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Spring Haiku Challenge
The kanji character "haru" means spring. It's time again for the annual NCPR Spring Haiku challenge. Join the hundreds who have sniffed out the season of new growth and put it all into a very few wordsToday's Arts Events
CONCERT: "We'll Meet Again: The Songs of Kate Smith"
(May 21, 2013, 07:30 pm) As seen on PBS's "Live from Lincoln Center," a concert featuring Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano, and Craig Terry, piano, will be held tonight in Snell Theater. Tickets: $25 general admission; $20 for faculty, staff, and students. SUNY Potsdam: Sara Snell Music Theater, 44 Pierrepont Avenue,Potsdam,NY More info
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Creative Tuesdays Program for Kids
(May 21, 2013, 03:00 pm - 05:00 pm) Use your imagination to be creative with recycled materials. Free. All ages, but under 10 with an adult helper, please. No preregistration needed. May 7, 14, 21 & 28, 3-5pm. Fletcher Free Library, 235 College Street,Burlington,VT More info
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Jazz Jam - Presented by the North Country Arts Council
(Every Third Tuesday of the month, 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm) The North Country Arts Councils presents a bi-weekly Jazz Jam the 1st and 3rd Tuesday nights at 7 pm at Musicology on State Street. Bring your horns, your friends and desire to learn more about jazz! Open to musicians and vocalists of all abilities. Watertown, NY More info
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MISS CALEDONIA playing in the NAC Studio
(May 21 to May 24, 08:00 pm) Melody A. Johnson, accompanied by Alison Porter on fiddle, recounts the journey of a rural girl in search of the title in a local beauty pageant, the first step in her quest to become a movie star. National Arts Centre (NAC), 53 Elgin Street,Ottawa,ON More info
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Arts & Culture
May 21, 2013 — China has been building museums with abandon, opening about 100 annually in recent years. Two of the biggest opened on the same day last fall on opposite banks of Shanghai's Huangpu River. But filling these museums — with both art and visitors — is proving more challenging.
May 21, 2013 — In his new HBO film, the acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between the flamboyant entertainer and Scott Thorson, who was 40 years Liberace's junior and still a teenager when they met. Michael Douglas plays Liberace and Matt Damon plays Thorson.
May 21, 2013 — Brands that found their original audiences in traditional, old-media platforms are finding ways to keep going in the world of new media.
May 21, 2013 — J.J. Abrams isn't the first guy to bait Star Trek fans by messing with the brand.
May 20, 2013 — Launched as an alternative to the stale stylings of the '80s stand-up circuit, Beth Lapides' event bills itself as a venue for "idiosyncratic, conversational comedy." It's helped establish careers for performers from Kathy Griffin to Randy and Jason Sklar.
Publishing Books in the Adirondacks: Sisters from the Bronx Open Publishing House in Tupper Lake
Mar 06, 2001 — Two sisters from the Bronx have opened a publishing company in the Adirondacks. Highbridge Press moved to Tupper Lake last year. The fledgling company has already published eight books, mostly novels. The sisters--who are African American---say the move to a small town far from New York City was just what their business needed. Brian Mann has this profile. Go to full article
Inuit Drumming and Throat Singing
Mar 02, 2001 — Martha Foley reports on the Aqsarnit drum dancers and throat singers who visited Canton for St. Lawrence University's Festival of the Arts, focusing on Inuit culture. Go to full article
Readers & Writers: Bone Dance by Wendy Rose
Mar 01, 2001 — On this edition of our call-in on contemporary literature, our guest is poet Wendy Rose, talking about her volume of collected and new poems Bone Dance. Host Jackie Sauter is joined in the stdio by Maurice Kenny and Susan Stebbins. Go to full article
Jose Kusugak, Inuit Tapirisat: From Snow Age to Space Age
Feb 27, 2001 — The Inuit people populate a huge swath of land from Alaska in the West, across Canada to the Atlantic Ocean, and East to Greenland. Despite the broad territory, they speak a... Go to full article
Peter Schickele Brings PDQ Bach to Potsdam
Feb 23, 2001 — Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach: "The Jeckyl and Hyde Tour" visits the Crane School of Music Saturday night, February 24 at 7:30 in Hosmer Hall. The concert is part of the... Go to full article
A Singing Valentine, Barbershop-style
Feb 14, 2001 — As much a part of the American culture as Mom and apple pie, barbershop quartet singing is an American institution. It's alive today, largely through the efforts of an... Go to full article
Dam Builders and Vow performed by Dale Hobson
Feb 10, 2001 — Dale Hobson, NCPR Webnaut from Potsdam, New York, reading Dam Builders and Vow before a rowdy crowd at Martha And Ev's annual barn party, February 2001. Go to full article
TAUNY Cookbook Wins National Award
Feb 02, 2001 — The Traditional Arts In Upstate New York's cookbook, Good Food, Served Righthas won first place in the 2000 Tobasco Community Cookbook Competition. Martha Foley has... Go to full article
Redaers & Writers: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Feb 01, 2001 — Our guest is Octavia Butler, talking about her science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, a cautionary tale set in the near future. Co-hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris... Go to full article
"Twisted": the Case of the Young Author
Feb 01, 2001 — Educators are on high alert for signs of school violence in the post-Columbine era. Recently near Cornwall, Ontario, a high school student wrote a drama class essay called... Go to full article
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