Arts & Culture

Now in its fifteenth year, Festive Home is the Guild’s biggest fundraiser of the year…and the most fun! 

This holiday marketplace and fundraiser brings many, many shoppers to our charming antique building every year. They will find the galleries brimming with creative gifts… unique hand-made and hand-selected gift items such as jewelry, apparel, and original artwork, to decorative and useful objects for holiday home decorating, and much, much more. 

More information will be posted when it becomes available. 

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Join us to celebrate the opening of Zoë Sheehan Saldaña: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here.

The work of Zoë Sheehan Saldaña tends to hide in plain sight. Even her most elaborate undertakings, such as a reverse-engineered “Strike Anywhere” match or a hand-woven terrycloth towel, masquerade as objects you might toss away thoughtlessly, or stick in a drawer and forget. Underneath these acts of artistic camouflage lies a deep well of conviction, a drive to take full responsibility for things. For her exhibition at The Aldrich – the artist’s largest to date – Sheehan has refused the usual support that a museum offers. She will personally oversee every aspect of the project, down to making paint by hand and applying it to the gallery walls. Deceptively neutral in appearance, the space will be populated by about fifty of her beguiling handmade artifacts. The exhibition is an extended meditation on self-reliance: the instinct to escape the anxious, sometimes hysterical tenor of contemporary life. It will be accompanied by a publication with an essay by the exhibition’s curator, Glenn Adamson.

The public is invited to interact with a “take one, leave one” box made by Sheehan. We welcome participants to bring anything small to exchange at the exhibition opening.

December 6 – 14, 2019 · Opening reception Friday, December 6, 4 – 6 p.m. – Art show Saturday, December 7 – 14, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Cass Gilbert Carriage Barn

Join 10 local artists who have been painting together for years as they display and sell paintings and handmade gifts in the Carriage Barn. Pictured above, from left to right, are: Tina Phillips, Anne Marie Sufaro-Boehme, Tim Guthrie, Ursula Lombardi, Helen Mannis, Janel Mannuccia, Joan Ogren, Ellen Ross, Fru Saily, and Antonio Villanueva. Refreshments served.   

VIP MEET & GREET AVAILABLE!

Back after a sold out show earlier this year, the “The Real Housewives of New York” star returns with a night of cabaret featuring her own global dance hits – “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” “Girl Code” and others – along with holiday favorites.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love returns with her holiday show, performing all her hits including the #1 holiday classic “Christmas Baby Please Come Home,” a song that she performed annually with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Symphony Orchestra on The Late Show With David Letterman for some 29 years before David retired.

ROCKAPELLA HOLIDAA cappella versions of everything from the holiday standards you know and love like “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” to a funky rendition of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch!”

They’ve become one of the world’s most sophisticated, lasting, and imitated vocal groups around today. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more influential one out there in this era of network television a cappella shows like NBC’s The Sing-Off, movies like Pitch Perfect, and innumerable college vocal groups that own the corner of cool on campuses everywhere.

Since the early ’90’s when they first achieved national television fame on PBS’s Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, they’ve toured the globe and provided a funky powerful soundtrack to several generations of vocal music fans, while keeping it all fresh along the way. With buckets of catchy original pop songs, and complete contemporary revisions of sparkling Motown, pop, and soul classics, this group has always been the one to watch. ”Often imitated – never duplicated” applies here. Now they’re better than ever!

Add a touch of magic to your holiday season! Enjoy a beautiful holiday tradition in a magical land where sugar plums dance and flowers waltz to tell the classic tale of a young girl and her Nutcracker prince. Tchaikovsky’s soaring score, graceful ballerinas, wooden soldiers who come to life and a bigger-than-life Christmas tree will make the holidays bright for young and old!

This show runs from Friday, December 13th – Sunday, December 15th

Showtimes are as follows:

Friday @ 6:00pm

Saturday @ 2:00pm and @ 6:00pm

Sunday @ 11:00am and @ 2:00pm

Sponsored by Ring’s End
Ticket Price: $25 Adult, $20 Child

Get your tickets here!

Virtuosic pianist, Jeffrey Biegel, returns to The Sanctuary Series for a concert entitled. “Holiday Traditions” featuring works by Bach, Mozart and Chopin, along with selections from his recording, “A Steinway Christmas” which reached No. 1 on the Classical Billboard charts. The performance will take place in the Sanctuary of the South Salem Presbyterian Church at 4 PM, followed by an Artist Reception.

Leonard Bernstein once said of Mr. Biegel: “he is a splendid musician and a brilliant performer.” Those comments together with numerous first place competition prizes helped launch a prolific and varied career as a soloist, composer, arranger and chamber musician. Earlier this year Mr. Biegel was soloist for Kenneth Fuchs’s Grammy award winning piano concerto “Spiritualist” with the London Symphony Orchestra.

In keeping with its commitment to presenting “extraordinary keyboard recitals in the pastoral setting of northern Westchester’s historic hamlet of South Salem,” the Series continues in the spring with pianists, Michael Brown (March 1, 2020), Simone Dinnerstein (March 29), Dominic Cheli (April 19) and Fei-Fei (May 10).

Photo credit: 2016 Jerry LoFaro

Christmas with the Celts returns to The Playhouse after sold-out performances for the past four seasons! This holiday show features a mix of lively traditional Irish music and instrumentation with American pop music and their own originals, along with ancient Irish and Scottish carols and traditional Christmas favorites. The Celts lineup stars, Ric Blair on vocal-guitar-bodhran & piano along with female lead singer and all Ireland champion fiddler and Irish dancer, Eimear Arkins.  Rick and Eimear will be complemented by an array of top-flight musicians on uilleann pipes, Irish whistles, fiddle, bodhran, banjo, five-string bass, drums and of course, the crowd-pleasing Irish dancers.  Christmas with The Celts isn’t just a concert; it’s a celebration of the holiday spirit, people, community and common connections!

Opening the show and performing with the Celts: Ashurst Irish Dancers

In a world where political correctness has run amok, Nick Di Paolo continues to be honest with his audiences.  One of the very few comedians known to lean right, Nick is unafraid and unapologetic.  Nick currently hosts “The Nick DiPaolo Show” every Monday through Thursday and tours the country on weekends.

Nick has performed on The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Conan O’ Brien. He was twice nominated for an Emmy for his writing on HBO’s The Chris Rock Show. He has also had four standup specials and was one of the stars on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and a stand out on many Comedy Central Roasts.

Sponsors:
BARTS

John O’Hurley has gone from being best known as J. Peterman on Seinfeld to catapulting into one of television’s busiest and most versatile actors. From show host (“To Tell the Truth”, “Family Feud,” and NBC’s “The National Dog Show”), to Broadway star, to advertising hero (O’Hurley invested in the relaunch of The J. Peterman Company, and since 1999 has been a part-owner and member of the board of directors), this voice actor, singer, and comedian has truly done it all- including being a first season contestant on “Dancing with the Stars” (where he made it to the finals)!  Now touring with a band and performing his show- “A Man With Standards”, O’Hurley dazzles audiences with storytelling, songs and humor. A show that, like O’Hurley, has a little bit of everything!

Underwritten by Jeanne Cook, Liz & Steven Goldstone, and Sabina & Walter Slavin

LIVE PRESENTATION IN HD

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new production directed by James Robinson in his company debut. America’s “folk opera,” as the 1935 creators described it, tells the story of disabled beggar Porgy, sung by Eric Owens, and his love for the drug-addicted Bess, portrayed by Angel Blue. David Robertson conducts a stellar cast that also includes Donovan Singletary as fisherman Jake, Golda Schultz as his wife Clara, Latonia Moore as the bereaved widow Serena, Frederick Ballentine as drug dealer Sportin’ Life, Alfred Walker as the brutal stevedore Crown, and Denyce Graves as Maria, town matriarch and operator of the local cook-shop. Infused with the timeless melodies of the much-loved classics “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “Bess, You Is My Woman Now,” “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin,” and “My Man’s Gone Now,” the new co-production with English National Opera and Dutch National Opera was hailed as a triumph at its premiere in London earlier this year.

Sponsored by: Addessi Jewelers, Adam Broderick Salon & Spa, BMW of Ridgefield & Treasury Wine Estates

With support from: Abbey Tent & Party Rentals, The Cake Box, Deborah Anne’s Sweet Shoppe, Hollandia Nurseries, Nutmeg Livery Service, Parma Market and Bakery, & Whistle Stop Bakery

Alt-rock band Lifehouse has sold more than 15 million records worldwide and played sold-out shows around the globe. Known for their infectious, upbeat hit songs “Hanging by a Moment,” “First Time,” “Halfway Gone” and “Hurricane” as well as the emotionally charged ballads “You and Me,” “Broken” and “Whatever It Takes,” Lifehouse has shared the stage at arenas with the likes of the Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam and Matchbox Twenty.

6:30pm: Champagne & Desserts (one free glass of Champagne for every ticket holder)
8:00pm: Live Auction & Performance

Live auction items include:

• $5,000 gift certificate to design a custom piece of jewelry – courtesy of Addessi Jewelers
• “Me Time” Package – courtesy of Adam Broderick Salon & Spa
• Date night: A night out with a BMW and personal driver that includes dinner for two (at Bernard’s) and tickets to a show of your choice at The Ridgefield Playhouse, courtesy of BMW of Ridgefield

About the Exhibition

This year the Ridgefield Guild will again offer a special opportunity for a small group show. Five artists, as selected by our juror, will share the entire downstairs gallery. Two artists will go in the front gallery, one in the middle and two in the third, thus the 2-1-2 title of the exhibition.

Please check the website for all information regarding deadlines and applications.

LIVE PRESENTATION IN HD

PYTOR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich

Prince Siegfried is summoned by his parents to choose a bride. However, he encounters a mysterious and magnetic swan-woman, Odette, by the lake and is captivated. His vow of eternal love to her will have irreversible consequences. Tchaikovsky’s essential masterpiece returns for a live broadcast of the most-beloved ballet in the classical canon. Technically challenging and filled with vibrant emotion, with a stunning and world-famous corps de ballet in perfect unison, the legendary love story between Prince Siegfried and the dual personalities Odette/Odile, born at the Bolshoi Theatre, is a must-see.

Run time: 165 minutes

It’s a night of fast-paced sleight of hand, escape artists, comedy and illusions! Starring magicians from the award-winning CW TV series “Masters of Illusion,” this show came out of the success of the brain-bending Broadway sensation The Illusionists.

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LIVE PRESENTATION IN HD

In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production he originally created for the Monnaie in Brussels in 2000, evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present. Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society (as Handel did when he staged this opera), the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes, brought to life by Joyce DiDonato as the power-hungry empress Agrippina, Brenda Rae as the scheming, seductive Poppea, and Kate Lindsey as the feckless teenager Nerone. Iestyn Davies portrays the ambitious officer Ottone, and Matthew Rose is the emperor Claudius, on whose vacated throne Agrippina is determined to install her son. Renowned for his interpretations of the Baroque repertoire, Harry Bicket conducts.

Approx. runtime: 4:10