The O-town Scene - Oneonta, NY
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‘Detour’ filmmakers to be at Oneonta screening woman with short, strawberry blonde hair, wire- rimmed glasses and a leaf-green scarf around her neck, she talked about career shifts from being a Physician’s Assistant to a campus security guard to most recently a film maker. She wrote her first feature film, “Detour,” while living on campus at Union College in Schenectady as a campus security guard _ a position she still main- tains part-time while she starts up her own production company in Woodstock. “Detour,” an independent film which is basically about the abduction of a young surgical resident in Brooklyn, will be shown at the Oneonta Theatre on April 16. The film, shot “gorilla style” in Schenectady, Brooklyn and Manhattan, also touches on prejudice against homo- Patty Richardson does not give up. A middle-aged sexuals as well as Muslims. The lead characters are lesbians, which Rich- ardson, who is also gay, said is incidental. “There’s an Contributed underlying subplot of ter- rorism; there are Muslims involved, but they’re not terrorists,” Richardson said. Richardson wrote, directed and produced the film, Coming Events Info of local artists and events needed for database The Oneonta Arts and Events Task Force has begun meeting regularly. It looks to promote artists and cooperation between the art and business communities. The task force has started a database of events, artists and venues. A comprehensive list of writers, dancers, musicians, artists and actors, the places they work, the producing organi- zations they work with and the events they present will help to document the extent of area artistic activity. The group believes that centralizing information about events and artists will help with promotion of arts events. To be added to the database, e-mail information to oneon- taartsandevents@gmail.com. Ghanian activist to speak Tuesday at college Ghanian speaker Elvis Morris Donkoh will deliver a lecture titled “From Nowhere to Somewhere: A Real Life Experience from a Community? Development Worker in Ghana, Africa.” He’ll talk at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Anderson Center for the Arts Theater on the Hartwick College campus. His talk is free and open to the public. Donkoh grew up facing his own struggles as a child near the town of Cape Coast, Ghana, and has transformed those challenges and hardships into motivation to make changes for others. He is involved in a variety of projects, ranging from women empowerment to providing aid to children with HIV. “During my Ghanaian service work experience in January 2010 and 2011, I lived in Elvis’s volunteer guest house, where I was able to see how dedicated he is to all of his projects,” Hartwick College sophomore Anne Louise Wagner said. “I am excited that Elvis has the opportunity ... to travel to the United States.” For more details, e-mail Wagner at Wagnera@hartwick.edu or by phone at (603) 676-7039. 18 O-Town Scene April 14, 2011 Pianist Drew De Four to play Sip on April 26 Performer Drew De Four will per- form at 10 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at Sip & Sail Tavern in Oneonta. De Four’s original music blends the bluesy balladeering of Tom Waits, the soul-infused playful- ness of Dr. John, and the vibrant virtuosity of Ray Charles. The performer recently completed his fourth album, “Bartillery,” a collection of his most popular “bar artillery”: the strongest ver- sion of his hottest pub songs, as researched and tested during hun- dreds of performances worldwide. De Fourt also is one of the nation’s finest dueling pianists, performing at the nation’s finest dueling piano clubs. He has more than 1,000 songs in his book, day. Bunting prefers to call herself a naturalist who paints rather than an artist, not only because she is a self-taught painter but also because the study of nature has been a lifelong passion. She grew up in the Hudson Valley, where her mother taught her a love of woodland flowers and a hopeful outlook regarding the existence of elves and fairies. In her diversified life, she has been employed in book production, horse training, wood working and dairy farming. The Catskill Center is on Route 28 in Arkville. For more on the exhibit, call (845) 586-2611 or go to www.catskillcenter.org. Contributed Drew De Four and he often performs select hits and standards by request at shows. Visit www.drewdefour.com for more on him or watch him at www.youtube.com/drewdefour. The show has no cover charge. ‘Walking the Woods’ art exhibit to open “Walking the Woods,” egg tempera paintings and giclee prints by artist Gail Bunting, will be on exhibit at The Erph Gallery at the Catskill Center for Conservation and Develop- ment from Saturday, April 16, to Friday, June 17. There will be an opening reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Satur- video game play The Hartwick College theater arts program will present “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom” at 8 p.m. Friday, April 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23, as well as at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 17. It will be performed in Slade Theatre in Yager Hall on the Hartwick campus. The show features Mark deRoziere, Emmanuella Brayke, Lauren Cipriano Steven Diehl. Jennifer Haley, who wrote the play in 2007 described her work: “In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own.” Tickets are $8 for the general public and $5 for students, senior citizens, Hartwick College faculty and staff. Call 431- 4227 or visit www.hartwick.edu/x1197.xml for more info. Hartwick to stage horror Actors are seen in a still from ‘Detour,’ which will be screened at the Oneonta Theatre on April 16 and followed by a Q&A with writer and director Patty Richardson. and recently traveled to California to screen her film at the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival. Richardson’s son, James, is her production assistant and public relations representative. James lived in Oneonta for a couple of years and worked for A&D Cab and at the Arc Otsego. “I enjoyed the Oneonta Theatre and thought it tor of cinematography Angela Galardi, are a part of Patty’s newly formed Lavender Hill Produc- tions. Patty said she is working on new projects that she will probably put together and market the same way she did “Detour” _ with raw gump- tion and determination. For more information, visit www.detourthe- film.com. _ Cassandra Miller would be great to screen there,” he said. The two, along with Patty’s partner and direc-