Cultural

Please join us for an exciting evening of music performed by the members of the WCMS Percussion Ensemble. This lively concert will feature works by Mozart, Strauss, Albeniz, Grimo, and Tillapaugh. The eclectic program brings you favorite works from the Classical period, transcribed for the sound of a modern percussion ensemble.
The concert will be presented live in Nichols Performance Hall.
Hosted by Sylvie Zakarian, chair of the Woodwinds, Brass & Percussion department.

Cello Students of Anne Bennett perform for family and friends. Nichols Hall.

Cello Students of Anne Bennett perform for family and friends. Nichols Performance Hall.

Street life offers boundless opportunities to create vital, compelling photographs. Street photography remains one of the most dynamic and accessible forms of contemporary image-making, where chance encounters and observation reveal stories hidden in plain sight.

Join Harvey Stein and the Griffin Museum of Photography for a dynamic, small-cohort online intensive. With more than 50 years of experience photographing public life, and decades of teaching street photography, Stein brings a mentorship-driven approach rooted in curiosity, craft, and personal expression.

The workshop includes

Are you interested in reading classic Yiddish literature in translation? This new quarterly reading group explores many themes for lively discussion through the lens of three Yiddish novels in translation, plus an additional contemporary title outside of the genre.

The second presentation in Nate Ramsayer's seven-part course How the Bible Became a Book. In this lecture, Nate will help to trace the lineage of the most authoritative biblical manuscripts that are used to create the modern day translations we’re all familiar with. Feel free to join, even if you weren't present at the first lecture.

As part of the Black History Project, the Black Student Union (BSU) at Winchester High School is calling on all WHS students to submit original work that highlights specific events, significant figures, or cultural shifts within Black history. To encourage broad participation, the contest accepts a wide array of media, including:

• Visual Arts: 2D and 3D art, posters, and photography.
• Digital & Multimedia: Documentaries, short films, websites, and music.
• Literary Works: Poetry, essays, and research papers.

Cash prizes (awarded via Amazon gift cards) will be presented to the top three winners: $250

Stop by to get a blood pressure reading and meet the Health Department nurse. No pre-registration required. If you wear red for American Heart Month, you'll get a little treat!

Join Dawn Burau from Wild Indigo Gardening for a hands-on workshop. You'll take home some Paperwhite Bulbs and learn how to grow and care for them for winter blooms! Additionally, Dawn will present information on planting outdoor bulbs, such as daffodils and tulips, for spring flowers: tips, tricks, design ideas and more! Now is the time for planting spring flowering bulbs so join us to learn more.

We hope you can join us for Bluegrass and Bourbon XIII featuring Love Canon. There will be snacks and cocktails and general rowdy revelry.
Bourbon begins at 6:30 and bluegrass begins at 7:00. There's a $30/person suggested donation. All proceeds to benefit Club Passim.