August 26, 2004
Daughter of Immigrants
Local Author
Pearl Kastran Ahnen's
Daughter of Immigrants
(about a Greek Family)
Allegan Area Community Center
PRESENTS:
A Discussion: "America, a land of immigrants"
and book signing with the author,
Pearl Kastran Ahnen
Thursday, August 26, 2004, 7:00 p.m.
Allegan Area Community Center
330 Trowbridge, Allegan
(269) 686-9077
Open to the public (no charge)
Posted by Legend Theatre at 11:32 AM | Comments (0)
August 24, 2004
Antique Engine and Tractor Show
Four Days of Old Fashion Family Fun!
Thursday, Sept.9 - Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004
Michigan Flywheelers Museum
Our 21st annual "Antique Engine and Tractor Show," Thursday, Sept. 9 - Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004. Come visit the show where hundreds of exhibitors from across the country display antique machinery of all makes, shapes and sizes! There is plenty to see during the show - working displays of the blacksmith shop, shingle mill and sawmill. A larger outdoor flea market, music, auctions and kids activities complete the event!
Schedule of Events
Thursday, Sept. 9
9 am - Opening Ceremonies
10 am - Shingle Mill/Sawmill Demonstration
2 pm- Equipment Parade
3 pm - Shingle Mill Demonstration
4 pm - Blessing of the Tractors/South Haven Tractor Cruise
8 pm - "Dancing through the Decades"
Friday, Sept. 10
9 am - Opening Ceremonies
10 am - Shingle mill/Sawmill Demonstration
12 pm - Noon Whistle
1 pm - Cake Walk
2 pm - Equipment Parade
3 pm - Shingle Mill Demonstration
3:30 pm - Sawdust Pile
6 pm - Trashy Women Line Dancers
7 pm - Country Gentlemen
Saturday, Sept. 11
9 am - Opening Ceremonies
10 am - Shingle mill/Sawmill Demonstration
12 pm - Tractor Pull sign-up/Noon Whistle
1 pm - Tractor Pulls/Kiddie Tractor Pulls
2 pm - Equipment Parade
3 pm - Flywheel Toss/Sawdust Pile/Old Fashion Kids Games
4 pm - Chinese Auction
6 pm - Casco Band
7 pm - Magic Show
8 pm - Polka Brothers
Sunday, Sept. 12
9 am - Consignment Auction
10 am - Church Services
2 p.m. - Equipment Parade
4 p.m. - Exhibitor & Flea Market $100 drawing
Posted by Michigan Flywheelers Museum at 07:54 PM | Comments (0)
Upcoming Concert at Blue Star Theatre
A Rise in Minds
Friday, August 27
Doors open at 8 p.m. - Show is at 9 p.m.
$5 cover charge
Blue Star Theatre
422 Eagle Street
For more information, call 269-639-STAR, or www.bluestarttheatre.org - Tessa Rochon 810-614-4841
Posted by Blue Star Theatre at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
Paring Poems With Pictures
I try to focus
on today and then tonight.
But I can’t forget
two planes,
two towers,
and a tomb.
And I wonder,
too often,
about tomorrow.
Poem by Otto Selles
“Perspective”
"re/construct" will be at the South Haven Center for the Arts through September 19.
Read Jennifer Steensma Hoag's "Notes on re/construct" by clicking on the Continue reading "Paring Poems With Pictures" link below.
New work in the Terra Incognita series by Jennifer Steensma Hoag
Grand Rapids photographer Jennifer Steensma Hoag says she left her photographs untitled because the objects are supposed to be ambiguous. “These are found installations that I made into art.”
The photos document human alterations to the landscape. She says she is interested in the intersection of human constructions with a natural landscape. Although they are not intrinsically beautiful, she considers the subjects to be beautiful through the composition, design and craft.
She took the photographs with a twin lens Rolleiflex camera made in the 1940s. She then altered the photos slightly with a digital program, digitally exposed them and then printed them on photographic paper.
Otto Selles, a poet who is a Professor of French at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, wrote poetry to accompany the photographs in this exhibition. The title, “re/construct, applies to the photographs themselves and to the pairing of the poems with the pictures.
“The viewer has to re/construct the photo as he looks at it and re/construct it when he reads the poem that goes with it,” says Steensma Hoag.
Posted by South Haven Center for the Arts at 11:40 AM | Comments (0)
Our Town Players' Present
'A Divine Comedy'
by Dennis J. Hassel
Friday & Saturday Sept 24, 25, Oct 1 & 2
At Listiak Auditorium
8:00pm Show time
"Right Reverend Robert Shepherd is fresh out of the seminary with an
assignment: turn around a struggling urban church in six months, and he'll have the job permanently. If he fails, the building will be razed for condominiums. But after meeting the bizarre parishioners and church board members of St. Hilaria's, he realizes that the deal he's made will challenge his idealism, his optimism, and his sanity."
Posted by at 11:29 AM | Comments (1)
RE/CONSTRUCT Exhibition
An exhibition of unusual landscape photographs of human constructions in the desert taken by Grand Rapids artist Jennifer Steensma Hoag will open at the South Haven Center for the Arts Friday, August 20.
The exhibition, ”re/construct” focuses on objects that were constructed for military or industrial purposes within the barren landscape of the desert salt flats.
Hoag is an Assistant Professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids. In 1998, she was awarded an artist residency from the Center for Land Use Interpretation. This body of work was inspired by the objects she found and the landscape that was around her during her residency.
(continued...)
Center Director Michael Fiedorowicz says the photographs in this series are obscure. “Re/construct” has austere objects in the landscape that don’t quite reveal their meaning.”
In her artist’s statement, Hoag explains why she photographs these sites.
“Landscape is a human construct, created as much within us as around us. I photograph land sites which are under construction or have been altered by other human activity. In these images, I omit contextual information, leading viewer s to believe they are viewing documents of land art or installations. While blending and contrasting commercial and military use of land with an artistic use, these works display the ambiguous relations between the documentary and aesthetic value of the image, the ability of the photographic image to inform and deceive, and the use of the photograph as substitute or visual reminder.”
Her work has been shown throughout Michigan including exhibitions at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and the Art Center of Battle Creek.
“re/construct” will be in the lower gallery through September 26.
The Center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, Friday from 10 to 4 p.m., Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The Center is located at 600 Phoenix Street in downtown South Haven. For more information, call 269-637-1041, or visit www.southhavenarts.org.
Posted by South Haven Center for the Arts at 12:07 AM | Comments (0)