At the.......SWCC King Community Center
Ellen von Dehsen Elmes Gallery
Festival Café and Sonnet Slam
Tuesday, April 19, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
SWCC King Community Center
Foods will be a celebration of culinary delights.
Sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa. Tickets are $6; $5 students.
Call 276-964-7709 for tickets.
This popular game show, skillfully organized by the SWCC Library
and Learning Resources Center staff, tests the knowledge of
SWCC faculty, staff and students on subjects related to the Festival
theme. Enjoy theme-inspired refreshments.
Saturday, April 23, 11:00 a.m.
SWCC King Community Center
Area piano students who have studied with Pavlina Dokovska and
Vladimir Valjarevic during the festival will perform.
This exhibit will feature original art works from regional artists that are
inspired by Shakespeare’s plays, his words, his life, or the time period in
which he lived.
“All the World’s a Stage”
A small standard flower show presented by Tazewell County Garden
Clubs. Arrangements are interpretive of Shakespeare’s play titles and/or
lines from plays. Horticulture will also be exhibited. Entries in the Design
categories need to reserve a space for their design.
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Call Elene Combs, 276-988-3101 for information and to reserve a space.
Flower show open to the public:
April 22, 3-6 p.m.. April 23, 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p m.
and April 24, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 23, 2:00 p.m.:
Reception and Gallery Talk for the Art Exhibit and Flower Show
Appalachian Arts Center hours:
Tuesday- Friday: 12 p.m.- 6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
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Thursday, April 21, 12:10 p.m.
SWCC Dellinger Hall 118
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Festival Jeopardy
At the......Appalachian Arts Center, Rt. 19
(the former Archie Helton Store)
Southwest Virginia Community College
2016 Festival of the Arts
P.O. Box SVCC
Richlands, VA 24641
SWCC students, faculty, staff and community will participate in a
Shakespeare Sonnet Slam. Participants may recite their favorite
sonnet or lines from a Shakespeare play. Brian Wright will MC this
fun event and the winner will be selected by audience applause.
Lebanon High School Speech and Drama students will also act out
sonnets in modern language.
Thursday, March 31, 12:10 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Reception and Designer Comments SWCC Community Center
Elmes Gallery
proudly presents
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Brandon Sturgill, Emily Vance & Zachary Lamie
Leonard Companies
Ken and Cynthia Anselmi
Mike and Donna Bell
Doug and Ginger Branton
Pat Feuchtenberger
Larry Johnson
Ron and Naomi Levison
Annette Lockhart
Mike and Jan McClure
Joe McCracken
Larry and Kathy Mitchell
Jim Morehead
Bob and Nona Nassif
Barbara Parker
Doug Ratliff
Edmond Smith
Mary Ann Strong
Jane Thornhill
Bob and Bonnie White
Jann White
John and Jane Willis
Bob and Gwen Yost
Russell County Board of
Supervisors
Russell County Rotary Club
Town of Cedar Bluff
Town of Lebanon
Tazewell Music Club
The exhibit displays the
fine handiwork of the Barter
Theatre’s costume designers
and makers under the
direction of Amanda Aldridge
and Alice Sullivan. Featured
are the exquisite styles of the
Elizabethan and Renaissance
periods worn by various
Shakespearean characters
in The Tempest, Romeo and
Juliet, Kiss Me Kate and
others.
Lynda Stuart
Mary Sue Whitt
Sandra Whitt
Nancy Albert Wolf
Keene Family Foundation
Columbus Phipps Foundation
Community Arts Council of
Buchanan County
Eighth Notes:
Clinch Valley Medical Center
Russell County Medical Center
Street Law Firm
TruPoint Bank
Mary G. Adams
Johnny and Betsy Altizer
James and Becky Belcher
Anne Adams Bishop
Rod Cury
Zaven and Talin Jabourian
Charles R. and Mary King
SWCC Cultural Arts Series
Town of Bluefield, VA
Town of Tazewell
Grace Notes:
CART
C-Health Foundation
E. Dillon and Company
Kwik Kafe, Inc.
March 31-April 27, 2016
Southwest Virginia
Community College
We Appreciate Our Sponsors!
Hosted by Sam and Martha Varney, enjoy tea in this lovely restored
historic1858 mansion complete with an English Garden. Music to be
enjoyed while having tea and guests will enjoy a tour of Ellenbrook
Mansion.
The Art of Costuming:
Barter Theatre Costumes from the
Shakespeare Stage
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Saturday, April 16, 12 noon
Ellenbrook Mansion at Elk Garden
700 Hayter’s Gap Road
Seating limited, reservations required, $25
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FESTIVAL EXHIBITS
Whole Notes:
Nettie Peterson
Stelio and Betty T. Corte
Foundation
Katharine B. Tierney
Foundation
Virginia Commission for the
Arts/National
Endowment for the Arts
Half Notes:
Ennio and Rosa Corte
Foundation
Randy and Julie Forehand
Roy and Dorothy Wright
George M. Cruise Foundation
Frank L. Smoot Charitable
Trust
Tazewell County Board of
Supervisors
Quarter Notes:
Altizer, Walk and White
CONSOL Energy
Richlands Pharmacy
Associates/New
Garden Pharmacy
Joe Adair
Gene and Martha Hurst
John and Bonnie Shott
English High Tea
March 31 - April 1
and April 11 -24, 2016
Richmond Ballet II
FESTIVAL of the ARTS
Thursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.,
SWCC King Community Center
March 31-April 1 and April 11-24, 2016
Thursday, March 31: Richmond Ballet II
7:30 p.m., SWCC King Community Center.
Friday, April 1:
Richmond Ballet II lecture demonstration
11:30 a.m. (Students bused to SWCC Campus)
April 11-15:
Theater Residency with Shakespearian Improvisational Actor Joey Bland and
Mountain Youth Drama Group
Lebanon High School
Monday, April 11:
Shakespeare Improvisational Theatre with Joey Bland
10:50 a.m., SWCC Campus
Friday, April 15:
Shakespeare Theater Residency Performance
7:30 p.m.
Joey Bland and Mountain Youth Drama Group
Lebanon High School (2 daytime performances)
Saturday, April 16:
English High Tea, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
# 4, Ellenbrook Mansion, Elk Garden
Sunday, April 17:
Festival Fanfare
Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra
4:00 p.m., SWCC King Community Center
Tuesday, April 19:
Festival Café, Lunch: 11:30 a.m-12:15 p.m.
12:15: Sonnet Slam. ($6; students $5)
SWCC Community Center
Camerata Virtuosi New York
Gaynelle Lockhart Albert Memorial Concert
7:30 p.m.
Elk Garden United Methodist Church, Elk Garden
Thursday, April 21:
Jeopardy, 12:10 p.m., SWCC Dellinger Hall 118
Camerata Virtuosi New York
7:30 p.m., Tazewell Baptist Church, Tazewell
Saturday, April 23:
Spotlight on Talent
11:00 a.m., SWCC King Community Center
All the World’s a Stage, Standard Flower Show
Art Reception 2:00 p.m., Appalachian Arts Center
Camerata Virtuosi New York
In memory of Betty T. Corte
7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church
College Avenue, Bluefield, VA
Sunday, April 24:
All the World’s a Stage, Standard Flower Show
1:00-3:00 p.m., Appalachian Arts Center
Festival Finale: SWCC Community Chorus
Shakespeare Inspired Musical Theatre
3:00 p.m., SWCC King Community Center
Reception to follow Concert
Richmond Ballet II will present a performance
of repertoire including The Friar’s Tale from
Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest love
stories, based on Shakespeare’s play. Its
passionate choreography is by Malcolm
Burn, and was originally created for The
Royal New Zealand Ballet.
All performances are by Voluntary Donation at the door except where noted.
Please call 276-964-7348/7347 or [email protected] or www.sw.edu for
information.
Artistic Director: Pavlina Dokovska, Chair, Mannes College of Music Piano
Department
Assistant Artistic Director: Vladimir Valjarevic, Piano faculty Mannes College
of Music
Choral Director: Dr. Joseph Trivette, SWCC Albert Endowed Chair in Music
Visual Arts Coordinators: Ellen Elmes, Sarah Romeo, Courtney Wyatt
Technical Director: Joe Magee, Brett VanDyke and Garrett Wright
Business Manager: Annette McClanahan
Facility Coordinator: Pauline Taylor
Executive Director: Mary W. Lawson
Festival brochure designed by Alumni, Courtney Wyatt and assistant
professor, Michael Brown, and printed by Clinch Valley Printing, Tazewell,
VA.
EOE/AA (Para información en español, llame Ud. 276.964.7751)
Sunday, April 17, 4:00 p.m.
SWCC King Community Center
Always a highlight of the festival, the Knoxville Symphony, conducted
by James Fellenbaum, will perform works by Mendelssohn, Bernstein,
MacDowell, Verdi, Gounod and others. Guest soloist will be Susannah
Biller, soprano. The orchestra will also accompany the SWCC Community
Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Trivette.
Romeo and Juliet by Malcolm Burn
Richmond Ballet, All rights reserved
Festival Fanfare: Knoxville
Symphony Chamber Orchestra
“Comedies, Tragedies and Histories”
The Richmond Ballet Residency is made possible through
special funding from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
This concert is in honor of Jan McClure
Well-loved violinist and Suzuki Instructor
Shakespearean Improvisational
Theater Residency
Thursday, April 21, 7:30 pm.
Tazewell Baptist Church
141 Tower Street, Tazewell
Monday, April 11-Friday, April 15
Friday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.:
Shakespeare Improvisational
Theater Performance
Lebanon High School Theater
Joey Bland - Outside The Improvised Shakespeare
Company, he has performed with ComedySportz,
the iO Theater, and The Second City. For two years,
Joey traveled the world with The Second City Touring
Company, and in 2009, he played the title role in The
Second City’s hit, original musical, Rod Blagojevich,
Superstar. Joey is a two-time Jeopardy champion.
Lori Gates-Addison founded the
Mountain Youth Drama group 20
years ago and continues to be
the director of the group as they
perform an original play each
year.
Gates-Addison’s hopes
were and continue to be to provide
a message of substance abuse
prevention through the use of
song, dance and original drama.
“If music be the food of love,
play on”-Twelfth Night
“The Bard as Muse”
“Ín sweet music is such art,
killing care and grief of heart”
– Henry VIII
Friday, April 1, 11:30 a.m.
lecture demonstration for public schools
Monday, April 11, 10:50 a.m.: Joey Bland: lecture demonstration for students at SWCC, Buchanan Hall 130
The following programs will be performed:
Music by composers Beethoven, Bernstein, Dowland, Mendelssohn,
Schumann, Tchaikovsky and others.
Ancient Airs and Dances by Stoner Winslett
Richmond Ballet, All rights reserved
Shakespearean Improvisational Actor Joey Bland collaborates with
Russell County’s Mountain Youth Drama group and Lori Gates-Addison
to explore and demonstrate the techniques of improvisational theater.
This ensemble of internationally acclaimed musicians will perform
in three unique concerts to reflect the Festival theme.
Tuesday, April 19: 7:30 p.m.
The Gaynelle Lockhart Albert Memorial Concert
Elk Garden United Methodist Church
217 Hayters Gap Road
Rt. 80 East, off Rt. 19 in Russell County
Ancient Airs and Dances, choreographed by Stoner
Winslett, is an uplifting journey, set to Italian and
French lute songs orchestrated by Respighi. The
dance explores the true and essential emotions
that reach across the generations and bind all of
mankind together.
Other events:
Camerata Virtuosi New York
Music by composers Beethoven, Byrd, Porter, Prokofiev, Schumann,
Walton and others.
Festival Finale: Shakespeare
Inspired Musical Theater
featuring the SWCC Community Chorus; Dr. Joseph Trivette, director
Sunday, April 24, 3:00p.m.
SWCC King Community Center
The concert will feature selections from Broadway and movie screen
musicals that are based on Shakespeare’s plays including Kiss Me Kate
from Taming of the Shrew, The Lion King from Hamlet and West Side
Story from Romeo and Juliet and others.
A Reception will follow the concert.
SWCC Community Chorus Choir Dr. Joseph Trivette, Director
Gaynelle Lockhart Albert, Chair of Music
“Soft stillness and the night
become the touches of sweet harmony”Merchant of Venice
“Sonnets, Sonatas and Sonata Form”
Saturday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.
The Betty T. Corte Memorial Concert
First United Methodist Church
200 South College Avenue
Bluefield, VA
Music
by
composers
Brahams,
Bernstein,
C a s t e l n u o v o - Te d e s c o ,
Dowland,
Mendelssohn,
Schubert, Schumann and
others.