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2009 Archive

Date

Event

Social Cinema Festival

October 30 - 31st SCHEDULE

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Barrier Beach Blues and Arts Festival June 24th-27th

Wednesday, June 24th, 7-8:30 PM – Artists’ reception in the Long Beach Public Library 2nd floor Gallery. Featured Blues Photographer, Suzanne Foschino. Refreshments served.

Friday, June 26th, 6-9:00 PM – Artists’ wine and cheese reception at Eversplace Gallery, 949 West Beech Street.(516) 208-7000.

Long Beach Library “Ladies Sing the Blues” Performances (seating limited to 200).

Friday, June 26th

8-8:45-Kim Kuperschmid and the Steel Horse Band: Long Beach’s own, Kim opens the Blues festival with a mix of traditional and modern day Blues/Rock classics.

9-10:00- Sweet Suzi and the Blues Experience: “known for her energetic and riveting live performances, Suzi's, sultry, yet powerful vocals are backed by a band of extremely soulful musicians. Named LI’s number one Blues Band.

Saturday, June 27th

3:30-4:45- Diane Hoffman: See and feel the music moving through you as Diane Hoffman and her musicians stir the audience to their feet. DIANE is a multi talented powerhouse ... a truly inspiring performer. Her singing is filled with direct and truthful emotion.

7-7:45- Pamela Betti: This evening of Blues kicks-off with the incredible Pamela Betti, winner of LI Blues Society’s Challenge to Memphis. Pamela and her Band are true professionals who really know how to “WOW” a crowd!

8-8:45- Gail Storm: Gail is a pianist/vocalist who specializes in classic blues/jazz. She draws from traditionally based performers such as Bessie Smith and Ella Fitzgerald and shines in the modern idiom. Don’t miss her!

9-10:00- Pat Hunter Project: Pat Hunter is here to show you what the Blues are all about! Hailed as one of LI’s and NYC’s top Blues Bands, Pat bring her dynamic vocals and pure emotional range to the Barrier Reach-the joint is sure to be rockin’!

7th ANNUAL
CABARET FESTIVAL
2009

Friday, May 15, 8 PM
SUSAN  WINTER
"LOVE ROLLS ON"    
Susan is the 2009 Bistro Award Winner  for Outstanding Vocalist. She combines a cheerful mezzo and a solid sense of jazz swing with a great regard for a lyric.
She has worked for years with her own jazz trio and fronted many top 40 cover bands and sung every 30’s and 40’s song ever written with quality Big Bands.

Saturday, May 16, 8 PM
MARK NADLER
"They Can't Take That Away From Me: the TImeless Tunes of George Gershwin" 
"Mr. Nadler is really a modern-day vaudevillian whose strong performing personality echoes everyone from Bobby Short to Al Jolson... a traditional show-biz virtuoso... touched with brilliance." --Stephen Holden, The New York Times.

Saturday, May 16, 2 PM - "CABARET FRIENDS"   Performance Panel demonstrating cabaret and the Great American Songbook"   Kate Cooke, David Gaines, Susan James, Barry Kleinbort, Susan Winter

Sunday, May 17, 2 PM -
JON PETERSON  
"SONG MAN, DANCE MAN"
."For several years, Jon Peterson's talent has been a well-kept secret. He has starred on Broadway as the Emcee in Cabaret and received multiple award nominations for his fantastic portrayal of the
title character in off-Broadway's George M. Cohan Tonight! Based on his sensational new show, it's high-time British-born Peterson's secret got out......When he plants his feet and looks into the
lights, it's the kind of razzle-dazzle showmanship that will send
goose-bumps up your spine..." -  David Hurst - Cabaret Scenes (Dec 9, 2008) 

2008 Archive

Date

Event

October 24 – 26,
2008

Friday 7–9 PM
Saturday 2-9 PM
Sunday 1–4:30

Social Cinema Festival

Long Beach
Public Library
111 W. Park Ave.

Original independent films with social issue themes of spirituality, homelessness, disabilities, patriotism and faces of war, the arts. Discussion following film showing with filmmaker and community representatives.
www.socialcinemafestival.com
Presented in part with funds from Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, NYS Dept of Parks, Recreation and Museums

FilmFunding™ Workshop
This intensive 3-hour program offers eight successful funding channels and strategies, including sponsorships, online funding opportunities, guerrilla funding and fiscal sponsorships
Saturday October 25
10 AM – 1 PM
www.filmfundingworkshop.com
Harriet Eisman Community School 165 E. Park Ave., Long Beach
Program presented by
Festival co-sponsor, Media Designs ™ Network

CABARET FESTIVAL 2008

Friday, May 16, 8 PM - Corbin & Reynolds, AIP Cabaret Fundraiser
Karen Oberlin with Tedd Firth in "The Wizard of Words" - The Wit and Wisdom of Yip Harburg
Entertainment plus 3 course dinner including tax and gratuity with a complimentary AIP membership and tax-deductible donation to AIP and Operation Gratitude to support our military troops/AMVETS South ShorePost 100
$65 per person, $125 per couple.  Paid reservations may be made online at www.aip-arts.org  Limited tickets. For more information,
call AIP at 516-432-6342.

Saturday, May 17 - 1:30 PM, Library – “The Great American Songbook: Cabaret Style”
Barry Kleinbort, noted cabaret director, composer, and lyricist will lead a performance workshop demonstrating the transition of  songs from their traditional format to the personal and customized styling of the cabaret genre. Guest performers will include Sara Zahn, Anita Darian, Tedd Firth, Christopher Denny, and Susan James.

Saturday, May 17 - 8 PM, Library,  “Young At Heart”
Sara Zahn performs her cabaret show "Young at Heart" accompanied by Christopher Denny.  “Young at Heart” is both a love letter to enduring classics from the Great American Songbook as well as a glimpse into the extraordinary gifts of one its finest practitioners and least appreciated female lyricists of the Twentieth Century, Carolyn Leigh.   

Sunday, May 18 - 2 PM , Library, ""The Song Remembers When"
Nancy McGraw performs her cabaret show "The Song Remembers When", a collection of classic and contemporary songs, including the title song by Hugh Prestwood, a Long Island resident. Nancy will be accompanied by Bruce Coyle on the piano.  Question and answer period to follow. 

2007 Archive

5/17 to 5/27

LI Arts Fest - 10 day festival encompassing all events to listed here:

5/27

Twilight Concert

Tony Saitta and the Echoes - 1-2 PM

Dance and dream under the sun with a show band extraordinaire!
Vocalist/pianist Shelley Shields, "Music From Around the World", 2:30 - 3:30PM
Additional music from Bruce Chambers (jazz and New Age) and Matthew Fallon (native American flute) and Robert Lawrence Friedman (drumming circles for healing)

6-8 PM The Long Beach Festival Orchestra including musicians from the Rockaway-Five Towns Symphony Orchestra

Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite
Brahms - Hungarian Dances 5, 6, 7
Anderson - The Syncopated Clock
Strauss - Radetzky March
Mozart - Bassoon Concerto, 1st movement
Sibelius - Valse Triste

Christopher Kaufman conducts the world premiere of his new composition "Imagined Scenes" for Orchestra arranged specifically for the Long Beach Festival Orchestra.

2006 Archive

Date

Event

Sunday, August 6th, 1 PM to 9 PM, Kennedy Plaza

1 - 6 PM Artist Booths and pre-concert performances

7 PM Orchestra Concert of the Long Beach Chamber Symphony.

TWILIGHT FESTIVAL: CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

This festival and concert will bring together hundreds of artists and members of the community in a celebratory experience “under the stars”, highlighted by a tribute to Long Beach’s Centennial “From Sandbar to City”. This event will also host artists’ booths displaying visual works and handmade  crafts. A pre-concert program will include performances for the whole family as well as special arts activities for children.

Performances on the MainStage include the Long Beach Concert Band conducted by Alex Marks, The New York Exceptions (a doo-wop group), The Eduardo Acosta Trio (a Latin jazz band), Flute Sweets & Tickletoons (storytheatre), the Evangel Revival Community Church Ensemble (gospel choir), Rinaldo Toglia (Italian tenor), the Irish DJ Tony Fallon, Swingtime Entertainment (Buddy Holly tribute) and swing dancing demos and lessons, Circulo De La Hispanidad Flamenco Dancers, Renaissance School for Children music program, Cantor David Katz, Soprano Anita Darian, Long Beach Historian Roberta Fiore, Tribal Wind Arts (Native American flute music), MC Robert James

All performances are free to the public, in a park-like setting, with convenient local eateries and ample near-by parking. Lawn chairs are recommended, and the event will be held rain or shine

Thursday, May 18th thru Sunday, May 21st, Long Beach Public Library

"4th Annual Cabaret Festival" celebrating the American Songbook.

Thursday, May 18th, 8 PM, Long Beach Public Library

"Simply Susan: Listen to My Heart" Susan James

Friday, May 19th, 8 PM, Long Beach Public Library

"Here's To The Ladies! A Salute to Great Ladies in Song" Marieann Meringolo

Saturday, May 20th, 2 PM, Long Beach Public Library

"Cabaret Friends" Nancy McGraw, Sidney Myer, et.al.

Saturday, May 20th, 8 PM, Long Beach Public Library

"Let's Du-et" Jane Scheckter & Adam James

Sunday, May 21st, 2 PM, Long Beach Public Library

"Let Yourself Go" with Phillip Officer

Sunday, April 30th, 1-5 PM, Long Beach Senior Community Center

AIP affiliate member, West End Arts, invites us to an Art Expo: Colors of Long Beach,
Sunday, April 30, 1 - 5 PM, Long Beach Senior Community Center, 650 Magnolia Blvd., Long Beach.

Opening Reception at 1 pm
Artist Reception
Art Demonstrations
Video Production: Long Island Artists Habitat, Long Beach Polar Bears
Hispanic Dance Performances
Musical Performances
Refreshments

For more info, call 516-608-4030 or 516-897-9466 or visit website www.westendarts.org

This free event has been funded by the Special Legislative Grant from the NYS Education Department courtesy of Senator Dean Skelos

Monday, April 3rd, 7:30 PM, Long Beach Public Library

"Share Your Art" event on the theme of "Clowns, Jesters, and Fools" (in honor of April Fools Day). Please RSVP to exhibit at 516-432-6342.

Thursday, February 16th, 7:30 PM, Long Beach Public Library

Fall In Love with AIP -- Renew your interest in the cultural arts scene
An evening of romantic music, poetry, readings, networking & visioning
Come meet your match, networking night. Bring along a friend.
Refreshments - bring something to share. Songs and poetry will highlight the evening. Join us for fun and a great time together! General meeting with board elections to follow.
Click here to see Fall In Love flyer
Download election ballot (Microsoft Word doc)

2005 ARCHIVE

Friday, April 15 through Tuesday, May 24

George Mallis exhibit of his digital photographic artwork at the Shelter Rock Art Gallery, located at the Shelter Rock Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset.

AIP members are invited to George's reception on Sunday, April 24 from 1-3 pm. Gallery hours are Mon.-Fri. 10 am-3 pm and Sunday, 12-3 pm. For further information call the gallery at 516-627-6560.

Friday, May 20th through Sunday, May 22nd

Third Annual Cabaret Festival at the Long Beach Public Library.
Events to be announced in separate flyer. Tributes to Harold Arlen and the Masters of American Popular Song will be part of the festival.

This project is made possible in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program, administered by the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.

Wednesday, May 4th, 4:00PM - 7:30 PM

Long Beach Library -"Long Beach Art League" Monthly Meeting

Thomas Germano, Professor of Visual Communications, Farmingdale University, will present a lecture and slide review of Surrealism. Public Welcome. Refreshments Served.

Saturday, June 4th

AIP member, Kenny Baum, performs a concert at the Long Beach Library, 111 W. Park Ave on Saturday, June 4th.  For further details, call 516-432-7201.

Sunday, June 5th,
2 - 6 PM

Affiliate member, West End Arts, invites you to the Colors of Long Beach: Casas and Culture , Sunday, June 5 from 2 to 6 PM at Circulo de La Hispanidad, 26 West Park Ave., Long Beach. Artist Exhibits, Art Demonstrations, Video of Artists' Homes, Hispanic Dances, Musical Performances, Refreshments, Tour of Artists' Homes (AIP member, Bob Shanley,  is on the tour and graciously is opening his home). For more info, call 516-431-1135.

Saturday - Sunday, June 11th - 12th

AIP event -Artists In Partnership (AIP) will have a booth celebrating the local art scene with info from various groups at the City of Long Beach Fine Arts Festival on the weekend of June 11 and 12.   Volunteers to man our booth are needed.  Contact AIP at 516-432-6342 or info@aip-arts.org.

Mondays, June 27, July 11, July 25, August 8th, and Aug. 22
7-9 PM

Let's Talk Writing Workshop: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Writing and Publishing But Were Afraid To Ask" at Lazy Days Bookstore, 651 E. Park Ave., Long Beach. AIP Membership required. $35 for present members/$45 for new members includes annual membership with $10 discount.

Steven Schepp, published author, ghostwriter and editor of more than 80 books for adults & children will lead a workshop in --
finding ideas, developing the discipline of writing, getting your work seen,
and understanding the publishing process.

Sunday, August 7th

Twilight Concert in the Park in Kennedy Plaza, 4 to 9 PM (7 PM Concert). Music songs, and stories celebrating the sea. Original arts and crafts booths.

This project is made possible in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program, administered by the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.