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Caribbean Whispers, an exhibition of paintings by Jose Acosta, Willie Baez,

Rosario D’Rivera and Isabel Villacis, will be on display at the Broadway & LRC

Galleries at PCCC from Oct. 1 through Nov. 10 as the college celebrates

Hispanic Heritage Month. The exhibit is a partnership with La Ruche Art and

Fundacion Manos A La Ayuda. A reception for the artists is on Oct. 5, from 5

to 7 pm. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 9 pm and Saturday, 9 am to

5 pm. Find out more at www.pccc.edu/art/gallery or call 973-684-5448. W

Other Upcoming PC Arts Events

Oct. 1: Tours of Long Pond Ironworks, West Milford

Oct. 8: Outpost in the Burbs/ Paterson Habitat for Humanity

Oct. 8: Haiku workshop, Ringwood Library

Oct. 9: Leo Kottke, New Legacy Concert, Ringwood

Oct. 12: Patriot Brass Ensemble, St. Timothy Church, Wayne

Oct. 19: Garden State Opera, Hawthorne

Oct. 18: Book signing with Vicki Sola, Wayne Public Library

Oct. 26: Lunchbox Learning Classical Duets, Wayne

Thru Oct. 27: West Milford Farmers’ Market

Thru Oct. 29: Ringwood Farmers’ Market

Nov. 5: Distinguished Poets Reading, Paterson

Celebrating Hispanic Arts & Culture

From left, Dancers by Isabell Villacis,

La Puerta by Willie Baez,

Celia by Rosario D'Rivera

and Elvis by Jose Acosta

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The Friends of Long Pond Ironworks will offer guided

candlelight tours through the Historic District in West

Milford on Oct. 1. Visitors will get a glimpse of village life

and Civil War military camps at night and each tour will

culminate with entertainment at the furnaces by the

musicians of the 6th New Hampshire Volunteers as they

perform 19th Century music. A family tour will be

offered at 7:30 pm but children under 12 years of age will

not be admitted. An adult only tour is at 9 pm. Advance

registration is required as space is limited. Tickets are

$10/adult and $5/child. To make a reservation, call FOLPI

at 973-657-1688, write to info@LongPondIronworks.org,

or go to www.LongPondIronworks.org.

The Garden State Opera (GSO) presents Gaetano

Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Caldwell College Student

Center Auditorium (120 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell) on Oct.

21, at 11 am and on Oct. 23 at 4 pm. GSO will also offer an

open rehearsal and a reading of the opera with cast and

orchestra at the San Giuseppe Santa Croce Camerina

Society (131 Wagaraw Rd.,  Hawthorne) on Oct. 19 at 7

pm.   The opera will be performed in Italian with English

supertitles and staged with a chamber orchestra. Tickets at

Caldwell College are $12, while a free will donation is

requested at the Hawthorne rehearsal reading.  Francesco

Santelli is the Artistic Director. Call 973-928-1774 or go to

gardenstateopera.homestead.com. W

The West Milford Farmers’ Market offers Jersey Fresh

fruits, vegetables and live acoustic music on Wednesdays

now through Oct. 27. Located on the grounds of Our Lady

Queen of Peace Church, 1911 Union Valley Rd., the market

is open 3 to 7 pm for shopping while musical performances

begin at 4 pm. Visit WMFarmersmarket.org or email

twilightmusicbkr@yahoo.com. W

The Ringwood Farmers’ Market, in the Ringwood Park

and Ride, is held Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm through

Oct. 29, rain or shine. A project of Eat Local, Inc., the

Market also offers free performances with sets at 10 am

and noon. Call 973-896-8491, email

joanna_paganotti@mac.com or go to

www.ringwoodfarmersmarket.org. W

The New Legacy Concert Series, now in its 10th season,

features American roots music and brings nationally touring

artists to northern Passaic County. Innovative acoustic

guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke appears on Oct. 9 at 5 pm and is

followed by Sierra Hull on Nov. 6 at 2 pm. The young

mandolin player has been hailed as “bluegrass’ new full-

fledged virtuosic instrumentalist/singer/songwriters,

and one who’s gracefully grown into her gifts.” The

Ringwood Public Library is at 30 Cannici Dr., Ringwood.

Info at www.ringwoodlibrary.org or 973-962-6256. W

The Outpost in the Burbs is a non-profit outreach

organization dedicated to building community through

music, community service and cultural events. Members

will participate in a Paterson Habitat for Humanity

workday on Oct. 8, and help is needed. Contact Jolynda at

jolyndamichelle@hotmail.com The Outpost’s Fall

Concert Series continues on Oct. 21 with Shawn Mullins

and special guest, 13hands. On Nov. 4, there is a tribute to

Bitter End owner Paul Colby featuring Peter Yarrow, Paul

Stookey, James Maddock, Happy Traum, Gunhill Road,

Buskin & Batteau, Rockin’ Rob Stoner with WFUV DJ

Pete Fornatale as emcee. Shows are at the Unitarian

Universalist Congregation, 67 Church St., Montclair.

Tickets are $25 or $28 at the door; event begins at 8 pm.

Visit www.outpostintheburbs.org or call 973-744-6560.

Join in the reading and writing of Haiku on Oct. 8 at

10:30 am, at the Ringwood Public Library, 30 Cannici Dr.,

with poet Ken Ronkowitz. Haiku, a form of Japanese verse

consists of non-rhyming verses that frequently use nature

and seasonal themes to evoke vivid mental pictures and

stir strong emotions in the reader. Free; call 973-962-

6256 x15 or write: kane@ringwoodlibrary.org. W

Take a candlelight tour of Long Pond Ironworks on Oct. 1.

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St. Timothy Musicales, a series of free, one-hour concerts

at 1 pm at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Rd.,

Wayne, opens on Oct. 12, with The Patriot Brass

Ensemble. Their program, honoring our nation with a bow

to Christopher Columbus, will feature patriotic tunes,

Sousa marches, the music of the U.S. armed services, and

two Gabrielli canzonas. Beowulf Consort, an innovative

classical music group of voice, viola, harp and piano,

performs on Oct. 19 in Around the World in 60 Minutes.

On Oct. 26, mezzo-soprano Katherine Knittel will be

accompanied by pianist Joan Bujacich and they will

perform Broadway favorites, standards, lullabies, arias and

gospel songs. For details, call 973-956-0026. W, P, V

Lunchbox Learning at the Wayne Public Librarycontinues on Oct. 26 with Classical Duets for Violin and

Cello, featuring Lea Karpman on violin and Linda Fink on

cello. Doors open at noon and refreshments will be

served. The free event starts at 12:30 pm. The WPL will

also hold a book signing with Vicki Sola, author of The

Getaway That Got Away (Full Court Press) on Oct. 18 at 7

pm. The sci-fi/fantasy novel begins on the Garden State

Parkway and revolves around New Jersey. For more about

either event, call 973-694-4272, x5408. W

The Ringwood Manor Association of the Arts hosts the

46th Annual Fall Open Juried Exhibition at the Barn Gallery

in historic Ringwood Manor State Park through Oct. 19.

The public is invited to an awards reception on Oct. 2, from

1:30 to 3:30 pm. Entrance to the Park and gallery is free on

Wednesdays and weekends from 1-4 pm. W

Blue State Productions, in residence at St. Peter’s

Episcopal Church in Clifton, is staging For Colored Girls

on Nov. 5-19. The production is a series of 20 poems,

referred collectively as a choreopoem, performed by a

cast of nameless women, each known only by a color.

Blue State is also coordinating an ensemble for its World

AIDs Day production, OneWorld, One Hope: A

Remembrance, for a mid-November to Dec. 3 run.

Rehearsals begin in early October. Info at

BlueStateProd@aol.com or call 973-607-1924. W

The Garden State Opera stages Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Hawthorne on Oct. 19 and Caldwell on Oct. 21 and 23.

The Patriot Brass opens St. Timothy Musicales on Oct. 12.

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Pasterson’s historic HinchliffeStadium recieved $500,000 in

preservation funds under new

legislation signed by Governor Chris

Christie. The stadium is one of three

sites in Paterson—$180,000 towards

the Great Falls power plant building

and $50,000 for the old city Post

Office—and 58 sites statewide that

will be sharing more than $10 million

in funding under the New Jersey

Historic Trust. Fund recipients must

match the amount provided by the

state to receive the money. Earlier

this year, the Hinchliffe Stadium

restoration process received $1

million boost after city officials

approved a bond. The former site of

Negro League games has been vacant

for more than a decade, and the total

cost of the project is estimated

between $10 and $15 million.

Winners of the annual PatersonPrize for Books for Young People2011 were announced by the Poetry

Center at PCCC. Winners receive a

$500 prize. Grades Pre-K – 3:

Climbing Lincoln’s Steps by Suzanne

Slade (Albert Whitman & Co., Park

Ridge, IL); The Can Man by Laura

E. Williams (Lee & Low Books Inc.,

New York, NY). Grades 4 – 6: Only

One Year by Andrea Cheng (Lee &

Low Books Inc., New York, NY);

Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from

Darkness into Light by Tim Tingle

(Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX).

Grades 7 – 12: The Fortune of

Carmen Navarro by Jen Bryant

(Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY);

tutored by Allison Whittenberg

(Delacorte Press, New York, NY).

Rules and details on the 2012 contest

are at www.poetrycenter.edu/poetry.

The Poetry Center at PCCC hosts a

Distinguished Poets reading by authors

of the Paterson Literary Review #39

on Nov. 5 at 1 pm at the Hamilton

Club Building, 32 Church St.,

Paterson. Free. Call 973-684-6555.W

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