This weekend (and it’s only for the coming week, no more) we are playing a little indie that I desperately wanted for Fall Film Festival, but it was too new and they wouldn’t give it to us. But we got it for the week. It’s a small gem called Enough Said and it stars Julia-Louise Dreyfus and James Gandolfini. It’s a lovely adult comedy about a woman who has not been lucky in love meeting and enjoying the company of a new woman friend who then is attracted to the new friend’s ex-husband. You can just imagine all the complications that could arise from that situation! But from the trailers, it looks to be a gentle, smart, insightful story about two adults who find themselves, in middle age, to have the hope of a new and better life. I can’t wait to see it!

We still have Thor which people have loved, Last Vegas which folks have also loved, Jackass and Free Birds. So it’s a good weekend for the movies. And of course, a week hence, we will be opening Hunger Games 2, Delivery Man and maybe, just maybe, Twelve Years A Slave. But whether we can get that one on the 22^nd or not I’m not sure. But either way we’ll have a great weekend at the Dietrich!

So. I woke up this morning to my absolutely favorite thing! Snow!!!! Actual, beautiful, white, fluffy snow! I looked out at the fields of South Auburn and they looked like a Currier and Ives print, with little houses and barns dotting the meadows and evergreens edging the stone walls, casting shadows on the snow beneath.

My birch tree in the back yard, still laden with golden leaves, was casting a long shadow on the dazzling white, while the wind whipped off the leaves, one by one, to join their shadows on the waiting snow. And all I could think of was Gerard Manley Hopkins and his glorious poem, Pied Beauty. All I could think of was Glory be to God for dappled things, as I looked out on the fields dappled with snow and shadows and the fierce brightness of the sun.

I wanted to write something that would tell you how much my heart leapt with joy at these things I saw. And then I thought – why not just let the master himself tell it. So here is Pied Beauty, by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Let every word surround you with joy.

Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as brinded cow; For rose moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And all trade, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

And to that I say. Amen, Brother Hopkins! God bless us one and all!

See you at the Dietrich.

When I think of some of the greatest speeches of all time, a couple of President Kennedy’s come to mind including his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech which he gave on June 26, 1963, to a crowd at the Berlin Wall on his historic trip to Germany. Dallas, PA native Cholly Hayes, a soldier/photographer at the time, was assigned to photograph President’s Kennedy trip and witnessed that famous speech first hand. As a way to celebrate John F. Kennedy as the 50th anniversary of his death draws near, the Dietrich will present the exhibit "Cholly Hayes – Cold War Crisis: Kennedy in Berlin." It will be on display at the theater through December 2013. We will also be hosting a meet and greet reception with Cholly Hayes on Friday, November 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Dietrich. It will be great to hear stories about his encounter with Kennedy.

Another happening on Friday, November 22 will be the Dietrich’s Open Mic Night. Musicians, poets, storytellers, comedians, singers and other local performers are invited to share their talents on the Dietrich stage. Or if you are like me, just come to watch and enjoy! Open Mic will begin at 7:00 p.m. Following the open mic section of the evening, Ed Crawley and the Everything Natural Drummers will ask audience members to participate in a drum circle. Participants are encouraged to bring a drum, shaker or any other percussion instrument or use one of theirs. Please join us for this interactive Open Mic Night. Admission is free and the doors open for seating and open mic sign ups at 6:30 p.m. We hope to see you there.

This weekend local natural Rick Koval will be back at the Dietrich for his PowerPoint presentation on "Winter – How Nature Readies for the Worst!" On Saturday, November 16 at 11:00 a.m., all ages are invited to come out and discover how plants and animals prepare for the blustery winters of northeastern Pennsylvania. Rick will share with audience members why leaves turn brilliant colors in the fall while evergreens remain green; why certain animals hibernate and other fight the cold, and about the miracle of migration. Rick is such a wealth of knowledge on the great outdoors and I always find his nature photography to be breathtaking. Admission is free and we encourage you to call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for reservations.

We also invite you and your little ones to join us for Songs and Games for Tots on Wednesday mornings November 20 and December 4 from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at the Dietrich Theater. Children and their accompanying adults can bring rhythm instruments that rattle, toot and jingle, voices that sing and hands that clap. Billy Frye and his super-charged guitar will lead this music series. Admission to Songs and Games for Tots is free and is sponsored by Toni Hockman. Call the Dietrich Theater at 570-996-1500 to register.

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	Exhibits and Upcoming Events Winter – How Nature Readies for the Worst! At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock Saturday, November 16 at 11:00 a.m. Presented by: Rick Koval Admission: Free Did you ever wonder how plants and animals prepare for the blustery winters of northeastern Pennsylvania? Understand the seasons and nature’s transformation into autumn. Learn why leaves turn brilliant colors in fall while evergreens remain green; why certain animals hibernate while others fight the frigid cold and about the miracle of migration. See these and other examples of nature’s fascinating cold-weather adaptations through naturalist Rick Koval’s Power Point presentation. Sponsored by the Overlook Estate Foundation. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for reservations or details. Open Mic Night At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock Friday, November 22. Open Mic begins at 7:00 p.m. Feature at 8:15 p.m. Feature: Ed Crawley and the Everything Natural Drummers Admission: Free Come to get on stage or to be entertained. Musicians, poets, story-tellers, comedians, playwrights and other performers are invited to share their talents. Then experience a drum circle led by Ed Crawley and the Everything Natural Drummers. The group has been hosting free drum circles at Everything Natural in Clarks Summit for the past 10 years and now they are bringing their spontaneous sounds to the Dietrich. Founded on the belief that rhythm is a universal language, the group will invite everyone to drum along. In the drum circle there is no audience and everyone is part of the performance. Bring a drum, a shaker, any other instrument, or use one of theirs. Doors open for Open Mic sign-ups at 6:30 p.m. Reserve your slot early. Seating is limited. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for details. Exhibits Cholly Hayes – Cold War Crisis: Kennedy in Berlin At the Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock On display through December 2013 During movie times or by appointment Meet the Photographer Reception: Friday, November 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission: free. The Wyoming County Cultural Center at the Dietrich Theater proudly celebrates President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring legacy with a special exhibit Cholly Hayes –Cold War Crisis: Kennedy in Berlin. View photographs that Cholly Hayes, nineteen year old soldier and photographer, took of President Kennedy upon his arrival in West Germany and on to his historic speech at the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963. The exhibit is free and open to the public when movies are shown or by appointment. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for details. My Summer Sketchbook Exhibit by Steve Colley At the Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock On display through December 2013 During movie times or by appointment Admission: free. On summer vacation in Cape May artist Steve Colley captured the moment by sketching landscapes and people as he saw them. Using pencil, permanent marker and watercolor he has created a moment in time in one particular place, envisioned by one artist. The exhibit is free and open to the public when movies are shown or by appointment. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for details.
www.DietrichTheater.com Friday, November 15, 2013
At The Dietrich by Hildy Morgan What a perfect lecture we have coming upon Saturday at 11:00. Rick Koval is giving a talk entitled “Winter – How Nature Readies for the Worst. What a fascinating topic! He talks about everything from why and how leaves change color to what animals hibernate and which ones tough out the cold of winter wide awake. I’m looking forward to it because I love winter and I have always wondered which animals tough it out and which ones take a long, long snooze. So come to the Dietrich Saturday morning and learn a lot of stuff and it won’t even cost you a single dime. Nuttin’. It’s free for your learning pleasure! Now doesn’t that make it just perfect? This weekend (and it’s only for the coming week, no more) we are playing a little indie that I desperately wanted for Fall Film Festival, but it was too new and they wouldn’t give it to us. But we got it for the week. It’s a small gem called Enough Said and it stars Julia-Louise Dreyfus and James Gandolfini. It’s a lovely adult comedy about a woman who has not been lucky in love meeting and enjoying the company of a new woman friend who then is attracted to the new friend’s ex-husband. You can just imagine all the complications that could arise from that situation! But from the trailers, it looks to be a gentle, smart, insightful story about two adults who find themselves, in middle age, to have the hope of a new and better life. I can’t wait to see it! We still have Thor which people have loved, Last Vegas which folks have also loved, Jackass and Free Birds. So it’s a good weekend for the movies. And of course, a week hence, we will be opening Hunger Games 2, Delivery Man and maybe, just maybe, Twelve Years A Slave. But whether we can get that one on the 22^nd or not I’m not sure. But either way we’ll have a great weekend at the Dietrich! So. I woke up this morning to my absolutely favorite thing! Snow!!!! Actual, beautiful, white, fluffy snow! I looked out at the fields of South Auburn and they looked like a Currier and Ives print, with little houses and barns dotting the meadows and evergreens edging the stone walls, casting shadows on the snow beneath. My birch tree in the back yard, still laden with golden leaves, was casting a long shadow on the dazzling white, while the wind whipped off the leaves, one by one, to join their shadows on the waiting snow. And all I could think of was Gerard Manley Hopkins and his glorious poem, Pied Beauty. All I could think of was Glory be to God for dappled things, as I looked out on the fields dappled with snow and shadows and the fierce brightness of the sun. I wanted to write something that would tell you how much my heart leapt with joy at these things I saw. And then I thought – why not just let the master himself tell it. So here is Pied Beauty, by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Let every word surround you with joy. Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as brinded cow; For rose moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And all trade, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. And to that I say. Amen, Brother Hopkins! God bless us one and all! See you at the Dietrich.	Now Showing www.dietrichtheater.com/movie or (570)836-1022 for times Last Vegas November 5, 2013 - November 20, 2013 THOR 2: Dark World 3D November 8, 2013 - November 21, 2013 Enough Said November 15, 2013 - November 20, 2013 Free Birds in 3D November 2, 2013 - November 21, 2013 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa November 8, 2013 - November 21, 2013 Coming Soon www.dietrichtheater.com/preview or (570)836-1022 for times Hunger/Fire Combo November 21, 2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire November 21, 2013 - December 12, 2013 Delivery Man November 22, 2013 Frozen November 27, 2013 Events www.dietrichtheater.com/event or (570)996-1500 to reserve Winter – How Nature Readies for the Worst! November 16, 2013 Open Mic Night - November 22 November 22, 2013 Dietrich Radio Players Performance December 3, 2013 Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas December 6, 2013 - December 7, 2013 Holiday Workshop December 7, 2013 Dietrich Classic Movie Series: White Christmas December 11, 2013 - December 11, 2013 It’s a Wonderful Life December 17, 2013 - December 17, 2013 Classes www.dietrichtheater.com/class or (570)996-1500 to enroll All About Pottery & Sculpture, Ages 5-8: Nov. November 8, 2013 - December 6, 2013 All About Pottery & Sculpture, ages 9-12: Nov. November 8, 2013 - December 6, 2013 Holiday Camp December 27, 2013 - December 30, 2013 Preschool Pottery & Sculpture - Nov. November 7, 2013 - December 5, 2013 Quilting for Kids: Tumbling Blocks September 11, 2013 - December 11, 2013 Sing Your Heart Out October 26, 2013 - November 23, 2013 Songs and Games for Tots November 6, 2013 - December 4, 2013 Open Studio & Portfolio Prep August 27, 2013 - November 26, 2013 Quilting for Everyone: Tumbling Blocks September 11, 2013 - December 11, 2013 Decorative Painting August 28, 2013 - December 18, 2013 Golden Days of Radio Players October 22, 2013 - December 3, 2013 Holiday Yoga Relaxation December 11, 2013 Jewelry Making: Expressions in Fused Glass November 4, 2013 - November 18, 2013 Kundalini Yoga September 30, 2013 - November 18, 2013 Nia August 27, 2013 - December 10, 2013 Recycled Glass Artwork August 26, 2013 - November 25, 2013 Simply Yoga September 4, 2013 - November 20, 2013 Writers' Group August 22, 2013 - December 12, 2013	Live at The Dietrich by Erica Rogler Live at the Dietrich for November 13, 2013 When I think of some of the greatest speeches of all time, a couple of President Kennedy’s come to mind including his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech which he gave on June 26, 1963, to a crowd at the Berlin Wall on his historic trip to Germany. Dallas, PA native Cholly Hayes, a soldier/photographer at the time, was assigned to photograph President’s Kennedy trip and witnessed that famous speech first hand. As a way to celebrate John F. Kennedy as the 50th anniversary of his death draws near, the Dietrich will present the exhibit "Cholly Hayes – Cold War Crisis: Kennedy in Berlin." It will be on display at the theater through December 2013. We will also be hosting a meet and greet reception with Cholly Hayes on Friday, November 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Dietrich. It will be great to hear stories about his encounter with Kennedy. Another happening on Friday, November 22 will be the Dietrich’s Open Mic Night. Musicians, poets, storytellers, comedians, singers and other local performers are invited to share their talents on the Dietrich stage. Or if you are like me, just come to watch and enjoy! Open Mic will begin at 7:00 p.m. Following the open mic section of the evening, Ed Crawley and the Everything Natural Drummers will ask audience members to participate in a drum circle. Participants are encouraged to bring a drum, shaker or any other percussion instrument or use one of theirs. Please join us for this interactive Open Mic Night. Admission is free and the doors open for seating and open mic sign ups at 6:30 p.m. We hope to see you there. This weekend local natural Rick Koval will be back at the Dietrich for his PowerPoint presentation on "Winter – How Nature Readies for the Worst!" On Saturday, November 16 at 11:00 a.m., all ages are invited to come out and discover how plants and animals prepare for the blustery winters of northeastern Pennsylvania. Rick will share with audience members why leaves turn brilliant colors in the fall while evergreens remain green; why certain animals hibernate and other fight the cold, and about the miracle of migration. Rick is such a wealth of knowledge on the great outdoors and I always find his nature photography to be breathtaking. Admission is free and we encourage you to call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for reservations. We also invite you and your little ones to join us for Songs and Games for Tots on Wednesday mornings November 20 and December 4 from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at the Dietrich Theater. Children and their accompanying adults can bring rhythm instruments that rattle, toot and jingle, voices that sing and hands that clap. Billy Frye and his super-charged guitar will lead this music series. Admission to Songs and Games for Tots is free and is sponsored by Toni Hockman. Call the Dietrich Theater at 570-996-1500 to register.
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