The Powerhouse Apprentice Company will perform a new play, Untitled, by Deborah Assimwe, directed by Emily Mendelsohn, on Saturday, July 4. Free and open to the public, the performance will begin at 7pm in the Susan Stein Shiva Theater. Untitled tells the story of Lake, a young East Africa writer, finding her voice in a patriarchal culture. Without her family's blessing, Lake leaves her remote village and travels across the world to a California art school. She writers her own future, through her memories and explores her African heritage, both traditional and colonial. Assimwe's play weaves together physical and metaphorical journeys along with African folklore, song and dance.
Powerhouse Theater has joined with five Arlington restaurants and will offer "Powerhouse Summer Suppers at Café on the Quad," on Friday and Saturday evenings - July 3 to August 1 - from 5:30 to 8:00pm (note there is no offering on July 4). Powerhouse patrons will now be able to relax, savor, and enjoy a selection of cuisines on five weekends this summer. These will be offered on a rotating basis by Arlington's Babycakes Café, Beech Tree Grill (with desserts by Bittersweet), the Dubliner, Twisted Soul, and Zorona Restaurant.
Casting has just been announced for Vassar & New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater's three musicals of the 25th anniversary season and Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose will join the star-filled line-up of the 25th anniversary Powerhouse Theater gala.
In their new physics-inspired fiction for grade 3-6 readers, Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope, two college professors first and foremost tell a story. At the same time, their characters are hardly run-of-the-mill. The Wise Old Proton, Lord Neon, and the Royal Benzenes, for example, emulate charged particles and elements in the periodic table.
From the rural farms of Clinton to the City of Poughkeepsie, the Fall Kill Watershed covers a diversity of Dutchess County landscapes. To raise awareness of this important creek as well as the land that filters into our streams, wetlands and groundwater. From July 5 - 12, the Fall Kill Watershed Committee with support from Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program will present the second annual Creek Week. In an effort to expand the outreach for this program, the Fall Kill Watershed Committee has partnered with the Casperkill Watershed Alliance, through Vassar College’s Environmental Research Institute, and will provide a week of educational and fun-filled activities throughout the two watersheds.
Vassar joins with 575 other private, non-profit colleges and universities that will participate in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Yellow Ribbon Program that offers discounted tuition to student veterans.
The Palmer Gallery presents Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger, June 25 – July 31. Metzger’s work spans most of the 20th century and from the thousands of paintings she created, 42 have been chosen to represent the range of her temporal, stylistic, and physical journeys as an artist.
Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater announces the cast for the first of three Mainstage productions of the 25th anniversary season: Ninety, by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Maria Mileaf, beginning performances June 30 and running through July 12, and new additions to the star-filled line-up for the 25th anniversary gala benefit, “Silver Celebration under the Stars,” June 27.
Since April, Vassar film students have seen their documentaries, works of fiction, and senior film projects fill the schedules of film festivals across the country. And often, they have scooped major awards.
Six members of Vassar’s class of 2009 and two alumnae/i were recently awarded Fulbright grants for research, graduate study, or English teaching assistantships abroad. The Fulbright program is sponsored by the US Department of State, and was established in 1946 by Congress to promote international understanding.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will provide a view into noted architect Eero Saarinen’s original design for The Emma Hartman Noyes House (1958), part of his 1954 master plan for the north end of the Vassar campus, with an exhibition featuring his original architectural model for the site, on view from June 2 through September 6.
Announcing the celebratory 25th anniversary of Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater season, including new plays and musicals by Lewis Black, Keith Bunin, Beth Henley, Joanna Murray-Smith, Theresa Rebeck, John Patrick Shanley, Duncan Sheik, Regina Taylor, along with a full production of the new musical, The Burnt Part Boys (6/26 – 8/2/2009).
Beginning on Sunday, June 14, the Vassar Department of Music will offer the 14th annual free summer concert series, held in the acoustically superb (and air-conditioned) Martel Recital Hall of the Skinner Hall of Music on the Vassar College campus. This series of four concerts will open with an afternoon of chamber music on June 14 at 3pm—performed by violinist Joseph Genualdi, cellist Sophie Shao, and pianist Richard Wilson—and will continue with concerts on June 21 (violinist Stephanie Chase, cellist Mark Shuman, mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart, and pianist Todd Crow, 3pm); July 10 (cellist Colin Carr and pianist Thomas Sauer, 8pm), and August 2 (pianist Brian Mann, with guest artists including jazz violinist Iain Mann, 3pm).
The New York Opera Studio will present a selection of scenes from operas during an afternoon performance on Sunday, July 5. This program is open to the public without charge and will begin at 2pm in the Martel Recital Hall of the Skinner Hall of Music on the Vassar College campus. No reservations are necessary.
Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection will be on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center from May 8 to July 26, 2009. Curated by Patricia Phagan, the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Center, the exhibition will celebrate the medium and history of watercolor with 47 works from the 18th through 20th centuries. With the exception of one work on loan from an alumnus, all the watercolors will be drawn from the permanent collection of the Art Center, many of which, according to Phagan, have not been on view for several years because of the medium's sensitivity to light, while others have no modern exhibition record or are recent acquisitions.
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