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Casa Nueva showcases young artists, organic snacking with month-long benefit

For the month of March, Athens will be able to celebrate the artwork of many local children and support a local child care center.Sycamore Run Early Childhood Center will feature 61 pieces of art from its students for the entire month at Casa Nueva, 6 W. State St.The opening kicks off with an evening of events on Thursday. Open to the public, there will be art and activities for children, food and music. It will be followed by a show featuring Doxcity Live and Weird Science starting at 10 p.m.Sycamore Run, 74 S. Plains Rd. in The Plains, is a childcare center for infants to pre-kindergarten aged children that focuses on hands-on learning. The school features several outdoor play areas, nature trails and a vegetable garden.All pieces sold will benefit Sycamore Run’s food program. The Center is hoping to put in equipment so its employees will be able to prepare lunches for students on-site. They already provide local and organic snacks for students, some of which come out of the school’s vegetable garden, but want to be able to offer more to the children.“It’s awesome to be in such a supportive community and that we can work with Casa to celebrate our kids,” said Megan Weber, director of Sycamore Run.The show’s theme is loosely based around nature and the environment and is similar to the mission of the school.Many of the pieces are collaborations between students. Older students drew outline images, and the younger students were able to use them as linework. Parents and former students contributed other artwork in the show.Daniel Martino, art curator at Casa Nueva, was able to help with some of the pieces going into the show.“I did 16 pieces with the kids, and the teachers did a lot of them too.”Martino looks forward to the show, since his daughter has been going to the center since she was a baby.This is the second time Sycamore Run has done an art show at Casa.“Everyone is really excited about it,” said Megan Weber, director of Sycamore Run. “The first time, we only filled the Cantina room. This time, we’re filling all of Casa.”sk139011@ohiou.edu@kruseco

Athens theater group brings famed fantasy author’s work to the stage

The authors of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, A Wrinkle in Time and Alice in Wonderland all cite George MacDonald, who is considered a pioneer in fantasy literature, as a major influence.Local community theater group The ABC Players will bring one of MacDonald’s fantasies to the Stuart’s Opera House stage Thursday with its adaptation of The Princess and the Goblin.Celeste Parsons penned the play version, titled The Princess and the Goblins, about a decade ago because of her fondness for the book, which she said she read as a child and enjoyed.Parsons, the director of the play, said she kept the Victorian English language of the original piece, which was published in 1872.The story follows Princess Irene, who teams up with Curdie, a young miner, to save the kingdom from the evil goblins with the power of love, magical thread and song.Tatum Lovsey, 12, plays Princess Irene and said she is excited to do her first “more professional” production and that she enjoys being her character.“It’s interesting to be a princess and a heroine at the same time,” she said. “She’s a princess but she’s also very brave. … It’s a really fun and good experience.”As antagonists to Lovsey’s protagonist, the goblins are grotesque beings that live underground and detest the sun and song. It will be up to Dharma Pook, a first-year student at the Tri-County Career Center cosmetology school in Nelsonville, and her team to make these goblins ugly.“We’re doing a lot of distortion with the makeup: big noses, big, sunken eyes with big ugly hair,” said Pook, head of makeup and hair for the play. “For the goblins, uglier is better.”Pook’s interest in doing hair and makeup in the theater prompted The ABC Players to team up with the Tri-County Career Center after she contacted the troupe to look for opportunities to gain experience in the field.Parsons said she hopes the collaboration will continue for future shows.“There were a number of times when we can use a little extra something with the face or hair,” Parsons said. “It’s a wonderful thing to draw other members of the community into the activities of a theater group because that’s one way we can expand the whole notion of community theater and live theater.”mg986611@ohiou.edu@buzzlightmeryl

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As Ohioans begin gearing up for the 2014 election, many are weighing their options for both viable Democratic and Republican candidates who are running for and seeking re-election. While much of the attention and spotlight will be focused on the Kasich and Fitzgerald gubernatorial election, another key Ohio position is up for re-election: the seat for Ohio’s secretary of state, which is currently held by Jon Husted. But many talking heads and large media outlets will try to persuade you that Husted does not deserve to get re-elected. I find it odd that all of these big talking heads, from states like New York and Massachusetts (which do not have early voting), are criticizing Ohio’s 29 days of early voting. Perhaps these hypocrites could address their own states’ voting opportunities before rushing to explain how bad Husted is doing, especially because he is the first secretary of state to mail absentee ballot applications to every registered Ohio voter. Before making your decisions for which candidate you will vote for, go beyond the talking heads and do some independent research. You may be surprised at what you find.

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Casa Nueva showcases young artists and promotes organic snacking with month-long benefit

For the month of March, Athens will be able to celebrate the artwork of many local children and support a local child care center.

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