The Forever Question
Eagles Mere Friends of the Arts is producing the East Coast premiere of the playwright James Christy Jr.'s The Forever Question, directed by Harriet Power. Winner of the 2018 New Comedies Festival, this rollicking play asks that eternal question: Why in the world do we have kids? We know it's the end of our independence,…
Introduction to Acrylic Landscape Painting with Gerry Mann
Participants in this class will work to finish a small landscape painting of a subject/place of their choosing by working from a photograph. Various painting tools will be discussed and modeled. The concept of an underpainting will be demonstrated and the basics of color theory will be taught as individuals build their images and experience the nuances of color expression.
Textured Mug Clay Class with Melissa Jenkins
Learn how to create a custom-made, functional clay mug or stein using slab building techniques in this beginner level class. Use our extensive collection of textures to create your own tapered mug with a personalized handle. We’ll all follow along the same basic steps, but each mug will be uniquely styled. Choose a color from our house-made dip glazes to finish off your design.
Runaway Stroller
Runaway Stroller features rhythm guitar/vocals of Johanna Kodlick and lead guitar/vocals of Anthony Latt. Exciting interpretations of Rock, Blues, Pop and Funk from the 60's to today. Runaway Stroller fans, (Stroller Chasers!) love dancing & singing to their energy-packed performances.
Brain/Food: From Trenches to Transplants
"From Trenches to Transplants: Changing Lives with Plastic Surgery" shows the progress of plastic surgery in America from the trenches of World War I to today's hand and face transplants. Barry Noone will discuss the birth, the growth and the amazing triumphs of the past century in plastic surgery. His half century of learning, teaching…
Music in the Mountains
A superb group of 5 professional musicians and educators, all alumni of the Philadelphia Trio workshops, co-directed by Deborah Reeder and Barbara Sonies. This is an annual reunion for them and a classical music treat for the audience.
Brain/Food: Invitation to the Dance
Invitation to the Dance. James Sutton, choreographer and NYU Professor of the Arts offers a lecture/performance on "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Dance (and Ballet) but Were Afraid to Ask." Jim has much to discuss as dance is a universal expression, a vital physical embodiment of human spirit.
Movement, Music, and Methods – New York Theatre Ballet
Movement, Music, and Methods: A Lecture/Demonstration/Performance with the Artistic Director, Dancers, and Music Director of New York Theatre Ballet on the process of Dance Performance and Collaboration.
New York Theatre Ballet & Philadelphia Dance Theatre
The young dancers of the Philadelphia Dance Theatre share the evening with the seasoned professionals of New York Theatre Ballet in a performance of works from the modern dance and ballet repertoire featuring live music and tailored especially for the intimacy of the DeWire Center.
Ukulele Workshop with Simple Gifts
Take this beginner level class in Ukulele and then have fun performing a song with Simple Gifts at their concert on the Village Green that evening. In this class, you will learn 2-3 chords and the basics of fingerpicking and strumming and be ready to go!
Simple Gifts Performance
The award-winning duo, Linda Littleton and Karen Hirshon, will delight you with their world ethnic folk music played on 12 beautiful instruments. They will play everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving klezmer frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies, spicing the mix with the distinctive rhythms of Balkan dance music, and lush…
Learn to Play the Spoons & Perform with Simple Gifts
FREE , Spoons provided Anyone who can hold two spoons is welcome! As a special treat after the intermission at Simple Gifts’ evening performance on the Village Green, Linda and Karen will pass out spoons and teach everyone in the audience who wants to learn the basics of playing the Spoons. You will be playing…