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Arts Array SPRING 2020 CONCERT FILM VHCC Choir at Martin Luther King The Peanut Butter Falcon Day Remembrance Monday & Tuesday, February 3 & 4 Saturday, January 18 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM 2:00 PM (PG-13 – 97 minutes) Abingdon United Methodist Church Abingdon Cinemall 101 East Main, Abingdon, VA $7.75 Community Admission Free Community Event Zak runs away from his care home to make his Come hear the VHCC choir and many other fine dream of becoming a wrestler come true. area groups at this FREE Community event. Enjoy experiencing the area Martin Luther Directors: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz King Jr. Day Celebration at the Abingdon UMC. Writers: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz The VHCC choir has performed many times for this event. We are glad to lift up our voices for Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack the common causes of freedom, equality, and Gottsagen dignity for all people. Song sheets will be available at the door and the audience can participate. FILM If Beale Street Could Talk CONCERT Monday & Tuesday, February 10 & 11 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM The Diamonds Jazz (R – 119 minutes) Sunday, January 19 Abingdon Cinemall 3:00 PM $7.75 Community Admission Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she FREE to all area students and her family set out to prove her childhood friend $10 Community Admission and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit. From East Tennessee, The Diamonds Director: Barry Jenkins | Writers: Barry Jenkins play a diverse mix of music, (based on the book by James Baldwin) | Stars: KiKi specializing in jazz standards. The Layne, Stephan James, Regina King group performs at various venues and events throughout the region, including weddings, parties, and restaurants. They have also volunteered at many nursing homes, assisted living homes, and charitable organizations in the area. Originally from Texas, Glenn Diamond was FILM the Principal Bassist of the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra, and has played with many performers including Edgar Meyer and Shirley Jones. Glenn currently plays with the Tri-Cities Jazz Orchestra and has performed in several shows Joker at Barter Theater. Morissa Diamond, on keys, grounds the band. Her beautiful Monday & Tuesday, February 24 & 25 voice and playing tend toward the new era of jazz, such as Norah Jones. She 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM is sought after for various concerts in the region. Sloan Hill plays trumpet (R – 122 minutes) and flugelhorn. His lyrical style is a real treat! He has played with numerous Abingdon Cinemall jazz legends around the world and currently plays with the Tri-Cities Jazz $7.75 Community Admission Orchestra. Eddie Dalton, on drums, is an active teacher, clinician, and player. He is Director of Bands at Colonial Heights Middle School and Percussion In Gotham City, mentally-troubled comedian Arthur Instructor at Milligan College. Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face THE VHCC Spring Theatre Auditions with his alter-ego: “The Joker”. The Outsider Director: Todd Phillips | Writers: Todd Phillips, Scott Silver | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Auditions for the comedy The Outsider will be Niro, Zazie Beetz held Tuesday, January 21, at 7:00 PM in the BY PAUL SLADE SMITH Keyser-Aday Theatre. The cast includes parts for 4 men and 3 women. Being a VHCC student Performance Music Spring Classes is not required. Backstage and technical GOVERNOR positions are also available. Old Time String Band Monday • 4:00-5:45 • $80.00 • Non-credit or 3 credit class available. • All Contact Dona Lee for further details at ages 8 and up are welcome. Instruments are provided. Learn to play: bass, [email protected]. See page 3 for show times. guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, lap dulcimer or hammered dulcimer, ukulele or autoharp. Class Piano Tuesday • 12:30-1:45 • $96.00 • Non-credit or 2 credit class available. All levels of ability welcome. All ages 8 and up are welcome. Taught in a keyboard lab with individual electric keyboards with headphones. Mixed Day Choir Download the Spring 2020 Arts Array Monday - Wednesday • 12:30-1:45 • $80.00 • Non-credit or 2 credit class Brochure online at available. All ages 8 and up are welcome. www.vhcc.edu/ArtsAray Contact [email protected] for non-credit information. or click here Contact [email protected] for Credit Classes Information. THEATRE FILM Vice Monday & Tuesday, March 16 & 17 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM (R – 133 minutes) Abingdon Cinemall $7.75 Community Admission The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. MACBETH Director: Adam McKay | Writer: Adam McKay | Thursday, March 26 Stars: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell 7:30 PM Smith Theatre *Limited Free tickets with VHCC Student ID By Willam Shakespeare, and adapted by Katy Brown - Murder. Power. Lust. FILM Greed. Dark forces fuel the Macbeths’ sinister ambition for the crown and their horrifying descent into madness. Don’t miss this intimate and action- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont filled adaptation specifically tailored for Barter’s Smith Theatre. Monday & Tuesday, March 23 & 24 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM *A limited number of free tickets are available to VHCC students. Please (NR – 108 minutes) check e-mail regularly for announcements concerning tickets. Additional Abingdon Cinemall tickets may be bought through the Barter Theatre. $7.75 Community Admission All but abandoned by her family in a London FILM retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer. The Big Short Director: Dan Ireland | Writers: Martin Donovan, Monday & Tuesday, March 2 & 3 Dan Ireland | Stars: Joan Plowright, Rupert 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM Friend, Zoë Tapper (R – 130 minutes) Abingdon Cinemall $7.75 Community Admission In 2006-2007, a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they SPRING PHILM #philbetter discover how flawed and corrupt the market is. Director: Adam McKay | Writers: Charles Randolph, Winter’s Bone Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Monday & Tuesday, March 30 & 31 Ryan Gosling 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM (R – 100 minutes) Abingdon Cinemall $7.75 Community Admission SPENCER-MILLER CONCERT SERIES An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Director: Debra Granik | Writers: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt The McLain Family Band Sunday, March 15, 2020 3:00 PM Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church, Abingdon, VA FREE to all area students $10 Community Admission For many decades, the enthusiastic outstanding McLain family band has been performing, and spreading the wonderful traditions of bluegrass and Appalachian folk music. Founded by their father Raymond K. McLain, the family The Spring Philm is dedicated to the inimitable Phil Ferguson (March 2, group has made 14 international tours under the sponsorship of the US State 1983-January 15, 2018) and his sacrificial service to others. Phil loved Department. In addition to concerts at the Grand Ole Opry, they also played with Winter’s Bone because it demonstrates the grit that emerges from facing symphony orchestras featuring works with McLain themes. They have also the challenges of mountain life and celebrates the children who become appeared at Carnegie Hall and at the Lincoln Center. Raymond W. McLain leads beautiful old souls in spite of the hardships they face. the band today and is most likely the best known outside of the family band. He is an excellent fiddler and banjoist and has built a long career that includes #philbetter working with Jim and Jesse’s Virginia Boys and harmonica player Mike Stevens. FILM THEATRE RBG The Outsider Monday & Tuesday, April 6 & 7 Thursday, April 16 - Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 PM 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM Sunday, April 19 at 2:30 PM (PG – 99 minutes) Keyser-Aday Theatre at VHCC Abingdon Cinemall Free with VHCC Student ID $7.75 Community Admission $5 Community Admission The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Ned Newley doesn’t even want to be governor. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed He’s terrified of public speaking; his poll a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an numbers are impressively bad. To his every- unexpected pop culture icon. supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West | Stars: Ruth Bader sees things differently: Ned might be the worst Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for…the worst candidate to ever run for office. A timely and hilarious comedy CONCERT that skewers politics and celebrates democracy. The VHCC production of The Outsider by Paul Slade Smith will be directed by Dona Lee. SPENCER-MILLER CONCERT SERIES Terra Voce with Maria Yefimova Sunday, April 19 3:00 PM Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church FREE to all area students $10 Community Admission Terra Voce delights audiences with virtuosity, a conversational style of presentation, and genre- expanding programs that explore an uncommon mix of classical and traditional folk music styles. VHCC Old Time String Band Their concerts defy expectations, testing the limits Thursday, April 9 of what is possible on just two instruments. Terra 6:30-8:00 PM Voce has appeared on the Millennium Stage at the Southwest VA Cultural Center and Marketplace (formerly Heartwood) Kennedy Center, in the Christ Chapel Chamber Series Free Community Event at New York City’s Riverside Church, and as finalists in the National Flute Association’s Chamber Music The Old Time String Band is a credit class (MUS150) which is also offered for Competition.