August 10, 2003 - 2:00 PM Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts Admission: General: $5, Patrons: $3 Classic Barbershop by Millstone Valley Chorus Sixty member women's chorus joined by special guests, Good Times Quartet and the award-winning Brothers in Harmony Chorus. Come hear the rich and close harmonies of these groups prior to them traveling to perform at the International Barbershop Harmony Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia later this month. (tickets will be available at the Senior Center or at the door) September 21, 2003 - 3:00 PM Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts Admission: General: $10, Patrons: $8 Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre from Spain to Argentina New Jersey's premiere Flamenco and Spanish Dance company. The passion of Flamenco and the Argentinean tango, set in a Cuban night club cafe circa 1954, with many various other dances and songs from each country.  The ongoing custom of Alborada is to educate on Spanish history, culture and music. September 23, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Art History Lecture Series: Paul Gauguin by Maurice Mahler (1st in a series of 4 lectures) Explore the world of Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Claude Monet, four of the most important painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.  This series will cover the insights and implications of their theories and styles that led to the beginning of modernism. September 30, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Art History Lecture Series: Vincent Van Gogh by Maurice Mahler (2nd in a series of 4 lectures) Explore the world of Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Claude Monet, four of the most important painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.  This series will cover the insights and implications of their theories and styles that led to the beginning of modernism. October 2, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Images in Poetry by John Chorazy, New Jersey Writers' Project The use of strong image-based language is an inherent element of poetry.  In this class, participants will access dreams, explore personal experience, and focus on the vivid pictures of words to create new lyric and narrative poems.  A deeper understanding of  "how a poem means", rather than strict interpretation, will allow each writer a safe space and prompt the creative process on equal ground for all participants. John Chorazy, has been the editor of The Ever Dancing Muse semiannual poetry publication since 1993.  He has been featured in metropolitan area venues such as Borders Books, Barnes and Noble, The Knitting Factory, Back Fence and CBGB's Gallery.  He is presently a teaching artist for the New Jersey Music Society's "Literacy Through Jazz" program, and is a creative writing instructor at the Montclair Art Museum Yard School of Art.  His "Poems for Lunch", a collection of short poems, was published in 1997 by Who's Who in Publishing. October 7, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Art History Lecture Series: Henri Matisse by Maurice Mahler (3rd in a series of 4 lectures) Explore the world of Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Claude Monet, four of the most important painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.  This series will cover the insights and implications of their theories and styles that led to the beginning of modernism. October 9, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Images in Poetry by John Chorazy, New Jersey Writers' Project The use of strong image-based language is an inherent element of poetry.  In this class, participants will access dreams, explore personal experience, and focus on the vivid pictures of words to create new lyric and narrative poems.  A deeper understanding of  "how a poem means", rather than strict interpretation, will allow each writer a safe space and prompt the creative process on equal ground for all participants. John Chorazy, has been the editor of The Ever Dancing Muse semiannual poetry publication since 1993.  He has been featured in metropolitan area venues such as Borders Books, Barnes and Noble, The Knitting Factory, Back Fence and CBGB's Gallery.  He is presently a teaching artist for the New Jersey Music Society's "Literacy Through Jazz" program, and is a creative writing instructor at the Montclair Art Museum Yard School of Art.  His "Poems for Lunch", a collection of short poems, was published in 1997 by Who's Who in Publishing. October 14, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Art History Lecture Series: Claude Monet by Maurice Mahler (4th in a series of 4 lectures) Explore the world of Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Claude Monet, four of the most important painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.  This series will cover the insights and implications of their theories and styles that led to the beginning of modernism. October 19 through October 26, 2003 Monroe Township Public Library Free Admission A Celebration of the Visual Arts 3rd Annual Community-Wide Juried Art Show Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and other visual art forms all created by residents of Monroe Township. Including the following additional events: October 19, 2003 - 2:00 PM Opening Reception By invitation only - for participant artists, their guests and Patrons of the Arts members October 22, 2003 - 12:00 to 2:00 PM Free Admission Stephen Kennedy, portrait artist Demonstration of how to paint a portrait October 30, 31, November 1, 2003 - 7:30 PM November 2, 2003 - 2:00 PM matinee Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts Adults $12.00/Seniors and Students $10.00 It's a Wonderful Life Presented by the Mighty Oak Players From the film by Frank Capra and the story by Philip Van Doren Stern, adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers, one of the most beloved American stories following the life of George Baily and his vision of what the world would have been like if he had never been born.  For ticket information and availability, call (609) 395-0934. Produced by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois. November 4, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Life Drawing by Nancie Gunkelman Students will draw from live model.  Instructor will concentrate on gesture, structure, anatomy, composition and expression in students choice of media. November 9, 2003 - 2:00 PM Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts Admission: General $10.00, Patrons $8.00 H.M.S. Pinafore by the Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company A simple story of an elopement between a captain's daughter and a member of his crew, this early Gilbert & Sullivan classic has held audiences enraptured for over 130 years and gave birth to the English musical theater tradition. November 18, 2003 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monroe Township High School $3.00 Registration Fee.  For registration, call (732) 521-2111. Life Drawing by Nancie Gunkelman Students will draw from live model.  Instructor will concentrate on gesture, structure, anatomy, composition and expression in students choice of media. December 7, 2003 - 2:00 PM Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts Admission: General: $7, Patrons: $5 Tim Gillis Country Christmas Show New Jersey's most popular country music dance band performs a tribute to the holiday season. (This program has been made possible in part by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of the State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.)