May 18, 2013

Betty Levin

&

Eva Bouzard-Hui 

at

3rd Saturday Arts 

7:30 PM Saturday, May 18th, 2013

Ethical Culture Society of Essex County

516 Prospect St.

Maplwood, NJ 07040

(973) 763-1905

www.essexethical.org

The program features an expanded display of Eva Bouzard-Hui's art and Betty Levin will discuss her memoir writing.

Eva Bouzard-Hui is a well-known local artist with an international following. You can learn more about her from her website: http://bouzardhuiart.com/


The following press release describes Betty Levin and her presentation:

April 30, 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

E. Betty Levin, in private practice as a township psychotherapist for 38 years, will be the featured presenter at the 3^rd Saturday Arts Program located at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County, 516 Prospect St., Maplewood on Saturday evening, May 18th. The event will highlight several chapters of her memoir, "Quiet Miracles," that she will read to the audience. The monthly Arts Program presents the works of creative members of the Society and those of the larger arts community as well. The formal program starts at 7:30 PM followed by a discussion and reception.

Ms. Levin will read several chapters describing her high school years·: "Getting and Losing My First Job" and "How the Visiting  Frank Sinatra Affirmed My Religious Ideas" plus a playing of Sinatra's long-forgotten CD rendition of the democratically idealistic "The House I Live In." Also, reflecting Ms. Levin's troubled growing-up years which included antagonisms toward her stepmother that ·she later came to understand, she will read an imagined letter by her unhappy mother seeking help in a fictional plea to the ultimate therapist, "My Shetyl Mother Writes to Professor Freud."

There is no charge for the program which is free and open to the public. For further information, call Ms. Levin at 973-763-1033.

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The 3rd Saturday Arts Sandy Relief Fund Art Show continues through June 17th at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County, 516 Prospect St., Maplewood, NJ 07040.

Welcome to the Sandy Relief Fund Art Show

Welcome to the
Sandy Relief Fund Art Show
at
The Ethical Society of Essex County

    Come and spend a moment of reflection among these symbols of renewal, the works of art in our art show; some offered as premiums for donations, some simply on display to remind us of renewal, how the artist within us can transform our world.
    Consider the ongoing need of Sandy's victims and your ability to help.
    Just having you read these few lines fulfills a primary purpose of the art show, to raise our community's awareness of the ongoing nature of this disaster, Superstorm Sandy. We believe that when aware of the need, we will help however we can because without each other's help we cannot have the strong community we all need. It's a feedback loop.
    The Sandy Relief Fund Art Show is but one way to help by providing both a place for reflection, raising awareness, and a channel for the delivery of help to people who need help.
                        Hilding Lindquist, Curator (pro bono)

The Sandy Relief Fund Art Show uses the transformative power of the arts to bring us together to raise funds in order to:

• Provide direct relief to victims of the recent storm, Sandy;
• Strengthen our community’s sense of common purpose in helping others;
• Help us individually to comprehend the depth of this disaster, reminding us that problems for people don’t end when their story moves off the front page.

Artists through their art intrinsically expand our consciousness with their work, and by art's own definition, transform our world. Of even more value, the arts transform our understanding of our world. What is more fitting, then, but to employ the arts to help us as we struggle individually and collectively to cope with our changing world? 

The art show runs for six months from December 15, 2012, to June 17th, 2013, reminding us first that many of a disaster's victims also suffer in its aftermath, and then to give of our own resources to help, as we are able, whether it is through the Sandy Relief Fund Art Show or through another relief effort. 

We know that the art show will focus public attention on the Sandy relief effort through the social networking of the artists whose work is in the show, through the events scheduled at The Society either directly or indirectly (by simply being held in the same space), and through the Children of All Ages Art Workshops during the course of the art show. 

Artists’ inquiries are invited!

Please note: 3rd Saturday Arts is a program of:
The Ethical Society of Essex County
516 Prospect St. - Maplewood, NJ 07040 -973-763-1905
www.essexethical.org.