Performance Calendar
Bluestocking Film Series
12/31/69 – It's happening- we are now accepting submissions for round two of our Bluestocking Film Series! BFS is a co-production between Gitgo Productions and St. Lawrence Arts. With our premier of the series last October we look forward for the second part of our series to screen this upcoming May. ** Please see bellow for information of submitting a film!
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The Bluestocking Film Series is committed to finding and showing the work of women directors with a unique twist - all films must “pass” the Bechdel Test for Women in Movies. See here for more information about the test.
Submitters will find all rules and regs under our WAB listing and are encouraged to use WAB for entries. However, we will also accept films submitted as outlined below. Please note that films submitted through WAB receive a discounted entry fee of $15 - the fee for films submitted otherwise is $20.
Guidelines for Submission by mail:
==> Short films of all categories not exceeding 10 minutes in length will be considered.
==> The director of the film must self-identify as a woman and any co-director must also be a woman.
==> The film must pass the ‘Bechdel Test for Women in Movies’ (FMI, click link above)
==>If not submitting through WAB, your submission fee of $20 must be included with your screener (checks made out to: Gitgo Productions). To pay submission fee via Paypal with credit card, please email gitgoproductions@gmail.com for instructions.
Submissions will be accepted on DVD (Region 0 or 1) by mail to Gitgo Productons, 161 Fort Rd., South Portland, Maine 04106. The deadline for submissions by mail is April 15th for the May screening and September 30 for the October screening (not yet scheduled). We look forward to seeing your film!
Good Theater's Little Me
03/07/12 – "Little Me" tells the story of Belle Poitrine, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks and her quest for wealth, culture and social position. This wildly comic musical comedy was written as a vehicle for Sid Caesar who played all seven men in Belle's life.
End of Winter Tour-Tiger Saw, Guy Capecelatro III and Mica Jones
03/13/12 – Don't miss this special evening as the Portsmouth famed Tiger Saw and good friend Guy Capecelatro III finish off their End of Winter tour here in Portland ME. The local up-and-coming musical talent of Mica Jones will open the evening.
Tickets are now on-sale through Brown Paper Tickets and at any Bull Moose Music location!
Guy Capecelatro III picked up the guitar when he was 10 years old, allegedly "never getting any better at it" after 20-something years of playing. Growing up in Mamaroneck, New York, high school memories are "driving to the Bronx at lunch time for bags of crappy pot sprayed with hairspray to make it seem more bud-like." He left that all behind in order to study philosophy at Plymouth State College. Quitting after two years, he traveled around the U.S., hitting 42 of the 50 states. He moved into Portsmouth in 1987, resuming his studies at UNH while enjoying public transportation (though he had a car) as it "provided a lot of fodder for stories because freaky people take the bus," and graduated with his philosophy degree in 1989.
Between 1988 and the birth of his record label Two Ton Santa, Guy was in the bands Fancy Pants, Toast, Size of Guam, The Driveways, Up-a-Tree, Beekeeper, The Pants, Bob & Guy, and The Crotch Wax Menace, "and probably some others I'm forgetting as well," he guesses.
Mica Jones has just released his newest album entitled 'Gualamata' and we are very lucky to have him grace the stage as our opening act. Alongside him will be his gracious band comprised of kind and familiar faces. Please visit the link to his bandcamp site below to hear samples. Cheers!
Ted Sink CD Release
03/25/12 – Ted Sink is a songwriter by disposition and an ad-copyrwriter by trade, living in Portsmouth, NH. The father of 4 daughters, he writes songs of love, loss and desire, many in story form. Since 2002, he has published three albums or originals with his producer Andy Happel, in styles ranging from country to classic pop to latin jazz and reggae.
Sink will perform here at St. Lawrence Arts Tuesday March 25th at 7PM. Join us as we celebrate the release of his most current album Nothing Changes; Sink’s third and most recent release, is a departure from his earlier work in that two of the cuts are covers (Come Rain or Come Shine by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, and Do Nothin’ ‘Til You Hear From Me by Duke Ellington and Bob Russell), and nine are originals. It also differs by venturing into previously untried territory with the semi-hip hop title tune, the almost-reggae Upstairs Room and the pseudo Beach Boys-ish Take Me Away.
Like Ted’s earlier work, Nothing Changes was recorded, mixed and mastered by Andy Happel, who also appears on violin, keyboards and some vocal harmonies. Other performers include Kent Allyn (bass, guitar and piano), Robbie Coffin (lead guitar), Wayne Brewer (pedal steel guitar) Jim Rioux and Sean Daniels (drums), Tim Sink (alto and tenor sax) and Carri Coltrane on vocal harmonies. The two covers—Do Nothin’ ‘Til You Hear From Me and Come Rain or Come Shine—are live acoustic recordings, as is the unlisted “bonus” track Midnight Angel.
All tickets are $12 and are now on-sale here through Brown Paper Tickets and at any Bull Moose Music location!
Matt Flinner Trio
03/27/12 – Join us as the Mark Flinner Trio graces our presence here at the St. Lawrence on Tuesday, March 27th at 7PM!
Eric Taylor
05/11/12 – If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.
A mesmerizing performer, Taylor has toured extensively in the United States and Europe, playing notable venues such as Club Passim, The Bottom Line, Caffe Lena, The Bluebird Cafe, Eddie's Attic, The Ark, CSPS, Freight & Salvage, Paradiso (Amsterdam), Theatre Kikker (Utrecht), The Real Music Club (Belfast), Hotel du Nord (Paris), Grey's Pub (Brighton), and The Bein Inn (Perth). Festival appearances include Kerrville, Newport Folk Festival, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Take Root (The Netherlands), and Roots of Heaven Festival (The Netherlands).
In addition to his appearances on Austin City Limits and NPR’s Morning Edition, Taylor has performed on Late Night With David Letterman (with Nanci Griffith), NPR's Mountain Stage, and BBC Radio Scotland.
He has taught at the Kerrville Song School, and has conducted songwriting workshops at the Fulston Manor Performing Arts Centre (Sittingbourne, England), CARAD (Rhayader, Wales), Puget’s Sound Productions (Washington) and the Plowshares Coffeehouse (Pennsylvania).
Patty Larkin
06/08/12 – Acoustic Guitar hails her “soundscape experiments.” Rolling Stone praises her “evocative sonic shading.” She has been described as “riveting” (Chicago Tribune), “hypnotic” (Entertainment Weekly) and a “drop-dead brilliant” performer (Performing Songwriter).
Don't miss Patty Larkin as she plays here in Portland one night only Friday June 8th at St. Lawrence Arts!
Patty Larkin is part of the urban-folk/pop music phenomenon that spun off of the singer/songwriter explosion of the seventies, reinterpreting traditional folk melodies, rock, pop, bossa nova, drawing on anything from Dylan (Bob) to Dylan (Thomas). A self described “guitar driven songwriter,” Larkin has wound her way through soundscapes of evocative vocals, inventive guitar wizardry and imaginative lyrics. Her songs run from impressionistic poetry to witty wordplay.
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