Last Friday night [10/12] the NCJRO performed an audio celebration and a visual feast, all in ONE.
NCJRO’s Rhythm is Our Business and Swing is the Thing, was a showing of celebrated dancers from the Triangle in a concert where tap, swing, and modern dance intersect with jazz that is hot, cool, and in between. See saxophonist Wally West in the photo. This was a performance that seemed to last about 25 minutes instead of the nearly two hours; the dance was way beyond good, even beyond fabulous. Featured artists were
1. North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble, 12 dancers incorporating choreography from the Broadway shows “STOMP” and “BRING IN ‘DA NOISE.”
2. 2 Near The Edge - two dancers interpreting movement for healing and social change.
3. Richard Badu and Dana Lapple of the Triangle Swing Dance Society - my favorite - doing Charleston, Jitterbug, Lindy Hop and a Blues interpretation.
See more at http://www.ncjro.org/events.html where you will find Upcoming: Friday, December 7, 2007 - “Swingin’ Yuletide Celebration: featuring Duke Ellington’s The Nutcracker Suite and Seasonal Favorites” Get a jump on the season with a concert guaranteed to bring a smile to each and everyone in the house. With music from Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Glenn Miller, and the talented arrangers from the NCJRO, the annual holiday jazz concert is a mighty blast of seasonal spirit and cheer!
Monday night was the monthly meeting and annual business meeting of the Durham-Orange Quilters’ Guild [DOQ], electing the slate of officers for next year. My good friend Katherine Nelson is ending a two-term reign as President, succeeded by President-Elect Joy Murphy. As official “Photographer” for the Guild I snapped a lot of pictures for the archives but the main topic of discussion was the monthly print newsletter, DOQ’s Dispatch.
Yes, we still copy on paper and MAIL newsletters out each month. But not for much longer as the budget can no longer accommodate the rising cost of paper, print, postage and the volunteer labor also seems to be diminishing. In short, we need a better, faster, cheaper, efficient method of delivery of news, announcement and events pertaining to the world of quilting. Especially in light of the 2008 Quilt Show: Quilting, A Thread Runs Through It, coming next October. More info at DOQ’s website. Any suggestions about news-dissemination for non-profits would be most appreciated.
I responded Wednesday with an e-message about ConstantContact, a resource for creating newsletter and announcement delivery to e-lists of considerable size. The cost is reasonable and the pre-planned template is do-able. Blogger.com of course is an option for a free web-broadcasts that could include links, highlight a calendar and offers to track the count of hits coming to your site. Other suggestions have included doing a hard-copy news every other month, cutting the costs and labor in half; offering a post card mailing in the alternate months.
My investigations now include www.siemens-hearing.com seeking information about the Centura hearing aid for my mother. Sister, Jan, is in Missouri at this time visiting mother and relatives but has discovered that Mother’s hearing loss, chronic, has worsened. Were it not for the fact that my husband also suffers hearing loss, more recent, his ENT recommended this product which we have found to be most amazing.
The frustration comes when I find data on the web, can download at home, or send to Jan’s computer. But in Missouri Mother has no computer, has no printer, has no web connection and therefore getting last minute updates to Jan is near impossible. I rely mostly on niece Meghan, an Elementary Principal, who will also be home this weekend and hopefully with her lap-top to at least access the information I’ve found. This only doubles the frustration of communicating with Mother whose hearing loss makes telephone conversations difficult and now I can not send copy either. The future has to promise better alternatives for the hearing impaired.
Two art-topics will consume my interest in the coming weeks. One, artist Elliott Daingerfield home in the Blue Ridge mountains will be visited soon. Secondly, the NCMA’s fall exhibition opens next Sunday. Continuing the lessons learned from last year's exhibition on Monet - this exhibition includes both European and American impressionists. See http://ncartmuseum.org/landscapes/about.html
Landscapes from the Age of ImpressionismOctober 21, 2007–January 13, 2008.
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, an exhibition of 40 paintings, includes many of the finest examples of mid- and late- 19th-century French and American landscapes in the Brooklyn Museum's collection. Ranging in date from the 1850s to the early 20th century, the works presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet and their most significant American counterparts, including Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. This exhibition has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum.
Humber Lecture: “Looking at the Age of Impressionism”
Teresa Carbone, Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum Sunday, November 4, 2 p.m.Museum Auditorium, $3 (Free for Members)
Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the Brooklyn Museum began to acquire new works of American and French Impressionism, demonstrating an openness to "new" art that most other major institutions in this country were slow to cultivate.
I will be ending OLLI’s Philosophy of Aesthetics class with Dr. Vance sometime in mid-November and hope to take advantage of ‘member Mondays,’ both to visit and to take friends to the exhibition after that.
My calendar will open up after November 16, at the end of the dancerCIZE and OLLI Ballroom classes at Fred Astaire. Good news is that our teacher MISSY will give us a ballroom lesson this weekend while she is back from the Dominican Republic for the weekend. And we’ll have lunch! And I did not mention Tuesday's jury duty which is a whole other story.
WHAT a WEEK! bb
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