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Events



Apr
14
Thu
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 14 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
15
Fri
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 15 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
16
Sat
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 16 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
20
Wed
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 20 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
21
Thu
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 21 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
22
Fri
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 22 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
23
Sat
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 23 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
27
Wed
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 27 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
28
Thu
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 28 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
29
Fri
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 29 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

Apr
30
Sat
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Apr 30 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

May
4
Wed
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
May 4 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

May
5
Thu
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
May 5 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

May
6
Fri
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
May 6 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

May
7
Sat
A Breath of Spring – a group art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
May 7 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Our first group show of the year opens in the Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre on April 8th and runs until May 7th. The show features works from more than 15 artists from across the South Shore, both established and emerging, some of whom are exhibiting in the Town Hall for the first time.

Join us on Thursday April 7th for an opening reception, 6pm – 8pm.

May
13
Fri
WATERCOLOURS by Marilyn Kellough – solo art show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
May 13 @ 11:00 am – Jun 18 @ 4:00 pm
Renowned watercolour painter Marilyn Kellough will be displaying a collection of her works in our downstairs gallery from May 13th to June 18th.
There will be an opening reception and viewing with the artist on Friday May 13th from 6pm. Please join us to celebrate these beautiful paintings: WATERCOLOURS by Marilyn Kellough.
Jun
24
Fri
Views From Here: Scenes of the South Shore – A Group Art Show @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Jun 24 @ 11:00 am – Sep 10 @ 4:00 pm

Original works by more than 20 Nova Scotian artists will be exhibited this summer at the Town Hall Arts and Cultural Centre in Liverpool. The Views from Hereshow features images that reflect the natural world experienced on the South Shore, in all its diversity and seasons. 

 

The response from artists for this show is exceptional,said Cathy Pincombe, show organizer. “‘Views from Herehas attracted the largest number of artists we have ever exhibited in a group show.  Among them are 12 who are showing their work at THACC for the first time.

 

The Views from Hereshow will be displayed in THACCs two gallery spaces. Images include original paintings in a variety of media, as well as photography and fibre art. Prints and cards by a number of the artists will also be available in the Astor Theatres art shop.

 

The Views from Hereart show is open 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wednesday to Saturday, until September 10.

Dec
17
Sat
Happenstance Theatre’s physical comedy workshop @ The Astor Theatre
Dec 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Explore the genre of physical comedy and learn how to make an audience laugh without using words. This workshop explores physical techniques that support comic performance, with exercises in stillness, focus, reaction, status, the inclusion of the audience and theatrical clowning. Students develop an understanding of the importance of timing in comedy…and of course, no physical comedy workshop would be complete without learning a bit of Slapstick, without getting hurt!

Mark Jaster draws on his training with Étienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau. Sabrina draws on her training in the LeCoq pedagogy with Dody DiSanto with concentration in the realm of the theatrical clown. Their complementary approaches combine to address nuts-and-bolts physical, technical and structural skills and the more esoteric issues of honesty, presence and accessibility.

The workshop will take place at 10am, prior to Pinot & Augustine’s show on the Astor stage at 3pm. For ages 8-15 it will last approximately 2 hours. Priced at $10.

HAPPENSTANCE THEATER is an award-winning, professional company committed to devising, producing and touring original, performer-created visual, poetic Theater. With the simplest means – movement, silence, theatrical clown, music, text, physical comedy and beauty – we seek to elevate the moment when the performers and audience meet, to lift the encounter beyond the daily and pedestrian into the realms of dreams, poetry, and art. Meaning is often discovered by happenstance.
www.HappenstanceTheater.com

Mar
14
Tue
Stained Glass Painting Workshop with Scot Slessor (ages 11-16) @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Mar 14 @ 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Registration required, at the Astor box office (11am – 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday). (902) 354-5250 or boxoffice@astortheatre.ns.ca

Stained glass painting (11-16 years)

2.5 – 3 hours – max 5 participants, $30

Workshops run by Scot Slessor of SAS Glass.

Each participant will make two painted pieces of stained glass and learn about the history of glass and see many examples of stained, fused and casted glass.

History of glass – What is glass made of? Is there natural glass? How do we join glass pieces? What is glass paint? Painting techniques.

Activity: Removal technique – each participant will prepare a piece of glass and remove paint with sticks and brushes to create an image such as their name, flowers, an animal, a building, etc. Participants will learn to lay a base of paint and trace a design onto glass. Each participant will bring or select a design to trace.

Pieces will be fired at SAS Glass and returned the next day to the Astor for participant/parent pickup.

Suncatcher and Kiln Carving Workshop (11-16 years) @ Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre
Mar 14 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Registration required, at the Astor box office (11am – 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday). (902) 354-5250 or boxoffice@astortheatre.ns.ca

Workshops are run by Scot Slessor of SAS Glass, Liverpool

Suncatcher and Kiln Carving (11 to 16 years)

3 hours – max. 6

Each participant will make two pieces – one Suncatcher and one coaster/tile and learn about the history of glass and see many examples of stained glass and see many examples of stained, fused and casted glass.

History of glass – what is glass made of? Is there natural glass? How do we join glass pieces? What is kiln carving?

Activity: Cut, grind and foil stained glass pieces and participate in soldering together.

Activity: Cut fire-proof paper into multi-layered maple leaf, animal, or fish…

Both items are fired at SAS Glass and returned to the Astor the next day for pickup by parents or students.