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SALEM, MA –– Original and otherworldly, Nick Cave’s art blends the bound-aries between sculp-ture, costume, video, dance and public per-formance in unexpect-ed ways. The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) continues its growing contemporary art pro-gram with three never-be-fore-seen Nick Cave Sound-suits made especially for this exhibition, alongside an immersive film projection. FreePort [No. 006]: Nick Cave will be on view at PEM March 2 through May 27, 2013.

Cave’s humanoid Soundsuit sculptures are built from a di-verse bricolage of found objects and materials collected by the artist, in-cluding twigs, sisal, beads, sequins and feathers. When worn, Cave’s Soundsuits take on a larger-than-life dimension, obscuring the wear-er’s identity, gender and class and unleashing the sculpture’s kinet-ic potential. Drawing on his experience with the Alvin Ai-ley Ameri-can Dance T h e a t e r, Cave cho-reographs performers’ movements to activate the Soundsuits’ inherent motion and highlight their

mesmerizing appeal. Two Sound-suit performance films, Drive-by and Clowning, will be presented in conjunction with this exhibition.

“The physicality of Nick Cave’s Soundsuits invites viewers to imagine what it

might feel like to inhab-it one. Textural, faceless, disorienting and enig-

matic, Cave’s Soundsuits are whimsical, but project a

certain power,” says Trev-or Smith, PEM’s cura-tor of contemporary art. “We are excited to share

this groundbreaking art-ist with our visitors and we hope to expand the defini-tion of what performance

art can be.”Cave was born in Fulton, Mis-

souri, in 1959. He lives and works in Chicago where he is a professor of fashion design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The three Soundsuits featured in this exhibi-tion are among the last that the art-

ist intends to cre-ate. Cave, who since

the ear-ly 1990s

has created more than 500 S o u n d s u i t s , plans to ex-plore new artis-

tic avenues.

Arts & EntertainmentPEM Presents The Last Of Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Nick Cave On View March 2 – May 27, 2013

Keene State Theatre and Dance Presents Shakespeare’s Romantic Comedy The Tempest

The Capitol Center For The Arts Presents One-Man Star Wars Trilogy

Rigoletto to Be Broadcast LiveA New Production in the Met: Live in HD Opera Series

Currier Museum February Calendar & Samurai Vacation Week Events

FEBRUARYMANCHESTER—Opening February 2, Lethal Beauty: Samurai

Weapons and Armor which displays the striking duality of deadly weaponry and artistic beauty from the Samurai culture of centu-ries past. A $5 special exhibition charge applies for adults to view Lethal Beauty; children 17 and under always enjoy free admission to the museum.

The museum’s entrance is located at 150 Ash Street and free parking is available in the on-site lot. Museum hours are Sunday, Monday, Wednesday - Friday 11 am–5 pm, Saturday 10 am–5 pm, with extended hours on the First Thursday of each month until 8 pm. Closed Tuesday. Admission to the museum is always free for children 17 and under and museum members, and every Saturday from 10 am–noon admission is free to everyone. For more infor-mation, visit www.currier.org or call 669-6144 x108.

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Create Your Own Ikebana Flower ArrangementSunday, February 17 1-3 pm

Explore the art of Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrange-ment, a popular pastime in the 1500’s! Join Antoinette Douart, the owner of Ikebana Flower in Nashua for an enjoyable creative after-noon exploring this art form and its history. Create your own ar-rangement! $45 for members, $55 for non-members. Reservations are required by February 1.Public Guided Tours Daily at 1 pm

Welcome to the Currier: Highlights of the Collection Tours are offered daily (except Tuesday when the museum is closed) at 1 pm. Public Tours are free with admission. Starting on February 13, vis-itors can enjoy Highlights of the Collection as well as Lethal Beau-ty: Samurai Weapons and Armor Tours daily at 1 pm (except Tues-day when the museum is closed). There is a $5 special exhibition charge for adults visiting Lethal Beauty, children 17 and under are always free.

Original Works by James Gurney on Exhibit at NH Institute of Art

MANCHESTER— Breathe deep, seek peace, Dinotopia fans, and don’t miss Norman Rockwell Muse-um’s traveling exhibition Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gur-ney exhibited by the New Hamp-shire Institute of Art. The exhibi-tion will run from Wednesday, Feb. 20 through Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

Celebrate the opening of this ex-citing exhibit on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 20 at 5 pm followed by James Gurney’s lecture: Worldbuilding: How to Develop a Fantasy Universe at 7:00 pm. The opening is free and

open to the public. Gurney’s lec-ture is part of the Institute’s Distin-guished American Artists Discuss-ing Art lecture series and the cost to attend is $20.

From the soothing, restorative environment of Waterfall City to the hidden wonders of Chandara, acclaimed author and illustrator James Gurney’s magical Dinotopian world comes to life in this enchant-ing exhibition that features 22 orig-inal paintings from the best-sell-ing illustrated books Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time (1992), Di-notopia: The World Beneath (1995),

and Dinotopia: Journey to Chanda-ra (2007), and presents fascinating examples of the illustrator’s creative process, including reference mate-rials, and a handmade scale-model.

Inspired by archaeology, lost civi-lizations, and the art of illustration, Gurney’s Dinotopia, an extraordi-nary place where humans and dino-saurs live in harmony, fuses fantasy with realism and scientific accuracy. “The thing I love about dinosaurs is that they are on that balance point between fantasy and reality,” says Gurney. “It might be hard to believe that mermaids and dragons really existed, but we know that dinosaurs did―we can see their footprints and skeletons but we can’t photograph them or see them, except in our imagination.”

The Dinotopia storyline chron-icles the adventures and remark-able experiences of Professor Ar-thur Denison and his son Will on Dinotopia, a mysterious “lost” is-land inhabited by dinosaurs and shipwrecked travelers. The faraway land of Dinotopia― wholly the prod-uct of Gurney’s fertile imagination, scientific knowledge and metic-ulous artistic ability―is a civiliza-tion like no other. The society has its own language, alphabet (dino-saur footprints that correspond to each letter of the Roman alphabet), colorful festivals and parades. The

lively cast of characters includes the inquisitive Professor Denison; Will and Sylvia, the adventurous young Skybax riders-in-training; the de-vious curmudgeon Lee Crabb; the beautiful musician Oriana Nascava; and a multilingual, diplomatic Pro-toceratops named Bix.

“We are honored to present this exciting collection of original works by James Gurney,” said New Hamp-shire Institute of Art Illustration Chair Jim Burke. “This is t the first of what we hope will be many col-laborations with the Norman Rock-well Museum.”

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Concord - Get your light sabers ready, Concord, because Charles Ross is bringing his wildly enter-taining One-Man Star Wars Trilo-gy to the Capitol Center for the Arts on Sunday, February 17, at 1pm and 4pm as part of the CCA’s new fam-ily series Showtime Sundays. One Man Star Wars Trilogy,” is a hilari-ous hyperdrive voyage through Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in 60 minutes. There is a catch. The show only has one cast member.

In his hilarious, kinetic solo piece, Canadian writer/performer Ross plays all the characters, rec-

reates the effects, sings from John Williams’ score, flies the ships, and fights both sides of the battles from the original Star Wars trilo-gy, punctuating his virtuosic per-formance with captivating factoids and editorial asides. No costumes, no props, no sets – just Ross using his yoga-limber body, remarkable knack for voices, subtle changes in facial expression, and manic levels of energy to put his own distinct stamp on the Star Wars universe. Whether you carry your own light saber or merely enjoyed the mov-ies, this tribute will be appreciat-ed by Droids and Jedis alike. “Ross’

greatest achievement comes from the accuracy of the scenes. Word for word, it’s like watching the tril-ogy in fast-forward.”-Matthew Jest-er of the Columbia Chronicle. “One Man Star Wars Trilogy” was di-rected by T.J. Dawe and has toured world-wide.

Did he spend too much of his childhood in a galaxy far, far away? Well, let’s just say that by age 10, he had seen the first Star Wars film more than 400 times and commit-ted virtually every line to memory. Ross has since parlayed this child-hood obsession into a one-of-kind theatrical piece, which he has per-

formed in more than 180 cities around the globe and has even ap-peared at George Lucas-endorsed Star Wars Conventions. Where does he get his strength? It flows from the Force, of course.

Individual tickets are $20 and tickets purchased in groups of four or more are $16.25. Tickets are available now by calling 603-225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301, on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs-day and Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

KEENE – The Tempest, a Shake-spearean romantic comedy con-jured with the magic of a father’s love, will be presented by Keene State Theatre and Dance from Wednesday to Saturday, February 27 to March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Theatre of the Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College. Tick-ets are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and youth, and $6 for Keene State students. For tickets, call the Box Office at 358-2168 or visit www.keene.edu/racbp.

KSC theatre faculty member Peg-gyRae Johnson will direct the play that she describes as a romantic comedy with a message about a par-ent’s concern, support and love for a child. She adapted the play to run 90 minutes without intermission by rewriting the first scene to explain

why the main character Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan and a magician, conjures up a storm to bring people to the island where he has been banished with his daugh-ter for 12 years.

“I wanted to explore the question of why on one day does someone who has spent decades of his life mastering the magical arts, break his magic staff and destroy his mag-ical books,” said Johnson. “All of the magic he has learned cannot give him immortality, and he has to make a choice about his daughter Miranda’s future.”

Prospero realizes his own mor-tality and the fact that Miranda would be alone on the island with the monster Caliban. So, Prospe-ro casts spells to create a tempest, causing a shipwreck of the enemies

who caused his banishment; the son of one of those enemies becomes Miranda’s love interest.

The Tempest is considered the last play written solely by Shakespeare. Following this play, he co-wrote two others, working as a mentor to ap-prentice John Fletcher, which was the way playwrights mastered their art in the early 17th century when this play made its stage debut. The adaptation will allow students, who are more familiar with Shakespeare as literature, to experience the play as theatre, especially the first-year students reading The Tempest as part of KSC’s Keene is Reading text for new students.

Johnson places the action on the island of Haiti, rather than the Ber-mudas, where historically the Sea Venture capsized in a storm on its

way to Jamestown in 1609, a year before Shakespeare penned The Tempest. Everyone was presumed dead on board, but a year later the ship, repaired by the stranded crew, sailed into Jamestown with most hands on deck. This real life event likely was an inspiration for Shakespeare’s play. Johnson was in-spired to use Haiti as the setting for this production to bring focus to a place where people are still suffer-ing – homeless and abandoned like Prospero and Miranda – after an earthquake and hurricanes, most recently Sandy, which further dev-astated the island before flooding New York City and the New Jersey coast.

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PETERBOROUGH – Rigolet-to, one of Verdi’s most famous and popular operas, will be broadcast live on the Peterborough Players big screen on Saturday, February 16 at 1:00 pm, as part of the Metropolitan Opera’s The Met: Live in HD 2012-13 season. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students.

Award- winning director Michael Mayer has placed his new produc-tion of Verdi’s towering and time-less tragedy of lust, betrayal and re-venge in Las Vegas in 1960. Inspired by the antics of the Rat Pack, this production stars Piotr Beczala as the womanizing Duke, Zeljko Lucic as his tragic sidekick Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau as Rigoletto’s daugh-ter Gilda.

Sunflowers Restaurant of Jaffrey will provide a variety of delicious sa-vory and sweet “Opera Bites” which will be on sale in the Peterborough Players lobby both pre-show and during intermission.

Peterborough Players, 55 Hadley Rd., Peterborough. Box Office: 924-7585 or online: www.peterborough-players.org

Approximate running time is 3 1/2 hours. Casting is subject to change without notice.

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