For Immediate Release
Contact: Emily Swartzlander
(614) 464-1032, ext. 11
Columbus, Ohio— Thurber House has extended the deadline for entries to the 2006 Thurber Treat humor writing contest, the annual kickoff to Thurber House’s Literary Picnics summer series of outdoor readings and dinners with Ohio-connected authors. Entries are now due to Thurber House by Mon., May 15.
Winners of the contest, based on the work of author, humorist and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber, will be the featured guests at Thurber House’s Wednesday, June 14 Literary Picnic.
For this year’s contest theme, writers are asked to create a humorous revision of a moment in history, much like Thurber did in his “If Grant had Been Drinking at Appomattox.” The reinvention can range from the personal to the international and can cover any moment in history. Celebrity host Win Logan, of State Auto Insurance, will read Thurber’s story before the contest winners take the stage.
To enter the contest, writers should follow these rules:
* Limit entries to 1000 words.
* Limit two entries per person.
* Submit an entry form, found on the Thurber House Web site, www.thurberhouse.org, with the entry. Names should not be on the entry itself.
* Keep the original — no entries will be returned.
* Send the entry and application to: Thurber Treat Writing Contest; Thurber House; 77 Jefferson Avenue; Columbus, Ohio 43215
Please call 614-464-1032 or visit www.thurberhouse.org with any questions. “If Grant had Been Drinking at Appomattox” can be found in The Thurber Carnival, which is available at Thurber House’s bookstore and at local libraries.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Outstanding Concerts and Lecture in May, Sponsored by the Melton Center for Jewish Studies
From St. Petersburg to Jerusalem: 100 Years of Jewish Musical Renaissance
Steven Michael Glaser, piano
Monday, May 1, 2006, 8 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium,1866 College Road
(OSU Union Garage is the closest parking to Weigel Hall)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Inspired by their culture, their religious tradition, and Zionism, Jewish composers from many lands crafted a rich literature in a great variety of styles during the 20th century. This program of solo piano music showcases works by Joseph Achron, Ernest Bloch, Paul Ben-Haim, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Lazare Saminsky. Co-sponsored by OSU's School of Music.
André Hajdu: Musical Visionary from Jerusalem
André Hajdu and Chamber Ensemble
Monday, May 8, 2006, 8 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium,1866 College Road
(OSU Union Garage is the closest parking to Weigel Hall)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Israeli composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Andre Hajdu was born in Budapest in 1932. A student at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he left Hungary in 1956 and lived in Paris and Tunis, before settling in Jerusalem in 1966, where he joined the Jewish Music Research Center. Hajdu's compositional style defies easy characterization. The influences of Bartok, Kodaly, and Milhaud mingle with his special affinity for Jewish tradition. This chamber music concert will offer a rare opportunity to hear the composer perform his own works. Co-sponsored by OSU's School of Music.
Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and Christian Identity in Early Modern England
Sunday, May 21, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Longaberger Alumni House
2200 Olentangy River Road
(315 to Lane Avenue exit, turn east on Lane, then north on Olentangy River Road)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham B. Mordecai Farissol (Cincinnati, Ohio, Hebrew Union College Press, 1981), for which he received the JWB National Book Award in Jewish History in 1982, Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1988), and A Valley of Vision: The Heavenly Journey of Abraham Ben Haniniah Yagel (Philadelphia, Pa., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
Steven Michael Glaser, piano
Monday, May 1, 2006, 8 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium,1866 College Road
(OSU Union Garage is the closest parking to Weigel Hall)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Inspired by their culture, their religious tradition, and Zionism, Jewish composers from many lands crafted a rich literature in a great variety of styles during the 20th century. This program of solo piano music showcases works by Joseph Achron, Ernest Bloch, Paul Ben-Haim, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Lazare Saminsky. Co-sponsored by OSU's School of Music.
André Hajdu: Musical Visionary from Jerusalem
André Hajdu and Chamber Ensemble
Monday, May 8, 2006, 8 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium,1866 College Road
(OSU Union Garage is the closest parking to Weigel Hall)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Israeli composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Andre Hajdu was born in Budapest in 1932. A student at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he left Hungary in 1956 and lived in Paris and Tunis, before settling in Jerusalem in 1966, where he joined the Jewish Music Research Center. Hajdu's compositional style defies easy characterization. The influences of Bartok, Kodaly, and Milhaud mingle with his special affinity for Jewish tradition. This chamber music concert will offer a rare opportunity to hear the composer perform his own works. Co-sponsored by OSU's School of Music.
Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and Christian Identity in Early Modern England
Sunday, May 21, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Longaberger Alumni House
2200 Olentangy River Road
(315 to Lane Avenue exit, turn east on Lane, then north on Olentangy River Road)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham B. Mordecai Farissol (Cincinnati, Ohio, Hebrew Union College Press, 1981), for which he received the JWB National Book Award in Jewish History in 1982, Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1988), and A Valley of Vision: The Heavenly Journey of Abraham Ben Haniniah Yagel (Philadelphia, Pa., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
A Reminder from Jazz at Columbus Music Hall
734 Oak Street
Columbus, OH 43205
614-464-0044
Wednesday, May 3, 8:30, $7, Bobby Floyd B3 Trio with Derek DiCenzo & Reggie Jackson
Friday, May 5, 8:00, $10, Sarah Morrow, jazz trombone, with Bobby Floyd guest bassist and drummer
Saturday, May 6, Columbus Alternative High School fundraiser with 5 Guys Named Moe
Details on the calendar at columbusmusichall.com
Columbus, OH 43205
614-464-0044
Wednesday, May 3, 8:30, $7, Bobby Floyd B3 Trio with Derek DiCenzo & Reggie Jackson
Friday, May 5, 8:00, $10, Sarah Morrow, jazz trombone, with Bobby Floyd guest bassist and drummer
Saturday, May 6, Columbus Alternative High School fundraiser with 5 Guys Named Moe
Details on the calendar at columbusmusichall.com
Barry Chern holds a moving art sale
Yes, "moving" in so many senses. They laughed, they cried, the nearly wet themselves. And, I gotta move. And, it's a moving target. Unlike past sales, there's no announced date, no particular time, no display. Just a concept, a time-period, an invitation, an opportunity. It's taking place any time between now and near the beginning of June when the Creeping Gentrification once again drives me from my home. At that time all those fine limited-edition hand-printed lithographs (etc) will probably become buried and inaccessible for godnose how long. I had just gotten them dug out around this time last year after 5 years in a formidable heap following that last forced move, which wrecked what was left of my spine and mental state.
I admit it, I haven't produced a damn thing in the realm of visual arts ever since. (nothing that I want to show or sell, anyway.). After nearly 20 years of sacrificing everything for the work, hoping that by the time I was in my 50's I'd maybe have my own press and enough collectors and grants to be able to at least afford to keep working... as soon as I hit 50 it went exactly the opposite way. (I was just recently buying painting supplies and getting ready to finally use the room that was supposed to be my studio when I got my notice that the house was being sold out from under me) So, of course, my old work has not been shown in that time either. But, it has not ceased to exist. It may be forgotten, but it does not forget. Every last one of those millions of sensitive hand motions (and the multiple layers of thought behind them) remains ready to replay itself to the discerning eye.
And, in spite of the fact I have to pay 8 times as much for rent as when I started making prints, the price of art has not gone up at all.
Maybe, I thought, a decade later is not too soon to offer them for sale once more. I am already broke after my latest pen-pal episode with the IRS, new 'deposits' must be made, piano movers must be hired; plus any stuff that someone else takes out of here is a few less ounces I have to take with me. So, take advantage of this increasingly rare opportunity to get some affordable fine original art by an artist who is almost certain to be dead and therefore more interesting one of these days.
E-mail, or call (614) 294-7241 to arrange a visit and viewing. Most early evenings (or late nights) and saturday afternoons will work through most of May. As a bonus, you can get a view of my last major work which never got printed and perhaps never will, still on the stone.
And a list of exhibitions and awards and such in which they participated back when they were viable: http://www.bluestones.com/art/resume.html
I admit it, I haven't produced a damn thing in the realm of visual arts ever since. (nothing that I want to show or sell, anyway.). After nearly 20 years of sacrificing everything for the work, hoping that by the time I was in my 50's I'd maybe have my own press and enough collectors and grants to be able to at least afford to keep working... as soon as I hit 50 it went exactly the opposite way. (I was just recently buying painting supplies and getting ready to finally use the room that was supposed to be my studio when I got my notice that the house was being sold out from under me) So, of course, my old work has not been shown in that time either. But, it has not ceased to exist. It may be forgotten, but it does not forget. Every last one of those millions of sensitive hand motions (and the multiple layers of thought behind them) remains ready to replay itself to the discerning eye.
And, in spite of the fact I have to pay 8 times as much for rent as when I started making prints, the price of art has not gone up at all.
Maybe, I thought, a decade later is not too soon to offer them for sale once more. I am already broke after my latest pen-pal episode with the IRS, new 'deposits' must be made, piano movers must be hired; plus any stuff that someone else takes out of here is a few less ounces I have to take with me. So, take advantage of this increasingly rare opportunity to get some affordable fine original art by an artist who is almost certain to be dead and therefore more interesting one of these days.
E-mail, or call (614) 294-7241 to arrange a visit and viewing. Most early evenings (or late nights) and saturday afternoons will work through most of May. As a bonus, you can get a view of my last major work which never got printed and perhaps never will, still on the stone.
And a list of exhibitions and awards and such in which they participated back when they were viable: http://www.bluestones.com/art/resume.html
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