Art therapy
Friday, March 13, 2009
Art therapy
The 35th annual Art Therapy Discovery Day will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Visser Hall at Emporia State University. Featured will be internationally recognized art therapist Charles Anderson, who was a therapist at the Menninger Clinic for more than 40 years and has taught art therapy at Washburn University, Emporia State University and Avila University. He practices non-clinical art therapy with senior citizens and at Stormont-Vail in Topeka. In 2008, he was chosen to receive the Multi-Cultural Leadership Award of the American Art Therapy Association and has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kansas Art Therapy Association. For more information, call (785) 840-5280 or gwolf@emporia.edu. For more information about academic credit (offered for the first time this year), call Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, director of the ESU Art Therapy Program, at 341-5809.
St. Pat’s in Council Grove
A St. Patrick’s Day “Memories Show” and dinner will be featured at the Trail Days Bakery Cafe on the historic Maple Camp Grounds at 803 W. Main St. in Council Grove, beginning with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Terwilliger home. The dinner menu features “pot-o’-gold round steak and potatoes, Leprechaun creamy coleslaw with apples, dinner rolls, wearin’-of-the green chocolate cake and coffee or tea,” stated the news release.
After the meal, the entertainment will begin at 8 p.m. in the 1902 Field School featuring Roger Weaver of Cottonwood Falls, pianist; Kathy Lamberson, vocalist and flutist; and Lisa Bolieu portraying “an Irish mother entrancing her baby with lovely Irish lullabies” along with three “charming Irishmen” portrayed by Travis LeMay, Keaton Shirley and Tyler Johnson. Piano accompaniment will be provided by Karen Harmison of White City. Susan Misenheimer is stage manager and Ken McClintock is the master of ceremonies. Along with the songs and music, slides of Ireland will be shown, some provided by Helen Judd from travels she made with her late husband, Charlie Judd.
This event is a fundraiser for the Historic Preservation Corporation for the restoration and maintenance of the Terwilliger Home and the historic buildings at Maple Camp. The cost is $17 each person. To make reservations, call (620) 767-7986.
The Terwilliger Home is one of the four oldest homes remaining alongside the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas. It was built when Kansas became the 34th state. Built by Abraham and Mary Rawlinson in 1860-61, this stone home was the last house freighters passed going West when leaving Council Grove as last as 1863.
Art exhibit
The Emporia Arts Council presents Casey Wilson Photography through March 27 at the Emporia Arts Center, 618 Mechanic St. For more information, call 343-6473.
Club scene
The Co-Dependents will play at 7 p.m. Saturday at Heidi Inn at Lebo; 9 to 11 p.m. March 21 at The Noose; and 9 p.m. April 18 at Cap’n Drinkwater’s in Strong City.
Theater
The Community Theatre of Emporia is presenting “A Musical Night to Remember” March 20 at the Emporia Country Club. A seafood buffet will be served at 6:30 p.m., after which there will be the musical performance. Performers include Anna Ryan, Penny Speedie, Jeremiah Divine, Amanda Mayer, Jake Naverud, Terry Barham, Erin Reilly and John Gilmore. For tickets, which are $30 each person, call 341-9283 or see www.cteks.com. Reservations are needed by Wednesday.
Symphony preview
A Prelude to the Symphony in the Flint Hills 2009 with an ensemble from the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra will be performed from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 24 at the Granada Theatre. Light refeshments will be served. There also will be a drawing for the June 13 Symphony in the Flint Hills. (must be present to win). The tickets for the Prelude are free while they last and are available at the Emporia Gazette, ESB Financial, Emporia Area Chamber and Visitors Bureau and the Emporia Arts Center (limit four each person). The fourth annual Symphony in the Flint Hills will be held on a private ranch near Florence.
Missoula troupe
Missoula Children’s Theatre returns this year with their week-long residency and performance of “The Princess and the Pea.” Each year, 50 to 60 young people in grades kindergarten to 12 participate in a production by the MCT. Auditions will be held, beginning promptly at 4:30 p.m. March 30 at Emporia High School. Those interested in auditioning are encouraged to arrive early for registration. The week will end with performances at 7 p.m. April 3 and 2 p.m. April. According to the Emporia Arts Council bulletin, “Those attending will enjoy the twists and turns of this Kingdom of Show where residents are Winter Wind Workers, Blizzard Bringers, Icicle Sharpeners and Snow Smoothers. This is one fiasco you won’t want to miss!” For more information, call the EAC at 343-6473.
abc123 (anonymous) says...
Dates for the band CO-Dependents to play is wrong..they play THIS Saturday at the Noose 8-11 then NEXT Sat. the 21st at the Heidi Inn in Lebo. Nevertheless..great band :)
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