OntheWilderSide

Update for 2011: There will be an exhibit of Gary Ivan’s artwork at the Walt Whitman Birthplace in Huntington. Reception is on Sunday, November 20, 2011 from 4pm to 7pm. Details will be posted at onthewilderside front page soon.

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The Green Party of Suffolk Summer in Setauket Fundraiser at the Setauket Neighborhood House on Friday, June 22, 2007

The pastel on paper above is by Huntington artist/musician Gary Ivan. The piece measures 8″ x 11″.

Other artists who will have a piece on auction:

• musician/sculptor/public access producer Portugie (John Philips)
• Amityville poet/painter Lois V. Walker;
• Long Island photographer ” target=”_blank”>Robert A. Kelly;
• Huntington author/documentarian/painter Peter Josyph;
• Huntington musician/painter Gary Ivan; and
• Amityville poet/painter Ron Thomson.

The Silent Auction will also include a number of autographed books, some of them by the artists whose art is also represented. Amityville scholar/poet Pat Falk has also donated a copy of her most recent book It Happens As We Speak:A Feminist Poetics and a book of her poetry.

More examples of the artwork being auctioned and two submissions to the poster contest can be found at http://www.onthewilderside.com/art-auction/.

The Green Party of Suffolk will be holding its 3rd Fundraiser on Friday, June 22nd from 7pm to 10pm at the Setauket Neighborhood House, 95 Main Street, Setauket. (Main Street is north of 25A and 6/10th of a mile west of Nichols Road) www.setauketneighborhoodhouse.com. The evening will include a performance by the music group “Blacklisted and the Banned.” There will also be a potluck dinner, an art auction, and exhibition of the Green Party of Suffolk’s “Bring Home Our Troops” poster contest.

Vegetarian and vegan dishes will be served. Admission is $15 (with a dish) and $20 (without a dish). Children are welcome. There will be a silent auction of work by local artists.

Blacklisted & The Banned will perform their unique style of original, political music. Blacklisted features local musicians Sonny Meadows, Bob Westcott, Jon Foreman, Bob Campbell and Robert Langley. The Banned has a new CD out: “I Never Thought I’d Miss Richard Nixon.” You can purchase the CD at www.cdbaby.com.

The Green Party is an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans. The Green Party’s values can be described by the four pillars of: Nonviolence; Grassroots Democracy; Ecological Wisdom; and Social and Economic Justice.

Donations and/or requests for advance tickets can be sent to: Green Party of Suffolk, 14 Robin Drive, Huntington, NY 11743. Please note that political donations are not tax-deductible. For more information call Roger at (631) 351-5763 or go to www.gpsuffolk.org.

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