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WHAT’S
IN A NAME? Quite a lot, actually. Today (Thursday, June 19)
at 12:10 PM sharp, Schenectady’s 440 Board will
announce/unveil/celebrate the launch of downtown’s “renamed
arts and entertainment district” and an accompanying logo.
There will be a speech (I presume). There will be music, by
the April Marie Quintet. There will be VIPs. And there
will be cake. Yes, cake. So come on down; the fun will
take place right in front of Proctors, on State Street.
THE OUT OF TOWNERS Time for a couple of hat tips to a couple
of local artists featured in a pair of sort-of to very out-of-town
exhibits. Painter (and former Times Union graphic artist)
Mark Sharer has a work in the show Art of the
Animal Kingdom XIII, which is currently on view at
the Bennington Center for the Arts (44 Gypsy Lane,
Bennington, Vt.) through July 27. The purpose of the exhibit
is to raise “awareness of the importance of animals to the
quality of human life.” For more info, call the gallery at
(802) 442-7158. Also, painter Jennifer Hunold will
be featured in Made in NY 2008, a juried exhibit—judged
by John McQueen and Jen Pepper—at the Schweinfurth
Memorial Art Center at 205 Genesee St. in Auburn. Hunold
was born in Iowa but now lives in Albany; she earned her MFA
at the University at Albany. The exhibit opens Saturday (June
21) and runs through Aug. 23. For more info, call the gallery
at (315) 255-1553 or visit schweinfurthart center.org. Now
for some fun facts about Auburn: It’s just west of Syracuse
on routes 5 and 20; New York Governor, U.S. Senator and Lincoln’s
Secretary of State, William H. Seward, lived there; Harriet
Tubman retired (and lived out her days) in Auburn; Theodore
Case, who developed the Fox-Case sound-on-film technology,
was from there; and Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated President
William McKinley, died in the electric chair at Auburn State
Prison in 1901. Time for a couple of road trips?
—Shawn
Stone
sstone@metroland.net
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Street
Singer
Photo: Leif Zurmuhlen
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This
enthusiastic, very well-dressed fellow is Lake George Opera’s
Brian Shircliffe. On June 11, Shircliffe and other singers
from the Saratoga-based opera company serenaded passesrby
at three locations in two cities on one day: first, on the
steps of the Capitol Building in Albany; next, near the corner
of State and Pearl streets in Albany (here); and, finally,
on the corner of Broadway and Caroline Street in Saratoga
Springs. Aside from the basic performer’s impulse to entertain,
the singers were promoting Lake George Opera’s upcoming season
at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s Spa Little Theater.
The opening night gala will be July 3, with a performance
of The Pirates of Penzance. The season continues through
July 13; the other productions are La Traviata and
two Puccini one-acts, Gianni Schicchi and Buoso’s
Ghost. For more info, visit spac.org.
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