Sunny The Clown

Sunny is a clown and performer based in Yonkers NY. She enjoys providing family entertainment for children of all ages in a safe and caring atmosphere. She performs at birthday parties, christenings, store openings, and lots of other events-- anywhere children can be entertained. She primarily performs in the Westchester County/TriState area.

Her skills include puppetry, clown magic, face painting, storytelling, and games and activities.

Sunny received her initial training at the Mooseburger Clown Camp in Minnesota and continues her professional development by attending workshops and conferences throughout the year. She is fully insured and is an active member of Clowns of America International and the World Clown Association.

To find out more about Sunny's work, please visit her website:
http://www.sunnytheclown.net

Yonkers Doo Wop Group being formed

FROM CRAIGSLIST

The full advertisement is at newyork.craigslist.org

Please note that I do not personally know Tony. I'm sure he's a fine upstanding citizen. However, for safety's sake, please be careful when meeting strangers for the first time. Meet at a public place, don't give out personal information, etc, etc., etc.

Doo-wop acapella group forming in the Bronx/Yonkers area. Looking for experienced singers . 1st tenor /lead singer must be able to do harmony. 50s&60s. Baritone/be able to do leads Additional 1st tenor/lead .
Must be experienced, serious inquiries only.
Contact tony. 914-830-2467

Alma de Mexico: Saturday May 5

A Celebration of Cinco de Mayo/The Soul of Mexico featuring entertainment, crafts, children's activities and more. Free admission! This all day event takes place in Untermyer Park, 945 N. Broadway, Yonkers and is presented by the Untermyer Performing Arts Council in partnership with the Westchester Arts Council.



Saturday, May 5, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
2007 Alma de Mexico
Untermyer Park, 945 N. Broadway, Yonkers
FREE ADMISSION!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Call 914-375-3435
visit http://www.untermyer.com

After the free show, you can go to the Art Exchange in White Plains for a concert called iViva Mexico! Cinco de Mayo at 8:00 p.m., Arts Exchange, 914-428-4220. The concert does cost money and is not free!

Blue Door Art Association- Art Exhibit

The Blue Door Art Association is having an exhibit in the former Trolley barn now turned loft spaces. Some of the finest local artists (many of which who are featured on this blog) will be exhibiting. It's your chance to come check everybody out.

Exhibition: Art in the Trolley Barn

Gallery: Blue Door Artist Association

Address: Metro92, 92 Main Street, Yonkers, New York 914 965-3376

Dates of Exhibit: April 14th to May 31st

Reception: Saturday, May 5th, 2:00 to 4:00 pm

Information: Artists on view: Haifa Bint-kadi, Jef Campion, Janet Castronuovo, Lewis Cohen, Ann Ladd Ferencz, David Fischweicher, Eleanor Grace, Paul Greco, Lanny Lasky, Jacqueline Lorieo, Diane Mitchell and Marko Gosar, Librado Romero, Lewis Schaffer, Paulo Suzuki.

Mayor's Town Hall Meeting April 26- 7pm-9pm

Mayor Amicone and many of his advisors will be a town meeting on Thursday April 26. Citizens are being encouraged to voice their concerns. What art concerns do you have? Come to the meeting and say them out loud!

Rivertown Book Shop (Good Yarns)

Rivertown Book Shop is a full service, independent bookstore in Hastings on Hudson, NY, just over the border from Yonkers. A Hastings institution, Rivertown Book Shop opened as Good Yarns in 1974. Their retail storefront still carries the Good Yarns name.

Good Yarns was founded by Sooky Kyle and Jan Young. They wanted to open a yarn shop, but discovered the space they had mind was too large for just yarn. Given the name, books seemed a natural “sideline”. The sideline grew to take over the store. Early on, Rosmary Edelman joined the staff, and she eventually came to own the store. Rowie stayed on until she decided to retire in 2005, when she sold the store to local publisher’s reps Chris Kerr and Sean Concannon.

Today, in its newest incarnation, Rivertown Book Shop/Good Yarns has more than 30,000 books on hand (both new and used) and a friendly, knowledgeable staff. It is one of the few independent bookstores in the area. They have a wide selection of new fiction, young adult titles, history, current events, and children's picture books. They place a special emphasis on books by Hudson river town authors, and highlight local book club selections.

They have a full calendar of both on and off-site events; nearly every week there is an in-store event, including author appearances, children's story hours, and book club meetings.

To find out more about the Rivertown Book Shop, please visit their website listed below:

Rivertown Book Shop
8 Main Street
Hastings On Hudson, NY 10706
914-478-0014
WEBSITE: http://www.rivertownbookshop.com/

Join the Blue Door!

I received this letter from the Blue Door Art Association (and went to their last meeting)

If you are not already a member of Blue Door, you really should be!

Dear Fellow Artist:

The Blue Door is a not-for-profit artist organization that has been exhibiting the works of local artists and creating public art for the last four years. Please join us.

We offer our members these benefits for the $35 annual fee:

• A page of your own on our website, with your bio and four images of your work. The website is http://www.bluedoorart.org .
• At least one non juried, members-only show at least once a year. (More if we can manage it.) You may apply to be included as soon as you join.
• Advocacy and representation of your issues to government agencies.
• We are planning have videos on our website of a tour of members’ studios and their work.
• We are developing internet cross links to regional art galleries and museums. As our website develops, we expect a steady increase in the number of visitors to our site.

We are offering all the above for $35 per year. Sign up now, pay the fee (our website has credit card capability), and upload to us your bio and four images. Send your suggestions.

Let’s build a community together.

Luis Perelman, Director
Bob Schor, Vice President

Anne Bobroff-Hajal

Anne Bobroff-Hajal paints family portraits, children's portraits, and informal portraits of men and women of all ages. She specializes in portraits in which the subject's eyes engage the viewer with a warmly expressive gaze. The painted subject seems about to come alive to share childish impishness, middle-aged wisdom, youthful sexuality, old age peace and contentment. Bobroff-Hajal's subjects are not detached, moody, or formal but highly related to their beholders.

Bobroff-Hajal's work has been exhibited in the Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich CT for the month of February (Faces of Winter 2006), and in the Beaux Arts Finale in Westchester, New York in June 2006. She is a member of the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, the Blue Door Art Association of Yonkers) and a former board member of ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film D'Animation, the international animation society). She initiated art animation programming at the Jacob Burns Film Center and was the Burns' Animation Program Advisor.

Bobroff-Hajal has traveled widely and lived in Russia for a year. She has studied history as well as the arts at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been painting since childhood and is largely self-taught through endless, highly detailed observations of the world around her: color, shape, visual relationships.

To find out more about her work, visit her website (listed below)
WEBSITE: http://www.annebobroffhajal.com/

Art Exhibit of Yonkers Artist Chris Semergieff

Chris Semergieff, Yonkers Artist, is having a solo exhibit at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

The exhibit goes through April 26th.

Marist College
3399 North Road
Poughkeepsie NY

Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday 12-5pm
Saturday 12-4 pm

For more information, visit the gallery website or call them (info listed below)
WEBSITE: http://www.marist.edu/commarts/art/gallery/
PHONE: 845-575-3000 x 3182o

Jacqueline Lorieo

Jacqueline Lorieo was born in Elmira, New York. A former resident of Larchmont, she is currently living in Yonkers with her husband. Lorieo is a sculptor, medallist and an occupational therapist. She has exhibited in numerous shows in The United States and abroad including The War Museum in Canada, The Hungarian National Museum, The Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Netherlands, The Neuchatel Museum of Art and History in Switzerland and The Museum of Medallic Art in Poland. She has work in prestigious public and private collections including The British Museum, The American Numismatic Society, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center, Helen Hayes Hospital, Gaylord Hospital and The Austin Center.

This is what she says about her work:

"My medical background influences the form and themes of my art. The work is beautiful, feminine, nurturing and powerful. I have incorporated the universal themes of humanity and science into the bronzes, my large wooden torsos, and small handheld medals. I feel each piece provides a small window to my soul for the viewer."



To find out more about her work, visit her Blue Door Art Association Webpage (listed below)

WEBSITE: Jacqueline Lorieo

Yonkers Glee Club

The Male Glee Club of Yonkers is one of the oldest non-collegiate male choruses in the United States, celebrating its eightieth anniversary in 2006. From its beginning, the goals of the Club have been to promote the good fellowship that comes from singing together, and to present concerts that bring true listening enjoyment to all who appreciate good music.

The club began in 1926 when 21 charter members met at the Yonkers YMCA and elected the first slate of officers. Of the twenty-one charter members present at that meeting, one, Richard P. Ward, Jr. was still singing with the Club when it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1976.

Over the years, the Club has taken part in many important public events. Among these was a performance at the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the City of Yonkers, the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs, and the Christmas concert at Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center. In 1982, the Club hosted nine other men's glee clubs from New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Ontario at a "Big Sing" sponsored by the Associated Glee Clubs of Greater New York. In recent years, the Club has performed at Yonkers City Hall; at the Christmas tree lighting in Getty Square, Yonkers; Independence Day ceremonies in Mount Vernon; and at meetings of clubs and organizations in the Westchester area. In addition, the Club often entertains residents of area nursing homes and retirement residences.


The Glee Club welcomes new members. The only requirement for membership is being able to sing on pitch and to learn one's part in rehearsal. Membership dues are fifty dollars a year, payable in two installments.

To find out more about the glee club or to join, visit their website listed below or send them an email

WEBSITE: http://www.yonkersgleeclub.org
EMAIL: mgcy@optonline.net

Art Museum & Fine Architecture May Come to Yonkers

Reported in the Architectural Record (click that link for the full story.)

Alsop Makes U.S. Debut in Yonkers
April 3, 2007, Yonkers, NY

The latest European architect to hop the pond for a U.S. debut is Will Alsop, a Brit who hopes to transform a long-unused power plant along the Hudson River in Yonkers, New York, into a sweeping residential complex featuring a museum, restaurant, and park.

Under the plans, which Alsop unveiled to a 50-member audience at a public hearing in Yonkers last week, the hulking 80,000-square-foot power plant will lose its two smokestacks and gain a large residential tower. A third of the 400 units will be luxury condos and the rest rentals, with some reserved for low-income residents, said Erik Kaiser, principal of developer Remi Companies.

The $250 million project also calls for adding a contemporary art museum, located in a former switch-house, and a new apartment structure, nicknamed the “magic tower,” with a boxy upper portion balanced on tentacle-like stilts.

“Good architecture does make a difference,” Alsop said at the hearing. But some audience members expressed concern that the main building, at 25 stories high, will block river views. Others said they favor preserving the power plant as it is now. Alsop countered, “the building will fall down if nobody does anything about it.”

Read the Rest of the article

Meeting of the Yonkers Arts Council Cancelled

The meeting of the Yonkers Arts Council/ Arts Alliance, scheduled for Monday April 9 has been cancelled.

The next meeting will be on Monday May 7 at the Yonkers Public Library, One
Larkin Place at 6 pm.

To RSVP or get additional information, please email yonkersarts@gmail.com

Steven Asaro

Steven Asaro is an architect with a practice in Yonkers. He is the former assistant to José Oubrerie, a French architect and author and a protege of the master architect Le Courbusier.

Steven got his master's of architecture from Syracuse University in 1994. Since that time, he has worked on and designed dozens of buildings, including churches, museums, stores, schools, and private homes.

Steven started teaching architecture in 1989 at the University of Kentucky. From 1994-2002, Steven taught Architecture at the New York Institute of Technology's School of Architecture and Design.


In addition to his work as an architect, Steven designs and creates 3 dimensional puzzles.




To find out more about his work, visit Steven's website listed below or give him a call.
http://my.fcc.net/~psmbkk/smaarch.htm
Tel: (914) 964 9776

Lawrence Harris

Lawrence Harris may have the distinction of being the only ex-pro-football player/Native American opera singer in America (he’s half Choctaw on both sides of his family). A former offensive lineman for the Houston Oilers, Harris quit professional football in 1989 to start on a second career as an opera singer and performer.

Harris has received a number of accolades and acclaim for his work as an opera singer. The New York Times critic, Bernard Holland hailed Lawrence Harris as a "major voice" following his New York debut. Jon Vickers praised Mr. Harris as having one of the most beautiful voices in the world. Phyllis Curtin, having heard Mr. Harris' work, has endorsed him as a significant singer of the Verdi repertoire.

Harris has appeared in over 30 operatic roles, both as a heldentenor and as a baritone. He continues to sing in opera houses around the country and world, and has created a unique program, entitled "From Football to Opera", which he brings to schools and libraries around the country.

Harris is represented by his wife, (also a musician) Renee Guerrero, who has started a talent management company (GMI Artists) to represent her husband and other artists out of their Yonkers home.

To find out more about Lawrence Harris, visit his website, listed below:
http://www.lawrenceharrisbaritone.com/

To find out more about his wife Renee's talent management company, including other artists represented, visit her website, listed below:
http://www.gmiartists.com/

Steffi Nossen School for Dance

The Steffi Nossen School for Dance, founded in 1958, offers a wide variety of dance programs for pre-schoolers through pre-professionals.

The underlying premise of the school is that dance is a unique form of education: developing the body, mind, spirit, and character. The enjoyment of dance, participatory or as an audience, is universal and can enrich the lives of all people and enhance their potential. With generous support from the community, they conduct outreach programs to reach a broad and diverse population. The school (and its parent non-profit, Dance in Education Fund, Inc) hopes that all who have been touched by their organization will, as Steffi Nossen said, “Feel dance within them all their lives.”

The school offers a number of classes, workshops, and programs in all styles (from jazz and hiphop to ballet and modern) for dancers of all ages, from pre-school all the way through adults. They also offer opportunities for pre-professional students to perform in their dance companies.

Classes take place at their White Plains studio (216 Central Ave in White Plains (Route 100). All classes are available for Yonkers residents as well. For more information about their work, or to sign up for classes, visit their website listed below:

http://www.steffinossen.org

Other Contact Information:
Steffi Nossen School of Dance
216 Central Ave
White Plains NY 10606
Tel 914 328 1900 Fax 914 328 5115
email: snsdef@aol.com

Biagio "Gino" Civale

Biagio "Gino" Civale was born in Rome Italy in 1935. He has lived and worked all over the world, including France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and USA. He studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes de Rome and at the Grande Chaumiere de Paris. He currently lives in Yonkers, NY.

Civale is a painter and printmaker who works in a figurative style with a primitive abstract sensibility. He says about his own work the following:

"Intensity and creativity have driven me to exhibit in over 60 one-man shows and over 200 group events, in four continents. Having created for 56 years I am still hoping to be able to create a little further. Inspiration is in everything and everywhere if I am in the right state of mind."

In addition to creating artwork, Gino represents over 60 international artists in his studio gallery.
To find out more about Gino's artwork, or to schedule a viewing of the over 60 international artists artworks in his gallery, please visit http://www.studiocivale.com/ or email StudioCivale@msn.com

Elissa Oppenheim Schreiner

Elissa Oppenheim Schreiner, AKA Grandma, has created a children's CD called Grandma Rocks The House. The CD was produced by her son, Gary, and two of her grand-children. It's truly a family affair.

Schreiner a former Yonkers School district music teacher, has led an illustrious music career. She left the school district in order to have children, but never stopped teaching music. She also spent time as an accompanist for singers Diahana Carrol and Robert White, composed piano books, sheet books, and scores for children's theatre, and even won a regional Emmy in 1988 for the music for the television special "Sneakers."

The CD features thirteen original songs performed by top musicians big and small and uses different grooves ranging from swing to R&R, Latin to Country, even a rap called Baby. During the creation process, Grandma met with groups of children (ages 3-10) wanting their point of view as to what they'd like to hear. And many of her Westchester students ended up performing on the CD.

To find out more about the album and hear tracks from the CD, visit the website:
http://www.grandmarocksthehouse.com

To read an article in Lohud about this Yonkers artist, visit the following URL:
Lohud.com article about Grandma
(Please note this URL is not permanent & will at some point, vanish.)