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The staff at Talbots in Solomon Pond Mall will treat the ladies to a morning of fashion and styling tips for spring. Previous registration required.

We continue rehearsals for the Southgate Chorus on Thursday afternoons through mid-June when we present our community concert! Our director is Curtis Smith who serves as director of Music for the First Congregational Church. Remember, you do not need a professional singing voice to join the ranks! Just have fun!

Kandie Carle has been working in the theatre for her entire career as an ac-tress, dancer, singer and director throughout the US and abroad. She is currently the Producing Artistic Director of the East Haddam Stage Company in CT in addition to touring throughout the country with her one-woman programs. Ms. Carle created The Victorian Lady to share her passion for the life history reflected in the garments of every day men and women. She has performed at venues including CT Historical Society, Victoria Mansion in Portland Maine, the Cosmopolitan Club in NYC, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the West-gate Hotel in San Diego CA, and the Yacht Club of Savannah GA, among others. The presentation is not a fashion show; rather, Ms. Carle dresses from corset to gloves, with authentic as well as reproduction garments, taking her audience on a journey of discovery by using clothing and accessories as a tool to reflect the era. Throughout the presentation she shares insights into the fashion, lifestyle, manners, and etiquette of men, women and children. Included are interesting anecdotes and ‘myth busting’.

The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark Univ. is the first and only institute of its kind. It is home to a uniquely rich undergraduate program and a landmark doctoral program. Since it was established in 1998, it has gained international standing as the sole program to train students for Ph.D. degrees in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Our speaker today is Prof. Christopher Davey, Visiting Asst. Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at the Strassler Center. His topic is “The Rwandan Genocide: From Independence to Recovery.” Rwanda, like many colonized African states has a turbulent history of struggles for independence, minority discrimination, and civil war. Yet, the mass violence of 1994 in Rwanda and its regional impact is unlike other events on the continent. From April to May 1994, at least 500,000 Rwandans died at an unbelievable pace. This presentation offers a before, middle, and end view of this genocide, including questions about the legacy of the genocide in contemporary Rwanda and the region, based on Prof. Davey’s current research.

1973 – 1 hr. 45 minutes; In Tennessee Williams’ seminal classic, an aging Southern belle’s preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children’s futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son. A gentleman caller’s visit offers false hope and disrupts the family’s precarious balance. Starring the legendary Katharine Hepburn as Amanda Wingfield and Sam Waterston as Tom Wingfield.

Superstar violinist Joshua Bell joins conductor Alan Gilbert for Beethoven’s expansive Violin Concerto, one of the most popular violin concertos of all time. Composed almost simultaneously with his opera Leonore, the concerto features some of the composer’s warmest and most lyrical music. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands’s music has been championed by the BSO over the course of his career; the orchestra most recently premiered his Concerto for Piano with soloist Jonathan Biss in 2014. The premiere of his Symphonic Fantasy was originally scheduled for summer 2020. Completing the program is Claude Debussy’s picturesque, symphony-like masterpiece La Mer, in which the composer paints a musical picture of the sea’s many moods and colors. Previous registration required.

We continue rehearsals for the Southgate Chorus on Thursday afternoons through mid-June when we present our community concert! Our director is Curtis Smith who serves as director of Music for the First Congregational Church. Remember, you do not need a professional singing voice to join the ranks! Just have fun!

Rescheduled from Dec. 2021, Men’s Breakfast welcomes Shrewsbury Police Chief Kevin Anderson. He began his career at the Shrewsbury Police Department as a Patrolman in 1994 and was quickly promoted through the ranks. In 2019 he assumed his most recent position of Detective Bureau Commanding Officer where he was second in command to a 64 employee police department in a town with almost 38k residents. Chief Anderson brings with him a valuable historical perspective and a deep understanding of modern day policing. His extensive training in crisis intervention and understanding the needs of special populations coupled with his vision for engaging the community through outreach and improved communication serves the residents of Shrewsbury well.

We continue rehearsals for the Southgate Chorus on Thursday afternoons through mid-June when we present our community concert! Our director is Curtis Smith who serves as director of Music for the First Congregational Church. Remember, you do not need a professional singing voice to join the ranks! Just have fun!

The Seven Hills Four Quartet is a sub quartet of the Worcester Men of Song. The Men of Song, was founded in 1949 and has been presenting four-part acapella close harmony singing throughout central Massachusetts ever since. The quartet was recently awarded “Most Improved Quartet” in the Patriot Di-vision in the 2021 Northeastern Division of the National Barbershop Harmony Society. Come enjoy the four fellas for an afternoon of refreshing springtime tunes!

Bea Smith’s travels to us again this spring and Ray Smith has the truck loaded with the latest top quality spring fashions! Come browse new styles from Alfred Dunner, London Fog and more!

We continue rehearsals for the Southgate Chorus on Thursday afternoons through mid-June when we present our community concert! Our director is Curtis Smith who serves as director of Music for the First Congregational Church. Remember, you do not need a professional singing voice to join the ranks! Just have fun!