June 25, 2010

Worth Mentioning

Evansville child receives wish

Donovan Eastham, age 7, a former student at Holy Redeemer School currently being home schooled, left June 21 to visit Disney Orlando.

Donavan’s wish was arrranged and funded by the Evansville based charity, Wish Upon A Star, Inc.

Donavan is being accompanied by his mother and father, Amanda Levell and Michael Parkman, a brother, Aydon, and a sister, Jaelunn.

Donovan has vator syndrome, which affects the vertebrae, trachea, esophagus and other areas of the body.

Exhibit features paintings of Carolyn Roth

The St. Meinrad Archabbey Library Gallery is presenting an exhibit of paintings by artist Carolyn Roth of Evansville. Exhibit dates are June 29-August 7. Roth recently retired from the University of Southern Indiana, where she had been teaching since 1984. A New York native, she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at Herron School of Art and master’s in fine arts at Florida State University.

She has been on the full-time faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Southern Illinois University and the University of Evansville. She has exhibited her artwork throughout the United States since 1968.

Many of the paintings in this exhibition feature animals, mostly birds, as imagery. A series of 12 small canvases with birds were done in collaboration with her father, Charles Roth, as an aesthetic response to his concept of associating a color and an attribute with each of the 12 disciples.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Tales and Scales to offer camp experience

This summer, Tales and Scales will offer its 17th annual Camp Imagination in partnership with both the Children’s Museum of Evansville and the Henderson Area Arts Alliance.

At Camp Imagination 2010, campers are invited to explore their creativity and become Musictellers themselves! Campers will develop their own unique Musictales while participating in games and activities led by Tales and Scales artists incorporating storytelling, music, theater and creative movement. Campers will share their weeklong experiences by performing for family and friends on the last day of each session. No prior experience with the performing arts is necessary, and campers may attend one session, two sessions or all three!

For more information and to register for Camp Imagination 2010 please visit www.talesandscales.org

Raising funds for pilgrimage

The Diocese of Evansville Catholic Pilgrim-age to Venice, Padua, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Rome and the Vatican is scheduled for Sept. 21-30. Fundraising to sponsor and/or defray the cost of the pilgrimage is occurring with a partnership with Seek and Find Consign-ments located in Evansville and Newburgh.

Seek and Find Consignments is a home décor and furniture consignment business with over 3,000 clients and several not-for-profits utilizing their services. All inventory is placed upon the company’s password protected website for monitoring by the client.

Individuals may provide home décor or furniture to be sold through Seek and Find Consignments. The proceeds will be provided to the Diocese of Evansville.

Each item donated is inventoried and the donor receives an immediate tax deduction for the value of the donated items; the diocese monitors the selling of the merchandise through the company’s website; and the Diocese receives monthly compensation for any and all items sold.