SPRING/SUMMER UPDATE

Here's what's going on and coming up:

New This Summer: Evening Art Workshops

for Ages 6-12 at Congress Hall.

5:30 – 9:30 p.m., Every Night Except Tuesdays,

July 1 – September 4,

$35/night includes dinner & art activities. Call 884-7525.

(more summer activities below)

YOUTH ARTS PROGRAMS

Grades 5-8/Ages 10-14

YAP – Saturday Night

Free program includes light supper and all art project materials

6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Most Saturday nights during school year

Cape May – Lyle Hall at the United Methodist Church, red entrance doors face the ACME parking lot

Wildwoods – Cape Assist’s Kare Center, 3819 New Jersey Avenue at Spicer, across from Dominoes Pizza

Now through May 7

Lower Twp. – Starting Mid-April ‘05 – Call for details

Day trip to Wheaton Village - Saturday, April 23

Call 884-7525 to request detailed schedule and to register for the trip


Summer YAP Camp

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Half Day Arts Camps – June 27 – August 19 – 5 Days/wk

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Wildwoods – Free for Wildwoods Residents & Visitors

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Villas - Free for Lower Township Residents

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Cape May – Free to YAP Saturday Night Students - $85/wk Others

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Also YAP Acting Classes, 10 sessions July 5 – August 9, Ages 11-14, $85/student.

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To receive brochure and registration form, call 609-884-7525

or email info@centerforcommunityarts.org

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*ART AT THE LIBRARY* (ages 6-10) in Wildwood and Cape May,

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*ART OF VITALITY* (Workshops for adults) in Cape May,

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*POETRY WORKSHOPS* (youth & adults) in Cape May

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all year around.

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CALL 884-7525 for information.

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These programs are supported by grants from Lower Cape Alliance, Byrne Fund for Wildwoods, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals.

STAGED READING OF

"DE VIDRIO Y DE MADERA" BY MAGDA MARTINEZ

APRIL 9, 7:30 P.M.

CAPE MAY—A staged reading of Philadelphia playwright Magda Martinez’s work in progress, De Vidrio y de Madera (Of Glass and Of Wood), will be presented on Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Cape May Stage, on Lafayette at Bank Street in Cape May. A discussion with the playwright will follow. Admission is free. The play explores the struggle of two cousins to deal with issues of family and personal identity as they cope with their grandmother’s passing.

Martinez, a published poet, performer and produced playwright, is in Cape May as part of the Cultural Crossroads Project, a residency funded by the Artists & Communities Program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation of Baltimore, MD, and the Center for Community Arts (CCA). Along with Philadelphia-based poet/performer Julia Lopez, in the fall she gave a poetry reading as part of the Cape May County Art League’s Poetry Series at the Prickly Pear Cottage Gallery. In addition, the residency included several weeks with eighty middle school students at Wildwood Junior High School and the Richard M. Teitelman School in Lower Township. Guided by Martinez, the students wrote short plays based on their families’ histories. The plays were rehearsed by Martinez and Steve Bacher, CCA’s Executive Director, and performed both in-school and for the community.

Martinez is a recipient of an Independence Foundation Fellowship and a member of the board of the Bartol Foundation. She received the Leeway Foundation's Windows of Opportunity Grant in 2001 for the development and staged reading of "Converse Sneakers", which was performed in Denver with "El Centro Su Teatro".

The reading is co-sponsored by Cape May Stage and the Center for Community Arts, and is made possible in part by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals.

For further information call 884-7525.

PAUL JOST QUARTET TO PLAY CCA BENEFIT

Center for Community Arts announces that the Paul Jost Quartet will entertain the crowd at its Red Shoe Gala on Friday, March 11 from 7:30 – 11:00 p.m.

The band will provide a combination of good, fun, and sophisticated swing, ballads, pop and r&b music for people to both dance to, and be entertained by, in the Ballroom at Congress Hall.

The “red shoes optional” gala is a 10th Anniversary party for CCA, which creates art and humanities programs for Cape May’s residents and visitors and is transforming the Franklin Street School into a community cultural center. Tickets are $35 in advance by calling 884-7525 or at the door.

Paul Jost (vocal and harmonica), Bob Shomo (drums), Andy Lalasis (bass) and Dave Posmontier (piano) comprise the band.

In addition to great music, the Red Shoe Gala will include a buffet supper and dessert bar, raffles, a 50/50 and a cash bar. Cape May Stage’s Joe Panullo judge the Red Shoe Contest, awarding a $100 gift certificate donated by Casale’s Shoe Store to the winner.

Paul Jost is an eclectic artist known equally for his abilities as vocalist, drummer and composer. A four category Billboard Song Contest Winner, his songs, (including the highly acclaimed, "Book Faded Brown” ), have been recorded by The Band, Carl Perkins and Rick Danko. He has composed for Canon Pictures, ("Last Rites"), and NBC's Emmy Winning Series, "Special Treat". Paul has performed with Billy Eckstine, Mark Murphy, Ann Hampton Calloway, Frank D'Rone, George Mesterhazy, Sylvia Simms, Ron Thomas; served as musical director for Morgana King, and recorded with a variety of artists including Bobby Scott, Sivuca, Dr. John, Bucky Pizzarelli, Teo Macero. Paul's vocals, drumming and harmonica can be heard on many major national jingles.

Bob Shomo began his musical career in Atlantic City, working with pianist George Mesterhazy, saxophonist Michael Pedicin Jr., and The Club Harlem House Band, (directed by Johnny Lynch). Bob can be heard on recordings with Michael Pedicin Jr., Mick Rossi, Mesterhazy, the Tim Lekan Trio, Steve Giordano and Barbara Montgomery. Recent club and concert appearances include performances with the Ron Kerber Quintet, Bucky Pizzarelli and Rebecca Paris among others.

Andy Lalasis has been a fixture on the music scene for the past twenty or so years. He has held top positions as staff musician for Steve Wynn’s Golden Nuggett, Bally’s Grand, and Merv Griffin’s Resorts Hotel/Casinos as well as having backed-up every major act to have passed thru Atlantic City. Playing Acoustic and Electric basses, Andy has made quite a reputation for himself as a musical chameleon - able to blend into any given situation with ease.

Dave Posmontier has played professionally for the past 30 years. Recently, as part of the Tony Williams Jazz Festival, Dave performed with noted saxophonists David “Fathead” Newman and Grover Washington, Jr. in 1999 and again with Newman and the legendary James Moody in 2000. Dave has also been playing traditional and innovative klezmer music with a band called, “Klingon Klezmer.”