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Renew your membership to Friends of the Arts - Support programs like "Our
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SLP  Renga
Unveiling
Friends of the Arts has created a
community wide poetry program called Our Town:
Voices and Verses. Part of this program was free
one-hour poetry workshops for community members of St.
Louis Park. Through these workshops, lines of
poetry describing St. Louis Park were created.
These lines were then combined into a Renga
(a community poem) by Community Poet, Diane
Pecoraro. This Renga has been modified into a
spoken word piece that will be performed at the Children
First Ice Cream Social on Sunday, May 16th from 2-5
pm at Wolfe Park Pavilion. It should be a
great day filled with lots of wonderful art; we
would love to see you there!
WHERE: Wolfe Park Pavilion
WHEN: Sunday, May 16th from 2-5
pm
WHAT: The SLP Renga (community
poem) spoken word performance piece
Please email info@slpfriendsofthearts.org or
call the FoTA office with questions or 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
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Community Poet's Corner
by Diane Pecoraro 
Portrait
Gallery, The Clark Museum
More modern ways
of telling the face and body
turned me away from the
absolutes of portraiture.
Yet through countless
Sundays of my childhood,
I stood in the galleries of
major museums
scrutinizing the thin lips and somber
gazes
of Prince "This" holding a
book
or Lady "That" with her beloved lap
terrier,
the lace collars, the velvet jackets,
the
precise gray wig ,the occasional errant
curl.
With patricians and burghers looking
at you,
their perfectly rendered eyes meeting
yours,
a dialogue was possible and so was
an
introduction to lusty gypsies and tipsy
peasants.
Such characters inspired
stories.
On this Sunday in the galleries, I
am considering
the portraits of American statesmen-
the patriots and politicians.
George Washington
looks out from an ornate gilt frame.
His gaze meets
mine and holds.
In this exchange is a
truth:
I have lived longer now and can read
more
from a fragile feature or cynical stare,
comprehend
the unbearable weight of a general's
decisions
in times of war and
tariff.
--Diane Pecoraro (10/23/05
The Clark Museum)
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The FoTA Poetry Jam at Bean Good Cafe was a huge
success with about 20 readers of all
different age groups. We will showcase the
video of the event in the next newsletter, but if you
are interested in seeing the jam replayed it is
currently playing on Comcast SLP cable15 at 3am, 11am,
7pm (every eight hours) until 12:25 pm, Tuesday, May
11
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Arts and Culture Grant
Project
Friends
of the Arts and the City of St. Louis Park present, Arts
and Culture Grant winner, Denise Tennen's project:
DEVELOPING CITIZENS OF THE WORLD: BRINGING
TOGETHER YOUNGSTERS AND ELDERS TO CREATE
ARTWORK FOR OUR
COMMUNITY
Where: Aquila
Primary Center Foyer
When: Thursday, May 6, 6:30 -
6:45 PM
Unveiling
activities:
- Brief Description of
Project
- Thank you's (teachers and
staff, seniors, students, Lenox
Woodcrafters, future home sites for
panels, FOTA, city council, mayor
etc)
- Official unveiling: students and seniors
will stand by their draped panel. Together
they will unveil their panel
- Slide
show of photos taken throughout the project will be
running continuously in the
foyer
This unveiling will be taking place
during family fun night. Before and after the
unveiling Denise will be running a
fenceweaving project out by the
playground.
Please e-mail denisetennen@comcast.net or call (952
200-1428) if you have any
questions
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FoTA Seeking
Treasurer
TThis 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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Theater, Concert and Art Events
in SLP-
SLP School
music
and theater:
- The Senior High Spring Play is May
1 at 7:30 pm and May 2 at 2:30 pm.
- The freshman Band/jazz band concert is May 3
at 7 pm.
- The SL chorus concert is May 4 at 7 pm in the
Senior High Auditorium.
- The Elementary Band/Orchestra registration is May
5 from 5-7:30 pm at the Senior High
- The Park Spanish Immersion grades 2-3 vocal
concert is May 6 at 7 pm.
- The SL spring Art show is May 6 at 5 pm
- The SL orchestra and band concert is May 6 at 7 pm
- The Senior High symphonic band/wind ensemble
concert is May 7 at 7 pm.
- The Park Spanish Immersion Folk Dance Performance
is May 7 at 7 pm
- The 7th grade band concert is on May 10 at 7 pm
- The Cedar Manor Choir concert is on May 11 at 7 pm
- The PALS+ Spring concert at Central is May 11 from
6:30 to 7:30
- The Cedar Manor band and orchestra concert is on
May 13 at 7 pm
- The Senior High Musical Gala is on May
13-15 at 7 pm
- The Cedar Manor Band/orchestra concert
Daddy/Daughter Dance is May 14 from 6:30 to 8:30
- The Junior High Orchestra Concert is May 17
at 7 pm
- The 7th and 8th grade choir concert is May 18 at 7
pm
- the RSK Concert at Central is May 20 from
6:30-7:30 pm
- The Park Spanish Immersion grades 4-6
Band/Orchestra/Vocal concert is May 20 at 7 pm in the
Senior High Auditorium
- The 8th grade Band Concert is May 24 at 7 pm in
the JH gym
- The Senior High Vocal Recital and awards ceremony
is May 25 at 7 pm
FREE Reader's Theater workshops
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
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
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
Sabes JCC Event
"When
she was 7 years old, Elinor R. Tatum says, she announced
to her parents that she wanted to be the first black
Jewish president" (Janet Allon, New York Times). Elinor
Tatum is currently Publisher and Editor in Chief of the
New York Amsterdam News, the oldest and largest Black
newspaper in New York City. Join us for a
thought-provoking talk with Elinor Ruth Tatum. She will
describe her experiences growing up as an African-
American Jewish woman and how her experiences in both
communities have shaped her life.
This talk is
in conjunction with the Tychman Shapiro Gallery exhibit
Profiling: Exploring the faces of diversity within the
Jewish Community. There will be an artists reception and
viewing of 6 film shorts following this
lecture.
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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.
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Susan Schneck
Board Chair, SLP
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