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Capoeira is a Brazilian martial arts form that brings together music, dance, and acrobatics to create community. You’ll sing, play instruments, and improve your balance and flexibility. You’ll learn to physically and mentally challenge yourself and your opponents while building self-confidence in a game-like environment. Capoeira is great activity for kids and adults alike.

Joel Mendelez is a sought after teaching artist in Connecticut.  He is an amazing instructor that is known for his acrobatic skills in the art of Capoeira.  In addition, Joel is the director of the Advanced Circus Program in the Children’s Circus of Middletown, teaches at Oddfellows Playhouse, the Footlights Center for the Performing, and the Green Street Arts Center.  Joel will connect and transport the students to a world free of inhibitions where all is possible.

Want to stay fit and build community this summer? Come join us at Green Street for a 4-week series of Capoeira classes.

(Children in grades 3-5 can register for Capoeria class on Fridays from 4-5:00 p.m. during our AfterSchool program.  We also hope to run a Tuesday evening capoeira class for kids sometime in the near future.”)

7:30-9:00pm — ages 12 to adult, $15 per class

Classes will be Tuesdays July 23, July 30,  August 6, and August 13.

Registration fee for 4 week class block due to Green Street up front.  Cash, Check, or Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard, Amex).

Uniform purchase is separate

Please call the Green Street front desk at 860-685-7871 or email us at gsac@wesleyan.edu to register today.

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.

Roslyn Carrier-Brault will be the featured artist for the June Gallery Walk. The opening reception will take place on Friday, June 7, 5-8pm.

Roslyn’s new project will be presented as “Count Your Blessings: A Vision of Hope,” where she has challenged herself to reinvent her photographic style by revisiting her vast body of digital negatives to select images to be layered to create surrealistic, beautifully odd, maybe scary, always elegant and dream-like images. This project is her autobiographical, introspective journey.

Roslyn is also one of our teaching artists in the Art and Science AfterSchool Program.

The exhibit will be on display at the Green Street Arts Center through July 2. Come check it out.

by Roslyn Carrier-Brault, 16×20″, digitally blended photograph, 2012

Are you an experienced knitter or someone who has always wanted to learn?

Every other Wednesday starting next week, May 15th Green Street will host a knitting group with our very own Claudia Foerstel.

No experience necessary. Please bring your own yarn and needles if you can. We’ll have some supplies available.

Call us today to find out more information – 860-685-7871.

$5 suggested donation to fund more yarn for community projects.

Meredith Arcari was our featured artist for the first Middletown Gallery Walk this year. Her work emphasizes Connecticut architectural landmarks like the Colt Building in Hartford and the Arrigoni Bridge in Middletown.

Meredith is also one of our teaching artists in the Art and Science AfterSchool Program. Her visual arts classes like Art Around the World and Environmental Art are very popular with our students.

The exhibit will be on display at the Green Street Arts Center until the end of May. Come check it out.