Tag Archive for ‘Arts’
New Gallery Exhibit: “Without a Passport”
“Without a Passport,” an exhibit by photographer Nancy L. Bridges, opens November 1, with a reception at noon in the Gretchen Brigham Gallery. Ms. Bridges’ photographs document a summer of exploring rural Missouri, focusing on twenty-three towns, villages, and sites bearing names of well-recognized foreign cities and countries (Rome, Paris, Japan,Florence, etc). The images depict [...]
Reel Faith: The Seventh Seal
Our “Reel Faith” film series continues Thursday Oct. 22, 2009 with a showing of the Ingmar Bergman Classic The Seventh Seal (1957) at 7 pm in the Fellowship Room. This beautiful black and white drama follows the journey of a world-weary knight (Max von Sydow) returning home from the Crusades when he encounters Death on a [...]
UAO Presents Lakmé
Union Avenue Opera (UAO) presents Léo Delibes’ Lakmé in performances August 21, 22, 28 & 29 – all at 8 p.m. Lakmé explores the complexities of forbidden love between a British officer and the daughter of a Brahmin priest in colonial India. The opera is best known for the soaring arias “The Bell Song,” a [...]
AGUA Presents “Flower Power”
The Arts Group of Union Avenue unveiled its 2009 multimedia exhibition, “Flower Power,” today in the Gretchen Brigham Gallery. The exhibited works, which include paintings, drawings, etchings, fabric art, photography and sculpture, were selected by John Dyess, who served as juror for the exhibition. In his judge’s statement, Mr. Dyess wrote, “I viewed all the [...]
UAO Presents The Merry Widow
Union Avenue Opera (UAO) continues its fifteenth season with Franz Léhar’s Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow). One of the quintessential Viennese operettas, The Merry Widow also is one of the most popular comedic works in the operatic repertoire. Light, frothy, tuneful and fun, it tells the story of a wealthy widow, who’s obliged to [...]
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