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Page 14, PHOENIX, Juneo resnvai t oPresent Indian Ragas andClassical MusicThe Brooklyn Heights Summer Festival continues with two musical events at the First Presbyterian Church, 124 Henry St. On Sunday June 9, the Alam School of Indian Classical Music, based in Brooklyn Heights, will give a recital of %u201c Devotional Ragas from North India%u2019%u2019 at the Church. On Wednesday June 12, the Hammarskjold Players, also based in the Heights, will give a recital of %u201cTwentieth Century Chamber Music\beginning 8 p.m.Vasant Rai, disciple of India's master musician, the late Allaudin Khan, came to the States in 1972. He founded the school, naming it in honour of his guru, who was known to his family as %u201c Alam%u201d . Allaudin Khan taught Pandit Ravi Shankar, and Vasant Rai alsostudied with the wife of Ravi Shankar.Vasant Rai will play sarod; Vishwanath Mishra, tabla; Donald Heller, tamboura; and members of the school will accompany. An indian tea reception will follow the recital, giving everyone a chance to meet the musicians informally.Soloists in the Hammarskjold program will be Janet Wagner, mezzo soprano, who studied at Juilliard and appeared last summer in the Caramoor Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival; Rosalind Rees, soprano, a specialist in twentieth century music which she performs as soloist for Columbia Records; and Constance Cooper, piano, who is on the music faculty at Long Island University.Following the Recital, all the audience will be invited to a wine reception, given by Towne Liquor of 72 Clark Street. Admission to both recitals is free, and a contribution will be requested.Shown is potiory in the making by B ill Fink, who w ill be having aone-man show at Handwr ought Crafts Co-op, Prospect Heights.Hand Wrought HoldsCeramics PreviewA preview of a ceramics show by Bill Fink takes place Friday evening, June 7, from 8 to 10 at Hand Wrought, Brooklyn%u2019s only crafts co-op. The show, the first by Hand Wrought of the work of one of its member craftsm en, will run through June 22, and will comprise ceramic sculptures, planters, bowls, vases, pitchers, and kitchen ware. Mr. Fink's forms are simple, clean, almost classical in line, with minimal glazing and decoration, and with unexpected touches of whimsy here and there.A Brooklyn native and a graduate of City College. Bill Fink has been a teacher of industrial arts in the Brooklyn public schools for close to 20 years, specializing in the teaching of ceramics for 15 years.After he and his wife, hsther, bought their St. John%u2019sPaintings J u n e 11391 Atlantic Ave. BrooklynOpenMon.-Fri.11:30 am-lOpmT W O S T E P SD O W N240 Dekalb Ave.RESTAURANTL U N C H E O N & D IN N ERBring your favorite wine783-9239CABARET%u2014A POTPOURRICABARET proudly presents the brilliant talents of pianist/vocalist William Roy. A product of the Hollywood films, seventeen in all, such as %u201c The Corn is Green%u201d with Bette Davis and %u2018 %u2018 It Happened in Brooklyn%u201d with Frank Sinatra. Mr. Ray also was musical director for all of Julius Monk%u2019s revues at Upstairs at the Downstairs and Plaza 9. He has written and/or appeared in upwards of 50 industrial shows. His salute to Levi-Straus is a classic!!Mr. Franklin Roosevelt Underwood, pianist in residence, dispenses his own special magic between shows.Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 9 to 1. No cover, no minimum. Reservations please. MICHEL%u2019S, 346 Flatbush Avenue, Park Slope. NE 8 4552,25 to 50%off original priceson selected groupAnnual June Sale of Prints & PaintingsGALLERY CLOSESfor summer.- July and AugustTUES-SAT, 11 to 6636 8736 Park SlopeS T O t a P . M .O U dW&xieoc Jx ssta u %u2019ia n tm m I t 5 M O N T A G U E S T R E E T _Snips' Combines Visual and VerbalIf the function of art is to help us understand the less transparent aspects of our iives-to clarify, for instance, how we are estranged from our surroundings and our culture, and to state without apology that the people we are closest to remain foreign and unknowable-then Roger Erickson%u2019s book, %u201c Snips,%u201d is art.A visual a rtist living in Clinton Hill and a member of the cooperative Gallery 91 on Atlantic Avenue, Erickson attempts to meld the visual with the verbal, and discovers there are no words for the frighteningly contemporary landscape he%u2019s %u201c snipped%u2019 %u2019 from advertisement, structural diaarams, computer printouts, andillthe like. The landscape is frightening because it %u2019s so familiar, even though we protest it has no relation to who we are. Erickson knows that it has a lot to do with who we are and will not allow us to look the other way. And maybe that%u2019s good.%u201c Snips%u201d was printed and p ro d u ct at the Print Center, Inc., a non-profit facility located on State Street funded by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. Copies are available at %u201c one dollar or less%u201d from Roger Erickson, 266 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn 11205DAN I CO LARIPlace brownstone seven years ago, he was able to set up a studio at home.Over the years Mr. Fink has garnered many awards and prizes, both for his work and for the work of his students. His work has won first prize in ceramics in the Brooklyn Museum Fence Show and second prize in ceramics in the New Rochelle Outdoor Art Show. He was an originator of the annual Riverside Drive Outdoor Art Show, in which his work has been shown and awarded numerous ribbons. Mr. Fink has also exhibited at Gallery 55, on Seventh Avenue, and at the Park Gallery, on Park Place.Hand Wrought, at 663 Vanderbilt Avenue between Park and Prospect Places, is open Wednesdays and Fridays from 1 to 6, Saturdays from 11 to 6, and Sundays from 1 to 5.Boerum Theater Co.Ready to BeginFirst PerformancesThe play%u2019s the thing that the Boerum Hill-based Big Apple Traveling Theatre Company (BATTCo.) will be bringing far and wide to community audiences in an effort to make theatre accessible to more people. The group will perform new and lesser known plays from a variety of sources wherever people congregate--in parks, churches, synagogues, community centers etc.Boerum Hill residents Jan Barry and Paula Kay Pierce were instrumental in the founding of the theatre company as an arftist-controlled theatre %u201c beyond Broadway,%u201d where they would not be subject to the reign of commercially-oriented producers. In the tradition of the great theatre companies of the 1930%u2019s-The Mercury Theatre, The Federal Theatre and The Group Theatre, BATTCo. aims to present at popular prices in accessible places great plays of varied periods and cultures with special contemporary significance.In their Boerum Hll brownstone, Barry and Pierce, along with Emelise Aleandri, Bill Jones and Herbert Krohn, conceived the idea of founding a theatre group patterned after Britain%u2019s Actors Company in which members share in the planning, organization, and programming of the company. BATTCo. is to be a touring repertory company that will offer serious theatre to communities by going into them.Two years in the planning, Big Apple Traveling Theatre Company was bornof numerous animatedmeetings and the unwavering determination of a group of veterans of many other theatre ventures. Co-founder of BATTCo., Jan Barry is a poet and principal of 1stDidn't frfcT To t h i s y%u00a3ARThen v is it A\\fc. SOUVLAKi1^7 A \\ omT/%u00bb6.U%u00a3, S t.- a , <4 SfetfcPaula Kay PierceCasualty Press, the independent company that published %u201c Winning Hearts and Minds; War Poems by Vietnam Veterans.%u201d Paula Pierce, playwright, director and actress, had worked for Joseph Papp%u2019s Public Theatre.Rehearsals are now under way of %u201c The Dragon,%u201d the group%u2019s first production. Written in 1943 by Yevgeny Schwartz, a Soviet Jew, %u201c The Dragon%u201d was intended by its author as an allegory, for children and adults, of the rise of Fascism. The play was suppressed by the Stalin government and did not reappear on the Soviet stage until very recently. Some roles are still open and the troupe welcomes all interested actors, musicians, playwrights, technicians and costumers to join BATTCo. 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