May 03 Friday
Going us for ongoing adult classes and season youth & teen classes at SCDT!
Check out our current offerings here:
Adult Classes: https://www.scdtnoho.com/adult-class-schedule.html
Youth Classes: https://www.scdtnoho.com/youth-class-schedule1.html
Our updated Spring season schedule will be out soon!
Reception: Friday May 10, 5-7 PM
We invite you to a special exhibit featuring a variety of pieces created by JFK Middle School 6th through 8th grade art students. Over 400 expressive works in ceramic, sculpture, printmaking, painting, and design will be showcased!
Easthampton’s Oxbow Gallery hosts Joan Dix Blair’s new prints in the front gallery while Shawn Farley exhibits her abstract constructions in the back gallery. The artists will host a reception on Saturday, May 4th from 5pm to 7pm. That Saturday will also launch the new day change for Easthampton’s Arts Walk, now the first Saturday of each month. Movement is a theme of Joan Dix Blair’s “New Prints” exhibition where inspiration comes from ancient carved stone tablets or ceiling-hung mobiles. Working with foundry molds combined with found material, Shawn Farley creates colorful, anthropomorphic constructions, each with its own personality.
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION – YOU’RE INVITED ART SHOW. BOOK SHOW. LIVE MUSIC. and MORE!
ADMISSION IS FREE. CREATIVITY & TALENT ARE PRICELESS.
Articulture Westfield, our annual expansive community art and cultural experience featuring local and regional artists, authors and musicians all indoors under one roof at the same time, returns to the Amelia Park Arena, 21 South Broad Street Westfield, MA on May 3 and May 4, 2024. Seventy-five new, emerging, experienced and professional artists and authors will showcase their creativity and talent in their individual 10’ x 10’display spaces on the floor of the arena!
Beer, wine, seltzers and soft drinks, served by White Lion Brewing Company, will be available for purchase.
Free small bites and hors d'oeuvres, prepared by the students of the Westfield Technical Academy Culinary Arts program, will be served by students of the National Honor Society.
Live music by the Wolf Pitt Jazz Duo, featuring Dr. Edward Orgill, composer, award-winning saxophonist and coordinator of Jazz Studies at Westfield State University.
Like a great cup of inky-black coffee, these shorts all pack a kick. Genre-hopping from Thriller to Sci-Fi to Horror to Comedy, each of these moody masterpieces will leave you wanting more. This screening will be followed by a talkback with attending filmmakers, and includes these films (not necessarily screening in this order):
Clone, directed by Ryan M. KennedyClosing Time, directed by Russell GoldmanThe Fast Track Program, directed by Nick Wilkinson *Smile, directed by Mike Sills **You're On Your Own, Kid, directed by Michael Matsui
* Writer/director Nick Wilkinson, producer Lisa Black, and leads Satomi Hofmann and Wally Marzano-Lesnevich plan to attend the talkback and represent The Fast Track Program** Director of Photography Marco Tulio is planning to attend the talkback and represent Smile
Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist/vocalist, interdisciplinary artist and surrealist. His primary body of work, The Healing Project, is an extension of the political commitments that Samora has held throughout his life and work: abolitionist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, internationalist, pro-Black power, intersectional, revolutionary. Pinderhughes has been known in the music world for a while now as somebody who goes past just making songs about issues and is actively involved in the struggle—it’s an everyday, lifelong commitment for him, not just a moment.
The culmination of Deerfield's Women in Music week is happening this Friday May 3rd with the Academy's Women in Music Concert. It will feature the Deerfield Orchestra, the Deerfield Academy Chamber Music program, the Deerfield Chorus, Concert Band and Vocal Ensembles performing music by Hildegard Von Bingen, Alicia Keys, Florence Price, Nadie Boulanger, Joni Mitchell, Clara Schumann, Arianne Abela, Sarah Bareilles, and Pinar Toprak, among others, plus two world premieres by Deerfield Academy students. A group of Deerfield Academy students will also be previewing a new string method book they will be publishing, which is an alternative to the Suzuki string method book featuring melodies by Women Composers.
Pioneer Valley Cappella, led by music director Geoffrey Hudson, performs on Friday, May 3rd at Edward’s Church in Northampton, and Saturday, May 4th at All Saints' Episcopal Church, South Hadley. Both concerts are at 7:30PM.
Pioneer Valley Cappella’s spring concert focuses on the serene and glowing Requiem of Niccolo Jommelli. Born and educated in Naples, Jommelli composed for opera houses across Italy and spent his later years as a court composer in Vienna and Stuttgart. He was an important transitional figure between the Baroque and Classical styles and exerted significant influence on later composers, including Stamitz and Mozart.
Jommelli’s Requiem, composed in 1756, was the best-known setting of the text until Mozart’s unfinished version. The music is characterized by a luminous intimacy, conveying a profound message of consolation. Jommelli’s style is filled with delicious harmonies and infused with subtle rhythmic energy. , Performed with string ensemble, PVC’s performances afford Valley audiences a rare opportunity to hear this neglected masterpiece.
The program begins with short choruses by Handel and Mozart, which place Jommelli’s music in contrast with typical examples of the Baroque and Classical styles.
Geoffrey Hudson conducts Pioneer Valley Cappella, accompanied by an instrumental ensemble: Colleen Jennings and Kaila Graef, violins; Charlotte Malin, viola; Karl Knapp, cello; and Gregory Hayes, organ.
Admission is by free will donation.
Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist/vocalist, interdisciplinary artist and surrealist whose work delves into all the things our society tries to hide—about its history, about its structures, and about the individual and daily things we all experience but don’t know how to talk about. His primary body of work, The Healing Project, is an extension of the political commitments that Samora has held throughout his life and work: abolitionist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, internationalist, pro-Black power, intersectional, revolutionary. Pinderhughes has been known in the music world for a while now as somebody who is fiercely committed to the fight for liberation, and as somebody who goes past just making songs about issues and is actively involved in the struggle—it’s an everyday, lifelong commitment for him, not just a moment. Tickets are available as part of the Music@Amherst 2023-2024 subscription packages, via the ticketing website listed below, from August 22 until Sept. 14. FREE with current AC ID. Single tickets are also available at amherst.universitytickets.com beginning,Friday, Sept. 15. General Seating. Single ticket prices: General Public: $28 Senior Citizens (65+): $22 Students, with valid ID: $12 FREE with current Amherst College ID
May 04 Saturday