Symposia Community Events – January 2006

Two classes:
*10 to 11 a.m.
*11 to 12 p.m.

For children up to 4 years old.
The class consists of play time, singing, puppet show and crafts.
Two different shows every week: one Monday to Wednesday, another Thursday and Friday.

$12 per class or $8 when you attend two or more classes per week (sponsorships available).

$30 weekly pass.

Cancellation Policy:
If you are registered and you cannot attend the class you can transfer your registration to another day. To do this you have to call Symposia (201 963 0909) the day before the class or the fee is forfeited.

To register, visit Symposia Bookstore, we don’t take phone registrations.

Openness, consideration and respect are the foundation elements of vibrant community experiences. The Symposia Conversation Project is an experiment in community dialogue where people of different beliefs and points of view can engage in meaningful discourse that enlightens, challenges and enriches the participants.

Food will be served at 7:30 and the conversation will start at 8 p.m.

Suggested donation: $3

All are welcome.

Beginning just before his capture, this band of young indy filmmakers, led by first-time director Hayder Daffar, set out to show the beauty and truth of their countrymen’s experience of freedom. Their cameras take us through all walks of life and capture the contradictions in the “new Iraq” from many points of view. We meet street urchins and fresh-faced schoolgirls explaining their pictures, body builders and lunatics, doctors, veterans, cab drivers and the ‘man on the street,’ as well as Iraq’s cultural community–painters, sculptors, poets, musicians, filmmakers–in their living rooms and studios.

As one poet at the writers’ guild puts it, the Iraqi people are like sparrows, just looking for a little piece of freedom or safety.

As the months go by and chaos rises, the footage becomes more somber. The process of making the film is one of its subjects, but the team didn’t anticipate how making it would change them. Or that a team member would be killed fleeing by car from local insurgents on a dark road one night only to be gunned down at an unexpected U.S. checkpoint.

Hayder Daffar received a graduate degree in film from the Baghdad School of Fine Arts, which had only still cameras for students to use. He then got a cashier’s job at the Palestine Hotel, offering his translation services to international journalists if only they would tell American producers about “the Iraqi filmmaker with NO camera.”

IraqEye (www.iraqeye.org) is now a satellite company of Harbinger Productions, which supports independent filmmakers in 5 countries. Iraq’s movie industry was wiped out under ideological tyrrany and the economic sanctions, while Iranian film next door has thrived. IraqEye’s goal is “revitalizing Iraqi cinema within the international cinema community.”

For reviews and interviews on CNN, MTV, and other places with Daffar and the producer, Aaron Raskin, see their web site or check out the Press Kit at www.harbingerpro.com.

The film is 75 minutes. Discussion will follow.

About The Workshop

One of the oldest love stories is the love story of the Oral and the Written Traditions. They have been married since the beginning of the written word and they renew their vows again and again as each well-composed poem comes into existence. The attempt to divorce these two has caused confusion and that confusion has caused much of what is missing in contemporary poetry. This weekend workshop will begin to explore how we can rejoin these two traditions so that a newer and more powerful generation of poems may come into existence.

Dates: Friday, February 10 to Sunday, February 12.

Event organized by BAMA Galleries.

For more info about this workshop visit: www.bamagalleries.com

Beginner to Intermediate.

For more info about this workshop call 201-795-3473 or email ahn.behrens@comcast.net or rozettac@aol.com

Beginner to Intermediate.

For more info contact Rosette Capotorto at 201 795 3473 or rozettac@aol.com

Two classes:
*10 to 11 a.m.
*11 to 12 p.m.

For children up to 4 years old.
The class consists of play time, singing, puppet show and crafts.
Two different shows every week: one Monday to Wednesday, another Thursday and Friday.

$12 per class or $8 when you attend two or more classes per week (sponsorships available).

$30 weekly pass.

Cancellation Policy:
If you are registered and you cannot attend the class you can transfer your registration to another day. To do this you have to call Symposia (201 963 0909) the day before the class or the fee is forfeited.

To register, visit Symposia Bookstore, we don’t take phone registrations.

Openness, consideration and respect are the foundation elements of vibrant community experiences. The Symposia Conversation Project is an experiment in community dialogue where people of different beliefs and points of view can engage in meaningful discourse that enlightens, challenges and enriches the participants.

Food will be served at 7:30 and the conversation will start at 8 p.m.

Suggested donation: $3

All are welcome.

Everybody welcome.

Improvisation by Mike Vallarelli (keyboard).
Original compositions by Josh Dillard.

Everybody welcome.

Remember, it’s a “bring the whole family” type show, so don’t forget the kids. Wear your dancing shoes. Cowboy hats optional. In case you get hungry, Maxwell’s will be serving lunch in the front room, or hang out after the show for an early dinner!

The Demolition String Band have released three albums, the third an acoustic tribute to the late great songwriter/banjoist, Ola Belle Reed, and have performed all over the USA and Europe.

Event presented by:
The Department of Human Services, Carmelo G. Garcia & the Division of Cultural Affairs, Geri Fallo.

For further info call 201.420.2207 or online at www.hobokennj.com

Admission is FREE.

DESCRIPTION

Writers will have an opportunity to meet writing professionals and learn from their writing, teaching and publishing expertise through interactive workshops and discussions. Three separate workshops (all included in the entry fee) will cover creating new work, performing literary work aloud, and finding homes for that work in print. The cost to participate is $50 if you register by 1/13/06, after that it will be $60. This workshop is a presentation of The Center for the Performing Arts at DeBaun Auditorium and will take place on the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ on Sunday, January 22, 2006 from 11am-5pm. To see biographies for each of the main speakers, click here.

WORKSHOP ITINERARY

11am – Registration – Edwin A. Stevens Hall Lobby, 5th & Hudson Sts., Hoboken, NJ

11:15am – Opening remarks, program overview, introductions

11:30am – Penning It – Edwin Romond provides creative writing exercises to create the beginning of a poem.

12:45pm – Lunch Break

1:30pm – Performing It – Faith Vicinanza provides an introduction to what�s important in performing your poetry live and an opportunity for a few people to try out their new poems from Penning It.

2:45pm – Afternoon break in the foyer – Meet the hosts and the artists.

3:00pm – Publishing It – A poetry reading by poet and Saint Martins Press editor George Witte
followed by Q&A and discussion on getting your own work published.

4:15pm – Final break and signup for closing open mic.

4:30 pm – Open mic

LOCATION

Registration in DeBaun Auditorium, Edwin A. Stevens Hall Lobby.
Workshops throughout Stevens Institute of Tehcnology campus

COST

$50/person ($60 after 1/13/06)
Pre-registration required.

REGISTRATION

Visit www.debauntickets.org OR contact Marisa Merrigan, 201.216.8960 ext. #2 or mmerrigan@debaun.org

Two classes:
*10 to 11 a.m.
*11 to 12 p.m.

For children up to 4 years old.
The class consists of play time, singing, puppet show and crafts.
Two different shows every week: one Monday to Wednesday, another Thursday and Friday.

$12 per class or $8 when you attend two or more classes per week (sponsorships available).

$30 weekly pass.

Cancellation Policy:
If you are registered and you cannot attend the class you can transfer your registration to another day. To do this you have to call Symposia (201 963 0909) the day before the class or the fee is forfeited.

To register, visit Symposia Bookstore, we don’t take phone registrations.

Openness, consideration and respect are the foundation elements of vibrant community experiences. The Symposia Conversation Project is an experiment in community dialogue where people of different beliefs and points of view can engage in meaningful discourse that enlightens, challenges and enriches the participants.

Food will be served at 7:30 and the conversation will start at 8 p.m.

Suggested donation: $3

All are welcome.

Future Events:

– Holly Scalera, February 10th
– Joel Lewis, March 10th
– Madeline Tiger, April 14th
– Edward Foster, May 12th,
– Burt Kimmelman, June 9th

The Second Friday of the Month, at 8 PM

Everybody welcome.

Improvisation by Mike Vallarelli (keyboard).
Original compositions by Josh Dillard.

Everybody welcome.