Cultural

Winchester artist Kiyomi Yatsuhashi returns to Studio on the Common with this one-day workshop on the Japanese craft of shibori and indigo dyeing. Demonstrations and practice will include shibori resist techniques such as binding, folding, wrapping, and clamping to create dyed patterns. You'll bring home indigo dyed unfinished cotton pieces that can be used for a quilt, wall hanging, table scarf, or napkin.

Included in the workshop is one small finished scarf or bandana.

All materials are included in this special one-day workshop.
Limited to eight participants.

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Materials Fee of

Piano students of Yukiko Shimazaki perform for family and friends. Nichols Hall.

Brio presents 8 short films by their interns to celebrate July - Disability Pride Month.  Refreshments by Koshari Mama - vegan Egyptian Street Food. Free and open to the public.

Would you like to improve your sight-reading ability? For students who are preparing for auditions, sight-reading is often the most challenging part of the process. In this 90-minute session, oboe teaching artist Kyoko Hida-Battaglia will work with students on sight-reading technique. We will practice sight-reading rhythm patterns without instruments, then work on reading examples similar to those you might encounter in a live audition.
All woodwind and brass students from sixth grade through adults are welcome. Please bring your instrument and the etude book you are using in your lessons.

Voice Students of Penny Singh perform for family and friends. Nichols Hall.

As part of our Photobook Month series of events, we are thrilled to have an online conversation between Skylark Edition's Kelli Connell and Melissa Ann Pinney talking about their collaboration on the book, In Their Own Light.

In Their Own Light: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools relates the story of Melissa Ann Pinney's five-year artist residency in Chicago Public Schools, from a largely White elementary school to several mostly Black and Latinx high schools. When Pinney began this work in 2018, she had no idea of what was to come. Here, we see how the project evolved and shifted as

Trumpet Students of Jeanne Snodgrass perform for family and friends. Nichols Performance Hall.

This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. We will discuss Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond at this meeting. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy.…Learn More

This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. We will discuss Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout at this meeting. A poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.…Learn More

Come join a new book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, that brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. We will discuss Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi at this meeting.…Learn More