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January 2014 • Poetry Series

Sundays, 2 – 4 pm
in Cooperation with
the South Brunswick Library

South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
Free Admission, Food Pantry Donation Appreciated

January 19 • Wendy Rosenberg and Charles Bondhus

Wendy Rosenberg is a poet, teacher, Reiki master and certified Creativity Coach. She is an Expressive Arts Educational Facilitator and a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator. She is a founding member of the Westfield Poetry Group and the recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation teacher scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Westfield.

Charlie Bondhus
Charlie Bondhus

Charlie Bondhus is the author of What We Have Learned to Love, which won Brickhouse Books’ 2008-09 Stonewall Competition, How the Boy Might See It (Pecan Grove Press), and All the Heat We Could Carry,  the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and a finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Book Award.His work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Wisconsin Review, The Hawai’i Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, the Alabama Literary Review, and Cold Mountain Review among others. He grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Saint Anselm College. He received his MFA from Goddard College and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Raritan Valley Community College.

February 16 • R.G. Evans and Kevin Carey

R. G. Evans’s poems, fiction and reviews have appeared in publications such as Rattle, The Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Weird Tales. His original music, including the song “The Crows of Paterson,” was featured in the 2012 documentary film All That Lies Between Us, about the life and work of poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Evans teaches high school and university English and Creative Writing in southern New Jersey.

Kevin Carey teaches in the English Department at Salem State University. He writes poetry, fiction, drama, and the occasional personal essay. His work can be found in several literary journals:  The Apple Valley ReviewThe Literary Review, The Comstock Review, and The Paterson Literary Review.  His book of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station, is available from CavanKerry Press, NJ. and Amazon.com. Kevin is also a seventh grade basketball coach in Beverly, Ma. and a part time filmmaker.  His latest documentary project is a film about New Jersey poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan called All That Lies Between Us. A new chapbook of fiction – The Beach People from Red Bird Chapbooks is forthcoming.

January 2014 • Area Events

For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)

Through January 7, 2014 • Legendary Locations, art exhibit at The Gallery, South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction. Continue reading

January 2014 • Opportunities

CALL FOR ARTISTS • SOUTH BRUNSWICK ARTS COMMISSION
Historic New Jersey show applications being accepted now through January 8, 2014 (deadline extended). All media. Continue reading

January 2014 • Senior Center

ARTS AT SOUTH BRUNSWICK SENIOR CENTER

Open 8:30–4:30pm weekdays
For more information/registration,
call 732.329.4000 ext. 7670
For South Brunswick residents over 55

January 2 • 12:30pm, Movie, The Family Man Continue reading

December 2013 • The Gallery

Call for artists for Historic New Jersey, Jan. 17 through March 31, 2014
Deadline for application Wednesday, December 11. Download application Historic-New-Jersey-Application or submit application via web form.

LEGENDARY LOCATIONS Exhibit
OCTOBER 11, 2013 to JANUARY 7, 2014

South Brunswick Municipal Building
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction

Gallery Talk and Demonstration by Carole Grand
Monday, December 2, 6:30PM Continue reading

December 2013 • Poetry Series

Sundays, 2 – 4 pm
in Cooperation with
the South Brunswick Library

South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
Free Admission, Food Pantry Donation Appreciated

December 15 • Charles Johnson and Laine Sutton
A graduate of Rutgers University, Charles H. Johnson is a 2013 second place winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards for his poem “Sunday Comics.” The Continue reading

December 2013 • Opportunities

For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)

Through January 7, 2014 • Legendary Locations, art exhibit at The Gallery, South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction. Continue reading

December 2013 • Senior Center

Open 8:30–4:30pm weekdays
For more information/registration,
call 732.329.4000 ext. 7670
For South Brunswick residents over 55

December 9 • 12:15pm, Classical Viola Concert,
Joseph Burke accompanied by Soyoung King Continue reading

November 2013 • The Gallery

Call for artists for Historic New Jersey, Jan. 17 through March 31, 2014
Deadline for application Wednesday, December 11. Download application Historic-New-Jersey-Application or submit application via web form.

LEGENDARY LOCATIONS Exhibit
OCTOBER 11, 2013 to JANUARY 7, 2014

South Brunswick Municipal Building
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction

Gallery Talk and Demonstration by Carole Grand
Monday, December 2, 6:30PM
Meeting Room 1, South Brunswick Municipal Building

Exhibiting Artists

Stephanie Barbetti  –  Heather Barros  –  Don Bloom  –  Indrani Choudhury
Joseph Gilchrist  –  Rhonda Goodwin  –  Catherine Gowen  –  Carole Grand
Wendy Heisler  –  Barbara Hochberg  –  Vadim Levin  –  Catherine Martzloff
Chiara Medici  –  Andrea Orlando  –  Tari Pantaleo  –  Olga Prokopenko
Christa Schneider  –  Nancy Scott  –  Laura Stenburg  –  Gerald Spielman
Ellen Veden

Icy Fretwork (Mapleton Preserve), photo, ©2013 Tari Panteleo

Juror Richard Swain of the Art History Department of Rider University writes about Legendary Locations:

Legendary Locations takes us on a very varied voyage to lands real and imagined, far and near, familiar and un—in which the artists show us their private dreams of these places. Exotic lands conjure legends for both painters and photographers. Wendy Heisler takes us to China and Yosemite grandeur in glowing pastels.  New Orleans and New York are imagined anew in striking abstracting collages by Nancy Scott.  Indrani Choudhury surprises with a loudly-colored music room in India, and Barbara Hochberg charms with a cozy street in San Gimignano. Laura Stenburg’s lovely Carnegie Lake is Monet in Mercer County. Where have YOU been and what have you dreamed?

The Music Room, Jodhpur Fort,India, watercolor ©2013 Indrani Choudhury

And then there are Joseph Gilchrist’s spacious landscape dramas—large digital prints of the natural layers of Monument Valley and the man-made layers of Rome. Gerald Spielman’s handsome photo compositions show us the dramatic monumental-Chief Crazy Horse—and the dramatic noisy-Hightstown Dam. Calm are the dreamy morning mists of Rhonda Goodwin’s workout and jangly perfect is the mixed media collage of Carole Grand’s Coney Island Remembered. Would YOU see and feel them differently?
Many artists did not have to go far for inspiring locations.  The nearby Mapleton Preserve in Kingston is clearly a treasured landscape for many. Ellen Veden’s Mapleton Road is a stunning mixed-media macro dramatic sunset of the Preserve, while Andrea Orlando’s lovely sun-dappled watercolor bridge leads us to the more intimate aspects of the Preserve. Catherine Matzloff’s Welcome to the Preserve discovers the sweet surprises in exploring the landscape. Liquid sunlight washes over the simple country charms of Heather Barros’ plein air oils. The people seem to have just stepped out.

Winter comes to the Preserve in Tari Pantaleo’s stark, almost abstract Twisted Sister and Icy Fretwork— quite a shudder after all that golden sunshine. But spring blossoms in simplicity itself at the Preserve in Catherine Gowan’s Eastern Redbud.

While most of the artists explored the legends of places they had seen, several artists went to locations in their imaginations and created legends there. Vadim Levin stuns with his very dramatic personal vision of the Jewish Exodus-There Is No Way Back.  Strikingly abstract and brilliantly colored are Don Bloom’s Imaginary Landscape and Stephenie Barbetti’s’ Aquarium Visit.

And lastly there are Chiara Medici’s Untitled photograph—dreamy mysterious spaces with ghostly presences-a sort of provocative open-ended narrative meant to keep you wondering—What is this legend?

Let us thank the artists for their artworks and the many and various “legendary journeys” they have taken us on.”

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November 2013 • Jazz Cafe

Herb Eckert Auditorium in the Senior Center
South Brunswick Municipal Complex
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction
Admission $6 at the door
Doors open 7:30pm, 732.329.4000 x7635 • arts@sbtnj.net

Friday, November 1Shikantaza Continue reading