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Ages 5-10. This signature Discovery Theater show celebrates the history and customs of Diwali (Devali), Chanukah, Las Posadas, Ramadan, Sankta Lucia Day, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and the First Nations’ tradition of the Winter Solstice.
Few of Shakespeare’s tragedies are as admired today as his theatrical masterpiece Othello from around 1603. Joseph Luzzi, professor of literature at Bard College, guides participants through an in-depth discussion of the play’s key elements, including its representations of race, inquiry into human emotions (especially jealousy), and extraordinarily powerful poetic language.
Craftsmen, dramatists, perfectionists, melodists, and unlikely partners, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II not only changed the American musical, they changed us too. Filmmaker and cultural historian Sara Lukinson offers an abundant sampling of musical clips from their shows in a joyful evening that celebrates the enduring magic they created.
Ages 3 to 8. Join Barefoot Puppets on their original twist of two favorite winter tales, Little Red Riding Hood and the Gingerbread Man.
Folklorists Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman explore an array of chilling holiday folklore from around the world, including the German Krampus who visits children who don’t make the “nice” list, the Icelandic Jólakötturinn, a gigantic cat that devours naughty children, and the Welsh Mari Lwyd, a skeletal horse with a taste for song and poetry. They reintroduce you to a more complex vision of winter, one that’s easy to forget in an increasingly hectic and standardized season.
It’s not just celebrity that connects Harry and Megan, Jennifer Garner, Julia Roberts, and Lady Gaga: It’s their flocks of backyard chickens. For more than two decades, naturalist, adventurer, and author Sy Montgomery nurtured one of her own. Drawing on personal stories and science, she reveals the remarkable facets and abilities that make a chicken such a feathered phenomenon.
In the latter half of the 20th century, architects broke free from the restraints of individual traditional styles and found new inspiration in a mix of them, creating combinations of bright colors and asymmetrical shapes interpreted in a variety of materials. Modern architecture specialist Bill Keene surveys the diverse threads linking the elements in this approach to design as seen in the works of I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, and other Postmodern creators who rejected the formal for the unusual, the colorful, and the unexpected. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
