The Genesee Valley Council on the Arts Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Norton as executive director, formerly the program coordinator at GVCA/ Livingston Arts Center. This post follows the resignation of former director Kathryn Hollinger this past fall.
Born in Norwood, Mass., Penfield resident Tom Folan in involved in music large and small, from the Shanghai International Choral League to Dansville Music Committee.
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When Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Where Sugarbush Hollow, 8447 Pardee Hollow Road, Springwater.
Tickets $5; children under 10 years accompanied by an adult are free.
Info www.springwaterfiddlersfair.net
The 2011 Nunda Gazebo Arts Showcase is winding down, but it’s not over yet.
Wayland Free Library received $1,500 from Arts Council of the Finger Lakes to support this year’s theme of “One World, Many Stories.”
Bill T. Jones thanks the performers and audience during the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors Dec. 5. Watch the 1970 Wayland High School graduate be honored tonight, Dec. 28, at 9 p.m. on CBS. Among the other honorees this year are Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, Merl Haggard and Jerry Herman.
This week's Genesee Country Express featured two stories found only in the print edition:
News Dansville’s Bill Baconnamed to Livingston County Chamber Board.
Arts & Culture Dansville couple takes third traveler to Middle East.
Local wildlife photographer John Adamski displayed about 125 photos Thursday night in a digital slide presentation sponsored by the Dansville Area Historical Society and Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.
The photos were cherry picked from about 80,000 he has on file from a nearly 40 year period.
A former Wayland man will share the spotlight with Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey and others Dec. 5.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced its selection of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors Sept. 7, and 1970 Wayland High School graduate Bill T. Jones is among them.
Dansville’s Art and Music Extravaganza is only two months away.
The festival will be held in Dansville’s Historic Main Street Business District on Saturday, Aug. 7.
New Deal Gallery & Apartment One Gallery
1-5 p.m. Tuesdays; 1-6 p.m. Thursdays; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays; other times & group tours by appointment; closed Saturday, May 29. Livingston Arts Center, 4 Murray Hill Drive/Building 4, Mt. Morris. View Livingston County’s collection of WPA artwork and exhibitions by regional artists. Gift Shop. Free and open to the public; 243-6785, info@livingstonartscenter.org.
Joe Mathieu has illustrated more than 100 children’s books and has created thousands of illustrations for Sesame Street books and other products.
Nothing kills the mood before a show like a clunky cell phone announcement or fundraising pitch from the stage.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Leon Chiappini hooks a tire-sized cymbal around his finger and spins it like a basketball. He hits it and listens for the ding, the gravel and the growl: elements of crash that the average ear can’t hear. If it’s not perfect, Chiappini tosses it in the reject pile. “After 49 years, I’d better know if it’s good,” he said with a laugh.
I like to think of film critic Roger Ebert as a sieve. When Hollywood releases a film, it's probably going to go through him. And after taking in a flick and sharing his thoughts, his readers are left with just the stuff that they can use - a solid opinion, a little humor, an idea of whether or not they'll be wanting to shell out their money to take a look themselves.
Checklists, writes Boston surgeon and author Atul Gawande in his book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” are considered by many to be beneath us. Yet Gawande proves, without a doubt, that checklists — cognitive safety nets — save lives, millions of dollars and untold heartache, whether the task is flying an airplane, building a skyscraper or operating on an adrenal gland.
Bruce Brown of Springfield first discovered comic books as a child. A specialist recommended them to Brown’s parents to help their son overcome some reading difficulties. Now he not only enjoys reading comic books, he writes them, too. Brown’s latest graphic novel, released earlier this year, is “Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom.”
Jonathan Dee’s new critically acclaimed novel “The Privileges” starts with a wedding, impressive for the deft writing that conveys the controlled chaos, the edgy anxieties, the many tensions springing from family members’ vying needs.
In bestselling author Chris Bohjalian’s “Secrets of Eden,” some mysteries untangle themselves as we approach the last pages of his cleverly told novel.
