In a nutshell: The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music welcomes a new cellist, new executive director, and new solar panels; Arts Alive fiscal sponsee, the Contenders documentary, shares progress in the filming process; Taryn Fisher Fine Art curates a gallery at 310 Marlboro and takes part in Monadnock Music’s Holiday Home Tour; The Colonial enjoyed organizing performances for Keene Pumpkin Fest and looks forward to an upcoming concert; The Art Source Fine Arts Gallery looks for folks to join life drawing classes and French conversations on Fridays; Jaffrey Civic Center celebrates new staff, a one-year milestone, and prepares for the holidays; Craig Stockwell wraps up the October SPAR(K) artist residency at Covenant Living; Rodger Martin presents poetry to be included in a new anthology on the subject of death.
apple hill welcomes New people and renewable energy
Apple Hill’s new solar panels
It's been a very busy fall at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, as we welcomed new cellist (and Stoddard native!) Jacob MacKay to the Apple Hill String Quartet, and new executive director Sam Bergman to our farmhouse office. The AHSQ is off and running with fall concerts featuring music from across 900 years of musical history, in New Hampshire venues from the Monadnocks all the way east to the Seacoast region! The quartet will be traveling further afield in November, with concerts in Brooklyn, New York and Rockport, Massachusetts, as well as New Hampshire performances at Aloha Yoga in Keene on the 10th; at St. Paul's School in Concord on the 15th; and at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner on the 17th. Visit Apple Hill’s website for more information.
In addition, our campus has taken an enormous step towards sustainability and renewable energy reliance this month, as we bring a long-planned pair of rooftop solar arrays online! With help from our friends at SouthPack Solar, we've installed nearly 23kW worth of electricity generating solar panels atop our concert and rehearsal barn roofs, which are expected to supply nearly all of the electric power our campus uses over the course of a year. The arrays are as beautiful as they are functional, and we can't wait to show them off to our audiences and camp participants next summer!” — Gail Malitas, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music Office Administrator.
the contenders documentary shares film progress
“The Contenders documentary is nearing the end of the football season as they follow the Fall Mountain football team through the 2024 season. Interviews still need to be conducted with a number of the coaches, players, alumni, and school officials and the aim is to complete those by the end of the year. The filmmakers hope to have a rough version of the film available for the team and their families to watch by the end of May/early June 2025 with a finished version completed by the fall of 2025.” - Brantley Palmer
The Contenders documentary is one of our fiscal sponsees! Read more information about the project here.
Taryn fisher fine art curates new galleries
Main Lobby at 310 Marlboro Street. Artwork by Scott J. Morgan.
Taryn Fisher Fine Art created a gallery at 310 Marlboro Street! Periodically rotating exhibits will be curated by Taryn Fisher. Artwork can be viewed in the corridors and common areas on multiple floors.
Taryn Fisher’s recently opened home gallery will participate in the upcoming Holiday House Tour hosted by Monadnock Music on Sunday, December 15th from 2 to 5 pm. The December exhibition captures the ethereal nature of this season's holiday celebration. Tickets and info are available here.
the colonial organizes community engagement and unique programming
The Colonial had the Big Nazo perform at the Keene Pumpkin Festival, and some students from NHDI performed with them after a workshop! It was free and open to the Community and quite popular. Above are photos of two NHDI students in their puppet costumes and one of the entire Big Nazo/NHDI company.
The Colonial’s Director of Education & Community Engagement, Vicky Pittman, is excited about Aysanabee (Ace-in-abbey) - a two-time JUNO award-winning alternative indie artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter who will be performing at the Showroom on November 7 at 7:30pm. He is Oji-Cree, Sucker Clan of Sandy Lake First Nation, a remote fly-in community in the far reaches of Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
“His voice is haunting and his stories are based on his life and the memories of his grandfather,” she says. Information and tickets can be found on the Colonial Performing Arts Center website.
the art source fine arts gallery shares unique offerings
Mona Brooks continues her life drawing classes (Fridays at 11) and French conversations (Fridays at 4), and offers individual art classes by appointment at her Peterborough Gallery, The Art Source Fine Arts Gallery.
jaffrey civic center celebrates a milestone
“I am very excited to attend the Leadership Conference held by Arts Alive in November...I have a new assistant Karen Chiasson who has now been working with me since August of this year. November 1 I will hit one year working for the JCC!” - Laura Adams, Executive Director of the Jaffrey Civic Center.
Attend art classes in various mediums at the Civic Center here and sign up for the December 7 craft fair as a vendor here.
Craig Stockwell wraps up a residency project
The Social Practice Artist Residency (Keene) (SPAR(K)) residency at Covenant Living is drawing to a close and there will be a closing event and exhibition 11/1 at Covenant Living of Keene, 95 Wyman Road at1:30pm. Artist Olivia DelGandio of Portland, Oregon, who has been working with residents throughout October, will speak about the residency and the work that has been accumulated on the topic of age and changing artistic practice.
rodger martin presents poetry
Rodger Martin, poet, teacher, editor, journalist, and director of Monadnock Pastoral Poets, will be part of a group presenting poetry for Deirdre Pulgram-Arthen’s anthology on death - The Black River: Death Poems. More info here.
Stay tuned for next month’s updates! In the meantime, you can look up an array of wonderful local artists and creative businesses on our creative economy directory.
