Category Archives: Arts

Susan Falzone Visits Campus for Photographers’ Lecture Series

Falzone Susan BioPicPhotographer Susan Falzone, the next speaker in the Photographers’ Lecture Series, will visit The Williston Northampton School on Thursday, April 12.

Falzone will teach the Advanced Photography class and give a lecture, which is open to the public, at 6:30 p.m. in the Dodge Room of the Reed Campus Center.

A documentary and portrait photographer, Falzone is dedicated to making a positive difference with today’s social issues.  Falzone graduated in 2009 from the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program at the International Center of Photography in New York City, where she received a Director’s Fellowship.  She has been exhibited in various group shows in New York City, as well as the international Pingyao Photo Festival in China.

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Winter Choral Coffeehouse Scheduled for February 28

The Widdigers and Caterwaulers have been working all winter on a fantastic program of music for the 11th Annual Choral Coffeehouse. The event will be held in the Dodge Room in the Reed Campus Center on Tuesday, February 28 at 7:00 p.m.

The performance will include a cappella music, as well as many small group pieces with acoustic guitar and piano. Works by artists including Orlando di Lasso, Adele, The Beatles, Boyz II Men, Coldplay, Nina Simone, Pistol Annies, Stevie Wonder, Flight of the Conchords, Corinne Bailey Rae and more are on the program. 

The event is open to the public, and for those unable to be there in person, the performance will be webcast at www.williston.com/live.

Williston Children’s Theatre Performs The Phantom Tollbooth

The Williston Northampton School will present its annual children’s theater production during the public schools’ February vacation week. This year, the program is presenting The Phantom Tollbooth, and it is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

The play is based on the book by the same name. Written by Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. The production features Williston Northampton students from both the Middle and Upper Schools and is directed by Charles Raffetto, the school’s Theater Technical Director.

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The Quilt of a Career: Photographer Todd France Visits Williston

6830593075 02ee8f9dc7 o resized 600Images flashed across the screen in the photography room: close-ups on succulents and sea grass, daisies shot from below, stems crisscrossing distant lights.

From the back of the darkened classroom came the voice of New York photographer Todd France ’85.

“This was wide angle, as close as I could focus and thrown all the way open,” he said, describing his series “Unnatural Light.” “The sense of scale is thrown out.”

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