Boston Dance Theater Community Performance

Friday, June 26
4-6pm, at Edgewood Farm
A participatory movement, drawing, and storytelling workshop
Listening Green is an open, community-centered workshop that invites participants to listen deeply to their bodies and their environment, translating observation, memory, and sensation into movement. The process weaves together exploratory movement practices, simple drawing and mark-making, and guided storytelling to generate shared choreographic material.

Across the residency, this process will gently shape a short, collective choreography rooted in the Truro landscape and the lived experiences of the participants. Those who wish to do so will be invited to perform this movement score as a brief opening piece for Boston Dance Theater’s outdoor performance on Friday. Participation in the performance is entirely optional.

Boston Dance Theater Teaching Artists
Boston Dance Theater (BDT) is Boston’s only full-time contemporary repertory dance company. BDT’s teaching artists are core members of the company who tour nationally and internationally while leading community classes, workshops, and residencies across the U.S. and abroad.

BDT’s educational work emphasizes accessibility, creativity, and embodied learning, drawing from contemporary dance, somatic practices, improvisation, and interdisciplinary research. For Castle Hill, classes and workshops will be led by a rotating group of BDT core artists under the direction of Founder and Co-Director Jessie Jeanne Stinnett.

BDT Core Member individual bios: https://www.bostondancetheater.com/dancers

The Pamet Float is Back!!
You must sign up in advance to participate!

Please arrive at 10 Meetinghouse Road by 1:30 pm to catch the shuttle bus to the float’s starting point!

This is a ONE DAY ONLY event! In the event of severe weather, the float will be cancelled and participants will be refunded.

Come One – Come All To the Pamet River Float!
Bring your friends and experience the outer cape landscape from a unique point of view.  You will float in an inner tube with the outgoing tide, down the Pamet River from the Pamet Harbor to Castle Hill. The Float is about 1 mile (about a half hour float), downstream following the river as it wanders back and forth across the marsh. Afterwards, join us on the back deck for celebration!

This year, sign up to borrow a float, or for an additional $25, you can take your float home and enjoy it the rest of the summer!

Be prepared to be wet, wear sunscreen, and water shoes are a must!   Life vests are recommended for less experienced swimmer and required for children.  

Things to bring on your Pamet River Float:

·       Swimsuit, OR Swim top and shorts

·       WATER SHOES ARE REQUIRED (Old tennis shoes, water shoes, etc.)

·       Hat and /or Visor

·       LIFE VESTS are recommended for NON-SWIMMERS, INEXPERIENCED SWIMMERS, and Mandatory for Children. 

·       Sunblock – Essential item!

·       Sunglasses (Eyeglass holders, use an attachment string).

·       Beach Towels

·       DO NOT TUBE WITH YOUR VALUABLES (jewelry, phones, watches, credit cards, etc.)

Enjoy local oysters and other hor d’oeuvres, beverages and the music of the NY Opera Society at the home of Terry Kahn & Lesley Silvester.
Tuesday, August 11, 6pm

The New York Opera Society (NYOS) develops new audiences for opera by commissioning, creating, and funding exemplary productions. To that end, NYOS serves as a conduit to the public by disseminating important messages, musical inspiration, and seminal artistic performances via partnerships with major performance venues, corporations, nonprofits and governments to present the work of our artists. In its most recent season, NYOS commissioned and co-presented the world premiere of Upon this Handful of Earth with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space in NYC and a highly lauded excerpted world premiered staged reading of Letters from Ruth at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; both works by Gisle Kverndokk and Aksel-Otto Bull. NYOS has also commissioned the first operatic version of Tres Sombreros de Copa by Ricardo Llorca which premiered in Brazil and will have its Spanish premiere at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid in November 2019. Previously, NYOS has produced the Lincoln Center and United States premiere of its contemporary Spanish opera, Las Horas Vacias, by Guggenheim fellow and Juilliard faculty member Ricardo Llorca; three tours and world premieres of NYOS’ commissions from Gisle Kverndokk’s and Wiik’s Max & Moritz: A Cartoon Opera in Seven Pranks and Supersize Girl. Other notable NYOS evenings have taken place at the National Gallery of Art, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Embassy of Italy, New York’s World Financial Center, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and the United Nations. Audiences have included the Royal Couple of Norway, the Undersecretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., Queen Sofia of Spain (at a gala in her honor), Barbara Walters, Stanley Tucci/Martin Scorsese (at a gala in their honor), and nearly every European and South American Consulate. NYOS has been favorably featured in The Washington Post, on PBS, in a feature article in The Wall Street Journal, and Opera News. NYOS is led by Executive Director Jennifer Cho and a dedicated Board of Directors chaired by philanthropist, Lesley Silvester.

The William Tell Student Showcase
Friday, August 14, 4-6pm

Join us in sharing stories, laughs, and a shared community experience!

Participants from William’s week-long workshop will be sharing the stories that they have crafted and composed for this event. Open to all!

Castle Hill is proud to participate in the Card to Culture program, a collaboration between the Mass Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector, by broadening accessibility to cultural programming.EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders can receive 50% off of tickets.

Please contact the office for a coupon code!