Apr 27 Saturday
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!
New Monotypes by Arch MacInnesWe All Matter – We Are All Matter by Amy Dawn KotelPastel Landscapes by Donna M. Roy
Reception: April 6, 3-5 PM
Discover local flavors at a food and wine tasting event on April 27, 2024, from 4pm to 6pm. At this collaboration between Claremont Opera House and Claremont Growers Collective, celebrate our vibrant community of farmers, gardeners, and local food advocates.
Join us at the John D. Bennett Atrium Gallery within the historic Claremont Opera House for an evening of culinary delight. Sample an array of seasonal Spring foods expertly crafted by local vendors and producers. The tasting experience will be enhanced with expertly paired wine and spirits curated by Vinilandia NH and Stone Fence Beverages. The pairings will provide a tapestry of Spring flavors to highlight the season.
Purchase early bird tickets for $15 per person. Pricing will be increased to $20 per person on April 24 and onward. Mark your calendars for April 27th and join us for an unforgettable culinary journey through the heart of our community.
Existing 23-24 Claremont Opera House members receive two free tickets to this event when reserving online or through the box office.
Learn more about the Claremont Growers Collective at claremontgrowers.org.
Find a list of Claremont Growers Collective members at https://www.claremontgrowers.org/find-our-members
Details of tasting selections with beverage pairings will be confirmed as we approach the event date
Since the founding of Tanglewood in 1940 by Serge Koussevitzky, the BSO’s long-time music director and conductor, the Berkshires and Koussevitzky have become synonymous with world-class classical music. 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of Koussevitzky’s birth and the West Stockbridge Historical Society has an opportunity to participate in the celebration of this occasion and in doing so make some history itself.
Susan Hagen, principal bassist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and first alternate bassist for both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra 150th anniversary during the spring of 2024. Susan, along with renowned British bassist David Heyes, has curated a program of music expressly commissioned for the occasion. In addition to the newly commissioned compositions, their program will also include several pieces for bass by composers such as Giovanni Bottesini. Accompanying the two bassists will be pianist Rebecca Plummer and acclaimed soprano Sarah Poole.
Join High Five Books and award-winning author, illustrator and graphic novelist Cece Bell for an early evening family art and music extravaganza—with hot, fresh donuts! The beloved creator of #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning El Deafo (now an animated show on Apple TV+) and many other books that young people adore (Sock Monkey; Chick and Brain; Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover) will lead artists and readers through the process of creating her latest all-ages alphabet book Animal Albums from A to Z, a hand-wrought, high-fidelity, hilariously tongue-in-cheek homage to the golden days of album cover art.
Cece will spin original tunes from Animal Albums, lead drawing demonstrations (and maybe a dance-a-thon!), discuss the new book and its connection to El Deafo, and answer all her fans’ questions. Readers are welcome to bring their own book copies for signing; all titles will be also available for purchase. Wake the Dead Donuts will have fresh mini donuts and donut sundaes for sale.
Ashley Gearing and Andrea Young are no strangers to Nashville's music scene. Both have numerous accolades and individual successes to their names, working with some of the biggest and baddest in the business. Their pairing exposes Ashley's powerhouse vocals and rhythmic acoustic guitar alongside Andrea's ferocious fiddle playing and angelic harmonies...add in the dynamic of their songwriting and the deck is stacked. American Songwriter calls The Wildcards a "Soaring new partnership...with talent in spades." Joining forces with some of the world's finest musicians, they bring a show filled with unforgettable original music and cover song favorites. With The Wildcards, you bring the good vibes, they'll bring the party. Every time.
"Naughty Bits" is a dance-play set inside Juli’s memories that examines trauma while finding levity within the tragic. Through movement, text, song, projections and humor, Naughty Bits finds the forgotten bits, funny bits (and wobbly bits) of putting one's mind and body back together.
Her mission is to explore her own personal struggles through the medium of performance. In sharing her work, she creates space for audiences to access their own challenges or traumas. Her provocative, introspective autobiographical solo performance fuses movement, text, song, audience interaction and comedy to both acknowledge the gravity of her burdens as well as simultaneously laugh at their reality. Sara Juli has been described as a "skilled comedian, actress and dancer" and "a light of the downtown dance and theatre scene."
Please note: This piece explores one person's experience around trauma.
The Mount Holyoke College Department of Dance presents the annual Student Dance Concert, “EPIPHANY.” This student-led concert is an expression of a semester of embodied inquiry in the Intermediate Composition course and marks the beginning of many students’ choreographic journeys.
The running thread through these pieces in “Epiphany” is connection. Connection to the self and identity, to others across space and time, to present reality and the future, and connection and communication through movement styles and body language. The choreographers have been exploring these pathways all semester, and they welcome you to join them in finding out where they lead.
Performance Dates and Times:Friday, April 26, 7:30 pmSaturday, April 27, 7:30 pm
Tickets: $5 General Admission | FREE Student Tickets
For more information or to reserve tickets, please visit mhc.ludus.com or contact us at hglick@mtholyoke.edu
Apr 28 Sunday
The Amherst Public Art Commission presents an exhibition of paintings by local artist Christine Mirabel at the Amherst Town Hall Gallery. The show opens on March 4, 2024, and runs through April 30, 2024. Meet the artist at a reception in the Gallery on Friday, March 8th, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
Blues, purples, and splashes of red. Christine Mirabel’s paintings are inspired by nature as she depicts beauty and tranquility. Water is a favorite element, recurring in figurative and abstract forms. Cityscapes appear, too, suggesting excitement and contrasting experiences.