Events at the Recovery Lounge and Upper Jay Arts Center

May 11
Friday
7:30PM

Play Reading- PROOF, by David Auburn
"Auburn has taken on some biggies here: what the link may be between genius and mental instability, why it is that lives get stuck, and how elusive the truth can be... Proof's level of accomplishment and the realness of its characters show that Auburn has both depth and a voice." The New Yorker

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, 2001.

June 9
Saturday
7:30pm

Caitlin Scholl is a writer and artist originally hailing from the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Her first novel, Mocemoce, Na Vanua (The Land Abiding), was published in 2006 by IPS Press in the Fiji Islands. Makebelieve, published by UNO Pressas part of their Contemporary Poetry Series, is her second book. Her writing has appeared in Sonic Eclectic, Edna, r(e)volve, manifest animists, Adirondack Life Magazine, not enough night, and is forthcoming in The Spirit of Black Mountain College (a book anthology from Lorimer Press). She also tinkers away on experimental film shorts, photographic journals, songwriting, and with acrylic on canvas. Caitlin has worked as a teacher, editor, and horticulturist, and presently writes and works in Brooklyn, NY.

She will be reading from her new book MAKEBELIVE at the Lounge June 9 at 7:30 pm. Event is free and made possible from a grant by Poets & Writers, NY.

June 13
Wednesday
5:30-7:30pm

SEMINAR ON HAROLD PINTER

To celebrate the summer production of The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, the Upper Jay Art Center is offering a seven week seminar on the writer led by the play's director Scott Renderer. The class will meet on six consecutive Wednesdays from 5:30- 7:30 starting June 13th, and is invited to attend the final dress rehearsal for The Birthday Party on July 25th at 8:00pm.

Plays to be discussed:

June 13- The Room and The Dumb Waiter
June 20- The Birthday Party
June 27- The Caretaker
July 4- The Homecoming
July11- Old Times
July 18- No Man's Land
July 25- Dress rehearsal of The Birthday Party

Cost- $125
Estimated cost of manuscripts- $50

Sign up: upperjayartcenter@gmail.com or call 946-8315 for more information.

June 15
Friday
8:00pm

Upper Jay Art Center and The Recovery Lounge presents, Big Slyde musical group

Big Slyde
acoustic groove, funk grass music.
Suggested donation, $10

At first sight, Big Slyde's instrumentation seems atypical. At first note, it becomes refreshingly familiar. Building on the foundation of guitar and cello, enhanced by the bouzouki, banjo, and dobro, the intensely original music of Big Slyde can carry you to strange and beautiful places.

Add a heaping cup of John Doan’s new-grass and jam-grass inspired banjo, dobro, and dojo to Mikey Portal’s Latin-influenced roots-rock guitar grooves, mix in a quarter cup of Christina Grant's funky cello, frosten with the sweet rhythmic bouzouki and smokey vocals of Hannah Doan, and you have a delicious Big Slyde treat for the ears. Call it funk-grass, acoustic groove, old-time-new-grass, or just plain delicious -- it is a treat so tasty that Big Slyde has built a solid fan base that regularly packs the house at a wide variety of venues.

JO + SORCHA: CELLO – BANJO DUO:
During the cold Maine winter of 2009, jazz-infused harmonies met bluegrass roots in Jo's small kitchen, and formalized two years later as a versatile, groove-driven, Americana duo. Jo rolls her classical cello background into funky bluegrass chops a-la Crooked Still and Ben Sollee, while Sorcha’s songwriting and banjo/guitar playing is steeped in jazz, folk and blues, with influences including Nina Simone, Bonnie Raitt and Tom Waits. Together with spot-on vocal harmonies, their fierce independence is both grounding, spontaneous, and toe-tappingly catchy. Always chasing their next musical adventure, Sorcha and Jo are equally at home in clubs, coffeehouses, festivals, and house concerts. And, of course, in Jo’s kitchen.