2005 Cape Island Scarecrow Contest Winners:

Business Category: First Place: Cape Island Gardens

Family Category: First Place: Laura McPherson

Schools & Nonprofits: First Place: Tie: Nature Center of Cape May

Schools & Nonprofits: First Place: Tie: Star of the Sea School

YAP YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM IN WILDWOOD

The free Center for Community Arts YAP-Saturday Night in Wildwood resumes 6:00 p.m., October 15 at Cape Assist’s Kare Center, 3819 New Jersey Avenue at Spicer. The Youth Arts Program provides free art workshops and pizza for youths in grades 5, 6, 7 and 8. Using the theme, “The Art of Games,” participants will explore different artistic media while learning about games from various cultures and periods in history, starting with Nine Man Morris, a game from ancient Egypt. The program is led by artist-teachers Steven Kean of Ocean City and Michelle Mason of Villas.

YAP is free, but parents must sign a permission slip in person the first time the youth attends. Prizes of day-passes to Morey’s Piers or Water Park will be given to youths who arrive on time and attend every fall session. The program is presented in cooperation with the Healthy Community Coalition.

The work of the Center’s summer YAP programs is on display this month at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ. Fall YAP art works will be exhibited at a county-wide Youth Arts Fair in the spring.

Center for Community Arts YAP programs in Wildwood are made by possible by grants from the Byrne Fund for Wildwood, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and 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. Day passes are donated by Morey’s Piers.

For a detailed schedule and further information, please call 884-7525.

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THE ART OF VITALITY

Fee clarification:

The visual arts classes offered as part of The Art of Vitality series,

recently publicized (listed below in this blog, and in a lavender brochure recently distributed),

are four sessions of two hours each.

The cost of four sessions of two hours each, a total of eight hours, is $40 for eight hours.

There is a senior discount which is $25 for eight hours.

There is an additional $5 off for CCA members, so a non-senior member would pay $35 for eight hours, and a senior (65 + yrs of age) would pay $20 for eight hours.

There are also a limited number of scholarships available for seniors who would like to particpate but can't afford $25. (Call CCA at 884-7525 and ask for Steve to learn more.)

There is plenty of room in all classes at this time, and we do not expect to exceed capacity. If you are unable to pre-register for the classes that start the week of Oct. 11, please just go to the first class with cash or a check in the appropriate amount.

There will be an event focussing on Harriet Tubman in Cape May on Saturday, Oct. 15, 11:00 a.m. at Cape May Stage, with a presentation by a biographer and a performance by a woman who becomes Harriet Tubman.

I saw the latter in Trenton recently and highly recommend this. Below I have pasted the press release on the event and other related events from the Secretary of State's office:

Secretary Regena L. Thomas to Salute Two Extraordinary Women in New Jersey History: Fannie Lou Hamer and Harriet Tubman
Two-Week Tribute Includes the Tubman-Hamer Walk From Cape May to Atlantic City

On October 6, 2005, the birthday of Fannie Lou Hamer, Secretary Regena L. Thomas will begin a two-week tribute to two great crusaders for social justice and personal heroes who have made an indelible mark on New Jersey history. The Tubman – Hamer Tribute is comprised of five events that will take place from October 6th to October 22nd. This will be the final celebration of the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer and Harriet Tubman that Secretary Thomas will organize as Secretary of State. During her term, Secretary Thomas has forged a legacy of promoting New Jersey’s history and cultural heritage.

For the first event, the New Jersey Department of State, in partnership with Richard Stockton College, will host a special tribute in honor of civil rights pioneer, Fannie Lou Hamer, on October 6, 2004. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Mrs. Hamer’s inspirational testimony at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.

This program will feature a lecture by June Johnson, who worked with Mrs. Hamer in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; a lecture by Chana Kai Lee, author of the Hamer biography For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer; and the premiere showing of A Civil Rights Turning Point: Fannie Lou Hamer in Atlantic City, 1964, a video jointly prepared by the New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network for elementary-, middle-, and high-school New Jersey students. Students from the Pleasantville school district have been selected to view the premiere showing of the video.

The tribute will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Stockton’s Performing Arts Center in Pomona, New Jersey, and will highlight Hamer’s remarkable legacy with first-hand testimony.

Continuing the celebration in the spirit of the Underground Railroad, the “Tubman – Hamer Walk” will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 15, in Cape May and end at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 18, at the Civil Rights Garden in Atlantic City. Participants will make stops in both Cape May and Atlantic City. The walk will take place in two parts: from Cape May to Whitesboro and Ventnor. The walk will begin on Saturday following the program at Cape May Stage.

There are two scheduled events to take place during the walk. The first event will take place in Cape May on October 15th at the Cape May Stage. It will feature a lecture by the Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson, author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero, and a portrayal of Harriet Tubman by the actress Millicent Sparks. The second event will be a special tribute to Mrs. Hamer held at the Civil Rights Garden in Atlantic City on October 18th at the conclusion of the “Tubman – Hamer Walk.”

Members of the New Jersey Youth Corps and various New Jersey-based women’s organizations will be participating in the celebration.

The final program of the tribute will take place in Camden at Camden County College on October 22. Hamer biographer Chana Kai Lee, Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson, and actress Millicent Sparks will return to give additional presentations on Hamer and Tubman.

Secretary Thomas has led numerous celebrations to heighten public awareness of the lives of Tubman and Hamer and their respective contributions to the nation’s two most important movements for social justice: the 19th century end to slavery and the 20th century struggle to secure their constitutional right to vote. Both Fannie Lou Hamer and Harriet Tubman have spent time in New Jersey. Tubman, a legendary Underground Railroad operative, spent the summers between 1850 and 1952 working in Cape May hotels; Hamer, a modern civil rights’ activist, was present at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.

Activities for the Fannie Lou Hamer 40th Anniversary Celebration are free and open to the public. Members of the media are encouraged to attend.

Event Schedule for the Tubman –Hamer Tribute for October 6 – 22, 2005:

October 6
3:00PM - 6:00PM
Fannie Lou Hamer Tribute
Lectures: Chana Kai Lee, Hamer biographer; June Johnson, Civil Rights Activist
Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ

October 15
11:00 AM
Harriet Tubman Tribute
Lecture: Kate Clifford Larson, Tubman biographer
Tubman Chautauqua (Living History Performance): Millicent Sparks
Cape May Stage, Cape May, NJ

October 15 – 18
Harriet Tubman – Fannie Lou Hamer Walk
Cape May, NJ – Atlantic City, NJ

October 15
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Cape May Stage
Cape May, NJ – Whitesboro, NJ

October 18
8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Starting Point to be Announced
Ventnor, NJ – Atlantic City, NJ


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October 18
11:00 AM
Fannie Lou Hamer Tribute
Civil Rights Garden, Atlantic City, NJ

October 22
11:00AM – 2:00 PM
Harriet Tubman – Fannie Lou Hamer Tribute
Lectures: Chana Kai Lee, Kate Clifford Larson
Tubman Chautauqua: Millicent Sparks
The Learning Theatre Camden County College
Broadway and Cooper Street, Camden, NJ
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PLEASE NOTE THAT, DUE TO AN ERROR BY CCA ADMINISTRATION,

THE EXHIBIT AT THE NATURE CENTER OF CAPE MAY,

OCT 8-10, 2005,

WILL CONSIST SOLELY OF PAPIER MACHE SEA BIRDS BY CAPE MAY SUMMER '05 YAP PARTICIPANTS,

NOT OTHER NATURE-THEMED WORKS, AND NOT WORKS BY LOWER TOWNSHIP SUMMER '05 YAP PARTICIPANTS, as previously announced in flyers.

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HOWEVER,

146 ART WORKS

FROM SUMMER '05 YAP IN LOWER TOWNSHIP, WILDWOOD AND CAPE MAY

ARE ON DISPLAY FROM OCT. 1 - 30, 2005

AT THE NOYES MUSEUM OF ART

OCEANVILLE, NJ

www.noyesmuseum.org

in the Young At Art Gallery.

This includes at least one piece by each participant who completed at least one full week of summer YAP in 2005.

The artist-teachers and artist-participants will be honored at a reception at the Noyes Museum of Art on Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. The public is invited.

A bus will be provided free for any Summer YAP participants and family members who register in advance, with pick-ups at LCMR High School and a location TBA in Wildwood. To register for the bus, please call Yvonne at 884-7525.

YAP SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS:

YAP will meet at the NATURE CENTER OF CAPE MAY, 1600 DELAWARE AVE.,

FROM 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. ON

SATURDAY, OCT. 8

FOR A RECEPTION AND VIEWING OF THE EXHIBIT OF NATURE-THEMED ART WORKS FROM SUMMER YAP IN CAPE MAY.

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ON SAT., OCT. 15, YAP WILL TAKE A DAY TRIP TO THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART.

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YAP WILL RETURN TO THE MILLMAN CENTER AND LYLE HALL ON SATURDAY, OCT. 22 AT 6:00 P.M.

You are Invited to Two Receptions

In Honor of the
Center for Community Arts

Youth Arts Program Participants and Teachers

On the Occasion of the Exhibition
of Youth Arts Program Art Works

Saturday, October 8, 2005
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Art from Nature: Papier Maché Birds

Works from Cape May Summer ’05 YAP
Exhibit on Display October 8 – 10, 2005

The Nature Center of Cape May
1600 Delaware Avenue

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Sunday, October 30, 2005
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
(Museum & Exhibit Open Noon – 4:00 p.m.)

Works from Wildwood, Cape May & Lower Township
Saturday Night & Summer ’05 YAP
Exhibit on Display October 2 – 30, 2005

The Noyes Museum of Art
Lily Lake Road, Oceanville, New Jersey

www.noyesmuseum.org