Kent County Arts and Entertainment - November 2010

Kent County has been recognized by the Maryland State Arts Council as one of the significant arts communities in the state. With this in mind, we have designed the Arts & Entertainment site to provide you with information on what the county has to offer in relation to its arts, entertainment, and cultural heritage. Hopefully, this will help you plan a fun-filled stay, enabling you to take full advantage of places to go and people to see. For more information, call the Kent County Tourism Development Office at 410-778-0416 or email tourism@kentcounty.com.

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  • Benjamin Bagby: Beowulf in Performance
  • Thursday, November 4   |  7:30pm
  • Location: Decker Theatre, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College
  • Contact: Kathryn Bursick
  • Phone: 410-778-7899
  • Email: kbursick2@washcoll.edu
  • URL: www.english.washcoll.edu/sophiekerrlegacy/
  • Benjamin Bagby's unique performance of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf in its original language, accompanying himself with an authentic Anglo-Saxon harp, has enthralled audiences around the world. In our modern print culture, the reading of literature is primarily a silent, personal and solitary experience. Bagby's performance brings his audiences back into the ancient literary experience, which tended to be oral (and often musical), social and communal. Listeners have called Bagby's performance "a triumphant demonstration of the power of storytelling," noting that "when Benjamin Bagby speaks it is as if a thousand years have disappeared." Modern English subtitles provided.

  • Chestertown's 1st Fridays
  • Friday, November 5   |  5-8pm
  • Location: Downtown Chestertown
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  • URL: www.kentcounty.com/artsentertainment
  • Meander the red-brick, tree-lined sidewalks of Historic Chestertown, while enjoying extended shop hours and arts and entertainment throughout Downtown. For a list of activities, please check this calendar for specific listings.

  • Evening with Vinyl Shockley
  • Friday, November 5   |  8pm - house open at 7:30pm
  • Location: The Prince Theatre
  • Contact: Box Office - Suzanne Street
  • Phone: 410-810-2060
  • Email: boxoffice@princetheatre.org
  • URL: www.princetheatre.org
  • An evening of music and song described as "blue-eyed soul with a Stax/Volt twist".
    For more: http://www.vinylshockley.com/
    Tickets: $10.00

  • Artworks Studio Tour
  • Saturday, November 6   |  10am-4pm
  • This event runs Nov. 6–7
  • Location: Art Works, 306 Park Row, Chestertown
  • Contact: Artworks
  • Phone: 410-778-6300
  • Email: artworkschestertown@gmail.com
  • URL: www.artworkschestertown.org
  • Artworks, Chestertown's community art and craft center, will be offering its free studio tour. Visitors will have the rare opportunity to see and shop for original artwork at studio prices. Visit the studios and see the work of some 50 artists throughout Kent County and parts of Queen Anne's County who work in a full range of art and craft including painting, photography, sculpture, metal work, pottery, fiber, woodcraft, jewelry, furniture, and more.

  • Chestertown Farmers' & Artisans' Market
  • Saturday, November 6   |   8am-1pm
  • This event runs Saturdays April 10-Dec 18, 2010
  • Location: Fountain Park, at High and Cross Streets
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  • URL: http://www.chestertown.com\market
  • This longest running market in the state of Maryland, is open every Saturday morning from the beginning of April until Christmas. Lots of fresh produce and hand made goods and crafts displayed throughout Fountain Park, in the heart of Downtown Historic Chestertown.

  • Junot Díaz: Fiction reading
  • Monday, November 8   |  7pm
  • Location: Decker Theatre, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College
  • Contact: Kathryn Bursick
  • Phone: 410-778-7899
  • Email: kbursick2@washcoll.edu
  • URL: www.lithouse.washcoll.edu/
  • Junot Díaz's novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" has won almost everything: the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Mercantile Library Center's John Sargent Prize for First Novel, best book of 2007 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Daily News, and Time magazine's "novel of the year." He faced off with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report and his writing was characterized in The New York Times as "so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets Star trek meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West."

  • Washington College Concert Series, Ensemble Schumann, oboe, viola, piano
  • Friday, November 12   |  8pm
  • Location: Hotchkiss Recital Hall, Gibson Center for the Arts, Washngton College
  • Contact: Kate Bennett
  • Phone: 410-778-7839
  • Email: kbennett2@washcoll.edu
  • URL: www.washcoll.edu
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  • Holiday Open House
  • Friday, November 12   |  10:00 - 5:00 pm
  • This event runs November 12th - 14th
  • Location: Gabriel Designs
  • Contact: Joyce Hale
  • Phone: 410-648-6088
  • Email: jhalegabrield@verizon.net
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  • Let Gabriel Designs be a part of your Holiday Shopping with special discounts all weekend.

  • Chestertown Farmers' & Artisans' Market
  • Saturday, November 13   |  8am-1pm
  • This event runs Saturdays April 10-Dec 18, 2010
  • Location: Fountain Park, at High and Cross Streets
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  • URL: http://www.chestertown.com\market
  • This longest running market in the state of Maryland, is open every Saturday morning from the beginning of April until Christmas. Lots of fresh produce and hand made goods and crafts displayed throughout Fountain Park, in the heart of Downtown Historic Chestertown.

  • David Pilgrim: THEM: Images of Separation
  • Tuesday, November 16   |  4:30pm
  • Location: Casey Academic Center Forum, CAC, Washington College
  • Contact: Kathryn Bursick
  • Phone: 410-778-7899
  • Email: kbursick2@washcoll.edu
  • URL: www.english.washcoll.edu/sophiekerrlegacy/
  • Dr. David Pilgrim is the Chief Diversity Officer at Ferris State University and one of this country's leading experts on issues relating to multiculturalism, diversity and race relations. He has been interviewed by National Public Radio, Time magazine, the British Broadcasting Corporation and dozens of newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Pilgrim is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum - a 5,000-piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University. The museum uses objects of intolerance to teach tolerance.
    Pilgrim's Lecture, "THEM: Images of Separation," will showcase items from popular culture used to stereotype different groups. The negative imagery -- found on postcards, license plates, games, souvenirs, and costumes -- promote stereotyping against such groups as African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, Jews and poor whites, as well as those who are "other" in terms of body type or sexual orientation. Dr. Pilgrim will discuss the connection between race and cultural memorabilia to show how discrimination and stereotyping are not just black/white issues, but much more pervasive.

  • Chestertown Farmers' & Artisans' Market
  • Saturday, November 20   |   8am-1pm
  • This event runs Saturdays April 10-Dec 18, 2010
  • Location: Fountain Park, at High and Cross Streets
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  • URL: http://www.chestertown.com\market
  • This longest running market in the state of Maryland, is open every Saturday morning from the beginning of April until Christmas. Lots of fresh produce and hand made goods and crafts displayed throughout Fountain Park, in the heart of Downtown Historic Chestertown.

  • Chestertown Farmers' & Artisans' Market
  • Saturday, November 27   |  8am-1pm
  • This event runs Saturdays April 10-Dec 18, 2010
  • Location: Fountain Park, at High and Cross Streets
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  • URL: http://www.chestertown.com\market
  • This longest running market in the state of Maryland, is open every Saturday morning from the beginning of April until Christmas. Lots of fresh produce and hand made goods and crafts displayed throughout Fountain Park, in the heart of Downtown Historic Chestertown.

  • Chestertown Antiques Show and Sale
  • Saturday, November 27   |  Fri. 4-7pm, Sat. 10am-5pm, Sun. 10am-3pm
  • This event runs Nov. 27-29
  • Location: Chestertown Middle School
  • Contact: JoAnn Bowdle
  • Phone: 410-778-0397
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  • Thirty shops: period furniture, oriental rugs, porcelain, linens, silver, china, jewelry (estate & vintage), glassware pottery, post cards, dolls, accessories, vintage designer handbags and lamps, primitives and more. Bake table.