Performances, exhibitions, recitals, and other cultural activities or those by supporters of the arts
An unforgettable evening of live jazz music, dancing, delicious desserts, and a silent auction, featuring talented musicians from the WHS & McCall Jazz Bands along with special guests! A fundraiser for Friends of Music. Tickets: $20 adults, $10 students, $45 family.
Winchester Unitarian Society's acclaimed Jazz in the Sanctuary series presents A Few of Our Favorite Things, Friday, January 31st, at 8:00 PM. The program taps into a treasure trove of jazz classics, including Night and Day, Cole Porter's lilting homage to romantic love; Duke Ellington's soul-soothing Mood Indigo; Bill Evans's wistful Time Remembered; Thelonius Monk's rollicking bebop tune, Well You Needn't; and Thad Jones's tender A Child Is Born.
Music will be performed by John Kramer on piano, Dino Govoni on tenor saxophone, Mark Zaleski on alto saxophone, Rick McLaughlin on bass, and
We are pleased to host in our Griffin Zoom Room an online conversation with Jeff Larason & Lynn Saville. Their exhibition, Solitude in Cities is on the walls of our satellite space - Griffin @ Lafayette City Center through March 23, 2025.
Jeff Larason's Boston and Lynn Saville's New York is a captivating exploration of quiet moments within two bustling urban environments.This exhibition combines the powerful and evocative urban imagery of Boston photographer Jeff Larason and New York City photographer Lynn Saville. Both artists delve deep into the visual language of cities, capturing
Registration Deadline: January 13, 2025
This workshop is for students in grades 6-9 trying out for the MMEA Junior District Festival. The workshop will provide a wealth of information about the audition process including how to prepare, manage nerves, and develop presentation skills. Students will divide into vocal and instrument groups to perform for adjudicators and receive constructive feedback on their solos and scales.
Open to all singers and instrumentalists; you do not have to be a WCMS student to participate.
$30 per participant; register by January 13
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The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online artist talk celebrating the art of photobook making. Join us from 7 to 8:30pm to hear from artists Lisa Tang Liu & J. David Tabor, James Collins, Suzi Grossman, Tsai Wei Tseng, Ellen Feldman, and Shari Diamond.
The Griffin Museum recognizes the importance of photobooks. Distinct from the gallery aesthetic, photobooks offer their own visual language, often conducive to more narrative qualities and seriality than the standard on-the-wall format. We celebrate this form of artistry and want to see the photobooks our community is working on
Join us for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Saturday morning with Crista Dix, Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity.
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Join us Sunday July 13th from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group. Engage with 8 other Griffin members to network
Piano students of Yerim Kang Krueger perform for family and friends. Nichols Hall.
Piano Students of Yerim Kang Krueger perform for family and friends. Nichols Performance Hall.
Piano Students of Yerim Kang Krueger perform for family and friends. Nichols Performance Hall.
It is a pleasure to welcome Katherine French, Curator of the Sandman Legacy Project, to the Griffin Museum for an afternoon presentation on the works of Jo Sandman. Ms. French will speak about the decades long career and innovative creativity of Sandman, and the works on display in the exhibition, A Life in Art. Upon retirement as Director Emerita from the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham, MA, Katherine French moved to northern Vermont and is now curator for the Sandman Legacy Project helping to place work by the artist Jo Sandman in the permanent collection of museums across the country