The Polish Night on July 9th was rained out due to inclement weather. Fortunately, we were able to offer the live performance and movie agan on September 10th.
CHILDREN'S HOUR would have featured a rollicking music session with Town Square’s Music Partners & the immensely talented Gina Samardge.
LIVE PERFORMANCE would have presented the Polish American Folk Dance Company, a traditional Polish folk dance company based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with an outstanding reputation throughout North America and Poland. (718-907-6199, www.pafdc.org)
SUNSET MOVIE would have shown Pan Tadeusz (Poland, 2000, 120 min. NR). Based on a famous Polish poem, this romantic epic follows two feuding Polish families, the Soplicas and the Horeszkos, during the time of the Napoleonic wars.
CHILDREN'S HOUR featured an imaginative arts/crafts session with the Greenpoint Toy Center, an awesome toy store in Greenpoint (718.383.3437, 735 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn).
LIVE PERFORMANCE by Opus Ditty & the Hoedown Gang, a hip, neo-traditional music group. Their approach to children’s music, with a blend of pop, rock, country and storytelling, takes the whole family on an uplifting musical adventure. There's no telling where Opus and his Hoedown friends - Ali Wood, Jay DeBari, Taro Baugham, Aaron Stout, Sonia Manalili, Leah Pryor & Ray Rizzo - will travel next, so get on board!" (www.opusditty.com)
SUNSET MOVIE played Ice Age (USA, 2002, 81 min. PG). A delightful Oscar nominated animated film involving a wooly mammoth, a sloth and a saber tooth tiger - who find a lost human baby and try to return him to his tribe.
Unfortunately, SummerStarz Latin Night was rained out. Stay tuned, however, for we hope to bring it back next year for SummerStarz 2009!
CHILDREN'S HOUR would have featured a rollicking music session with Town Square’s Music Partners & the immensely talented Gina Samardge.
LIVE PERFORMANCE would have presented Maquina Mono is a mix of Latin flavor, funky groove, grunge intensity and rock’n roll party, with the tightness of a clock: Pablo Beracochea on vocals/guitar, Martin Vejarano on drums/percussion/flute, Lex Sadler on bass, and Michael Seropyan on tenor sax. (www.maquinamono.com)
SUNSET MOVIE would shown The Mambo Kings (France, 1992, 104 min). With suitcases full of song and hearts filled with passion, two brothers, Cesar and Nestor, leave Cuba for America in the 1950 in search of a dream. Cesar is the older brother, the business manager and the ladies' man. Nestor is the brooding songwriter, who cannot forget the woman in Cuba who broke his heart.
CHILDREN'S HOUR featured a spirited session with the Hamilton Dance Studio (718.349.1617, www.hamiltondance.com)
LIVE PERFORMANCE by JJ Appleton, an artist to watch. He has headlined shows and supported acts such as Pete Yorn, Ben Lee, and Jamie Cullum. JJ has appeared on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly, E!’s Wild On, HBO’s Reverb, and MTV2 UK to name a few. His songs and music have appeared in The Wire (HBO), The Today Show (NBC) and The Guiding Light (CBS), The Oprah Show, Brothers and Sisters and films including the Emmy winning “When America Was Rocked,” by acclaimed director Bruce Sinofsky (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster), and Loki Film’s award winning "Boys of Baraka". (www.JJappleton.com)
SUNSET MOVIE played Blazing Saddles (USA, 1974, 93 min. R). The ultimate Western spoof! To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
