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July 21, 2025 By PAC MoCA

Learning to Look | 2026

Learning to Look 2026 January 22, 2026Learning to Look | Pre-Columbian MexicoFrom the Olmec to the Aztecs, Mexico holds nearly 3,000 years of rich cultural history. From the rainforests of the south to the central highlands, civilizations rose, …

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Filed Under: Education: Special Lectures, Workshops and Classes, Events-Festivals, Group: Literary, Learning to Look, PAC Events, PAC History, PAC News, Virtual Programs

April 24, 2025 By PAC MoCA

Patchogue Blooms Day 2025

What’s that you may ask? A horticultural event? No. It’s a celebration of Irish author James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses published in 1922 and celebrating its 101th birthday this year. Bloomsday has been celebrated in Dublin since 1954 and has …

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Filed Under: Artist Opportunities, Events-Festivals, Group: Literary, Lit Learning, PAC History, PAC News

June 13, 2023 By PAC MoCA

Into the Spines and on the Stacks | Open Call & Traveling Exhibition

Into the Spines and on the Stacks | Open Call & Traveling Exhibition A call for miniature installations that occupy the space of a book! A well known iteration of this idea has become known as a “Book Nook”. MoCA L.I. invites …

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Filed Under: Artist Opportunities, Exhibit: PAC Gallery-MoCA LI, Group: Literary, PAC History, PAC News Tagged With: art, PAC, patchogue

May 22, 2023 By PAC MoCA

ARTS ON TERRY 2023

Arts on Terry (AOT) is an annual contemporary art fair for all ages held on Terry Street, Patchogue’s official arts district. The fair highlights 300+ artists with 35+ solo artist booths, 20+ live-painters, 17+ organizations ( museums & …

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Filed Under: Artist Opportunities, Events-Festivals, Group: Literary, Group: Music, Group: PAC Cast, Group: Photographers Group, Group: Sketch Club, PAC History, PAC News

May 7, 2023 By PAC MoCA

Patchogue Bloomsday 2023

Patchogue Arts Council & Toast Coffeehouse partner for the second annual Patchogue BloomsdayJune 16, 2023 $20 pp (include a drink voucher and lite bites ) …

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Filed Under: Events-Festivals, Group: Literary, PAC News, Volunteer Tagged With: art exhibition, PAC, patchogue

April 1, 2023 By PAC MoCA

Lit. Learning | Poem in Your Pocket

Share a #PocketPoem on Poem in Your Pocket Day  Poem in Your Pocket Day takes place every year on a day in National Poetry Month.  PAC • MoCA’s Lit Learning is celebrating National Poem in Your Pocket Day on …

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Filed Under: Group: Literary, PAC History, PAC News

January 11, 2023 By PAC MoCA

Burns Night

Scotch Doesn’t… Burns Night JANUARY 25 @ 7:00 PM No cover | Donations welcome PAC -MoCA and Whiskey N’ Eat present an evening of great food, high spirits (liquid and emotional) seasoned with dashes of poetry and song! Join us @ 7:00 …

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January 2, 2023 By PAC MoCA

Learning to Look | Ekphrastic Poetry

Learning to Look | Ekphrastic Poetry Special guest • Edward Schmieder February 21 from 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM “Ekphrasis* is a practice in which a work of art inspires a piece of poetry or prose.  Examples include “Ode on a …

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Filed Under: Education: Special Lectures, Workshops and Classes, Group: Literary, PAC History, PAC News, Virtual Programs Tagged With: Learning to Look

November 11, 2022 By PAC MoCA

LIT. Learning

LIT. LEARNING | The Practice of Reading Poetry This new series will take place @ MoCA L.I. in person, sessions are led by former English teacher Ed Schmieder (MPhil), to hear poetry, discover strategies for reading, and …

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Filed Under: Group: Literary, PAC History, PAC News Tagged With: art, literature, PAC, patchogue, poetry

June 6, 2022 By PAC MoCA

PRIDE with PAC & Friends

Meet us in Patchogue | PRIDE with PAC & Friends Community • Drag • Performance • Music • Poetry • Art • Film • Love …

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Filed Under: Events-Festivals, Group: Literary, Group: Music, PAC History, PAC News Tagged With: art, PAC, patchogue

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January 22, 2026
Learning to Look | Pre-Columbian Mexico
From the Olmec to the Aztecs, Mexico holds nearly 3,000 years of rich cultural history. From the rainforests of the south to the central highlands, civilizations rose, built monumental works, and eventually faded—each with its own story, yet connected through shared themes and enduring traditions. Explore the art and architecture of Mesoamerica through sculpture, painting, and sacred sites, and consider this vast timeline alongside Europe’s—from the ancient Minoans through the High Renaissance.

Guest Lecturer: Thomas Germano, Professor of Art History at Farmingdale State College, and two-time NEA grant recipient for the study of Mesoamerican art history and culture.

Register at the link below:
https://form.jotform.com/253525425951156

February 19, 2026
Learning to Look | Mexico: 1526–2026 | Post-Contact to Present
After three centuries of Spanish rule, Mexico gained independence in 1821. From the arrival of Cortés through the modern era, Mexican art and culture have evolved through cycles of westernization, hybridization, and revival. This session will explore early codices, Baroque architecture, the rise of modernism, Mexican Muralism, and contemporary developments that continue to shape Mexico’s visual culture today.

Guest Lecturer: Thomas Germano, Professor of Art History at Farmingdale State College, and two-time NEA grant recipient for the study of Mesoamerican art history.

Register at the link below:
https://form.jotform.com/253525425951156

March 12, 2026
Learning to Look | Georgia O’Keeffe and the Transcendental Painting Group
Georgia O’Keeffe first traveled to Taos, New Mexico, in 1929, where she encountered a circle of like-minded abstractionists who would become the Transcendental Painting Group. Among the artists associated with this movement were Raymond Jonson, Emil Bisttram, and Agnes Pelton. This presentation traces the parallel paths of O’Keeffe and her contemporaries, examining early modernist influences and the impact of the Southwest’s bright skies and stark landscapes on their work in the 1930s and ’40s.

Register at the link below:
https://form.jotform.com/253525425951156

In person at 20 Terry Street, Patchogue or on ZOOM Meeting ID: 880 1524 8901 | Passcode: 419010

Learning to Look is presented in partnership with the Patchogue – Medford Library

Patchogue Blooms Day 2025

What’s that you may ask? A horticultural event?

No. It’s a celebration of Irish author James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses published in 1922 and celebrating its 101th birthday this year. Bloomsday has been celebrated in Dublin since 1954 and has been ever expanding to cities and towns around the world. 


It occurs annually on June 16 because the entire 640-page novel takes place all on one day: June 16, 1904.


On June 16, 1954, poet Patrick Kavanaugh, and journalist-novelist Flan O’Brien with four other compatriots walked and rode in horse-drawn coaches on a pilgrimage through the streets of Dublin stopping at locations depicted in the book.  As the day passed, a home movie captured their increasingly unsteady footing. Since then, it has become a more formal homage to the author and his book.


Bloomsdays now often center around individuals (often celebrities) reading excerpts from the famous (once infamous) book, and  Irish musical interludes fill the space between the readings.  In some locales, to mimic the original walk through Dublin, participants may travel from performance space to performance space which hardly by accident often are pubs, taverns, or bars.  Some cities hold marathon readings in theaters.


This year PAC•MoCA L.I. in cooperation with Toast Coffeehouse will host the second annual Bloomsday celebration as a fundraiser on June 16 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.  Join us for recitations, musical moments, and good cheer.  Be part of the local literati! 

Tickets include 1 drink ticket and light bites by our host, Toast!

A very special Blooms Day Raffle basket will be up for grabs, you can purchase a ticket for both below. 

TICKETS Here
pile of dusty old books on a wooden background with copy space

LOOKING FOR JOYCE’S VOICES

Be a Patchogue Bloomsday Reader….
PAC•MoCA L.I. is looking for 14 folks who are interested and bold enough to read one passage each from James Joyce’s Ulysses at the third annual celebration of Bloomsday (June 16, 2024) to be held at Toast Coffeehouse, Patchogue.

Join us at this local celebration of the world-wide event celebrating Joyce’s modernist masterpiece.  

Readings will be separated with brief Irish musical interludes; food and libations will be available too.

Please note that volunteering is not a guarantee that you will be selected. Depending upon the number and nature of would-be participants, we may not be able to offer a slot to you. Fourteen is the maximum number.  But in coming years there will be other opportunities to be among Joyce’s voices.

Readers tickets are 1/2 price.

If you are interested please email your contact information to us at PACBloomsday@gmail.com

See you on the 17th for “words so beautiful and sad, like music.”

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