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Bergen New Bridge Medical Center Announces Call for Artists for Behavioral Health Murals

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Paramus Nj, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is calling for artists to submit mural designs for group therapy rooms and a staff lounge for its newly renovated Behavioral Health areas.

“We welcome opportunities for the community to come into the Medical Center and share their exceptional talents with our patients and residents,” said Deborah Visconi, President and CEO, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center.  “My leadership team and I are thrilled with the recent facility improvements that have been made in our Behavioral Health spaces and these murals will take these areas to the next level for years to come.”

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Ideal New Jersey Neighborhoods and Activities for Seniors

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New Jersey, with its diverse landscapes and rich history, offers a unique charm, especially for seniors. This guide explores the best New Jersey neighborhoods and activities for seniors, highlighting options from peaceful coastal towns to vibrant cultural centers. Whether you’re seeking a retreat for a peaceful retirement or a lively community, New Jersey caters to all preferences. This state, known for its welcoming communities and varied recreational options, is perfect for those desiring an active, fulfilling retirement. We’ll dive into neighborhoods that offer both tranquility and excitement, and activities that stimulate both the mind and body.

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Seven Ridgewood High School Teams Enter 2022 NJ STEAM Tank Competition

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Ridgewood NJ, the Applied Engineering Club continues to grow in popularity at Ridgewood High School with membership climbing to 111 students in the club’s third year. Seven RHS teams have submitted video entries to the 2022 New Jersey STEAM Tank Challenge. Created and sponsored by the New Jersey School Boards Association, this competition gives students the opportunity to apply STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) to real-world problems and offer innovative, equitable, and sustainable solutions. Club advisors Dr. Labowsky and Mr. Wohner are extremely proud of the creativity and commitment of the teams and look forward to the next rounds of the competition.

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UPDATE: Ridgewood High School Alumni Donates $635,000 For STEAM Projects

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Ridgewood NJ,  a $635,000 alumni gift, the largest in the Ridgewood School district’s history was announced by the Board of the Education at Monday’s meeting.

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New Jersey Youth Symphony To Host “We Never Stopped Making Music” U.S. Youth Orchestras eFestival

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NEW PROVIDENCE NJ,  The New Jersey Youth Symphony, a program of the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, announced today that it will host the U.S. Youth Orchestras eFestival “We Never Stopped Making Music” on September 20, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. EST via Zoom and YouTube Live. Celebrating American youth orchestras across the country during the global pandemic, the eFestival is free and open to the public. For more information, visit NJYS.org.

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Drinks at Warner Theater ?

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Ridgewood NJ, Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean and Senator Michael Testa’s legislation to boost support for the arts through allowing alcohol sales at small, non-profit theaters has been signed into law.

“This law will encourage more New Jerseyans to go their local theater where they can grab a drink, sit back, and enjoy the show,” said Kean (R-21). “Giving small theaters the opportunity to serve alcohol opens an untapped revenue stream to support plays and performances. This will increase foot traffic and ticket sales, and bolster non-profit theater’s bottom lines across the Garden State.”

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Registration is currently in progress for Stage Right’s Fall and August Musical Theater Workshops

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July 27,2017

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Ridgewood NJ, Registration is currently in progress for Stage Right’s Fall and August Musical Theater Workshops. We have availability for children in Pre-k, K and 1 st grade and limited spots for older students for the Fall program. All Workshops are conveniently located in Ridgewood NJ.

Stage Right is a musical theater program for students in grades pre-k to 8th grade. During the Fall Workshop, each week students rotate through 4 classes including drama, dance, voice and prep. The goal is to develop students’ performing skills. All students are cast in a role for our semester production. They will perform for friends and family in December.

Our mission is to develop children’s love of the arts in a nurturing environment.

Go to www.stage-right.net for more info and to register.

Enter Promo code: HappyJuly for $25 off tuition.

For more information:
Call/Text:  201-207-3525
Email:  stagerightn1@gmail.com
Location:  Ridgewood, NJ

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Ridgewood High School Commemorative Brick Campaign

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December 4,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, It is with great pleasure that the Ridgewood High School Alumni Association announces the launch of our Commemorative Brick Campaign. This effort is the first of several exciting initiatives we are working on to honor and celebrate 125 years of academics, athletics and the arts at RHS.

Ridgewood High School is built on a tradition of excellence. You can continue to support and inspire students by purchasing your own brick paver today. Commemorate an event, reunion or significant milestone by purchasing a brick. You can memorialize a treasured individual or simply declare your love of RHS through this program. These bricks will line the walkways of our campus and honor the past and the future of RHS.

https://store.rhsalumniassociation.org

Please help us spread the word through our RHS community by forwarding this note to other alumni whether classmates, siblings, parents, teachers or friends.
Or ask them to register themselves at rhsalumniassociation.org as we always love to connect with alumni.

This is a wonderful opportunity for alumni and the community to be a part of RHS history and to leave their lasting mark. Hopefully you can come see your brick in person in the fall of 2017 when they are installed. We look forward to celebrating this important anniversary year with all of you.

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Call for Entries and Save the Date: Annual RHS Alumni Art Show

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Call for Entries and Save the Date: Annual RHS Alumni Art Show
12th Annual Alumni Art Show
Exhibit Dates:  December 12, 2016 – January 5, 2017
Location:  RHS, Carroll Art Gallery – Room 137
Reception:  January 5, 2017 at 7 p.m.

Alumni Artists:  We will be collecting your current, ready-to-hang creative works the week of December 5.  Please consider sharing your talent! Please forward to you alumni friends….help spread the word!

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Artist Ellsworth Kelly found his bold vision as a boy in Oradell

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DECEMBER 28, 2015, 12:02 PM    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2015, 11:09 PM
BY JAY LEVIN
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THE RECORD

he power of observation that informed the work of Ellsworth Kelly — whose innovative use of bold, geographic shapes and vivid colors established him as one of America’s leading abstract artists — was incubated in the rural Oradell of long ago.

Kelly, who died Sunday at 92, spent his boyhood in the Bergen County borough and enjoyed bird-watching at the Oradell Reservoir, an experience that helped him focus on nature’s shapes and kindled a passion for color and form.

Oradell, too, gave Kelly his professional moorings: His drawings — of daffodils, for instance, and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln set in profile against a Stars and Stripes backdrop — graced the covers of The Chirp, Oradell Junior High School’s quarterly literary magazine. Kelly himself credited a sixth-grade art teacher, Dorothy Opsut, with recognizing and encouraging his talent.

The artist, who counted Picasso and Matisse as influences, moved to upstate Spencertown, N.Y., after stints in lower Manhattan and Paris, but never forgot Oradell. A childhood friend, Frank Vierling, was the longtime borough historian, and when the Oradell Public Library embarked on a capital campaign to fund a renovation a decade ago, Kelly’s $50,000 was the largest gift.

When the library marked its centennial in 2013, Kelly, days shy of 90, was front and center at the celebration. Telling the crowd that “my art is simply about shapes and colors and what people make of them,” he presented the library with a signed print titled “Color Squares 2” (2011) — squares of green, blue, violet, red and orange on a horizontal white background. It hangs over the fireplace in the North Reading Room, and joins a trove of Kelly books and catalogs in the library’s collection.

 

https://www.northjersey.com/news/artist-ellsworth-kelly-found-his-bold-vision-as-a-boy-in-oradell-1.1481462

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RHS Celebration of the Arts is May 21-22

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May 21st 2015

Ridgewood NJ, The event will open to the public on Thursday, May 21 at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center at RHS with music and dance performances.  Sharing the Arts will perform A Whole New World from Aladdin, and the advanced dance class will perform to a piece played by the Symphonic Band. Guests will have an opportunity to explore the artwork and displays throughout the first floor before moving to the Little Theatre for a concert of small ensembles.

On Friday, the festivities will continue as high school staff, faculty, and students are immersed in over 1000 pieces of artwork.  They may also attend various performances and demonstrations throughout the day.  This two-day extravaganza is truly one of the feature events of the Fine and Applied Arts Department.

Thursday evening’s gala is open to the public and free of charge.

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Panelists: Ridgewood needs to shine spotlight on artistic events

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Panelists: Ridgewood needs to shine spotlight on artistic events

OCTOBER 30, 2014    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014, 4:06 PM
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Jazz feasts, film festivals, classical chamber concerts, rock shows, art galleries.

The positive dual-consensus among those at an Oct. 29 forum, which explored the “role of arts and historic preservation” in the Central Business District (CBD), was that the arts offer experiential opportunities important for attracting visitors and binding a community together, and that, luckily, Ridgewood already has most, if not all, of the components.

It just needs to get the word out.

“Ridgewood is certainly not a cultural wasteland,” said Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli, who helped organize the forum. “I think if anything, what we need to do is [promote] it so we make it all known … It’s up to us to be good stewards of it.”

Residents on the new Ridgewood Arts Council are striving to do so, by working with the village’s network administrator, Dylan Hansen, to create a page on the village website – which is in the process of being revamped – that would be a “one-stop shop” for people looking for information on artistic goings-on in the village, noted Ridgewood Arts Council chair Linda Bradley.

The arts council, which became a village committee in 2014, is in the process of reinvigorating its general mission of promoting the arts in Ridgewood. The group has a broad definition of art that includes not just visual and performance arts, but fashion and the culinary arts, Pucciarelli said.

https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/panelists-artistic-events-need-to-be-in-spotlight-1.1123169

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Ridgewood Arts Council seeks official status

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Ridgewood Arts Council seeks official status

APRIL 2, 2014    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014, 5:13 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
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The village will consider creating an official body dedicated to the support of the arts, as Ridgewood has done for purposes of promoting citizens’ safety, environmental awareness and financial management, among other areas critical to residents.

The Ridgewood Arts Council has acted in a de facto capacity since it re-launched in November 2012, and its members are appealing to the village’s governing body to make it the sanctioned organization for the arts, according to Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli, who has been working with group leaders for the past 15 months. The arts council is currently a division of the Ridgewood Guild.

“What we would like to do now is make the [arts] council an official body of the village government,” Pucciarelli said at a Ridgewood Council meeting last month, adding that the designation would give the group a higher profile and aid in its access to parks and other public venues.

Pucciarelli proposed that membership on the arts council, like other village committees, would come via annual Ridgewood Council appointment. The appointments of board chairman and vice chairman would be voted on by the arts council.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/ridgewood-arts-council-seeks-official-status-1.840048#sthash.IDMPr6Zg.dpuf

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Summer Music Academy through the Ridgewood Community School

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Summer Music Academy through the Ridgewood Community School

REGISTER NOW FOR DISTRICT SUMMER PROGRAMS

The Summer Music Academy provides lessons and performing opportunities for beginning, intermediate and advanced level musicians. Students from all districts are welcome! Program highlights include string orchestras, jazz bands, woodwind, brass and percussion ensembles, drum set classes and the 2014 Guitar Camp. All students are encouraged to join this dynamic program. Sessions run Tuesday, July 1 through Friday, August 1.

Click here for the brochure and registration form.

 

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Ridgewood Concert Band March Winds

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March Winds
Friday, March 21, 2014
8:00 PM
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Meet The Soloist: Richard Summers

Richard Summers is a music educator, performer, arranger, conductor, and composer. He grew up in Wheeling WV, became interested in a musical career, and attended the University of Kentucky for two years under a full scholarship. He moved to the NY/NJ area when he was accepted as a clarinetist and saxophonist of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point from 1972-1975. Following his military career, he attended Juilliard, where he received his BM and MM degrees in music performance on clarinet under Leon Russianoff and Joseph Allard.

Newly retired from NJ public schools, Mr. Summers taught instrumental music for 32 years in Kinnelon and Pequannock, NJ and served as adjunct professor for concert band, clarinet, and woodwinds at William Paterson University, where he established the Summer Honors Band.

As a performer on clarinet, saxophone, and other woodwind instruments, Mr. Summers has performed as a member of the New Jersey Pops Orchestra, The Orchestra at William Paterson, The New Music Ensemble, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, North Jersey Philharmonic, and has been principal clarinetist, soloist, assistant conductor, personnel manager, and arranger with the Ridgewood Concert Band for over 25 years. Throughout his career, he has been a featured performer both locally and internationally, playing solo works across the US and Europe.

Mr. Summers has recently arranged and composed music that has been published for Bandworks Publications, and Carl Fisher Publications, and is hoping to write and publish more music in the future. Mr. Summers resides in West Milford, NJ and has a musical family of his own. His wife Karen and his son Stephen are also clarinetists and perform together in area music ensembles like the Ridgewood Concert Band.