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Other Upcoming Events and
Meetings
July Events
July
Sundays at 11 am Worship Services … Your favorite hymns
will be
sung at our casual worship services in the
Fellowship Hall during July.
July 12th
at 9 am
Vacation Bible School
Everyone is invited to
participate in a “one-day” bible school on Saturday,
July 12, from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon to celebrate
Christmas in July! For
children ages 5 through 12,
there will be music, bible stories, crafts, games and
more! For teens and adults,
there will be a
Crismon workshop lead by Mandy Luck.
Each
person will make a Crismon ornament for the
church
Christmas tree or for your own Christmas
tree. There will be
refreshments for everyone,
and at 12:00, we
will have a hot dog cookout.
Please invite your family, friends, and neighbors
to join us for a wonderful day of fun and
fellowship!
Please, call Peggy Kurt, church secretary if you
plan
to attend Vacation
Bible School. 464 - 4421
July 15th
at 11 am
Grace Church will prepare a meal for the Corner
Table. If you would be willing to help …
please
call Peggy at the Church Office (828-464-4421).
August Events
November Events
November
2nd at 11 am La Catrina
String Quartet – See information
located at the bottom of this page.
(www.lacatrinaquartet.com)
*** Reminder ***
Sunday School
Classes – 9:45 to 10:40 am
Two Classes
Chapel Class taught by Angela Phillips and Jackie Hendricks
and Parlor Class taught by Larry Bolick and Mandy Luck
June—August 2008 “Images of Christ” A study of
images of Christ in Hebrews, the Gospels and in Us
A children class is also provided as well as a worship
nursery.
Wednesday
Bible Study
12 noon -1
pm Taught by Pastor Jim Luck Book Study Don’t Know
Much About the Bible by Kenneth Davis
Choir Practice
Choir Practices Every
Wednesday Night at 6:30 in the choir room - come make your voice be
heard! Bell Choir practice at 7:30
pm.
African Drum Circle
African Drum Circle meets at 6:30 pm on the 1st
and 3rd Sundays.
Volleyball
Volleyball
on Thursday nights. Pizza at 6:00 and volleyball will start at 7PM.
Women’s Walking Group
Women’s Walking Group
every Monday Evening. We will meet
in the church gym parking lot at 6:30 PM.
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La Catrina String
Quartet
http://www.lacatrinaquartet.com/about.htm
Grace Church
Sunday,
November 2nd - 11 am
Founded in 2001, the La
Catrina Quartet has a triple mission: to work
closely with living composers in order to promote the performance of new
music, to promote Mexican and Latin- American art music and to perform the
masterworks of the string quartet repertoire. Its members have played as
soloists with a variety of orchestras in Mexico
and the United States
and given recitals in Japan,
England, the United States, and Mexico.
Currently the
Quartet-in-Residence of the Western
Piedmont Symphony and the Chamber Music Festival of San
Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the La Catrina Quartet has already
given multiple world premieres of works written for them, such as Our Hands Were Tightly Clenched, a string quartet
by composer Zae Munn, published by Arsis Press and premiered by them
in 2003 at Chicago’s College of Performing Arts. They have recorded
works by Mexican composer Germán Romero, under the Quindecim label, and
collaborated with several other artists, including a recording of Mozart’s
clarinet quintet with renowned Cuban clarinetist Alfredo Valdés-Brito.
They have received
important awards and recognitions, such as Western Michigan
University’s All
University Research and Creative Scholar Award. At Kent State
University, where they completed a
master of performance degree in chamber music, the Miami String Quartet
invited them to perform Mendelssohn’s octet, to showcase the
accomplishments of Kent
State University’s
string department.
In the summer of 2005, they premiered works by composers Tom
Janson and John Ferrito at the Kent Blossom Music Festival as part of a
grant to promote the works of outstanding Ohio composers. Because of their
brilliant performance at the festival, they were invited to offer a chamber
music master class the following summer. On November 2005, they were
semifinalists at the fourth International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music
Competition.
The La Catrina
Quartet performs regularly at San Miguel de Allende’s chamber music series,
Pro Música, and last fall they were in
residency for two weeks in Hickory, North Carolina, where they were
featured in the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics series
as part of a year-long search, dubbed "The Battle of the Bows,"
that culminated with their appointment as Quartet-in-Residence of that
orchestra.
Some of this year’s activities have included their participation
in the highly competitive Association of Performing Arts Presenters 2007
convention in New York City,
which concluded with a performance in Carnegie Hall showcasing them as one
of the "next generation of classical stars." This summer they
conducted a two-week residency for the Chamber Music Festival of San Miguel
de Allende, where they collaborated with the Brentano Quartet for a
performance of the Mendelsohnn octet. Prior to their San Miguel de Allende
residency, they began an ambitious two-week chamber music festival for kids
ages 5-18 at Kent
State University
(for detailed information, click here). Recipients of
the Bascom Little Fund Grant, which is given to outstanding artists to
promote the creative endeavor of composers from Ohio, the La Catrina Quartet will
release a compact disc in the fall of 2008. Next season they will be
featured in concert series throughout the US
and Mexico.
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