Poems & Songs About Love and Loss

Sponsored by Cape Cod Poetry Group and Friends of the Eastham Library

Hosted by CCPG founder Barry Hellman

November 4, 2017, 2-3:30 pm

Free!

Susan Winslow and Rob Anderson have been performing on Cape Cod since 1986(for Susan) and 1993 (for Rob). They have performed at Cape Rep Theater, WHAT, Academy of Performing Arts and Cotuit Center For The Arts (CCFTA). They have also performed in Boston, Providence, and New York City. On the Cape, Susan has portrayed numerous leading women and more recently, played Sue Mengers in the one woman show I'll Eat You Last. A Chat With Sue Mengers at CCFTA, and Rob played Mark Rothko in the 2 person play "Red" at CCFTA. They enjoy their time together on stage, especially performing as George and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at CCFTA last Fall. Most recently they performed in the collaborative performance of CCFTA and the Cape Cod Symphony with Jung Ho Pak. When not performing, they are busy working, raising their Susan Winslow and Rob Anderson have been performing on Cape Cod since 1986 (for Susan) and 1993 (for Rob). They have performed at Cape Rep Theater, WHAT, Academy of Performing Arts and Cotuit Center For The Arts. They have also performed in Boston, Providence, and New York City. Susan, most recently portrayed Katherine Brandt in "33 Variations" at CCFTA. Rob was last seen playing Mark Rothko in the 2 person play "Red" at CCFTA. Susan and Rob have performed together in several plays and enjoy their time together on the stage. When not performing, they are busy working, raising their youngest daughter, Lily and enjoying beautiful Cape Cod.youngest daughter, Lily, and enjoying beautiful Cape Cod. Susan is a Realtor on the Lower Cape with OldCape Sotheby's International Realty, and Rob works for The Provincetown Banner.

Ellen Watters Sullivan is a cellist who has played in orchestras, chamber groups, and as a soloist throughout the U.S. and internationally. She studied with Rudolph Kratina, an Austrian cellist who had studied with Strauss. Later she studied at the N.E. Conservatory, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Longy School of Music and the Boston Conservatory. She has also studied with members of the Atlanta Symphony, the Boston Symphony and Boston Chamber Music Society. Ellen was principal cellist of the Melrose Symphony, played in the Otter Trio, performed and conducted with the New England Women's Symphony, and played free form jazz at the Friends of Great Black Music in Boston. She is currently a member of the Black Whydah Trio  and the Music With Heart Duo. When not performing, Ellen works as psychotherapist in private practice.

Claudia Wellington is a singer and guitarist who has played in and around clubs in Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston, worked with guitarist Christopher Calloway Brooks, and performed at the Club Cafe with pianist David Sparr. She moved to France in 1986 and sang with the Kangeroo Swing Orchestra in clubs in Paris and the French Alps, and performed as a headliner at the Beauvais Jazz Festival. Claudia is currently a member of the Music With Heart Duo.

By day, Paula Erickson helps to tend a garden of children at Truro Central School  Of late, evenings might find her on stage performing in Wrinkles the Musical at The Cape Cod Theatre Company, and W.H.A.T.'s The Colony of the Cats. Paula is also known for her work with the Wellfleet Cultural Council, the Wellfleet Farmers Market, as well as for her local and national political activism. She has been a two-time finalist in the WOMR Joe Gouveia Regional Poetry Contest and a featured reader on WCAI's Poetry Sunday series.  Paula workshops with the incomparable Lorna Blake, leads the Dances of Universal Peace, and works as a healer, a gardener and a doula for the dying. Paula strives for an uncomplicated life in Wellfleet with her German Shepherd dog and eleven layer hens.

Barry Hellman is a clinical psychologist whose poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, anthologies, and in The King of Newark, published by Finishing Line Press. He has been a featured poet at many events, and his poems have won awards in writing competitions and contests. Barry founded, curates and hosts the Cape Cod Poetry Group Poetry & Music Series, conducts workshops on the art, craft, and performance of poetry, and administrates the Cape Cod Poetry Group's page on Facebook. He is an advisor to WCAI's Poetry Sunday with Mindy Todd, and Outer Cape Regional Representative for the Mass. Poetry Outreach Program in Boston. Prior to founding the Cape Cod Poetry Group, he co-curated and co-hosted The Poets Corner Poetry & Music Open Mic at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in S. Yarmouth, the Poetry, Music & Workshop Series at the Chapel In The Pines in Eastham, and founded and led the first Writers Group at the Eastham Library.