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1. AUDITIONS FOR HAMILTON-GIBSON’S “A POUND OF FLESH” ARE THIS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NOV. 14 & 15
2. Storyteller Regi Carpenter Presents “Where There’s Smoke There’s Dinner: Stories of a Seared Childhood” This Friday, Nov. 15
3. Luncheon, Fashion and Hat Show at Penn Wells Hotel and Free Trunk Show at Dunham’s Department Store are This Saturday, Nov. 16
4. Second Concert in Wellsboro Community Concert Association Series Features American Pianist Thomas Pandolfi This Saturday, Nov. 16
5. NEW – ALLARM Director to Speak at Wednesday, Nov. 20 Joint Meeting of Trout Unlimited Tiadaghton Chapter #688, Tiadaghton Audubon Society of Tioga and Potter Counties, The Pine Creek Watershed Council and The Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group
6. NEW – Well Armed Woman Shooting Chapter, Tioga County, Pa. to Meet Thursday, Nov. 21
7. NEW – Tioga County Lyme Disease Support Group November and December Meetings are Cancelled
8. Hamilton-Gibson Children and Youth Choirs 2019 Poinsettia Sale to End on Friday, Nov. 22
9. NEW – Lúnasa with Special Guest Ashley Davis Concert is Wednesday, Dec. 4

Diane Eaton
dianetn@ptd.net
(570) 724-3800

AUDITIONS FOR HAMILTON-GIBSON’S “A POUND OF FLESH” ARE THIS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NOV. 14 & 15

Auditions for Hamilton-Gibson’s rousing revival of the courtroom farce “A Pound of Flesh” are at 7 p.m. this Thursday and Friday, Nov. 14 and 15 in the Warehouse Theatre at 3 Central Avenue in Wellsboro.

There are roles for adult men and women, ages 19 and older, including the pivotal two female lawyers, the male judge and the accused. There are a host of witnesses who have cameo roles and appear only during their testimony on the stand.

The auditions are open to all community members. Newcomers are warmly welcomed. No experience is necessary to audition.

HG originally produced this play in 1999 in the Tioga County Courthouse in Wellsboro where it is set. “A Pound of Flesh” is a goofy spoof of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” written by Thomas Putnam, Hamilton-Gibson’s artistic director. “It’s a wild courtroom farce with puns, slapstick and laughs aplenty that has many contemporary allusions,” Putnam said. “Even though it is based on the Shakespeare play, no knowledge of the Merchant or Shakespeare is necessary to laugh with this court.”

The 2020 performances will be at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, Jan. 24 and 25 and Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26 in the Warehouse Theatre.

The production is co-sponsored by William and Shirley Hebe and Spencer, Gleason, Hebe, & Rague, P.C.

For more information about the auditions, call (570) 724-2079 or email hamgib@gmail.com.

STORYTELLER REGI CARPENTER PRESENTS “WHERE THERE’S SMOKE THERE’S DINNER: STORIES OF A SEARED CHILDHOOD” THIS FRIDAY, NOV. 15

This Friday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m., storyteller and award-winning performer Regi Carpenter will present “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Stories of a Seared Childhood” in the Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro. Her show is for families, adults and youth, ages 12 and up.

For more than twenty years, Carpenter has been bringing songs and stories to audiences of all ages throughout the world in schools, theaters, libraries, at festivals, conferences and in people’s back yards. She has toured her solo shows and workshops nationally and internationally.

Carpenter is the youngest daughter in a family that pulsates with contradictions: religious and raucous, tender but terrible, unfortunate yet irrepressible. These tales celebrate the glorious and gut-wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenters raised on the Saint Lawrence River in Clayton, New York. Tales of underwater tea parties, drowning lessons and drives to the dump give voice to multi-generations of family life in a small river town with an undercurrent.

This is the third show in the Deane Center’s Storytellers Series. Admission is $15. For more information or for tickets, call (570) 724-6220 or visit www.deanecenter.com.

LUNCHEON, FASHION AND HAT SHOW AT PENN WELLS HOTEL AND FREE TRUNK SHOW AT DUNHAM’S DEPARTMENT STORE ARE THIS SATURDAY, NOV. 16

This Saturday, Nov. 16 from 12:15 p.m. to 2 p.m., Dunham’s Department Store and Christine A. Moore Millinery are hosting a luncheon and fashion and hat show at the Penn Wells Hotel at 62 Main Street in Wellsboro. Tickets are $25 per person and are available for purchase at the front desk in the hotel lobby.

From 2 to 5 p.m. this Saturday, immediately following the luncheon and show, Moore will host a trunk show of her hats at Dunham’s Department Store at 45 Main Street. The trunk show is free and open to the public.

At 12:15 p.m., those attending the luncheon and show will meet in the lobby for wine and appetizers. Lunch, including the Penn Wells Hotel’s signature salad, rolls and dessert. will be in the dining room.

The fashion show will feature brand name fashions for men and women along with accessories, such as jewelry, handbags, wallets, scarves and belts.

The male and female models will also wear hats for men and women created by New York City hat designer Christine A. Moore of Christine A. Moore Millinery. Along with having a celebrity following such as Alicia Keyes, Cynthia Nixon and Halli Berry to name a few, Moore hats have been seen in many national and European publications. She is best known for her horse racing hat styles, two of which are in the Kentucky Derby Museum.

Those who purchase a ticket will also have a chance to win a Moore hat during the luncheon and show and receive a 20 percent savings pass to use at Dunham’s Department Store, which is located directly across from the hotel in downtown Wellsboro.

For tickets to the luncheon and show or more information, call the Penn Wells Hotel at (570) 724-2111.

SECOND CONCERT IN WELLSBORO COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION SERIES FEATURES AMERICAN PIANIST THOMAS PANDOLFI THIS SATURDAY, NOV. 16

This Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m., American pianist Thomas Pandolfi will perform “One Singular Night: The Music of George Gershwin and Marvin Hamlisch” in the Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro. This is the second concert in the Wellsboro Community Concert Association’s 2019-2020 season.

Pandolfi is an exceptionally accomplished pianist known for “for his passionate artistry and amazing technique” as well as his skill “in engaging the audience before each piece with helpful comments on what they will hear.”

During the Wellsboro performance, Pandolfi will play American composer and pianist George Gershwin’s solo version of “Rhapsody in Blue”; “Prelude No. 2 in C Sharp Minor (Blue Lullaby)” and a medley that includes “Our Love is Here to Stay,” “The Man I Love,” and “I Got Rhythm.”

He will conclude the concert with “Hamlisch Fantasy,” his own virtuoso interpretation of melodies written by Marvin Hamlisch, an American composer, pianist and conductor, including “I Hope I Get It,” “What I Did for Love,” and “One”, all from “A Chorus Line” and “The Way We Were”.

Following the concert, Pandolfi will be available to sign CDs for audience members. In 2006, he released his first CD, and since then has recorded ten more, including “Language of Infinity” (Chopin), “Gypsy Passages” (Liszt), “Into the Night with Gershwin”, and the “Paderewski Piano Concerto” recorded in the Czech Republic with the Moravian Philharmonic.

Pandolfi has performed across the United States and around the globe. His orchestral appearances often feature masterpiece concertos by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Liszt. An outstanding cross-over artist, he is in demand for his critically acclaimed “Pops” genre performances of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and his virtuoso transcriptions of the music of Hamlisch, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Leonard Bernstein, Burt Bacharach and Barry Manilow.

Admission at the door is $20 for adults and $5 for students and children.

Information, tickets and season ticket subscription forms are available by visiting www.wellsborocca.org, stopping in at the Deane Center at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro or by calling (570) 724-6220.

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Thomas Pandolfi

ALLARM DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20 JOINT MEETING OF TROUT UNLIMITED TIADAGHTON CHAPTER #688, TIADAGHTON AUDUBON SOCIETY OF TIOGA AND POTTER COUNTIES, THE PINE CREEK WATERSHED COUNCIL AND THE PINE CREEK HEADWATERS PROTECTION GROUP

This coming Wednesday, Nov. 20, a joint meeting of four organizations will be at the Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center at 134 Main Street in Wellsboro. The meeting is free and open to the public.

A social hour with drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be at 6 p.m. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. and is being hosted by Trout Unlimited Tiadaghton Chapter #688, the Tiadaghton Audubon Society of Tioga and Potter counties, the Pine Creek Watershed Council and the Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group.

Featured speaker is Julie Vastine, who will talk about citizen science and the power of local engagement. For seventeen years, she has been working in the volunteer monitoring/citizen science field.

As the director of the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. since 2007, Vastine is responsible for leadership of the ALLARM program and providing technical assistance to watershed communities interested in using science as a tool for change. ALLARM is Dickinson’s nationally renowned community science center that has been working with Pennsylvania and New York volunteers for 33 years, since 1986.

A native of the Chesapeake Bay region, Vastine enjoys helping community organizations build their capacity to monitor, protect, and restore water quality in Pennsylvania and New York.

In 2018, she was elected to the Citizen Science Association and in 2019 was appointed to a four-year term on the National Water Quality Monitoring Council as the volunteer monitoring representative. In that role, she is helping communicate the work of the 1.3 million U.S. volunteers across 1,300 programs and connect their data and efforts to national initiatives.

“No one person or organization can do it all, so collaboration is crucial to achieving a collective goal,” Vastine said. “This appointment to the council signals that my community ethos is valued and that I’m making positive strides to cultivate a strong national volunteer monitoring community. It also affirms that ALLARM is doing vital and important work,” she added.

In addition to her love for working with communities on stream monitoring, Vastine enjoys hiking, biking, cooking, and yoga.

For more information about this event, call Jerry White at (570) 662-2167 or email whitesgordonsetters@gmail.com.

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Julie Vastine

WELL ARMED WOMAN SHOOTING CHAPTER TO MEET THURSDAY, NOV. 21

Members of the Well Armed Woman Shooting Chapter, Tioga County, Pa. will meet at 10:45 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21 at the CVS Plaza at 191 North Main Street in Mansfield to carpool to the National Range & Armory at 531 Washington Boulevard in Williamsport, Pa. After shooting, the group will stop for lunch and return to Mansfield around 3 p.m.

The next meeting will be on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 6 p.m. at the Lambs Creek Sportsman’s Club at 339 Sportsman’s Club Road, Mansfield, Pa. There will be a chili supper followed by a planning session to establish meeting and shooting dates for the 2020 calendar year. Chapter co-Leaders are Marilyn Jones and Pat Butts.

Any woman, 18 or older from any county or state who is interested in joining this Well Armed Woman chapter is welcome to attend any meeting. Those who join can be a beginner or novice with absolutely no experience in handling a gun to those who are skilled and experienced shooters. The fee is $50 per year.

Women who don’t own a firearm and want more information before making a purchase or want to find out about joining the chapter are invited to contact Jones at (570) 549-2794 or jones_mk@yahoo.com.

TIOGA COUNTY LYME DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER MEETINGS ARE CANCELLED

The Tioga County Lyme Disease Support Group will not meet in November and December. Anyone needing information or help can contact either Luke Dunham or Thomas Putnam by email at tiogacountylyme@palyme.org or can call Putnam at (570) 439-2000.

The first meeting of the support group in 2020 will be at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16 in the Native Bagel at 1 Central Avenue in Wellsboro. All support group meetings are free and open to anyone who lives in Tioga County or a surrounding county who wants to learn more about Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

Dunham and Putnam are regional co-leaders with the PA Lyme Resource Network as well as co-leaders of the support group. Both have been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease and live in the Wellsboro area.

HAMILTON-GIBSON CHILDREN AND YOUTH CHOIRS 2019 POINSETTIA SALE TO END ON FRIDAY, NOV. 22

The Hamilton-Gibson Children and Youth Choirs 2019 Poinsettia Sale will end on Friday, Nov. 22, the last day orders will be taken.

The poinsettias come in a choice of red, pink and white in two different sized pots. A six-inch pot of poinsettias is $15 and an eight-inch pot is $20. The poinsettias will be delivered on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

To place an order, call the Hamilton-Gibson office at (570) 724-2079 or send an email to hamgib@gmail.com, Attention Tara Gordon. The person ordering is asked to provide his or her name, phone number and email address and send a check with “Poinsettia” on the check memo line for the total amount of the order to the Hamilton-Gibson Children and Youth Choirs, 29 Water Street, Wellsboro, PA 16901.

Proceeds will benefit Hamilton-Gibson’s four choirs. They include: Choir, Too for students in grades 2-4; the Children’s Concert Choir for youth in grades 5-8; and the Young Women’s Choir and the Young Men’s Choir for students in grades 9-12. Involved fifth through twelfth grade singers represent four school districts, Northern Tioga, Southern Tioga and Wellsboro Area in Tioga County and Galeton in Potter County.

Families whose children are interested in joining HG’s choral program, are welcome to call the Hamilton-Gibson Children and Youth Choirs at (570) 724-2079 or email hamgib@gmail.com.

LÚNASA WITH SPECIAL GUEST ASHLEY DAVIS CONCERT IS WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4

In Ireland, families, friends, and neighbors gathered in kitchens in years past to celebrate with music, stories, songs, and, if the room was big enough, dancing. On Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. “Christmas from Ireland” will bring back those times in the Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro.

Lúnasa, “the hottest Irish group on the planet,” according to the Irish Echo, will be on stage. Joining them on their “Christmas from Ireland” tour across the United States is vocalist Ashley Davis, an internationally recognized recording artist and songwriter and longtime friend of the band. Together, they will perform spirited vocal and instrumental music, evocative airs, and songs both unknown and familiar.

With six CDs under her belt, including two that are seasonal, Davis brings a wide repertoire of Celtic and original songs, tempered by the influence of her birthplace, the Kansas plains and the country music traditions borne of America’s Appalachian Mountains. Her 2019 CD, “Burning Down” embraces the electronic compositions of her rebellious youth.

Lúnasa is composed of flautist, whistle player, and lead man/comic Kevin Crawford, piper and whistle player Cillian Vallely, fiddler and whistle player Colin Farrell, Trevor Hutchinson on upright bass, and guitarist Patrick Doocey.

The all-instrumental quintet is noted for double bass and guitar-driven rhythms, original compositions mixed with material from Celtic regions such as Brittany, Galicia, and Asturias, and slower melodies involving three-part harmonies played on the traditional pipes, fiddle, and flute. Their most recent CD, “Cas” features guest vocalists for the first time.

Since forming in 1996, Lúnasa has performed over 2000 concerts, and achieved a worldwide reputation as a different breed of Irish traditional music group – one with the repertoire of lifelong traditional musicians, the intricate harmonies of a jazz combo, and the energy of a rock band.

Also performing with Lúnasa and Davis will be American stepdancer and choreographer Cara Butler doing Irish stepdancing. She dances with the Chieftains whenever this traditional Irish band comes to North America and is also a principal dancer with The Step Crew, a percussive dance company that traces Irish stepdancing from its roots in Ireland to North America.

Admission is $30 and $25 for seniors. 65 and older. For tickets, call (570) 724-6220 or visit www.deanecenter.com.

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Lúnasa’s complex arrangements and unique sound have reshaped
 the boundaries of traditional music and energized audiences the world over. Shown are (from left) Patrick Doocey, Kevin Crawford, Trevor Hutchinson, Colin Farrell and Cillian Vallely.

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Ashley Davis