We exist in a global community.  Our spirit is skewed towards sharing various creative opportunities regardless of geographical location.  Why?  Because you never know who might see a “share” or receive an e-blast message where the recipient knows somebody, who knows somebody, who knows somebody…. More importantly, in our world, knowing what cultural institutions are doing to expand the visual, performing, and historical arts is important to us.  Our global community is distant yet local.  International yet community-based…. So, here is the necessary information regarding a new exhibition opportunity for visual artists, and please share to your contacts.  Any questions should be sent directly to the museum.  The Cayuga Museum located at 203 Genesee Street in Auburn, New York, USA is hosting a brand new series of rotating art exhibits in 2018.  The series is designed to be a showcase of different emerging artists from central New ...

So active community member and working mom, Jenna Quinn, arranged for the City of Auburn, New York Police Department to hold training sessions for the upcoming local civil service exam for prospective police officers. The department hopes to recruit interested folks who will help create a more diverse group of people sitting for the exam and hopefully, into the department. The current chief of police, Shawn Butler, his command staff, and officers are committed to community engagement through their proactive “Coffee with a Cop” initiative, progressive diversity training for officers, and using the civil service exam as the first step to have the community work with the department to help create a more diversified police department. These ongoing efforts are a proactive pathway to the department’s commitment to partnership with the Auburn community.  Department officers will host and teach training sessions regarding the civil service exams at the Booker T. Washingt...

Most of us in Auburn, NY, the surrounding regions and adjacent counties embrace the fact that poet and musician Ron Van Nostrand knows a lot about poetry and those folks who pen wonderful and enchanting verses.   When “ word, revisited ” started to line-up featured speakers for 2017, Ron enthusiastically and wisely recommended a colleague that he continues to be impressed with, and that assessment has lasted the length of time.    Elinor Cramer (photo provided) Elinor Cramer is a prolific poet who lives in Syracuse, NY where she also practices psychotherapy.   Ms. Cramer’s recent chapbook, Mayflower (published by Red Bird) is about an interlude of living in a cooperative apartment building with unlikely shipmates, and being part of the usual conflicts and extraordinary caring. Her full length collection, “She Is a Pupa, Soft and White” was published by WordTech Communications in 2011.   Her poems have appeared in “Stone Canoe,” “ Olive Tre...