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Everyone at the Opera House is excited to be nearing the end of renovations. Most notably, construction has begun on the exterior of the building for the creation of the new wing. The new wing will house the new restrooms and dressing rooms, as well as provide ADA access from the lobby to the stage. If you haven’t seen the construction lately, check out the photos in theBehind the Curtain… section.
In Bath, our wrestlers will don inflatable Sumo suits for the occasion. Join the fun and cheer on our local celebrities who are sharing their talents in this fund raising event! Between matches, Bowdoin Taiko will entertain! Bowdoin Taiko is an ensemble group which uses huge Japanese drums, and combines music, rhythm, and dance into a stunning audio-visual spectacle. Donations accepted.
NT Live: Traveling Light, Rockland Shorts an International Short Film Series, Super Bowl XLVI, The Art of The Book, The Descendants, The Farnsworth Art Museum, The Thin Red Line are all at the Strand this week WOW!
The moment your character steps out on stage, the audience reads and registers that character’s physical presence, stance, movement. We’re so used to doing this in life that we bring the skill to the theater with us. The actor’s job is to use his or her own body to reflect that of another person. This Movement for Actors workshop will start with some simple limbering exercise and progress quickly into working with imagery.
Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center has received three grants to help fund the cost of reconstructing the floor of the theater, which had been severely damaged by water infiltration. The new floor is completely rebuilt and refinished, thanks to generous grants from The Coombs Trust of Gardiner; The George A. Ramlose Foundation of Sterling, Massachusetts, and The Bank of Maine.
Paula Cole – Simply one of the best female singers I have ever heard. Songs like “Where have all the Cowboys Gone” and “I Don’t Want to Wait” put her on the list of chart busters. But the first time I heard her she was singing back up for Peter Gabriel. When he featured her, it was clear by the hush and then roar of the crowd that she was headed for bigger and better things. Of course her star rose quickly and now we are lucky to be able to present her in our humble hall.
Director Judy Lloyd to accept award TOMORROW, January 27th The Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce has announced that Johnson Hall will receive a Community Service award for 2012. We are honored to be chosen for this award. Executive Director Judy Lloyd will accept the award at a gala dinner at the Augusta Civic Center on Friday, January 27.
Jack’s Mannequin Jukebox the Ghost, Allen Stone Thu, February 2, 2012 Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
$20 advance / $23 day of show
Liz Frame wrote her first song at age nine, and has been performing her own brand of rootsy Americana music since her early teens. She spent her childhood listening to the artists her parents loved – Jimmie Rogers, The Weavers, B.B. King, Elvis Presley – to name just a few, absorbing their sounds and ultimately allowing them to influence her own. At fourteen she picked up the guitar and has been hooked on the process of making music ever since.
A selection of puppet film shorts by independent artists exploring their handmade craft specifically for the camera. Showcasing a new generation of puppeteers embracing film as their medium for their individual expressions, this collection features films that focus primarily on real-time performed puppetry. Stylistically, the films run the gamut from marionettes to finger puppets to paper cutouts; each artist articulating their own unique approach to animation and film. Handmade Puppet Dreams is a compilation of contemporary artisans who carefully weave their craft of film-making and puppetry into their work, building their visions, and breathing life into their dreams.
Ox-Bow’s campus encompasses 115-acres of pristine natural forests, dunes, a lagoon, and historic buildings. Ox-Bow has been in operation for over 100 years and continues to provide an immersive environment for artists to explore traditional and contemporary modes of art-making. Ox-Bow provides a singular experience that respects historical techniques while bending genres into new formats, in an environment outside of the everyday, where creativity is paramount.
Ashley Bryan has been awarded the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime achievement. The award recognizes an African American author, illustrator, or author/illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and/or young adults who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution. Melissa Sweet writes and illustrates picture books in Rockport, Maine. She received the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational children’s book, for Balloons over Broadway.
DAYS OF HEAVEN is the long-awaited follow-up to Malick’s 1973 debut Badlands, and confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In this love triangle set in the early 1900’s, Bill (Richard Gere) works in a Chicago steel mill, but must flee the city after accidentally killing a man. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister (Linda Manz). Instead of a better life, they head straight into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams.
“[O'death] draws from the starkness and spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the menace of punk and the rowdy theatricality of Tom Waits, jumbling sacred and profane.” ‐ Ben Sisario, The New York Times. Raw, ragged Americana returns to SPACE with the killer combination of Brooklyn’s O’Death and Providence’s Brown Bird. With if and it.
REMINDER: "Trouble Is my Business" on Stage at Portland Stage Company January 24th to February 19th
Jazz Pianist Robert Glasper to Perform at Bates College on February 9, 2012
Weekly Message from Governor Paul LePage for February 4th, 2012
Local Love Muscle Valentines Day Film Festival At Geno’s 2/14/12
The Bill Thibodeau Band at Next Generation Theatre Feb. 11, 2012
George Lopez, Classical Pianist to Perform at Jewett Hall Auditorium, Sunday, February 12, 2012.
February 2012 Deals, Events, News and all things Gritty!
Stop Dirty Tar Sands Oil from Coming Through Maine: Public Meeting Feb. 9, 2012