Thursday, August 15 | Tuesday, August 20 | Thursday, August 22
6 PM - 8 PM | *choose: $10 | $20 | $30 per class
Join 2024 Teaching Fellows Allison Dobbs and Leanne Rabesa for three evenings of live music, art, and the common ground between them. Imagine yourself inside your favorite work of art or music. What might you see or hear? What tools could you use to explore this new environment? And how can you become a co-creator of the experience?
This course is part reflection, discussion, concert, and art workshop, and is open to all artistic levels. We recommend attending all three sessions, but they can also stand on their own. Learn to unlock the creative world around you - all you need to bring is a curious mind to join a creative community of which you might not realize you are already a part. Advance registration is required, you may register for one class or all three.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene). Google Maps Link
PLEASE REGISTER
*PROGRAM FEE STRUCTURE
While many of our programs are free, we also offer classes and events with a fee. There are three prices to choose from on a sliding scale:
subsidized $10 | regular fee $20 | help others $30
Upon registration, we trust you to choose the right fee that matches what you can afford. Do you need financial assistance? Can you pay the regular rate? Do you have the ability to pay a bit more and make funds available for others?
If in doubt, give us a call at 518.242.6535
Allison Dobbs is Craigardan’s 2024 Teaching Fellow in collaboration with Leanne Rabesa. Allison is a freelance violinist and visual artist based in Boston, MA. A passionate teacher and chamber musician, Allison has enjoyed developing curricula offering flexible and unusual entry points into learning. She was a recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Grant in 2021 for her PlayTogether Go curriculum, a chamber music program that commissioned original works from composers of underrepresented communities. She was also part of a curriculum cohort for the Castle of Our Skins organization, creating multidisciplinary lesson plans for Anthony Davis’s opera X and Anthony Green’s chamber work Catto’s Courage in 2022 and 2023. Allison’s recent engagements as an orchestral musician include section positions with Great Bay Philharmonic and MassOpera, and principal positions with NEMPAC Opera and the Brockton Symphony. She studied visual art at the Cooper Union and violin performance at Texas Tech University and the Boston Conservatory.
Leanne Rabesa is Craigardan’s 2024 Teaching Fellow in collaboration with Allison Hobbs. Leanne is a violist based in Jamaica Plain, MA, and is active as a performer, composer, arranger, and teacher. Her wide-ranging interests span from arranging obscure works for the viola ensemble and revising the viola curriculum for the American String Teachers Association to researching connections between music and visual art. In whatever time is still left, she can often be found knitting, cooking, or reconstructing the orchestra parts of Klebanov’s viola concerto from the solo part and the single extant recording. Leanne earned both BM and MM degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied viola with George Taylor and chamber music with the Ying Quartet, Zvi Zeitlin, and Charlie Castleman, among others. She lives surrounded by her personal library and a lot of yarn with her two spoiled cats.