Meeting on the third Thursday of each month, Drink and Draw With Me… (Bri Ashe)is an opportunity to meet new people, discuss your day, and create art together.
Equipped with “small art stuff” – pens, pencils, markers –, and some uncommon surfaces – napkins, coasters, receipts –, Drink and Draw invites you to unwind and unleash your creative side. Registration includes access to Townline BBQ Happy Hour prices on food & drink throughout the night. Designated Drivers are encouraged.
Designed for all levels and experiences, IMPROV 1 focuses on the fundamentals of improvisation. Through playful exercises and games we will learn the basic skills of improvisation and collaboration, developing a new sense of spontaneity, imagination, and confidence. Open to everyone. No experience necessary.
Out with the old, in with the new!
In the past couple decades, game designers have been creating fascinating, immersive table-top games that make Monopoly seem like it was designed in 1905. Game night no longer means suffering through hours of rolling dice in Monopoly or Risk. Today’s newest non-digital board and card games cultivate creativity, problem solving, social skills, and dexterity through clever game design. Join Guild Hall and Game Master Noah Salaway in embracing the tabletop revolution as we play some of the best modern board games on the market the last Monday of each month. Take a break from the digital age and join us at the table! Ages 16 and up only.
This month at Guild Hall Game Night we will be playing Mental Blocks.
Mental Blocks is cooperative puzzle solving game where players work together to build a common structure out of foam blocks. For every puzzle, each player receives a card depicting one perspective of the finished structure. Players must work together using their limited information to solve the puzzle before the timer runs out. After a couple rounds, we will try the “hidden traitor variant,” where a player who knows the puzzle’s solution is actively trying to sabotage the team without being found out. Mental Blocks is an incredibly simple concept that has everyone playing with blocks, stretching their minds, and working together.
Out with the old, in with the new!
In the past couple decades, game designers have been creating fascinating, immersive table-top games that make Monopoly seem like it was designed in 1905. Game night no longer means suffering through hours of rolling dice in Monopoly or Risk. Today’s newest non-digital board and card games cultivate creativity, problem solving, social skills, and dexterity through clever game design. Join Guild Hall and Game Master Noah Salaway in embracing the tabletop revolution as we play some of the best modern board games on the market the last Monday of each month. Take a break from the digital age and join us at the table! Ages 16 and up only.
Puccini’s Turandot is a classic example of the height of the Italian romantic style – through-composed opera with lush orchestral textures, demanding larger voices to declaim highly emotional themes. Most of Puccini’s operas are truly verismo operas in their conception, like La bohème and Tosca, recounting in ‘real time’ tales of love and sometimes violence rather than the mythological and real kings and queens or counts and countesses of the earlier operas. Turandot breaks the mold and is based on a Persian myth which Puccini sets in China. Here Puccini fits the ancient tale of the Princess Turandot in the operatic sound-world that he helped propel. Join pianist Derrick Goff and tenor Cameron Schutza as we explore how to listen to this changing operatic style.
Please join us for the Season Opener Breakfast Reception at 11:30am in the Wasserstein Gallery prior to the lecture-recital at 12pm.
Taking inspiration from the landscape and materials around us, Laurie Lambrecht invites you to consider where we are through the art of weaving. Using found materials such as driftwood, beach finds, old picture frames and recycled fabrics, Laurie shares her process of creating looms and site-inspired weaving. Open to everyone. No experience necessary.
Come with the materials you find, leave with a loom, work in process or finished piece, and inspiration aplenty!
Pre-opera lecture on Massenet’s Manon.
An Enduring Love Story
The most popular of his operas, Massenet’s “Manon” is regularly performed around the world. Its roles are a dramatic and musical feast and the all-star cast in the upcoming Metropolitan Opera production should make for a thrilling performance. I look forward to sharing with you the story behind the legendary heroine who fascinated not only Massenet, but authors, artists and other composers, including Giacomo Puccini.
Join us for a sun filled afternoon of workshops, performances, and gallery tours as we celebrate our exhibit ugo rondinone: sunny days!
In addition to workshops led by local artists and performances by student ensembles, we will be joined by the artist himself, Ugo Rondinone, to celebrate and congratulate the over 300 students whose artwork is displayed in the exhibit.
1–3pm: Workshop; Create a Sun Sculpture / Taller; crea una escultura del sol
1–3pm: Workshop; Create a Sun Drawing / Taller; haz un dibujo del sol
1–3pm: Sun Observation with The Montauk Observatory / Observa el sol con Montauk Observatory
1–3pm: Performances by Student Ensembles / Actuaciones estudiantiles
1:15pm: Bi-Lingual Gallery Tour/Visita bilingüe en la galeriá
2pm: Meet the Artist Ugo Rondinone / Conoce al Artista; Ugo Rondinone
With free treats from Mary’s Marvelous
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-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 reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-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 reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.