Vernon Public Art Gallery invites you to bring your little ones under the age of 5 to explore art making on the last Monday of every month. This month we are celebrating CULTURE DAYS and will start our session off by engaging with artworks in Shawn Serfas' exhibition titled This Kind of Wilderness. Inspired by his interesting approach to art-making, we will head to the classroom and play with different techniques and materials to create our own abstract paintings. Pre-register by emailing [email protected]
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Vernon Public Art Gallery invites you to bring your little ones under the age of 5 to explore art making on the last Monday of every month. This month we are celebrating CULTURE DAYS and will start our session off by engaging with artworks in Shawn Serfas' exhibition titled This Kind of Wilderness. Inspired by his interesting approach to art-making, we will head to the classroom and play with different techniques and materials to create our own abstract paintings. Pre-register by emailing [email protected]
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Celebrate Armstrong's iconic Caravan Farm Theatre, one of the world’s most esteemed outdoor theatre companies. View the opening of an exhibit at the Vernon Museum of original, hand-crafted masks and other set pieces. Then watch a special viewing of Niall McNeil’s documentary film "The Originals." Filmed on location at the Caravan Farm Theatre in 2021, and featuring interviews from Caravan Farm Theatre alumni spanning four decades, "The Originals" is an artist’s ode to his creative home.

The exhibit will be on display throughout all of Culture Days, September 24 to October 24, 2021.

Celebrate Armstrong's iconic Caravan Farm Theatre, one of the world’s most esteemed outdoor theatre companies. View the opening of an exhibit at the Vernon Museum of original, hand-crafted masks and other set pieces. Then watch a special viewing of Niall McNeil’s documentary film "The Originals." Filmed on location at the Caravan Farm Theatre in 2021, and featuring interviews from Caravan Farm Theatre alumni spanning four decades, "The Originals" is an artist’s ode to his creative home.

The exhibit will be on display throughout all of Culture Days, September 24 to October 24, 2021.

The FOCUS Youth OnSTAGE Concert features three acts from VDPACS inaugural FOCUS Online Series on Saturday, October 2nd, 2021, at 7:30pm.  Featuring internet sensation and singer- songwriter Justin Moore, funk-blues duo Jake O’Brien and Sedonia Borden and three piece rockabilly band the Dixie Fried Hep Katz. “We are building on the great connections made with emerging artists during the FOCUS Online Series. This performance is a first step in offering platforms to young local artists throughout the season,” says Artistic Director, Erin Kennedy. Click on event for more details.

The FOCUS Youth OnSTAGE Concert features three acts from VDPACS inaugural FOCUS Online Series on Saturday, October 2nd, 2021, at 7:30pm.  Featuring internet sensation and singer- songwriter Justin Moore, funk-blues duo Jake O’Brien and Sedonia Borden and three piece rockabilly band the Dixie Fried Hep Katz. “We are building on the great connections made with emerging artists during the FOCUS Online Series. This performance is a first step in offering platforms to young local artists throughout the season,” says Artistic Director, Erin Kennedy. Click on event for more details.

Under the direction of conductor Dr. Terry Pitt-Brooke, Aura Chamber Choir presents its fall 2022 program. The program of seasonal music features French composers Cesar Franck, Francis Poulenc and Guillaume Costeley along with Bright Angels Sing by Ukrainian composer Kyrylo Stetsenko. The wonderful harmony of Hector Berlioz’s Shepeherd’s Farewell will bring a great smile to your face.

Don’t forget to bring your sing-along voice to enjoy four carols with the choir!

Enjoy a glass of wine, delicious charcuterie boards and sweets, and make a delightful Christmas craft to take home (or to gift!) using a teacup from our events collection.

Songs of Love and Springtime - Songs of Nature

Spring: the season of Nature’s awakening, and the season of love for all mortal beings!  AURA Chamber Choir celebrates this “amorous and fair season” with Songs of Nature, a potpourri of European choral music that spans five centuries. 

The title of our concert is taken from a set of partsongs by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak that celebrates the wondrous beauty and spirituality of the natural world.  AURA will perform three selections from this set, and four of his Six Moravian Lyrics, a lighthearted but touching glimpse of village romance.  Both sets will be performed in English. 

The program’s featured work is by Dvorak’s greatest fan and booster, Johannes Brahms: the Liebeslieder Waltzer (Lovesong Waltzes), op. 52.  In this set for mixed chorus and piano four hands, Brahms brilliantly pours the passion of the Gypsy musicians he heard in Viennese cafes into the vessel of the waltz and brews a drink that burns with the intoxication of love in all its forms: blissful and sweet, desolate and bitter, and so much more besides.  At the keyboard we have AURA’s award-winning pianist Marjorie Close and special guest Terry Logan, noted voice teacher and choir director in her own right.