BUZZ 4 KIDS Calendar!! It’s for the birds! great stuff planned with kids in mind! Grab the hand of a lil’ one and explore!! The Centenary Performing Arts Guild in Hackettstown, NJ is now accepting registration for its TYRO program, a diverse theatre arts camp for ages 8-11. The camp will run July 7th through July 18th and will meet 9:30am to 12 pm (ages 6-8) and 1pm to 3:30pm (ages 9-11) Monday through Friday on the Campus of Centenary College, 400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown, NJ 07840. Through structured activities focused on expression and confidence building, young children will learn acting games, improvisation and creative movement. The focus of the program will be adapting literature to the stage through various improvisational techniques. The cost of the two week session is $200 dollars and registration is limited. To register, or for more information, please contact the Centenary Performing Arts Guild at 908-979-0900. Information courtesy of The Forwardian Arts Society 570-269-3348 or info@theforwardianartssociety.org YOUTH PERFORMER AUDITIONS FOR CHARLOTTE’S WEB SUSSEX…Tri-State Actors Theater announces auditions for its 2008 Young Performer Training Program. Tri-State’s summer program, now in its 21st season, offers area students the opportunity to learn theater by doing. This season’s auditions will be held from 1:00 pm until 5:00 pm on Saturdays, May 3, 10, 17 and 24 and June 14 and 21. Auditions, open to students between the ages of 13 and 17, will be held at the theater, 74 Main Street, Sussex. This season’s student intern production will be CHARLOTTE’S WEB, the musical. Auditioners will be asked to read from the script and sing a short song. Audition materials will be provided. Appointments are not necessary. Stage experience is helpful, but not a requirement for the audition. The student intern program runs from July 14 through August 23. Intern classes include voice, movement, and characterization study. Interns learn many of the aspects of a play’s production through hands on experience. CHARLOTTE’S WEB will run from August 6 through August 23. Interns must be available for all rehearsals and performances. Tri-State Actors Theater is a not-for-profit professional, regional theater and is recognized as one of the tri-state area's finest theater companies. For further information regarding auditions and Tri-State’s 2008 season, please call 973 875-2950 or visit the theater on the web at www.tristateactorstheater.org. Funding for this season has been made available in part by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Dept. of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by a generous grant from The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. # # # Patricia Meacham Managing Director Tri-State Actors Theater P.O. Box 7225 Sussex, NJ 07461 Phone: 973 875-2950 Fax: 973 875-8415  Tom Chapin at F.M. Kirby Center  “One of the great personalities in contemporary folk music,” – New York Times “Nobody today is writing and performing better kids’ songs than Tom Chapin, the Pied Piper of children’s music.” – Parents Magazine “Chapin (is) the best family artist around.” - Billboard Magazine Engaging the hearts, minds, and imaginations of children and adults alike for more than 30 years, Tom Chapin continues to wow audiences with his Grammy-nominated contemporary folk and pop music. Known for his strong, intelligent songwriting with clear, engaging vocals, and intricate melodic guitar work that has become his trademark Tom, remarks, “Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.” His life-affirming original songs told in a sophisticated array of musical styles, entertains, amuses and enlightens fans worldwide. Practically a right of passage for American children, Tom Chapin gives four to eleven year olds songs about those things that interest them at school and at home – ranging from taking care of the environment with titles like Mother Earth, Good Garbage, R-E-C-Y-C-L-E, to nurturing family relationships with Cousins, Hi Hi, I Love Ya, Sore Loser, to sparkling holiday music to fostering the love of books and reading with Alphabet Soup and Great Big Words. It’s a big world out there and Tom Chapin brings his heart-warming, sincere interpretation of it to children everywhere! Event times: 10 May 2008 (Sat) 2:00 PM Ticket Information: Adult $17.50, Children $10.00 (Ages 2-11) (Children under 2 years old, no ticket necessary/must sit on lap) Tickets available at the Kirby Center Box Office, 570-826-1100, Ticketmaster Outlets, Gallery of Sound, Boscov's or by clicking on the buy tickets link at the bottom of this page. Tickets website: Buy Tickets mailto:info@theforwardianartssociety.orghttp://www.tristateactorstheater.orghttp://sm.ebfanclub.com/public_fcfwd.asp?ml=844C.347571E6&m=97F29http://sm.ebfanclub.com/public_fcfwd.asp?ml=844D.73DB409F&m=97F29shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3
BUZZ 4 Kids Venues Buzz Venues are listed from the North and East to South and West of “Buzz” territory! Delaware Highlands The Butterfly Barn Milanville, PA  Arly befriends a monarch puppet at a picnic in Monticello NY. New Jersey Skylands and South Gallery 31 North, Rte 31, Glen Gardner, NJ 08826 (908)537-7044  Hunterdon Art Museum 7 Lower Center Street  Clinton, New Jersey 08809   908-735-8415   info@hunterdonartmuseum.org Pocono Mountains Shawnee Playhouse, River Road, Shawnee On Delaware PA 570.421.5093  The Sherman Theatre, 524 Main Street, Stroudsburg, PA 570.420.2808  Columcille Megalith Park and Celtic Art Center. Come as you are, respect the land, go in peace.2155 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA  18013 (610) 588-1174 colum@epix.net  Mauch Chunk Opera House 14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe, PA. Ticket Office (570) 325-0249  Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe, PA 1-866-605-PEAK (7325)  Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau Lackawanna/Luzerne Everhart Museum 1901 Mulberry Street Scranton, PA 18510 570-346-7186. Scranton Cultural Center 420 N. Washington Avenue, Scranton PA 570-344-1111 Lehigh Valley The State Theatre for the ARTS 453 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 610-258-7766 Muhlenberg College Trexler Pavilion for the Arts 2400 Chew St.Allentown, PA 18104 484.664.3100 Bethlehem PA FIRST NIGHT BETHLEHEM! The whole town is putting on the show! Music, performance, celebration www.firstnightbethlehem.com www.firstnightbethlehem.com Reading/Berks Amity Children's Theater P.O. Box 52 Douglassville, PA 19518 610-582-0902 info@amitychildrenstheater.org GoggleWorks, 201 Washington Street • Reading, PA 19601 • 610-374-4600 Miller Center for the Arts, Reading Area Community College, 4 N. Second Street, Reading, PA 610.607.6205 Reading Civic Theater PO Box 186 - 124 N. 10th Street, Reading, PA 19603 (610) 375-7482 rctinfo@readingcivic.org http://www.butterflybarn.org/http://www.butterflybarn.org/monarchegg.htmhttp://www.gallery31north.comhttp://www.hunterdonartmuseum.orgmailto:info@hunterdonmuseumofart.orghttp://www.theshawneeplayhouse.comhttp://www.800poconos.com/buzzhttp://beta.asoundstrategy.com/shermantheater/index.cfm?itemCategory=25144&siteid=83&priorId=0http://www.800poconos.com/buzzhttp://www.columcille.orgmailto:colum@epix.net?subject=Infohttp://www.800poconos.com/buzzhttp://mauchchunkoperahouse.comhttp://www.800poconos.com/buzzhttp://www.pennspeak.com/index.shtmlhttp://www.800poconos.com/buzzhttp://www.800poconos.com/buzzhttp://www.everhart-museum.org/Exhibitions/Exhibitions.htmhttp://www.scrantonculturalcenter.org/http://www.statetheatre.orghttp://www.summerbroadway.org/children.htm#childticketshttp://www.firstnightbethlehem.comhttp://www.firstnightbethlehem.comhttp://www.amitychildrenstheater.orgmailto:info@amitychildrenstheater.orghttp://www.goggleworks.orghttp://http://www.racc.edu/MillerCenter/http://www.readingcivic.org/mailto:rctinfo@readingcivic.orgshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_12shapeimage_3_link_14shapeimage_3_link_16shapeimage_3_link_17shapeimage_3_link_18shapeimage_3_link_19shapeimage_3_link_20shapeimage_3_link_21shapeimage_3_link_22shapeimage_3_link_23shapeimage_3_link_24shapeimage_3_link_25shapeimage_3_link_26shapeimage_3_link_27shapeimage_3_link_28