The Avalon Theatre is thrilled to present a weekend filled with vibrant musical performances.
Valentine's Day Show Infor inside!
Join us on Friday for "Across The Harbor," featuring Baltimore's finest songwriters, and on Saturday for "1964," an authentic Beatles tribute.
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Adkins Arboretum presents Rooted Wisdom Podcast Launch
In partnership with Beech Works, Adkins Arboretum will launch the Rooted Wisdom podcast with a listening party on Thursday, September 26, at 7 p.m. The event will be held in person at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD and available via livestream, viewable at rootedwisdom.org
The program includes the presentation of excerpts from the first three episodes of the new podcast and a panel discussion and Q&A with Rooted Wisdom host, historian Anthony Cohen and episode guests Mecca Lewis and David Greaves. Project collaborator George Burroughs of Beech Works will moderate.
In this new podcast series, Anthony Cohen, historian, Menare Foundation President, and explorer of the American past, sets out to find the stories of the Underground Railroad. Visiting well-known and overlooked sites, Rooted Wisdom reveals the people and places that shaped our history and considers how their stories continue to shape our lives today. Building off the 2022 Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad Guided Experience, which explores how freedom seekers used their knowledge of and connection to nature to aid in escaping enslavement, the Rooted Wisdom podcast will extend to investigate the larger history of the Underground Railroad.
Town Hall Meeting with Candidates for Talbot County Board of Education
The Avalon Foundation and the Talbot Spy have announced that the two organizations will collaborate once again on a community Town Hall meeting, this time for candidates running for the Talbot County Board of Education. The meeting will be held on October 2 at 6 p.m. at the Avalon main theatre to discuss the educational issues facing our community.
Spy Columnist Craig Fuller has agreed to host the evening’s program. Mr. Fuller has lived in Talbot County for the last seven years. Before his arrival, he served four years in the White House as assistant to President Reagan for Cabinet Affairs, followed by four years as chief of staff to Vice President George H.W. Bush. He later was the CEO of public affairs firms and associations in Washington, D.C., before his retirement.
The program is anticipated to last 120 minutes.
🎟️TICKETS AVAILABLE - TONIGHT 7pm🎟️
Tickets are still available for tonight’s 20th anniversary show with Ollabelle, never miss a Sunday show as we promise to start your week off right. Tickets available online or at the door!!
https://www.avalonfoundation.org/event/ollabelle
Nancy Tankersley - Reflections: Twenty Years of Plein Air Easton and its Influence
To mark the 20th anniversary of Plein Air Easton, the Academy Art Museum will feature a special exhibition of the work of Nancy Tankersley, highlighting paintings from throughout her career. On June 28, Tankersley will give an artist talk about the
works she has chosen for the exhibition, discussing how they document her own journey as a painter and also demonstrate the influence Plein Air Easton has had on plein air artists throughout the United States.
Plein air competitions started on the West Coast in the 1990s but had yet to take root in the East when Plein Air Easton launched two decades ago. Tankersley had visited the Carmel Art Festival in 2004, around the same time she and husband Carl bought an art gallery in Easton. Meanwhile, Al Bond, then the town’s economic development director, was looking for an event to liven up the summer months. A successful partnership was born. The Avalon Foundation, the Academy Art Museum, local businesses, other arts organizations, and many dedicated volunteers joined together, and Plein Air Easton quickly outpaced the West Coast events that had inspired it.
Since 2004, events modeled on Plein Air Easton have been established up and down the East Coast and beyond, ranging from the tropical island of Curaçao to Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. The proliferation of events encouraged participation by both established artists and up-and-coming ones.
Tankersley served on the Plein Air Easton Steering Committee for several years as the festival was established. Once its future was secure, she returned to her career as an artist. She has received many awards at plein air competitions nationwide, including First Place at Lighthouse Plein Air and Parrsboro Plein Air, and Second Place at Plein Air Easton and En Plein Air Texas. She has also served as a juror and judge at numerous events. In honor of her extraordinary contribution to Plein Air Easton and the larger movement, she will be the Awards Judge for this year’s landmark twentieth
The Avalon Foundation, home of the historic Avalon Theatre, is the largest non-profit arts organization on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Michaels.
