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The staff at The Parents Place/Clubde Padres of Catholic Family &Community Services believe thatGod has given every single one of hisspecial children many talents. Now,their months of hard work, patienceand dedication will pay off, when theClub presents Hear Our Music, HearOur Song, on Sept. 26 at 7 pm at theFather English Community Center,435 Main St., Paterson.

Raymond Vazques, a certifiedmusic instructor, has helped theseyoung adults with physical andcognitive disabilities overcome theirdisadvantages to discover their Godgiven talents. Vazques said hebelieves that a musical educationhelps each student learn critical skillsthat are applicable in varioussituations in life, including followinginstructions and working in groups.

Students have been training forthis show since January. However,the concept for the program was

conceived in the Summer of 2008.It was then that Parent’s Place/Clubde Padres program coordinator

Zoraida Martinez recognized agrowing number of young clientswho expressed an interest inmusical performance.

The Parents Place Director RositaKardashian supported the idea andbegan seeking funds and support. InJanuary, 2009, The Parent’sPlace/Club de Padres received an artsre-grant through the Passaic CountyCultural Heritage Council at PCCC.

Additionally, The Parents PlaceExecutive Director Joseph Duffy wasable to solicit donations andinstruments from parishes and privateindividuals, and the work began.Now, nearly nine months later, theseyoung adults are ready for the showof a lifetime. For more info, call973-523-8404. W

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Sept. 5: Great Falls Festival, PatersonSept 5-7: Ivanhoe Arts Museum poetry reading & art exhibit, PatersonSept 6: 18th Annual Labor Day Parade, HaledonSept 6: RMAA Arts Winners CircleSept. 18: What is Your Vision of a Better World? Essay Contest deadlineSept. 26: Hear Our Music, Hear Our Song performance, PatersonOct. 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18: The Theatre League of Clifton

presents And Then There Were None, School 3, CliftonOct. 31: Silk City Arts Festival Cabaret, PatersonNov. 7: Garden State Opera Fall Production, CliftonNov. 7: Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest Winners read, PatersonNov. 15: Deadline for the American Voice in Poetry, PCCC Contest

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Hear Our Music, Hear Our Song, a concert by members of The Parents’ Place/Club dePadres, will perform on Sept. 26 at 7 pm in Paterson. Photo courtesy of The Beacon,the Catholic Newspaper of the Diocese of Paterson.

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The 18th Annual Labor DayParade will step off at 1:30 pm onSunday, Sept. 6 at the AmericanLabor Museum, 83 Norwood St.,Haledon and weave its way throughHaledon and Paterson to conclude atthe Great Falls. Groups orindividuals who would like tocommemorate the spirit of Labor Daycan sponsor a float or a listing in thecommemorative journal by calling973-595-7953 or emailinglabormuseum@aol.com. Deadline toregister is Aug. 21. There will be apre-step off ceremony in Haledon at1 pm at the Museum. The Museumwill be open until 4 pm. The parade,co-sponsored by the American LaborMuseum/Botto House NationalLandmark, the Borough of Haledonand the City of Paterson, is part ofthe annual 2009 Great Falls Festival,held in and around the historicdistrict at the 77 foot high Great Fallsin the historic district of Paterson. The 2009 Great Falls Festivalopens on Sept. 5 and continuesthrough Labor Day Weekend,concluding on Sept. 7. Hours arefrom 3 to 11 pm and includeamusement rides, games of chance,clowns and others street performers,a car and motorcycle exhibition andwrestling matches. The weekendconcludes with a fireworks finale.For information on the City ofPaterson’s Great Falls Festival, callMarcia Sotorrio at 973-278-4019 orwrite to: msotorrio@patcity.com The Belly Dancing Labor Days ArtsShow is on Sept. 5-7, from 1 to 10 pmat the Ivanhoe Artists Mosaic, 4Spruce St., Paterson. Celebrating themusic and poetry of the Great Falls,the event features artists ChristineConforti, Don Kommit, Mike DePatriaand Joe Muti. Musicians are StandleyAlston and Ray Sam Mealie. Freeadmission with a poetry open mic.iam@ivanhoeartists.org. W

And Then There Were None, thelatest production by the TheatreLeague of Clifton, will be staged onOct. 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18 atClifton Public School Number 3 onWashington Ave. And Then There WereNone is a detective fiction by AgathaChristie in which ten people, whopreviously committed murder butescaped due to technicalities, aretricked into coming to an island. Eventhough the guests are the only peopleon the island, they are all mysteriouslymurdered in the manner of the nurseryrhyme, one by one. It is Christie’sbest-selling novel with 100 million

sales to date, making it the world’sbest-selling mystery and the seventhmost popular book of all time. Detailsat: www.theaterleagueofclifton.com. Sandy Shevak and participants inthe Quality of Life Summer Programwill repaint the mural on the MercerSt. side of Passaic’s Public SchoolNumber 9. Tommy Silva, a localhuman rights activist and tattoo artist,will lead the artistic instructions withassistance by friends Rey Contrerasand Tone Alvarez. The group willrepaint the artwork and add YuriKochiyama and John Brown to themural. Call Shevak at 862-668-9386.

Wayne resident Jerome Mykietym (above) has come full circle with the releaseof his freshman blues album, Sing It, White Boy! His observations on globalwarming (Hothouse Blues), homelessness (Man in the Box), the state of theeconomy (Inflation Blues), the war (Bullet Blues) and love’s rejection (BeenRetired From Your Love) permeate the CD and stand tall next to covers of theclassics. Mykietym has recorded professionally since 1963, when he had his firstsingle release (vinyl) for the Dunes label while a sophomore in college. He thengot a deal with Laurie Records where for the next six years he turned out 15singles. With only some minor hits and having started a family, he took a steadyjob but still kept up with the writing, singing and “the dream.” Mykietym hasplayed many different genres of music, but his love of the blues began in highschool and this album takes him back to his roots. Sample his sound atwww.myspace.com/thereclamators or purchase the CD from that site.

The Passaic County Cultural &and Heritage Council and ThePoetry Center at Passaic CountyCommunity College have launchedAccess to the Arts for All, whichincludes audio descriptions ofpublications, DVDs of pastworkshops and brochures in Braille.Audio versions for publications onthe following topics are available forfree: The Hamilton Club ArtCollection, The Hamilton ClubBuilding, The Federici StudioCollection, The Poetry Center and thePCCHC. DVDs of past technicalworkshops are available for loan.Events on file include the Americanswith Disabilities Act Workshop—Arts Access for ALL and thePublicity and Marketing Workshop.Call Ashley Kesling at 973-684-6507or write her at: akesling@pccc.edu.

The Poetry Center will be 30 in2010 and to mark the milestonePCCC is sponsoring the contest,The American Voice in Poetry: theLegacy of Whitman, Williams, andGinsberg. Submissions should utilizeliterary tradition that honors place,voice, and specificity but should notimitate poems by Walt Whitman,Allen Ginsberg and William CarlosWilliams. Selected poems will bepublished in an anthology and thewinners will be invited to read theirpoems at a book launch to be held onApril 10, 2010 at the Poetry Center,which is located in the historicHamilton Club Building, 32 ChurchSt., Paterson. Submit only twopoems per person, two manuscriptpages long. Include two copies withcontact info. Only unpublishedpoems are accepted. Deadline isNov. 15. Send submissions to MariaMazziotti Gillan, Executive Director,Poetry Center, PCCC, One CollegeBlvd., Paterson, 07505-1179. Forinfo, call 973-684-6555, or visitwww.pccc.edu/poetry.

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The Passaic County Cultural & Heritage Council at PCCC received a Citationof Excellence from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for excellence inartistic quality, programming and public service in the arts. The citation waspresented by members of the New Jersey State Legislature at the State HouseAnnex on May 21. The PCCHC assists local organizations that undertake artsand cultural projects within the county and promotes awareness of the diversityof arts in Passaic County, which is home to over 140 ethnic groups.

From left is Steve Runk, Executive Director, NJ State Council on the Arts; Carol AnnHerbert, Chair, NJ State Council on the Arts; Maria Mazziotti Gillan, ExecutiveDirector, Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council; Ashley Kesling, Local ArtsDevelopment Coordinator, Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council; Germaine B.Trabert, Council Member, NJ State Council on the Arts; Senator Joseph Pennachio.

The Poetry Center at PCCC has announced the winners of the 2009 AllenGinsberg Awards. The First Prize was shared by Eileen Moeller, ofPhiladelphia, PA , for her poem Milk Time, and José Antonio Rodríguez , ofBinghamton, NY, for his poem, Veins Like Maps. Josh Humphrey, ofKearney and Sarah Jefferis, of Ithaca, NY, tied for the Second Prize for theirpoems Catherine Rose at One Week Old and Learning to Spell, respectively.Kevin Carey, of Beverly, MA, won the Third Prize for Loved Hockey. TheGinsberg Awards are annually given to established and emerging artists, withover 2,000 submissions accepted each year. First prize earns $1,000, secondgets $200 and third earns $100. Winning poems, honorable mentions andEditors Choices are published in the following year’s Paterson LiteraryReview. Winners will read at an award ceremony on Nov. 7 in the historicHamilton Club Building of Passaic County Community College, 32 ChurchSt., Downtown Paterson at 1 pm. Admission is free. The Paterson PoetryPrize of $1,000 is given annually by the Poetry Center for a book of poetry(48 pages or more) published in the previous year, with a minimum press runof 500 copies. First prize winner is Li-Young Lee of Chicago, Illinois, for hiscollection of poems, Behind My Eyes (W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY).For more details about either contest, contact Maria Mazziotti Gillan,Executive Director, The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College,at 973-684-6555. Go to www.pccc.edu/poetry for a full list of awardees.

New Jersey Music and Arts hostsFall Fest 2009, a celebration of theseason with performances of music,drama and dance at the PassaicCounty Community Collegeauditorium in Paterson on Oct. 23 at7:30 pm. Among the performers willbe the New Hope Players, the WAITDance Team, the Arts and FolkloreSchool Dance Ensemble and more.Tickets are $10. For large printprograms and FM listening systemscall by Oct. 9. Call 973-272-3255.W, L, P, A

The Garden State Opera presents itsPassaic County fall production at theYM-YWHA on Scoles Ave. on Nov.7 at 7:30 pm. There will be fourscenes from Paul Hindemith’s operaMathis der Maler and Donizetti’sItalian opera buffa Il Campanello.The performance is in support of

Clifton Public Schools’ Adopt aMusic Student program that assistsstudents in financial need to acquirean instrument for music lessonsprovided by the district. Tickets are$15 for adults and $10 for seniorsand students. Call 973-272-3255 orgardenstateopera.homestead.com.Poets Works Press is now acceptingsubmissions for the 2009 JosephineDarner Poetry Award. Guidelines atwww.poetworks.com/2009_Poetry_Award_Guidelines.html.The Passaic County HistoricalSociety hosts a Beefsteak dinner tobe held on Oct. 6 at 6:30 pm at theBrownstone, 351 West Broadway,Paterson. Entertainment will beprovided by Uncle Floyd Vivino,radio and television star. Tickets are$50 and must be pre-purchased bycalling 973-247-0085, ext. 201.

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Vision of a Better WorldConference will be held on Oct. 10at Seton Hall University. Its purposeis to inspire humanitarianconsciousness and to motivateindivudals to contribute. In additionto the conference, which includesspeakers and 36 workshops, therewill be an essay contest for juniorsand seniors in high school, with thesubject being, ‘What is Your Visionof a Better World?’ Deadline forsubmissions is midnight on Sept. 18.For full guidelines, visitwww.suntfprograms.iwarp.com.The Silk City Arts Festival seekstwo male and up to three femaledancers for a cabaret show on Oct.30 and 31, and other performances.Modern and jazz dancers with twoyears experience are preferred. Senda headshot and resume to Erin Prideat info@silkcityartsfesitval.com. Forinfo, visit www.edpdanceproject.com.Poets & Writers, the nation’s largestnonprofit organization servingcreative writers, announced that the2010 Maureen Egen WritersExchange will be held in New Jersey.The contest is open to poets andfiction writers who are residents ofthe Garden State and have neverpublished a book, or have publishedonly one full-length book of fiction orpoetry. The winners will receive anall-expenses-paid trip to New YorkCity in October 2010 to meet with topliterary professionals, includingeditors, agents, publishers, andprominent writers, and to give apublic reading. This year’s judges areSophie Cabot Black (poetry) andNahid Rachlin (fiction). To date, 78writers from 31 states haveparticipated in P&W’s WritersExchange. Past winners have hadtheir books published, receivedawards and fellowships and laid thegroundwork for their professionallives as writers. More details atwww.pw.org/files/WEXApplication09.pdf

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