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Mondays: October 20, November 3, November 10 Noon-1:15pm
Creative Writing: Seedlings Inspired by Nature
Members: $30 for the 3-part series, non-Members: $45 for the 3-part series, Award-winning short story writer Joyce Winslow offers a 3-part class on writing sensory detail in poems, prose or journals based on each person's reflections on nature as inspired by Sleeping Tree, an art installation at GRACE. Bring your notebook, your lunch, and your creativity to three Monday sessions at lunch hour to explore themes of rebirth, regeneration, and connection to Nature in your own words. Join "Mondays in the Park with Joyce" where the exquisite artwork of Shinji Turner-Yamamoto will serve as the foundation for personal reflection. | |
Thursday, October 23 6:00-7:30pm
A New Year’s Tale
Free The hub theatre at GreaterRestonArtsCenter: A Series of Staged Readings Join us at GreaterRestonArtsCenter as we mix the theatrical and visual arts with a reading of local playwright Penelope Ann Thomas’ recent work. The play in one act recounts life’s greatest and most cataclysmic events: birth and death. Three voices speak of the thin veil between the living and the dead: a midwife who attends a birth, the husband who witnesses it, and the wife who lives it. The themes are echoed and brought to visual life in the adjacent gallery with the Sleeping Tree exhibition. |
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November 14, Friday 6-7:30pm
Art with a Twist: Contemporary Art and NatureFee: $15 members; $20 non-members Co-sponsored by Clyde’s of Reston Sculptor and professor Laura Amussen joins us for an evening of artful dialogue and refreshment. Laura will discuss and illustrate the intersection of sculpture and nature in contemporary art. We welcome you to join us if you are a novice art collector, an experienced connoisseur, or just a curious passerby. Environmentally inspired mixed drinks and appetizers are included. |
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December 11, Thursday 6-7:30pm
Big LoveFree The hub theatre at GreaterRestonArtsCenter: A Series of Staged Readings The staged reading series continues with Big Love by Charles Mee. Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy in this modern re-making of one of the western world's oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. The fifty grooms catch up with the brides, and mayhem ensues: the grooms arriving by helicopter in their flight suits, pop songs and romantic dances, and, finally, unable to escape their forced marriages, 49 of the brides murder 49 of the grooms -- and one bride falls in love. Find out why Charles Mee said, This is why: love trumps all. Love is the highest law. |