Announcements

• NEW HIRE - The Buffalo and
Erie County Historical Society has hired
Cynthia Van Ness as its new director of
library archives. Van Ness comes to the
Historical Society after 13 years with the
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
system, where she was most recently a
librarian in the Grosvenor Room and
the Humanities and Social Sciences
depar tment.
• FREE ADMISSION - The
Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum is
offering free admission to all veterans,
current military personnel and their
families from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 11 at 180 Thompson St., North
Tonawanda. There is free parking and it
is handicapped accessible.
• WORK SHOPS - Squeaky
Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources
upcoming workshops include: Intro to
Flash, DVD-Video Authoring with
DVD Studio Pro, Distribution Theory
and Practice, Art and Intuition, Intro to
InDesign, Grant Writing, Video
Blogging and Film Hand Processing.
For more information, visit
www.squeaky.org or call 884-7172.
• WORK SHOPS - CEPA Gallery
will offer fall workshops with instructor
Wendy Lasker, including:
Digital/Graphic Design Classes, 6-9
p.m. Mondays, Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 ($150
member, $175 nonmember); and Basic
Adobe InDesign, 6-9 p.m. Thursdays,
Nov. 8, 15, 29 and Dec. 6 ($150
member, $175 nonmember). For more
information and to register, call
856-2717, e-mail info@cepagallery.com
or visit www.cepagallery.org

• BOOK RELEASE - The North
Tonawanda History Museum has
received the first shipment of "North
Tonawanda: The Lumber City," its first
full-length book on the history of North
Tonawanda. All pre-purchased copies
have been distributed, mailed or being
held for pick up. The first order was
sold out before it arrived and second and
third orders have been placed. The book
is available through the museum for
$34.95 each, and for $38.95, it can be
mailed. For more information, call
213-0554, visit
www.nthistorymuseum.org or stop in at
314 Oliver St., North Tonawanda.
• MUSICAL - The Rotary Club of
Batavia will hold its 59th annual

musical, "The Pirates of Penzance" at
7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, 8 p.m. Nov. 9 and 10,
and 2 p.m. Nov. 11 at Batavia High
School Auditorium, 260 State St.,
Batavia. Reserved tickets are $15 and are
available by calling 585-344-8400 or
visiting www.bataviarotary.org
• WORK SHOPS - Squeaky
Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources is
offering the upcoming workshops: Intro
to Max/MSP/Jitter, Super 8
Filmmaking, 16mm Filmmaking, Web
Design, Film/Video Distribution and
Film Hand Processing. For more
information, visit www.squeaky.org or
call 884-7172.
• PLAY WRITING
COMPETITION -TheWriteToBe

Heard Student Playwriting Competition
is offering area students in grades 8
through 12 within a 60-mile radius of
Buffalo the opportunity to write a
one-act play and have a public
performance at Shea's Smith Theatre.
The winning playwright will:
• Receive a $1,000 scholarship from
the Laura L. Adams Foundation.
• Have his/her play performed at
Shea's Smith Theatre.
• Receive a staged reading of his/her
play at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in
Amherst.
• Be actively involved in the
production and rehearsal process.
Competition Guidelines
• Students must submit it themselves.
No counselors, teachers, parents and no
collaborations.

• Not previously produced.
• Must be an original one act. No
screenplays, adaptations or musicals.
• Must be received by the Jan. 7,
2008.
• Typed 12 point, double-spaced,
single sided.
• Number all pages and staple.
• Title page must have your name,
complete home mailing address and
phone number, e-mail address (if you have
one) sponsoring teacher's name and title,
school mailing address and phone number.
• Include a character list at the
beginning of the play.
• Three copies of each play. No
retur ns.
• Students can submit as many
original scripts as they want.
• 25 minutes or shorter preferred.

• The winning play becomes the
property of The Write to Be Heard.
The Write to Be Heard
3842 Harlem Road
Suite 400 # 204
Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14215
Visit www.margodavis.com and click
on W2BH. For more information,
contact Margo Davis at
W2BH@margodavis.com or Jennifer
Fitzery at jfitzery@sheas.org or 829-1152.
• CRAFTERS SOUGHT - Helping
Hands Learning Center, 2136 Walden
Ave., Depew, is looking for crafters for
its annual craft show and theme basket
auction, which will be held from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18 at the
Lancaster Elks Lodge, 33 Legion
Parkway. Crafters interested in
participating can call 681-6735.

• KISSMASS BASH - Tickets are
now on sale for Kissmas Bash, featuring
Good Charlotte, Hinder, Boys Like
Girls, Sean Kingston and special guest
hosts AJ Brian and Nick from the
Backstreet Boys, 6 p.m. Dec. 11, HSBC
Arena. Tickets are $11.50, $16.50,
$31.50, $41.50 and $76.50, and are
available through the HSBC box office
and all tickets.com outlets, online at
www.tickets.com and by calling
888-223-6000.
• BUFFALO NIAGARA ART
ASSOCIATION JURY FOR
MEMBERSH IP - Group activities
include two shows per year at galleries
in WNY plus special presentations,
meetings and an "Art in Public Places"
program. Interested artists are
encouraged to apply:
• Submit three works in one medium
only.
• Work should show consistency in
st yle.
• All work should be framed and
completed no longer than four years ago.
• Only original works, no copies or
pr ints.
• Two or three-dimensional work only
(no photography).
• Label the back of each piece with
name and phone number.
• Must be over 18 years of age.
• Drop off works at 11 a.m. Saturday,
Nov. 10 at Leader Artworks, Tri-Main
Center, Suite 547, 2495 Main St.,
Buffalo. Pick up works at 1 p.m.
• WHITE CHRISTMAS - Tickets
are now on sale for the holiday musical
"White Christmas," for performances
Dec. 18-23 at Shea's Performing Arts
Center. Tickets are $24.50-$57.50 and
are available at the Shea's box office, 650
Main St., through Ticketmaster at
852-5000, www.ticketmaster.com and
Ticketmaster outlets.
• GRAMMY ENTRY - WNY's
polka music producer and president of
Sunshine Diversified Entertainment,
"The Sunshine" label, Mike
Nowakowski, has entered the DVD,
"Polkas from the Tavern" by the
two-time Grammy-nominated band
Jerry Darlak & the TOUCH into the
"Best Long Form Video" category at this
year's Grammy Awards.
• THE HARLEM
GLOBETROT TERS - Tickets are
now on sale for The Harlem
Globetrotters' "Magic As Ever" World
Tour, 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9 at HSBC
Arena. Tickets are $20.50, $26.50,
$37.50 and $91.50 and are available at
the HSBC box office and all tickets.com
outlets, online at www.tickets.com or by
calling 888-223-6000.
• CRAFTERS SOUGHT - The
North Park Lutheran Church is seeking
crafters for its holiday bazaar and theme
basket auction, Dec. 1 at 310 Starin
Ave., near Hertel Avenue. Craft tables
are available for $15 each. Space is
limited. To reserve a space, call
874-9437.
• THE KENNY AWARDS - The
Lipke Foundation, Gibralter Industries
and Shea's Performing Arts Center are
seeking high school youth theater
productions in Erie, Niagara and
Chautauqua counties for The Kenny
Awards. The Kenny is awarded to a local
high school for Outstanding Musical
Production and includes a $5,000 grant
from the Lipke Foundation for the
theater department, a custom-made
shadow box filled with memorabilia and
bronze medallions for the entire cast,
crew and orchestra. Finalists will
perform a selection from their musical
on the Shea's stage as part of the
ceremony in May. For more information,
call Shea's Education Program Director
Jennifer Fitzery at 829-1152.
• ADVANCE BOOK SALES - The
North Tonawanda Museum is now
accepting advance orders for its third in
a series of heritage cookbooks. "Sweet
Treasures," which will sell for $15 and
should be available during the Winter
Walk on Dec. 1. For more information
or to order, call 213-0554 or send checks
payable to the museum to 314 Oliver
St., North Tonawanda, N.Y. 14120.
• FILM PROJECT - Spotlight on
Hope was awarded a film project
commissioned by Gilda's Club, WNY.
The project involves interviews with
members of Gilda's Club as they tell their
personal stories and what the organization
has meant to them, their families and
friends. For more information, visit
www.spotlightonhope.org or call
662-4517.