In the Arts

The Arts Coalition of Asbury Park (ArtsCap) has been given an extended deadline to raise the down payment to purchase Asbury Park’s historic Kinmonth Building at 710 Mattison Ave. and save it from demolition. The Kinmouth, houses the Savoy Theatre.

Plans call for renovating the Savoy, and using the building to house member arts organizations and educational programs. The arts group needs to raise $250,000 for the down payment. To make a tax-deductible donation to The Arts Coalition of Asbury Park, mail to ArtsCAP, P.O. Box 507, Asbury Park, NJ 07712 or call (732) 361-6680.

Donations will be returned to the donor if the $250,000 goal is not met.

The International Center and the Office of Student Life and Activities at Brookdale Community College will host the free fall Foreign Film Fridays series with an Oct. 28 screening of “Once We Were Warriors.” The film will be shown at 7 p.m. in room 100 of the NAS building on the Lincroft campus. Parking is most convenient in lot 6. The film is set in urban Auckland, New Zealand, and tells the story of a Maori underclass family. There will be discussion following the movie.

For information, call the center at (732) 224-2799 or e-mail [email protected] or visit www.internationalcenter.brookdalecc.edu.

Phoenix Productions will produce the Broadway smash “Aida” weekends from Nov. 4-14. The rock musical is based on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi, The classic tale of love, loyalty, betrayal and courage has a Tony and Grammy Award-winning score by Elton John and Tim Rice. Performances will be at the Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth St., Red Bank, on Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 4, 5, 11, 12 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Nov. 6 and 13 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $22 –– $26 and can be reserved by calling (732) 842-9000 or (732) 747-0014.

The Red Bank Chamber Music Society will present a concert on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Church Parish Center, corner of Bridge Avenue and East Herbert Street, Red Bank. The concert will feature the Rachmaninoff Piano Trio, Beethoven Cello Sonata and Mozart Violin Sonata. There is no admission charge, but donations are welcome. For information call the Monmouth Conservatory of Music at (732)741-8880.

Fair Haven singer/songwriter John Padovano will perform in concert in “The Ironbound Crooner Without Orchestra” tour Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Berkeley Carteret Oceanfront Hotel, l401 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park. There is no cover charge. For information, visit www.johnpadovano.com.

The Little Sisters of Hoboken return to Atlantic Highlands this holiday season when Dan Goggin’s “Nunsense” opens at First Avenue Playhouse, 123 First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands. The show opens Nov. 7 and plays every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. through Dec. 17 with a Sunday matinee on Nov. 20 and Dec. 11 at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20 per person on Friday and Saturday and $15 on Thursday and Sunday matinees. For information and reservations, call (732) 291-7552 or visit www.firstavenueplayhouse.com.

Auditions will be held for the British farce “Run for Your Wife” directed by Gary Stern. Needed are men & women, ages 20s through 50s. Casting call will take place 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, and Wednesday, Nov. 16 at the playhouse. Scripts will be provided for reading. The First Avenue Playhouse production will be New Year’s Eve and the month of January.

“Curves and Planes,” an exhibit of paintings by Virginia Carlyle and Marie Maber, is on exhibit at Mitchell Sanborn Gallery in Keyport through Nov. 19. Carlyle focuses on the female body with emphasis on stiletto heels, legs, torsos and lips. The large vivid, sensuous images mock the ongoing commercialization of the female anatomy. Maber began a painting of the view from the kitchen window in Cape May in the 1980s, making small studies over many years, then working in oil, later collating computer images of each step and each layer. The painting as well as the process is featured.

An opening reception will be held Nov. 5, 5-7 p.m. Mitchell Sanborn Gallery is located at 46 W. Front St., Keyport. Hours are Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m., Thursday evenings, 5-8 p.m. and by appointment.

For more information, call

(732) 888 0048 or visit mitchellsanborngallery.com.

The Asbury Park Mural Art Project has completed its first community mural with the participation of the Boys & Girls Club of Asbury Park.

The public is invited to the dedication of the mural at 1201 Munroe Avenue on Nov. 22 between 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. There will be entertainment and refreshments. Call (732) 361-6680 to R.S.V.P.

Black Box of Asbury Park, in cooperation with the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, will present The Music of Invention, a monthly series of concerts on the third Thursday of each month in SICA’s intimate café. Each program will present one performer or group working across stylistic or cultural boundaries. Admission is $10/$8 students and seniors. The Black Box has moved from its home in Asbury Park and all Music of Invention events and the Monthly Forum for Short Films series will be held at SICA, located at 20 Third Ave., Long Branch. Other events are scheduled for various locations. For more information, call (732) 775-9980 or 897-1472. More information is available at the Web sites www.asburyparkblackbox.org or www.sica.org.