Bach to Calm

In her new collaborative project cellist Stephanie Winters creates an original soundtrack of cello music that excerpts the Sarabande dance movement from each of the Six Cello Suites by J.S. Bach, and contextualizes these iconic solo-cello works with original compositions where she plays up to 59 cello parts, resulting in a magical and lush musical cello-choir soundscape.

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The Wampanoag Experience

The Wampanoag Experience project is a partnership between Mashpee Wampanoag Annawon Weeden, and environmental sustainability consultant and educator Peter Crawley. This project is generously supported by Round the Bend Farm, the Westport Cultural Council, Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust and L. Knife & Son, a Sheehan Family Company. Round the Bend Farm (RTB), is a Center for Restorative Community, located in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It is a working farm and educational non-profit devoted to the global paradigm shift toward hope and abundance by valuing diversity, modeling nature, and redefining wealth. Photos by Merri Cyr

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In Search of a New Land

An interview with playwright Samuel Harps about the subject of his new play, Paul Cuffe

Award-winning playwright Samuel Harps presented a public reading of his new work-in-progress, Paul Cuffe: In Search of a New Land, to a packed house at the DeDee Shattuck Gallery in Westport on September 9, 2022.

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