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The microphone is perhaps the most underrated item on any stage. While guitars, pianos, violins, or the voice get all the attention, without the microphone, they'd barely be heard.
Ever since we humans took the stage, there's been a parallel desire to be heard. This is why actors shouted and why performance spaces were shaped and enclosed to help project the sound into the audience. Simple effects liked cupped hands and shaped cones—sometimes built into the actors’ masks—were as good as it got for thousands of years.
Then, back around 1665, English polymath Robert Hooke devised what became known affectionately as the "lover's telephone." It was a vessel joined by wire or string which, when held taut, could transmit a human voice over long distances. This invention didn't help the public performers of the time, but it demonstrated that sound could be manipulated and amplified.
The first attempts at the electrical amplification of the human voice date back to 1861 when German inventor Johann Philipp Reis developed the “Reis telephone.” In the one hundred years or so that followed, microphone technology—driven by increasing popularity in recorded sound, radio, talkies at the cinema, and the live music booms across Europe and America—leapt forward.
As sound quality improved, the pressure to project was reduced, and singers realized they could sing softly and quietly and still be heard. Out of this new microphone technology—and the burgeoning radio industry of the 1920s—the "Crooner" was born with subtlety and nuance, becoming a fashionable style of performance. Though conservative circles considered this understated way of performing as degenerate, vulgar, and un-American, it became hugely popular.
Over the years, the microphone continued to develop. Ribbon, condenser, wireless, dynamic, uni-directional, transducer, and the electret microphones all offered innovations, improvements, and—for us in the audience—a more enjoyable, more audible experience.
Today, tiny microphones are invisibly buried into our phones, computers, and even our refrigerators and music players. Wherever they pop up next (implants anyone?!), they'll change our listening and speaking lives yet again.
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Friday, October 23
Gourmet Take Out
With Chef Joseph Cizynski
Curbside pick up between 4:30-5:30pm
Smothered Cajun Dinner
Menu:
- Smothered shrimp in a crab meat gravy
- Smothered pork chops with a buttermilk gravy
- Smothered lemon pound cake with a cranberry, orange and kiwi gravy
$35 Members
$40 Non-Members
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Friday, October 30
Gourmet Take Out
With Chef Joseph Cizynski
Curbside pick up between 4:30-5:30pm
Foods from Transylvania
Menu:
- Smoked seafood salad with horseradish
- Roast leg of lamb with Feteasca wine, potatoes and roasted greens
- Vargabelles sweet cheese noodle tart
$35 Members, $40 Non-Members
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Tuesday, October 27 from 6-8pm
Tuscan Tuesday
With Chef Joseph Cizynski
We’ll start with seafood bruschetta, roasted guinea hen with broccoli rabe, pomegranate and truffles, roast leg of pork glazed with chestnut honey and caramelized onions and chestnuts, puréed apples and carrots, and mixed fruits with a Sabayon brûlée.
Bring your own beverage … and your appetite!
Socially Distanced - Mask Required
$65 Members, $70 Non-Members
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Beginning October 30
Acrylic Jump Starter
With Odin Smith
Four Fridays from 2-4pm
Have fun with a series of exercises designed to increase creativity and help students add emotional content to your acrylic work. There should be no limits to your imagination. Be prepared to do different painting exercises that will stretch your imagination and thought process to raise you to new levels of achievement. If you have been feeling like you need a jump start to get back to painting, this is the class for you! Have your supplies ready so we can jump in right away, starting with a critique of any work you need advice about before next steps.
$85 Members, $100 Non-Members
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Beginning November 2
The Drawing Studio
With Grace Emmet
Four Mondays from 6-8pm
This class is perfect for those who know the basics but what to develop their drawing skills and enhance their understanding of perspective, composition, depth, and form. This class will also cover some advanced techniques through both demonstration and application using charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil.
$85 Members, $100 Non-Members
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Beginning November 3
Pastel Painting: Catching Autumn Colors
With Betsy Payne Cook
Four Tuesdays from 2-4:30pm
Autumn arrives to wash a glow over the landscape, defining the scene with its distinct colors, cool shadows, and crisp skies. In this class beginners, refreshers, and intermediate students will explore how to develop color palettes while using neutral colors and value partnerships to enhance autumn scenes.
Class lessons will include demos and exercises to develop composition, value and color skills. Betsy Payne Cook will instruct, prepare students for independent engagement following the class, and provide feedback on student work.
$100 Members, $110 Non-Members
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Beginning November 4
Knitting for Beginners:
Continental / Scandinavian Methods
With Kirsten West
Four Wednesdays from 10am-noon
You’ll be amazed at how simple it easy to learn to knit Continental/Scandinavian Style. Students will learn to cast on the Scandinavian way, all while learning various stitches, ribs, and basic techniques. We will read patterns and learn about various fibers that are suitable for hand knitting, and how to care for hand knitted items. Knowing continental knitting will make advanced techniques easier to learn and master. This class is for beginners and refreshers.
$85 Members, $100 Non-Members
Socially Distanced - Mask Required
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Beginning November 5
Tween & Teen Throwing Bootcamp!
With David Cravenho
Six Thursdays from 4-6pm
Throw! Throw! Throw! This class will cover the key fundamentals for beginners in throwing, fostering the growth of each individual student’s progress while encouraging creative thinking. The wheel takes a lot of time, practice, and patience to learn and can be very challenging while at the same time soothing and relaxing--a great way for your teen to deal with Covid. It will help increase focus and improve problem-solving skills. A great way to cope with school! This class is especially for newbies.
All tools, materials, and firings are included.
Socially Distanced - Mask Required
$250 Members, $265 Non-Members
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Thursday, November 5 from 6:30-8:30pm
Figure Painting & Drawing
With Sarah Holl
In this class, students can practice their drawing or painting skills while working from a live model. Students will be encouraged to find their own voices and explore various mediums. Students will receive individual instruction as well as group critiques. Open to all levels of experience.
Socially Distanced - Mask Required
$25 per person
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Beginning November 10
So You Want to Take a Spin?
With David Cravenho
Six Tuesdays from 1-3:30pm
This adult beginning wheel throwing class will focus on the core fundamentals of learning the wheel. A sense of humor will help with the challenges that come with learning a new skill. The concept of the class is not what you make, but rather the meditation and peace you will receive from the process. It’s time to get out of the house and engage with your sense of community within our changing world.
Socially Distanced - Mask Required
All tools, materials, and firings are included.
$265 Members, $280 Non-Members
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The Cultural Center is honored to partner with William R . Davis to raffle this incredible piece.
Stormy Evening at Highland Light
by William R. Davis
14" X 16" framed
valued at $5,800
Tickets are $20 each, or three for $50.
All proceeds will support the Center's education programs both onsite and online.
The drawing will be held May 29, 2021. Ticket holders do not have to be present to win.
Drop by the Center today to get your tickets. Thank you and good luck!
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Beginning November 7
Basic But Beautiful Landscape Design
With Priscilla Husband
Four Saturdays from 1-3pm
This 4-week course provides an opportunity for students to learn the basics of landscape design and installation through a new and simple approach, using intuitive tools and techniques for achieving successful, healthy, and colorful gardens and personalized landscape plans.
$125 Members, $135 Non-Members
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Thursday, November 19 from 6-8:30pm
Creating a One-of-a-Kind Veggie Bouquet
With Molly Demeulenaere
Join us to create with like-minded friends, learn new techniques, and make some memories.
Each participant will be provided with a colorful variety of organic fruits, veggies, herbs, and nuts. There will also be an assortment of fun add-ons like buttons, corks, paper, wire, and twine for you to choose from before you learn everything you need to know about putting together a stunning piece of art.
This small, socially-distanced experience includes your choice of mulled cider or prosecco, and we ask that masks be worn during the class.
Please note: everything is purchased specifically for your visit, and all materials are included in the price.
$75 Members, $90 Non-Members
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Sunday, October 25 at 3pm
Doug Ricciardi’s Jazz ‘Til Dawn Performs Gershwin and other Greats in “A Step Back in Time”
Come take a trip down Tin Pan Alley with Doug Ricciardi’s Jazz ‘til Dawn, featuring songs by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Van Heusen, Billie Holiday, Jerome Kern, and other greats, performed by the extraordinary songbird Mozelle Andrulot and percussionist Michael Dunford, pianist Fred Boyle, and bassist Doug Ricciardi.
$20 per person
Socially Distanced - Mask Required
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Sunday, November 1 at 3pm
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Sunday, November 8 at 3pm
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Sunday, November 15 at 3pm
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Sunday, November 22, from 3-4:30pm
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Every Friday from 8:30-9:30am
Yoga for Wise Warriors!
With Lees Yunits
Beginners will be taught basics; more experienced will deepen their knowledge, and all will learn varied ways to enhance their knowing. Lees’s background includes many assorted styles of yoga, including hatha, viniyoga, yin and kundalini. Just as important are the invaluable techniques of breath work.
$15.00 - Drop-In, $75.00 - 6 weeks
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Tuesday, October 27 from 9am-noon
Writing Your Own Obituary
With John S. Parke
Why leave the writing of your obituary up to a family member or friend when you can write your own? Have you ever read an obituary and cringed? Perhaps it wasn’t very flattering, or it didn’t seem to capture the person’s life as you think they would have preferred…or, after a long life, the content was so brief and non-descriptive that you were left asking, I wonder what the real story of that person’s life was?
Attend this class and write your own obituary in the company of people who won’t criticize or judge you. We will go over different styles of obituaries, what makes a good obituary, and common do's and don'ts. Each student will then write their own and can choose to share or not with the group for discussion and feedback.
$35 Members, $40 Non-Members
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
Deadline this Friday!
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