HANOVER The construction fencing along East Wheelock Street signals the beginning of the $88 million expansion and renovation of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The iconic 1962 building is anticipated to reopen in 2025. In the interim, the Hop’s.
Two longtime Upper Valley performers are each bringing to the stage productions that are departures from their past work.First, on Friday evening, Alan Haehnel opens My Ode to Joy a performance of spoken-word poetry mixed with music at Parish.
Maybe it’s because the Christmas holiday falls on a weekend, but the next few days are as filled with arts events as a person could hope for. All the cliches about gifts under the tree apply.So rather than write a lot about one subject, it seems.
In a further sign of the Upper Valley’s growing reach in the arts, the Thanksgiving week will offer art both global and local in scale that has ties to the area.First the global: Devotion, which can safely be called “a major motion picture,” is on.
I’ve always been drawn to art that resists easy classification. There are certain attributes of a sculpture or painting that we tend to accept as fact.The formulation is something like “that thing is two-dimensional and shows me something, so it must.