Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Bedford will host several workshops in June to compliment the current exhibition, Trees: An Appreciation of Nature.
During âSummer of Plein Air,â local artist Heather Davis will meet and guide attendants through the plein air process and instruct them to get them comfortable with the processes of making art plein air (in open air).
Sessions will be every Saturday, May 29 through June 19, from 8 to 11 a.m. at various locations throughout Bedford.
Walk-ins are welcome, but registration is encouraged and can only be made by contacting the museum by phone or email.
Guests can register for single sessions at $30 for members and $35 for non-members per session or for all four Saturdays at $100 for members and $120 for non-members.
The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asiaâs most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information on its first actors, audiences, production methods, and plays, this book traces how the theatreâwhich was one of the first in the Indian subcontinent to adopt European stagecraftâtransformed into a pan-Asian entertainment industry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Nicholson sheds light on the motivations that led to the development of the popular, commercial theatre movement in Asia through three areas of investigation: the vernacular public sphere, the emergence of competing visions of nationhood, and the narratological function that women served within a continually shifting socio-political order. The book will be of interest to scholars across several disciplines, including cultural history, g