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YO,
ARTISTS: The City of Albany wants you. The city is
planning a series of visual art exhibitions in Pine Street
Park downtown for August 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 (all Wednesdays),
and the special events office is inviting you (yes, you) to
apply to participate. Eligible media will include “watercolor,
acrylic, pastel, oil, photography sculpture and fabric design.”
The deadline for your application is June 20. Where would
one obtain an application, you may be wondering? Send your
application request to: Summer in the City Art Fair,
City Hall Room 402, Albany, NY 12207. For more info, call
434-5416.
NOT THE GROSS HORROR FLICK, BUT AN ARTS COLLECTIVE: SAW,
aka the newly-formed Salem Art Works, is teaming up with the
Arts 220 Gallery & Studio (220-A Main St., Salem)
for an exhibit of works by SAW artists on June 4, from 4 to
6 PM. This will be followed by an evening with the artists
at SAW’s home base on the former Carlos Cary farm (19 Cary
Lane, Salem). This is “the first collaboration” between Arts
220 founder Ruth Barngrove Sauer, gallery associates
Caroline Hooke and David O’Keefe, and SAW founder
Anthony Carfritz. For more info, e-mail Jackie Keren
at jkeren@att.net.
WOULDN’T YOU REALLY RATHER SEE A BUICK? This Sunday (May 29),
members of the upstate New York chapter of the Buick Club
will park their classic GM beauties on the front lawn of the
Saratoga Automobile Museum in the Saratoga Spa State
Park. Why? So you can check ’em out, why do you think? Classic
models—“especially from the ’30s and ’40s,” according to the
press release—will roll onto the lawn at 10 AM, and remain
there until 2 PM. So don’t dawdle. Admission is $7, $5 seniors,
$3.50 for kids from 6 to 16 and, of course, free to museum
members. For more info, call the museum at 587-1935.
TOP HAT, WHITE TIE & TAILS: Community Arts United
have teamed up with Elda’s on Lark for The
Art Party, to be held at the restaurant (207 Lark St.)
on Saturday, June 4 at 11 PM. There will be “hors devours,
cash bar and entertainment.” Semi-formal attire is requested;
tails should be OK. Tickets are $10 prior to May 30; $12 after
May 30. Our press release-slash-invitation wasn’t any more
specific, so call CAU at 788-5254 for the scoop.
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Destroying
the Theater in Order to Save It
photo:Alicia Solsman |
The
demolition of Proctor’s Theatre’s current stage house is in—please
forgive us—full swing. On Friday, May 20, at 2:30 PM EDST,
the familiar wall with the Proctor’s logo painted on it was
bashed in real good to make way for the new Proctor’s stage
house—bigger, larger and generally more huge—which will allow
the (altered) Schenectady landmark to host bigger traveling
productions.
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Re-Opening
Night
photo:Rick Marshall |
For
the first time in nearly two years, the marquee of the Madison
Theater was lit for local cinephiles Friday (May 20) evening.
The Albany landmark opened with little fanfare for two showings
of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, attracting
longtime supporters, neighbors and various passers-by to the
venue’s “soft opening.” Theater owner Joseph Tesiero plans
to let the Madison ease its way back to full operation, opening
one screen at a time in order to tackle the problems associated
with such a long period of abandonment (such as the recent
plumbing problem that stalled the opening of the theater’s
concession stand) as they crop up. Despite a few operational
glitches Friday evening, the theater’s staff insists that
the show will indeed go on, with film schedules available
on the theater’s new Web site (http://atthemadison.com) and
the theater hotline (438-0040).
—Rick
Marshall
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