Carnegie Center announces winner

The Carnegie Center for the Arts is proud to announce that the popular People’s Choice Award contest resulted in a tie this year between Karen Kipp, with a pastel titled Kingfisher Spirit, and Izzy (Gayle Harvey-Heckman), with a photo hand touched with watercolors titled For Betty With Eternal Love & Gratitude, As Ever Yours, Izzy.

Visitors to the Carnegie viewing the Regional Juried Arts Competition were encouraged to vote for their personal favorite piece.

The award for People’s Choice carries a $300 prize. This year the winners will split the award.

The Carnegie Center for the Arts thanks all of the artists who entered the 2010 competition, congratulates the winners and also wishes to thank those visitors who took the time to vote for your favorite.

World Fare organizes presentation

“Rivers of Justice Film Festival,” the second annual film festival organized by World Fare, is set for Saturday, March 6th, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Riviera Theatre in downtown Three Rivers.

This year’s feature film, “Black Gold,” explores the coffee industry through the experiences of farmers in Ethiopia.

As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man’s fight for a fair price.

As the directors explain, “We don’t believe that one film can change or solve a global and systemic problem. But Black Gold can affect the way people think and, as Tadesse says in the film, ‘Awareness is the first step to change.’”

As was the case last year, two related “featurettes” will be shown with facilitated discussion about justice and social action.

The film festival will take place at the beautifully restored, historic Riviera Theatre at 50 North Main Street in downtown Three Rivers, with a reception to follow across the street at World Fare. Attendees will be invited to “migrate across the street” to World Fare to enjoy food, beverages and further discussion about the evening’s featured films.

Tickets, priced at $5, include a $5 gift certificate for World Fare.

World Fare, located at 37 North Main Street, is a volunteer-run, non-profit store marketing fairly traded handcrafts and foods from around the world.

Holiday wine tasting at the Riviera

The Riviera Theatre in downtown Three Rivers will be the focal point for a Holiday Wine Tasting event on Friday (November 20th) that is billed as “the most glamorous shopping experience of the season!”

Riviera Manager Danielle Moreland says the theatre and other local vendors “are working together to provide a beautiful shopping experience.”

The event will feature wines from around the world to sample and purchase. Twenty different wines will be available to sample, each paired with hors d’oeuvres.

Wandering through the beautifully restored theater, enjoying a glass of wine and finding exciting gifts for those hard-to-shop-for family members, one will be able to purchase from vendors such as:

• Great Lakes Chocolate and Coffee of Sturgis

• World Fare, Love Your Mother, UniQ Jewelry, Lowry’s Books and More, all of Three Rivers, and many more vendors from surrounding areas.

After finding many lovely wines and unique items to gift, one may utilize the gift basket packing station, where any merchandise purchased from multiple vendors at the event, can be packed together in a beautiful gift basket.

The Holiday Wine Tasting event will take place Friday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 in the Riviera Theatre at 50 North Main Street. The $15 per person admission fee includes wine tasting and hors d’oeuvres.

Horror Film Festival at Riviera

With Halloween just around the corner, Campaign Pictures and the Riviera Theatre have announced the schedule for the 1st Annual Horror Film Festival.

Four chosen “shorts” have been paired with four selected feature length horror films and an opportunity for the audience to score each film. The festival winner will be announced at the Riviera Theatre’s Halloween Party on October 31st.

Tickets are $5 per showing.

The horror film festival is a new addition to the Riviera’s Halloween Horror Week that includes a showing of Monsieur Verdoux on Sunday, October 25th, at 3 p.m. and Nosferatu (1922) accompanied by bLuE daHLia performing an original score on Wednesday, October 28th, at 8 p.m.

Saturday, October 31st, Halloween night, stop by the Riviera for spooky drink specials and costume contests beginning at 9 p.m. The theatre will take on a spooky air for the showing of the original 1931 Frankenstein at 10 p.m.

For more information and a full synopsis for each film, visit www.trriviera.com, or call (269) 278-8068.

Library aid may be cut

A conference committee in the Michigan Legislature has voted to cut state aid to local libraries by 40 percent.  The vote Sunday afternoon sets the stage for votes in the House and Senate when they return to work Tuesday. Lawmakers have until the end of the day Wednesday to erase a $2.8 billion shortfall or there may be a partial shutdown of state government.  Aid to local libraries would drop from $10 million to $6 million under a budget approved 5-1. The panel’s Democratic chairman opposed the bill because of the library cut.  (AP)

Riviera Theatre to Celebrate One-Year Anniversary

The upcoming weekend is a significant one for the Riviera Theatre in downtown Three Rivers as the entertainment venue marks its one year anniversary since re-opening.

            Manager Danielle Moreland says, “We have a great weekend planned.”

            The lineup includes the following:

·         Friday at 8 p.m. – “The Elders”

·         Saturday at 3 p.m. – “Songs from the Stage Benefit Recital,” a free event

·         Saturday at 8 p.m. – Goldmine Pickers and The Bearded Ladies

·         Sunday at 3 p.m. – “Il Viaggio a Reims” Opera in Cinema.

For additional information about the Riviera’s One-Year Anniversary Weekend, go to www.trriviera.com.

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