The Little Wellness Arts Center is open.
Drop by our virtual home any time or if in South Jersey/Greater Atlantic City visit us in person.
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REGISTRATION
DEADLINE DATE is 5/9/13 for 5/16 and 5/24 for GCAC MEMBERSHIP
WORKSHOPS. Plan to attend from 10-noon in the meeting room of the
Atlantic County Library on Jim LeedsRd.inGalloway and bring the following supplies: In
addition to your $20.00 membership checks payable to GCAC bring:
acrylic or watercolor paints, brushes, a palette, an 11x 14 canvas or
similar size watercolor paper, pencil and drawing paper, and an old
newspaper to protect the table. For questions call: Bonnie Caviliar609 287 1571.
Having its world premier Fall 2012, Messages from Men is an all-male performance piece that challenges and enlightens the audience on what's in the hearts and souls of men. It features local artists performing original poetry, spoken word, monologues and dance. Performance pieces will address social issues, cultural character types and will be a commentary on today's African American males.
In 1960 the world of entertainment welcomed one of its brightest, most creative and influential stars in the person of Jonathan Winters.
I was a big fan of the way Winters could take a wallet, a hammer, a note book or here a pen and pencil set and create comedy right out of his wonderful mind.
I don't know that I have ever seen anyone with a remarkable and sharp sense of the absurd.
I myself still practice by picking up objects and trying to be funny. It's not as easy as one would think.
My favorite Winters performance was in the classic episode of The Twilight Zone called A Game Of Pool co starring the brilliant Jack Klugman.
Winters as Fats Brown plays his role straight, dramatic and pitch perfect as the ghost of the world's greatest pool players sent to test the skills and will of Klugman's Jessie Carter.
This is a must see for any sci-fan or fan of dramatic acting.
Here Robin Winters and Robin Williams discuss improv.
Winters was just an amazing talent that we will never see again.
Though MY introduction to Godspell was relatively late.
It was still a long time ago.
The play had been years past Broadway.
In fact Godspell was already becoming a HIGH SCHOOL favorite and I had not seen it.
I first caught Godspell one Easter after the Sunday Basket Ball Game on NBC. Godspell was broadcast on WNEW channel 29 in New York.
I had run from Godspell and I am ashamed to admit I still have not seen Jesus Christ Super Star.
You see in with my strict Christian up bringing there had been no room in my head for a "hippie" version of the life of Christ.
However, I had just intended to give Godspell a chance.
The film moved me in a deep way.
First Godspell spoke to the artist in me because I was captivated by the fact they set the entire movie through out New York. I love to look for places in the city I have visited and are still in NYC.
Secondly, I have to admit as a student of The Bible....Godspell gets it right.
The film makers convey the parables and what I feel to be the sensibilities and love of Jesus through film as well as any preacher in a pulpit...perhaps better.
With the NYC setting and the updated clothing, loving your brother and sister doesn't seem like such a hard thing to do. The updated clothing and watching it in real settings that are hear today makes you thing about how The Bible is not as far back in history as we would like to believe. And I realized that people that may never had touched a Bible...could be touched by Godspell.
Whatever your beliefs...I suggest Godspell.
I give it a thumbs up as a great musical, a classic piece of film/theater history, and a heart warming and wrenching interpretation of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ.