Monday, May 31, 2010

Upcoming Monday June 7, 2010

Our wait is over! Monday, June 7 we start our 4th Season--and what a lineup we have!! Two returning favorites and two new voices--Monday promises to be a great evening!

(Remember, you can follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news and cancellation info at @summergazebo)

Monday, June 7, 2010 we feature:

Peter Carlaftes

Peter Carlaftes

Peter Carlaftes is a New York-based comic author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, poet, and director. He's authored 12 plays, including a noir treatment of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, and the celebrity rehab center spoof, Spin-Dry. He has appeared in numerous off-Broadway productions, including his comic solo performance piece, Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well. His critically-acclaimed humor book, A Year on Facebook, was issued by Three Rooms Press in January 2010. Three Rooms will also publish DrunkYard Dog, a collection of his poetry, and Triumph For Rent -Three Plays, in May.

Tom Phelan

Tom Phelan

Tom Phelan, who was born and raised on a farm in Ireland, is the author of the novels In the Season of the Daisies, Iscariot, Derrycloney, and The Canal Bridge. His next novel, Nailer, about a man determined to get revenge, is set against the backdrop of Ireland's abusive industrial schools and the collusion between church and state that allowed them to flourish.

To date, Tom Phelan has seen his works published in four countries and three languages. His first novel, In the Season of the Daisies, was chosen by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. His most recent novel, The Canal Bridge, was praised by the Irish Independent as a "First World War masterpiece...ambitious, accomplished, and deeply moving." And Books Ireland called it "powerful and deeply affecting."

In 2008,Tom was selected as a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellow, one of only five individuals chosen from among several hundred novelists.

Barbara Ann Branco

Barbara Ann Branco

Barbara Ann Branca has been writing and performing since childhood. She considers her poetry creative nonfiction based on her lifelong passions for music, history and the natural world. She has read original works on NPR station WSHU and at Cornelia Street Café, Bowery Poetry Club, Poetry Barn and Walt Whitman Birthplace where she took first place in the LI Poetry Collective's Super Poetry Sunday 2010. Born in Brooklyn and reared on Long Island where she made her stage debut at age six, her passion for the environment goes back to the first Earth Day as a science teacher upstate. After teaching college in Vermont and moving to the Upper West Side, she was a science editor and textbook author who hung out in NYC piano bars and jazz clubs landing a one-woman show at Paulsson's (W. 72nd St.) and fronting an orchestra singing jazz standards on a tour of Greece.

Today you can find Barbara Ann at Stony Brook University's New York Sea Grant where she interviews scientists and writes articles on marine environmental issues (www.nyseagrant.org) and has sung with the Big Jazz Band and the Stony Brook Opera Company. Her Sea Grant colleagues have also egged her on to sit in with bands from Anchorage to Hilton Head, from Seattle to Cape Cod. Barbara Ann recently read original poems as she led a tour of Poets' Walk on the Hudson and is currently working on a collection of "watershed"-based poetry. Some of her poetry can be found at http://barbrann.tumblr.com/.

Christine O'Hagan

Christine O'Hagan

Christine O'Hagan is a native New Yorker, and has been a Long Island resident for thirty years. Her novel, BENEDICTION AT THE SAVOIA, received a starred Kirkus Review. Her memoir, THE BOOK OF KEHLS, also received a starred Kirkus Review, and was selected by Kirkus as a "Best Book of 2005." O'Hagan's essays have been published in nine anthologies, several newspapers (including THE NEW YORK TIMES and NEWSDAY), QUEST Magazine and many local publications. She has recently finished a collection of essays, and is working on a second novel.

Friday, May 28, 2010

2011 Sponsors

We have been blessed with a tremendous increase in the number of Sponsors this year. Our thanks, and the thanks of underprivileged kids who will be able to go to Kamp Kiwanis this summer, goes out to these generous people and businesses.

Please support them!!

21st Century Appraisers
Bonbino's Pizza
Bondi Iovino & Fusco, Attorneys-at-Law
Century 21 American Homes (Asip, Dagger & Asip)
Councilman Anthony Santino
Craig DeBaun, Fire Commissioner

Friends of Judge Gary Knobel
Friends of Don Clavin, Receiver of Taxes
Herb & Marian Brown
Home & Hearth Real Estate

Kim & Todd Garrity
Kiwanettes of Oceanside
Lion’s Club of RVC
Long Island Pulse
Mary Jane McGrath, Attorney
Maryanne & Sander Lehrer
Michael Schamroth and Family
Mindy & Roy Kaufman
Municipal Credit Union
Oceanside Federation of Teachers
Oceanville Mason Supply
South Nassau Communities Hospital

Tower's Funeral Home
Westron Lite Bulb


Saturday, May 8, 2010

2010 Schedule

6/7/2010
Peter Carlaftes Tom Phelan
Barbara Ann Branca Christine O'Hagan

6/14/2010
Jerry Zezima Peter Dugan
Darren Sardelli Barb Reiher-Meyers

6/21/2010
George Held Robert Savino
Doreen Spungin Louisa Calio

6/28/2010
Tom Schaudel Vicki Iorio
Paula Curci Deborah Hauser

7/5/2010 Independence Day Celebration

7/12/2010
Christina M. Rau Herb Siegel
Chris Knopf Florence Gatto

7/19/2010
Gayl Teller Denis Gray
Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan Bruce Grossberg

7/26/2010
Reed Farrel Coleman Saralee Rosenberg
Ellen Meister Brenda Janowitz

8/2/2010
Clive Young George Wallace
Jack Anderson Alix Strauss

8/9/2010
Judy Turek Walter Wagner
Kerriann Flanagan Brosky Brian Cohen

8/16/2010
Richard Vetere Harriet Slaughter
Ursula Nouza

8/23/2010
Ellen Pickus George Guida

8/30/2010
Paula Camacho Edgar Carlson
Phil Reinstein Amy Holman

2010 Schedule

It is with great pleasure that we announce our 2010 lineup! This summer we feature a wide-range of published authors and poets from Long Island, the NYC metro area--and a return engagement from our favorite poet from the UK! Plan now to join us each Monday evening in June, July & August-- 7 pm-- at Schoolhouse Green!

6/7/2010
Peter Carlaftes Tom Phelan
Barbara Ann Branca Christine O'Hagan


6/14/2010
John Hanc Peter Dugan
Darren Sardelli Barb Reiher-Meyers


6/21/2010
George Held Robert Savino
Doreen Spungin Louisa Calio


6/28/2010
Tom Schaudel Vicki Iorio
Paula Curci Deborah Hauser


7/5/2010 Independence Day Celebration


7/12/2010
Christina M. Rau Herb Siegel
Chris Knopf Florence Gatto


7/19/2010
Gayl Teller Denis Gray
Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan Bruce Grossberg


7/26/2010
Reed Farrel Coleman Saralee Rosenberg
Ellen Meister Brenda Janowitz


8/2/2010
Clive Young George Wallace
Jack Anderson
Alix Strauss

8/9/2010
Judy Turek Walter Wagner
Kerriann Flanagan Brosky Brian Cohen


8/16/2010
Richard Vetere Harriet Slaughter
Ursula Nouza


8/23/2010
Ellen Pickus George Guida


8/30/2010
Paula Comacho Edgar Carlson
Phil Reinstein Amy Holman


Sponsors

All funds raised (all--not net--all) by the program help send underprivileged kids to Kamp Kiwanis. Sponsorships are $150 and include your name and logo on signs, posters and the thousands of flyers we distribute, as well as on all announcements (including every email we send).

We are also offering "Program Patrons" for $25. "Program Patrons" will have their names listed on the weekly program we will be distributing each week.

If you would like to become a sponsor or a Program Patron, send your check made payable to "Oceanside Kiwanis" to me at 68 Yorktown Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570 -- email or include your logo and the listing you want us to print.

If you are interested in being a sponsor, please contact me for more for more information.


Audience

Whether you read for us this year or not, I encourage you to come on down, every Monday in June, July and August, for a nice, quiet summer's evening on Schoolhouse Green!!

Many thanks!

Tony Iovino
tonyiovino@gmail.com