The Stissing Center for Arts and Culture

11/15/2024

Please advise. The Stissing Center Laundromat’s change machine is out of order. So please make arrangements to bring change or stop at the bank before doing laundry. Apologies for the inconvenience.

11/12/2024

Nov 17, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Thorton Wilder’s “Our Town” is re-set in suburban Skokie, Illinois, 1977, where two families, one Jewish, one agnostic, deal with impending N**i march through town, and the love between their children in a dangerous time. Directed by Darrah Cloud / tickets at thestissingcenter.org

11/01/2024

Due East - Film Script READING, directed by Jamie Buckner
November 16 at 7PM

Film script reading, directed by Jamie Buckner. Q&A to follow.

It’s 1882 in the lesser known, northeastern end of the great American frontier. Tom’s wife, Rose passed one year ago. He and their young daughter, Maisie, mourn Rose as their neighbor and Rose’s friend, Lucy stops by to check in on them. These two adults have a curiously tense dynamic but when Maisie suddenly runs off into the surrounding wood with night falling fast, nothing else matters.

Tom lost his wife, Maisie lost her mother, Lucy lost her best friend and in many ways, a brand new self she had just discovered. Grief is a universal language, experienced in infinite and very personal ways. Grieving the life we once knew is painful-growing to accept and learn for better and worse through trying circumstances shapes not only who we are as individuals, but as a community. / Tickets available at thestissingcenter.org

11/01/2024

November 2nd at 7PM

Clarion Concerts Presents:
Anthony Trionfo, flute, and Albert Cano Smit, piano, in Clarion’s second concert of their 2024-2025 season. They will be performing works by Francis Poulenc, Amy Beach, Adrian Dee, Sergei Prokofiev, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sebastian Currier, Ian Clarke, Claude Debussy, and John Kimura Parker, an excitedly heterogeneous group of composers! /

Tickets available at thestissingcenter.org

10/30/2024

Attention Trick-or-Treaters!!
Swing by the Stissing Center tomorrow 10/31 between 5-8pm for some cider and donuts!!

Restrooms will be available as well!

10/30/2024

10/25/2024

The Accidental Hero / Nov 10th @ 3pm.
The Accidental Hero is a multi-media one-man show about Lieutenant Colonel Matt Konop, a WWII American officer who miraculously liberates the Czech villages of his grandparents. It’s a true story written and performed by his grandson, Patrick Dewane.

Patrick’s grandfather refused to talk about his service in the war. When he died, his basement yielded a treasure trove of typewritten accounts, photos, and rare film footage. Tickets available at thestissingcenter.org

10/23/2024

November 2nd at 7PM

Clarion Concerts Presents: Anthony Trionfo, flute, and Albert Cano Smit, piano, in our second the concert of their 2024-2025 season. They will be performing works by Francis Poulenc, Amy Beach, Adrian Dee, Sergei Prokofiev, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sebastian Currier, Ian Clarke, Claude Debussy, and John Kimura Parker, an excitedly heterogeneous group of composers!

Tickets available at thestissingcenter.org

10/18/2024

Pine Leaf Boys / Friday, November 8th @ 7pm

Louisiana’s finest, world-renowned Pine Leaf Boys have made a name for presenting their own inimitable brand of Louisiana music with youthful exuberance, blending the sounds of Cajun, Zydeco, Swamp-Pop, Country, and Soul.

What began as a group of friends getting kicked off campus for busking on the college campus in Lafayette in 2004, the “Pine Leaf Boys” has become one of the best known Cajun/Zydeco bands today, garnering one Grammy to leader, Wilson Savoy, and 4 Grammy noms to the band, as well as six invitations from the U.S. State Department to present their music to 23 countries throughout Europe and Asia.

Tickets at thestissingcenter.org

10/17/2024

COMMUNITY MOVIE NIGHT!!

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown / Friday the 18th at 7pm.

Join us for a night of pumpkin decorating, Halloween snacks, popcorn, and a Charlie Brown Classic! A full on family affair, this event is free to attend and involves movie aficionados across all ages!

FREE ADMISSION!

RSVP at https://www.thestissingcenter.org/all-events

10/17/2024

Brooklyn Rider Quartet / Sunday, November 3rd at 4pm

Brooklyn Rider has carved a singular space in the world of string quartets over the last fifteen-plus years, with repertoire ranging from late-Beethoven to Persian classical music to American roots music to the endlessly varied voices of living composers.

They will present four brand new string quartets inspired by “Der Blaue Reiter”, a pre-WW1 era collective led by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, Schoenberg’s tonality-shattering String Quartet No. 2 with the mesmerizing American soprano Ariadne Greif, as well as a new song cycle written by Colin Jacobsen, the violinist of quartet and The Knights ensemble.

FEATURING:
Johnny Gandelsman, Violin
Colin Jacobsen, Violin
Nicholas Cords, Viola
Michael Nicolas, Cello
Ariadne Greif, Soprano

Tickets available at thestissingcenter.org

10/13/2024

Join us for a night of pumpkin decorating, Halloween snacks, popcorn, and a Charlie Brown Classic! A full on family affair, this event is free to attend and involves movie aficionados across all ages! RSVP at thestissingcenter.org

10/11/2024

Green Room Ensemble /Oct 13, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
A lineup of exciting classical musicians will perform rare gems of chamber music repertoire from historically underrepresented heritages, including works by Justinian Tamusuza, Gabriella Ortiz, Gabriella Smith, concluding with Ernest Bloch’s boldly original and rapturous piano quintet no. 1.
Tickets at thestissingcenter.org

10/10/2024

Clarion Concerts Presents: Anthony Trionfo, flute, and Albert Cano Smit, piano, in our second the concert of their 2024-2025 season. They will be performing works by Francis Poulenc, Amy Beach, Adrian Dee, Sergei Prokofiev, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sebastian Currier, Ian Clarke, Claude Debussy, and John Kimura Parker, an excitedly heterogeneous group of composers!

10/10/2024

Larry Chernicoff Higher Octave Ensemble
Oct 26, 2024, 7:00 PM

Larry Chernicoff is a composer, performer, and record producer whose music transcends boundaries, combining the free spirit of jazz improvisation with classical elements and ‘orchestral’ instruments. Larry’s music incorporates long-form structures, minimalist and diverse international influences.

Tickets available at thestissingcenter.org