Arts & Entertainment
February 4, 2012 - Adult Clay Class
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Hand build or throw on the wheel. The first 2 days will create work. The last day will be glazing. Possible hand building projects include chip and dip set, wall votive or coil built vase. We welcome your ideas! Class should yield at least 2- 6 pieces Instructors Sarah Halcott and Robert Johnson.
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February 7, 2012 - Adventures in Acrylic & Oil Painting
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Experience the joy of paint in this class. Bring photos of a chosen subject as reference for your painting. Learn to use only what is important to you in the photo and to leave out what is not. Learn methods to scale up from a photo reference, identify the center of interest and use color and texture to interpret your vision. Focus will be on composition, color and painting techniques. Instructor Brigitte Bowden.
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February 13, 2012 - Adult Pottery Class
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Class for all levels discusses where you want to take your pottery. Beginners will create simple cylinders on the wheel and turn them into mugs. Students will be guided to make beautiful functional ware or artistic non-functional forms depending on the individual. Decorate pieces with food safe/microwave safe under-glaze or glaze. Instructors Sarah Halcott & Robert Johnson.
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February 13, 2012 - Kids after School Pottery
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Beginner projects will include animal sculptures, mugs, bowls, and instruments with an introduction to the potter's wheel. Advanced students will have more time on the wheel. Students are encouraged to explore their own imaginations, create projects, and work at their own speed. Students practice techniques including pinch, coil, slab and wheel throwing. Students will decorate with glaze or paint.Instructors Sarah Halcott & Robert Johnson.
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February 17, 2012 - Blooming Artist Youth Show
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Open to children in the Delmarva Region. Students may submit 1 entry in either Preschool-K, Elementary or Middle School category. High School students may submit up to 2 entries. Prizes and ribbons awarded plus the High School winner will receive a Foyer Gallery solo exhibition in 2013. No entry fees - students do not have to be in a formal art program, home schoolers welcome. Any sales - all proceeds benefit the child artist.
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February 21, 2012 - Sign and Dance
Berlin Library - 220 N. Main Street - Berlin, Maryland - With Kathy MacMillan - Warm up your fingers and your toes, and learn basic signs through joyful stories, music, and activities. This movement based program will teach little ones and their parents basic sign language in an upbeat setting. Children 4 and up.
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February 21, 2012 - Sign and Dance
Pocomoke Library - Pocomoke City, Maryland - With Kathy MacMillan - Warm up your fingers and your toes, and learn basic signs through joyful stories, music, and activities. This movement based program will teach little ones and their parents basic sign language in an upbeat setting. Children 4 and up.
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February 22, 2012 - Painting with Kevin Fitzgerald
Art League of Ocean City, 94th Street (under the Water Tower). Ocean City, Maryland - Kevin Fitzgerald will be teaching a 3-day class for painters in all mediums. His painting is inspired by the works of the old masters as they relate to current forms. He believes that through painting one can become especially aware of the beauty around us. The class will include a tour of his studio and an optional plein air session weather permitting.
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February 23, 2012 - The World of Percussion with Doc Gibbs
Ocean Pines Library - Ocean Pines, Maryland - Musical Director for the Emeril Live Show! Philadelphia native Doc Gibbs is one of the most sought after percussionists in the music industry today. Whether he's recording, touring or kickin' it up a notch with Emeril Lagasse, Doc musically operates on his audiences with funky rhythms and a vast assortment of traditional and unusual percussion instruments.
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February 24, 2012 - The Mouse Trap
Guerrieri Hall, Wor-Wic Community College - Salisbury, Maryland - Giles and Mollie Ralston, operate Monkswell Manor, a boarding house outside of London. They have just opened their home to visitors and unknowingly have harbored a murderer. A blinding snowstorm has trapped the eccentric travelers, who are unaware of the heinous crime about to take place. When a murder is committed, each of them is under suspicion, and it is up to Detective Sergeant Trotter to solve the crime. An Agatha Christie murder mystery.
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February 25, 2012 - Pysanky: Magic Eggs
Coverdale Farm Preserve 543 Way Road - Greenville, Delaware - Pysanky is the millennia old Ukrainian tradition of decorating eggs. These beautiful "wax resist and dyed" eggs were believed to herald the spring season offering fertility and new growth of animals and crops. Create your own pysanky using Coverdale Farm eggs with shells in natural shades of brown, cream, white, and green. Bring a dozen, room temperature eggs; all other materials are included (including farm eggs). Old clothing is recommended. Leader: Jennifer Domal, Regional Artist
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February 26, 2012 - Lecture: Ye Bare, Ye Cubbe
Fulton Hall Black Box Theatre - Salisbury University - In conjunction with the Theater Department's presentation "The Play in August", Dr. G. Ray Thompson, professor of History and Director of the Nabb Research Center, will introduce attendees to the general ambience on the Eastern Shore during the mid-seventeenth century, a locale rife with religious, political, social and economic strife, which lead to the creation of the first play in colonial America---a biting satirical work called "Ye Bare and Ye Cubbe".
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February 29, 2012 - Aunt Philly’s Toothbrush: Rug Making
Ocean Pines Library - Ocean Pines, Maryland - Learn how to make a rug from strips of material using a special flat needle which is provided for you. The rug is attached to itself, so you do not need to sew the rug together, as with a braided rug. This is a quick and fun way to make rugs ranging from coaster size to chair pads to large floor rugs. Please bring strips of fabric 2 inches wide and 45 inches long.
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March 1, 2012 - The Mouse Trap
Guerrieri Hall, Wor-Wic Community College - Salisbury, Maryland - Giles and Mollie Ralston, operate Monkswell Manor, a boarding house outside of London. They have just opened their home to visitors and unknowingly have harbored a murderer. A blinding snowstorm has trapped the eccentric travelers, who are unaware of the heinous crime about to take place. When a murder is committed, each of them is under suspicion, and it is up to Detective Sergeant Trotter, to solve the crime. An Agatha Christie murder mystery.
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March 5, 2012 - CATS
Wicomico Civic Center - 500 Glen Avenue, Salisbury, Maryland - America's favorite family musical is coming to Salisbury with the show that revolutionized musical theater. CATS is closing in on its 30th anniversary, holding its place as the longest continuously touring Broadway musical in history.
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March 6, 2012 - Adventures in Acrylic & Oil Painting
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Experience the joy of paint in this class. Bring photos of a chosen subject as reference for your painting. Learn to use only what is important to you in the photo and to leave out what is not. Learn methods to scale up from a photo reference, identify the center of interest and use color and texture to interpret your vision. Focus will be on composition, color and painting techniques. Instructor Brigitte Bowden.
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March 7, 2012 - The Big Read Kick-Off Event
Ocean Pines Library - Ocean Pines, Maryland - Readers Theater: Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam. Radio Airwaves Productions performs heartwarming and emotional readings from the book, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. Carefully selected letters are acted out to tell the stories of heroic soldiers and their families. The skits are selected and produced by Graham Caldwell of Radio Airwaves Productions.
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March 7, 2012 - Storm Party
Ocean City Convention Center - Help commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March Storm of 1962 also known as the "Storm of the Century" and the "Ash Wednesday" storm. We will be coming together to remember one of the most devastating storms that Ocean City has survived. There will be a Delmarvalously delicious dinner and a video presentation of local people sharing their experiences during the terrible storm. A special reprint of the book "The Tides of March" by Beryl and Bill Dryden will also be available.
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March 13, 2012 - Regret to Inform with Kelley Rouse
Pocomoke Library - Pocomoke City, Maryland - Film & Discussion, Big Read Event - In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator, Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
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March 15, 2012 - Writing with Ruth
Ocean City Library - Ocean City, Maryland - Come join our monthly gathering of local writers, share independent work (poems/essays/memoirs/prose, etc.) and receive encouraging feedback from fellow participants. Hone individual strategies for effective writing and improve the quality and comfort of oral presentation. Ruth Alcorn will lead the group.
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March 16, 2012 - Book of the Month: The Things They Carried
Berlin Library - 220 N. Main Street - Berlin, Maryland - By Tim O'Brien - A ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam.
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March 19, 2012 - Big Read Event: History and Legacy of the Vietnam War - Part I
Ocean City Library - Ocean City, Maryland - Program begins with Vietnam's long struggle against foreign invaders, picking up at the end of World War II when France reemerged as a colonial power in Vietnam. The presentation traces the eventual French withdrawal from Vietnam as part of the 1954 Geneva Agreement, the growing American financial assistance over the remainder of the 1950s, and the introduction and buildup of American military presence in Vietnam during the 1960s. Program ends with the Tet Offensive of 1968, when Viet Cong forces attempted to overrun American and South Vietnamese positions. Part II, March 26.
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March 26, 2012 - Big Read Event: History and Legacy of the Vietnam War - Part I
Ocean City Library - Ocean City, Maryland - Events from 1968 to the end of the war are covered, including the 1968 presidential election and its impact on the Vietnam War, the drawdown of U.S. forces, the 1973 Paris Peace Accords which led to American withdrawal from Vietnam, and the victorious 1975 North Vietnamese offensive which unified Vietnam under a communist government. The legacy of the war for the respective governments, soldiers, and citizens of America and Vietnam is discussed. U.S. participation in the Vietnam War is compared to several subsequent conflicts.
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March 26, 2012 - Adult Pottery Class
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Class for all levels discusses where you want to take your pottery. Beginners will create simple cylinders on the wheel and turn them in to mugs. Students will be guided to make beautiful functional ware or artistic non-functional forms depending on the individual. Decorate pieces with food safe/microwave safe under-glaze or glaze. Instructors Sarah Halcott and Robert Johnson.
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March 26, 2012 - Kids After School Pottery
Art Institute & Gallery, 212 W. Main Street, Salisbury, Maryland - Beginner projects will include animal sculptures, mugs, bowls, and instruments with an introduction to the potter's wheel. Advanced students will have more time on the wheel. Students are encouraged to explore their own imaginations, create projects, and work at their own speed. Students practice techniques including pinch, coil, slab and wheel throwing. Students will decorate with glaze or paint. Instructors Sarah Halcott & Robert Johnson.
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March 27, 2012 - Performance: Too Human
Ocean Pines Library - Ocean Pines, Maryland - Songwriters and performers Ellen Schwartz and Roger Bruno play what they term "good music with a lot of heart." They cover jazz standards from the American Songbook but with a fresh interpretation that brings new life to those classic songs. Their tastes are eclectic, running from jazz and blues to pop and R&B.
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April 6, 2012 - Easter Art & Craft Fair
Ocean City Convention Center - 40th Street and the Bay; Ocean City, Maryland - Exhibitors displaying unique handcrafted items including wearable art, jewelry, lawn & garden decor, toys, florals, fine art, caricatures & more. Kids enjoy continuous events, activities & entertainment including Beany the Easter Bunny, egg hunts and more.
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April 9, 2012 - A Big Read Event: Platoon
Ocean City Library - Ocean City, Maryland - A young, naive American gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers. As the war continues, he struggles for survival; he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict among the men within his platoon.
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April 12, 2012 - Writing with Ruth
Ocean City Library - Ocean City, Maryland - Come join our monthly gathering of local writers, share independent work (poems/essays/memoirs/prose, etc.) and receive encouraging feedback from fellow participants. Hone individual strategies for effective writing and improve the quality and comfort of oral presentation. Ruth Alcorn will lead the group.
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April 16, 2012 - Watercolor Journaling
Art League of Ocean City, 94th Street (under the Water Tower). Ocean City, Maryland - Discover the joys of keeping a watercolor journal to record your observations of the world around you. Learn how to incorporate drawing, watercolor painting and writing in a way that will delight and inspire. Experience helpful, but not required. Instructor Rosemary Connolly.
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April 21, 2012 - Learn to Play the Violin
Ocean City Library - Ocean City, Maryland - This program is an educational outreach program of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. They have provided 10 violins in half and three-qurter sizes. During the 5 classes, children will have the chance to learn a beginning song such as Bingo, or Mary Had A Little Lamb. They will also have a chance to play rhythm and improv games with the violin while learning to work with one another in an orchestra! Children 9 years and older.
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April 21, 2012 - Meet The String Family
Ocean Pines Library - Ocean Pines, Maryland - Violinist and Salisbury University professor Dr. Sachiho Murasugi and several SU students will introduce you to the string family of instruments. This will include show and tell and a chance for some audience members to hold and even try to play an instrument. The ensemble will play several musical selections.
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August 2, 2012 - Heartland Quilters of the Eastern Shore’s Shop Hop
Denton Firehouse, 400 S. 5th Avenue, Denton, Maryland - The "Shop Hop" will feature more than 30 quilting-related vendors, including quilt and yarn shops from the Delmarva Peninsula, local beaders, wool spinners, long arm quilters, wood workers, machine embroiderers and much more.
In addition to the Shop Hop, the Heartland Quilters are also sponsoring the Downtown Denton Quilt Crawl where you can enjoy ongoing quilt exhibits at the Foundry, located at 401 Market Street, the Museum of Rural Life, located at 16 N. 2nd Street, the Caroline Central Library, located at 100 Market Street and the Choptank River Heritage Center, located at 10219 River Landing Road in Denton. Residents and visitors will find a collection of unique quilts on display at each of the location through August.
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