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Saturday, Nov. 8 at 12 PM
Parkinson Gymnasium |
Tickets:
$15 general public;
free to FSC students
Call the Weston Box Office for tickets or purchase tickets online. |
Delve into the intoxicating soulful expression of flamenco dance with a master class with members of Noche Flamenca. Lessons in this graceful and hypnotic dance style bring together history, culture and emotion with the traditional sweeping movement of the arms and stomping of the feet.
For dancers with experience. Limited enrollment. |
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Composing for the Silent Movie |
Monday, Nov. 17 at 12:30 PM
Kent Recital Hall (Conlon Building) |
Professor of music and composer Robin Dinda joins Devil Music Ensemble band members and composers in lively conversation about the art and craft of silent movie composition. The Devil Music Ensemble is a multi-media performing arts group whose primary artistic focus is exploring the combination/collaboration of music and visual art, primarily by performing live accompaniment to silent film classics. Dinda brings his experience as a solo artist/composer using the organ acoustically; Devil Music Ensemble brings an array of amplified and electronic instruments into their composition palette.
Admission: free
Free parking available at the Wallace Civic Center; take FSC shuttle bus.
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The Devil Music Ensemble presents
Red Heroine (Hong Xia)
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Monday, Nov. 17 at 7 PM
Kent Recital Hall (Conlon Building) |
Tickets (at the door):
$10/general public;
$7/ FSC staff, faculty and seniors;
$5/FSC students
Free with CenterStage membership card!
Call the Weston Box Office for tickets or purchase tickets online. |
Episode 6 of Red Knight-Errant (aka Red Heroine), the only surviving episode of the 13-part serial, is also one of the few complete and earliest extant silent martial arts films. A band of outlaws raids a village and kidnaps a maiden, causing the death of the young woman's grandmother. The captive maiden is rescued by a mysterious Daoist hermit and reemerges three years later as a full-fledged warrior, flying to the sky to revenge her grandmother's death. While generously sprinkled with anachronisms and prurient incongruities (imagine a bandit's harem of beauties in bikinis), Wen Yimin’s 1929 film remains a robust telling of a young woman's transformation from abject victim to resolute warrior. |
Devil Music Ensemble returns after last year’s sell-out for another engagement offering a unique multimedia experience and creating a synthesis of live music and movie. This original DME score for Red Heroine is the only score ever produced for the film.
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Tap Dance Master Class
with the Jazz Tap Odyssey |
Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7:00 PM
Parkinson Gymnasium |
Tickets:
$15/general public;
free to FSC students
Call the Weston Box Office for tickets or purchase tickets online. |
Join this master class led by members of the Jazz Tap Odyssey. Class will include live accompaniment.
For dancers with experience.
Limited enrollment. |
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Special Workshop with Sam Bush
Sunday, Mar. 29 at 3:30 PM
Conlon 157 (Conlon Building) |
Admission: free
Call the Weston Box Office for more information. |
In this workshop, Sam will discuss and demonstrate his iconic style of mandolin playing known as “The Sam Bush Mandolin Method.” Learn from the master how to improve your technical prowess and build your repertoire through Sam’s method of pick technique, rhythm chopping, improvising, soloing and more. |
Jam Session with Wide Open Spaces
Sunday, Mar. 29 at 4:30 PM
Conlon 157 (Conlon Building) |
Admission: free
Call the Weston Box Office for more information. |
Stay on after Sam leaves for his sound check! Local bluegrass group, Wide Open Spaces, will take the lead for this free and open Jam Session. If you have been hankering for a good dose of fiddlin', this is the time and place. Bring your instrument and join in. Get all fired up and primed at Sam's workshop and then stay for a fast-paced, good old finger-pickin' good jam session with a local bluegrass group. |
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Thursday, April 2 at 9 p.m
Recreation Center
130 North Street
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Tickets:
Weston Box Office: (credit card, check and cash accepted)
Info Desk: (one card and cash accepted)
Students: $10 with college ID
Faculty, staff and alumni: $15
General public: $20
Tickets for the general public and alumni go on sale starting March 16 at the Weston box office. Tickets may be purchased at the box office or by calling 978.665.3347.
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The Fitchburg Activities Board presents a spring semester concert by Jimmy Eat World, with tickets available to the campus and the community.
Jimmy Eat World will perform at the Recreation Center, 130 North St., on Thursday, April 2 at 9 p.m., with doors opening at 8 p.m.
Jimmy Eat World's latest CD is "Chase This Light." The band is known for the classic pop single "The Middle" - the ubiquitous summer smash hit of 2002 that propelled the 2001 album "Jimmy Eat World" to multi-platinum status, as years of slogging it out under the radar were finally rewarded with sold out tours, an appearance on "Saturday Night Live," an MTV Video Award nomination, invitations to tour with Green Day, Weezer and Blink-182, and critical acclaim on year-end lists from Spin, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Blender and Alternative Press among others. |
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Italy for the Gourmet Traveler |
Friday, Apr. 17 at 5:30 PM
The Fay Club
Main Street, Downtown Fitchburg
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Tickets:
$25(Tickets must be purchased in advance)
Call the Weston Box Office for tickets. |
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Fitchburg and Leominster are home to Italians from many regions—Marche, Abruzzo, Sicilia, Calabria, Campania (Naples), Lazio (Rome), Lombardy (Milan) to name some. At this evening’s event, renowned Italian expert Fred Plotkin, will be our gastronomical guide as we sample foods from these various regions and delight in his raconteur style.
Sponsored by the Sandro and Lillian Clementi lecture fund |
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