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Upcoming events: Alcohol & children addressed at GMUHS presentation; preserving Vermont village centers topic of Rotary night; Springfield holds Winter Carnival; Fryes at Grounded4Life; mixed media class; Bonnie’s book-signing event; Comic (book) Jam at Art Garden; library friends group welcomes public; Vermont film at Rock Library; ‘Blithe Spirit’ plays Northern Stage
For more upcoming events, click here for The Chester Telegraph calendar. To be included in our Upcoming events briefs, email Susan Lampe-Wilson at calendar@www.chestertelegraph.org. Photos welcome. No PDFs, please. Feb. 4: Underage-drinking issues addressed at GMUHS The Chester Community Series continues in February with a free public presentation by Steven Waldo at 6 p.m., Wednesday […]
Northern Stage hires assistant director/director of education
Lillian King, Northern Stage’s new assistant artistic director and director of education, will make her Northern Stage directorial debut with the upcoming production of Blithe Spirit. A recent graduate of Boston University’s School of Theatre, King was the assistant director on Rocky the Musical and Peter and the Starcatcher, both on Broadway. King grew up […]
Six new authors highlighted at New Voices this weekend
Six new authors will discuss their work during Misty Valley Books’ annual New Voices event on 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, at the First Universalist Church in Chester’s Stone Village. Tickets are $10 and available at the bookstore. Seating is limited. This year’s writers’ books cover such subjects as war, crime, journalism, Appalachia, rock […]
SVAC opens 65th anniversary season with solo artists exhibits
The Southern Vermont Arts Center kicks off its 2015 season with a selection of solo exhibitions in the Yester House Galleries located at 930 SVAC Drive in Manchester. The Winter Solo Show will welcome nine member artists to present a selection of original artworks, all available for purchase. The exhibit runs Saturday, Jan. 17 through […]
College of Fine Arts gets second million-dollar donation
MONTPELIER Vermont College of Fine Arts has received a second $1 million gift from an anonymous donor in December, President Thomas Greene recently announced. With the gift, the college has raised $3.4 million toward its newly public $3.5 million capital campaign. The two $1 million gifts for the “Campaign for VCFA” are the largest in […]
Opera Theatre of Weston to stage ‘The Secret Garden’ in Rutland, Weston
Members of the Opera Theatre of Weston creative team recently visited a class of pre-K children at The Little School in Weston with its school outreach project, “Storybook Opera: The Secret Garden.” The event is in preparation of East Coast premiere of the new opera The Secret Garden, which the OTW is staging in Weston […]
SVAC hires gallery-development director
MANCHESTER Jennifer Weinstein, executive director of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, has announced the appointment of Sarah Hall Weaver to the post of director of galleries and development. A graduate of Alfred University, Hall Weaver was most recently the assistant director of the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where her responsibilities included […]
‘Guys & Dolls,’ ‘Glass Menagerie’ on tap for 2015 Weston season
Pointing to its new slogan – Celebrating the Classics, Nurturing the New – Steve Stettler, resident producing director of the Weston Playhouse, introduced the theater company’s 79th season at the new Manchester Community Library on Saturday Nov. 29. Stettler also announced the expansion of discount programs to encourage locals and families to attend this summer’s […]
‘The Crucible’ to be performed by GM Drama Club
Green Mountain Union High School Drama Club this weekend presents “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem, which he wrote in the early 1950s during a time of McCarthyism in the United States. “The Crucible” is considered a gripping historical play and a timely parable of contemporary society. […]
Vermont Voices presents four authors in November
Leading off Misty Valley Books’ annual Vermont Voices Sunday, Nov. 2 is Thomas Christopher Greene, the founding president of Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. Greene was a Misty Valley Books’ New Voices in 2004 with his novel, Mirror Lake. His latest, The Headmaster’s Wife, is his fourth. Greene explores the way that tragedy […]
Benefit art show, sale at S. Londonderry Library; Mountain Painters opens Manchester gallery
South Londonderry Free Library is exhibiting the artwork of Salvador Gattuso in the Janeway Wing of the library on 15 Old School St. in South Londonderry. This exhibit consists of abstract paintings and cut-outs created from the artist’s imagination. Gattuso’s work reflects his experiences in life and travels from the perspective of a New Orleans […]
Craftswoman Lester blends love of crocheting and tea
Joan Lester was chosen as River Artisans’ Artist for the Month of October. Lester’s love of all things crafty began at the age of 4 when a neighbor taught her how to make shoes for her dolls out of ribbons. This sparked her lifelong passion for learning about, teaching and creating handcrafted items. Originally from […]
Two-day artist workshops on plein air, photography and still lifes
The Southern Vermont Arts Center’s Fall Art Workshop Series wraps up with three two-day, all-level workshops in plein air oil painting, High Dynamic Range digital photography and still life pastel painting. All workshops meet from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oil painter Walt Pasko leads off on Saturday Oct. 4 and Sunday, Oct. 5 with […]
Shelburne Museum presents exhibit on Civil War era textiles
Vermont’s Shelburne Museum will contribute to the sesquicentennial commemoration of the American Civil War (1861-1865) with the special exhibition Homefront and Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War, an intriguing and absorbing look at the most divisive period in American history. The American Textile History Museum produced this traveling exhibition, which will be on display […]
Weston Playhouse names Bonanno development director
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company announces that Weston resident and theater company alumna Charma Bonanno has joined its year-round staff as director of development. Bonanno will be responsible for planning and overseeing the theater company’s fundraising efforts for its annual productions, education and New Works programs and the current capital campaign for the new Walker Farm […]
Weston’s updated ‘Uncle Vanya’ is fresh though uneven
By David Lampe-Wilson ©The Chester Telegraph – 2014 Weston Playhouse’s current production of Uncle Vanya is a decidedly mixed bag, and it takes a dedicated theatergoer to patiently separate the gold from the dross and find the rich nuggets that lie within. Americans’ exposure to classic theater is often limited, and Chekhov has not fared […]
Whiting issues open call for artwork
W hiting Library, located on Main Street in Chester, is seeking artwork created by locals for an open show from the beginning of September through end of October. Pieces will be collected until Saturday, Aug. 23. There is room to display many hanging creations as well as a few three-dimensional works. Whiting’s latest show featured […]
‘A Chorus Line’ steps, kicks, then touches our hearts, again
By David Lampe-Wilson ©The Chester Telegraph – 2014 Nearly four decades after it opened on Broadway, A Chorus Line remains a “singular sensation,” at least as seen onstage at the Weston Playhouse Theater. A show primarily about dance and the dancers, the current production in Weston is cast with triple threats: they can sing, they […]
Orlandersmith takes us on her rich journey in ‘Stoop Stories’
By David Lampe-Wilson ©The Chester Telegraph – 2014 While musicals and comedies are the expected bounty of the summer theater season, a brief evening of pointed drama can stimulate the mind, so many summer theatergoers will welcome Stoop Stories, now at Weston Playhouse’s Second Stage. Theater, poetry and performance art meet in Dael Orlandersmith’s onewoman show, […]
Gales of laughter blow through Weston Playhouse in V&S&M&S
By David Lampe-Wilson You would be hard-pressed to find a more stellar evening of summer theater than Weston Playhouse’s hilarious production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the Tony Award-winning comedy by Christopher Durang. The play revolves around a trio of eccentric siblings who, having reached middle age, find that they have little […]
