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| | 2011-2012 BCA BOARD | Co-Chairs:
Sing Hanson
Julie Turner
Recording Secretary:
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Treasurer:
Rosemary Barnett
At Large:
Linda Christen
Elizabeth Nemirovsky
Susanna Natti
Susan Grieb
Joanna Nickerson
Kati Oates
Doris Smith
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July-August, 2011
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BCA Community Theater Casting Call
Barefoot in the Park auditions, Monday, August 15, 7:30pm
Calling all theater lovers! BCA is bringing community theater to town this fall with Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, to be directed by Bedford's Frank Fornaro.
A romantic comedy by Neil Simon, Barefoot in the Park was nominated for three Tony awards in 1964. It is his longest-running hit, and the tenth-longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history
The play will need stage hands, set builders, make up experts, props and costumes personnel, tech support and others to collaborate in producing the show. If you are interested in helping backstage, click here to let BCA know.
Auditions for adult actors will take place at 7:30 pm on Monday, August 15, in the BCA Space on the ground floor at Old Town Hall, 16 South Road. All are welcome!
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Acting for Everyone!
Acting classes in the BCA Space in September & October
Vicki Righettini, professional actress, singer and teacher/director/coach of theatrical performance will offer Acting for Everyone, a basic acting class for adults, in the BCA Space on 6 Tuesday evenings (September 20 through October 25).
Early registration for the course is $120 until September 1.
What do you need to know about the classes?
- They will be relaxed, with a goal of having fun along with learning something new while building confidence and learning from each other.
- We'll explore the actor's art of freeing the body, voice, and imagination in order to create memorable characters and bring text to life.
- You'll survey a variety of acting techniques and skills including movement, breath, voice and projection, diction, character development, memorization, improvisation, and overcoming performance anxiety.
- You'll want to come to class with a spirit of adventure and dress for freedom of movement.
Whether there's a hidden thespian in your soul or you'd just like to be more comfortable speaking in a group, you will want to investigate Vicki's class.
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2011 BCA Open Studios
Save the dates: November 5 & 6, from noon to 5 pm
BCA Open Studios is the cooperative effort of local artists to create a relaxed and informal two-day sale and showcase of art in Bedford.
The public is invited to view and purchase work of the participating artists in the artist's studio. The event fosters community contacts and a learning experience around the artistry and craft of our local visual talent.
If you're an artist who'd like to participate or a volunteer who'd like to get involved, please contact Joanna Nickerson (artists) or Maria Green (volunteers).
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Cameras for CapeTown
Jason Musselman and Becca Laders passed through Bedford in May, raising funds for their voyage to Cape Town, South Africa to teach photography at a hospital/orphanage for children with AIDS.
There's a small image representing Bedford Center for the Arts in the canvases that Musselman and Laders will leave in Cape Town, but more importantly, they will also leave behind point and shoot cameras sent along by members of BCA's Photography Group. Thanks to Bob Bass, Gail Carrigan, Joe Gallagher, Jean Hammond, Mike Milicia, Kevin Turner, Julie Turner and Adam Woodbury who generously donated cameras.
The BCA Photo Group is looking forward to hearing about the adventure during their fall meetings.
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Monthly BCA Activities
The BCA Photo Group: A nontrivial self-help group for intermediate & advanced photographers, the Photo Group will meet at 7 pm on Tuesday, July 12, in the BCA space on the ground floor of Old Town Hall in Bedford. (Click here to read the minutes of the June meeting.)
Studio Artists' Breakfast: Meet in Mary Johannessen's garden (200 Old Billerica Rd) at 8:30 am, Tuesday, July 6.
Third Friday Crafternoons: Third Fridays are on hold until new volunteers step forward to champion this popular program. There are plenty of materials on hand, and support from BCA. Would the new leader be you?
Play-Reading Group: The group will channel minority stockholder Laura Partridge (played memorably in the 1956 production by Judy Holliday) in Solid Gold Cadillac. The playreaders will meet in the BCA space on the ground floor of Old Town Hall at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, July 13.
Group leader Lois Pulliam, and each person in sequence, reads the next speech going around the room thus assuring everyone an equal chance at the good parts as well as the not-so-wonderful ones -- and occasionally matching unlikely voices and characters!Please click here to let us know that you'd like to participate!
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| BCA Members ~ Out & About |
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Nature photographer Mike Milicia is now affiliated with Charles Glatzer's Shoot the Light Instructional Photographic Workshops. Mike's first offering as a Shoot The Light instructor will be a 2-day classroom seminar, the Fundamentals of Digital Photography at the Bedford-Burlington Hampton Inn on the weekend of August 13/14. (Recent BCA photography events have offered a beta test of sorts for part of Mike's class, and we can assure you that Shoot the Light is fortunate to have have him aboard!)
While Jean and Ralph Hammond "swept" Bedford's PMC Kids Ride in June, they will be among the actual riders in the Pan Mass Challenge to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund, leaving Wellesley on August 6. They will ride carrying with prayer flags inscribed with the names of more than 1,000 individuals dealing with cancer. Sponsorships are always welcomed. Click here to sponsor Jean, or here to sponsor Ralph.
Looking for a great local night out? Sean Dresel and Common Thread will perform at Concord's Main Streets Market & Cafe from 8:30 to 11:30 pm on Saturday, July 9 and on Friday, August 26.
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In the Bedford Library Gallery
Curator's Show 2011, through July 5
Farm to Market, July 12 through September 12
Curator's Show 2011 includes mixed media collage, artist's books, photography, ceramics and a video installation by the members of the library's Arts Steering Committee, the artists who arrange the library's shows.
Farm to Market honors the Bedford Farmers' Market through paintings, photographs and ceramics about farms and food. Regional artists Louise Arnold, Carol Krauss, Sayaka Rawizza and Sienna Wildfield are included in the show along with Bedford's (and BCA's) own Holly Bloomfield.
The Bedford Library gallery is located in the building's atrium and is open during regular library hours.
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Community Events
Our listing of selected community events now has its own page.
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The Bedford Center for the Arts is your local non-profit organization specializing in community building through the arts. Arts for All and All the Arts. Collectively we are artists, performers, presenters, supporters, collaborators, volunteers and superb appreciators.
Located on the ground floor of Old Town Hall, alongside Bedford Common, BCA offers artist studios and programming space. BCA members and friends are involved in a wide range of arts and cultural activities around town and in our region.
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