“Those who make art, they’re just brave enough to share their humanity…You can connect to that humanity and realize how you are part of something bigger than yourself.” Fabian Arciniegas Musician, singer and voice coach Fabian Arciniegas speaks to NFOTA’s Donna Wootton about singing opera, his fun experiences with local musical theatre, the need for…
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The Arts Have Their Place by Wally Keeler
The arts have their places, everywhere, inside, outside. Great buildings host operas, orchestras, plays, music, and dance. Even literature has great buildings. Patrons take out nature books, dramas, mysteries, histories, biographies, while poetry wall flowers away and none take it out for a dance. Outdoors, there is theatre in the park, bandshells for music, dance…
Call for Play Submissions to Northumberland Festival of the Arts 2022
Guidelines for Playwrights The Northumberland Festival of the Arts will present 3 staged readings of one act plays in 3 locations during the festival, scheduled for September 16th to October 2nd, 2022. The play selection committee is looking for: one act plays between 20 and 40 minutes long never before produced scripts casts of up…
Reason for Hope by Paul Mason
I’m a novelist, playwright, and, since I retired from teaching in 2015, a voice, television and film actor, and if I’d enjoyed significant success in any of those fields, I’d be living on a grander scale than I actually do! I have four novels and a collection of stories for children in print. I wrote…
In Spite of… by Linda Hutsell-Manning
In spite of Covid still haunting our lives, of produce spilling out of our vegetable garden faster than we can process it and, in spite of heat and humidity, I finally have a new writing project, a memoir about my unorthodox childhood. The first nine years of my life were idyllic. I was an only…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Susan Ferley
“The arts constantly support the economy of a community. The arts bring people out of their homes whether it’s to see a play or go to a dance performance or to hear music…It’s an occasion to celebrate…We’re going to continue to see the arts community in Northumberland County continue to grow and to flourish”–Susan Ferley,…