Arts & Leisure
DANCE YOUR WAY TO FITNESS WITH YORK PARKS AND RECREATION
Participants in Jacki Sorensen's Aerobic Dance Fitness Program gathered recently to celebrate a successful year. Jacki's Aerobic Dance is offered through the York Parks and Recreation Department. A new set of classes begins on Sept. 12 and continues through Nov. 23. Classes are held on Monday and Wednesday at 8 a.m. at Blueberry Hill on Route 1 and on Tuesday and Thursday at 5:15 p.m. upstairs at the York Beach Fire Department. Pictured are (front, from left): Diane Minard,Pat Smith, Janet Marotta, Carol Coyne and Joann Noel; (back, from left): Marsha Chiumiento, Mary Cosby, Karen Steadman, Debbie Gustafson, Wendy Biden, Robyn Porter and instructor Jan Jonas, and (seated, from left): Gloria Hutchens, Shirley Jaquith, Ruth Cooke, Connie Vieten, Lillian Giles, Sheila Scialdone and Deb Taylor. The price is $80 for residents, $90 for non-residents. Unlimited classes are available for $120 and there is a senior discount of $10 available. Register with York Parks and Recreation by calling 363-1040. For detailed information, call 363-3180 or visit www.jackis.com.
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Art in the Park promises fun for all on Sept. 16
Every September, two Saturdays after Labor Day, a lovely, quiet, sheltered greensward in York Harbor called Moulton Park (many think it's Harmon Park, but it's not) suddenly sprouts dozens of tents, canvas flies and pavilions where scores of artists present an amazing assortment of works of art and craftsmanship for a single day.Register now for York Art Association watercolor classes
The York Art Association, celebrating its 50th year, is issuing a call for artists in watercolor to attend a two-day class in watercolor techniques at the YAA headquarters in York Harbor on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 and 14.Tickets on sale Thursday for Bruce Hornsby concert in the Seacoast
Plan on getting your tickets early.Ogunquit Performing Arts presents "The Red Shoes"
Bossov Ballet Theatre's production of "The Red Shoes" will be performed at the Ogunquit Playhouse on Sept. 17 at 3 p.m., the culminating event of this year's Capriccio festival of the arts."That's Entertainment!" to open the 2006-2007 Classic Film Series
Ogunquit Performing Arts will open the 2006-2007 Classic Film Series season with "That's Entertainment!" at the Dunaway Center on Wednesday evening, Sept. 13, at 7 pm.Ongoing
Sign up now for "The Art of Icon Painting" workshop
Instructor Marina Nazarova Forbes will offer a three-day workshop entitled "The Art of Icon Painting" at D'Alessandro Fine Art Gallery."Road Trip" brings New England art to George Marshall Store Gallery
This past winter, curator Mary Harding logged thousands of miles traveling through four New England states to personally select work for "Road Trip," the current exhibition on view at the George Marshall Store Gallery.A look at Frederic Edwin Church's personal treasure chest at PMA
A few years ago, I visited Olana State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark located a few miles south of Hudson, N.Y.Entries sought for upcoming Old York Garden Club show
The Old York Garden Club is hosting a standard flower show, "A Tribute to Maine Authors," at the York Public Library on Sept. 15 and 16.Bossov Ballet to perform Sept. 17
The Bossov Ballet Troup's rendition of "The Red Shoes "is coming to Ogunquit.YAA "Impressions of York" continues through Sept. 17
The York Art Association is having a busy year, celebrating its 50th anniversary with a succession of shows, the latest of which, "Impressions of York," is continuing through Sept. 17.No pause in "Menopause, the Musical" at the Ogunquit Playhouse
"I'm having a hot flash/A tropical hot flash/My personal summer/Is really a bummer./I'm having a hot flash/Comes on like a car crash/No warning just hot flash./Outside it is nippy/But I'm hot and drippy./I'm having a hot flash." (To the tune of Irving Berlin's "We're Having a Heat Wave" of 1933.)Fall exhibitions at Barn Gallery
Barn Gallery will host its fall exhibitions from Sept. 7 through Oct. 1.Late 19th-century Paris and the countryside by way of Portland
Every year, the Portland Museum of Art mounts a major show designed to interest Maine tourists and residents.Interesting historical and naval artifacts in Kittery museum
Just north of the Kittery traffic circle, on the easterly side of Route 1 at its junction with Rogers Road is the Kittery Historical and Naval Museum, a seasonal non-profit museum honoring Kittery's past as a naval vessel building center during the American Revolution.Splendid variety in contemporary figurative art at OMAA
The artist Craig Hood, a University of New Hampshire professor who is represented in the current Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) exhibition, commented to museum director and exhibit curator Mike Culver that he would try to bring his students to our beautiful oceanfront museum to broaden their exposure to contemporary art, in particular to the many ways in which the figure can dominate and/or send a message.
