This Month at APT

* Tickets for all APT events can be purchased online at www.auburnpublictheater.com (no fee) or at our box office Tuesday/Friday/Saturday 7:00-10:00pm

 

Auburn Public Theater Main Stage

 

 

Saturday, July 11^th at 7:30pm

DUSTY PASCAL and guitarist DAN BLISS, Dan Welch & Bobby Perry

With opener Kevin Barrigar

 

 

Wine/beer bar with proper I.D.

 

Dusty Pascal: The 32-year-old Skaneateles, NY resident has a refreshingly old soul, and he expresses himself lyrically like a modern version of acoustic icon John Prine. Early on, I was influenced by guys like Kris Kristofferson and Jim Croce, because that's who my dad listened to, but actually, I was most influenced by my dad, who's a songwriter himself. Since his father first put a guitar in his hands at age 13, Pascal has trusted his musical instincts and has refused to let the commercial side of the music business affect his creative process. Writing music has never been about the money, he said. One of the most likable qualities of Pascal's music is that, unlike some bands who try to boast about their musical skill while playing or singing, he lets the tunes speak for themselves. I try not to waver too far from what the feeling of the song represents. My philosophy is to put you in the room, I like it better when you can hear little inconsistencies like the pop' of a guitar string or something. I've always just had a real appreciation for the honesty of the music. I like to think of my albums as a sequence of life, he explained. So 20 years from now, I can look back at the songs and really know what was happening in my life at the time. Connecting with his audience is Pascal's greatest attribute. You want to say as much as you can while you're up there on the stage, he said. I don't know how long I'll be able to (write and play) music. I have five kids and a business, and they come first. So I want to express as much as I can while I still have the chance to do it.

Dan Bliss: Dan Bliss is an acoustic roots musician with a well traveled play list of traditional blues, folk and swing tunes.  The Kansas City guitarist has twice made the top three (2005 & 2007) in the FINGERSTYLE GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIP at the WALNUT VALLEY FESTIVAL in Winfield KS.   His all original CD "THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE FOR" was released last year and his busy schedule this summer includes his third appearance at the NEW YORK STATE BLUES FESTIVAL in his home town of Syracuse, NY.  Bliss has performed in Kansas City and around the Midwest for over 20 years and has opened shows for artists such as Steve James, Honeyboy Edwards, Marcia Ball, The Waybacks, John McCutcheon, and St. Louis blues legends Henry Townsend and Johnnie Johnson.  In addition to working as a solo act, he has also played with KELLEY HUNT, his own band BLUETONIUM and on numerous acoustic duo gigs with jazz guitar great ROD FLEEMAN.  Most recently he and Fleeman joined with guitarists TOM DEMASTERS and BILL DYE in "KC GUITAR 4" a jazz and blues guitar quartet.  For more info please visit www.danbliss.com

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 14h at 7:30pm   CANCELLED!

A concert with GURUGANESHA SINGH

Due to circumstances beyond our control, this show has been cancelled.  We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have already purchased a ticket, you will receive a full refund.

 

 

 

Friday/Saturday, July 31st and August 1st at 2pm & 7pm

The APT Summer Children's Program Performance:

HARRIET TUBMAN Journey to Freedom

An original Auburn Public Theater production with music and dance, featuring our students from the APT Children's Summer Theater Program.  Sponsored by The New York State Council of the Arts DEC Program and M&T Bank.

Musical Direction: Amy Bellamy  Choreography: Yvonne Villano-Hassett   Direction: Carey Eidel

 

 

Saturday, August 8th at 7:30pm  

JULIA NUNES returns!

With openers Jeff Connor and Lauren O'Connell

Having just returned from her first performance at Bonaroo in June 2009, Julia Nunes is a ukulele and guitar playing singer/songwriter from upstate New York, whose self-made videos on YouTube have brought her to the attention of fellow college students, folk purists and celebrities alike.  1980s icon, actress Molly Ringwald, who took up the ukulele recently, famously said on "Good Morning America" about Julia, "I've always wanted to play the ukulele, and she completely inspired me."  Piano rocker Ben Folds found one of Julia's YouTube covers and asked her to open four shows for him in May 2008, and she dueted on stage with him in April 2009. What is her appeal?  Julia conveys intelligent honesty, mined with humor, and a knack for picking or writing songs, which appeal to both the ear and the heart.  Her catchy songs display well crafted lyrics and singable melodies, which her fans say are inspiring and insightful.  Her cover songs, from the Beatles, Beach Boys and Nat King Cole to Say Anything, Motion City Soundtrack and Spoon, express her love of good music and demonstrate a musical knowledge of popular sounds which transcend genre. A child and grandchild of musicians, Julia's heritage includes Portuguese fado music, Jazz and rock and roll.  Her own musical journey began at the tender age of 7, when she started piano lessons, but didn't really take off until she was given a guitar in her early teens.  Her first song was written at 14.  Her first CD of original songs, no longer available, was released when she was 17.  The second CD, "Left Right Wrong", the title of which reflects Julia's difficulties with direction, was released at 18.   Her third, "I Wrote These" followed a year later.  She is currently in the studio recording a new collection of original songs. Arguably Julia's appeal, aside from her talent and charm, has spread because of her savvy use of social networking websites, specifically, YouTube.  This fact has not escaped the blogosphere, where one can read everything from an analysis of Julia's videos as compared to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada to a description of what Julia does on YouTube and how to do it yourself.

 

 

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AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER CINEMA

Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm * All movies only $5 ($4 online)

 

July 10^th and 11^th

ENLIGHTEN UP

The documentary Enlighten Up! takes a whimsical, skeptical, and ultimately thoughtful look at the mysteries of yoga. Taking an approach similar to Supersize Me, filmmaker (and student of yoga) Kate Churchill wants to see what happens when someone is first exposed to this physical and spiritual discipline. She chooses Nick Rosen, a former journalist with a skeptical attitude towards religion. Their investigation--which gradually turns combative, forcing Churchill to re-examine her own assumptions--takes them from the commercial yoga studios of New York (where one student says, with a beatific smile, that yoga gives you better sleep, better sex, and will inspire new ways to make money) to a former pro wrestler's "t & a" yoga in Los Angeles and on to India--where they discover as many perspectives on yoga as there are yogis. Rosen, with his open but down-to-earth attitude, proves an excellent lens to view a subject all too often treated with blissful and vapid reverence. The movie is sprinkled with humor and people twisting themselves into astonishing shapes, as well as stimulating and often contradictory ideas and metaphors that paint a very diverse picture of the world of yoga. Enlighten Up! blends philosophical discourse, personal drama, and a beautiful travelogue--the result is a satisfying film that doesn't pretend to have any answers but grapples with intriguing questions.

 

July 17^th and 18^th

FREE SPIRITS

When high school drop-out Michael Metelica and eight hungry friends retreated to a rural Massachusetts treehouse in 1968, they never imagined it would grown into one of the largest, most controversial New Age communes of the 1960s

and 70s. At its peak, the Brotherhood of the Spirit (later named Renaissance Community) had nearly 400 full-time members, real estate in four Massachusetts downs, an airplane, music recording and filmmaking facilities, and a million dollar a year income. Many members stayed a decade or longer, committing their youth, sweat and worldly possessions to building an intentional community that they

hoped would serve as a model of brotherhood and spiritual awareness for the whole world. For some, their time there was the highlight of their lives, filed with humor, danger, intense personal growth, and daily absurdity. For others, it was a cultish nightmare. Their story reflects the 60s/baby boomer generation, as they survived the hostility of the towns around them - fire bombings, the brutal murder of a member - only to fall because of internal forces, including the changes in their founder and leader, Michael Metelica Rapunzel.

 

July 24^th and 25^th

THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN

The award-winning true story of third-generation American farmer John Peterson's hero's journey of success, tribulation, failure and rebirth. Peterson is a true American original. His story parallels that of the family farm in 20th Century America. What makes The Real Dirt on Farmer John so special is the fact that John Peterson is not only a farmer....he's an artist, too.

 

 

July 31^st and August 1^st

WENDY & LUCY (R)

Kelly Reichardt's second feature, Wendy and Lucy, has even more Pacific Northwest piney quietude than her debut Old Joy, since its starring couple is a canine-human pair rather than a male duo. Will Oldham again makes a charged appearance, this time as Icky (Will Oldham), a grungy, train-hopping punk. Based on a short story, this time Jonathan Raymond's "Train Choir," Wendy and Lucy's dialogue is a sparse spattering amongst long, languid scenes that moodily portray a young woman, Wendy (Michelle Williams), suffering economic crisis and road trip malaise on her way to work Alaskan fishing boats. The bulk of the story takes place in Portland, where her Honda breaks down and she must engage the local mechanic (Will Patton) and Walgreen's security guard (Wally Dalton) for honest advice and for help finding her dog, Lucy, who disappears during one of Wendy's disasters. Wendy and Lucy would aptly be titled Wendy's Bad Day, as problems pile up due to one main misstep. Williams does a great job portraying a woman who is semi self-sufficient but clueless in the art of survival. As the film speaks to many young people who have been broke and stranded, one will inevitably wonder why Wendy makes the unwise choices she does, for example sleeping in a dangerous area along a train track instead of finding a safer campground, or wandering the streets looking for her lost pooch in lieu of hunkering down for a temporary part-time job. The film straddles the line between social realism and fantasy in this regard, provoking frustration during certain plot twists. However, Wendy and Lucy is a pleasure to look at for its grainy greenery, hypnotic, sweeping landscape and train yard shots, and for the story, when it centers on developing the deep bond between a lady and her dog.

 

August 21^st, 22^nd, 28^th and 29^th

FOOD, INC.

For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact. Director Robert Kenner explores the subject from all angles, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like co-producer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who's been lobbying for more rigorous standards since E. coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son. The filmmaker takes his camera into slaughterhouses and factory farms where chickens grow too fast to walk properly, cows eat feed pumped with toxic chemicals, and illegal immigrants risk life and limb to bring these products to market at an affordable cost. If eco-docs tends to preach to the converted, Kenner presents his findings in such an engaging fashion that Food, Inc. may well reach the very viewers who could benefit from it the most: harried workers who don't have the time or income to read every book and eat non-genetically modified produce every day. Though he covers some of the same ground as Super-Size Me and King Korn, Food Inc. presents a broader picture of the problem, and if Kenner takes an understandably tough stance on particular politicians and corporations, he's just as quick to praise those who are trying to be responsible--even Wal-Mart, which now carries organic products. That development may have more to do with economics than empathy, but the consumer still benefits, and every little bit counts.

 

 

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Auburn Public Theater StageRight

 

Saturday, July 11^th 9:30am - 11:30am

Auditions for CABARET: BROADWAY THROUGH THE AGES

For singers 18 and up.   Sing 16 bars, a capella.  Be prepared to do some sight reading. 

 

Auburn Public Theater is looking for additional members for our COMMUNITY CHORUS

First Rehearsal for fall Chorus Session: Sunday September 20^th

If you are interested in learning more, please contact Janie MicGlire at Janie@auburnpublictheater.com or at (315) 246-4319.

 

 

Every Tuesday @ 7:30pm

THE TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC SHOW RETURNS!

Come down to APT and enjoy a casual evening of music performed by our local music community.  It's a different mix every week.  This week APT welcomes the guitar students of Jim VanArdsdale @ 7:15pm. $2

 

 

Thursday, July 30^th @ 7:00pm

BALLROOM DANCING LESSONS

Learn the basics of Swing and Cha Cha Dancing.  Great for those Summer events!

For more information, please contact Jeannie Cramer at 209-7452 

 

COMMUNITY EVENTS

2009 Downtown Auburn Summer Concert Series

On Wednesday evenings this July and August, the streets of Downtown Auburn will once again come alive with music as the Downtown Summer Concert Series returns for the secondyear. The series is sponsored by Nucor Steel and The Citizen.

FREE of charge. Concerts will begin at 5:30 pm. Each show will take place at the Exchange Street Mall. Swaby's, located on 6 South Street, will be selling food and beer at the concerts this year. The schedule of performers this year is as follows:

 

*Wednesday, July 8th - Dave Hanlon's Cookbook

*Wednesday, July 15th - Donna Colton & the Troublemakers

*Wednesday, July 22nd - Flyin' Column

*Wednesday, July 29th - Peterson & Dennihy

*Wednesday, August 5th - That '70s Band

*Wednesday, August 12th - Ted Mosley & Moondance with John Allen on vocals

 

 

 

To rent Auburn Public Theater for your creative, social or corporate event, please contact Janie MicGlire at janie@auburnpublictheater.com

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