Arts events: March 17 through April 29, 2016
Press release | Mar 14, 2016 | Comments 0
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March 17: Jack Peters watercolors on exhibit
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Local artist Jack Peter’s watercolors on display at MSA
His works will be on display through March 28 in MSA’s gallery at 35 Main St. in Saxtons River. A free public reception will be held in the gallery 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 17.
Peters was lived on Nantucket, where he and his friends found themselves the subjects of photographer Alfred Eisenstadt. Peters said, “The relatively few years of my life that I lived and worked on Nantucket play an outsized role in many of these paintings.” Inspired by Eisenstadt, he opened an art photography studio and also became well known as a maker of custom furniture and jewelry.
Through photography, he discovered the joy of painting. He said that there is a direct connection between his photography and painting in that his paintings “have the shapes of some of my black and white photographs, but abstracted and dramatized.”
For more information, contact Margo Ghia at Main Street Arts by calling 802-869-2960 or go online at mainstreetarts.org.
March 18: Concert features Asylum Quartet
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Brattleboro Music Center’s Chamber Music Series presents the Asylum Quartet
Music will include works by György Ligeti, Claude Debussy and Antonin Dvorak. Tickets are $30 Patron and $20 general admission.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.bmc.org or by calling 802-257-4523 and they’ll be available at the door.
March 18: Bellows Falls students present ‘Seussical’
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BFUHS presents “Seussical, the Musical”
Narrated by The Cat in the Hat, “Seussical” is the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing Whos, and Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many “thinks.”
Horton faces a double challenge: Not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird.
Admission is $5 per person. For more information, call 802-463-3944.
March 19: ‘Vertigo’ continues FOLA Hitchcock tribute
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Jimmy Stewart hangs on in FOLA movie presentation of Vertigo.
“Vertigo” is a film about John “Scottie” Ferguson, played by James Stewart, a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia, and Madeleine, played by Kim Novak, as the lady who leads him to high places. An acquaintance asks Scottie to follow his wife Madeleine because he fears she is going insane because she believes a dead ancestor possessed her.
On Saturday, March 26 FOLA will feature the final movie in its series, “The Birds.”
The movie is free, although donations are appreciated. The Berkshire Bank supplies popcorn and FOLA offers water. For more information call 802-228-7239 or visit FOLA’s web site, www.fola.us.
Through April 29: Art exhibit at Claremont Opera House
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David Nelson.
“My favorite definition of art calls it ‘visual philosophy’,” said Nelson. “Great artwork explores the questions of what it means to be human, what it means to be alive.” Nelson’s large abstract paintings examine life’s balance of control and freedom, intellect and intuition, choice and chance.
For information, call COH at 603-542-0064 or stop by the box office for access to the 5th floor, atrium gallery. Nelson’s work can be viewed at www.davidnelsonart.com.
— Compiled by Susan Lampe-Wilson
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