LINDA TOBOROWSKY

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ____________ SHOWS ~ Guests ~ Information 2006-2008 ___________ LINDA TOBOROWSKY ~ Host ~ Writer ____________ ROY M. STEINBERG~ Artist/ Gallery _____________ KATHRYN JOHNSON GLASER~ Educator ~ Docent ~ Co-Host _____________ KENNETH HARI ~ International Portraitist _____________ DR. HADASSAH GUTTMANN Pianist ~ Educator ___________ Photos Page 1 - 2006 -2007 (1) ___________________ Photos Page 2 - 2006 -2007 (2)_____________ NINA HAND - Performer - Executive Director _____________ BOB YUROCHKO~ Musician ~ Author ~ Artist ______________ DR. THEODORE K. SCHLOSBERG ~ NJ Workshop on the Arts ______________ DR. ANITA O. SOLOMON Clinical Psychologist ~ Musician _____________ ANGELO ORLANDO, Jr. Edison Art Society ______________ LINDA VONDERSCHMIDT-LaSTELLA _____________ BARBARA GOOD - Pianist~ Soloist MyLifeTime Book ____________ RUSS McCUBBIN ACTOR - STUNTMAN ______________ NOELLE COMPINSKY TINTURIN~ Pianist ____________ A TRIBUTE to the BEATLES _____________  MARK TRAUTMAN Conductor ~ NBCO _____________ REBECCA SCOTT - Conductor- Cantabile Chamber Chorale ______________ EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY, Ph.D. Biblical Novelist _____________ The VILLAGER'S THEATRE _____________ ZITA GEOFFROY HEINZ ~ Actor _____________ HEALING THROUGH CREATIVITY _____________ DR. BERNARD ROSE ` Musician - Educator _____________ MARVIN CHEITEN, Ph.D Playwright ~ Director _____________ THE REDDING BROTHERS ~ Musicians ~ Composers _____________ BARRON ARTS CENTER --CYNTHIA KNIGHT Director ______________ LIKE-MINDED ENTERTAINMENT~ Film Makers ______________ LARRY McCULLOUGH, Ph.D. Playwright ` Musician ~ Educator ______________ ROIA RAFIEYAN~ Singer ~ Musician ~ Composer ~ Music Therapist ______________ A Tribute to MARCEL MARCEAU _____________ STEPHEN H. FOREMAN - Screenwriter- Author ___________ THORNEY LIEBERMAN~ Photographer ___________ DEBBIE HILL - Photojournalist ____________ JULIA SADD Journalist - Lyricist - Author ____________ CINDY BOGGS- Author - Instructor - Speaker ____________ BRUCE K. HALEY, Jr --Photographer _______________ AILA ACCAD Speaker ~ Author _____________ Bobby Gonzalez Storyteller ____________ Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission ___________ LEO KRAFT Composer ~ Theorist ~ Pedagogue ____________ GARY JAMES Poet - Author - Speaker ___________ Dr. MARTIN HALPERN Playwright ~ Poet ~ Composer ~ Educator ___________ BLENKO GLASS COMPANY ___________ RUTH KIRK - Author Childrens' Books ____________ POETS WEDNESDAY Edie Eustice ~ Deborah LaVeglia ____________ GRANT COOPER ~ Conductor - WVa Symphony ___________ Katelyn Dawn - Composer - Singer - Musician ___________ Gary Cohen Producing Director MIDDLESEX COUNTY'S Plays-In-The-Park ______________ PHIL PEPE Sports Writer ~ Author _____________ ROBERT CUCCIOLI Actor ` Singer ` Director Stage & Television ___________ LARRY GROCE - Singer ~ Composer ~ Executive Director of FESTIVALL~ 'When A City Becomes A Work of Art' ____________ EAST BRUNSWICK LIBRARY - A 21st Century Community Center ____________ Andy Rothstein Guitarist ~ Songwriter ~ Composer ____________

Linda Borstein Toborowsky received her degree in Journalism and English from Rutgers University in 1983 and has since been a freelance writer, general manager of multi-unit apartment complexes in New Jersey, owner-operator of a transportation company to shuttle residents to the local train station and has Hosted several radio shows. 

Since 1983, Linda has been a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. Over the years, she has written and published feature articles in newspapers such as the Home News Tribune, the Princeton Packet and Staten Island Advance;  several magazines, and various professional newsletters.  Her poetry has been published in, 'Voices of America.'  Linda completed her novel of fiction, 'PRISMS' in the 1970s.  She was a charter member of the New Jersey Writer's Association.

During the 1980s, Linda discovered and developed Shadow-Art photography and had several exhibits of her work in New Jersey and West Virginia. During the 80s and 90s she was affiliated with several art galleries in New Jersey and handled the public relations for the galleries, artists and musicians.

In 1999-2000, Linda Co-hosted the original show, 'FESTIVAL' on WPBR with artist and Co-host, Roy Steinberg. The radio program aired out of West Palm Beach, Florida. From 2006 through 2008, Linda Hosted 'Festival of the Arts' which aired on 1450 WCTC AM in N.J.  All shows included interviews with artists, writers, musicians, composers, actors, educators, authors, poets, performers and creatively talented people in a wide variety of the arts in Canada and throughout the U.S.

She is a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary of B'nai Jacob Synagogue in Charleston and created and headed the LivingWell Health Fairs in 2006 and 2007 and the Art Expo 2008 and Art Expo 2009, which were all community events. 

Linda is a Kentucky Colonel. She is a 1972  graduate of the Silva Mind Method, a Reiki Master and she is certified in the Emotional Freedom Technique. 

After 40 years of being a resident of New Jersey, Linda moved back to W. Va. where she grew up.  She is the mother of three adult children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.  She has a brother, Gary and they share a cat named Kitan.

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LBTOBY Website:         www.LBToby.5u.com

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SHADOW ART Website:      www.ShadowArt.5u.com

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