Chestertown, MD – The Garfield Center for the Arts is accepting applications for a director for the Chester River Youth Choir. Qualified applicants should be prepared to run weekly rehearsals, communicate with parents, choose appropriate repertoire for children’s treble voices ages 7-17, and be able to play piano along to 3-part voicing and some accompaniments. […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND, – Boston-based Brown Box Theatre Project will bring its popular musical cabaret Broadway Jukebox Revolution to downtown Chestertown on Thursday evening, May 30,2019 starting at 7:00 p.m. Hosted by the Chestertown Arts & Entertainment District and Main Street Chestertown, the FREE concert will be held outdoors in the 200 block of High Street, […]
Continue ReadingChestertown – Members of Kent School’s class of 2019 will bring the stage to life with their performance of Into the Woods, Jr. Two Performances are scheduled, Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the M.V. “Mike” Williams Gymnasium. Admission to the performance is free and the public is invited […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Washington College’s Foreman’s Branch Bird Observatory (FBBO) has become part of an international network that is revolutionizing scientists’ ability to understand the lives and migratory patterns of birds, bats, and even large insects. Two stations installed in late April, one atop a grain elevator at the River and Field Campus and another […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – The spring installment of the Garfield’s Educational Outreach Program features Mark H. Rooney, described as “the world’s most dangerous half-Scottish/half-Japanese solo taiko artist”, in a performance that is open to the public on May 28th 2019 at 10:30am. Taiko is a dynamic form of full-body drumming based in Japanese tradition. Based in […]
Continue ReadingSt. Michaels author Gerald F. Sweeney has completed a series of seven novels called The Columbiad that follows one family through the 20th Century. The saga’s final novel, Comes the Electric Circus, will be featured at his reading at the Book Plate in Chestertown on May 25th at 2pm. His topic: “How the Mild 50’s […]
Continue ReadingDear Friends of the Garfield, Due to circumstances beyond our control, our production of Where the Wild Things Are will only be running from April 26-28. We would like to encourage the community to plan on attending one of the three performances, on Friday and Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm. If you have […]
Continue ReadingChestertown – The Garfield Center for the Arts is holding open auditions for their 15th annual 10-minute play festival, Short Attention Span Theatre. Auditions will take place on the following dates: Tuesday, April 30 @ 6pm Thursday, May 2 @ 6pm Saturday, May 4 @ 11am Actors should be prepared to do cold readings from […]
Continue ReadingChestertown held their Annual Earth Day Celebration on April 20, 2019. As part of the celebration RiverArts and the Kent County Arts Council sponsored a Recycled Art Contest with he bulk of the material used would have been discarded if not repurposed. First prizes were given to the best piece by an adult and a […]
Continue ReadingOn April 26th 2019 director Bee Betley will be opening a new show at the Garfield Center for the Arts; an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are. A veteran of local theatre, this is Betley’s second full-length production since directing The Little Prince in 2018. Feeling misunderstood at home […]
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