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What more perfect setting for a performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” than a bucolic property tucked into the woods in Sharon, Conn.?
Art seems to be alive and everywhere in the Tristate region now. A group of women visiting the area for lunch stopped at Furnace in Falls Village — and had the chance to meet artist Stephen Maine, who showed them some of the works he has now at the gallery. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
Kathleen Kucka was sitting quietly, listening to jazz and minding her own business at Furnace/Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, Conn., on Sunday afternoon, May 16, when a reporter barged in asking impertinent questions, such as, “How’s it going? Sell anything?”
Sylvia Berry will perform on the fortepiano during the Aston Magna Music Festival, on Sunday, June 13. Photo by Tatiana Daubek
Aston Magna continues its work of offering a deeper understanding of classical music through education about the world and times in which music was composed; and by using period instruments.
Tag sale season in the Tristate region officially began on Memorial Day weekend. For longtime area residents, this is an absurdly obvious statement but newcomers to New England might wonder why exactly they are called “tag sales”?
Artist Tom Goldenberg of Sharon, Conn., has donated one of his watercolors to The Lakeville Journal Co. for use as a jigsaw puzzle
— which is now available for sale. Photo by Tom Goldenberg
The Lakeville Journal has a new jigsaw puzzle, featuring a watercolor done for us by Sharon artist Tom Goldenberg.
Goldenberg was featured in an October 2020 issue of the Compass arts and entertainment section of this newspaper, on the occasion of a show of his work opening in Amsterdam.
Sex educator Jane Fleishman will discuss her book “The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism & Aging” in an in-person talk at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, Conn., on Saturday, June 5, at 4 p.m.
The annual celebration of Connecticut’s many history and nature trails will be this weekend, on June 5 and 6.
In all, there are 180 outings planned for the weekend (you can find the full list at www.ctwoodlands.org/ct-trails-weekend).
The Marcus Strickland Quartet performs at Hudson Hall on June 5 and 6. Photo by Petra Richterova
The gorgeously renovated Hudson Hall in downtown Hudson, N.Y., opens to the public again with concerts and art shows that began Memorial Day weekend with Camille Thurman and the Darrell Green Trio.
Suzanne Onodera’s oil on canvas work, such as “Inlet” in this photo, takes inspiration from the California coastline but is not site specific. A new show of her work is at Argazzi Art in Lakeville, Conn. Photo courtesy Argazzi Gallery
Argazzi Art now has work on display from Suzanne Onodera, a painter who was born and raised on the West Coast but now lives in Ithaca, N.Y.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company will be in residence at PS21 for three weeks (June 21 - July 4; August 1-8), rehearsing and performing some of Paul Taylor's most beloved masterworks including Aureole, Company B and Esplanade. During the residency, the Company will be in a reconstruction of The Green Table, and will hold a performance of the work they have done thus far on the reconstruction. Photo by Paul B. Goode
About one hour north of Salisbury, Conn., is Chatham, N.Y., a town celebrated for both beauty and creativity. Among other offerings are the diverse programs at PS21 Performance Spaces for the 21st Century.
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