Don't miss-
Photography Workshops

At the Dietrich Theater
Instructor: Kenny Ganz, National Steamtown Historic Site Photographer

Admission: $75 for each class series

Improve your photography skills with an experienced instructor. Students will meet at the Dietrich each week and then proceed to a variety of locations to photograph. Gain practical shooting experience along with personalized instruction.

Advanced Photography

After a quick review of camera and photography basics, students will concentrate on practical shooting and critiquing photographs that are taken during the class. The emphasis of this class will be on composition.

Call 570-996-1500 to register.

Everything went like clockwork, but that’s only because Margie and Erica and Jen had done so much work beforehand. It was hours and days and weeks of prep time for everything to go as smoothly as it did. And when Jennifer Jenkins (heretofore referred to as Jen) got up to give the welcoming speech to the folks from the Humanities Council and also the audience from T’town, I looked around to see if she was using a teleprompter. (She wasn’t.) I still can’t get over the way she simply rattled off the names of everyone she needed to thank and talked a bit about the Dietrich and just did a fabulous job! So, thank you Cultural people! You have done us proud one more time!!!

Okay, on to the movies. We have, of course, Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke. Reviews on this are fabulous, with Entertainment Weekly going on to say that other summer blockbusters are going to have a hard time in comparison. Remember that you can always get advance tix at the Dietrich, so no need to be turned away from a blockbuster.

For the entire family (since Iron Man doesn’t really classify as family entertainment if you have younger children) we have Disney’s Oceans. It’s a glorious look at life under the sea. A Disney extravaganza that not only is informative, but completely enchanting as it tells the stories of the creatures who normally live beyond the camera’s scope. It is G rated, so anyone can come and simply be surrounded by God’s wondrous world.

And then we have week two of Nightmare on Elm Street (in case the news events of the past week or so didn’t scare you enough) and finally the little Jennifer Anniston comedy The Bounty Hunter, if you’d like to see a bit of light romantic storytelling.

So is all that something for everyone or what????

And now, in closing, I have to tell you that I was reading a magazine article last week and I found out I was a member of a cult. Yes, a cult. Now, since I never even join clubs (okay, I join them but I never stay…not because the folks in them aren’t wonderful, but I’m just not a clubby person…maybe my mother was scared by a club when she was carrying me…or whatever) I was amazed to think of myself as a cult member. But then I had to laugh and say, okay, I guess that’s true.

So, do you want to know what the “cult” is? Okay. The article was on inexpensive but effective makeups and skin creams etc. And it went through a list of creams that I certainly didn’t think of as inexpensive, and then it said that of course there was the Pond’s Cold Cream cult of women who use it because their mother’s did. And I thought…well…yeah! That’s true. And every night when I put it on to take off makeup I think of my own mother, I see her there in the mirror, young and beautiful and happy and she would talk to me while she was tissuing it off, and the smell of it and the feel bring all that back so vividly that I want to say that I truly am a proud member of the Pond’s Cold Cream cult. (I bet a lot of you ladies are, too.) Now, isn't that a grand Mother's Day memory???

See you at the Dietrich.

May 2 was just a spectacular day for us at the Dietrich. Our Humanities on the Road presentation Alive to the Call: Women and History in Northeastern Pennsylvania could not have been better. We had a great speaker - Dr. Josephine Dunn of the University of Scranton. Our audience of 100 residents of Wyoming County and the surrounding communities was more than enthusiastic. Tunkhannock’s own Tioga Bistro dazzled us with a delicious reception following the event. Plus, talk about wonderful collaborations - we were delighted to work with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) and the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) on this project.

During the program, we learned a great deal about the remarkable women throughout history that helped make northeastern Pennsylvania what it is today from their involvement in the suffrage movement, education, childcare and philanthropy. Unfortunately, information is limited in the public record about women’s contributions so it is up to us to seek out that information and share it.

I think we started the process of sharing information about remarkable women in our area’s history that day during the program’s Question and Answer segments. One audience member told us how Dorothy Colbenson collected and recorded historical information about all of the homes in Tunkhannock Borough and shares that information with anyone who is interested. Talk about a huge feat and an amazing gift to our community! Penny Davis shared with us how her grandmother and her grandmother's peers were instrumental in creating Tunkhannock’s first library. Can you image what Wyoming County would be without its libraries? And look how far our libraries have come and the resources they provide for us! Trudy Fisk, Tunkhannock Women’s Club member, talked about Tunkhannock’s Peg Fassett who was an amazing pilot, athlete, hunter, mother, and community leader. Other amazing historical women such as Frances Slocum and Emily Blackman who wrote the first substantial history of Susquehanna County were also brought up.

If you weren’t able to see the Alive to the Call presentation at the Dietrich, you will have an opportunity to see it on the PCN this fall. We will keep you posted as to when it will air.

It was amazing to me to see how an event like this comes together behind the scenes. About fifteen people were in the theater busy preparing for the presentation and the taping in the hours before the program. We would like to thank everyone involved for making the event possible from the PHC staff and board members, to Dr. Dunn, to the PCN staff, to the Bistro, to our volunteers, and of course, the audience. Due to the success of this project, we plan to bring more programs on local history and the humanities to the Dietrich.

Speaking of great programs, photography classes with Kenny Ganz start at the Dietrich next week. On Wednesdays from 7 to 9 pm he will be offering beginner classes and on Monday nights at the same time he will teach Advanced Photography. These classes are super interactive and you spend lots of time outdoors taking photos. For more information about or to register for these classes, please call 570-996-1500.

Movie Times: (570)836-1022

	Dietrich Theater movie bags make great gifts for Mother's Day. Treat mom to a day out at the movies! Don't miss- Photography Workshops At the Dietrich Theater Instructor: Kenny Ganz, National Steamtown Historic Site Photographer Admission: $75 for each class series For Beginners Improve your photography skills with an experienced instructor. Students will meet at the Dietrich each week and then proceed to a variety of locations to photograph. Gain practical shooting experience along with personalized instruction. Advanced Photography After a quick review of camera and photography basics, students will concentrate on practical shooting and critiquing photographs that are taken during the class. The emphasis of this class will be on composition. Call 570-996-1500 to register. - Mondays, May 17, 24, June 7, 14, 21 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm & Saturday, June 12 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. - Wednesdays, May 19, 26, June 2, 9, 16 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm & Saturday, June 12 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm.
www.DietrichTheater.com Friday, May 07, 2010
At The Dietrich by Hildy Morgan Sometimes those cultural folks just blow me away! Sunday was such a special day, when the Pennsylvania Humanities Council came here to tape a lecture by Professor Josephine Dunn on historical women of northeast PA. The taping will air on cable television where it will be seen by three million people. And what they’ll see is not only an interesting and very informative lecture by Dr. Dunn, but also a gathering of Tunkhannock ladies with stories to tell. (And you’ll just have to watch the show to see who they all were.) But my three favorites were Sandy Vieczorek’s little talk about Dorothy Colbenson and her research on all the houses in town. She could tell everyone the full history of the house they lived in in T’town. Is that incredible or what? And my next favorite was Trudy Fisk talking about Peg Fassett and what a pioneering and philanthropic woman she was. And then Penny Davis talked about her grandmother starting the first library in Tunkhannock. (Isn’t that the most incredible thing??? Starting a library???? Wow!) See what I mean? Just fabulous! Everything went like clockwork, but that’s only because Margie and Erica and Jen had done so much work beforehand. It was hours and days and weeks of prep time for everything to go as smoothly as it did. And when Jennifer Jenkins (heretofore referred to as Jen) got up to give the welcoming speech to the folks from the Humanities Council and also the audience from T’town, I looked around to see if she was using a teleprompter. (She wasn’t.) I still can’t get over the way she simply rattled off the names of everyone she needed to thank and talked a bit about the Dietrich and just did a fabulous job! So, thank you Cultural people! You have done us proud one more time!!! Okay, on to the movies. We have, of course, Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke. Reviews on this are fabulous, with Entertainment Weekly going on to say that other summer blockbusters are going to have a hard time in comparison. Remember that you can always get advance tix at the Dietrich, so no need to be turned away from a blockbuster. For the entire family (since Iron Man doesn’t really classify as family entertainment if you have younger children) we have Disney’s Oceans. It’s a glorious look at life under the sea. A Disney extravaganza that not only is informative, but completely enchanting as it tells the stories of the creatures who normally live beyond the camera’s scope. It is G rated, so anyone can come and simply be surrounded by God’s wondrous world. And then we have week two of Nightmare on Elm Street (in case the news events of the past week or so didn’t scare you enough) and finally the little Jennifer Anniston comedy The Bounty Hunter, if you’d like to see a bit of light romantic storytelling. So is all that something for everyone or what???? And now, in closing, I have to tell you that I was reading a magazine article last week and I found out I was a member of a cult. Yes, a cult. Now, since I never even join clubs (okay, I join them but I never stay…not because the folks in them aren’t wonderful, but I’m just not a clubby person…maybe my mother was scared by a club when she was carrying me…or whatever) I was amazed to think of myself as a cult member. But then I had to laugh and say, okay, I guess that’s true. So, do you want to know what the “cult” is? Okay. The article was on inexpensive but effective makeups and skin creams etc. And it went through a list of creams that I certainly didn’t think of as inexpensive, and then it said that of course there was the Pond’s Cold Cream cult of women who use it because their mother’s did. And I thought…well…yeah! That’s true. And every night when I put it on to take off makeup I think of my own mother, I see her there in the mirror, young and beautiful and happy and she would talk to me while she was tissuing it off, and the smell of it and the feel bring all that back so vividly that I want to say that I truly am a proud member of the Pond’s Cold Cream cult. (I bet a lot of you ladies are, too.) Now, isn't that a grand Mother's Day memory??? See you at the Dietrich.	Now Showing www.dietrichtheater.com/movie or (570)836-1022 for times IRON MAN 2 May 7, 2010 - May 27, 2010 OCEANS May 7, 2010 - May 13, 2010 The BOUNTY HUNTER May 7, 2010 - May 13, 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street April 30, 2010 - May 13, 2010 Coming Soon www.dietrichtheater.com/preview or (570)836-1022 for times SHREK Forever After May 21, 2010 - June 17, 2010 Robin Hood May 14, 2010 - June 3, 2010 Events www.dietrichtheater.com/event or (570)996-1500 to reserve Dietrich Radio Players Performance May 25, 2010 Watkins Glen Bus Trip June 2, 2010 Auction Basics June 8, 2010 The Gingerbread Man - Live Children's Theatre June 26, 2010 Shakespeare in the Park June 26, 2010 Bus Trip to Everhart Museum July 10, 2010 Adaptation: Another Form of Translation? July 17, 2010 Looking to the River July 17, 2010 Celebrate Our River Day July 24, 2010 Classes www.dietrichtheater.com/class or (570)996-1500 to enroll Mixed Media, ages 5 - 12 April 9, 2010 - May 28, 2010 Open Studio for Painting, Drawing & Pottery - Days March 29, 2010 - May 24, 2010 Open Studio: Painting, Drawing, & Pottery - Nights April 6, 2010 - August 24, 2010 Decorative Painting, for ages 16 and up March 31, 2010 - June 30, 2010 Jewelry Making: Introduction to Glass Fusing July 12, 2010 - July 26, 2010 Introduction to Spanish April 12, 2010 - May 17, 2010 Conversational Spanish May 24, 2010 - July 5, 2010 Acting Camp for Kids, ages 6 to 11 June 28, 2010 - July 16, 2010 All About Pottery & Sculpture Camp August 2, 2010 - August 6, 2010 Around the World in 5 Days! August 2, 2010 - August 6, 2010 Circus! Circus! Circus! June 28, 2010 - July 2, 2010 Cowboys and Nomads July 5, 2010 - July 26, 2010 Crazy Commercials June 21, 2010 - June 25, 2010 Jammin' in a Jugband July 19, 2010 - July 23, 2010 Mommy & Me Art Classes April 9, 2010 - May 28, 2010 Pantomime Workshop June 21, 2010 - June 25, 2010 Preschool Art April 8, 2010 - May 27, 2010 Quilting for Kids - Spring April 7, 2010 - June 2, 2010 Trash to Treasures, ages 5 to 12 July 5, 2010 - July 9, 2010 Up, Up and Away! July 12, 2010 - July 16, 2010 Intergenerational Quilting - Spring April 7, 2010 - June 2, 2010 Jammin' in a Jugband July 19, 2010 - July 23, 2010 Woodwinds Master Class July 19, 2010 Basketmakers' Woods Walk May 15, 2010 Basketry: Ash Wall Pocket June 5, 2010 Easy Beads! Create in Clay! August 16, 2010 Jewelry Making: "Seed Pod" Pendants July 29, 2010 Jewelry Making: Cutting & Stamping Metal June 15, 2010 Jewelry Making: Intro to Art Clay July 19, 2010 Jewelry Making: Introduction to Metal Working August 2, 2010 Knit a Pattern June 24, 2010 - July 15, 2010 Knit, Purl, Embellish May 27, 2010 - June 10, 2010 Introduction to Knitting April 29, 2010 - May 13, 2010 Photography for Beginners May 19, 2010 - June 16, 2010 Advanced Photography May 17, 2010 - June 21, 2010 Pottery & Sculpture April 5, 2010 - August 30, 2010 Modern Day Shakespeare July 12, 2010 - July 23, 2010	Live at The Dietrich by Erica Rogler May 2 was just a spectacular day for us at the Dietrich. Our Humanities on the Road presentation Alive to the Call: Women and History in Northeastern Pennsylvania could not have been better. We had a great speaker - Dr. Josephine Dunn of the University of Scranton. Our audience of 100 residents of Wyoming County and the surrounding communities was more than enthusiastic. Tunkhannock’s own Tioga Bistro dazzled us with a delicious reception following the event. Plus, talk about wonderful collaborations - we were delighted to work with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) and the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) on this project. During the program, we learned a great deal about the remarkable women throughout history that helped make northeastern Pennsylvania what it is today from their involvement in the suffrage movement, education, childcare and philanthropy. Unfortunately, information is limited in the public record about women’s contributions so it is up to us to seek out that information and share it. I think we started the process of sharing information about remarkable women in our area’s history that day during the program’s Question and Answer segments. One audience member told us how Dorothy Colbenson collected and recorded historical information about all of the homes in Tunkhannock Borough and shares that information with anyone who is interested. Talk about a huge feat and an amazing gift to our community! Penny Davis shared with us how her grandmother and her grandmother's peers were instrumental in creating Tunkhannock’s first library. Can you image what Wyoming County would be without its libraries? And look how far our libraries have come and the resources they provide for us! Trudy Fisk, Tunkhannock Women’s Club member, talked about Tunkhannock’s Peg Fassett who was an amazing pilot, athlete, hunter, mother, and community leader. Other amazing historical women such as Frances Slocum and Emily Blackman who wrote the first substantial history of Susquehanna County were also brought up. If you weren’t able to see the Alive to the Call presentation at the Dietrich, you will have an opportunity to see it on the PCN this fall. We will keep you posted as to when it will air. It was amazing to me to see how an event like this comes together behind the scenes. About fifteen people were in the theater busy preparing for the presentation and the taping in the hours before the program. We would like to thank everyone involved for making the event possible from the PHC staff and board members, to Dr. Dunn, to the PCN staff, to the Bistro, to our volunteers, and of course, the audience. Due to the success of this project, we plan to bring more programs on local history and the humanities to the Dietrich. Speaking of great programs, photography classes with Kenny Ganz start at the Dietrich next week. On Wednesdays from 7 to 9 pm he will be offering beginner classes and on Monday nights at the same time he will teach Advanced Photography. These classes are super interactive and you spend lots of time outdoors taking photos. For more information about or to register for these classes, please call 570-996-1500.
Movie Times: (570)836-1022 General Information: (570)996-1500