Skokie Videos

The SkokieNet Teen Volunteers interview the owners of the newest bakery in town, Sweety Pies.

DUDU FISHER  KICKS OFF CENTRE EAST’S

2008-2009 SEASON OCT. 25, 8 P.M.  

 

SKOKIE, Ill. – Centre East favorite Dudu Fisher opens Centre East’s 2008-2009 season with Jerusalem, a multimedia musical showcase in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary. The performance takes place Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m.at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd.  Tickets are $72 and are available through the box office at 847-673-6300 or www.centreeast.org. 

 

Fisher’s career in musical theater began when he starred as Jean Valjean in the Israeli version of Les Miserables in the late 1980s.  Despite having no prior theater experience, Fisher was soon catapulted to playing leading roles on Broadway and in London’s West End.  As an observant Jew, he was the first actor on Broadway and the West End to be excused from performing on Friday nights, Saturday matinees and all Jewish holidays.   

 

Fisher has recorded more than 20 albums during his career; sung with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Queen’s Symphony Orchestra; and performed for Britain’s royal family, the Thai royal family and President Clinton.  His off-Broadway one-man shows Never on Friday, Something Old, Something New, and Dudu Fisher Coming to America thrilled audiences and garnered rave reviews.  The New York Times says “[Fisher] sets out to entertain, and that he surely does.” In addition to his brilliant renditions of Broadway music, Fisher continues to perform traditional Hassidic, Yiddish and cantorial music to audiences all over the world. 

 

Founded in 1979, Centre East is the resident performing arts presenter at the award-winning North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.  Known for offering an extraordinarily wide selection of stage presentations representing every performing arts genre, Centre East also offers a Youtheatre Program offering curriculum-based theater, music and dance productions that support the Illinois State Goals for learning in the fine arts, language arts, and social studies for grades K through 12; and SHOWCASE, an annual conference of performing arts for young people.  

 

Centre East’s 2008-2009 season begins Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 and continues through Saturday, May 9, 2009 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie, Blvd.  For tickets and information call the box office at 847-673-6300 or visit www.centreeast.org.  

 

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Centre East gratefully acknowledges the generous support of James R. & Suzanne G. Blomberg, Cole Taylor Bank, Doubletree Hotel & Conference Center Chicago North Shore, The Irving M. & Sylvia Footlik Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council, Macy's Gives, Maurice R. and Meta G. Gross Foundation, Niles Township Commission, Skokie Fine Arts Commission, Harry & Lila Tankus, and the Village of Skokie.

Join the SkokieNet Teen Volunteers on their visit to Sweety Pies and learn how they create the tempting sweets and savory items they offer in this family-owned bakery.

Enjoy our tribute to longtime Skokie librarian Jane Hagedorn on her day! Mayor Van Dusen proclaimed Jane Hagedorn Day to honor her on the occasion of her retirement in 2008. Jane will be missed by staff and patrons alike!

Award winning video produced by the SkokieNet Teen Volunteers. Featuring Site Director Lillian Polus Gerstner about plans for the new Illinois Holocaust Museum designed by renowned architect Stanley Tigerman.

A wide international community living in Skokie will be pleased to find out that a unique career and small business reference guide covering Chicago and suburbs has recently been published. It is called "The Legal Alien's Guide. Building a Career and Life in Chicago, Illinois", http://www.legalaliensguide.com It lists useful resources that help you to find a job, start and grow your own business or just find friends in the community. All listed organizations, groups and clubs are organized into categories so that one can find help specific to his/her needs: by age, gender, professional background, ethnicity, etc. The author of this unique Chicago and suburbs guide, Tatiana Sorokina, and her business partner, Charlotte Weeks also organize seminars for job seekers which cover topics of successful job search techniques in Chicagoland and resume & cover letter writing: http://www.legalaliensguide.com/Seminars "The Legal ALien's Guide" can be ordered on its website http://www.legalaliensguide.com For wholesale discounts, please, use this link: http://www.legalaliensguide.com/wholesale

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SkokieNet teen volunteers Aleks and Erica interview Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen about his reading habits.

I can truly say that this is probably the best video we have done so far. It is very humorous and cheesy. Yet it shows everything that you can use in our very own Teen Corner. If I speak for everyone that has worked on this video, I'd say that we had a lot of fun making this. Everyone's contribution to the making of this video helped us show our best. We are all very thankful to Clare Keating, who edited all of our videos. I was not speaking for myself, because if I was I would keep on babbling on about how awesome you guys are, but I was speaking from all of us volunteers who work in the SkokieNet office. We are truly grateful to work with such wonderful people.

A two minute video highlighting the 2008 Disaster Drill held at Rush North Shore Medical Center in Skokie. The Drill was conducted in order to improve medical response in the event of an emergency.

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