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Are you an experienced knitter (or crocheter) or someone who has always wanted to learn?  Every other Wednesday beginning Wednesday, September 11 from 6-8:30pm.

No experience is necessary.  Please bring your own yarn and needles if you can.  We will have some supplies available.  There is a suggested donation of $5 to fund more yarn for community projects.

This is a drop-in group and there is no need to pre-register.  You can come once, or as many times as you’d like!  Bring a friend!

 

Green Street Sound Production Class for Wesleyan Students

Shaping Sounds

 

Instructor: John Bergeron

Thursdays from 1:00-4:00pm

Location: Green Street Arts Center, 51 Green Street, Middletown CT

Fall 2013 – September 19 – December 5 (no class October 24 and November 28)

Class size: 4-6 students, 4 minimum enrollment

Class fee: $550 per student

Registration deadline: September 13^th

Class Description: Learn how to record a song from start to finish at the Green Street Arts Center Sound Studio. Our professional sound engineer, John Bergeron has recorded many albums of his own and has worked as a session player for keyboards, an arranger of strings and horns, a producer, and a recording engineer over the years. He’s recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, London, and more.

This 10 week class will teach you the techniques of sound production using ProTools software and plug ins. You’ll also learn nuanced parts of the of the process like how to get the best work out of musicians in the studio.

The class will start with learning the tools and etiquette of the studio. Once students are acclimated to the equipment, John will demo the process of recording a song step by step. Students in the class will identify singer songwriters or guitarists at Wesleyan to serve as guest artists for the class. Guest artists will receive a free recording session and a copy of the final song.

Once the demo is complete, the class becomes very hands on. Each student gets to go through the process of recording a guest artist with guidance from John. You’ll get to pick the artist, set up the studio, record, edit, mix, and master the song.

If interested, please contact the Green Street Arts Center at 860-685-7871 or gsac@wesleyan.edu. Open to all majors.

 

 

 

On Friday, August 23rd at 12:15 p.m. Green Street Arts Center will be hosting a lunch time artist talk by artist/illustrator, Jon Sideriadis.  Jon is a Connecticut artist whose exhibit, Astromythos, features compelling, and other worldly illustrations.  Please RSVP to Sandy Guze sguze@wesleyan.edu

 

On Friday, July 12th, from 5-8:00 p.m. (in conjunction with Middletown’s Gallery Walk series) there will be an opening reception for  Connecticut artist, Christine Webster whose photography, pastels, and mosaics will be on display at Green Street  from July 8th through July 31st during regular business hours (M-TH 9a.m.-5p.m. and Fridays 9a.m.-12noon).

Chris Webster is a retired art educator who taught art in Meriden, CT for 35 years and is now a teaching artist with the State of CT and president of Gallery 53 in Meriden, one of the oldest arts and crafts associations in the state.  Through her artwork, Chris attempts to capture fleeting moments of time— often referring the viewer to the wonder and beauty of the natural world.

by Christine Webster, Boys’ Escape, pastel drawing

 

 

 

Currently exhibiting artist (and cancer survivor), Roslyn Carrier-Brault will give an artist’s talk about her emotive and aesthetically powerful show of manipulated photographs, Count Your Blessings:  Visions of Hope  on Tuesday, at noon at the Green Street Arts Center, 51 Green St., Middletown, CT .

 

Saturday, June 29 from 7-10pm–Green Street Arts Center’s musical artists will be performing at US RESTAURNT on Main Street, right here in Middletown!

The Lady Elizabeth acoustic trio:  Elizibeth Dellinger, Jocelyn Pleasant, and Tony Dioguardi.  This will be an improvisational experiment rooted in soul and jazz.  Come out and enjoy some sweet music!

Green Street’s community computer class is up and running. The goal is to give people a better understanding of Microsoft Office basics. The class is split into three sections of two weeks each, one for each Office program – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Our first two classes focus on Microsoft Word, the word processing program. Word provides a foundation for the other Office programs. “I’m excited to go to work now, this is going to save me so much time,” was the response of one of our students after learning some of the features of Word.

If you are interested in learning the basics of Excel, the spreadsheet, those two classes will be June 24 and July 1 from 6-8pm. The classes build on each other so you should attend both.

The two classes for PowerPoint, the presentation program, will be July 15 and July 22 from 6-8pm.

 Call us today to sign up 860-685-7871. Classes are $10 each, due up front.

Saturday, June 8, 4-6pm–Green Street’s own seasoned Teaching Artist musicians will perform in our garden!  Come support these very talented artists and see if you might be interested in signing up for private lessons. 

Featured musicians are:

Elizabeth Dellinger–vocals

Joseph Getter–Flute and Sax

Kevin O’Neil–guitar

Jocelyn Pleasant–drums

On Saturday, June 8, from 12-4:00pm (in conjunction with the State of CT Office of Tourism’s Open House Day), Green Street Arts Center will offer free origami demonstrations by local origami artist, Andrea Cassella, including brief hands-on origami activities for children and adults.  Families are invited to stop in to visit, and to enjoy the fascinating and fun art of origami at our community arts center.  This event is free.