Mondays, January 20–March 2 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a seven-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright’s inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant’s new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback.
Artists are encouraged to work on any kind of character-based piece for stage: plays, operas, and new forms, as well as dance, musical, puppet, or physical theater. With the performative medium left to the writer, each workshop’s focus develops with the scripts themselves, addressing a variety of concepts, processes, and techniques as needed.
The workshop concludes with a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest pages to an invited audience in our John Drew Theater.
In Search Of
Through a continuous search for spiritual shelter, this piece observes the process in which the understanding of one’s self meets a communal effort.
Anthony Madonna, Sound Artist/Composer
Catarina Sacramento, Visual Artist
Performed at the Barbican Centre’s 2017 Curious Festival
Meeting on the second Wednesday of each month, Circle of Voices, is an evening of collective singing to explore our individual breath and tone, and the connection that has to the people around us. Led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Fellow, Anthony Madonna, the evening will explore a variety of collective vocal practices such as Deep Listening, Circle Singing, and traditional round & part songs.
Open to singers of all backgrounds and experience levels. All that is required is the desire to connect in a welcoming circle of voices.
Circle of Voices is an evening workshop of collective singing, creative writing, and communal dialogue to explore and connect our individual thought, breath, and tone to the peoples and environments around us.
Led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Fellow, Anthony Madonna, the evening will center around tenets of Deep Listening, collective singing, and other participatory arts practices.
Open to singers of all backgrounds and experience levels. All that is required is the desire to connect in a welcoming circle of voices.
Primarily known today as the composer of oratorio such as The Messiah, George Friderich Handel was a prolific opera composer; with around 50 operatic works to his name. In this lecture, Victoria Bond will reveal how the German born composer became a master of Italian Baroque Opera, through the specific lens of his political drama, Agrippina.
Alban Berg’s Wozzeck tells the tale of a soldier, who driven to madness by jealousy, murders his love and in reaction kills himself. Although the story is dark and disturbing, it is illuminated by Berg’s brilliant music and has become one of the few 20th Century works to enter the repertory.
In this lecture, Victoria Bond will discuss the remarkable way the composer uses his intricately organized music to express a rich emotional palette; delving into the intricacies of twelve-tone atonal music.
Join us for an Opening Reception in celebration of our 2019 Education Corridor Exhibition, Carly Haffner: In The Woods. Free and open to all, we will celebrate Haffner’s exhibition with champagne, Montauk Brewing Company Beer, a variety of seltzer, light bites from Citarella, and music. Haffner’s exhibition includes a selection of her folk-art-inspired landscape paintings depicting the woods with minimal lines and subtle color shifts, paying homage to another side of the ‘Hamptons.’ Turning the focus away from the sprawling beaches and farm fields to the residential landscape of the year-round community: homes in the woods, yards with old cars, fishing gear, a vintage airstream, etc. Haffner chooses a narrative that carries much more weight for her and her community, resulting in truly captivating works.
Hosted by Guild Hall’s Teen Art Council, the High School Awards Ceremony is a moment to celebrate and recognize high achievement and creativity in select high school artists whose work is exhibited in the Student Art Festival: Made by Water.
This year’s awards are determined and given by Guest Artist & Juror, Virva Hinnemo. All awardees will receive a certificate of excellence, and the opportunity to speak with the guest artists & juror at the post-ceremony reception.
Join us for an afternoon of workshops and performances as we celebrate the incredible talents and imaginations of our local students in this year’s Student Art Festival: Made by Water.
2–3:15pm: Workshop led by artist, Kym Fulmer
2–3:15pm: Exhibit Open for Viewing/Self-Guided Tours
3:15–4pm: Performances and Film Screenings by local school and community ensembles in our John Drew Theater.
The aroma of cinnamon and spice is in the air — it’s time for our annual gingerbread house decorating event! Children ages 5-12 are invited to join Citarella’s merry team of confectionary experts and make festive displays using frosting, candy, and a fully assembled, freshly baked cookie house.
Joyce Kubat is the Top Honors recipient of the 79th Artist Members Exhibition (2017). Kubat was selected by guest awards juror, Ruba Katrib, who was curator at the Sculpture Center and now curator at MoMA PS1.
In this exhibition Kubat assembles her people, a body of work which she has been developing since 2002. Her media has remained the same and Kubat lets the process lead the way in her deeply psychological figurative works. From pastels applied to damp paper creating a liquid soft skin with deep velvet pigments, to fluid pink inks that have the extraordinary transparency of flesh, these materials have led her to convey an emotionally raw narrative of human anatomy.
The figure has always been my focus, and over the years it’s become a psychological focus, a not-always-easy-to-view focus… Art with only surface excitement seems empty. For me it has to have a serious and profound underpinning, always poignant, often humorous, relating in some way to the universal humanity common to all of us. – Joyce Kubat
Kubat holds a BS in Psychology from Michigan State University and continued her studies in New York City at both Brooklyn College and Art Students League of New York. She lives and works in Huntington, NY and has exhibited throughout Long Island, New York City, Italy, and elsewhere.
