New, Dynamic Center for Arts and Humanities in Stamford
welcome to the Mayapple Center, where we carry a torch for the arts and humanities fueled by passion, intellect, imagination and creativity in both scholarship and the arts. The Mayapple Center was founded to give back to the community in a small-scale, yet meaningful, way. As an educational nonprofit, Mayapple is an intellectually and artistically rigorous boutique institute that seeks to cultivate imagination through artistic and intellectual cross-pollination in a distinctly 21st century climate. This summer, we are offering exciting five-day residential seminars for adults in the areas of creative writing, humanities, music, theatre and visual arts. All members of the community are welcome to apply for these programs led by an exceptional faculty that includes Pulitzer prize-winning poet vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer prize winning-investigative journalist Thomas Powers and faculty from Brown, Yale, Princeton, Juilliard, Columbia and Middlebury. we admit a maximum 10 participants so that each individual’s voice will be heard. Our extraordinary guest lectures are open to the public and include talks by Henry Urbach, director of the Philip Johnson Glass House; dartmouth Professor donald Pease; board member and Johns Hopkins Professor Emeritus Stephen G. nichols; and Meghan O’Rourke, a recent Guggenheim winner, poet and former editor of the new Yorker. we are building a residency program for artists and scholars of exceptional stature to collaborate and share their work, and we are also creating an innovative workshop to cultivate cultural literacy. The center’s holistic approach to artistic growth and development is also demonstrated by our dedication to sustainability. Our organic gardens provide produce not only for our programs but also for local food banks, and we are pursuing opportunities for renewable energy and stewardship of the land. Horace Mann once sounded the exhortation: “Be ashamed to die until you have made a meaningful contribution to humanity.” At Mayapple, we are all inspired to fulfill Mann’s exhortation, as participants, staff, and faculty. we invite you to join the Mayapple community this summer as we forge a renewed cultural and intellectual vitality. Michele Slater President, Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities Inc. Member, Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County
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FAIRFIELD MUSEUM OPENS IMAGES 2014: SIXTH ANNUAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW The Fairfield Museum and History Center announces the opening of the sixth annual juried photography show and a solo exhibition by world-renowned photographer and Fairfield native, david LaChapelle. IMAGES 2014 is a highly regarded exhibition that celebrates the exceptional work of talented, regional photographers. This year, winners were selected from more than 900 entries from Connecticut, new York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Categories include landscape, portrait, architecture, nature and abstract as well as a new category, iconic Fairfield, in honor of the 375th anniversary of the town of Fairfield. The solo exhibition features world-renowned photographer david LaChapelle. His work, which often combines a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic while providing a profound social message, draws inspiration from historical references and uses exaggerated scale and color pallets. At age 17, LaChapelle’s career took off after working for Andy warhol at Interview magazine. He went on to master a multitude of disciplines, including fashion, commercial, and advertising, film and fine art photography. His images have graced the covers and pages of Italian vogue, French
David LaChapelle, Gas Am Pm, 2013, chromogenic print. Image courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2013 David LaChapelle Studio.
vogue, vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone and his work has been featured in galleries and museums from new York to Paris to Tel Aviv. Fairfield Museum offers a wide range of programs, lectures and events in conjunction with its exhibitions. For more information, visit fairfieldhistory.org.
STAMFORD YOUNG ARTISTS PHILHARMONIC ENDS 54TH SEASON WITH ‘A GALA SPRING CONCERT’ Celebrating 54 years as a youth symphony orchestra organization, Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic (SYAP) presents its final concert of the season Sunday, May 18, at the Palace Theatre in Stamford. SYAP encompasses six performing ensembles and its Summer Jazz workshop. The organization is comprised of nearly 200 dedicated student musicians who hail from more than a dozen towns in the area. Performing ensembles include the Young String Ensemble, Young People’s Symphony, Young Artists wind Ensemble and SYAP’s flagship advanced orchestra, Young Artists Philharmonic. At “A Gala Spring Concert,” Christian Capocaccia, music director and principal conductor, will take the podium to conduct the Young Artists Philharmonic, which will perform an advanced concert repertoire. Two acclaimed soloists
will be featured as soloists: internationally renowned soprano Alexandra deshorties, who will perform Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutti, and 13-year-old cellist Sujari Britt, who will perform Saint-Saens’ concerto no. 1 in A Minor. deshorties, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists development Program, continues to distinguish herself as one of the leading young sopranos of her generation. Cellist Britt is the 2013-14 recipient of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation Scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music. In February 2014, Britt was interviewed on the katie Couric Show and was introduced as “one of the most asked-about young cellists in classical music.” For more information, call the Palace Theatre box office at 203-325-4466 or visit scalive.org.
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