May 2011
2 posts
Montreal... a poem
16 people from the Adirondacks
Go to Montreal for the Day
Driving in a Paddywagon and 2 SUV’s
3 Hours Away
Waiting in line for
Schwartz’s wonderful smoked meat
Worth every bite
Contemporary Art Museum
Video looking at itself
East and West
Whirling Dervish curtains
Some stood in
Piano room
Plays with your movement
Beethoven heads lined up on the floor
Paper Piano
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April 2011
6 posts
It’s a Process…and an Event
As the AC gears up for another summer filled with exhibits, workshops, music and theatre, we are also busy planning benefit events to help us continue to bring you all this great art! Preparations for our two big summer fundraisers, the Annual Auction on July 2, and the Great Arts Benefit on August 13, are in full swing. All this event-planning energy in the office has made me reflect on how I...
Predicting the Future...
Had you told me a month and a half ago that I would be working at the Arts Center, I would have thought you were crazy. In the recent years, I have admired the programming and events that the Arts Center has brought to surrounding communities, subconsciously thinking they were the cool kids of the Adirondacks. However, I was a history major with limited theater or art experience and thought my...
Trying on a new hat...
When I spoke to Stephen Svoboda back in 2009 about the Arts Center he was starting to work for, I had no idea that a mere phone conversation was going to translate into the adventure I was about to embark on; First I was a designer, creating the new logo and the 2009 summer brochure. Then actor, as I joined the cast in the first Shakespeare in the Adirondack Park: A Midsummer Nights’ Dream....
March 2011
4 posts
CHA CHA CHA CHA CHANGES….
I recall the David Bowie song as early spring is sending us small signs during the transition from winter to spring. We still have three + feet of snow on the ground, although there are subtle hints of change everywhere; two days ago a flock of red winged black birds came to our bird feeder, time changed to daylight savings, the hollows around the trees are getting a little wider, the water under...
Rockin' to OZ
The following is a conversation between Stephen Svoboda, Executive Artistic Director of the AC and Natalie Luxford, the head of the Sunmount Day Hab facility in Long Lake about the process of working on the production of Rockin’ to Oz.
Stephen: What are you most surprised about from working in this process?
Natalie: How effortlessly every faction of this play comes together. Stephen...
February 2011
4 posts
Being Civilized
“Come back to civilization once in a while, okay?”. These are my grandfather’s parting words to me as I leave from my visit home to Philadelphia over Christmas. I took a detour to Cape May, NJ to visit with him, only to find that he didn’t even know that I had left Miami and “civilization” two years ago. Maybe this makes me a bad granddaughter - I don’t...
Why the Mountains... Why the Arts?
Since I started working at the AC in December, those two questions have been posed to me time and again by family, friends, my barber, and anyone else who finds out I’ve moved to a town where the figures for population and annual snow fall go toe-to-toe. They’re not always easy questions to answer, depending on your audience.
“After living in Brooklyn for awhile I wanted to try something...
January 2011
6 posts
What is Art...
At this point in my life, I feel I have seen a lot of art. It has been a very fortunate experience that started when I was growing up and seeing art at home that my parents collected. I travelled and went to world museums. Later as an art student, and while getting my masters degree, I immersed myself in contemporary art, especially art since photography.
Whenever we travel we find a museum,...
A ten year labor of love...
Odysseus DOA has been a ten-year labor of love. I started writing the play in 2001 as a graduate student at Ohio University. I wanted to write a play that captured my own personal experience with HIV, but I also wanted to create something that spoke to bigger issues of loss and what it means to have lived a worthy life. The play confronts my greatest fear; losing the capacity to communicate. ...
How to have a Happy New Year...
The New Year is a busy time. As soon as that ball drops… diets, resolutions and expectations rise anew to be tested for the following 365 days. But as we begin to settle into the New Year, I can’t help but take another look, at the last few weeks that led me to 2011. The calm before the storm if you will.
Originally from outside Chicago, I was home for the holidays and a group of us...
July 2010
2 posts
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WatchThe ACs very own Flash-Mob!
Caitlin Geier leads the weekly dance class. Can you guess this weeks style?
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WatchThe AC is buzzing, as it gears up for the Annual Auction Benefit and Godspell!
May 2010
4 posts
Adirondack Life
These days, the term ‘Adirondack Life” seems to be everywhere, a film at the AC, the magazine, photography shows, and so it may become cliché. For those of us living this Adirondack life, it equals a unique and amazing experience. I suppose you could live here without listening to the birds at all hours, looking at the stars at night, or peering through the fog on the lake in the morning. For...
Keeping busy
There are sixty-five students who go to school at Long Lake Central. As production manager at the Arts Center, I’ve spent the past few months working with area students on the documentary project “My Adirondack Life,” and this is a figure that has stuck with me since I first learned it when we did initial interviews. Students from Long Lake, Indian Lake, Newcomb, Tupper Lake, North Creek and Old...
April 2010
6 posts
Frog & Toad Inspiration
Congratulations to all the performers in A Year with Frog and Toad. You made the production an outstanding success. All week people have been asking me, “What inspired you to want to do a production with students and individuals with disabilities?”
To fully answer that question, I want to tell you a story about a girl named Nora.
I first met Nora nine years ago. For both of us it was our very...
Going to the city...
SITTING IN THE ALBANY TRAIN STATION
I am just now sitting in the Albany train station, waiting for a train to ‘the city’. We feel we need to touch base with the outside world now and then, and experience the ‘cultured’ life.
I received notification by email that my organic potatoes are arriving tomorrow and I won’t be at home, + the temperatures are going to be freezing at night. Gardening in...
Life on Review
As part-time Marketing Director for the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, I am able to work in the Adirondacks and still live in New York City while I continue on a path towards a career in acting. But regardless of being an actor or a marketing director, there are always the age-old questions of “How do I look? What do they think of me? Am I doing a good job?” It is human nature...
March 2010
5 posts
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Steel Magnolias
I have directed Steel Magnolias four times. In fact, it was the first production I ever directed. That production didn’t go so well.
I was sixteen and determined to make theatre “my way!” My mother, being incredibly supportive, allowed me to move all the furniture out of our living room and install my beauty shop set. For two months my family sacrificed our television viewing so I could create...
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