Edinboro's Goodell Gardens Has A Big Week Planned

Sept. 18th Barn Dance 7-9 PM $5.00 Nonmember, $2.00 - Members
Music by Grassfire. Callers will help lead all experience levels through the square and contra dance steps. Includes refreshments.

Sept. 20th Yoga in the Barn 10-11 am $4.00 Nonmember, $2.00 - Members
Learn a series of gentle postures to relax and stretch the muscles that gardeners use the most. All experience levels welcome. Bring a yoga or exercise mat and a rake (a yoga strap can be substituted). Class to be held in the Goodell Barn and taught by certified Yoga Instructor Janet Stachowiak. Please pre-register to secure your spot.

Sept. 20th Homegrown Harvest Festival 12:00- 5:00 PM FREE ADMISSION
Celebrate the Gardens Heritage at this annual event:

Farmer's Market:
local honey products (Kirk Johnson)
maple products and maple cotton candy from Hurry Hill Farm
pumpkins, produce and plants
baked goods
Crafters specializing in high-end traditional crafts pottery, jewelry, wooden crafts, art quilt items, pressed flower art
Food for sale from Wooden Nickel Buffalo Farm
Gardening Talk: Master Gardener Mary Beth McCarthy will speak on 'The Joy of Fall Gardening." 1 PM
Music by Tiger Maple String Band 3-5 PM
Quilt Show from Meg's Quilting Parlor
Raffle

Call 814-734-6699 for more information

Erie Chamber Orchestra Offers Free Concert At St Patrick's

The Erie Chamber Orchestra, in residency at Gannon University, and under the direction of Bruce Morton Wright, will perform the first concert of its 32nd Season on Friday, September 18th at 7:30 PM. The concert will take place in St. Patrick’s Church, 130 East 4th Street, Erie, PA.

The tradition of the Erie Chamber Orchestra is to always begin its season with a vocalist. This year Jacqueline Bezek – Soprano will be the featured soloist.

The Erie Chamber Orchestra is the realization of the dream of its financial founder, the former Clarence E. Beyers. Mr. Beyers felt that “anyone could learn to enjoy classical orchestra music, if they only have the opportunity to have contact with it.” Thus began the concept of “free of admission” performances.

The Orchestra has fills a musical void allowing many disadvantaged members of the Erie community due to financial stipulations, etc. to attend concerts. Our mission is to present a very diverse repertoire of works, which are seldom, if ever performed in the Erie community.

The concert will begin with a performance of Gioacchino Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture. Next Ms. Bezek will perform Jules Massanet’s Obeissons quand leur voix appelle from Manon / Antonin Dvorak’s Song to the Moon – from Rusalka/ Giuseppe Verdi’s Caro nome- from Rigoletto/ Gustav Charpentier’s Depuis le jour – from Louise and end with Giacomo Puccini’s Quando me'n vo soletta (Musetta's Waltz) - from La Boheme. The concert will conclude with a performance of the Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No 93 in the 200 years celebration of his death.

Open Circle For Mabon By Covenant Of Brighids Haven

This is the official announcement and invitation to the next open circle event hosted by the Covenant of Brighid's Haven.

Our next event will be our open circle for Mabon/Autumnal Equinox on Wednesday, September 23rd at the Erie UU church, doors opening at 7pm, potluck feast to follow. Please join us in celebration and thanksgiving as we move to the second harvest festival of the current turn of the wheel! Our classic potluck feast will follow the rite, so please bring a dish to pass and note that a $3 donation is requested to help cover the cost of renting the space.

What: Open Circle for Mabon

When: Wedesnday, 9/23/09

What time: Doors open at 7pm, rite begins between 7:30 and 8:00, potluck feast to follow

Where: Erie UU Church, 7180 Perry Highway, 16509

What to wear: Please wear dark colors

What to bring: Dish for the potluck feast, donation is requested, chalice or drinking vessel if you have one you prefer to use.

If you questions can reach us at brighidshaven@yahoo.com Hope to see you there! Blessings, Brighidshaven For those who like to plan ahead, our next event, following this event, is as follows: Open circle for Samhain, Wednesday, October 28th, UU, 7pm
 

Movie Review: Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself

By Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com

At one point in Tyler Perry’s latest tonal trainwreck, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Taraji P. Henson launches into a monologue about her family history that involves her late sister sticking one of her children into an oven while high on crack. Bad recycles the hoariest drug-hysteria trope in existence, one featured in Avenging Disco Godfather and spoofed on The Simpsons, yet Henson commits to the speech with such scary fervor that it somehow works. Her performance qualifies as a minor miracle: Playing a hard-living strumpet with a creepy boyfriend and a drinking problem, Henson lets her big, expressive brown eyes convey bottomless pain and buried sadness as she travels a predictable road from darkness to light, from sin to salvation.

She stars as a singer whose life is a bleary cycle of drunken nights, pounding hangovers, and impossible relationships until she’s visited by her parentless niece and two nephews, hard-luck cases in need of a home, a family, and an emotional rescue. Henson is soon faced with the easiest of choices: Should she continue to see a racist, child-hating married man (Brian J. White) who sexually menaces her niece, or give herself to a kind, handsome, Jesus-loving Mexican handyman (Adam Rodriguez) who buys her nephew insulin and builds the children a lovely bedroom?

Perry has long been a proponent of kitchen-sink melodrama. He throws everything at audiences, secure in the knowledge that his fans will happily lap up the chitlin’-circuit comedy of Madea (who pops up to comically threaten the orphans, then dispense gentle homespun wisdom) tethered to sermonizing and shrill melodrama. But with Bad, Perry is savvy enough to let riveting musical numbers by ringers like Gladys Knight and Mary J. Blige—along with Henson’s deeply empathetic performance—carry the film’s feverish emotions more than his characteristically ham-fisted screenplay. Perry plugs into the primal power of gospel, blues, soul, and the black church in ways that make Bad far more affecting than it has any right to be. His oeuvre has always been shameless and over the top, but Bad might just be the first of Perry’s films to border on operatic.