Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • ‘Snake Hill,’ a true N.J. story

    A still from the documentary ‘Snake Hill’ On June 13, the Freedom Film Series, produced by the Freedom Film Society (FFS), will present “Snake Hill,” a New Jersey story told by local filmmakers Sandra Longo, director and executive producer, Holmdel; Debra Higgins, producer, an Allenhurst native; and Anna-Maria Vag, producer, Laurence Harbor. The series runs…

  • Arts council celebrates creative arts education

    RED BANK – The Monmouth County Arts Council (MCAC) honored the winners of the 2007 Arts Education Awards May 10 at a ceremony held at the Middletown Arts and Cultural Center. The awards recognize creative arts programming, talented teachers and administrators, and arts-infused schools in Monmouth County. Three arts educators receiving awards were Barbara Calvo…

  • In The Arts

    Randy James Dance Works will perform this weekend at the Two River Theater Company as part of the Best of New Jersey Dance series. The program will include “Blue Diamond Sue” accompanied by bluegrass music; “2 Out of 200,” a dance for four about exploring relationships; “White Heat,” an exuberant and challenging piece accompanied by…

  • Chorale celebrates 50 years of song

    The Shrewsbury Chorale, which performed its first concert at Monmouth College in 1957, will celebrate its Golden Anniversary in a special Reunion Concert at Pollak Theatre, Monmouth University, Saturday. The Reunion Concert will feature works performed throughout the decades under the leadership of founder Alden Hammond and his successors; laureate conductor Paul O. Grammer, Frank…

  • Making art with scraps and stamps

    Untitled Collage, 10″ x 11″ Collages, drawings and mixed-media sculptures by Daniel Schroll are on exhibit in the Nilson Gallery of the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft. “Daniel Schroll Collages” will run through June 24 at the museum, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College. Schroll, Red Bank, is an artist and professor of graphic…

  • Obituaries

    Sylvia Laratonda Garippo Mrs. Garippo, 85, of West Long Branch, died May 27, 2007, at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Long Branch. Born in Pittsburgh, she resided in Asbury Park prior to relocating to West Long Branch 53 years ago. Mrs. Garippo was a homemaker. She was a founding member of St. Jerome’s…

  • ‘One Hundred Tea Lights’

    Montauk 10 A solo show by the artist known as SICA is at Art Forms gallery in Red Bank. “One Hundred Tea Lights,” works on paper and canvas by Marilyn Sica, will run through June 17. SICA is perhaps most recognizable for her unique mixed-media “constructions.” The artist’s immediate subject matter is that of shapes,…

  • Marimba concert series celebrates 28th season

    Leigh Howard Stevens The 28th Leigh Howard Stevens Summer Marimba Seminar is being held through June 21 in the Ocean Grove/Asbury Park area. Stevens, a world-renowned classical marimbist, also designs and manufactures marimbas, xylophones and other keyboard percussion instruments. Each summer, between 30 to 40 university-level music students from around the world converge on Monmouth…

  • First Avenue Playhouse will host the world-premiere reading of “With This Ring” by resident playwright Joe Simonelli at the playhouse, 123 First Ave., Atlantic Highlands, Saturday at 8 p.m. The story involves three vignettes that span three generations of couples who occupy the same apartment located in an old Victorian house in Rockaway Beach, N.Y.…