Ensemble Experiments
2024-05-10 19:30 (America/New_York) | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
Join our senior theatre Majors for their Capstone performance.
Free tickets can be reserved via the Watson Box Office .

Symphony Under the Stars
2024-06-27 19:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Great Woods Symphony Orchestra performs a concert of classical and pops favorites led by Professor Delvyn Case, Conductor.
Bring your blanket or lawn chair and relax.
The President’s Garden is located behind the President’s House . Parking is available in Lot 1, enter from Mansfield Ave. (Rte. 140)
If you would like to make a donation to Cupboard of Kindness Food Pantry , we will be collecting canned goods before the start of the event.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Pam Vaz at vaz_pamela@wheatoncollege.edu by June 24.
In the event of rain, the performance will be moved to the Cole Memorial Chapel .

Program
Professor Delvyn Case, Conductor
Professor Ethan Wood, Violin
Natan Chalem ’23, Tenor
Kammeron Frost, Singer-Songwriter
Emma Bradshaw ’25, Singer-Songwriter

America, the Beautiful — Samuel A. Ward (1847-1903)
Deep River — Trad., Arr. H.T. Burleigh (1866-1941), Orch. D. Case
Danzas da Panama — William Grant Still (1895-1978)
II. Mejoran y Socarn
IV. Cumbia y Congo
The Old Boatman — Florence Price (1887-1953)
You’re Gone — Emma Bradshaw ’25 (b. 2002)
“Hoe-Down” from Rodeo — Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Arr. Bulla

“Summer” from the Four Seasons — Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
II. Allegro non molto
“My Shot” from Hamilton — Lin-Manuel Miranda (b. 1980)
Bite Back — Kammeron Frost (b.2002)
Sweet Caroline — Neil Diamond (b. 1941)
John Williams Trilogy — John Williams (b. 1932)

Great Woods Symphony Orchestra

Violin I
Prof. Ethan Wood, concertmaster
Gigi Turgeon, guest musician
Sangeetha Kavety, Mansfield
Brittany Comfrey, Somerset
Violin II
Prof. John Biatowas
Kimberly Fang, guest musician
Ross Nelson, Mansfield
Colleen McHugh, Foxborough
Viola
Hannah Ross, guest musician
Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel, guest musician
Jackson Reed ’21

Cello
Miguel Vasquez, guest musician
Cherry Kim, guest musician
Ping Kerber, Sharon
Bass
Robert Hoffman, guest musician
Rene Fontaine, Cumberland, RI
Percussion
Jackson Reed ’21
Keyboard
Conor Fergus ’23

Professor of Music Delvyn Case P‘22 conducts the Great Woods Symphony Orchestra and teaches courses in composition, popular music, and songwriting. He is a composer of concert, educational, and pops music, including the holiday overture Rocket Sleigh, which has been performed by the Boston Pops and more than 100 orchestras across the US, Europe, UK and Canada. His two “musical storybook” compositions, “Lighthouse Keeper” and “Fire in the Big-Top!”, have been performed for thousands of children in Maine, Massachusetts, New York City, California, and Australia. In 2022, he was named Distinguished Composer of the Year by the Music Teachers National Association. He spent the first half of 2024 as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, where he worked on projects exploring the intersections of music and theology.
Ethan Wood, Assistant Professor of Music in Performance, serves as Concertmaster of the Great Woods Symphony. As a violinist and violist, he has appeared around the United States and abroad as a guest artist, recitalist, and chamber and orchestral musician. Also a pianist, mandolinist, and composer, he has collaborated with dozens of ensembles in New England and beyond. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Prof. Wood earned a Grammy nomination as part of the Boston-based string orchestra A Far Cry.
Born in Paris, France, Natan Chalem graduated from Wheaton in 2023 with a B.A. in music and mathematics. While at Wheaton, he studied voice with Joanne Mouradjian. He is currently studying for his master’s degree in vocal performance at UMass Amherst with William Hite. This summer, Chalem will be performing the title role in Mozart’s final opera, La Clemenza di Tito as a student in the AAMA 2024 program. He has been featured with the Great Woods Symphony Orchestra in three previous performances, including the 2022 and 2023 Symphony Under the Stars concerts and as the winner of the 2023 Concerto Aria Competition at Wheaton.
Kammeron Frost is a writer and singer originally from Dayton, Ohio. A 2024 graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Kammeron received Berklee’s “Public Service Music Scholarship” in 2023 for her outstanding work bringing music classes to the Kroc Community Center in Dorchester. She ended her senior year as a featured soloist at Berklee’s Commencement Concert of 2024, where she performed a setlist of hip-hop legend QTip’s discography as part of the ceremony honoring him with an honorary doctorate. Kammeron has recently released her debut album “Goodbye Old Friends,” which blends hip-hop elements with R&B soul vocals. Kammeron Frost’s website .
Emma Bradshaw is a rising senior at Wheaton College who discovered the scope of her passion for songwriting in her freshman year. As a sophomore, Emma spent the fall semester in Professor Case’s songwriting class, followed by an independent study with him that spring. In addition to songwriting, she is also a versatile musical theatre performer who was recently seen at Wheaton in a starring role in Rent. Emma loves how versatile music can be, from an aid in working through difficult situations, to making others laugh. She is very grateful for the connections and memories that music has created in her life and looks forward to where it will bring her next!

Join Us for the Fall Semester!
Members of the general public are welcome to join the Great Woods Symphony Orchestra for the Fall 2024 semester. All musicians are welcome to audition, including talented high school students. Rehearsals are held Monday evenings at 7 p.m., starting September 9th.
No orchestral experience is necessary and membership is free.
Visit the Great Woods Symphony Orchestra website for more information.

Visiting Artist/Filmmaker Rowan Haber
2024-09-18 17:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Rowan will screen and discuss their work in documentary, narrative, and commercial. They will cover the ins and outs of making your first film, fundraising for your project, and how to get your start. Rowan will ask the students questions, and Leah will facilitate a discussion afterward. This is not to be missed if you are an aspiring filmmaker or visual artist. Ro has found ways to do both successfully. Bring your dinner and your friends!

Rowan West Haber is an aesthetically minded Writer/Director. An MFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, they were a Sundance Momentum Fellow, a Sundance New Frontier Lab, and an Art of Practice Fellow. They were selected for the Universal Pictures Directing Lab, AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, Film Independent’s Episodic Lab and Project Involve, Outfest’s Screenwriting Lab, and were a shadowing director on FX’s Pose. They were featured on The Alice Initiative’s 2018 list of directors ready to helm studio films, Indiewire’s 8 Best Trans Directors Working Today, and have been a fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell, and UCross Artist Residencies.
They won a Webby, New Orleans Film Festival, and LA Film Festival awards and were nominated for a GLAAD award for their series, New Deep South. Their series Braddock, PA (Topic) gained critical attention from The New York Times and The New Yorker. They directed Stonewall Forever for Stink Studios as well as Celestial for Tribeca Studios x Bulgari, and have done commercial work for Mercedes, Pepsi, Spotify, Facebook and Apretude to name a few.
Recently, they directed the finale for the FX x Killer Films Gotham and GLAAD Award-nominated series Pride. They are currently directing a feature documentary EPed by Lauren Greenfield and produced by Caryn Capotosto entitled We Are Pat about the 90s SNL cult figure It’s Pat. They are also attached to direct Amasia Entertainment’s (Green Hornet, Them That Follow) trans coming of age film, Handsome and their film Shell.ai, which is a modern feminist horror retelling of the Frankenstein story from the perspective of a female technologist, is being produced by Seaview (Slave Play, Reality). They are also attached to direct the feature adaptation of Brontez Purnell’s award-winning novel Since I Laid My Burden Down, which is being adapted to screen by Savannah Knoop and just won the 2021 SFFILM Rainin Grant . They were an advisor for Sundance’s first Trans Possibilities Lab and are currently a Sundance Humanities Sustainability Fellow. They are a member of the collective of artists, scientists and technologists called Talk to Me About Water .
They speak Spanish and Portuguese, and when they aren’t doing creative work, they are definitely on a mountain somewhere.
WEBSITES
Rowan Haber / Personal
https://www.rowanhaber.com/
Talk to Me About Water
https://www.talktomeaboutwater.com/

Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories - INTO LIGHT Massachusetts
2024-09-24 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-01 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-08 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-15 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-22 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-29 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-05 13:00 - 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories
Massachusetts INTO LIGHT Project Exhibition
August 27–November 8, 2024 / Opening reception: Saturday, September 14, 2024 1-3pm
Wheaton College haves partnered with the national non-profit the INTO LIGHT Project to create an exhibition of graphite portraits, personal items, and written narratives of 40 Massachusetts residents who have died of drug overdose or poisoning. The INTO LIGHT Project is working to organize an exhibition like this in every state.
Our goal is to help destigmatize overdose and substance use disorder and to open up the conversation about the opioid epidemic. The exhibition brings together medicine, mental health, public health, and visual and creative arts. We are using art to connect, humanize, and heal.
INTO LIGHT Project is national non-profit that creates exhibitions with portraits and stories of people who have died from the disease of drug addiction in each state. Their mission is to change the conversation about drug addiction through the power of art and storytelling. Wheaton College is the host of the Massachusetts exhibition. The people honored in this exhibition are from eleven Massachusetts counties and range in age from 18-39. We seek to eliminate the stigma surrounding substance use disorder and to address the misconception that people with addiction are to blame for their illness. Through portraiture and storytelling, the Into Light Project offers healing and hope and create meaningful dialogue about substance use disorder.
Exhibition Details
Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Art
Dates: August 27–November 8, 2024
Hours: Tu-Sa 1-5pm; Th 1-8pm; Su 10-5pm

Whims 75th Anniversary Concert
2024-10-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us for a special a cappella concert as we mark the 75th anniversary of the Whims! This milestone event promises an extraordinary evening of vocal brilliance, showcasing tradition and innovation. From timeless classics to contemporary favorites, Whims alumni and students will enchant you with their extraordinary harmonies and dynamic arrangements.

5 Minute Play Festival
2024-10-05 21:00 - 22:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Original five-minute plays—written, directed, and performed by Wheaton students—are showcased in our biannual festival.

Talk with author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka
2024-10-08 18:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
In connection with the exhibition Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories in the Beard + Weil Galleries, author/illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka will share his graphic novel, Hey, Kiddo, a profoundly important graphic memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction and finding the art that helps you survive.

Afro-Latin Dance with The Haus of Glitter
2024-10-17 19:00 | Balfour-Hood – Ellison Dance Studio, Norton, 02766, United States
Open to all levels, beginner dancer to advanced. The Haus of Glitter Dance Company specializes in activist dance lineages that come from Africa and Latin America. Explore (Queer) Afro-Latinx dance forms like Vogue, Hip Hop, Merengue, Bachata and traditional Mande West African Dance as embodied history, civil rights advocacy, gender affirming care and community wellness practice. Come ready to move your hips, get low, and strut the runway to explore the transformative power of these cultural traditions.

GEORGE
2024-10-24 19:30 | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
Join us for an evening-length live concert featuring John Hollenbeck, Sarah Rossy, Anna Webber, and Chiquita Magic as they combine experimental jazz, ambient electronics, synth pop music and more.

Lysistrata
2024-10-31 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-01 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-02 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-07 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-08 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-09 19:30 - 22:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Written by Aristophanes, adapted by Ellen McGlaughlin, directed by Don Mays
Produced in special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (playscripts.com)
Follow Lysistrata, our Athenian heroine, as she creates an…unconventional…movement to end the Peloponnesian War. The women of Greece vow a prohibition in the bedroom until the violence of war has ceased. If the women of Greece refuse to love, will the men refuse to war? This fast-paced, comedic retelling of the classic Aristophanes play brings to light issues society has been discussing for millennia. Will we finally figure out how to make love, not war?

Tickets may be purchased online via the Watson Box Office. $5 student, $10 faculty & staff & seniors, $15 general

Gallery Opening Reception : Shelter
2024-11-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Shelter is vital. It’s required for us to survive but also to thrive. Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Shelter interrogates the spaces in which we live, play, work, and worship, the objects found in such spaces, and the concept of “shelter”, broadly defined.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 1:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m., Thursdays 1:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m. Please note: the galleries will be closed November 27—December 1 for November break and December 11, 2022–January 21, 2025 for winter break.

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Wheaton College Dance Company presents Intertwined
2024-11-21 19:30, 2024-11-22 19:30, 2024-11-23 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble performs under the direction of Artistic Director Andrea Taylor-Blenis.
Tickets: $15 general, $10 faculty/staff & seniors, $5 students. Tickets will be available via the Box Office website beginning the week of November 11.

Shelter
2024-11-23 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-28 13:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-30 13:00 - 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Shelter is vital. It’s required for us to survive but also to thrive. Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Shelter interrogates the spaces in which we live, play, work, and worship, the objects found in such spaces, and the concept of “shelter”, broadly defined.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 1:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m., Thursdays 1:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m.

Please note: the galleries will be closed November 27—December 1 for November break and December 11, 2022–January 20, 2025 for winter break.

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Giving Tuesday 2024
2024-12-03 | MA
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