Category: Moonstone Arts Center News
OPEN MIC @ Moonstone – 8/12 – 7pm
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Monday August 10 – Dr. Khalsa’s Natural Dog
Thursday, August 6th, 2009MONDAY AUGUST 10 – NON-FICTION
7pm – Lecture at Robin’s Book Store, 110 S. 13th Street
8pm – Reception at Doggie Style, 114 S. 13th Street – Enjoy some refreshments and find the items Dr. Khalsa suggests for your healthy dog at Doggie Style.
DR. DEVA KHALSA
Author of Dr. Khalsa’s Natural Dog: A Holistic Feeding guide
for Healthier Dogs ($16.95 Bowtie Press)
Improving the daily nutrition and long-term care of our canine companions is more important today than ever before, with contaminated dog food finding its way onto our grocery store shelves and harmful chemicals being released into the water and air. There has never been a better time than now to provide your dog with the natural, holistic care he deserves. In her new book, Dr. Khalsa’s Natural Dog, innovative veterinarian Deva Khalsa shares her effective and integrated approach, which combines traditional veterinary medicine with nutrition, vitamins and minerals, and alternative therapies, such as acupuncture and homeopathy, to effectively manage serious canine health problems.
“Natural Dog is the most comprehensive book on holistic dog care for the twenty-first century. Dr. Deva Khalsa is a pioneer in the field of holistic veterinary medicine in America.” –Joanne Stefanos, DVM, author, Animals and Man: A State of Blessedness
Within this comprehensive guide you will find information on: * The facts about commercial dog food * Proper nutrition and how to feed your dog for optimal health * Supplements with herbs, vitamins, and minerals * Holistic strategies for preventing, managing, and treating health issues, including allergies, cancer, and diabetes * Remedies for special-needs dogs * Bonus: 50 healthy and tasty recipes–including doggy birthday cakes and much more!
Dr. Deva Khalsa is a licensed doctor of veterinary medicine, earned her VMD degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, and the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society. She has studied homeopathy for more then twenty-five years, as well as other alternative therapies, and lectures internationally on her fresh, successful approach to veterinary medicine. Her work stems from her belief that animals are at their best and happiest only when they are in a healthy and natural state. She is coauthor of Healing Your Horse: Alternative Therapies.
Wed. 7/29 – Philadelphia Poets
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009WEDNESDAY JULY 29 – 7:00pm
Featuring poetry published in
Philadelphia Poets 2009 – Volume 15
Meet the Poets:
PAT BOLGER Mother of six, grandmother of seventeen. Pat graduated from Chestnut Hill College in 1951, where she wrote for the college magazine. She began writing again when the children moved out, and is now working on poems and memoirs.
LISA ALEXANDER BARON’S new chapbook is Reading the Alphabet of Trees (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in Paterson Literary Review, LIPS, The Comstock Review, Potomac Review, Mad Poets Review, and others. She is an English and Journalism teacher at Emmaus High School in PA.
PETER BAROTH, writer, artist, and musician, was born in Chicago and raised in Norman, OK. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and Temple Law School. His poetry chapbooks are Mounds of Sounds, Sessions, and Ski Oklahoma (Wordrunner Chapbooks) and his novel Long Green was published by iUniverse. His work has appeared in Legal Studies Forum, HiNgEOnline.com, Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, parlorjournal.com, and others. He moderated the Free Library of Philadelphia Monday Poets Series last year.
MEL BRAKE is a Philadelphia-based poet whose poetry has appeared in several media outlets and journals, including Philadelphia Poets 2007 and 2008, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and the Philadelphia Bulletin. His love for poetry is like a cradle of freedom for personal and political expression.
BETH PHILLIPS BROWN, poet and storyteller in the Welsh and Celtic tradition, is a 2002 PCA Folk Arts Performing Traditions fellowship recipient. Her most recent chapbook is Book of Enchantments, FootHills Publishing, 2007.
BARBARA DANIELS’ book, Rose Fever, was recently published by WordTech Press. Her poems have appeared in The Louisville Review, Karamu, Slab, The Literary Review, and many other journals. She received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a Dodge Full Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center.
JOSEPH DORAZIO studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as a docent at Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. His poetry has appeared in a number of regional poetry publications, including The Mad Poets Review. Mr. Dorazio lives and writes in St. David’s, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.
MARIA FAMA has written three books of poetry, co-founded a video production company, recorded her poetry in CD compilations of music and poetry, and given readings across the country as well as on TV, radio, video, and film. She appears in the 2007 film, “Pipes of Peace,” about the late jazz bagpipe musician, Rufus Harley. Maria was awarded the 2002 and 2005 Aniello Lauri Award for Creative Writing, as well as the 2006 Amy Tritsch Needle Award for Poetry. Her latest book of poems is Looking for Cover, Bordighera Books.
JANET MASON is an award winning poet and fiction writer whose radio commentary is aired through “This Way Out,” in 22 countries. You can read her work, including more reviews, at amusejanetmason.com. Art is an important part of Philadelphia Poets. Janet Mason took the photo of the cover picture, the Caryatids. Janet also has several poems and an article in this issue, as well as another photo of the Plaka, the oldest street in Greece.
JOYCE MEYERS a lawyer and frequent contributor to Philadelphia Poets, has also appeared in The Comstock Review, Atlanta Review, The Ledge, Pearl, White Pelican Review, Mad Poets Review, and Ibbetson Street, among others. Her chapbook Wild Mushrooms was published by Plan B Press in 2007.
KAY PETERS grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and lives in New Jersey. Since retiring as an oncology clinical nurse specialist she works as a parish nurse on a volunteer basis. She began writing poetry about six years ago and continues learning at the Greater Philadelphia Wordshop. Her poems have appeared in Philadelphia Poets and the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
RUTH ROUFF is a freelance curriculum writer who lives in Collingswood, NJ. Her poetry and prose have appeared in SLAB: The Slippery Rock University Literary Journal, American Writing, Coal City Review, International Quarterly, and other publications. A novel she has written for young adults, based on the life of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, will be published this year by Townsend Press.
AL TACCONELLI is an artist and poet who lives in Wynnewood. Al’s poems have appeared in Stone Soup, Endicott Review, The Paterson Literary Review, and
VIA. His paintings are included in the permanent collection of contemporary art at Passaic County Community College.
ROSEMARY CAPPELLO, Editor, Philadelphia Poets, will emcee this event, which is free & open to the public. For further information, contact her at redrose108@comcast.net
July 11 – Ian O’Beirne Sextet – 9pm
Saturday, July 11th, 2009SATURDAY JULY 11, 9pm – MUSIC – $5 Cover – BYO
IAN O’BEIRNE SEXTET
Ian O’Beirne Sextet playing new music, featuring Philadelphia notables Victor North, Matt Mitchell, Ross Bellenoit, Ryan Kuhns and Anwar Marshall.
Thomas Paine Day – June 8th – 6pm
Thursday, June 4th, 2009MONDAY JUNE 8, 6pm – Thomas Paine Event
DREXEL UNIVERSITY, Mitchell Auditorium
BOSSONE BUILDING – Market Street Between 31st & 32nd
Moonstone Inc. & Drexel University Present
We Have It In Our Power To Begin The World Over Again
A Panel Discussion on the life and influence of Thomas Paine
with ERIC FONER, JACK FRUCHTMAN, Jr. and HARVEY J. KAYE
“The story of Thomas Paine – then and now, for the man and his ideas are very much alive today – stirs the heart, moves the mind, and routs the demon of despair.”
Bill Moyers
ERIC FONER is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for American independence.
JACK FRUCHTMAN, JR. is Professor of Political Science at Towson University and author of Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom, which is both a biography of the controversial Founding Father and an analysis of his works. His other books include Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends.
HARVEY J. KAYE is Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. His books include Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History? and Other Questions, The British Marxist Historians, Thomas Paine: Firebrand of the Revolution, and Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.
Moderated by Michael Coard, Esquire, an adjunct professor in the African Studies Department and the Urban Studies Department at Temple University, a volunteer instructor of Criminal Justice in the university’s Pan African Studies Program, a recipient of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s prestigious Thurgood Marshall Award, a founding member of the ACLU, and a founding member of Judging The Judges, as well as a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the NAACP.
Councilmember Blackwell will present City Council Resolution 090448, Recognizing June 8, 2009 as Thomas Paine Day in Philadelphia in Appreciation of the Tremendous Influence of Paine’s Life and Words upon the City of Philadelphia and the Nation on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of His Death.
Mast Community Charter School students Torri A. Yeargins and Rebecca Nathan will read their essay which won the Thomas Paine Essay Contest.
Steve Gulick will perform several of Paine’s writings.
A reception will follow.
Paine championed representative democracy, argued that government should act for the public good and influenced American rebels and reformers from William Lloyd Garrison and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs. He was quoted by Ronald Reagan in 1980: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” and by Barack Obama in 2009: “Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at the common danger, came forth to meet and repulse it.”
For more information please go to our website: forgottenfoundingfather.net
This project is made possible by a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities council. Additional support for Moonstone comes from the Barra Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, and the William Penn Foundation.
Welcome to The Moonstone Arts Center
Saturday, May 9th, 2009The Moonstone Arts Center is expanding Moonstone’s traditional programming of authors, poetry, and political discussions, with new programs of music, theater, comedy, film and writing workshops. We are beginning a program to help emerging poets publish their work, and will offer chapbook editing, design and printing. Our space is available for other organizations to rent or co-produce programs. In addition to the Moonstone Poetry Series we now host Poets & Prophets and the Poetic Arts Project of Philadelphia. Music programs are being developed with Lucky Old Souls, Ian O’Beirne and Rustic Music. Writing workshops include a poetry workshop with Leonard Gontarek, a fiction workshop with Philadelphia Stories, and a non-fiction workshop with Susan Perloff. Moonstone is also producing Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father, with public lecturers, an essay contest in the high schools, and a panel discussion on the 200th anniversary of his death on June 8, 2009, with historians and Paine scholars, Eric Foner, Jack Fruchtman, and Harvey Kaye. For more information see: www.forgottenfoundingfather.net
Moonstone is also adding an annual membership component and new services. In the past, Moonstone events were hosted by Robin’s Book Store, which also underwrote many of Moonstone’s expenses. Now that Robin’s has shrunk, it can no longer do this. Moonstone is also supported by grants from The Barra Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Samuel S. Fels Fund and the William Penn Foundation. However, foundations are cutting back and some are not funding projects anymore at all but are rather only offering support for “structural development.” What this means in practice is that these foundations want the non-profit organization to now have “earned income” in order to fund their projects and to no longer be dependent on “contributed income.”
This also means that organizations like Moonstone have to begin to have “products” to sell, as well as charging admission to events in order to pay for the expenses of running the organization. We are meeting this challenge both with increased programming – some of which will have cover charges, products and services for sale – and through annual memberships. Our current products include our 2009 Poetry Ink Chapbook, available for only $10.00 and copying services available on our new copy machine. Membership for 2009 is a mere $10.00 and with it you get a copy of the chapbook for free – or, to put it another way, if you buy a copy of the chapbook you become a member automatically. Having a membership offers you discounted entry to Moonstone events.
What is Moonstone? Why be a member? Many people who have attended our programs are not aware of Moonstone’s history and other activities. Founded in 1983, Moonstone is a 501 (C)3, arts and education organization whose mission is to stimulate communication across the barriers of language, gender, ethnicity, and age, utilizing the arts and the concept of multiple intelligences as a guide in both our preschool and our adult programs. We create programs based on the philosophy that the arts, creativity, and imagination are essential aspects of life and learning. We believe that the artistic process is critical in understanding how people think and interact with our world and that learning is a life long activity. Moonstone Inc. currently operates the Moonstone Preschool and the Moonstone Arts Center.
Moonstone preschool uses a unique arts-based curriculum that is based on Howard Gardner’s educational theories of multiple intelligences (MI). MI theory asserts that human cognitive competence is best described in terms of a set of abilities, talents, and mental skills that each child develops at different rates based on biological and cultural influences. These “intelligences” include music, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligences.
Moonstone’s programming for adults includes about 200 events a year with over 300 artist-participants and over 4000 attendees. In the interest of involving under-served populations, we created five tracks which consist of group readings and individual presentations. These are Black Ink, Philadelphia Ink, Poetry, Red Ink, and Women’s Ink.
For 18 years, we produced the Celebration of Black Writing before turning it over to Arts Sanctuary in 2002 and we produced The Paul Robeson Festival for ten years beginning in 1989. Moonstone’s El Festival Cubano ran for three years before ending due to the fact that we could no longer gets Cubans into the country. We also produced a one man play on Clarence Darrow, a four-part series on Thomas Paine’s Legacy: Three Centuries of Revolution in Philadelphia and Richard Wright Week in Philadelphia featuring his daughter Julia Wright and poet Lamont Steptoe. Thank you for being a part of Moonstone.
