Fiddle & Dance Project is now Rhode Island Fiddle Project and has gotten a great start to our second year. There's the addition of second Fiddler-in-Residence to the project, ten new fiddling students, and a Best of Rhode Island Award from Rhode Island Monthly. See all the details in RI Fiddle Project's latest e-newsletter.

Come dance with us and special guest caller and fiddler, David Kaynor, at our Family Dance this Sunday, November 7th! Open to people of all ages; all dances will be called and are danced to (of course) live music by Michelle Kaminsky, Alan Bradbury, Max Newman and Rachel Panitch. The address and upcoming events are listed at our new website. 

-Rachel Panitch, RI Fiddle Project director & CMW resident musician

So many people were so very helpful in making possible our trip to Washington and our celebratory events in Providence. I'm going to try to list at least a few of them here, in order to recognize them for their time and effort on our behalf. Thank you!!

Linda Kane, community chef extraordinaire, Johnson & Wales University
Kate deBethune, volunteer tour coordinator & miracle worker
Lisa Cardoza, Executive Director, West End Community Center
Cliff Watkins, Director, West End Recreation Center
Jenny Peek, Providence Department of Art, Culture & Tourism
Erminio Pinque & Big Nazo
CMW parent chaperons! (Bill, Vitthiany, Annetti and Tony)
Tony Tighe, Coordinator, Federal Partnerships, National Endowment for the Arts
Carol Bogash, Director of Education, Washington Performing Arts Society
Moira Lenehan, Legislative Aide for Senator Jack Reed
Ed Spitzberg and Lorraine Robinson at the Sitar Arts Center
Eva Jacob, CMW's adviser and longtime friend in DC
Ronald Luippold & Groundforce One
Chitra Subramanian, Deputy Director, M.O.M.I.E's TLC
Derek Willis, Shalom Place
Albert Imperato, co-founder, 21C Media Group
Jason Yoon & New Urban Arts
Cristina Di Chiera, Individual Artists Programs, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Liz Hollander
Julie Smith
Jori Ketten's documentation crew (Ben, Keith, Matt)
Don Tarallo
Sandor Bodo
Jim Pfeiffer, Black Cat Graphics
Susanna Angelillo
Kate Flanders
Fred Jodry
Steve Schwartz

And there are certainly more people who played important roles in helping us create some magical moments last month…

-Heath Marlow, CMW staff

This week we viewed experimental videos made by Matt Flowers, Éder Santos, Kevin Gallagher and Nic DeSantis with music by sound artist Stephen Vitiello. We also watched an excerpt from a performance of Different Trains that included video and a unique stage set-up.

Editing then continued working on videos begun last week, with a focus on practicing looping clips and adding special effects. We also learned how to add a soundtrack to our pieces, blending recorded sound from our cameras with music from freemusicarchive.org.

We shared our pieces and discussed what we found interesting, surprising, or unexpected about them.

At the end of class we revisited our audio work from the first few classes and brought out our instruments to practice phrases based on selections from our pieces.

A sampling of the 400 photos of last month's trip to DC…

More photos by Jori (and others) in CMW's Flickr account.

More photos by Jori in CMW's Flickr account.

More photos by Jori in CMW's Flickr account.

More photos by Jori in CMW's Flickr account.

Photos by Tom Wojick

Today we went outside and did some shooting! We talked about camera angles and different types of shots (wide/medium/close up), and practiced using tripods.

After shooting, we brought our footage back inside to practice editing on iMovie.