Alcott is looking for volunteer help to get the building ready for the 2007 Season.

The L. M. Alcott Art Center Foundation would like to

THANK EVERYONE

who have helped us complete our fifth year of community service
through the ARTS!
We have accomplished a lot in our short history and anticipate significant growth in 2007.
The Alcott strives to make sure Artistic Opportunities are made available and through partnerships, associate members, sponsors and volunteers it is possible. We are always looking for good people with great ideas in order to offer a diverse selection of activities at the Alcott. It has been proven that there are many people who realize the importance of giving unselfishly. This is Alcott's secret for success, meaning that we have been truly blessed by great volunteers and sponsors. THEY are the foundation on which we have been structured.

STILL NO HEAT!

PLEASE HELP US !

11-02-2006

The Alcott has closed for the winter, due to a lack of heat!

If you know of someone who can help us get a new boiler please let us know . All of our momentum is slowed considerably during the winter when we are closed. This will be our fifth winter to close! What a shame!

Just look at what we accomplish during our open months by checking out our past events page. You will see that we stick with our mission statement by nurturing artistic talent. We bring artistic opportunities to this area.

The Alcott Arts Center has become a Mid West Regional Arts Center, with people from a five state area exhibiting and doing projects here.

Without a new boiler we are not able to offer activities when they are needed the most, the winter months.

We have not been able to reach our goal of $25,000.00 to install the new heat source. We do have $7,000.00 saved and we have a general contractor who has volunteered to install said boiler for free.

 BUT WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

If any one can help, please do so! We could operate year round and offer so much more than we do, but not without help.

THANK YOU FOR THE WARMTH!

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELP MAKE THE ALCOTT SUCCESSFUL!

Keep checking our web site during the winter for next years schedule and auditions.

(((((((())))))))

Minds Eye Theatre

Minds Eye Brings

“Creepy”

Back to Halloween

            Kansas City , Kan. – What could be spookier than an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous works?  A presentation of those works in a turn-of-the-century-honest-to-God-haunted-school. And if that isn’t eerie enough, the show opens on Friday the 13^th and closes on Halloween night. 

Beginning on Friday October 13, Minds Eye Theatre will present Darkness, An Evening With Edgar Allen Poe.  Curtain is 8 p.m. and performances run October 13–14, 20–21, 26–28 and 31 at the Alcott Arts Center   180 South 18th Street Kansas City , Kansas.

The play, adapted and directed by Kevin Eib, explores several of Poe’s most famous stories and poems.  The show includes “The Raven”, “Tell-Tale Heart “and “Annabel Lee”.  Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors and may be reserved by calling 913-897-2348. 

Minds Eye Theatre was organized more than five years ago in an effort to bring something unique to the Kansas City area.  The focus is to stretch the boundaries of local theater by presenting works never before or rarely seen in Kansas City by bringing together artists from different cultures and backgrounds to create and explore the craft of theater.  For more information visit www.geocities.com/kcactor/mindseyetheatre.

Trunk and Treat
at
the Alcott Arts Center
180 south 18th street
Kansas city, Kansas 913-233-2787
October 30th 2006
5 to 7:30 pm

Bring your children for a chance to trick or treat in the
Alcott parking lot!
Park and show us your costumes and be rewarded with —–
You guessed it, candy and goodies!

Parents or guardians are required
to be present!
This will be a chance to have fun in a safe environment!

Partnering with the
South of Central Neighborhood Group
Sponsored by Chas Ball’s
and Musical Theatrical Studios!!!!!!
 

Alcott
Halloween
Ghost Tours $5.00
Friday the 13th approx. 9pm &
October 30th
At approx. 6:00pm
Conducted by members of
P.E.D.R.O.
Paranormal Encounter
Documentation & Research
Organization
Tour is not recommended for small children!


Fundraiser for
Alcott Arts Center

Halloween Night October 31st 8PM
$10.00 Admission

“Darkness”
An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe

Presented by Minds Eye Theatre
Adapted and Directed by Kevin Eib

We will have an Auction after the Play with numerous items

 913-233-2787
The Alcott is located at 180 S. 18th
Kansas City, Kansas 66102
Seating is limited, so get your reservations soon!
 

DISNEY’S
“HIGH SCHOOL
MUSICAL”
PRODUCED BY
MUSICAL THEATRICAL STUDIOS
A PLAY WITH AN
EXCELLENT MESSAGE:
“DIVERSITY AND
ACCEPTANCE”
PERFORMANCES AT
THE
UNION STATION
H &R BLOCK THEATRE

NOVEMBER 3,4 at 8PM

NOVEMBER 5 at 3PM

Tickets $15 Adults and
 $12 Students, Senior Citizens, and Union Station KC Members

Tickets Available at

816-460-2020

or online at
www.unionstation.org

RESERVATIONS A MUST!

Drawing Class at the Alcott

Starts September 18 and runs Monday and Tuesdays through October 28^th

6 to 9PM each day

Teacher: George Morris

$140.00 for the six weeks of class

The Alcott Arts Center

And

Boomerstown Cultural Society Presents

An Evening with a Muse

CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boomerstown has been rescheduled for the Spring of 2007. Watch the website, you WILL want to see this play!

ALCOTT has Partnered again with

 Reaching for the STARS Productions
www.reachingthestars.org

S.T.A.R.S. CHILDREN'S PROGRAM FOR 2006
s-t-a-r-s@earthlink.net

 FOR THE PRODUCTION OF

DOROTHY and the WIZ

2PM TO 3:30PM September 9 & 15 in the Alcott Theatre

Call for reservations at 913-233-2787

Kansas City Children 4 through 17 years old present a play for the public.

Come and support the Children and the Arts at the same time.

Second Saturday's

A FREE EVENT

September 9, 2006

Art Exhibitions Start at 5PM

Featured Artist:
Melynda Steward in the Harrison Gallery

Melynda Steward has been working with clay for almost 10 years. She was in search of a hands-on activity she could learn which is how she found the Kansas City Clay Guild where she throws. Most of her pieces are thrown pieces created on the wheel, but she also does hand-built work as well. She is a very practical person and her main focus is on functional stoneware pottery that can be used and enjoyed daily. Recently, she has been experimenting with different types of forms and firings. Each piece on display will be labeled as to how it was created. If you like what you see and are interested in requesting information, please contact Melynda at melynda@kc.rr.com.

Also returning for our end of summer show

Jenny Spears of Emporia State University will be displaying her work in the EAST Gallery
Introducing Jennifer Spears: My name is Jennifer Spears and I am majoring in art therapy at Emporia State University.  In the pre art therapy program I am required to take a number of studio art classes and this is where I have flourished in my skill.  I work with a variety of media, but my personal preferences are oil paint, pastel, charcoal, conte, and the more tactile materials.  In the future I plan on getting my doctorate and masters in art therapy so I can eventually open my own practice for children.

Also featuring art from our President of the Board of Directors

Trey Kline of Kansas City, Kansas

 Amber Harrison  has honored us with a look at her Art again this month.

Amber L Harrison was born August 6th 1983 in Buffalo, New York, where
most of her close knit Italian family still lives. She has lived in
many places thru out her 22 years, including locals such as Arizona, the
New England area, and even overseas in Indonesia for 2 and a half years.
It was in that tropical paradise where she fell in love with the ocean,
the beach, and all the vibrantly colored exotic flowers that grow wild,
and have been inspiration for many of her pieces over the years since.
It was on the long 26 hour flights overseas as a young girl in middle
school that she first really began to recognize that she had an interest
in art. She would draw portraits of characters from her imagination,
and when no more white of the paper was showing through, their image
would appear on what had been a blank sheet in front of her. The flight
attendants would walk by and say "wow, that's so good! Who is that
supposed to be?" One of them actually talked her into giving one of the
portraits away because the flight attendant said it looked just like her
boyfriend. When Amber moved back to the US, her and her mother and two
little sisters had to live on Grand Island, NY to be close to her ailing
grandmother, while her father had to work in Chicago. In that one year,
six family members passed away and that is when Amber realized that art
was more than just an interest or hobby, it was an outlet that could
help express and cope with emotions, and bring joy when there was none.
After she moved to Kansas the next year, she tried to bring her art to
the next level with each new piece she brought to life. In high school
at Blue Valley Northwest, she took just about every art class there was
to take and even took some twice and 3 times. She experienced all types
of new media and styles, from just plain ink and pencils, to pastels
and oil pastels, she began to learn that the whole process of creating a
piece was just as important as the emotional value of the finished
work. Though she loved watercolor, photography, and ceramic works, Amber
found her niche in painting on large canvases. In 2001 she was a member
of the National Art Honor Society at BVNW, and was excited to graduate
and go off to college to experience art education at a higher level. She
went to Kansas State University, working towards a major in Art
Therapy, but was really planning on heading out to California to waitress
until she made it big as a movie star. Though it was one of the best years
of her life, after those first two semesters at K State, she had to
move back home to Overland Park, where she continued to take painting and
other courses at Johnson County Community College. She did get to visit
her father in California in 2004, and he brought her to a small beach
town named Carmel. It was a beautifully quaint little beach town with
the smell of the ocean and flowers in the air. She realized her heart was
not in the performing arts, but instead her dream was now to move to
that place, located right on the beach, where the streets are lined with
shops, galleries, and studios where artists of all different mediums
and content display their constantly selling work.
Currently Amber works for GE Consumer Finance and lives in a house
she rents in Merriam, Kansas. She has taken a break from school, however
she plans to go back in the fall 2006 semester to work towards a major
in business and a minor in art. In the interim between college, Amber
has expanded her painting portfolio from just still lifes and class
projects, to landscapes and waterscapes, portraits, animals, and abstract
art. Over the past two years of not being in school she has actually
learned a lot more about acrylics and brushes, stroke types and
layering, and its actually helped her to developed her own style and she has
been able to experiment with color and texture. It does take Amber a long
time to finish one painting just because she does like to layer up the
paint, and takes time to make sure she adds every detail she sees in
her head. She loves to be able to stand back and look at a finished piece
and have it convey the feeling of expansive distance or make one feel
like they could step right into it. The only problem is by the time she
finishes the paintings, she is so attached to them, and has put so much
feeling into them, she doesn't want to sell them or give them away. She
plans to get professional reproductions made just in case someone
should decide to buy one of her emotional pieces. In the near future, Amber
plans to expand to oil painting, so she can get more textured paintings
and can push the paint in ways a quick drying acrylic limits. Amber is
always looking for ways to create new and different art, so that no
painting looks like any other, while staying true to the one thing that
all her paintings have in common, which is the hidden emotion and feeling
behind the paint.

Auction will start at 6:30PM

Auction Items include:

Mema's Old Fashioned Bakery LLC Gift Box

Side Pockets $20 Gift Certificate

Oil Paintings

and more

 7:00PM Starts our musical part of the evening:

Original music by DJinn will open the evening

"Djinn", consists of guitar, singer, and song writer Josh Foster, and drummer, back up vocalist Keith Mcgeehny. We have been playing together for 3 years working on different sounds that get people entertained while at the same time telling a story. I feel that music is one of the best ways to express the soul. Hopefully these words I write will allow people to realize that the world must work together to survive. We are currently writing new material and setting up new stories to tell.

Savitar will be the second group to dazzle you

We see our music as being very spiritual and organic in nature, it

 consists of innovative psychedelic sounds, beautiful jazz harmonies,

 70's vibes, and insane Latin rhythms.  We are strictly instrumental at

 this point. We feel this best for the music and experience, we'd rather

 people form their own concepts and thoughts on what a song might be

 about or what feelings they should be enduring, instead of us trying to

 set them in predetermined path with laid down lyrics and meaning.  Let

 people form their own understandings and concepts on what they are

 looking for in life and music not what people these days are trying to 

"show" them through mainstream culture.  Music more like life, less

 like television.

Our myspace link - www.myspace.com/thebrahmins

Nocturne Noir will finish the night out
www.myspace.com/nocturnenoir

-Boomerstown-

Boomerstown Womens Cultural Affairs Committee

-by Lewis Gardner

By Appointment---Call 913-233-2787

Womens Club of better than thou members invite
the town's eccentric poets to come for a reading of
their works for the townspeople and the club
members.  Content pokes fun at all levels of "SOCIETY".

A one Act Play, No costume changes, no intermission,
just laughs!

Directed by Chris Green.

We need three Actors:

One Male age 25 to 35, a
gay momma's boy, lives at home and hopes to
convert his boy crash to "his" ways. 

Two women, one African American range could be from early
20's to early 50'- writes poetry about her
heritage.....

...the other woman is open for any female
age  21 through 30 years old - she is sleeping
with one of the other poet's and is confident and
free spirited...,

Play runs Sept. 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 & 23 at 8pm.
 
Alcott Arts Center Theatre

L.M. Alcott Art Center Foundation
180 S. 18th Street
Kansas City, Ks 66102

Chuck Green, Center Director

phone: 913 233-2787

web: http://www.alcottartscenter.org/
email: auditions@alcottartscenter.org
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Stars Children's Program at the Alcott

www.reachingthestars.org

913-488-8116 FOR S.T.A.R.S.

Sign up next Saturday

August 12, 2006

$25.00 each for a six week 

acting class. Starts at 10AM on Saturday and will end at 2PM.

Ghost Hunting Investigation

AT THE ALCOTT ARTS CENTER

180 South 18th St., Kansas City, KS

SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2006

Sign In: 8:00 - 8:30 p.m.

 Event: 8:30 p.m. - early morning hours

 All participants must sign a release form upon entering this event. All proceeds will benefit the Alcott Arts Center. No refunds will be given. Come join us for a private overnight ghost-hunting investigation! Investigators will be allowed behind-the-scenes access to the Alcott Arts Center, which previously served as a Depression-era elementary school and hosts several theatrical and performing arts groups.

No Gimmicks, No Gags, Just Ghosts! • Cost: $40.00 per participant • Registration required; payment must be received by July 21, 2006 • Must be 18 or over to participate • Limited to 21 Participants. Tickets will be given on a “First Come, First Served Basis” If there is enough demand, a second alternative date will be offered. • Participants will receive an introductory packet containing the history of the building & its ghostly inhabitants • Participants are expected to bring their own equipment; a list of recommend equipment will be provided upon request • All participants proceed at their own risk and must sign a standard waiver releasing the Alcott Arts Center and PEDRO from any liability •
Last years hunt findings at www.spiritfiles.net/alcottartscenter.htm

The above photo was taken on 7-2-06 during the strike of House of Yes. See Orb on Chris' head in hallway.

The above photo was taken during our children's production of Matilda in Math Land on 7-8-06. It was taken around 2:30pm. The Orbs are everywhere! If you check out the Orb on the screen in the center of the stage you can see a happy face in it!

Sylvia Brown says all orb's are Angels.

Matilda in Math Land!

Presented by the Alcott Arts Center Theatre

and

 Girl Thang Productions
www.girlthangproductions.zoomshare.com

July 7,8,14 & 15

at 2 PM

$3.00 at the door

Please call for reservations

913-233-2787

or

email us at tickets@alcottartscenter.org

This is a great play to bring your children to!

Fun for the whole family!

There's music, dance, rap and a much needed lessen involved, acceptance! Great confidence builder for the kids. These great actor's will be dedicating a lot of work to raising funds for Friends of Yates. You can help in a number of ways, first attend and support the cause or if you cannot attend please donate. This can be in the form of money or by donating any form of paper goods to this great Charity. Drop them off if you would like and we will make sure they get it. If you attend you can help by doing the same, money is always good but if you can bring paper goods with you when you attend the show it will be gratefully appreciated just the same.

All proceeds go to the Friends of Yates, Joyce H. Williams Center for Battered Women and their Children, a Wyandotte County Shelter for battered families.
 

We appreciate all donations and if you can not make it to the show you can always show your support by making a donation by going to www.paypal.com and use alcott_arts@yahoo.com as our identity.

All donations are tax deductible!

Number One Performance

in the Kansas City Metro Area

 on www.kcstage.com

 as of 6 - 25, 2006

If you have already seen the play please go to kcstage.com and place your vote on the quick review and let the public know how you liked our fundraiser.

If you need tickets call 913-233-(ARTS)2787 or e-mail us at tickets@alcottartscenter.com.

This is a great week where on kcstage Alcott Associate Groups past and present are in the  top
three slots in their top ten performances in KC.

Congratulations to all of them!

'Second Saturdays'  

June 10, 2006

4:00 - 10:00 pm  

Alcott Arts Center

180 South 18th Street

Kansas City, Kansas 66102

(913) 233-ARTS

 http://www.alcottartscenter.org

Art Sale to benefit  “The Alcott”

Art Exhibitions by

Amber Harrison

Amber L Harrison was born August 6th 1983 in Buffalo, New York, where
most of her close knit Italian family still lives. She has lived in
many places thru out her 22 years, including locals such as Arizona, the
New England area, and even overseas in Indonesia for 2 and a half years.
It was in that tropical paradise where she fell in love with the ocean,
the beach, and all the vibrantly colored exotic flowers that grow wild,
and have been inspiration for many of her pieces over the years since.
It was on the long 26 hour flights overseas as a young girl in middle
school that she first really began to recognize that she had an interest
in art. She would draw portraits of characters from her imagination,
and when no more white of the paper was showing through, their image
would appear on what had been a blank sheet in front of her. The flight
attendants would walk by and say "wow, that's so good! Who is that
supposed to be?" One of them actually talked her into giving one of the
portraits away because the flight attendant said it looked just like her
boyfriend. When Amber moved back to the US, her and her mother and two
little sisters had to live on Grand Island, NY to be close to her ailing
grandmother, while her father had to work in Chicago. In that one year,
six family members passed away and that is when Amber realized that art
was more than just an interest or hobby, it was an outlet that could
help express and cope with emotions, and bring joy when there was none.
After she moved to Kansas the next year, she tried to bring her art to
the next level with each new piece she brought to life. In high school
at Blue Valley Northwest, she took just about every art class there was
to take and even took some twice and 3 times. She experienced all types
of new media and styles, from just plain ink and pencils, to pastels
and oil pastels, she began to learn that the whole process of creating a
piece was just as important as the emotional value of the finished
work. Though she loved watercolor, photography, and ceramic works, Amber
found her niche in painting on large canvases. In 2001 she was a member
of the National Art Honor Society at BVNW, and was excited to graduate
and go off to college to experience art education at a higher level. She
went to Kansas State University, working towards a major in Art
Therapy, but was really planning on heading out to California to waitress
until she made it big as a movie star. Though it was one of the best years
of her life, after those first two semesters at K State, she had to
move back home to Overland Park, where she continued to take painting and
other courses at Johnson County Community College. She did get to visit
her father in California in 2004, and he brought her to a small beach
town named Carmel. It was a beautifully quaint little beach town with
the smell of the ocean and flowers in the air. She realized her heart was
not in the performing arts, but instead her dream was now to move to
that place, located right on the beach, where the streets are lined with
shops, galleries, and studios where artists of all different mediums
and content display their constantly selling work.
Currently Amber works for GE Consumer Finance and lives in a house
she rents in Merriam, Kansas. She has taken a break from school, however
she plans to go back in the fall 2006 semester to work towards a major
in business and a minor in art. In the interim between college, Amber
has expanded her painting portfolio from just still lifes and class
projects, to landscapes and waterscapes, portraits, animals, and abstract
art. Over the past two years of not being in school she has actually
learned a lot more about acrylics and brushes, stroke types and
layering, and its actually helped her to developed her own style and she has
been able to experiment with color and texture. It does take Amber a long
time to finish one painting just because she does like to layer up the
paint, and takes time to make sure she adds every detail she sees in
her head. She loves to be able to stand back and look at a finished piece
and have it convey the feeling of expansive distance or make one feel
like they could step right into it. The only problem is by the time she
finishes the paintings, she is so attached to them, and has put so much
feeling into them, she doesn't want to sell them or give them away. She
plans to get professional reproductions made just in case someone
should decide to buy one of her emotional pieces. In the near future, Amber
plans to expand to oil painting, so she can get more textured paintings
and can push the paint in ways a quick drying acrylic limits. Amber is
always looking for ways to create new and different art, so that no
painting looks like any other, while staying true to the one thing that
all her paintings have in common, which is the hidden emotion and feeling
behind the paint.

and

Katie Egenberger  
Catherine Ann Egenberger

                As an Artist I found myself starting at an early age. My mother was an art historian at the Joslen Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. I found my inspirations as a young child in the Native American art. Slowly I found the organic forms in Native American art work which sparked my interest in intricate mark making and craftsmanship. This led me into pottery and painting. As my skills grew stronger I felt a void in my in my work: I needed a different mediums to learn to get a better understanding and different skills levels to accomplish the goals I would be creating with my paintings. I went overseas to England to experience the different qualities in marksmanship and techniques that would enlighten my painting skills. My High School was very small and didn’t offer the supplies and the different mediums that I found in England to enlighten the ideas that I wanted to suggest in some of my paintings.

            As I came to the University of Kansas I found me in another tight bind. I found myself very uneducated against many of my other young artist friends who were more educated and had a stronger background in techniques and style coming out of their High schools. So I started composing paintings for my ideas and dreams that would “POP” into my head. But I was still very indecisive about what my “series” would be about.

            I found my first series to be inspired by Georgia O’Keefe who was also inspired by her Native American heritage, which made her create organic forms that gave off a sexual and natural appeal. I took O’Keefe’s ideas and created a bigger meaning. I found that I had ovarian disease at the age of nineteen, I was told that I might not be able to bare children , so I needed an outlet to express my feelings and emotions that I was having at this crucial point in my life. As time passed I found myself creating new works that represented my healing process and my first series was complete. I finished and recovered from my illness I felt that I needed to revive myself and find new passion in my art work. I found a glassblowing class in Boston Mass, and every day I would create and explore different ideas and techniques. I was in Boston for over two weeks preparing myself for new creations that would come alive right before my eyes. We would produce fire hot glass with hour’s long production that would create the beautiful coloration and forms of glass. Would represent the strength and composure of the “building bocks” of our sculpture glass. I had created over twenty different creations of good glass.

            I came back revived ideas spilling out of me from the beautiful landscape to the glass I had encountered. Once I was home I found myself painting desolate swamps and rivers that I had encountered on my visit. These trees later formed into dead trees that would express my feelings and emotions in the way they moved and coloration of the backgrounds to express the emotion that would plague my mind up to this day.

Exhibits start at 4PM

The Jaybezz Dancers will perform at 6:30PM

  Musical guest include:

 Unbound
www.unboundjazz.com
on stage at 7:15PM
and
Nocturne Noir  
www.myspace.com/nocturnenoir
Taking the stage at 8:30PM

There will be snacks and beverages available

This is a free event!
Remember we are not yet handicap accessible.

APRIL 8th

Auditions for "The House of Yes"

Directed by Shawn Smith

2:30 to 4:30 pm

auditions@alcottartscenter.org

APRIL 8TH

The ALCOTT

STARTS

SECOND SATURDAYS

3 to 10pm

This is  our season opener for 2006

Reception at 6PM

Helping with our very first

Second Saturday 

will be

Jenny Spears in the

Harrison Gallery

Lisa Robertson in the

East Gallery

Music by "DJinn"

throughout the building

"The JAYBEZZ Dancers" will be there to entertain you!

"The Lord Mayors Company"

will dazzle you with their Comedy

And "Girl Thang" will be there to make you laugh even more

Special Auditions

2:30 to 4:30pm for

"The House of Yes" an Alcott Theatrical Fundraiser

Saturday April 8th at The Alcott

Alcott's Second Saturday 's
   April 8 through October 14     3 to 10PM

We start 2006 with a very strong resolve to continue to build community through the Art's. We are working with a number of Art's groups and have a great year planned.
To begin our season we are opening on April 8th, this is the second Saturday of the month and the beginning of a tradition for Alcott.
"Alcott's Second Saturdays"
Our opening day has a whole lot in store for you to enjoy. From 3 until 10PM you can check out our Art Galleries with Art from two very talented female Artists Jenny Spears and Lisa Robertson. There will be live entertainment from the Lord Mayor's company, Girl Thang, DJinn and the Jaybezz Dancers. We're talking about laughter, music, dance and visual pleasure, all in one building.  As you stroll through the Art's Center you can look at the Art donated to the Alcott for us to raise money with. You may find that there are one or more pieces that need to go home with you, if so they can be yours for a fixed minimum donation per item. At 6PM we will be having a reception to Kick-off our capitol campaign to raise funds to build our new Performing Art's Theater and Exhibition Hall. 
Come and enjoy a very inspiring day at the Alcott!
Any Question's? Email us at secondsaturdays@alcottartscenter.org

By the way it's ok to feed the Artists! They will be performing for free to help the Alcott, but if you see an open guitar case, a hat being passed or anything like that, be generous they need to eat too.

The Art Galleries will be open all day and some of the Art in the Galleries will be for sell. Go in and check out the beautiful Art and talk to the Artist, get a feel for what it takes to accomplish such perfection. They have put a lot of time and emotion into their work and you can tell. Get inspired, go home, pick up a brush and find the Artist in yourself!

Jenny Spears of Emporia State University will be displaying her work in the Harrison Gallery
Introducing Jennifer Spears: My name is Jennifer Spears and I am majoring in art therapy at Emporia State University.  In the pre art therapy program I am required to take a number of studio art classes and this is where I have flourished in my skill.  I work with a variety of media, but my personal preferences are oil paint, pastel, charcoal, conte, and the more tactile materials.  In the future I plan on getting my doctorate and masters in art therapy so I can eventually open my own practice for children.

In the East Gallery you can enjoy the work of Lisa Robertson of St. Louis.  www.bellaseraart.com

Lisa Robertson is a self-taught artist working from her home in St. Louis Metro Area and the proprietor of Bella Sera Arts. She doesn't limit her creativity and expresses herself in many mediums. Growing up half her childhood on the East Coast and half on the West Coast and now reside in the middle of the country in the Mid West has given her quite an interesting perspective on life. Her work was shown in Grand Gallery in Kansas City this last winter and currently she is working in watercolor and silk paintings for her next show.

I've always been an artist and believe that each of us has creativity with in us. Since I was a little girl I've drawn or painted with what ever I could get my grubby little fingers on. After a break from painting when I graduated from collage I devoted my time to my career as a Device Physics Failure Analysis for some years. Then I decided to go back to pursuing my art full time. After some floundering, things started to kick in and Bella Sera Art was formed, due mostly to some wonderful people in my life who have encouraged my artistic ability. The name Bella Sera coming from Italian for Beautiful Night and it just seemed to stick. I've been working full force on my art since and it's defiantly been worth it.

Original music by DJinn.

"Djinn", consists of guitar, singer, and song writer Josh Foster, and drummer, back up vocalist Keith Mcgeehny. We have been playing together for 3 years working on different sounds that get people entertained while at the same time telling a story. I feel that music is one of the best ways to express the soul. Hopefully these words I write will allow people to realize that the world must work together to survive. We are currently writing new material and setting up new stories to tell. Look for us Saturday April 8th at Second Saturdays.

Our associate members will be there to sale tickets, enroll for classes, sign you up for auditions or just give you a chance to get to know them. They will be glad to share their reasons for being involved with and how they have similar missions to the Alcott.  If you would like you could register for the next Ghost Hunting Overnight at the Alcott. This is an actual Ghost hunt with the professionals from P.E.D.R.O..   P.E.D.R.O. sponsors these fund-raisers for the Alcott and they are a fun way to spend a weekend night! The space is limited for these events and will book quickly, so if you are interested to see if The Alcott is really haunted then sign up.

The "Lord Mayors Company"  is a long time Alcott friend and is coming back to honor us with some very witty Improvisational comedy. Shortened Shakespeare, Speedy Scenes, Sensational Silliness and Some Super Swordplay. The Lord Mayor's Company "If all the World's a stage, We are hoping to grow out of it soon". www.thelordmayorscompany.com. You have seen them at the KC Renaissance Festival in the past and I'm sure you will see them there again this year! They are some of the best ever and you will feel well entertained.

The "JayBezz Dancers" are a new Hip Hop style dance group at the Alcott and this will be their debut performance. The group was started by Jay Betts and they are very excited to be able to bring some new choice's into this area. JayBezz will perform three shows and will also be available to discuss their type of dance and their plans for the future of the group.

"Girl Thang" is going to do some sketch comedy for everyone to enjoy. They are a theatre group founded on the premise that they should create art in the form of theater but contribute their show proceeds to women's charities. They have come to Alcott this year as a partner. Together we will be bringing more children's theater to our area and will be raising funds for a local Charity. The Friends of Yates will be the recipient of our summer fundraiser. The best part is that this group is multi faceted, not only do they make kid's laugh, they can do the same for you. They will do a summer show for adults, but more on that later.

Jack-O-Lantern’s 101

Ghost Hunting

This picture was taken at the preliminary overnight investigation. As you can see the tree was lit with headlights and the camera was moved while taking the picture. If you look closely you can see a fog rolling in from the top.

This picture was taken shortly after the first and shows the fog taking form. Image was not visible to the naked eye, but did show up on the digital photograph.

This picture was also taken in a very short time frame and you can see that the fog is no longer visable.  All three pictures are of the same tree in the Alcott parking lot                            

Family Fun Day at The Alcott

October 15,2005

1 p.m. – 6 p.m.

913-233-2787

www.alcottartscenter.org

Sponsored by Metro Pawn at 50^th and State and Chas Ball’s Groceries at 19th and Central in Kansas City Kansas

"SAD HOTEL"

August 18-20, 25-27, and September 1-3

Sad Hotel by David Foley is a dramatic fictionalized portrait of Tennessee Williams and his lover Frank Merlo as they struggle with the pressure of fame, betrayal, addiction, and imminent death.

The play is set in 1960’s Key West, FL in the infamous home of Tennessee (Tom) and Frank.  It is a house full of hate, resentment, loss, and abuse, as well as a home full of joy, love and forgiveness.  

Throughout the play we are also introduced to Kit, an aging writer who shares Tom’s addiction to booze, pills, and success; Mary, Tom’s cousin who has just gotten back from her latest successful “rest” in a sanatorium; Pedro, the most recent “boy” to make Tom’s acquaintance; and a nurse who joins Frank on his journey home.  

Produced by Minds Eye Theatre and directed by Sara Crow, the cast includes:

Tom                  Craig Aikman

Frank                         Tom Sawyer

Mary                 Robyn Faulkner

Kit                     Ardis Peterson

Pedro                         Bryan LaFave

Nurse                 Jennifer Huesing

It will be performed at the Alcott Arts Center at 8:00pm, with shows August 18-20, 25-27, and September 1-3.  Tickets are $10.00

Reservations can be made by calling 913-897-2348 or by emailing mindseyetheatre_outoftheordinary@hotmail.com

"BODY ART EXHIBITION"

AUGUST 21, 2005

2- 9pm at The

ALCOTT ARTS CENTER

BOOTH SPACE AVAILABLE FOR LICENCED TATOO ARTIST ONLY! (There will be no Tattooing at this show.)

BOOTH SPACE IS $100.00 AND EACH ARTIST CAN BRING IN FIVE LIVING WORKS OF ART AT $5.00 ADMISSION EACH. The Artist will be able to set appointments to perform work at their own shops.

Tickets for the event are $20.00 and this is an adult’s only show.

You will be allowed to show your own tattoo’s and share your stories behind them.

This is a Fund-Raiser for AAC and it gives us a chance to expose the public to a different form of Artistic Talent.

"The Why" Presented by Minds Eye Theatre
  Directed by Craig Aikman presented in the AACTheater 
August 4th, 5th and 6th - 8pm and 9pm on Saturday the 6th right after Shakespeare! Half price on the 6th if you purchased a ticket for Shakespeare also!
 
*Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
August 6th and 7th 2005
4 to 8pm
Fun and Festival Atmosphere topped off with a production of A Mid Summer Nights Dream.    Sponsored by Alcott Arts Center and Friends of the Alcott! 
This is an Fund-Raiser for the Alcott Boiler Fund


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