Kent County Arts and Entertainment Events- May 2025

For beginner and intermediate students of the potter’s wheel, to learn and emphasize the handbuilding skills that round out your pottery making skills. In addition to working with slabs and coils, the class will cover plaster and some tool making. At least one class will take place at my home studio.

For beginning and continuing students. Coils, slabs, and pinch pots. Experience the basic ways people have formed clay throughout the millennia. Learn the techniques and get creative!

Astrophysicist Dr. Lynn Cummings has always believed in science over faith in the unknown. But now that her life is changing, the certainty that was once a source of comfort has become a source of emptiness. When an unidentified flying object is sighted heading toward Earth, she grants an interview to a journalist who misquotes her. With her credibility on the line, she invites him to witness the object as it comes closest to the Earth with her. Dr. Cummings hopes it will pass without incident, but there is no telling what she will discover beyond the stars.

Ken Cowan is making his 28th appearance as guest organist on the Concert Series. He is Associate Professor of Organ at the Shepherd School of Music, Riche University, Houston, Texas and a guest artist across America, Europe and elsewhere.

Season tickets and individual concert tickets are available at the church office or on the evening of the performance.
A reception for the artist and attendees will be held immediately after the performance in the Church's Parish Hall.

First Friday with Joe Holt joined by Nate Grower & Seth Kibel. The evening celebrates what Klezmer, bluegrass, and Jazz have in common-- improvisation.

Spring is in full bloom! Celebrate the season by creating a beautiful living wreath with Brampton's resident wreath expert Donna!

Join us for a fun afternoon creating a wreath with friends and sipping some wine with snacks. All materials will be provided – just be ready to have a good time! You will have a beautiful wreath to take home at the end of the workshop.  Hurry - space is very limited.

Instructor Denise Dersch $65
This class is perfect for those new to watercolor or seeking to better understand this fluid and challenging medium. Students will explore essential topics like watercolor paper, brushes, pigments, values, edges, transparency versus opacity, and color theory. Using a limited palette of primary colors, participants will learn to control water and pigments, experiment with transparency and opacity, and apply various techniques to enhance their paintings. Each session includes clear objectives, live demonstrations, and a guided project, with all supplies provided.

Singer/ Songwriter Vance Gilbert at The Mainstay.

Instructor Marianne Sade

Experience the synergy and feel-good factor of expression in this intuitive way using one of the most popular and accessible (non-digital) 2-D art forms. Learn a bit about its changing but alluring new place in the history of art. All material and tools will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own cool collaging materials to incorporate.

Instructor Marianne Sade, $20

Experience the synergy and feel-good factor of expression in this intuitive way using one of the most popular and accessible (non-digital) 2-D art forms. Learn a bit about its changing but alluring new place in the history of art. All material and tools will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own cool collaging materials to incorporate.

No ticket purchase is required

A poetry reading and book signing in the back room of The Kitchen at The Imperial. Reservations recommended.

"A rare gift in art is directness: to turn a clear, unsentimental gaze on love and grief in all their variations, with no smokey or mysterioso evasions. Almost as valuable is meaningful surprise, the stunned laughter of recognition even if the subject for marvel is loss. The heartfelt, unpredictable poems of Rachel Trousdale attain that kind of discovery." --Robert Pinsky

Calling all Fiber artists! Come for a fun day of creativity while we make some Wonderful Wearables for the August Exhibit at River Arts.
Bring your sewing machines, Embroidery kit, knitting needles, etc. And any supplies you need for your project. There is room for 8 with sewing machines and additional space for hand stitchers, so let us know in advance if you're bringing a machine. Betty will be on hand to guide you and help with any questions you may have.

Legend in the Creole Jazz circles of New Orleans -- Don Vappie at The Mainstay

A fiction reading and book signing in the back room of The Kitchen at The Imperial. For fans of thrillers, queer fiction, and horror.

Rock Hall's PorchFest is designed to bring local musicians and music lovers together to celebrate, and create a sense of community. We invite you to bring a chair and join us for these free outdoor mini concerts. Visit our facebook page for more information and to find the exact porch locations.