Town of Greenburgh - Arts & Culture

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The Kids Short Story Connection

Spring session: Sept. 12^{th - Dec. 5th, 2009}

Saturdays (7), 10 a.m. – 12 noon

Age: 9 - 17 years old

$100/$90 each additional sibling (Greenburgh residents); non-residents $120

6 scholarships available

Class size: maximum of 12 students in four classes

Location: Greenburgh Town Hall

The Kids Short Story Connection is a series of writing workshops that meet on seven Saturdays during a twelve-week period. Participants must LOVE to write and have written at least two short stories prior to enrollment. Children work in a round-table setting to develop their creativity, improve old stories, and write new ones. A group anthology is published annually. Send name, address, birth date, and copies of two short stories to KSSC - Arts and Culture Committee, Greenburgh Town Hall, 177 Hillside Avenue, Greenburgh, NY 10607. For more information, contact Sarah Bracey White, (914) 682-1574

Children's Art Gallery

Days/Time: Ongoing

Fee: None

Location: Theodore D. Young Community Center, 2nd Floor Gallery

32 Manhattan Avenue, White Plains, NY

Children can view artwork by other children or exhibit their own artwork. Preference is given, but not limited to, displaying the work of children from the villages and unincorporated areas of the Town of Greenburgh. Individuals, schools, camps, recreation centers, after-school programs, scout troops, etc. from outside the area are encouraged to utilize the gallery to display children’s creative artwork. Individuals from outside Greenburgh are also invited to exhibit.To request individual and group displays, call Sarah Bracey White, (914) 682-1574.

Winners & Finalists /38^th Annual Poetry Contest 2009

Juvenile Category - Juniors (6-12 years old)

Winners: 1^st Place: Max Brown, Scarsdale, “Feelings” $50

2^nd Place: Jack Flannery, Eastchester, “Forgotten Tree” $25

3^rd Place: Johanna Grace Clark, Dobbs Ferry, “Premonition” $15

Finalists:

Emma Manos, Port Chester, “Sentiment”

Julia Mende, Mahopac, “The Egret and the Stream”

Andrew Mount, NYC, “The Hunt”

Sofia Rossi, South Salem, “Willow Tree”

Heather Schneps, Hartsdale, “Frogs and Toads”

Neasha Shuler, Elmsford, “A Dream Come True”

Matthew Webster, Hartsdale, “My Saxophone”

Student Category (13-18 years old)

Winners: 1^st Place: Shannon Gupta, Scarsdale, “Love Me, Be You Water” $100

2^nd Place: Becca Leibowitz, Hartsdale, “The Lake at Dusk” $ 50

3^rd Place: Drew Zeyer, White Plains, “Perspective of Youth” $ 25

Finalists:

Natalie Cheung, Ardsley, “Why does It Matter?”

Daniel Ehrlich, NYC, “Questions and Comments”

Jonathan Golberg, Ardsley, “Forever and Ever”

Matthew Lewis, Hartsdale, “Weeds”

Stephanie Rogers, Pleasantville, “Snow”

Alan Sage, NYC, “I Exist”

Adult Category

Winners: 1^st Place: Clark M. Jackowe, Hastings-on-Hudson, “Against Death” $100

2^nd Place: Jenna Smith, Scarsdale, “New Year 2009” $ 50

3^rd Place: Andrea L. Alterman, Hastings-on-Hudson, “ Bluebird Boxes” $ 25

Finalists:

Jay Albrecht, Tarrytown, “Poll Worker, Hungry”

Sharon Beard, NYC, “Violetta”

Barbara L. Blume, Harrison, “God’s Child”

Elizabeth Burk, Tarrytown, “The Marriage”

Angela Carrozza, Mt. Kisco, “The Telephone”

Nancy K. Craig, Scarsdale, “February’s Man”

Terry Dugan, Yorktown Heights, “Brooding”

Diane Piankian Geiger, New Rochelle, “Migration”

Margaret Kogan, Tarrytown, “Song of the Exiles”

Marjorie Mir, Bronxville, “From the Youngest Grandchild”

Susan Schefflein, Putnam Valley, “Mystic Journey”

Greenburgh, New York. Town of Greenburgh Names Its First Poet Laureate

Brenda Connor-Bey has been named the Town of Greenburgh’s first poet laureate. The Greenburgh Arts and Culture Committee selected Ms. Connor-Bey for her body of work, contributions to the field of poetry, and encouragement and support of poets of all ages. Ms. Connor-Bey’s inauguration ceremony into her two-year volunteer term will take place 7 pm, September 13^th, at the Greenburgh Town Hall. Poets and poetry lovers are cordially invited to attend.

Ms. Connor-Bey is the author of Thoughts of an Everyday Woman/An Unfinished Urban Folktale and the recently completed Through the Mists of Remembering, and Crossroad of the Serpent. A former creative writing teacher at Marymount Manhattan College, she has edited a short story collection, Ibo Landing by Ishan Bracy (Cool Grove Press) and co-edited a poetry anthology, en(compass) (Uganta Press).

“Brenda Connor-Bey unflinchingly tackles the subject of African American identity with unparalleled grace and narrative strength,” says Ann Cefola, poet and former Greenburgh Poetry Contest judge. “Her poems are riveting forays into lyric narrative. By exploring her family's heritage, she makes a big – and too neglected – piece of our American cultural history come alive.”

Ms. Connor Bey’s work has appeared in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women (Wm. Morrow & Co.) edited by Amina & Amiri Baraka, Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life (University of Pittsburgh), and Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review (North Carolina State University), among many others. Her work has been performed by Black Women in Theatre, the Lincoln Center Performance Ensemble, and included in the play Her Talking Drum at the American Place Theatre in NYC.

Her other honors include the Westchester Fund for Women and Girls’ Outstanding Arts Educator Award, a NYS CAPS award for poetry, four PEN awards for non-fiction and a NYFA grant for fiction. A MacDowell, YADDO and Cave Canem Regional Fellow, she has led writing workshops for children at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and Greenburgh’s Kids’ Short Story Connection. She has conducted numerous residencies through the Westchester Arts Council at the Neuberger, Hudson River and Katonah Museums.

Founder of MenWem Writers Workshop, Ms. Connor-Bey is also a member of Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee, the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center Board of Directors, the Harlem Writers’ Workshop, the Poetry Caravan, and the advisory committee for the Westchester Center for Creative Aging. She lives in Greenburgh, NY with her husband, James Miller.