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Century’s Rude Mechanicals Put on Twelfth Night

by Snally Gaster on November 10, 2010

Well, there’s sure no shortage of Shakespeare around here. That’s because the “Bard to the Bone” Shakespeare Factory won’t let it happen.

Now the Shakespeare Factory’s Rude Mechanicals, a group of Shakespearian’s drawn completely from Century High, are presenting Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a comedy about a couple shipwrecked twins who each believe the other is dead. And of course, it’s a lot more complicated than that. For instance, for reasons you won’t be able to ascertain unless you actually watch the play, one of them decides to pretend she’s a eunuch, which is something people just don’t do nowadays. There are dukes, ladies, loves, laughs, mayhem, and eunuchs.

So go see it Friday November 12, Saturday November 13, Friday November 19 and Saturday November 20 at 7 pm at Century High School, 355 Ronsdale Road in Sykesville.

Tickets are $8 and there’s more information here.

Century’s putting on Shakespeare, Liberty’s doing Peter Pan. We’re getting downright cultural.

Food, Wine, Art and Dogs – The Tails of Hope Art Auction

by Snally Gaster on November 10, 2010

Since we got our loud barking goofy dog from Tails of Hope, it’s only fair that we put in a plug for their art auction.

It’s this coming Saturday, November 13 in the Kittleman Room of Howard community College
at 10901 Little Patuxent Pkwy in Columbia.

Here’s the whole story.

And here’s our Tails of Hope dog, Barkley. He seemed pretty hopeless, but he’s come along well.

Pottersville Comes to Sykesville – It’s a Wonderful Life

by Snally Gaster on November 6, 2010

Okay, it’s not really in the Town of Sykesville, but the Freedom Area Recreation Council’s Dramatic Arts Program is putting on their first theatrical production, It’s a Wonderful Life.

Now it’s not actually the whole show with the bridge and the water and the snow and the angel and all the action. Instead, they’re doing it as a sort of forties live radio play based on the movie.

There will be two Dinner Theater performances with live music from the nineteen-forties, and a matinee performance. It’s still a month away, but you know how quick the holidays spring on you, so here’s the schedule, and let’s hope it’s not snowing yet.

The show takes place at the brand new South Carroll Senior & Community Center at 5928 Mineral Hill Rd.

Dinner Theater
Friday, December 3 and Saturday, December 4, 6 pm dinner, 7 pm show
$30 General Admission, $28 Seniors, $25 Children 10 & under, Group Discount (10+)
Dinner provided by Kevin’s Katering on Main Street Sykesville.

Dinner Theater tickets must be purchased in advance.

Matinee
Sunday, December 5, 2 pm show
$15 General Admission

Concessions for the matinee are provided by and benefit Voices for Children of Carroll County (FVC). VFC is a nonprofit and is Court Appointed Special Advocates for children in foster care.

Purchase Tickets by calling 410-549-6296, or online at www.mycommunitytickets.com

The cast of It’s A Wonderful Life includes Chrystopher Robinson as George Bailey, Dillon Kalmbach as Clarence Oddbody, Sarah Spargo as Mary Hatch and Jed Davis as Uncle Billy. Directed by Andrew Porter and Produced by Vivian Davis.

First come, first serve seating. No admittance without a ticket. Theater is wheelchair accessible and handicap seating is available upon request. Not recommended for children under age 3 due to the shows’ inclusion of live sound effects in action and noise.

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For more information information, contact Vivian Davis, Artistic Director, Young at Art/Dramatic Arts Program.
tutoringart@gmail.com
Freedom Area Recreation Council
Eldersburg, MD

Uncle Andy’s Cats

by Snally Gaster on November 3, 2010

Why does this cat look like Andy Warhol?

Because he’s one of Uncle Andy’s cats, you see, and “Uncle Andy’s Cats” is a book by James Warhola, the nephew of Andy Warhol, who will be reading from the book and signing, of course, on Sunday, November 14 at the BMA from 2–5 p.m. It’s the nephew, not Andy, doing the signing. Andy is dead, although some of his art is on exhibit at the BMA right now.

This is meant for kids and families, and before you leave you can get some free hands-on art training, including a workshop on blotted line drawings, which Andy Warhol popularized in the fifties.

Here’s Uncle Andy eating a hamburger. Simply brilliant. Especially the surprise ending.

Teen-Aged Space Aliens Wanted for Musical

by Snally Gaster on November 3, 2010

Are you a teen-aged space alien? Do you look like this guy? Would you like to look like this guy? Can you sing? Then the Carroll County Arts Council wants to talk to you.

They’re putting on Area 51, a musical comedy, with the Maryland Ensemble Theatre, and they need singers and dancers in grades 9-12 to audition on Saturday, November 20 from 10 am to 1 pm. The show is on January 28 and 29.

For the try outs, you do have to sing 16 bars of a song of your choice and bring the sheet music. Make sure to wear your singing and dancing stuff, but alien attire or an oddly shaped head are not required.

The comedy takes you inside America’s most mysterious military base and centers around your typically hilarious alien invasion and the end of humanity. And as always in these sorts of stories there’s lots of laughs and dancing.

For more information, contact Tabetha White at 410/848-7272 or Tabetha@CarrollCountyArtsCouncil.org.

Oh, and check out our alien footage, it’s a little spooky, but it’s important that you watch it.

Peter Pan Lands in Eldersburg

by Snally Gaster on November 3, 2010

Hey, did you know Peter Pan was coming to Eldersburg?

It’s true. He won’t be animated, though. He’ll be real, and yeah, he will be flying. The show’s at Liberty High, starting Thursday night at 7, and apparently the school’s going all out. They’ve even rented some kind of flying contraption from these people so the actors can actually fly over the stage.

You can get tickets online here at the Liberty High Upstagers website and learn more about the show.

There are performances on the 6th, 11th, 12th, and 13th. At the door, tickets for adults are $12 and for students $10. Call Tony Cimino at 410-751-3560 for more information.

Apparently Flying by Foy, who will be flying the actors around the stage, have been doing it a long time. Check out some of the amazing flying people they’ve helped get airborne.

So You Wanna Be an Artist?

by Snally Gaster on October 27, 2010

But not the kind who paints, or only paints? The Freedom Area Recreation Council has something for you.

Except we’re not exactly sure what, because we don’t quite understand the email they sent us, but here it is in its entirety. It seems to sound like fun.

Good news! We have added an additional art class for the fall session with the Freedom Area Recreation Council. It will start following the current session, “Color your World” for 5 weeks, Monday’s Nov. 8, 15, 29, Dec. 6, 13, 4:15-5:30PM. Below is a description of the class. Please respond via email if you’d like to register. Attached is a generic FARC registration form for you to fill out and send in to the FARC P.O. Box 999, Eldersburg or bring to the current class. There are 2 forms per page. We only need one filled out.

NEW CLASS: Art in 3D

No glasses needed. In this 5 week session, the students will work with polymer clay, wire and paper. Projects will include building a clay house, shaping a wire sculpture and layering a self portrait collage. These projects will first be designed on paper, discussing ideas to generate creativity. All materials are included. Ages 7-10, $80 for 5 classes (75 minutes, 1 day a week)

Mondays 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. Century High School (Mrs. Diem’s art room)

HANDS & FACES

A workshop designed to work on the skills of drawing hands and faces; 2 areas that students complain most about the difficulty. We’ll walk through several step by step drawing lessons to practice proper techniques; sketching hands in several positions; drawing eyes, noses and mouths individually, then framing the face to create a final portrait. We’ll use soft mediums such as charcoal pencil and pastel for easy blending and shading. Most drawings will be completed in a drawing pad that the student will take home at the end of the session leaving several pages for continued practice. All materials are included. Ages 11 – 16, $80 for 5 classes (75 minutes, 1 day a week)

Tuesdays 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. Century High School (Mrs. Diem’s art room)
Regarding art classes only: In the Spring I am looking to add a class for younger students, ages 6 – 9 by adding another instructor. If you have an artistic child between the ages of 6 and 9, please let me know if this interests you. I have had a few requests but want to make sure that we can fill a class of at least 5 per session. The older age group would then change to ages 10 – 16. Please let me know what you think about this!

Thank you so much for supporting our Arts Program.

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Vivian Davis
Artistic Director
Young at Art/ Dramatic Arts Program
tutoringart@gmail.com
Freedom Area Recreation Council
Eldersburg, MD

Andy Warhol Comes to Baltimore

by Snally Gaster on October 1, 2010

We finally found an excuse to put a picture of Marilyn Monroe on the Site. The BMA’s putting on an Andy Warhol exhibit.

Here’s what they say.

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of this iconic American artist. These more than 50 inventive, experimental, and intensely personal works reveal Warhol’s energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation during the last decade of his life.

The exhibition explores a surprising side of Warhol. An artist of constant reinvention, by the late 1970s, he had evolved from the hard-working commercial artist of the 1950s, through the Pop Art movement of the 60s, into an international celebrity famous for his experimental films and widely recognized screenprinted images of soup cans and superstars. The last decade of his life shows Warhol in the midst of his fame creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at any other moment of his 40-year career. These extraordinary works are assembled from national and international public and private collections, as well as the BMA’s exceptional collection of late works by Warhol.

Sounds like fun. The exhibit runs from October 17, 2010 to January 9, 2011. The BMA’s in Baltimore. If you don’t know exactly where, you probably don’t care about this exhibit. Here’s another picture of Marilyn. It’s not a Warhol, but it’s nice.

An Amazing Westminster Weekend

by Snally Gaster on September 22, 2010

You know, if you don’t want to go to Columbia for the FreeFest, and you don’t want to go to Baltimore for the Book Fest, and you don’t want to stick around here for the various apple fests, you might as well just spend the whole weekend in Westminster, because besides for the Fall Fest, there’s just a lot going on.

Such as.

Something Fishy

The Mid-Atlantic Koi, Pond and Goldfish Show. Yep. Koi and Goldfish. Saturday and Sunday at the Carroll County Agriculture Center at 700 Agriculture Center Drive, Westminster on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call Ellie Cooper at 610-865-1163.

The Maryland Microbrewery Festival

Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at Union Mills Homestead, 3311 Littlestown Pike in (need we say) Westminster. Twelve breweries, more than 30 brands of beer, live music, entertainment, crafts, food. Belly Dancers? (Scroll down and the belly dancer reference might make sense.)

Cost for beer tasters is $20 at the gate or $18 in advance. If you’re under 21, you won’t be tasting the beer, and so you’ll get in for $5. No one under 12. For advanced tickets go to www.MarylandMicrobreweryFestival.com. Call Jane Sewell at 410-848-2288.

And a Marching Band Show

Of course. At Westminster High Saturday at 4 p.m. 14 high school bands including Westminster’s Owl Marching Band. Open at 3 p.m. $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, and children younger than 6 are free. Call Bob at 410-320-2142.

There you have it. Westminster.

Let Free Ring – Massive Free Concert in Columbia

by Snally Gaster on September 22, 2010

Well, since there’s nothing else to do this weekend, except for all the music, festivals, fairs, and football (scroll down, man), you might as well go see Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Pavement, and about ten other bands appearing at Merriweather Post in Columbia this Saturday.

All for nothing. Money wise. But actually it is for something. A cause. And it’s not some angry, freakish political thing, and you won’t have to listen to a lot of speeches by really angry people, just loud Rock music coming from three separate stages.

It’s called the Virgin Mobile FreeFest. The gates open at 11 Saturday morning and the show ends eleven hours later at 10.

The cause is youth homelessness and they’re hoping you’ll contribute five bucks. Here’s the mission statement:

Right now, there are over two million young people who face bouts of homelessness each year in the U.S. Most have been forced from their homes because of circumstances beyond their control. Some manage to make it through school but others are less fortunate, resorting to begging or prostitution just to survive. And homeless kids have different needs than homeless adults – they haven’t even had a chance to live their lives yet.

Virgin Mobile, with the help of Virgin Unite, wants to change that. The RE*Generation is our effort to empower a generation to help its own. We’re bringing together organizations that care about homeless youth and connecting them with young people who want to help.

And we’re making it easy for our customers to take an active role and get involved — through donating, volunteering, and even text messaging and downloading. With The RE*Generation, one person really can make a difference.

Here’s the Blackhearts. They love Rock N Roll.

Football or Belly Dancing? The Westminster Fall Fest Dilemma

by Snally Gaster on September 22, 2010

You know, you really don’t want to lie around watching football this weekend, do you? There’s the Book Fair in Baltimore, the apple butter markets, apple festivals, and the Westminster Fall Festival, which starts Thursday and lasts all the way through Sunday, and it would be a shame to miss it all because it includes rides, a parade down Main Street, music, food, cheerleading and strangely enough, lots of belly dancing.

Apparently Westminster is big on belly dancing. In fact, it appears there’s even magic belly dancing. So hey, football, or magic belly dancing?

Beer, Books, and Bands in Baltimore

by Snally Gaster on September 22, 2010

The Baltimore Book Festival’s a blast. You can meet authors, drink beer, and buy books on a most probably beautiful day.

And walk around Baltimore while you’re at it. Not to mention eat and listen to all kinds of music.

It runs from Friday morning to Sunday night in Mount Vernon Place, which is the 600 block of Charles Street.

The Big Apple (Festivals, Markets etc.)

by Snally Gaster on September 22, 2010

Apple cider, apple fritters, apple dumplings, apple pie. It’s all things apple this Saturday, the 25th, at Piney Run Park’s 27th Apple Festival, and if you haven’t had enough arts, crafts, and apple stuff, there’s an Apple Butter Market taking place the next day, Sunday that is, in Sykesville’s South Branch Park by the old apple butter factory, of course.

The Apple Festival at Piney Run goes from 10 in the morning to 4 p.m. and costs $5 for Carroll County Residents to get in. $10 for non-Carroll County residents.

The Apple Butter Market in Sykesville is free and features Woodstock Generation survivors, the Janglebachs, who’ve apparently named themselves after jangle rock and who will be performing from 1 to 3.

They sound pretty good and jangly singing this great old John Phillips penned hit by Scott McKenzie.

Chris Smither at Baldwins – “A one man band to the bone”

by Snally Gaster on September 12, 2010

Whoa! Chris Smither is coming to Baldwins on September 23rd. This is one of those things you really can’t miss. Well, you could, but only if you’re dumb.

Now, it’s true he lives up in Boston and roots for the Patriots and may even be inclined to mock the Ravens, but he’s so funny, his guitar playing is so great, not to mention the good singing, the cool songs, the great stories, the foot tapping, and you’ll be right up close to one of the best one-man shows on earth, so you really can’t take football into account.

Here’s his hilarious take on the great flood.

Just to watch his fingers is worth the price. Here he is a few years ago in Philly singing Lola. Except not the Kinks.

That’s a Thursday night in downtown Sykesville. The show’s at 8. Tickets are $22.50. You’re expected to eat.

If you can’t find Baldwin’s, you can’t find Sykesville.

I’m a Carroll County Gangster

by Snally Gaster on September 11, 2010

You can take me out the woods and hoods of Carroll County, but you will never take the Carroll out of me.

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