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5 September 2008, Friday Formerly Homeless Artist’s Work on Exhibit at Boston City Hall Time: 9:00am EST Location: Boston City Hall, Piemonte Room BOSTON — Less than two years ago, Peter Phelps, 80, did not have walls of his own on which to hang his artwork. Now, thanks to Hearth, a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of homelessness among the elderly, Phelps has his own apartment in which to create his masterpieces and his art will be on exhibit at Boston’s City Hall in a one-man show. Phelps’ framed works of abstract watercolors and inks will be on display from Thursday, Aug. 14 through Friday, Sept. 5 in City Hall’s Piemonte Room. Exhibit areas are open to the public Monday through Friday, except Labor Day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For additional information about the art exhibit contact Jenny Hibbard, at (617) 369-1565 or email jhibbard@hearth-home.org. To learn more about Hearth, visit www.hearth-home.org, or call 617-369-1550. An Exhibit ~ New Acquisitions at the USS Constitution Museum Time: 10:00am Location: USS Constitution Museum Presented by the USS Constitution Museum. An exhibit of new acquisition: Four paintings by George Ropes, Jr. from 1813 of battle between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. May 14 – November 14, 2008. Museum hours: 9am-6 pm April 15 - October 15; 10am - 5 pm October 16 - April 14 http://www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/ Cirque du Soleil - KOOZA, Under the Grand Chapiteau at Bayside Expo Center, Boston Location: Under the Grand Chapiteau at Bayside Expo Center, 200 Mount Vernon St., Boston Cirque du Soleil will return to Boston at a new location with its latest big top touring production KOOZA, set to open on Friday, September 5, 2008. KOOZA will perform at Bayside Expo Center under the trademark blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) for a limited engagement. KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil that combines two circus traditions - acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor. Performance Schedule: • Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. • Thursdays thru Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. • Sundays at 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. To purchase tickets: 1-800-678-5440 or www.cirquedusoleil.com Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick Location: Fuller Craft Museum 455 Oak Street For decades, Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering force in the craft field. Her vibrant, energetic pieces break through traditional barriers of form, texture and color while sparking the human imagination. Sculpture Transformed incorporates 67 “body sculpture” objects that exemplify 40 years of Schick’s experimentation with form, texture, and color. Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick and its tour are organized by International Arts and Artists, Washington, DC in cooperation with the curator, Tacey A. Rosolowski, and Marjorie Schick. http://www.fullercraft.org/exhibitions.html The Machinery of Heaven: glass sculpture by Steven Easton Location: Fuller Craft Museum 455 Oak Street Glass artist Steven Easton will use Fuller Craft's Merton Tarlow gallery as an environment to explore his ideas about portraits, classical antiquity, religion, science and the natural world. This exhibition has challenged Easton to take his ideas–which up to this point have been manifested in individual objects—to a larger, more inclusive, and ultimately more compelling scope and scale. As Easton explains, “Nature and its beauty is the foundation of my work – energy and matter, in myriad forms, whirl in a complicated dance that is a celebration of life. Celestial bodies, moving inexorably through the heavens, hum in rhythm with the beating of our own hearts. Everything is connected and has meaning. This belief is infinitely reassuring as we humans move through time.” http://www.fullercraft.org/exhibitions.html#Easton We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! The Nora Theatre Company speaks to the times with Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo’s work of politics and hilarity, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, playing at Central Square Theater Thursday, September 4 through Sunday, September 28. In the side-splitting satire written in 1974, the housewives have had enough… prices are high and getting higher and it’s time for them to take matters into their own hands, but the challenge is how to keep their husbands from finding out that they’ve stormed the supermarket! With stolen olives, bird seed, and pasta, this farcical comedy about a housewives’ revolt against out of control inflation looks at hypocrisy, injustice, and liberation with a healthy dose of hysterics thrown in for good measure. We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! is translated by Ron Jenkins and directed by The Nora’s Associate Director, Daniel Gidron (IRNE Award nominee - Best Director, Small Theater for The Nora’s production of Buried Child). A Man Of No Importance Time: 7:30pm Location: CFA TheatreLab @ 855 The story of an Oscar Wilde obsessed bus driver who attempts to stage Salome at his church in 1960's Dublin. The 2003 Outer Circle Award Winner for Best Off-broadway Musical. The Boys of Winter: an antiwar play Time: 8:00pm EST Location: Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Written by Barry Brodsky, Dean B. Kaner, & Eric Small; directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary. Performances run Fri.*-Sat. at 8 pm, Sun. at 2 pm and 8 pm. [*September 5th benefit performance for Veterans For Peace and Iraq Veterans Against The War.] Tickets: $20, $10 for students / seniors / veterans / first responders; group rates available. Box Office opens one hour before each show (cash or credit cards only). For advance tickets, log onto www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/2692 or call 866-811-4111 (toll free). Brickbottom District Open Studios 2007 Time: 12:00am - 6:00pm est Location: Brickbottom District , Somerville, MA Featuring art work by members of the Brickbottom Artists Association and the Joy Street Artists. Free and open to the public. Located in the historic Brickbottom District of Somerville, with plenty of free on street parking and within walking distance of bus routes in Union Sq., Somerville. Specific studio locations: Brickbottom Artists Association at 1 Fitchburg St. and Joy Street Artists at 86 Joy St. For further information call 617-776-3410 or log onto www.brickbottomartists.com and www.joystreetartists.org.