Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Assistance Needed!!!

BOFA is seeking a volunteer events coordinator from the Belfast, NY area.

Please contact Sheila or Kathy if you are interested in promoting the creative arts in the Belfast Area.  Fine Arts experience and an interest in community action are a plus for this position. :)

Monday, August 15, 2011

August Refreshments at the Library Lawn Concert

Many thanks to Marie and Kathy for all of their hard work!!!
The Belfast Organization for Artists co-sponsored the lawn chair concerts this year. We couldn't have kept this commitment without your dedication.

Taste of Belfast Tonight

Stop at the park in Belfast, NY this evening to enjoy local music and to get a taste of the food served at local restaraunts.
The memorial scholarship fundraiser has been postponed until a later date.
(location to be determined.)
Enjoy!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Fundraiser for the Amanda Curcio Memorial Scholarship fund

Monday, August 15th BOFA will be conducting a dessert table fundraiser at the Taste of Belfast in the Belfast park. All proceeds from sales will go to the scholarship fund. Additional donations welcome!
This scholarship is awarded annually to a successful Belfast Central School graduating senior who intends to pursue the arts at the college level.
The Belfast Organization for Artists was established in loving memory of Amanda Nicole Curcio, poet, artist, musician. BOFA's mission is to increase awareness and participation in the Creative Arts in the Belfast, NY area.
We appreciate your support.
New members welcome!

2nd Annual Belfast Area Art Show

Please stop in to the library during regular library hours to view the Second Annual Belfast Area Art Show during the month of August, opening August 1, 2011.

Current entries include works by: Maria Fusco, Andrew & Ethan Blocho, Marie Nix, Kathy Garrison, Denise Atherton, and Sheila Kalkbrenner.
BOFA will also be providing refreshments at the Belfast Library Lawn Concerts the first two Mondays in August. Contact Sheila or Kathy if you would like to donate cookies, fruit, or your time.

Limerick Contest Winners

The Belfast Organization for Artists and The Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame co-sponsored a Limerick Contest at the First Annual Irish Heritage Festival in Belfast, NY (July 23, 2011). The contest required particiapants to stick to the general poetic rules of limerick structure and the 2011 theme, Irish boxing.
Many thanks to Kathy for making this event possible.


The thirteen entries were viewed by public voters at the Belfast town hall and the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame. After three hours of voting, the winners were determined as follows.

First place and most humorous: Kelly and Addy Fair of Corona, CA
Muldoon taught John Sullivan to box
His fists flew quick like a fox
Bartenders would cry
When he looked them in the eye
'cause if they denied him, they might get a few knocks!

Second place: Jack Risewick of Caneadea, NY
Tribute to the Champ and the Town
John L. was a man who stood tall.
Begorra, how that lad could brawl.
He trained to stay lean
On Belfast cuisine
His statue now stands at the Hall.

Third place and most thematic: Kelly and Addy Fair of Corona, CA
John L. Sullivan-heavyweight champion number one
Thought that bare knuckle boxing was fun
Mississippi was the place
Where he almost lost face
But it turned out that Kilrain was done.



Other Entries:
When Sullivan battled Kilrain
John L. was viewed with disdain.
But Muldoon led his camp
He re-trained the champ
Making Belfast his training domain.
-Julie Parker, Scio NY

There once was a trainer named William Muldoon
From Belfast farm to NY gym he was famed.
In 1889 to Belfast he came
With boxer John L. Sullivan to tame-
For winning bare knuckled against Kilrain!
-Kathy Garrison, Belfast, NY, BOFA member

Two men step into the ring
It starts when they hear the ding
Then one's on the ground
The other dancing around
Sitting high just like a king!
-Taryn Potter, Scio, NY

There once was a boxer named Livingstone
In '84 he set the boxing tone.
Mancini he did match
Boxing crowns he did snatch
For to stand atop the world all alone.
-Kathy Garrison, Belfast, NY ,BOFA member

Redemption in Belfast
There once was a fighter who had fallen.
Booze and hard living damaged his brawlin'.
He came to Belfast.
His wicked ways did not last.
It was here that he reclaimed his calling.
-Brendan Heaney, Belfast, NY

John L. Comes to Belfast
There once was a young boxing man
Who brought with him many a fan
He'd box and he'd box
And got strong as an ox
And his name was John L. Sullivan
-Aran, Theresa, Aiden, Owen, and Finn Heaney, Belfast, NY

An Irish festival in Belfast
Was held to honor an outcast
They called him John L.
And they put him through hell
So that in the ring he would last.
-Mary Mountain, Belfast, NY

There once was a boxer named John
Who didn't know hither from yon
When a trainer Muldoon
Soon changed his tune
The bare knuckle boxer moved on.
-Mary Mountain, Belfast, NY

There is a young boy named Jake
Who learned how to whistle for heaven's sake.
He whistles all day
During work or at play
What a cheerful sound he can make.
-Terry Holcomb, Belfast, NY

In Belfast, Irish boxing came one day.
For training, here boxers went.
For fighting, elsewhere they were sent.
As a fad, it came and went-
But the history is here to stay!
-Kathy Garrison, Belfast, NY, BOFA member

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Memorial Day Parade

Many thanks to Kathy and Marion for representing us in the Memorial Day Parade.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Help Wanted

Contact Sheila or Kathy to volunteer your services or attend the BOFA planning meeting at 6:00pm June 27, 2011.
Members/ Volunteers are needed to assist at the BOFA table during the Belfast Heritage Festival.
The Belfast Organization for Artists (B.O.F.A.) will be co-sponsoring a limerick contest at the Belfast Heritage Festival July 22nd and 23rd. The limerick topics will be Irish Heritage and Boxing. Entries can be submitted to Scott Burt at http://www.bareknuckleboxinghalloffame.com/id10.html
Entry Deadline is 1pm July 23rd.
Winners will be announced at the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame in Belfast at 4pm on July 23rd.


Members and Non-members are invited to enter the Belfast Community Art Show. Volunteers will be needed to assist in hanging the show.
BOFA's Second Annual Belfast Community Art show will be on display at the Belfast Library during the month of August. Entries will be accepted July 27th. Work will be hung July 28th. For more information and an entry form contact Sheila at sheilalynnk@yahoo.com. Entry forms will be availabe in July 2011.
Member Volunteers are needed to prepare refreshments and provide support at the BOFA table during the Belfast Library Lawn Concerts in August and at the Taste of Belfast fundraiser.
BOFA will be providing refreshments at the Belfast library lawn concerts August 1st and 8th.

BOFA will have a dessert table at the Taste of Belfast on August 15th to raise funds to support the arts in the Belfast community.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Quilt Block Design Workshop

Saturday April 16th 2011
1pm to 4pm
at the Belfast Town Hall
Contact Kathy Garrison to register.

Monday, March 21, 2011

BOFA in Action


At the Quilt Show and at the Belfast Central School Open House.
Thanks Kathy and Marie for increasing community awareness of the BOFA mission.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

BOFA contributes to The Empowering Alliance

The Empowering Alliance is hosting an auction to benefit women fighting breast cancer.
March 5, 2011
at 7pm
at the Hinsdale Legion. (Click on  BOFA post January 6, 2011, in the Blog Archive in the right margin, to read more information about this event.)
Local artists have cast and painted busts to auction at this event.
BOFA founder and events coordinator, Sheila Kalkbrenner, has submitted
Mothers Nature as a donation to this event.
Donated in memory of her mother, Janet Marie Kalkbrenner. Janet died of breast cancer in 1994.
She was 42. "A successful day as a mother (parent) is one in which what is good for you and what is good for your child are not mutually exclusive."~ Janet 1991




Wednesday, February 9, 2011

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Belfast Central School has invited BOFA members and community artists to display artwork at the BCS open house  March 17,2011.
Registration Deadline is February 20, 2011.
There is no fee for entry. Donations are welcome.
Entrants will be expected to assist with hanging work that day between 3:30 and 6:30pm

Friday, February 4, 2011

Quilt Block Design Workshop

In February


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7th at the Belfast ACCORD building on Main Street

BOFA is offering a quilt block design workshop from 6:30-8pm. Suggested donation is $3.

New members and non-members are welcome to attend.

(Members are also invited to attend the BOFA planning meeting from 6pm-6:30.)

registration deadline February 3rd.
 
Contact Sheila if you are interested in an ecore presentation of this workshop.
 

Monday, January 31, 2011

Friday January 28,2011...First Open Mic Night is a success!

Many thanks to 3 Bums Pizza, our performers, members, and community for supporting this event!!



Lindsay McCumisky and Kirsten Weursig
perform vocals and acoustic guitar.

Cherith Meeks performs vocals and classical ukulele.








Reenie and Amy McCumisky

Thursday, January 6, 2011

CALLS FOR ARTISTS

JANUARY 2011
THE EMPOWERING ALLIANCE OF ALLEGANY COUNTY IS SEEKING ARTISTS TO ASSIST WITH A FUNDRAISING PROJECT TO BENEFIT AREA RESIDENTS SUFFERING FROM BREAST CANCER
The art will be auctioned at the Mardi Gras fundraiser in the spring.
View similar art created to benefit the Keep A Breat Foundation.
http://www.keep-a-breast.org/art/
Busts will be sculpted on January 16th at a Belfast location. If you are not available the day the busts are created there may be extras that will still need to be painted. Contact Sheila for more information.
Michael-Fleming-aka-Tweedlebop_Angel-Baby


MARCH 2011
THE BELFAST CENTRAL SCHOOL HAS INVITED BOFA MEMBERS and BELFAST AREA ARTISTS/ARTISANS TO DISPLAY WORK AT THE BCS OPEN HOUSE ON MARCH 17, 2011.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 20TH.
contact sheila for more information.