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March 6, 2010

On the Bright Side: ‘Celebration of Winter’ to highlight youth art

BY PATRICIA BREAKEY DELHI NEWS BUREAU TREADWELL _ The Bright Hill Literary Center’s Word & Image Gallery season will open with a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday for an exhibit titled “A Celebration of Winter: Snowflakes, Groundhogs, Valentines, and Other Oddities.”

The exhibit marks the 16th year of the Word Thursdays Literary Workshops Program.

Several of the children involved in the program will read from their riddles and poems, followed by a guest appearance by Rosendale performance artist and maskmaker Carl Welden.

Students attending the program wrote poetry, riddles and stories, and created masks and sculptures, many of which will be exhibited in the gallery.

Participants range in age from 5 to 14 and include Emmaline and Mikey Freeman, Meredith Hammerslag, Lucia Marsiglio, Cain Rodriguez and Alaina Tweedie of Walton; Lilliana Bevilacqua, Felix Marner Bridel, Demitri Jaromack and Zachary Ross of Franklin; Abigail and Nathaniel Dennis of Treadwell; Asa and Sibyla Giles and Angus MacLeod of Hamden; Elizabeth Gorsch, Ava Green, Madelyn and Sophia Kazmierski, Morgan Robert and Shaina Mondore of Delhi; Patricia and Siobhan Higgins of Otego; and Zara Zeidman of Gilbertsville.

Meredith Hammerslag, 13, said she has been going to the workshops since she was 5 or 6 years old.

“There are workshops in the winter and summer, and I try to do both,” Meredith said Friday. “They focus on nature, which I enjoy.”

Meredith said since she has become one of the older participants, she enjoys helping the younger children learn paper-folding techniques and other aspects of the class.

“It’s fun because I am older, and I have been there before,” she said. Bright Hill founder Bertha Rogers said: “One of the things I love about the workshops are the kids, because they are highly motivated. They want to work hard and produce something. They are bright, interesting kids, and they are a lot of fun.”

Some of the projects this season included Valentine pop-up books, papier-mache sculptures, and stories and riddles based on Anglo- Saxon 1,000-year-old riddles, Rogers said. One of the riddles, by Felix Marner Bridel, 9, of Franklin, asks: “I must try to give all I have.

You turn my long legs over and over.

I am striped like a tiger inside. I fear both of the opposite forces of nature. If you think you are smart enough to run through a tree, take a guess.

Who am I?

Answer: A book” Welden is a voice-over artist, performance artist, core member of the Arm Of The Sea mask and puppet theater troupe and master of ceremonies.

There will be refreshments, and the exhibit is free and open to the public. The Treadwell gallery is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays; 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays; during Word Thursdays programs; and by appointment. For more information, call 829-5055 or e-mail wordthur@stny.rr.com.

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