Tilles Center for the Performing Arts hosts “Experience Long Island 2009,” a three-day event in the great tradition of the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. Produced by The Artists Group, this is a one-of-a-kind showcase for innovative music, dance, theater and visual art that highlights the work of many of Long Island’s most creative visual and performing artists. The festival will be held at Tilles Center and at other venues on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, September 25, 26, 27, 2009.

“Experience Long Island 2009” a trip… into the world of muse. A feast for the senses, every creative discipline is presented at venues ringing the fringe of our mainstage, Tilles Center. This is an opportunity to taste dance, music, poetry and song, to drink in the spirit of form and space during a weekend devoted to art on the edge.

The festival opens Friday night, September 25 with a Tilles Center mainstage show featuring Steve Adelson Stick-Tet. Highlights on Saturday, September 26 include performances at seven venues plus four mainstage shows, one featuring vocalist Eden White in 40, a new musical. Sunday, September 27 is no less packed with artistic excitement. In addition to performances in seven venues throughout the day, the festival finale on the Tilles Center mainstage stars The Suck It Easy Band in Floyd Explosion.

Tickets are immediately available for the performances on the Tilles Center mainstage; tickets for the other performances of “Experience Long Island” go on sale July 31.
For more information about FR_ _ G* 2009 – Experience Long Island
http://experiencelongisland.webs.com

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Spirit of Movement by Debra Ann Kasimakis, is currently on display at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts as part of the continuing art program Art Under Glass. The Atrium is open from 9am-6pm Mon-Fri and is there to enjoy before every performance.

Spirit of Movement

These five flying figures will make you wish you had run away to the circus.

Artmosphere was amazing. It was an happening. You don’t see alot of those these days.

I hope we get to do it again somewhere. History in the making, breaking the barrier between Visual Art, drawing & theater…..For those that didn’t get a chance to see it, for whatever reason…..sorry. You missed out on an excursion into theater of the future. Reaction has been extremely favorable. For me, it was rather indulgent. The show was a piece of living sculpture from my mind, developed from my painting for a Designer Showcase – Mansion & Millionaire Caumsett Foundation fund raiser. What a blast.

Artmosphere may happen again…..you never know. If we get another opportunity, you may want to make sure you experience it.

Anyone that got a chance to see it was very taken with the concept. Maybe it should have run longer, so that the audience would have been able to come more than once…..

Thank You to all who were involved and a special Thank You to Joe Satriani for his amazing music & Blue Dream for making my dream come true………

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. Thank You, to all those that did come.  If you missed your chance to purchase any of the  memorabilia, you can contact me for your purchase. T shirts, tote bags, bookmarks and the ever popular, ARTMO-SPHERES……they were WILD! You can even get a copy of the fabulous program, that folks are collecting, now…..LOL

Thank You, again……keep in touch, You KNOW I will……

What event in the Earth’s history sparks the imagination more than the moment of creation? An ongoing debate that has explanations in religion, science and mythology. Now we can add another point of view to that list, “Artmosphere”, the creation of the universe as interpreted by Debra Ann Kasimakis and being brought to the stage of Tilles Center by the talent that is the Artists Group. “It’s funny to think back on it all” Debra said recently,” I was asked to participate in a Designer Showcase and The Kasimakis Karmic Kontainer was born, an “old” wicker trunk that had been rescued, from places hither-to unknown.. A painting was created for the inside lid of the trunk. Parcae & the Birth of the Universe.” From this simple piece of art has developed an amazing show.

The Artists Group started after a fundraising event for the Hicksville Gregory Museum in 2004, The Art of Paleontology. This event consisted of Long Island based artists & artisans selling their wares, a performance stage with local dance companies, poets, & musicians. But, the highlight of the two day event, which was held in the three days between hurricanes Bonnie & Charlie, was the 12 visual artists recreating Paleolithic images on fiberglass boulders live on the museum grounds. The patrons of the event were amazed to see the creative process and the artists were gratified by the interaction and the immediate response from the public. This core of artists has grown into a collection of talent that includes dancers, poets, photographers, musicians and more. Under the direction of it’s founders, Hicksville natives, Debra Ann Kasimakis and Robert Goida, the group has set up many programs throughout Long Island. “History in Bloom – Gold Coast Gardens” is currently on exhibit at Cedarmere in Rosyln and the group maintains a year round rotational art program at Briarcliff College in Patchogue. “One of our biggest programs, however is “Art Under Glass”, a collaboration between The Artists Group and Tilles Center.” said Robert Goida “The rotational program fills the Atrium at Tilles each season with a new and exciting piece of sculptural art.” So far they have presented the works of Adam Brown, Laurette Kovary and Max Yawney and this upcoming season “Spirit of Movement” by Debra Ann Kasimakis will fill the space. “The way this has come together is kind of crazy.” she said recently. “The art committee at Tilles picked which pieces would be displayed and in which order three years ago, long before Artmosphere was even a thought.”

“Artmosphere” is a display, a live piece of art, a simultaneous participation of several disciplines with the involvement of the visual arts in a dynamic way. What sparked the initial thought was the idea that visual artists never get a chance to perform live. This concept then began to evolve into a collaborative show featuring music, dance and poetry as well as visual art and a performance was born. The audience will feel the air as the dancers whiz right by them, and they too will share the stage for this show. In this way, the sensory experience will surround the audience. Elliott Sroka, Executive Director of Tilles Center, and Dr. Cara Gargano. Chair of the C.W. Post Department of Theater Film and Dance, both embraced the idea for it’s unique and groundbreaking approach to theater. And from this a show was born. “I can’t believe we are actually going to perform this piece of artwork, LIVE ! I have been searching for something similar to “Artmosphere” and there seems to be nothing else that combines all of these elements in one live performance.” Kasimakis said,” When we first thought about doing this it was totally conceptual. But, when we actually got the go ahead, it became very real and serious indeed. We all needed to bring it to from a thought to the stage!” The list of performers in “Artmosphere” span Long Island from north to south and east to west. Artists Andrew Leipzig from Sayville, Alan Semerdjian from Huntington, Laurette Kovary from East Norwich, composers Jane Leslie of Long Beach, Jay Jii from Northport and Joe Satriani, San Francisco by way of Carle Place, demonstrate the reach of this project and its focus, Long Island creativity. “Our dancers and musicians come from Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, even though some claim that the first two are not really Long Island, they seem to be attached on the map I have.” laughed Goida “This show is a collaboration of many talented individuals and we would like to invite you to become a part of “Artmosphere”. With only 200 seats available for each performance, this is that rare opportunity to be part of theater history.”

“Artmosphere” will have four performances at Tilles Center this September on the fourth through the seventh, all shows are at 8pm and tickets are $30.

Tickets are available at:

http://www.ticketmaster.com

http://www.tillescenter.org

or by phone at Tillescharge 516-299-3100.

For more information about Artmosphere or The Artists Group visit the website http://www.debbydoll.com

The Artists Group announces:

“Artmosphere” is a display, a live piece of art, a simultaneous participation of all disciplines with the involvement of the visual arts in a dynamic way. In a rare way, the sensory experience will surround the audience. The dancers will be “in the face” of the patrons and the music and sights will wash over them stimulating their senses and drawing them into the performance. This show is a collaboration of many talented individuals and we would like to invite you to become a part of “Artmosphere”.

If you believe in the magic that exists in an artist’s mind, then come with us and make it happen.
As we say “Do it-Be it-Live it”.

The Artists Group is helping Nassau County Museum of Fine Art with a  CALL TO ARTISTS

The Nassau County Museum of Art is planning a blockbuster event that will be a one of a kind experience for audiences across Long Island and New York.

Nassau County Museum of Fine Art
One Museum Drive
Roslyn Harbor, New York 11576

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Twilight Pumpkin Spectacular
October 25th through October 28th
Sponsored by 98.3 KJOY
with support from Bethpage Federal Credit Union

The Nassau County Museum of Art is planning a blockbuster event that will be a one of a kind experience for audiences across Long Island and New York. The Twilight Pumpkin Spectacular will transform NCMA?s vast grounds into a dark and mysterious showcase for a dazzling display of over 3,000 hand-carved, illuminated jack o’lanterns.

We invite local artists and carvers to lend their talent and participate in this event. All participants will be recognized in print at the event. All carving will take place October 18 ? October 23 at NCMA in Roslyn.

Submit designs/patterns, one image of your work and contact information to: alisoncarley@nassaumuseum.com

For more info go to: 

http://www.debbydoll.com/The%20Artists%20Group/Business/the_art_exchange.htm

or to the Museum’s homepage:
http://www.nassaumuseum.com/events.htm

Nassau County’s First Poet Laureate

A Laureate to Remember – by D.A. Kasimakis

The day was set.
The time was right.
We had the seat within our sight.

We thought we knew all would agree,
Nassau would take it’s place in HISTORY.

Instead they baulked, they turned and ran.
They should have held the public’s stand.

To buckle under at the end,
they proved to be
NO poet’s friend.

Who cares what all the cronies think?
We’ll smite them, public opinion will sink.

POET LAUREATE is the name we’ll claim
for Maxwell Corydon Wheat’s fame.