Monday, May 10, 2010

Haiti PeaceQuilts: After the Quake

Haiti Peacequilts
with Maureen McClintock
Sunday, May 16 at 4pm
Beacon Feed Studio
Cost: Free; donations appreciated

PeaceQuilts quilt photo The story of PeaceQuilts is a novel and highly unlikely one. In a tropical country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, the concept of quilts and quilting is introduced into a Haitian training school curriculum by Jeanne Staples, a visionary artist from Martha’s Vineyard, and Maureen Matthews McClintock, a master quilter and clinical psychotherapist from rural Vermont. The project is nurtured by a pair of Haitian Catholic nuns who teach needlework, and becomes an entrepreneurial success in less than two years. Join us for a return visit from Maureen McClintock and an update on the project since the devastation of earthquake in Haiti.

For more information on PeaceQuilts, go to www.haitipeacequilts.org.

Hilarity - Dark Ages Style

Only 3 more weekends of Dark Ages hilarity remains!
Call 518-677-2495 for tickets!

May 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 at 8pm
May 16, 23, 30 at 2pm

What are you waiting for? You know you need a laugh - see Incorruptible and laugh your head off! The monks are in need of a few more heads!

Call 518-677-2495 weekdays, 9am - 5pm, for advance tickets!!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

'Medieval Fests, Destitute Monks and Dracula!'

'Medieval Fests, Destitute Monks and Dracula!'
Incorruptible Opening Night Dinner
Medieval Peasant Feast: Friday, May 7 at 6pm

A hilarious feast where we toss the bones to the relic collectors: duck, beef, fiddleheads, wild leek and potato soup, assorted breads, cheeses. Fruit and Flummery with custard sauce for dessert.

Reservation deadline: Wednesday, May 5 at 5pm. Call 518-677-2495 to reserve your seat.
Cost: 48.00 includes theater ticket / 30.00 meal only

Incorruptible
A Dark Comedy about the Dark Ages!

by Michael Hollinger
directed by Stephanie Moffett-Hynds
May 6 Pay What You Will / Open Rehearsal at 8pm
May 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 at 8pm
May 9, 16, 23, 30 at 2pm
24.00 general admission / 20.00 Hubbard Hall members / 15.00 students & children
Call 518-677-2495 for tickets

It's not the best of times for the rag-tag group of monks in a 13th century French monastery: The river flooded again last week, nobody's heard of the wheelbarrow yet and the abbey's patron saint hasn't produced a miracle -- or a paying pilgrim -- in 13 years.

The destitute monks feel their faith slipping away until they cross paths with a cunning, one-eyed traveling minstrel who teaches them an enterprising way to fill their empty offering plate.

An Evening with Dracula!


Dracula - The UnDead
Curiosity Forum:
Evening with Dacre Stoker, Dracula historian and author
Saturday, May 8, at 5:00 pm
(Dinner with the author at 6:30 pm, see below for cost and details)
Location: Cambridge Hotel
Free

Join us for a book signing and talk with Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, Dracula historian, and co-author of Dracula: The Un-Dead, a sequel the original Dracula.

Stoker's sequel is based on the original author's handwritten notes and takes place twenty-five years later and finds Van Helsing's morphine-addicted protégé obsessed with countering evil forces. Stoker has extensively researched Bram Stoker's life as well as Dracula lore and arcana.

Dinner with the author:
Following the book signing, at 6:30, you may dine with Dacre Stoker. The Cambridge Hotel will serve a 3-course Transylvanian-themed menu, plus dessert, for $27.95 adults, $11.95 children. Please call the Cambridge Hotel at 518-677-5626 for a reservation for the dinner, and enjoy a night out with Bram Stoker's descendant

Curiosity Forum events are a partnership of Battenkill Books, Hubbard Hall, and Open Studios of Washington County.