Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Alumni Exhibition

 Gaelyn by Tom Root

An Opening Reception for the 2013 Alumni Exhibition kicks off the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Alumni Reunion weekend on Friday, Sept. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m.  All are welcome and refreshments will be served.  The exhibition will be on view in the College’s Chauncey Stillman and Sill House Galleries through Saturday, Sept. 28, Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.


The College welcomes back many of its alumni for the Reunion and Exhibition.  More than 85 alumni are participating in the exhibition ranging from 2012 BFA graduates to artists who studied at the College when it was still an Academy in the 70s and 80s.  Ann de Selding, Director of Alumni and Volunteer Relations, comments, “This exhibition celebrates the foundation skills our alumni mastered here while recognizing the individual paths they‚ve since taken.”  She continues, “Submissions are accepted from all media, not simply the College‚s four majors of Painting, Sculpture, Illustration, and Drawing.  The exhibition is a real snapshot of where our artists are now, in part because they once studied here.”  Although a majority of works in the exhibition are paintings, other media are represented as well, including sculpture, prints, drawing, mixed media, and fiber art.


The 2013 Alumni Exhibition reveals the variety of contrasting career paths students take after graduating from the College.  Professional quilt artist, Barbara Barrick McKie resides in Lyme, Conn. in the solar home she designed and built.  Although McKie has had many careers throughout her life including research microbiologist, bridal gown designer/manufacturer, and personal computer consultant, over the past 15 years she has focused on fiber art and jewelry.  Her art quilts and wearable art have been juried into many national and international quilt and art quilt shows, receiving many awards and honors while her works have been shown in museums, galleries and universities throughout the country.  McKie studied at the College from 1996-98, when it was still an Academy.


Alumnus Ronnie Rysz is now a prosthetic artist traveling across the continental U.S. to create custom silicone prosthetics for civilians and soldiers alike.  After receiving his BFA in Painting from the College in 2006, Rysz initially taught block printing, intaglio and lithography.  His work has been exhibited extensively in Connecticut, and received numerous awards including a Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism grant and a full fellowship from Vermont Studio Center.  Rysz continues to make art and his work is featured in several public and private collections.  He currently lives and works in New Haven, Conn.


Alumna Sherrie Parenteau, who obtained a BFA in Painting in 2009, is currently helping urban youth become successful adults as a creative arts instructor at ‘Our Piece of the Pie,’ a youth development agency in Norwich, Conn.  In addition, Parenteau teaches painting and clay building classes for students with special needs at her Creative Arts Studio.  A busy woman, she is not only President of Connecticut Women Artists Inc., an organization that provides a forum for women‚s artwork while emphasizing the importance of art in today’s society, but also a public school art teacher in Plainfield, Conn
For more information about the 2013 Alumni Exhibition or Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, contact Olwen Logan, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, at 860-434-3571, ext. 135 or ologan@lymeacademy.edu.

Playing for Peace

On September 10 a very special event will be taking place at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall as the World Peace Orchestra performs its inaugural concert.  Founded in New York in 2013, the World Peace Orchestra is a unique nonprofit organization that convenes young musical talent from around the world in an annual concert in New York City to demonstrate how the unifying power of music transcends all social and cultural boundaries.  This concert will celebrate the unity and diversity of global culture by featuring 134 young musicians from more than 50 countries playing both ethnic and classical instruments.  As the only truly global youth orchestra, its mission is to promote peace and understanding through the unifying power of music.  It is their desire to cultivate a new, compassionate generation of leaders who understand that borders, oceans, languages, and cultures cannot break the fundamental bonds of humanity.  Through music education and opportunities, WPO seeks to inspire hope, open up new horizons, and create a generation fluent in the universal language of music.

In order to send a strong message about collaborating for world peace, world-class singers and instrumentalists will perform with young singers and performers from all over the world at this premiere.  Young people of many cultures, languages and ethnic backgrounds will participate in this performance and many local and ethnic instruments will be featured in order to enrich the harmony – musically and culturally.  Some of these ethnic instruments include: hindewhu, nose flute, umuduri, begena, kissarwashintkwitra, zurnamandole, simsimiyya to name a few.  WPO’s classical and ethnic instruments will perform both monophonic and polyphonic works with its choir of young performers ages 15 – 22.  A star-studded evening is planned at the Lincoln Center - during the concert, the musicians will be led by guest Lithuanian conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius and will be joined by world renowned violinist Alexander Markov.  Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will also be in attendance to introduce the orchestra.  For tickets click here. 

WPO was founded on a simple, yet often overlooked, premise: The idea that despite our cultural, political, and economic differences, we are all fundamentally the same, and, in a way, we all speak the same language – music. Regardless of what country you’re from, regardless of your age, ethnicity, or background, music plays a role in all our lives. Rhythm, harmony, synchronization – these fundamental elements span borders. The primary focus is to stimulate harmony between people by tapping in to their love of music. The instruments and the music created by these young people are the symbols of shared values and a source of pride. It is through this passion for music that one can aim to overcome ignorance and prejudice that too often fuel violence.

WPO is an international social solidarity organization that promotes tolerance, peace and dialogue to address problems around the world such as war, hunger, poverty and prejudice.  World Peace Orchestra Foundation carries out social responsibility projects and relief society activities/humanitarian relief activities.

Vintage Beatles Guitars

When The Beatles launched the British Invasion era of rock ‘n’ roll by appearing on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February 1964, thousands of young people were captivated by their sound. Carlo Cantamessa ’83 (CLAS) was one of them.

He remembered the reaction of his older sister to the band’s appearance on television and decided he wanted to learn to play the guitar. He started taking guitar lessons near his home in Waterbury, Conn., and eventually formed a band with friends, playing a variety of rock and pop songs, but always going back to playing songs by The Beatles.
For nearly 35 years, Cantamessa has continued to play The Beatles’ songs, performing on stage as John Lennon in “The Neatles,” “Beatle Magic: The Show,” various touring incarnations of “Beatlemania,” and his current show, “The Cast of Beatlemania,” with other veteran musicians who have specialized as the Mop Tops in various tribute bands over the years.

Along the way he has compiled a collection of vintage and replica instruments used by the band in order to authenticate the sound of The Beatles. An exhibition from his collection of 1960s instruments, “Vintage Beatles Guitars,” opens in the Plaza Gallery of the Homer Babbidge Library on Aug. 1 and continues through Oct. 25. It is the first time the instruments will be exhibited.
“I’ve got friends who are musicians who never got into the Beatle thing,” Cantamessa says. “I get two comments that kind of irk me, but I understand where they come from: ‘Are you playing music or just The Beatles?’ Another invariably says: ‘If I had your talent, I’d do more with it.’ I say: ‘I have this talent and this is what I chose to do with it, and I think I did OK.’ I still listen to Beatles music. It sounds just as fresh as when I first heard it on the radio.”

Sounds authentic
The ability of Cantamessa and his band of musicians – Lenie Colacino as Paul McCartney, Jim Filgate as George Harrison, John Delgado as Ringo Starr, and musical director Mark Templeton off-stage on keyboards – to re-create the sound of The Beatles on stage is aided by having the same models of instruments as those used by the original band. The Beatles used guitars made in the late 1950s and early 1960s by American-based guitar manufacturers Rickenbacker, Gretsch, Fender, and Gibson, along with British-made Vox amplifiers. McCartney’s left-handed playing made the German-made Hofner violin bass famous. Starr used an American-made Ludwig drum kit.

Carlo Cantamessa portrays John Lennon in the tribute show ‘The Cast of Beatlemania.’ (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Cantamessa says he and his group have worked diligently over the years to maintain the authenticity of the original Beatles recordings, not only by playing the same instruments, but by trying to get closer to the original vocal arrangements. He adds that the “Beatles Anthology,” a three part, double-CD volume released in the 1990s, contained many previously unreleased versions of the group’s recordings that offered new insights into the music.
“You hear different harmonies where Lennon takes one part, jumps to another part, and then jumps back down,” Cantamessa says. “Then you do it with the band and, wow, it makes a big difference. [With Paul] on ‘I Saw Her Standing There,’ I remember specifically Lenie looked over and said: ‘I’ve been singing it wrong for 20 years.’ We do it. I sing my part, it sounds really good. Suddenly the hairs on your neck go up.”

Going solo
“The Cast of Beatlemania” show continues to keep Cantamessa busy throughout the year, making it an enjoyable second career. He operates a family business in Wolcott, Conn., PSI-New England Storage Products, a shelving and storage products firm specializing in shelving, lockers, and library furnishings. The exhibition resulted from conversations with staff at the Babbidge Library, a client he has worked with for many years. He also has developed a solo performance, “In My Life: The John Lennon Tribute,” after requests from some promoters to have a solo Lennon show.
“I like the band thing, but [the solo], it’s fun,” he says. “It solved a couple of internal conflicts: Am I good enough to do it alone? Can I do it alone? Yeah. When I do my solo show, I get to do songs [the audience] might not remember, or how they became something else, like ‘If I Fell’ later became ‘Woman.’ But I would rather have the other guys up there, and hear the other parts of the song.”
Cantamessa has a busy summer performing with “The Cast of Beatlemania,” and has several fall dates scheduled, with more sure to come. With a new Beatles musical, “Let It Be,” arriving in New York, “Beatles LOVE” thriving in Las Vegas, and other Beatles tribute shows touring around the world, there continues to be an enthusiastic audience for the music.
“There is something magical about the Beatles’ music,” Cantamessa says. “You don’t have to be a fan of the entire catalog. At a show we have people come up to say [they’re] fans of the early music. Then a husband or wife will say: ‘I love the Sgt. Pepper stuff,’ or ‘I love the later stuff, that’s my favorite part of the show.’ There is just something magical that not only we feel, but the audience feels and we get to integrate together. We have this collective, emotional bond when you’re doing the show that you are touching this music that is ethereal and great and will never be captured again.”

Listen to Cantamessa discussing the broad appeal of the Beatles’ music, and demonstrating how they rewrote one of their songs. 

“Vintage Beatle Guitars” by Carlo Cantamessa will be on display through Oct. 25 in the Plaza Gallery of the Homer Babbidge Library. A reception will be held on Sept. 29 from 3 to 5 p.m.

This article was posted by Donita Aruny. It was reported and written by Kenneth Best and originally appeared on the UConn Today Web site on July 29, 2013.

Celebrating Visual Artists

With Autumn just around the corner we start to think of the beautiful vistas as the fall foliage season begins.  Each year nature’s pallet produces those rich hues of red, gold, yellow and orange and decorates our hillsides with artistic inspiration.  It is also a season to celebrate the region and its plethora of innovative, talented, and creative artists.  The opportunity to visit artists in their studios, to explore the art form and its creation, and to better understand the artist’s vision has become a fall staple along the Shoreline.  Art Center Killingworth’s Annual Outdoor Arts Festival and Open Studio Trail over Columbus Day weekend followed in mid-November by Shoreline Arts Trail Open Studios invites the public to immerse themselves in the creative processes.  One can visit potters, painters, photographers, jewelers, quilters, glass blowers, sculptors, weavers for example - each with their unique talent and style.

Art Center Killingworth will be accepting artists’ applications through August 24.  The prospectus and application is available for download.  Shoreline Arts Trail has already juried its 2013 artists.  For the brochure and list of studios click here.

In addition to these very special ‘inside the artist’s studio’ weekends Shoreline Arts Alliance also offers visual artists the chance to display their work throughout the year.  Shoreline ArtSpace Series is a collaborative arts exhibition program created to showcase the creativity, expression and voices of Shoreline artists in a local gallery or public setting…for free!  Artists are provided with a unique opportunity to display their work for public viewing, host a private reception and receive marketing and promotional support to publicize the exhibition.  In a collaborative effort with other nonprofit organizations, businesses and municipalities the Shoreline Arts Alliance ArtSpace Series brings talented visual artists into public spaces, celebrating the creativity, expression and voice of local and regional visual artists and encourages visitors to explore and experience the local communities.  Additionally, it promotes the mission and programs of Shoreline Arts Alliance as well as that of our collaborative partners.

We are continually seeking visual artists, including emerging artists, who would like to showcase their work in public spaces.  Exhibitions may be solo shows or part of a themed group show.  Interested visual artists should contact Shoreline Arts Alliance – office@shorelinearts.org or 203-453-3890.  These exhibitions are on-going year round.

More Summer Shakespeare

Parker Wallis as Macbeth (Photo by Brianna DeNegris)

Summer and Shakespeare Festivals/Performances seem to go hand in hand and are widespread across the country.  Though the end of summer is right around the corner there is still plenty of Shakespeare to see.  Most of these festivals are outdoors and free to attend.  If your schedule did not permit you to see Shoreline Arts Alliance’s Much Ado About Nothing performed by Shakesperience Productions, Inc. last week or CT Free Shakespeare’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or ArtFarm’s presentation of Much Ado About Nothing you can still pack you picnics, blankets and chairs as the local scene continues to bustle with outdoor Shakespeare productions and a couple of indoor performances as well.

For a unique experience check out Breakdancing Shakespeare!  Begun in 2006, in conjunction with the Greater Hartford Arts Council Neighborhood Studios program, Breakdancing Shakespeare casts approximately twenty teenagers from Hartford and the surrounding area for a six-week long summer apprenticeship that culminates in the performance of a classic Shakespearean play with a modern hip-hop twist.  This summer these talented youth will offer performances of Two Gentlemen of Verona on August 13, 14, 15 at 7pm at Hartford Stage.  Tickets are $5.00. Click here for tickets and information.

Elm Shakespeare Company begins its 18^th summer season with a three-week run of Julius Caesar in Edgerton Park, New Haven.   This epic tale of political intrigue and assassination is co-directed by Elm Shakespeare’s Artistic Director James Andreassi and American theatre icon Alvin Epstein.  The political and the personal collide as Brutus (played by Andreassi), Shakespeare’s moral compass in the play, and the rest of the Roman Senators debate whether Caesar (played by Tracy Griswold) is a reformer or a despot.  Demagoguery abounds as the ‘elimination’ of Caesar sparks a partisan struggle as timely as today’s headlines.  Come to Edgerton Park to see if the perpetrators of Caesar’s assassination are honorable and patriotic or irrational extremists! Performances are Thursday, August 15 through Sunday, September 1, Tuesday-Sunday@8pm.  Performances are free with suggested donation.  Founded in 1995, and located in New Haven, The Elm Shakespeare Company is a professional theatre company committed to establishing a discourse with Connecticut’s communities and schools through the medium of Shakespeare’s plays.  In addition to these free performances in Edgerton Park the company presents innovative educational programs throughout the year that are designed to teach students, through practical application, the poser of Shakespeare’s language and the magic of the theatre.   For more information click here.

The Shoreline Actors Collective (SAC) started at KidzKonnection of Clinton will be presenting two performances of Macbeth on Saturday, August 17 at 5pm (rain date Monday, August 19 at 5pm) and Sunday, August 18 at 2pm (rain date Tuesday, August 20 at 5pm).  SAC is made up of actors from the age of 13 and up who enjoy performing and expanding their knowledge and ability in the art of theater.  Throughout the year, SACtors perform different types of service-related programs including the Clinton Historical Society’s Graveyard Tours, Chamard Vineyards for Theater in the Barn events and Christmas in Clinton.  Each summer the troupe comes together to perform a Shakespeare play.  The performances will take place in the gardens of the Clinton Historical Society, 103 Main Street, Clinton. Click here for information or call 860-227-2363.

And finally, Long Wharf Theatre presents Shake-It-Up-Shakespeare Summer Youth Ensemble on Stage II in a production of Romeo & Juliet. Directed by Annie DiMartino and musical direction by Carol Taubl Shakespeare’s famous tale of star-crossed lovers gets a new twist this summer!  Set in the juxtaposing worlds of Great Gatsby-esque glamour of weath and privelege versus the poverty and grime of Appalachian life, the Capulets and the Montagues come to blows once again.  Contemporary songs and classic folk music add to the lush story-telling as the cast sings through beautiful arrangements of Fun., Civil War, Taylor Swift, Mumford and Sons, The Dave Matthews Band, and more. For tickets click here.

CELEBRATE THE AUTUMN EQUINOX

CELEBRATE THE AUTUMN EQUINOX

Stony Creek Quarry in Branford, CT will once again be the location of Projects2k's 2013 spectacular Terra Tractus - the Earth Moves ~ a dynamic multimedia epic.  Projects 2K (Projects for a New Millennium) well known for the Quarry Spectacles produced in the Stony Creek Quarry is collaborating with Stony Creek Quarry Corporation to bring this multimedia production to the historic Branford quarry.  This autumn equinox event will take place Thursday - Sunday, September 19 - 22  at 6pm.  General admission tickets are $35.  VIP tickets which include a gourmet dinner provided by LaCuisine, wines, commemorative memorabilia, and premium seating are available for $125.

The 2013 extravaganza marks the 20th anniversary of Projects2k and the performance will feature the geological and human history of the Quarry/Connecticut and our geological connection to the world through a dynamic production to include light, laser, projections, music, and more.  Collaborating on this project are Geologists from the Yale School of Geology and Geophysics.  Project2ks last multimedia show (2005), TERRA MIRABILA - If Rocks Could Dream - told the geological story of the recipe of Stony Creek Granite from the beginning of known time into the future.  Their events are always widely anticipated and continue to amaze all who attend. 

The magnificent, awe-inspiring Stony Creek Quarry has been providing their unique pink granite for over 150 years and is estimated to contain enough for another 200 years.  The granite can be found at the base of the Statue of Liberty, in Grand Central Station, Grants Tomb and the West Point Monument.  Click here to watch a video on Projects2k and past productions.

TERRA TRACTUS has received a $30,000 matching grant from the CT Department of Economic and Community Development - Office of the Arts and a $10,000 grant from The David Bermant Foundation towards the match.  You can help, too! Join at any level to help make this exciting, educational, entertaining event happen.

Projects for a New Millennium was established in 1993 by Joy Wulke, environmental artist, as a non-profit corporation to create collaborative events that foster the fusing of art, science, and ecological concerns as a means of discovery, appreciation, and stewardship of the natural world. Projects for a New Millennium and its collaborators continue to aspire to extend presentations and educational programming illustrating a useful and wondrous philosophy of life, a worldview that celebrates our differences while recognizing the importance of our timeless common goals of peace and freedom in an environmentally sound world.

Opera Theater of CT Presents Rigoletto

Galen Scott Bower as Rigoletto
(Photo provided by StephenArtists.com)

This summer’s presentation, launching Opera Theater of Connecticut’s 28th season, is Verdi’s Rigoletto, a tragic tale of love, seduction, betrayal and revenge—all converging in the sad and moving story of the court jester caught in courtly debauchery. Performed in celebration of the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth, and highlighted by some of the most powerful and stunningly beautiful music that Verdi composed, this production is not to be missed.


Performances are Tuesday, August 6, Thursday, August 8 and Saturday, August 10 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, August 11 at 6 pm at the Andrews Memorial Theater, 54 East Main Street, Clinton.

Under the leadership of General Director Kate Ford, Opera Theater of Connecticut’s artistic team of Production Director Alan Mann and Music Director Kyle Swann will work with one of the finest musical and dramatic ensembles brought together in the state for this special presentation.

Since its founding, over twelve singers and two conductors performed with Opera Theater just short years before their Metropolitan Opera debuts. This season the pattern reverses as Metropolitan Opera artist Galen Bower debuts with Opera Theater in the title role of the complex and compelling character of the tormented jester and yet loving father.


Returning to OTC’s summer MainStage as Gilda, Rigoletto’s lovely and innocent daughter who is seduced and betrayed by the Duke of Mantua, City Opera singer Amanda Hall will thrill the audience as surely as she did performing Lucia last year in Opera Theater’s acclaimed Lucia di Lammermoor.

International rising-star Alok Kumar makes his debut both with OTC and in the role of the venal and salacious Duke of Mantua. The Indian-born tenor has been heard in many of the most romantic lead roles in opera from Tel Aviv, Israel to Rome and Spoleto, Italy, and, here in the United States, from Massachusetts to Colorado to Santa Fe to New York.

Also appearing in this Verdi blockbuster are Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions National Finalist and Connecticut native, Nicholas Masters as the assassin Sparafucile; National Opera Association finalist and Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions Encouragement Award winner Jennifer Feinstein as the sultry siren Maddalena; and, as the powerful nobleman Monterone whose curse sets the tragic wheel in motion, Alexander Hahn. Christopher Lucier and Laurentiu Rotaru sing the roles of the courtiers Borsa and Ceprano, supporters and sycophants of the decadent Duke.

The performances begin on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 7:30 pm (followed by the traditional opening night reception) and continue on Thursday, August 8 and Saturday, August 10 at 7:30 pm, with a final performance on Sunday, August 11 at 6 pm. Tickets are $45.00 for Regular; $40.00 for 65 and over, and $35.00 for Under 18.
As a response to recent seasons’ sold-out performances, Opera Theater of Connecticut will again present four performances of affordable opera in an intimate setting at the air-conditioned Andrews Memorial Theater, 54 East Main Street, Clinton to ensure that no one is turned away for this not-to-be-missed production! The opera will be sung in Italian with projected supertitles to fully appreciate all the dramatic facets of this masterpiece.

The performances begin on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 7:30 pm (followed by the traditional opening night reception) and continue on Thursday, August 8 and Saturday, August 10 at 7:30 pm, with a final performance on Sunday, August 11 at 6 pm. Tickets are $45.00 for Regular; $40.00 for 65 and over, and $35.00 for Under 18.  For more information and to reserve your tickets, call Opera Theater of Connecticut at 860-669-8999 or download an order form.

Opera Theater also features Opera Talk, an informal, informative talk about the evening’s opera and composer, by Artistic Director Alan Mann starting one hour and a half before each performance. Opera Talk tickets are $5.00.
Boxed Suppers Al Fresco Style from Chips Pub III are available through the Opera Theater of Connecticut office for $15.00 and need to be reserved 48 hours in advance.

Considering the opera’s popularity today, it is hard to believe that it was once thought to be dangerous and shocking. The first readers of the libretto, the censors of Venice, found it so scandalous that they insisted on a series of changes—including the changing of the original title, The Curse, to Rigoletto. Some years before, the play on which the opera is based was closed down by the French government after only two performances.  Despite its early difficulties, Rigoletto holds one of the top positions in the opera repertoire today. Its well known arias include the Duke’s flirtatious Questa o quella and La donna è mobile, Gilda’s moving Caro nome and Rigoletto’s dynamic Cortigiani as well as one of the most recognized ensemble pieces—the stirring Rigoletto Quartet.
Click here to download a ticket order form.

Compiled from Opera Theater of CT website.

Don’t Miss Shakespeare on the Shoreline’s Much Ado About Nothing

Don’t Miss Shakespeare on the Shoreline’s
Much Ado About Nothing
August 7 – 11

“The play’s the thing” and this is one you won’t want to miss!  Shoreline Arts Alliance welcomes back Shakesperience Productions, Inc. for this summer’s Shakespeare on the Shoreline production of the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing.  Bring blankets, chairs and picnic dinners and come out for ‘theatre under the stars’ on the historic Guilford Green.  Showtime is 7:30pm nightly.  On Wednesday, August 7 and Friday, August 9 (rain date August 10) there will be a pre-show and post-show talk with the Artistic and Managing Directors and members of the cast and crew.  Pre-show talks begin at 6:30pm and post-show talks will be immediately following the performance under the white tent.  Join in and uncover some of the mysteries of Shakespeare’s language as well as some of the nuances of the story and how relevant the themes are to us today.  Also, learn from the Artistic Director and members of the cast about this particular adaptation and interpretation.  The talk backs as well as the main stage performance are all FREE to attend!

Much Ado About Nothing is a dark comedy that could just as easily turned tragic.  It follows the trials, tribulations and ultimately happy ending for two couples: Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick.  As in many Shakespearean plays there is misunderstanding, misrepresentation, jealousy, fabrication, deceit and luckily reconciliation.  The ‘battle of the sexes’ between Beatrice and Benedick is central to the plot and finally resolves into ‘happily ever-after’.

Come early, stay late and meet the cast of Shakesperience Productions, Inc. and join the Shoreline Arts Alliance for the 12^th annual Shakespeare on the Shoreline program.

Also, for those with young children or grandchildren Shakesperience Productions, Inc.  will be performing a daytime show for children and families.  The Sword in the Stone will be presented on Wednesday, August 7 at 10am on Jacobs Beach, Guilford and at 1pm at the Surf Club in Madison.  This is also a free to attend event but beach parking may apply.

Thank you to our sponsors for this year’s Shakespeare on the Shoreline: Mary & Jeff Beeman, Christ Episcopal Church, Chubb Insurance, CT Humanities, CT Office of the Arts (DECD), Liz & Niall Ferguson, First Niagara Bank, Guilford Foundation, Guilford Fund for Education, Guilford Savings Bank, NewAlliance Foundation, National Roofing, Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, Shore Publishing Newspapers, Town of Guilford, Yale New Haven Hospital.