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What will PAC MAC include?
MUSIC
Building on PAC's 2013 South by South Shore Festival, there will be original music performances at a variety of local restaurants throughout Patchogue, including 89 North Music Venue, Village Green at New Village, and Live in the Lobby's Season 10 kickoff October 23 at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts.
(All locations and event times TBA)
ARTS
- Commissioned sculptures and installations will be located in multiple public spaces including Capital One Plaza, New Village Green, West Avenue Center Median The Garden Club Community Garden, various walkways that lead to Main Street, and on the grounds of Briarcliffe College.
- The Best of Suffolk County Arts Councils all under one roof at the PAC Gallery (Terry St.), with annex exhibit at Gallery 40 South
- Additional exhibitions will be on display at the Lobby Gallery at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, PAC Member Gallery at Roast Coffee and Tea, and Shand's Loft Gallery @ BHB.
- The Arts Live Here: There will be events and open studios at Artspace.
- Building on the past success of the PAC Walking Arts Tours, there will be visual art exhibits in the (very few!) remaining vacant retail locations.
Literary & Performance Arts:
- There will be a presentation by the New Musicals Project in the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts Lobby of an original family musical entitled BOO!
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Paula Poundstone will be performing at the Patchogue Theater on Oct 18 and Dominc Chianese on Oct 25.
- Spoken word and poetry readings will be held at various venues.
- There will be a reading from PAC's partnership with Herstory Writer's Workshop taking place at the Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center.
CINEMA
- The cinema component of PAC MAC will include a full week of special programing focused on dance and music, kicking off with a special screening of "Dancing in Jaffa".
The following films are scheduled: "Get on Up" a biopic about James Brown, the Beatle's "A Hard Days Night", "Finding Fella" and "Alive Inside". All screening at Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center.
The Patchogue Arts Council will be collaborating with the largest network of arts and cultural organizations throughout Suffolk County to present a Festival of the Arts for all ages. The PAC MAC Festival 2014 epitomizes the mission of the Patchogue Arts Council - Encouraging, Promoting and Supporting the Arts - Since 2008 and will further enhance Patchogue's reputation as a hotbed for the arts.
Collaboraters include,Business Improvement District of the Village of Patchogue, Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts, Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center, Herstory, The New Musicals Project, 89 North, Artspace Patchogue Lofts, Gallery 40SO,Tri-Valley Brass Band, Projecting Arts, Long Island Pulse Magazine pop-up gallery,Various Patchogue restaurants, and many more to be announced!
Thank you Patchogue Business Improvement District for
leading the way as the first sponsor of PAC MAC. Public funding has also
been provided by Suffolk County.
    
For more information and press inquiries please contact:
Beth Giacummo
Beth.isliparts@gmail.com
PAC MAC Chair, Promotion and Marketing
VISUAL ARTISTS WHO WANT TO PARTICIPATE;
Artists are invited to participate in a number of ways. Three open calls have been released and
are seeking submissions to be a part of the visual arts represented in the PAC MAC Festival 2014.
For more information and details please visit http://www.patchoguearts.org/opportunities/
POSSIBLE SPONSORS; Are you a business or interested in supporting the PACMAC Festival? It is sponsors like you that
make it possible for the Patchogue Arts Council to continue its mission and present programs
like PAC MAC. For more information please contact
Lori Devlin
PAC MAC Chair, PAC Board Trustee 516.318.9283; loribdevlin@hotmail.com
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