The 9th Annual Warwick Summer Arts Festival July 11 ^th through July 20 ^th, 2008 Suggested Donation for events $15.00 per person / $25.00 per family	Performances Exhibits Workshops

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FRIDAY July 11th 7:00 pm Tickets: $50.00 For advanced tickets and reservations call 845.987-9836 Tickets also available at Newhards Home Store and at Baby Grand Books

OPENING BENEFIT PERFORMANCE & RECEPTION Jamie Masefield's Jazz Mandolin Project HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? A Multi-media performance piece Stone Bridge Station 30 Wisner Road

“ How Much Land Does a Man Need?” is a multi-media performance piece based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy.  Warwick native Jamie Masefield, leader of the renowned group, The Jazz Mandolin Project, has brought this important parable back in the limelight in a way that allows the audience to ask questions of its own time and place.  “Masefield and company may constitute the world's most creative and most unusual power trio. Acoustic-Electric funk…Celtic Folk…Quiet balladry…What creative, improvisation-minded musician wouldn't want to spend time at play in the fields of these ambitious, unclassifiable compositions?”    - Downbeat.com, Philip Booth, September 2000 www.jazzmandolinproject.com

SATURDAY July 12th 7:30 pm

FEUFOLLET Stanley Deming Park Village of Warwick Rain Site: Warwick Reformed Church

Feufollet is known for their excellent musicianship, beautiful vocals, and innovation based on a solid grasp of the tradition, making them one of the most exciting Cajun bands in Southwest Louisiana.  Over the course of the 10 plus years that they has been performing and recording, they have built upon their regional popularity, delighting audiences of all ages at folk festivals and performance venues throughout the United States and French Canada. They're just really a hot, young group….their music is made for dancing; its hard to stay in your seat.” Marsha MacDowell, Great Lakes Folk Festival

SUNDAY July 13th 7:30 pm

THE MEETING HOUSE JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH DAVE SAMUELS Thomas P. Morahan Waterfront Park Town of Warwick Beach, Greenwood Lake Rain Site: Warwick Reformed Church

The Meeting House Jazz Orchestra, directed by Bob Rosen, is a New York City based 17 piece jazz ensemble comprised of outstanding jazz musicians.  The group performs new work by its members as well as other composers combining the jazz and European classical tradition.  Dave Samuels is considered the top mirimba/vibraphone player of our time.  He's performed with a broad scope of artists including Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, Bruce Hornsby, Frank Zappa and Pat Metheny.

WEDNESDAY July 16th 7:30 pm

An Evening of Jazz and Poetry featuring JON BALLANTYN and poets Fred Buell, Howard Horowitz, Mary Makofske Donna Reis and Donna Spector BabyGrand Books 7 West Street Village of Warwick

New York-based Jon Ballantyne is jazz pianist and composer who has recently won his second Juno award (a Canadian Grammy) for "Best Jazz Album of 2007". A highly original, dynamic and creative pianist, Ballantyne has played and recorded with many of the jazz world's greatest musicians, including Joe Henderson, Roy Haynes and Dewey Redman.  Jon will also begin instructing a jazz improvisation class at the Warwick Valley Institute of Music in the fall of 2008. www.warwickinfo.net/wvca

THURSDAY July 17th 7:30 pm

RIVERS AND TIDES A documentary of Andy Goldsworthy Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer Warwick Valley Community Center 11 Hamilton Village of Warwick

Landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is renowned throughout the world for his work in ice, stone, leaves, wood. The film captures the essential unpredictability of working with rivers and with tides and the risk and fragility in everything that Goldsworthy does.  Riedelsheimer's film, like Goldsworthy's sculpture, grows into something beyond the simple making of an object. It touches the heart of what Goldsworthy does and who he is, in much the same way that Goldworthy touches the heart of a place when he works in it and leaves his mark on it and "you see something you never saw before; that was always there but you were blind to".    www.riversandtides.co.uk

FRIDAY July 18th 7:30 pm

M SHANGHAI STRING BAND Scheuermann Farm and Greenhouses 73 Little York Road, Pine Island Rain Site: Warwick Reformed Church

The M SHANGHAI STRING BAND of Brooklyn, New York, started in 2002 as a monthly show in the basement of a local chinese restaurant, the M Shanghai Bistro. Locals began to call the band "M Shanghai". The name stuck. The crowds grew.  Part mountain string band, with a tinge of classic folk, yet altogether modern with lyrics that go right to the heart, this ensemble is sure to make you soar.  “Absolutely timeless music...the most joyous musical celebration of the year" - ALBANY TIMES UNION Best gigs of 2007   www.mshanghaistringband.com

SATURDAY July 19th Parade: Meet at 6:30 Step off at 7:00 p.m. Performance at 7:30 pm

GARBAGE ART PARADE Wear Art, Carry Art, Be Art . . .and recycle! ZEMOG, El Gallo Bueno Stanley Deming Park Village of Warwick Rain Site: Warwick Reformed Church

Line up: Along side Lewis Park Parade Route: Main Street to Railroad Avenue to South Street to the Park Village of Warwick The infamous Art Parade has been literally recycled!!  The parade is dedicated to the art of using the reusable.  Discover your inner alchemist by transforming garbage into wearable, playable, displayable art.  Make a float, wear a mask, create a puppet or play a tin can drum! All are invited to participate in the first ever Garbage Art Parade!   Zemog is 21st Century Latin music, reflecting all of the contradictions and cultural tensions of what it means to be Latin in America today.  The music incorporates everything from bomba and plena to Sun Ra and Van Halen in an uncatergorizable, unique sound.  Downbeat Magazine says Zemog “does for Afro-Latin music what Tom Waits did for Weillian cabaret, bringing a madcap energy and willful weirdness to the basic ingredients and blowing it up with his personality.” www.zemogelgallobueno.com

SUNDAY July 20th 7:00 pm

LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE Scheuermann Farm and Greenhouses 73 Little York Road, Pine Island Rain Site: Warwick Reformed Church

LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE's sound is a re-invention, a nostalgic throwback to a time and place mostly imagined where Peruvian waltzes, Andean huaynos and Cuban Guajiras mix with French opera, Cowboy tunes and Bollywood classics. The result plays like a dreamy soundtrack with classical harmonies set to a Latin beat. Songs on their latest album Pan-American have been called "sparkling gems" (The New Yorker) and their harmonies described as "pure as Andean air" (LA Times). The group has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, Studio 360 as well as  the NY Times and is currently working on an upcoming Mexican tour.     www.lasrubiasdelnorte.com

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THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL July 11th through July 20th	ART IN THE WINDOWS: LANDSCAPES The Storefronts of the Village of Warwick
Professional artists teamed up with Warwick students to create windows inspired by the word LANDSCAPES.  The Windows are the product of these student/artist mentoring relationships reflecting inner, outer, lost and discovered landscapes of their lives.

THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL July 11th through July 20th

RECOLLECTIONS OF PLACE Stanley Deming Park Village of Warwick

Photographs of landscapes and locations from Warwick will be displayed along the fences of Stanley Deming Park.  All are encouraged to write down their memories associated with the places and attach them to the pictures.  The interactive project will be up throughout the Festival.   Karen Decher is a local multi media artists as well as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.  Painter Janet Howard-Fatta received a BFA in painting at Pratt Institute and now lives, teaches & plays in Warwick, NY. with her husband, sculptor, Louis Fatta and two children.

SUNDAY July 20th 10:00 am - 4:00 pm	ART ON THE GREEN Railroad Green Village of Warwick
A selection of artists including  potters, weavers, woodworkers, glassblowers and leatherworkers and painters, will display and sell their work. There will be demonstrations throughout the day as well as a Plein Aire painting event - open to members of the Warwick Art League.

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SATURDAY July 12th 6:00 pm

GARBAGE ART PARADE WORKSHOP Stanley Deming Park Village of Warwick

Paper mache mask and large-scale puppet making in preperation for The Garbage Art Parade on the 19th.  ‘Garbage art' is art made from used, discarded and found materials recycled into new creations.  We'll have much to choose from!! Bring an old shirt or smock.   Kevin Buckland is an Edenville based muralist who believes deeply in the power of art to bring people together. www.therevolutionfactory.com

SUNDAY July 13th 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	GARBAGE ART PARADE WORKSHOP Warwick Valley Community Center 11 Hamilton Village of Warwick
Mask making, painting and costume making. Most materials provided but feel free to bring some interesting recylables in preparation for the Garbage Art Parade on the 19th!!

TUESDAY July 15th 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

INTERIOR LANDSCAPES Daniel Mack's Studio 14 Welling Avenue Village of Warwick Cost: $30.00 Call 845-986-7293 for reservations.

Landscapes are both around us and in us.   Using  found natural materials, artist  Daniel Mack introduces different methods of construction and composition.  Participants will make three or four "interior landscape"  constructions during the workshop. Daniel Mack is a Warwick-based artist, author and teacher. He has been on the faculty of The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies since 1997. www.danielmack.com

WEDNESDAY July 16th 6:30 pm

LEWIS WOODLANDS TOUR Meet at Railroad Green Village of Warwick

Join professional environmentalist and local historian Stephen M. Gross for a tour of the Lewis Woodlands, which was previously known as "Belair", the grounds of the estate of Thomas P. Fowler, the president of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad.  Still visible are remnants of the vast formal gardens, a stone well, the foundation of a gazebo hidden in the woods, carriage paths, and more.  Historic photos will be used to interpret the secret past of the modern landscape.  Some surviving plants and trees of the historic landscaped grounds will also be identified.  Participants should dress accordingly for a walk in the woods.

THURSDAY July 17th 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm	GARBAGE ART PARADE WORKSHOP Warwick Valley Community Center 11 Hamilton Village of Warwick
Make instruments out of junk and learn to play them!!  Including a band practice for the Garbage Art Parade Orchestra!  All ages and skill levels welcome.

FRIDAY July 18th 6:30 pm

ART IN THE LANDSCAPE: Come & Draw! Scheuermann Farm and Greenhouses 73 Little York Road, Pine Island Rain Site: Warwick Reformed Church

The aim is simple: to encourage everyone to draw! Drawing is a visual language, the beginning of training our sight, opening our eyes to our surroundings.  Join us in adding your marks, images, brush strokes and lines to a large community drawing. Heidi Lanino Bilezikian is a fine artist, ceramicist and teacher.   Warwick artist Janet Howard-Fatta creates work that shows a relationship with paint and the world all around her.

SATURDAY July 19th 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

FAIRY HOUSE WORKSHOP Donation: $10.00/$20 for families 18 Furman Lane, Pine Island Call 845-258-4601 for reservations

Build a miniature dwelling or landscape out of bark, moss, twigs, pine cones and other natural materials from the woods, meadows and gardens.  Bring your own or gather from the woods nearby.  Fairy dust is recommended and some will be provided.  Insect repellent is mandatory.  Led by fantasy artist, Barbara Lanza, artist and author of Time To Fly and Enchanting Fairies, How to Paint Charming Fairies and Flowers .

SUNDAY July 20th 3:00 pm

LEWIS WOODLANDS TOUR Meet at Railroad Green Village of Warwick

Join professional environmentalist and local historian Stephen M. Gross for a tour of the Lewis Woodlands, which was previously known as "Belair", the grounds of the estate of Thomas P. Fowler, the president of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad.  Still visible are remnants of the vast formal gardens, a stone well, the foundation of a gazebo hidden in the woods, carriage paths, and more.  Historic photos will be used to interpret the secret past of the modern landscape.  Some surviving plants and trees of the historic landscaped grounds will also be identified.  Participants should dress accordingly for a walk in the woods.