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Understanding Your Digital Camera

Additional classes added due to high demand

Confused with all the functions, menus, & settings of your camera? Join others just like yourself as Visions Photographic Workshops Photography Director,
Michael S. Miller guides you through the basics. Some of the topics to be covered will be camera settings and functions, RAW vs. JPEG, white-balancing functions, and more. No questions will go unanswered! All digital cameras are welcome.

Location: Belmar Arts Council (The Boatworks)
608 River Road

Dates: Tuesday, March 9th
Monday, April 12th
Thursday, May 6th

Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm

Cost: BAC member $40/person
Non member $50/person

Pre-registration is highly recommended.
Class size is limited to six.
Walk-ins welcome if space is available.

To register call the BAC 732-749-3360

Call for Art!

The Belmar Arts Council announces a Call for Art! for it’s 6th Annual Jersey Shore Juried Art Show.  Art Intake is Friday, March 26 from 5-8pm and Saturday, March 27 from 10a-1pm.  Entry fee is $15 per piece (2-piece max) for BAC members and $25 per piece for non-members.  Submissions must be framed and wired for hanging, as appropriate.  To download an entry form, please visit www.BelmarArts.org.  The Juried Art Show will exhibit April 10-30, 2010.  For more info, please call (732) 749-3360 or email Brenda@BelmarArts.org

Now Showing at the Boatworks: Walk the Line — a Drawing Exhibition

Join us for the opening reception of “Walk the Line” — a drawing exhibition on Saturday, February 27, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at the Belmar Arts Council located at 608 River Road.  For more information, please call (732) 749-3360 or email Info@BelmarArts.org.

This exhibition will run now through March 24.  Gallery hours are Wednesday – Sunday from 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Film Series to Begin at the Belmar Arts Council

On Friday, February 26, at 7:00 p.m., weather permitting, Ira Wallace and Sandy Cook of the Belmar Arts Council will be hosting the first film in their Independent Film Series, “Like Water for Chocolate.”  An interactive  discussion will take place following the film.  All are welcome, and movies are free.  To preview this film, click on this link:  Like Water for Chocolate

You can contact the Belmar Arts Council at (732) 749-3360 or email Info@BelmarArts.org.  The BAC is located at 608 River Road, at 7th Ave. and the railroad tracks (just behind the police station).

Arts Council announces events

The Belmar Arts Council [BAC] is gearing up for another successful year, and has announced a wide variety of events for the public to enjoy during the first month of 2010.

Unless noted otherwise, all events will take place at the Belmar Arts Council headquarters, 608 River Road, in Belmar.

• To help residents keep track of the BAC’s upcoming events, 2010 calendars are now in stock at the arts council headquarters. Calendars are $10 and are in limited supply.

• Drawing and Beyond: New Session Forming, will take place every Thursday throughout the duration of the month. Contact Lizzie at 732-929-9732 for more information regarding the event.

• The BAC has recently received a grant from the Belmar Tourism Committee to begin the long-awaited Belmar Mural Project. Currently a database of BAC muralists is being put together.

Any muralist interested in taking part in the project should send a resume, samples of work, and any other information to Brenda at Brenda@belmararts.org.

• Children’s painting classes will be taking place every Wednesday throughout February from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

The cost for the program is $125 and painting supplies will be provided. To register, contact the BAC at 732-749-3360.

• The BAC will be continuing their popular monthly movie nights this year as well. A science fiction movie will be shown on Jan. 28.

All movies are free and begin at 7 p.m.

More Belmar news, plus full coverage of southern Monmouth and northern Ocean counties, can be found at starnewsgroup.com.

The Art of Pastel with award-winning artist, Dannielle Mick

The Belmar Arts Council presents The Art of Pastel with award-winning artist Dannielle Mick on November 7, 2009, from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at 608 River Road, in Belmar.  The workshop will combine structured exercises that will help you stretch your creative muscles as well as learning the basics of painting with pastels.  Each student will create a small pencil study that will  incorporate format, composition, value, color theory, and a light source.  Simplification of the subject will be encouraged.  Working from photographs, students will complete several small paintings.  Discussions will explore the principles of the pastel medium, including different paper surfaces as well as hard versus soft pastels.  Demonstrations and class critiques will round out this informative workshop.  All levels.  Workshop fee $90.  Dannielle is the President of the Pastel Society of NJ and an elected Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Pastel Society of NJ.  She is also a member of Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club, Allied Artist of America, Audubon Artists, and appears in the Who’s Who in American Art.  For more information contact the Belmar Arts Council at (732) 749-3360 or visit their website at www.BelmarArts.org.  You can also email Brenda@belmararts.org

October 24 is “Make A Difference Day”- Town Cleanup Event

 

Volunteers are needed to help with Belmar’s “Make-a-Difference-Day” activities, on Saturday, October 24th from 9-12.

Activities include town wide cleanup, a sticker removal project and planting of donated flowers and plants.

Tools and clean up materials will be provided.

Volunteers should meet at 9:00am on the Sixth Avenue side of the Municipal Building, at 601 Main Street.

Please come out and help make a difference.

For more information contact Claire Deicke at 732-681-0522 or email ctd@verizon.net<

Event Date(s) and Time(s):

October 24, 2009 9:00 am to 12:00 pm 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

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New/Used DVDS for our Armed Forces

Belmar Recreation is collecting DVDs for our Service men and women stationed at Kandahar Afghanistan. In their down time it is a great distraction to be able to check out a movie from a video library and dream of being somewhere else. For these brave men and women who sacrifice so much,  we would love to be able to assist them in building the DVD library. Any and all movies will be accepted and sent to Kandahar in care of the USMC. The DVDs will be accessible to all service personnel assigned to that base. If you have some movies that you just don’t use or wish to purchase some for the cause,  Please drop them off at the Belmar Gym at 601 Main Street or call Mike Campbell and I can pick them up if that helps. 732-681-3700 dial 9 then 211

The Shark River Kayak Co. Wants to Help Your Favorite Local Charity

Beginning September 8 and running through October 8, the Shark River Kayak Co. will help support your favorite local charity.  How?  For every kayak that is rented between September 8 and October 8, 50% of the proceeds will go directly to a local charity.  If you have a charity in mind or if you are a charitable organization, please call Brenda at (732) 749-0490 for details.

Call for Surf Art!

The Belmar Arts Council is calling for art for it’s next gallery show, The Innermost Limits of Pure Stroke, a surf-art show to benefit Surfaid International.  Art intake is Saturday, August 29 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Arts Council located at 608 River Road (at 7th Ave. and the railroad tracks), in Belmar.  The entry fee is $15 per piece for members and $20 per piece for non-members.  For more information, please contact Brenda at (732) 749-3360 or email Brenda@BelmarArts.org.   You can obtain an entry form by visiting www.BelmarArts.org.  Entry forms will also be available on the day of registration.  Show runs from September 5 – October 2.  Opening Reception is Sunday, September 13 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.  Don Tarrant will be judging the show, and awards will be given to top three artists.

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