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PB0 EE4IXEXHIBIT WOODCUTS: %u201cThe Woodcuts of Jacques Hnizdovsky%u201d opens at Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 31, part of the garden%u2019s continuing series of %u201cPeople Who Pauli in ilie Garden,\The Chase Manhattan Bank. A native of the Ukraine, the late Jacques Hnizdovsky is considered by critics and curators to rank among this century%u2019s foremost masters of the woodcut. He came to the U.S. in 1949 and died in November, 1985. This exhibit, which was planned with the artist late last summer, is being mounted as a memorial and will be open for viewing Saturdays and Sundays, 11am to 4pm, and weekdays by appointment. The exhibit is in the administration building, 1000 Washington Avenue. For information, call 622-4433.TOSCA ON STAGE: %u201cE Lucevan le Stelle%u201d and %u201cVissi D%u2019Arte%u201d are just two of the popular musical selections that are part of a performance of Puccini%u2019s dramatic masterpiece %u201cTosca,%u201d which will be given on May 31, June 1, June 7-8 at Regina Hall, 65th Street and 12th Avenue. The production is fully staged by Gianni Simone, and with a 35-piece orchestra, conducted by Henry Shek and will feature a cast of professional singers. Elinor Bush and Ilona Simon share the title role, portraying the singer Floria Tosca. Performance times are 8pm on Saturdays and 4pm on Sundays. Admission is $7, $5 for Senior Citizens, children free. TDF vouchers are accepted. For information call 232-3555.TICKETS FOR EXTRAVAGANZA: BACA/The Brooklyn Arts Council has a %u201cvery limited%u201d number of tickets on hand for the July 4th activities at Pier 2, off Furman Street, beneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and near Fulton Ferry Landing. They are priced at $250 and events include music, foods, special attractions, and a fine view of the fireworks display in honor of the Birthday of the Statue of Liberty. For information, call 783-3077 or 783-4469.RED HOOK FEST: The 7th annual Spring Performance Festival of Red Hook Arts will be June 4, at 7:30pm. Starting with %u201c Ray%u2019s Rock House (On the Way to the Apollo)%u201d, the festival combines dance, drama and song. The second half of the program is an original animated film, %u201cArt Attack.%u201d Red Hook Arts offers free arts instruction classes year round, and registration will take place at this event for summer courses starting at 7pm. The performance is free, and will be held at P.S. 15, at 71 Sullivan St. For information, call 852-8058.ROSES BLOOM: The Cranford Rose Garden in Brooklyn Botanic Gardens opens its 59th season on June 5. Flowering this year are over 6,000 rosebushes, representing some 700 varieties, including 27 new varieties of miniature roses and several AllAmerica Rose Selections. The Garden can be seen Tuesday through Friday,9am-4:30pm, and weekends and holidays from 10:304:30pm. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is at 1000 Washington Avenue. For information, call 6224433.SPRING AT ONYX: The Onyx Gallery will open a new exhibit, %u201cSpring into Spring,%u201d with a reception on June 1, 3-7pm.A r t T a k e sCartoon perform ance artists Payton W ilkinson and tim othy Sicliano will install thiscartoon flock of 100 paper ducks, parading through a garden of paper tulips at Em pireFulton Ferry State Park on June 8, starting at noon. They will also have cartoon breadslices available for duck-feeding photos, they promise. The park is on the East Riverw aterfront betw een the Brooklyn and M anhattan Bridges. For inform ation, call212-977-8240.Borough Filmmakers are Screened in Maverick FestivalLocal filmmakers have combined their talents to present the first annual film festival of the Maverick Film Company. Each Monday for four weeks in June, a new film will be shown, with the evening also including hors d%u2019oeuvres and a discussion with the filmmakers. This first-time event for Downtown Brooklyn is a part of Maverick%u2019s %u201cTheatre in a Brownstone Festival,%u201d at 152 Bergen St. in Boerum Hill.The first film to be shown is %u201cThe Amish: Not To Be Modem%u201d, first documentary to be made in an Amish community with thenassistance. This film was made by Carroll Gardens residents Michael Taylor and Virginia Larrimore. Ln addition to anumber of awards, the film has already been screened on the national and international level.Other local filmakers showing their works in future weeks will be: Sam Sills, with %u201cThe Good Fight,%u201d a documentary on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary; Spike Lee with %u201cJoe%u2019s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads;%u201d and Christine Noschese with %u201cMetropolitan Ave%u201d, which is currently playing at the Film Forum.Showtimes for %u201cThe Amish%u201d are 8 and 9:30pm on June 2. Tickets are $5, $3 for seniors and children under 12. For more information, call 858-6014.Performance Workshop Students Show Works in ProgressA free performance of the students of pieces are on the program with a large Elise Long%u2019s Performance Workshop will be musical selection including dancers staged on May 30 at 8pm. New works in creating a village atmosphere to a progress will be shown, and audience feed- Neapolitan folk song, boys playing war, the back and discussion will follow the show. deceptions of daily life, a native Indian The workshop class is open to beginning dance, man at play, and the inside and outthrough professional performers, says Long side personae of a clown. It will be held at and emphasizes the discovery and develop- the Gowanus Arts Exchange, 295 Douglass ment of personal style through showings St. For information call 596-5250. and criticisms of work. A variety of danceParty in Anchorage to Benefit Creative Time ProgramsThere will be a Performance and Dance cocktails and hors d%u2019oeuvres served to the Party to benefit %u201cCreative Time%u201d , a non- guests, performers and artists after the perprofit arts organization, on June 5 at the formance, and admission ot the dance parBrooklyn Bridge Anchorage. The perfor- ty. The dance party starts at 9:30, and mance is the premiere of the complete work tickets for just that event are $15, $20 at the of the %u201cThe Memory Theatre of Guilio door. The party will feature the MarveletCamillo%u201d and will be presented at 7pm. This tes, with additional cabaret-style perforwork is by the Creation Company, and was mances by John Kelly and Georgiawritten and directed by Matthew Maguire, O%u2019Keefe. The Anchorage is at Cadmanwith music by Vito Ricci. Plaza West and Front St. For informationThe $150 tickets include the performance, call (212) 619-1955.The show will run through June 29. It includes works by Alex Fournier, Ann Giovanni, Joseph V. Lubrano, Patricia Melville, Hugh Pope. Donald Sexauer. and Christopher Ward. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday, l-6pm, at 411 Atlantic Avenue. For information call 834-1701.AFRICAN THEATRE: %u201cHalala %u201d, a musical celebrating freedom to come in South Africa, which recently enjoyed a successful run Off Broadway will bie performed at BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave. on June 7, 8pm. This presentation, with song, dance and music, was written and directed by group founder, Welcome Msomi, and choreographed by Thuli Dumakude. It is based on the theme that %u201camid the climate of forced removals, illogical detentions and spiritual sufferings caused by the system of apartheid, the human spirit survives.%u201d Tickets are $5, $10 and $15. For information call 6364100.CHILDREN%u2019S THEATRE: The Interborough Repertory Theatre will present an original adaptation of %u201cHansel and Gretel%u201d June 5 ,10:30am, at the Court Street Children%u2019s Center, 292 Court St. The I.R.T. is a non-profit theatre community which produces child and family-oriented shows through its Community Program. The show, produced by Luane Davis, has an eight-foot storybook set whose pages turn to reveal different settings. For information call 522-2858.VICTORIAN TOUR: On June 1,1-5 pm the 11th Annual Flatbush Victorian House and Garden tour of the Flatbush Development Corp. will be run. Guided bus tours will leave the Flatbush Tompkins Church, Dorchester Road and East 19th Street, at irregular intervals. Four free standing homes plus a garden will be viewed and there is also a self-guided tour of %u201cAntique Row,%u201d 20 antique stores on Coney Island Avenue. On the church grounds, artists and craftspeople will exhibit and sell their work, musicians will perform, and neighborhood groups will have information available. Tickets are $8.DANCE FIN Alii: Indrani Dance and DANCE June Lewis Company will perform in a Grande Finale of India/USA Year on May 31 at 8pm. It is the fourth annual benefit for the Brooklyn Dance Theatre Scholarship Fund, Dance Division, Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College, which enables young dancers to receive professional educations at the college. Indrani will perform traditional lyrical temple dances of Orissa, and DANCE June Lewis and Co. will perform %u201cNo More Charlotte Russe%u201d and %u201cInside White.%u201d Tickets are $10, and the performance will be held at Gershwin Theater on the Brooklyn College Campus. For information, call 434-1900.NEW TERRITORY: The second part of this exhibition series at BACA Downtown Center for the Arts features works by four visual artists, Chris Chevins, Alain Masson, Chris Piazza, and Ray Rapp. Chevins and Masson display new paintings, while Piazza and Rapp present new mixed media constructions. 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