August 9, 2004 – Caribbean Community Theatre presents A&E @ CCT II Saturday, Aug. 14. The event features sketches and paintings by Adrienne Brown and photographs by Linda Morland.
The entertainment part of the arts and entertainment evening includes Patrick Baron on piano, vocalists J. Todd Howell, Sarah DiMeo, Lionel Downer, and sisters Cati and Charli James. Poets Leslie Cramer and Adrian Edwards, and poets/actors Derek Brown, Oceana James and Marsha Munchez, will be presenting works as well as dancer Khnuma Simmonds.
This production will run for one night only. The art show is from 6 to 8 p.m., and the entertainment follows immediately at the Caribbean Community Theatre at #18 Estate Orange Grove, Christiansted.
There will be appetizers and desserts available, and guests are invited to bring a dish to share.
According to a press release from the theater, Brown has been creating art since the age of four. She has won numerous awards for artistic achievement as a teenager and began exhibiting with professional artists at the age of fourteen. After high school she attended the Art Institute of Chicago. After leaving the Art Institute she freelanced for a couple of years before leaving St. Louis to start a new life in St. Croix.
She uses a variety of mediums making it difficult to categorize her work. St. Croix has made an impact on her work without being the direct subject of it.
Brown has been living in St. Croix since 2000 and is the mother of two daughters. She is a student at the University of the Virgin Islands and has participated in the Good Hope Fine Arts Exhibit for the last two years. She has recently published her first children’s book.
The theater’s release says about Morland that she has always had an interest in photography. Her move to St. Croix, coupled with the birth of her first grandchild motivated her to become more active with her camera and to switch to digital. Taking photos for organizations like CCT and The Women's Coalition has challenged her to learn and grow. St. Croix has been her home since August 1997. Prior to that, home was the small town of Belton, just outside of Kansas City, Mo.
The musicians and poets offering entertainment are all veterans of Caribbean Theater productions.
As is usual much of the work for the production will be done by those working behind the scenes. The people doing that work include Eileen Des Jardins, producer,
Robin Becker and Bonita Repp, art sales coordinators, Marty Merrick, lighting, Richard Mackay, sound and Charles Jaquays, program.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. For information call 778-1983.

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