Call people to vote in the 4/19 primary
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Note from Susan H.
Remember that New York State has closed primaries. You must be registered in a party to vote in that party’s primary. If you are a new voter or if you have recently moved here, you must register by Friday, March 25.
Not sure if you are registered, or what you’re registered as? Check your current registration status here.
New York State Board of Elections
3/3 at 7: AAUW Supreme Court Conference Call – Register Now!
Register for the AAUW Supreme Court Conference Call
Join AAUW on March 3, 2016, at 7 p.m. ET , for a conference call to learn more about the process on judicial nominations. Members will learn more about what they can do to urge the President and senators to uphold their constitutional responsibility to fairly and expeditiously select and consider a nominee.
Date: March 3, 2016
Time: 7 p.m. ET
RSVP today! We will follow up with call-in information as the event approaches.
If you cannot attend the call, make sure to take action by sending a message to President Barack Obama and the Senate urging them to select and consider a nominee!
AAUW
1111 16th St NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
RSVP today for 3/16 UN bus trip
Here’s some info from Margaret Nijhuis and Sabashnee Govender of AAUW Poughkeepsie.
Please let Sabashnee know if you would like to join the bus trip to attend the parallel events of CSW 60. If you would like to learn more about CSW, here is a link: http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/brief-history#sthash.XgrmQ5A7
Information for the bus trip
Date: Wednesday, March 16
Destination: United Nations Visitors Center (bus will drop us off outside the UN), NYC
Departure Place: Poughkeepsie Plaza, 2600 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie
Departure Time: 7:30 AM
Return Time: 7:30 PM (approximate)
Cost: Members $24
Non-members $26
By 2/26, send your check, payable to Poughkeepsie Branch AAUW, Inc., to:
Sabashnee Govender, 8 Maplebrook Lane, New Paltz, NY 12561
Email address: Sabashnee@aol.com
I am looking forward to seeing you on the bus and promoting the AAUW mission of advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research.
Best Wishes
Sabashnee Govender
International Initiatives Chair
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Also note that Geeta Desai from the Poughkeepsie branch is doing a workshop on March 21 – some members will go by train on that day.
1/22: 2016 CTAUN conference at UN – register by 1/14
Registration closes tomorrow for the 2016 Committee on Teaching about the United Nations (CTAUN) Conference at the United Nations:
Stewardship for a Sustainable World:
Education in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Friday, January 22, 2016
If you have not yet registered, please note that the registration deadline is
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Conference schedule and details:
The day will include a special segment by educators on teaching about the SDGs, as well as an array of teaching materials at our InfoFair
Visit the CTAUN website: www.teachun.org
Happy 131st Birthday, Alice Paul! + Chi-Raq in Rosendale
Happy New Year!
And Happy 131st Birthday to Alice Paul! If you’ve never seen Iron Jawed Angels, I highly recommend it. It is a branch favorite. We’ve had several showings of this inspiring film about Alice Paul and her colleagues. I have the DVD, so I can set up another viewing – let me know if you’re interested.
Also, another film of interest this week at the Rosendale Theatre:
Chi-Raq
Tuesday, January 12 and Wednesday, January 13
7:15 pm
2015 | R | 2 hr 7 min | Drama
After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the ongoing violence in Chicago’s South Side, creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex, and violence in America and around the world.
A modern-day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Director: Spike Lee. Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes
It’s Election Day – get out and vote!
Today, Tuesday, November 3, 2015, is Election Day!
Please get out and vote.
Encourage your friends, family, and co-workers to vote too.
Polls are open from 6 AM to 9 PM.
Call me if you need a ride to the polls.
Susan H, 845-389-3961, susan-holland@usa.net
Board of Elections websites
– Dutchess County:
http://www.dutchesselections.com/
– Greene County:
http://greenegovernment.com/departments/board-of-elections/
– Ulster County:
http://ulstercountyny.gov/elections
– NYS:
http://www.elections.ny.gov/
Summer art, music, reading, and much more…!
Added info about 9/1 Clark Art Institute bus trip (#4 below) and re-sending:
Hi all, I hope you are having a great summer! There’s a lot going on in the next week or two, plus see #6 & #7 for some summer/fall reading – enjoy!
Susan H.
For a list of upcoming events, see: https://kingston-ny.aauw.net/calendar/
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1. Wed., 8/26, 4 PM
AAUW Kingston board meeting
Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, Kingston
Community Room, 2nd floor. All are welcome.
2. Sat., 8/29, 2 PM
Mario Lanza program by Warren B. at Irene’s*
3. Sun., 8/30, Bus trip to Kykuit
4. Tues., 9/1, Only a few seats left for the bus trip to the New Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (with an optional visit to MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA) – see calendar entry for details
5. Tues., 9/1, 5 PM, Window on Pilates
A special, free demonstration by Maiya Greaves
Upstairs at the Stone Ridge Healing Arts Center
3457 Main Street (Route 209), Stone Ridge
If you need a ride or have questions,
contact ViVi (vvhlavsa@aol.com or 845-331-0155)
6. New book! In a brief email from the proud mama:
Subject: David Hlavsa’s book reviewed on Amazon
If you’re on Facebook, let’s get the word out.
The kid’s written a winner! XO ViVi
7. AAUW Kingston book discussion**
Sept.-June, 3rd Tuesdays (2nd in Dec.) at 1 PM
Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, Kingston
Community Room, 2nd floor. All are welcome.
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* The Rise and Fall of Mario Lanza
Saturday, August 29, 2 PM
Irene Miller’s home, 634 Pennsylvania Avenue, Palenville, NY 12463
RSVP: 518-678-3516 or imiller65@hvc.rr.com
Warren says:
When I was growing up, in the 1940s and 1950s, the tenor Mario Lanza was all over the place—he had his own national radio program, his record, Be My Love, was a million-dollar hit, and his movies, like Toast of New Orleans and The Great Caruso made tons of money. Maria Callas allegedly called him “Caruso’s successor”.
But Lanza never sang at the Met. And near the end of his short life—he died at 38—he owed $200,000 in taxes. MGM fired him. He became angry and paranoid, even calling Ethyl Barrymore, his co-star in the movie That Midnight Kiss, “an old bitch for trying to steal my scenes! I’ll tell her where to get off!”
As Roland L. Bessette, the author of one of the many Lanza biographies put it: “His was a glorious and natural voice, with one of the broadest and most powerful ranges ever recorded. The worlds of music and film had not seen his like before. If he ultimately failed or disappointed, it was only when measured against his own dazzling potential.”
The question is: What went wrong? He was dealt four aces and a king, and still managed to get wiped out.
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** 2015-2016 Branch Book List (Judee Irwin, judeeirwin@gmail.com)
2015
September 15 The Complete Stories by Flannery O’connor
October 20 Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
November 17 And the Mountains Echoed by Khalid Hosseini
December 8 Lila by Marilynne Robinson (2nd Tues., followed by branch holiday party)
2016
January 19 The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
February 16 The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
March 15 Gunnar’s Daughter by Sigrid Undset
April 19 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
May 17 Old Filth by Jane Gardam
June 21 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
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Summer music, reading, and much more…!
Hi all, I hope you are having a great summer! There’s a lot going on in the next week or two, plus see #6 & #7 for some summer/fall reading – enjoy!
Susan H.
For a list of upcoming events, see: https://kingston-ny.aauw.net/calendar/
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1. Sun., 8/23, 2 PM
Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Clandestine Marriage)
by Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
A fully-staged comic opera with orchestra
Altamura Center*, 404 Winter Clove Road, Round Top
2. Wed., 8/26, 4 PM
AAUW Kingston board meeting
Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, Kingston
Community Room, 2nd floor. All are welcome.
3. Sat., 8/29, 2 PM
Mario Lanza program by Warren B. at Irene’s**
4. Sun., 8/30, Bus trip to Kykuit
5. Tues., 9/1, 5 PM, Window on Pilates
A special, free demonstration by Maiya Greaves
Upstairs at the Stone Ridge Healing Arts Center
3457 Main Street (Route 209), Stone Ridge
If you need a ride or have questions,
contact ViVi (vvhlavsa@aol.com or 845-331-0155)
6. New book! In a brief email from the proud mama:
Subject: David Hlavsa’s book reviewed on Amazon
If you’re on Facebook, let’s get the word out.
The kid’s written a winner! XO ViVi
7. AAUW Kingston book discussion***
Sept.-June, 3rd Tuesdays (2nd in Dec.) at 1 PM
Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, Kingston
Community Room, 2nd floor. All are welcome.
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* Where to Find Great Opera in the Catskills
The Altamura Center for the Arts, based in scenic Round Top in the Catskills, offers a variety of music and theater programs during the summer and fall and hosts the annual Summer Institute — Encounters with the Masters — during which master teachers share their experience, knowledge, and traditions with aspiring singers. The distinguished list of teachers who have participated includes the late actress Celeste Holmes, opera stars Licia Albanese, Jerome Hines, Giovanna Canetti, Maria Bertolino, Virginia Zeani, and American maestro Anton Coppola.
If you love opera, you will not want to miss the truly professional and beautiful singing at the Altamura Center, right here close to home. Many of the singers, from all parts of the world, have gone on to the Met and La Scala after receiving the “polish” they get at this unique performing arts center.
For reservations, call 518-622-0070 (http://altocanto.org).
— Irene Miller
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** The Rise and Fall of Mario Lanza
Saturday, August 29, 2 PM
Irene Miller’s home, 634 Pennsylvania Avenue, Palenville, NY 12463
RSVP: 518-678-3516 or imiller65@hvc.rr.com
Warren says:
When I was growing up, in the 1940s and 1950s, the tenor Mario Lanza was all over the place—he had his own national radio program, his record, Be My Love, was a million-dollar hit, and his movies, like Toast of New Orleans and The Great Caruso made tons of money. Maria Callas allegedly called him “Caruso’s successor”.
But Lanza never sang at the Met. And near the end of his short life—he died at 38—he owed $200,000 in taxes. MGM fired him. He became angry and paranoid, even calling Ethyl Barrymore, his co-star in the movie That Midnight Kiss, “an old bitch for trying to steal my scenes! I’ll tell her where to get off!”
As Roland L. Bessette, the author of one of the many Lanza biographies put it: “His was a glorious and natural voice, with one of the broadest and most powerful ranges ever recorded. The worlds of music and film had not seen his like before. If he ultimately failed or disappointed, it was only when measured against his own dazzling potential.”
The question is: What went wrong? He was dealt four aces and a king, and still managed to get wiped out.
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*** 2015-2016 Branch Book List (Judee Irwin, judeeirwin@gmail.com)
2015
September 15 The Complete Stories by Flannery O’connor
October 20 Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
November 17 And the Mountains Echoed by Khalid Hosseini
December 8 Lila by Marilynne Robinson (2nd Tues., followed by branch holiday party)
2016
January 19 The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
February 16 The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
March 15 Gunnar’s Daughter by Sigrid Undset
April 19 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
May 17 Old Filth by Jane Gardam
June 21 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
6/13: Branch meeting/luncheon with speaker Matt Edge
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All members and friends are invited to the AAUW Kingston branch meeting and luncheon at noon on
Saturday, June 13
Best Western Plus
Hotel and Conference Center
503 Washington Avenue, Kingston |
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Our speaker will be
Matt Edge, lawyer-activist of The Occupy Democracy Project on Matt will bring us up-to-date on what is happening in the fight for public funding of political campaigns in New York State. With money’s great influence in NY politics, I’m sure you will not want to miss this opportunity to learn first-hand about the campaign-funding bill currently before our legislators and what we, as AAUWers and New Yorkers, can do to help pass it. Basically, the bill provides public financing for candidates who can show strong pre-campaign public support for their candidacies. In some ways it is similar to the Clean Money Clean Elections resolution that is part of the AAUW-NYS Public Policy Program. Public funding of campaigns has strong opposition from legislators who must rely on private money to fund their campaigns. But, as many of them have confessed, they would gladly give up dialing for dollars if they had enough public dollars to run strong competitive campaigns. As for We the People, if this bill passes, we would come first, not rich corporate/private contributors. In other words, our schools, roads, healthcare, and environment would no longer get short shrift. And we could once again call New York a democracy. With passage of this bill, the money that now goes down the drain in corporate welfare could be used to reduce our taxes while improving our and our children’s lives.
The money against passing this bill is extremely potent. But money is only as potent as We the People permit it to be.
Unfortunately, most of our major media are corporate owned, so most people don’t even know the bill exists.
The only way this bill can pass is with very strong grass roots support that overcomes big corporate campaign bucks. So I urge you to please come to learn more about it, tell others about it, and learn what you can do to help pass it to take back our government and our democracy.
To help finance this fight for democracy, Matt has started an organic-coffee business. He sells it at a number of local stores and other areas around the state and will be glad to sell it to those who attend this event. I have had it, and it is truly delicious. – Irene Miller Entree choices: – Flounder with Crabmeat Stuffing – Pasta with Veggies, Olive Oil, Garlic – Chicken Francaise with: Wild Rice, Brown Rice, String Bean Medley, Tossed Salad and dressings, rolls and butter, Dessert, Coffee, tea, brewed decaf, soda Reservations are required by Wed., 6/10 to Irene Miller (518-678-3516, imiller65@hvc.rr.com). Cost: $25 payable at the door, tax and tip included. |
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