December 8, from 10 am until 2 pm. Crafters, artists, bakers, chefs, cheesemakers, and more are being sought to sell their wares. A table space costs $20 for adult vendors and $5 for youth vendors. For more information contact Amy Zipperer at 853-2884 or dogwoodherbs@gmail.com.
December 15- Festival of Trees
Artists, amateurs and awesome imaginations are in gear preparing themes for 25 trees for the Eastport Arts Center Third Annual Festival of Trees. Many former participants are signing up to outdo themselves yet again. Previous years have produced Birds of a Feather, A SEAsonal Tree, Bayside Shimmer, Under the Rainbow, POETree, Rasta Angels, Memories of Summer, Pet Parade, The Dog TREEat, A Pastafarian Tree, YummYumm Tree, Sardine Tree and many more.
Pagan traditions called for decorating boughs of evergreens in the home to recognize the winter solstice. Some now view the tradition as a symbol or hope for the return of warmth to the earth.
Plan on participating by signing on to decorate and by coming to the festival on
December 15th, 4:30-5:30pm. Live music by some members of the Eastport Strings and beaming young faces passing light refreshments in the sparking lights amid beautiful trees will warm up your winter.
Plan on bringing your checkbook so that you can bid on and take home a fully decorated tree while having fun in a winter wonderland. Call Chris at 853-4650 or Marged at 853-0687 with any questions. But don’t procrastinate if you want to decorate a tree. They are going fast!
New Years Eve Celebration-TBA
January 2013
New Years day Brunch-TBA
Sunday afternoons in January- Sunday Afternoon at the EAC
3:00 – 4:00
An eclectic array of artists and performers are sure to be on the schedule for this much needed wintertime offering from the Concert Series.
We would like to grow new groups that use this space. The dance class is on its way; in the talking stage is the desire to have vocal groups here. This group needs a volunteer leader willing to work with the EAC to make it happen. Please talk to Chris at the EAC if you are interested in either of these ideas or have some of your own.
Eastport Arts Center
36 Washington Street
Eastport Maine 04631
207-726-4650 eastportarts@gmail.com
For more information about individual constituencies please check out our web site at www.eastportartscenter.com
It is going to be nearly impossible to thank all of the people who have made the Eastport Arts Center’s spring and summer season the success that it was. The fear of leaving someone out is a good reason for me to not even start this list, but here goes!
For Arts Bloom, thank you to Richard Klyver and Joyce Weber for the planning and scheduling it took to keep the art classes going for the high school students. For the Concert Series, thank you to Greg Biss, Marged Higginson, Lois Grossman, Frank Dudish, Mark DeVoto and Vivian Taylor, who put on a great season of concerts with delicious receptions afterward.
Thank you to Eastport Gallery members Dan Butler, Marlys Farn-Guillette, June Hallowell, Joyce Weber, Elizabeth Ostrander, Diana Young, Arthur Cadieux, Gary Guisinger and David Orrell for embellishing our season with your talents and expertise, and to all other members of the Gallery for putting on an eclectic season.
Thank you to Eastport Strings participants and parents, and
especially to Alice St. Clair for bringing up our future musicians, and to
interns Jacob Curtis and Eustacia Landrum for all the work of the residency program, which brings fresh shine to our local gem.
To members of the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra,
notably Helen Swallow, George McBride, June Gregory, Nancy Asante, Doug and Dovie Gaither, Lee-Ann Frost, Holly Whitehead, and conducted by Trond Saeverud, who volunteers far beyond his paid time. Thank you for all the work of creating this amazing group; you reach out, and share, regionally and internationally, your rich talents and opportunities.
Thank you to Jon Bragdon who, with Alice Chen and Joyce Weber, as Northern Lights Film Society, keeps great films screened all year.
Stage East has a nearly endless list of volunteers. The three directors who deserve our thanks for this year’s season were/are Barbie Wilson, Elaine Abbott, and Lou Esposito. In the past directors got a stipend for all of the work they do but now all of the work it takes to put on a production is done by volunteers. Each show has a producer (thank you, Barbie Wilson, Carolee Bier, and Lauren Simpson); a house manager (thank you, Kari Medieros, Dom Noe, Michaelyn Cecire); lights and sound technicians and operators (thank you, Lou Esposito, Bernie Cecire, Bill Rowley, Roland Bechard, and Frank Schuth); a stage manager and crew (thank you, Caitlyn Stellrect, Kerry Jackson, and Kathleen Esposito); set construction (thank you, Steve Grannis and all cast and crew helpers, Dave Simmons, Kerry Jackson, Brian Duffy, John Widelski, and Maxine) ; and we have often had the costuming, make-up and hair expertise of Tina Shannon, thank you, and to Sally DeCicco who is pitching in with costuming on the production of Proof. Thank you to back stage helpers who include Caitlyn Stellrecht, Kathleen Esposito, Mary Bragginton, and Sue MacNichol. Thank you to all of the reception supporters and the ticket sellers as well.
The actors! You put yourselves out there for our entertainment; without you it would be impossible to have a community theater! Thank you! In Dixie Swim Club were Mary Braginton, Anna Baskerville, Joanna Nicholson, Barbara Smith, and Nancy Tintle; In Sylvia were Kathleen Esposito, Ann Cornelison, Dan Butler, and Anthony Giard; In Proof were Caitlyn Stellrecht, Anna Baskerville, Anthony Giard , and Scott Sortman.
I would like to thank the volunteers who help to put on the extra programming that emerges from the community.
Thank you to Ben and Hillary Georgia for putting together the
Roaring 20’s Dance event. They were able to produce this successful event which raised $450 for the arts center and the same amount for the local community fuel fund. They are hoping to do it again next year. Thank you to Gretchen Gordon who brought to my attention the band Hymn For Her, and then made everything possible for them to come. The couple, with their 5 year old daughter doing a small set, came and gave a great concert. They also want to come again next year.
Anne Grant has been the inspiration and, with her husband Raffi Hopkins, has worked to make possible the Eat Local Pot Luck gatherings on the last Sundays of the month. Volunteers from the area also helped set up, and clean up afterwards. Thank you, Anne and Raffi , for a great community gathering. Monies went to pay expenses and the band, Keltic Schmeltic. Any leftover money went toward the kitchen renovation fund.
Thank you Yoga and Mindful Movement teachers Christine Felker, Samantha Williams, Asher Woodworth, and Marit Wilson for bringing new people in the doors.
Thank you David Gholson and Jean Wilhelm for all of the work you have done to keep the arts center afloat and sailing along into the future. Thank you to Carolee Bier for keeping our web site up to date.
Last, but certainly not least, are our patrons. We continually need people in the seats to make this all happen. Thank you for coming in the doors and warming the seats and giving us a reason for continuing what we do.
Fall – Winter Schedule
September through October
Photography Show by Susan Cardona “In Washington County”, in our Washington Street Arts Center Gallery (at the EAC!).
September 6 - The PBSO has begun rehearsals in preparation for the fall concerts to be held on Friday evening November 16 Centre Street Church, Machias, Saturday evening the 17th at the Eastport Arts Center, and Sunday afternoon the 18th at the High School ( Sir James Dunn Academy) in St Andrews.
September 5th began rehearsals of Stage East’s fall production of Proof.
Wednesdays at 3-4 Mindful Movement exercise classes with Samantha Williams will restart in the spring.
Sunday night films continue every Sunday at 7 unless otherwise noted.
Tuesdays at 5:00– 6:00 Yoga with Christine Felker -October 2 through November 20
October 19- The Stage East production Proof opens.
Proof is a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning drama written by David Auburn. This play centers on Catherine, the daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, as she tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his genius or his insanity. Lou Esposito, who recently directed both Doubt and the very popular Death Trap, will be directing this production. Performances October 19,20,21,26,27,28
( Not recommended for children under 14)
October 20-Eastport Strings begins its Fall season Saturday mornings, 10:00-2:00.
October 28- EatLocal Eastport’s seasonal potluck! Set up at 4:30, come help! Dinner 5:00-6:30, Bring a locally derived dish to share. Enjoy music and locally made food. $3 per adult, family price $5
eatlocaleastport@gmail.com
October 28 at 7:00 Film, Betting the Farm filmmaker Cecily Pingree and local farmers Aaron Bell and Carly DelSignore of Tide Mill Farm will be on hand to discuss the film. Pull Start Films,www.pull-start.com.
Tide Mill Organic Farm, www.tidemillorganicfarm.com
Sundays in November- Film 7:00 – Northern Lights Film Society
Tuesdays in November- 20th Yoga with Christine Felker 5:00pm-6:00
Thursdays in November – 15th. PBSO rehearsals 6:00pm-10:00
Saturdays in November– Eastport Strings 9:00am—2:00
November 6-Let’s Dance! NEW! Dance Anyone? Tuesdays 7-9 Tuesday evenings 7 – 9 P.M. at Eastport Art Center.
Gina Gaetani will step us into 9 evenings of waltz, swing, and tango beginning November 6th. (Dance with others on Christmas and New Year Day.)$45 per dancer for the series supports EAC and Gina’s two hour commute. Talk to lauren.seeley@yahoo.com or send $45 to EAC,
P.O. Box 153, Eastport ME 04631. Also payable with card by phone.
November 16- Wes McNair, Poet Laureate
7:00. The Eastport Art Center is pleased to announce a reading with Maine’s Poet Laureate, Wesley McNair, on Friday, November 16 at 7:00PM. McNair is the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Foundations, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in literature, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for Creative Writers, and in 2006 a United States Artists Fellowship of $50,000 as one of "America's finest living artists." Other honors include the Robert Frost Prize; the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry (for Fire); the Devins Award for poetry; the Eunice Teitjens Prize from Poetry magazine; the Theodore Roethke prize from Poetry Northwest; the Pushcart Prize, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal (also awarded to Robert Frost, Donald Hall, Maxine Kumin, Robert Lowell, May Sarton, Arthur Miller, Richard Wilbur, et. al.) for his "distinguished contribution to the world of letters."He has received four honorary degrees for literary distinction.
A two-time recipient of Rockefeller Fellowships for creative work at the Bellagio Center in Italy, Wesley McNair has twice been invited to read his poetry at the Library of Congress and has given readings at a wide range of colleges and universities. A television series aired over affiliates of PBS on Robert Frost for which he wrote the scripts received an Emmy Award. Featured on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (Saturday and Sunday programs) and 16 times on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, his work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Annual, two editions of The Best American Poetry, and over sixty anthologies and textbooks. He has served four times on the nominating committee for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Some of the magazines and journals in which his poems and essays have appeared are: Agni, The Atlantic Monthly, Five Points, Gettysburg Review, Green Mountain Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Margie: An American Journal of Verse, Mid-American Review, New Criterion, New England Review, Ohio Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry International, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, Slate, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Yankee. Wesley McNair is currently Professor Emeritus and Writer in Residence at the University of Maine at Farmington, where he directed the creative writing program and received the Distinguished Faculty Award and the Libra Professorship. He also served as a visiting professor in creative writing at Colby College, which acquired his personal papers in 2006.
Tickets for the event are $10 with students under 17 free.
November 17- Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra in concert. 7:00 The Orchestra has begun rehearsals in preparation for the Fall Concerts to be held on Friday evening November 16 Centre Street Church, Machias, Saturday evening the 17th at the Eastport Arts center, and Sunday afternoon the 18th at the High School ( Sir James Dunn Academy) in St Andrews.
Pianist Greg Biss will be featured playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor. A great work in all senses, it is large, dramatic, moving, lyrical, sometimes thunderous and both difficult and thrilling for the orchestra and the soloist!
Mendelssohn’s Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture takes the audience to sea on ship becalmed far, far from shore. The crew waits for the wind to come to blow them homeward. A movement in the air, a breeze….the sails fill, vigor and joy the shore is within sight!
El Salon Mexico by Aaron Copland, named for a dance hall in Mexico City, completes the program. Copland heard the voices, music and excitement coming from the café and composed this piece based on the melodies of three spirited and familiar Latin tunes. Percussion plays a big part including temple blocks, and a xylophone, and practically all of the orchestra’s brand new” batterie” (percussion set). The time signatures come and go, the instruments trade off bits of songs, and the audience is transported to busy corner of Mexico City on a Saturday night!
Sundays in December- Northern Lights Film Society Film 7:00
Tuesdays- Dance Anyone? 7:00-9:00
December 8th- Holiday Market
The Eastport Arts Center will host their annual winter holiday market on Saturday, December 8, from 10 am until 2 pm. Crafters, artists, bakers, chefs, cheesemakers, and more are being sought to sell their wares. A table space costs $20 for adult vendors and $5 for youth vendors. For more information contact Amy Zipperer at 853-2884 or dogwoodherbs@gmail.com.
December 15- Festival of Trees
Artists, amateurs and awesome imaginations are in gear preparing themes for 25 trees for the Eastport Arts Center Third Annual Festival of Trees. Many former participants are signing up to outdo themselves yet again. Previous years have produced Birds of a Feather, A SEAsonal Tree, Bayside Shimmer, Under the Rainbow, POETree, Rasta Angels, Memories of Summer, Pet Parade, The Dog TREEat, A Pastafarian Tree, YummYumm Tree, Sardine Tree and many more.
Pagan traditions called for decorating boughs of evergreens in the home to recognize the winter solstice. Some now view the tradition as a symbol or hope for the return of warmth to the earth.
Plan on participating by signing on to decorate and by coming to the festival on
December 15th, 4:30-5:30pm. Live music by some members of the Eastport Strings and beaming young faces passing light refreshments in the sparking lights amid beautiful trees will warm up your winter.
Plan on bringing your checkbook so that you can bid on and take home a fully decorated tree while having fun in a winter wonderland. Call Chris at 853-4650 or Marged at 853-0687 with any questions. But don’t procrastinate if you want to decorate a tree. They are going fast!
New Years Eve Celebration-TBA
January 2013
New Years day Brunch-TBA
Sunday afternoons in January- Sunday Afternoon at the EAC
3:00 – 4:00
An eclectic array of artists and performers are sure to be on the schedule for this much needed wintertime offering from the Concert Series.
We would like to grow new groups that use this space. The dance class is on its way; in the talking stage is the desire to have vocal groups here. This group needs a volunteer leader willing to work with the EAC to make it happen. Please talk to Chris at the EAC if you are interested in either of these ideas or have some of your own.
Eastport Arts Center
36 Washington Street
Eastport Maine 04631
207-726-4650 eastportarts@gmail.com
For more information about individual constituencies please check out our web site at www.eastportartscenter.com
YOU CAN HELP THE ARTS CENTER!
AND WE NEED YOU ! ! !
As you probably know, the Eastport Arts Center is the home of seven constituent arts groups. The EAC is under the overall management of a Board of Directors; beyond that, each constituent has its own governing structure, and is represented on the Board.
The considerable costs of operating and maintaining the EAC are met by an "Our Fair Share" contribution from each constituent body.
Admission fees go into the coffers of each sponsoring constituent. Further funding must be raised through grants. In the world of Arts Administration, all philanthropists recognize that support for artistic presentations will never be adequately met by income from ticket sales. (And our prices are exceptionally low!) The accepted formula now is that admissions generally cover only between one-third and one-half of costs; for us, the remainder must be raised from grants, our spring mailing campaign, special events (like The Follies), and the generosity of a public which recognizes the richness which the arts bring to their lives and to the community.
This is a tough battle! Many of you have been extremely generous, and our appreciation is HUGE.
All it takes to lend a helping hand to the EAC is a phone call, to 853-4650.
Thank you ! ! !
2012 Spring/Summer Newsletter
Hello, Community Members,
The Eastport Arts Center‘s 2012 season is in full swing. We have had a seven-month start on it with various activities keeping people involved and entertained by the talent and energy of our area. Beginning in January and continuing through April we held weekly―Sunday Afternoon at the EAC events which enlightened and entertained all who attended. The offerings ranged from ethereal Passamaquoddy flute music to an entertaining lecture on Hector Berlioz, to photography in the digital age to gardening with insect allies. Sunday afternoons in the winter were warmed up by this eclectic series of events. Thank you to our directors of the summer Concert Series, Marged Higginson and Greg Biss for this added stimulation of our minds in the stillness of winter. It takes many volunteer hours to bring a program like this to the stage. The art classes for Shead High school students began again after the holiday break with Richard Klyver teaching a few students sculpture, using wax and plaster and other techniques. On February 4th the annual International Dinner, the first of our fundraisers for general operating costs, brought in over $800! We had great community support for this event with all of the donated food, labor, music and attendance. Thank you for helping the Arts Center by joining in on this highly anticipated event made possible by Joyce Weber and her crew of over 16 volunteers and more than 50 ethnically inspired community chefs. February also brought the return of the weekly yoga classes led by Christine Felker. They are well attended at 5:00 on Tuesdays. March is the month for many beginnings. Eastport Strings returned to Saturday mornings for the start of their Spring sessions, working towards the guest residency and concert with Dan Alcott in June. Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra followed with the opening of their season, working to put together another great set of concerts for our Bay area. Their concerts began on June 8th in Machias and at the Eastport Arts Center on the 9th and on the 10th in St. Andrews. They also hold summer concerts in Lubec in the summer. The Shead art classes began their spring session but moved the classroom to the elementary school where they have a dedicated art room. This seemed to be a good idea as they now had more students and we no longer had to heat up our building for two hours every day. They will have a show at the end of the year at the school and then it will be brought here for a show at the EAC. April saw the return of our Tracker Organ demonstrations, given by Edward French, for area school children. They are always fun and it‘s great to be able to share this fine instrument with the community in this way. Our annual campaign letters were sent out in April and have resulted in many donations toward operating costs, to date over $5,000! Thank you to Jean Wilhelm and all who worked with her to print, stuff and mail all of those envelopes. Jean has also written several grant proposals and sent them on their way, hoping that this will result in funding for essential staff to keep this building open and running smoothly. On April 15 we held an event involving all EAC constituents to commemorate the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. We had a community art show and auction of sea-themed art work spearheaded by Eastport Gallery‘s Dan Butler, with music by members of PBSO and Eastport Strings, a staged reading of Scotland Road by Stage East, and the film, A Night to Remember, presented by the Northern Lights Film Society. This great event was driven by Elaine Abbott with the help of over 25 volunteers who turned well over 100 hours into $600 profit for operating costs for the EAC. Thank you for your creativity and inspiration, Elaine and crew. May 4th was the opening night of a successful play from Stage East, The DixieSwim Club. They gave six performances, and all were well attended. Congratulations to Stage East for another great production! It took well over 1,000 volunteer man/woman hours to put on this production, not counting all of the actors‘ personal time memorizing lines, or the sleepless nights spent by the Director/Producer! Thank you, Stage East. With spring comes the desire to get up and move, so a new fitness class has begun called Mindful Movement, led by Samantha Williams. Her class is held on Wednesdays at 4-5, and there is still room for latecomers. This brings us to the present day, and the next couple of months‘ schedule. Thank you for allowing me to catch you up on all of the things that have gone on at the EAC to date. Chris Grannis, acting Executive Director of the Eastport Arts Center |
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Mask Making, Masquerade Ball and two Follies shows made over $2,000. 32 adults, teens and children made masks and had fun doing it! Thank you, Fern Hilyard for leading this event. There were 29 adult and children dancers at the ball and much fun was had. We had a bubble machine with glow-in-the-dark bubbles, and our DJ‘s and hosts, Sam, Reuben, Henry, and Frank got out the fog machine and the strobe light for some special effects. They had great fun. The Follies is a show that wouldn‘t happen without the help of many. I would like to thank all who offered to help, came, and were willing to help in any way. Thank you to: Joyce Weber and her kitchen crew: Lauren Koss, Liz Weaver, MaijaSpeer, Nancy Asanti, Sally DeCicci, Helen Swallow, Vivian Taylor, Elaine Abbott, Dana Reitman Thank you to my crew :Stage Manager, Amber Ross Script Writer and M.C. Wrangler– Lauren Simpson House Manager—Tina Shannon Performer Liaison– Anne Moody EAC Host– Frank Dudish Light Design, Technician—Lou Esposito Spot Light Operator- Houston Ross Hors D‘oeuvres Coordinator– Joyce Weber Poster Design—Valerie Lawson Program—Carolee Bier Sound Technician—Steve Grannis Sound Effects- Bernie Cecire Costume Help- Sally DeCicci Anything guy– John Leavitt Thank you, Creators of the Gourmet Hors D’oeuvres for Champagne seats: Nancy Asante, Carolee Bier, Pat Christopher, MichaelynCecire, Pat Derry, Dovie Gaither, Martha Leister, April Mullin, Linda Sisson, Vivian Taylor, Joyce Weber, Barbie Wilson Thank you, Upstairs Ushers and Champagne patron servers: CaitlynStellrecht, Kathleen Esposito, Krystin Smith, Matthew Goodz Thank you, Ticket Sellers-Marged Higginson, Carolee Bier Thank you, Bartenders: Jon Bragdon, Bob Costa Thank you, Preshow and intermission musicians– Sam Schuth, HenrySchuth and Jackie Knox Thank you, Masters of Ceremony–Reuben Grannis and Frank Schuth |
YOU CAN HELP THE ARTS CENTER! AND WE NEED YOU ! ! !
As you probably know, the Eastport Arts Center is the home of seven constituent arts groups.The EAC is under the overall management of a Board of Directors; beyond that, each constituent has its own governing structure, and is represented on the Board. The considerable costs of operating and maintaining the EAC are met by an "Our Fair Share" contribution from each constituent body.Admission fees go into the coffers of each sponsoring constituent.Further funding must be raised through grants. In the world of Arts Administration, all philanthropists recognize that support for artistic presentations will never be adequately met by income from ticket sales. (And our prices are exceptionally low!)The accepted formula now is that admissions generally cover only between one-third and one-half of costs; for us, the remainder must be raised from grants, our spring mailing campaign, special events (like The Follies), and the generosity of a public which recognizes the richness which the arts bring to their lives and to the community. This is a tough battle! Many of you have been extremely generous, and our appreciation is HUGE. All it takes to lend a helping hand to the EAC is a phone call, to 853-4650. Thank you ! ! !
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