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March 2010 | |
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Renew your membership to Friends of the Arts - Support programs like "Our
Town" |
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 Favorite Poem
Project
As part of Our Town: Verses & Voices, we
are seeking favorite poetry submissions from community
members. Please send or email us your favorite poem
along with a description of why and what that poem means
to you along with a photo of yourself. Our panel
will select 12 Favorite Poems, and the essays about
them, for publication in the 2010-2011 city/school
calendar. Those not chosen will be incorporated in other
publications.
"We
are excited to feature poetry in our 2011 calendar,"
said Jaime Zwilling, St. Louis Park Communications
Director. "The city supports Our
Town: Verses & Voices
and understands the vital role that the arts play in
strengthening our community," he
added.
Specifically, FoTA is seeking a diversity
of poems representing a variety of styles, genres and
content. All submissions will be accepted but only those
with poems in the public domain (or that have permission
for reproduction), and that meet city/school guidelines
for publication (do not contain profanity, adult content
matter or language that might be offensive) will be
considered for publication. In addition, submissions
must include a photo of the submitter and a maximum
200-word description of what the poem means to the
submitter.
Submissions
must be received by April 1, 2010,
and can be dropped off to the FoTA office in the Lenox
Community Center or submitted via email- info@slpfriendsofthearts.org.
Please call Sara at the FoTA office for more information
at (952)
928-6422.
Our Town: Verses & Voices is funded by
grants from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Arts
Board, the St. Louis Pak Community Foundation and Park
Nicollet
Foundation. | |
Community Poet's
Corner
by Diane
Pecoraro 
People ask me where poems come from. In
truth, the answer is simple: they are all around us
everyday, everywhere. It is a matter of noticing the
moment. And a matter of words.
In the last few days, I have read poems
about scooping dog poop (doesn't sound like a poetic
moment, right?) hair color, a husband's brain tumor,
food and memory of a father's drinking- just to name a
few. All these verses were jump-started by a moment of
wonder, humor or intense reverie. The writers took an
idea, held it in the palm of their hand and turned it
over to examine and react to it. They put the experience
in words. On paper, as a Tweet, or on the back of a
receipt, they recorded. It doesn't mean
it was a poem at that point, but its concrete presence
niggled. The writer revisited it, added or took away and
created a picture in words.
This poem "Hyacinths" started with a
sniff.
Note where it
leads. You might have one or many more poems
inside you. Keep alert and jot down an idea.
Let it cook. See what happens.
For Susan Korbuly
On the coldest day of the
year
when the indoor air
crackles,
the clump of pink hyacinths
opens.
The perfume fills the rooms and
waylays winter's sharp pranks.
We go
outside, we come in
gasping from the frigid air; the
fragrance
of the heavy blooms sings of
spring.
"Buy hyacinths for the soul", a fragment
from a Sufi proverb. My mother always
quoted it when we passed a pot of
bulbs, a luxury we could never
afford.
We paused to sniff
anyway.
Years and years after, there is
still
the hyacinth moment connected
to the hyacinth line. I
remember
that particular someone and all the
others
who made me stop and
attend:
to the satin glaze on pottery, the shape
of a leaf,
the crescent moon at an angle-the
ones
who steered me gently by the arm and
said,
"Look".
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Join
us for a FREE one-hour workshop and get involved!
The Our Town Verses & Voices
program is seeking community members to participate in
creating the St. Louis Park Renga- our community
poem. All workshop participants will have a chance
to have their line of poetry added to the Renga, which
will be published in the City/School calendar and
online. The Renga lines will be created in seven
community poetry workshops. You are invited to
participate at any of these to create your line.
Refreshments will be
provided:
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March
20 |
3-4 pm |
Westwood Hills
Nature Center-This workshop is
Intergenerational
(8300 West
Franklin Ave, SLP ) |
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March
29 |
3-4 pm |
St.
Louis Park
Library- children K-6 may attend with
their parents
(3240 Library
Lane, SLP, 55426) |
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March
25 |
7-8
pm |
Bean
Good Cafe- Teens are invited to attend
this workshop
(5501
Minnetonka Blvd, SLP 55426) |
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Please contact Sara for more information or to
register at info@slpfriendsofthearts.org
or
952-928-6422. |
 FoTA Seeking
Treasurer
This
volunteer position requires knowledge and experience in
QuickBooks, nonprofit accounting and the ability to
create and monitor basic financial reports for
our organization. We are most interested in
bringing on someone who wants to grow with the
organization for at least three years, is looking for
nonprofit board experience and who supports the arts and
believes in their important role in building
community. The Board meets the last
Thursday of the month at 7 PM at City Hall.
Please contact Sara at 952-928-6422
or
info@SLPFriendsOfTheArts.org for additional information.
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Local Theaters Call
for Participation
The Park
Theater:
The Park Theater Company will hold open
auditions for LOVE LETTERS by A.R. Gurney on Saturday,
March 13, (1:00pm-4:00pm) and Sunday, March 14
(1:00pm-4:00pm). Please come with a prepared one-minute
monologue. Callbacks to be
determined.
Auditions will be held on Saturday in the
Community Room in St. Louis Park's City Hall (first
floor), 5005 Minnetonka Blvd., St Louis Park and Sunday
in the Meeting Room at the St. Louis Park Public
Library, 3240 Library Lane, St. Louis
Park.
TPTC's production of LOVE LETTERS will be
performed April 22-25, 2010 in St. Louis Park. For
more information about The Park Theater Company, please
see their website at www.theparktheatercompany.com
Maggie's Farm
Theater: Maggie's Farm Theater is presenting
an evening of Original One-Acts featuring local
playwrights and is now accepting play
submissions.
Original Play samples can be sent to:
Maggie's
Farm Theater
PO Box 26091
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
www.maggiesfarmtheater@comcast.net
Please include the following with
your submission:
Play synopsis, cast of characters,
and playwright's contact info
Play samples should be
no more that 10 pages
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Theater, Concert and Art Events
in SLP-
SLP School music
and theater:
The Senior High Orchestra presents a
Concerto/Aria concert on March 2 at 7 pm. The
Senior High Pops! Presents a band concert on March 8 at
6 pm. Please call 952-928-6100 with questions.
The Park Spanish Immersion
Carnival will take place on March 13 from 4-8 pm.
Please call Main office: 952-928-6759 with
questions.
The District Orchestra Festival
will take place on March 15 at 7 pm in the Senior High
gym. Please call 952-928-6100 with
questions.
The District Band Festival will
take place on March 16 at 7 pm in the Senior High
gym. Please call 952-928-6100 with
questions.
FREE Reader's Theater workshops-
Mark your calendars!
Do you love to read and/or write
stories? If so, you are invited to join the
newly formed Reader's Theater. St. Louis Park
students have long enjoyed participating in Reader's
Theaters in their schools and now adults of all ages who
like dramatic presentation of written work in a script
form can join in too! Workshops will take
place the first Wednesday of each Month -
April 7, May 5, June 2 and July 7 from 1-2:30 pm
with Rachel Richardson, Director.
The group's goal is to share stories with
children and/or adults. Come and find out how you can
help stimulate one's imagination or reminisces.
For more information call Sara at
952-928-6422. Cosponsored
by Maggie's Farm Free-Range Theater and St. Louis
Park Senior
Program
Sabes JCC Presents "Jack
and Rochelle"
"Jack
and Rochelle" by Buffy Sedlachek- March 12-28
presented by Theatre Or at the Sabes JCC. Directed by
Todd Bruse and based on the memoir Jack and Rochelle, A
Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance. In this gripping
memoir play, local Holocaust survivors Jack and Rochelle
Sutin share their tale of an almost impossible love
affair that has lasted over sixty years, and an eloquent
reminder that history is made up of the often deeply
moving details of individual lives. A powerful and true
story of two young Jews who escape from Nazi ghetto
labor camps, join a Jewish resistance group, and
eventually escape to America to build a family
exemplifies the message of believing in one's dreams, no
matter how unbelievable they may
seem.
Classes available at Monkey Bridge
Arts
Classes include: Drawing
- Keys to Drawing, Colored Pencil - Color
Relationships.
There are also opportunities
for Embodied
Imagination & Creative Dreamwork Creative
Mentoring & Embodied Imagination
Sessions.
For
more information and registration call Sheila
at 952-412-4786.
Photography
Class at Bean Good Cafe'
Discover the artist
within - through the lens of your camera! Sharon Lyon will
facilitate a photography class to increase your
understanding of composition.
The
five weeks will include experiential
learning through group shoots, take-home photo
assignments, in-class exercises and group
critiquing. Class size limited to 8-10 participants,
beginners
Welcome! The
class runs for five Wednesdays, April 7 - May 12, 2010
(No Class 4/14) from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m and costs $75 plus
supplies. To register please contact Sharon
at sharonlyon1@msn.com or
612-481-9429. | |
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| Thank your for supporting FoTA, a
non profit community organization dedicated to
supporting, promoting and enhancing the arts in Saint
Louis Park. We connect people and
organizations around the arts, share arts-related
information and resources, and coordinate community arts
programs.
Please visit our Facebook page to become an
online friend of FoTA!
Susan Schneck
Board Chair, SLP
FoTA | | | |
