Community Arts Calendar

Events

January 27. Freestate High will bring in 2 groups to see the exhibits. AM & mid afternoon. Approximately 10 kids each group.

January 28. 7pm. Shawn Bitters will give gallery talk. Free & open to public.

Transformations

The 940 Dance Company, Lawrence’s professional, contemporary dance company, will present Transformations, a concert for healing self and community, on Tuesday, January 26th at 7 pm at the Lawrence Arts Center. The tickets will be $5 for all ages. The residents and staff of First Step House will be special guests at the performance. First Step House is a half-way house for women recovering from drug or alcohol addiction.

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Lawrence Women's Chorale present Christmas Around the World. Time and date TBA.

The Dixie Swim Club a Comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten Some friendships last forever! A comedy that invites us to four reunions of women who first met on a college swim team. Come meet five unforgettable women who continue through the years to laugh, meddle and be there for each other.
(Jan. 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31)

Rabbit Hole A Drama by David Lindsay-Abaire 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, the drama charts a family’s bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
(Feb. 25, 26, 27, 28, March 4, 5, 6, 7)

Blithe Spirit a comedy by Noel Coward This classic comedy offers us a cantankerous novelist haunted by the ghost of his first wife, a visiting “happy medium,” and a current wife who is accidentally killed and joins the first to haunt the hapless author into perpetuity.
(April 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25)

Curtains A Tony Award Winner with 9 Tony Nominations! The Associated Press called it “Musical comedy heaven!” There’s a murder in the cast-anyone could have done it! A Boston police detective ‘who cares as much for musical theater as justice’ comes to investigate. Will he find the killer? Will he save the show? Will love prevail?
(June 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27)

Lobby Hero - February 6th, 7th, 13th and 14th - Written by highly acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan, Lobby Hero is set in a Manhattan high-rise apartment lobby and tells the story of a young security guard who discovers that the lobby of a busy hotel is the last place he should have tried to escape the problems in life. He becomes intertwined in a series of events and circumstances in which he must deal with people he never would have dreamed he would know.

Ten-Minute Play Showcase - May 29th, 30th, June 5th and 6th - EMU's annual collection of 10-minute plays by local playwrights.

Show title: FRESH
Reception & Opening March 15th
Continuing to show through April 10th
Location: Tellers Restaurant 746 Mass St. Lawrence, 66044

The show will have new works from 2010 never shown in Lawrence previously. We have well over 20 local and former members of Fresh Produce Art Collective contributing from across the U.S. from as far as North Carolina, to Los Angeles, CA.

Here are some of the contributors confirmed to participate.

• Ben Dory
• Charles Ray
• Clare Doveton
• Erok Johanssen
• Jeromy Morris
• Jeremy Rockwell
• Josie Wrath
• Justin Marable
• Leo Hayden
• Lindsay Major
• Mark Landau
• Matt Ridgway
• Matthew Farley
• Mike Adams
• Ostaf Heller
• Paul Flinders
• Rachel Herring
• Rachel Larson
• Ruben Gaucin
• Whit Bones
• Yuri Zupancic

The Lawrence Art Guild is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity created to promote art awareness in Lawrence and surrounding areas. We support the creative growth of its members and area artists. Meetings are held on the third Monday evening of each month, 6:30p.m. to 9:00p.m., in the Lawrence Public Library auditorium at 707 Vermont Street. The first half hour of our meeting covers old and new business of the Lawrence Art Guild with the "Artists' Forum" beginning at 7:00 pm.

Meetings held on the third Tuesday of each month at 9:30am, and on the Monday preceding the third Tuesday at 7pm, at Plymouth Congregational Church. Public welcome.

Meetings are the first Tuesday of every month at the Lawrence Arts Center.