Just Around The Corner
Noteworthy Events In The Capital Region
Four Artists Exhibition
November 9-December 8
Opening reception: November 9, 5p.m.-8p.m.
The Four Winds Gallery, Harrisburg
 The
Four Winds Gallery in Harrisburg will display the works of Tom Gianelli,
T.T. Hosey, Joseph Jablonski, and Janette Toth from November 9 to December
8 as part of the gallery’s Four Artists Exhibition.
The Exhibit will feature works from a variety of mediums, including mixed
media, acrylic paintings, photography, and oil paintings.
The Open Reception for the exhibit will take place Friday, November 9 from
5 p.m.-8 p.m.
The Four Winds Gallery is located at 1430 North Second Street, Harrisburg.
Gallery hours are Saturdays, 12p.m.-4p.m. or by appointment. For more
information, call 230-8101.
Trips Festival 2001
November 10
Chameleon Club, Lancaster
What a long, strange trip it’s been. In the late ’60s, bands like
The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and The Holding Company would play epic
freak-outs at Bill Graham’s Fillmore, using both audio and visual inputs
to expand the mind. In celebration of “35 years of freaking the squares”
the Trips Festival 2001 rolls into the Chameleon Club on November 10.
Jefferson Starship, featuring original members of Jefferson Airplane
(whose radio hits “White Rabbit” and “Somebody To Love” helped launch the
Summer Of Love), will co-bill with retrospective newcomers Blue Floyd.
Blue Floyd is an all-star configuration of psychedelic cowboys who explore
blues reinterpretations of Pink Floyd classics. The line-up includes Matt
Abts (Gov’t Mule), Marc Ford (Black Crowes), Johnny Neel (Allman
Brothers), and Berry Oakley (Robbie Krieger Band). A light show will
intensify the experience.
The Chameleon Club is located at 233 North Water Street, Lancaster. For
tickets and information, call the Chameleon Club hotline at 393-7133.
The Comedy Loft and Open Mic at
Nick’s 1014
Nick’s 1014 Café, Harrisburg
November 14, 21, 28
November 11, 18, 25
Beginning this month, Nick’s 1014 Café will have its collective
hands full on Wednesdays and Sundays, filling those nights with comedy and
improv music.
On Wednesday nights, The Comedy Loft at Nick’s will welcome some of
comedy’s finest performers, with a list of names that includes veterans of
Comedy Central, A&E, and the comedy club circuit. For November, Nick’s
will welcome comedy club favorite and Atlantic City and Las Vegas regular
Chris Coccia (November 14), The Improv in Washington D.C. regular Billy
Geisen (November 21), and Spins Nitely, a musical comedian who will be
making his first Comedy Loft appearance on November 28. Showtime for all
performances is 9 p.m.
On Sunday nights, Nick’s will welcome local artist and musician Shipwreck
as he hosts an improv music jam session. The evening will begin at 9 p.m.
and is open to anyone with an instrument willing to join the band for some
jam time on stage!
For more information or to make Comedy Loft reservations, call 238-8844.
Nick’s 1014 Café is located at 1014 North Third Street, Harrisburg.
Harrisburg Opera Guild Silent
Auction Fundraiser
November 17
Crowne Plaza, Harrisburg
 On
Saturday, November 17, the Harrisburg Opera Guild will host its second
annual silent auction fundraiser at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Harrisburg.
Proceeds will benefit the Harrisburg Opera Youth Chorus.
Tickets for the event are $25 and include an hors d’oeuvres buffet and an
open wine bar, live music by Steve Rudolph, and a special appearance by
the Harrisburg Opera Youth Chorus. Auction items will include elegant home
furnishing products, personal care items, fine jewelry, and service gift
certificates. The auction will also include items for children.
The Harrisburg Opera Youth Chorus was founded by the Harrisburg Youth
Opera Guild in 1999. It is unique in the state of Pennsylvania, as it
combines opera studies with a theatre program.
For more information on the event, call 985-1341.
Exhibit: Wounds and Wombs –
Paintings and Ceramics by Ré Desabres
November 17
Opening Reception: November 17, 4p.m.-8p.m.
Center for Women’s Creative Expression
 The
Center for Women’s Creative Expression will present its first solo
exhibit, running from November 17 through January 28. An opening reception
for the exhibition will take place November 17 from 4 p.m.-8 p.m.
Entitled “Wounds and Wombs,” the exhibit is filled entirely with the
paintings and ceramics of local painter and potter Ré Desabres. Desabres
created expressionist acrylic paintings and organic ceramic sculptures of
sensual female forms embodied in trees along the Susquehanna River. The
forms symbolize “the endurance and courage of women in the face of the
ordeals” they experience. Desabres found a resemblance between women’s
wounds and scars and those found on trees, whose trunks and branches echo
the shapes of women’s torsos, arms, and legs.
Having found that trees are “stoical, enduring companions” to women,
Desabres says her work “is a personal and realistic observation and is
meant as a celebration of the art of survival and the inner beauty women
achieve in doing so.”
Wounds and Wombs – Paintings and Ceramics by Ré Desabres will be on
display until January 28 at the Center for Women’s Creative Expression,
1507 North Third Street, Harribsurg. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on
Saturdays, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. on Sundays, and by appointment. For more
information, call 238-6244.
Jazz Mandolin Project
November 18
Harrisburg Area Community College
 The
Rose Lehrman Arts Center at Harrisburg Area Community College will become
the center stage for musical improvisation and experimentation on Sunday,
November 18 when The Jazz Mandolin Project performs. Known for using the
mandolin in previously untapped capacities, the band’s crossbreeding of
jam and jazz has earned the Vermont-based JMP a loyal, national following.
Of course, it helps that Phish drummer Jon Fishman often takes over drum
duties for the band and an earlier incarnation of the group also included
Phish frontman Trey Anastasio.
The Rose Lehrman Arts Center is located on the campus of the Harrisburg
Area Community College. For tickets and information, call 231-ROSE. |
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