Meeting Monday, June 8

Join us for our monthly Dennis Arts and Culture Council meeting at 6:30 p.m.. We welcome new members!

Also on Sunday, June 7 don’t miss the Songfest ‘09 at Dennis Union Church. A great time, good music.

Encampment in Dennis

Bayonnet Practice

I hope you were able to see the Confederate and Union camps set up by the Dennis Union Church this weekend. The encampment was part of “Dennis Reads” Lincoln Anniversary and was funded in part by DACC. The reenacters were fabulous and the cannon fire transported me to the Civil War days. Thanks to Village Improvement Society and the Dennis Libraries for bringing this even to town.

Kaplan Playwriting Competition: Voices of Cape Cod

The Competition encourages and stimulates the writing and production of new full-length plays by Cape and Island writers. The Competition is sponsored by Eventide Arts, a Cape Cod non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of the arts. “Innovative Performance with an Independent Vision – www.EventideArts.org

The Competition is open to full-length plays written by both new and experienced playwrights who live on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket. One play will be selected by the judges and presented as a staged reading in June 2009 on the historic Gertrude Lawrence stage as part of Eventide Arts’ 2008-2009 season of plays, concerts and workshops. The winning Competition entry will be awarded the $1,000 Kaplan Prize. Additional support provided by the Marion Jordon Charitable Foundation.

Completed plays and works-in-progress must first be submitted to the Competition by the October 30 deadline to be included in the Competition. The second and final deadline for submission of edited plays is February 28, 2009.

Contact: Jacqueline M. Loring at jmlake@capecod.net or 508-542-2013

Deadlines:
Completed plays & Works-in-progress — Thursday, October 30, 2008
Final Edited Play — February 28, 2009

No DACC Meeting in April, see you in May.

2009 Parade a Rousing Success!

Congratulation to the Parade Committee and Sponsors! See the highlights set to music here. Enjoy the 17th, and see the link to O’Shea’s for music all month.

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Video c. Lisa Morales

Spring at Harvest Gallery & Wine Bar in Dennis Village

Harvest Gallery

Wine Bar Entertainment
The Wine Bar will be open Thursdays – Sundays. Entertainment is on Friday & Saturdays 7:00 – 11:00 pm.

Friday, April 3: TBA – Opening Night
Saturday, April 4: Kami Lyle Trio – Jazz/Pop/Original Music

Friday, April 10: Toast and Jam – Bluegrass, Eclectic
Saturday, April 11: Kami Lyle Trio – Jazz/Pop/Original Music

Friday, April 17: Sarah Swain – Acoustic, Original, Country Music
Saturday, April 18: Kami Lyle Trio – Jazz/Pop/Original Music

Friday April 24: Dave Richardson Blues Duo – Acoustic
Saturday, April 25: Kami Lyle Trio – Jazz/Pop/Original Music

The Harvest Gallery Wine Bar is located at 776 Main Street in Dennis. For more information call 508-385-2444 or visit Harvest Gallery online.

MARCH 7 is PARADE DAY!

2009 St. Patrick’s Parade
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Starting at 11:00 a.m.
Theme: “Counties of Ireland”
West Dennis kick-off! No rain allowed this year!
Parade starts at School Street and Route 28 in West Dennis. Continue west on Route 28, over the Bass River Bridge, ending at Route 28 and Forest Road, by the Dunkin Donuts and the Catholic Church.
For more information or to sponsor contact the parade committee. Erin go bragh!

Pinocchio Comes to Life Feb.14-22!

At the Gertrude Lawrence Stage, Eventide Arts presents Pinocchio!

This inventive adaptation of the ageless Carlo Collodi story is loaded with the hi-jinks and fast-pacing of the commedia dell’arte and its zany characters — such as Gepetto, Fire Eater, Fox and Cat, and a wonderful Blue Fairy.
(Presented by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing, Woodstock, Illinois)
Directed by Kay DeFord

Showtimes:
Saturdays, February 14, 21— 10:00 a.m.
Sundays, February 15, 22 — 2:30 p.m.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
February 16, 17, 19, 20 — 7:00 p.m.

Box Office: (508) 398-8588

Reception and Show at CC Museum of Art

Work by award-winning artists from both coasts and Mexico now showing at the Museum and at the Addison Art Gallery.

“The work of the plein air painters now on view at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, until March 22, gives the viewer a glimpse of the Maine coast as seen through the eyes of twelve different impressionist painters from all over the United States. Each painter’s view reveals reality seen through the individual’s temperament with particular attention to capturing on the two dimensional canvas the look of light falling upon three dimensional form in nature. It is a magical and restful exhibition celebrating unity of effect and harmony of design.”
Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director, Cape Cod Museum of Art

RECEPTION February 13, 2009
5:30 – 7:30, Cape Cod Museum of Art Dennis, MA.

Visit Addison Art Gallery for more information.

This Week at Cape Cinema

At Cape Cinema through February 5: The WRESTLER. Mickey Rourke stars in this tender, brutal and haunting tale of a washed-up professional wrestler still living off the fumes of his glory days.