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Poetry Reading
Friday, November 21st at 7pm
Peter Felsenthal & Elizabeth Potter
River Arts is pleased to host a poetry reading on Friday November 21 at 8:00 pm at the River Arts center at 170 Main Street in Damariscotta. The two featured poets will be Elizabeth Potter of Round Pond and Peter Felsenthal of Trevett. After the reading, light refreshments will be available. The reading will be about an hour and one half.
Elizabeth has been writing poetry since grade school. She has much experience as a reader having been a featured poet at the Camden, Bristol and Wiscasset libraries as well as the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell. Ten of her poems, written in response to paintings by accomplished artist, Jerri Finch, were on exhibit for the month of October at the Belfast Free Library, as part of the 2006 Belfast Poetry Festival Her poetry and essays have been published in local and national journals and newspapers. She has taught writing workshops locally to all age groups from elementary school to seniors. Recently she won Honorable Mention in the 2006 Friends of Acadia poetry contest judged by Wes McNair.
Peter has been reading and writing poetry for more years then he cares to talk about. He has read in delicatessens, libraries, retirement centers and classrooms .He has read with dancers, jazz musicians and improvisational groups. His poems have appeared in newspapers and journals. Besides his own poetry he will read some translated poems.
Please come and enjoy the spoken word.
Poetry Reading - Beirut Summer
Catherine Evans Latta - Thursday, August 28th 7:30
Catherine Evans Latta has visited Beruit as recently as 2006 and has written a collection of poetry set in the sadly war-torn city, “Beruit Summer.” Latta formerly taught at the American University in Beruit and spent time there over the last four decades.
OPENING: WATER EXHIBITION Jurored by
Michael Komanecky, chief curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland.
Ninety entries of sculpture, paintings, photographs, video from across the country.
Opening reception: Friday August 29th 5 - 7 pm
Over 40 works of art - runs through October 14
Photos from Kids Art Week - August 4-8
RIVER ARTS HOSTS LECTURE ON WOODCUT PRINTS OF JAPANESE PLEASURE DISTRICTS
“Ghosts and Geisha in Japanese Art” was the subject of a lecture by noted art historian Clifford Olds. The lecture will took place at River Arts, 170 Main Street, Damariscotta at on July 31.
Professor Olds considers the multi-colored woodcut prints to be the most interesting and original art of the 18th- and 19th-centuries. The woodcuts center on the “pleasure districts” of Edo (Tokyo) Kyoto and Osaka. Dr. Olds said, “They deal with every place of pleasure and entertainment, from brothels to bath houses, and from tea houses to theaters.” The woodcut prints are alive with grand courtesans, geisha, common prostitutes, shop girls, actors and male customers of the district, but also appearing in the prints in great number, are ghosts, particularly in the prints representing kabuki theater.
The lecture was illustrated by slides projected side by side to enable comparisons to be made
Clifton Olds specialized in the art of Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, but for the past 15 years he has focused on the art of East Asia, especially Japan. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught for 18 years at the University of Michigan and for 22 years as Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College. Although he retired in 2006, he recently has been named Interim Director of the Museum of Art at Bowdoin
Isabella Corwin, a river arts faculty member, conducting
BATIK ON RICE PAPER demonstrations
Saturday, July 5
