Now That's What I Call Cultural Tourism!

Peter Murphy, one of New Jersey's best writer/teachers (and an ArtPride NJ member!) is hosting the 14th Annual Winter Getaway in Cape May in January (12-15), 2007. Here's the incredibly rare opportunity to work with the best writers in the country, take some other arts workshops (painting, songwriting and photography), and just GETAWAY from it all while you hear the surf pound the shore! Just what the doctor ordered after the hectic holiday season!

Check it all out at www.wintergetaway.com and you'll find the full schedule, bios on the faculty, and descriptions of the various workshops offered in poetry and prose.

This is Cultural Tourism at its best! The package can't be beat at The Grand Hotel--you even get to start the day with yoga and end it with dancing and music at one of Cape May's local eateries. Go for it!

American Boychoir & Paul McCartney--How Cool is That?

The American Boychoir will be featured in a concert performance at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, November 14 of Ecce Cor Meum, a full length classical work composed by Paul McCartney.

Ecce Cor Meum, or Behold My Heart, was released on September 25. McCartney was asked by the President of Magdalen College Oxford to compose something to set the seal on a new concert hall for the college. His hope was for "a choral piece which could be sung by children like Handel's Messiah." It is McCartney's fourth classical album since his first release in 1991.

The concert is being broadcast by WNYC-FM and will be streamed on their website. For more details on Ecce Cor Meum, visit its web site www.eccecormeum.com and congratulations to the American Boychoir!!

Discover Jersey Arts for the Holidays!

Don't miss the Discover Jersey Arts Holiday Fashion Show at the Jersey Gardens Mall at 3 pm on November 18! Dancers from the American Repertory Ballet, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company and Roxey Ballet (all ArtPride members!!) will strut their stuff down the runway in the latest fall fashions, just in time for Christmas shopping!

CD 101.9 will be at the Mall starting at noon to give away free tickets and merchandise, and you'll have the chance to spin the Jersey Arts Prize wheel for free stuff, too!

Free Jersey Arts Holiday Guides will be available and coming soon is the Jersey Arts Gift Card available at participating arts groups and centers throughout New Jersey. Here's the perfect holiday gift--the recipient will be delighted to use the card to purchase tickets of choice at locations like Appel Farm Arts & Music Center, the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, the NJ Performing Arts Center, and Dante Hall Theater of the Arts in Atlantic City.

For more information on the Holiday Fashion Show and the Jersey Arts Gift Card, go to www.jerseyarts.com ArtPride is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Discover Jersey Arts statewide arts marketing initiative.