The Hopkinton Center for the Arts and Claflin Hill Orchestra collaboration continues with a FREE Summer Winds Concert on Saturday, July 18. The 35 piece Claflin Hill Orchestra will perform a "pops like" concert. Performance will take place outdoors at the HCA. Watch the show from your reserved parking spot. Bring your dinner and lawn chairs and enjoy the music.

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Sponsored by Phipps Insurance and MAPFRE Insurance. 

Part of the HCA's Art @ A Distance Summer Fundraiser Celebrating the Arts! 

Join us online Sunday, July 19 for grammy award winning children’s performer Dan Zanes and Haitian-American music therapist / jazz vocalist Claudia Zanes.  Dan and Claudia have been making music with each other since the day they met in the fall of 2016.

The two decided while sitting at Dan’s kitchen table that afternoon that they would continue singing together and, in the spirit of inclusion and good times, would work with presenters to try and make all of their concerts sensory friendly.

Inspired by their artful modern-day all-ages folk music and their commitment to accessibility, the Kennedy Center commissioned Claudia and Dan to create a theater piece for young audiences. Night Train 57: A Sensory Friendly Comic Folk Opera premiered in October 2017 and has been performed several times since. 

Their love of songs and communal music-making lead to a publishing deal with the Quarto Group USA and the result, a songbook entitled Dan Zanes’ House Party: A Family Roots Music Treasury, was released in late 2018. This has opened the doors to many new conversations with parents, educators, music therapists, and fellow musicians about how to work together to create a healthier, more musical (and ultimately, more festive), society.

While taking on these projects, Claudia and Dan have continued to bring their music to family shows, school workshops, community singalongs, and folk festivals throughout the U.S. and into Canada. They take their commitment to accessibility and inclusion with them wherever they go.

And – the icing on the cake – in the midst of it all they were married!

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The Hopkinton Center for the Arts Fine Arts Academy is perfect for students who  love the arts and who are looking to get outside and meet up with friends or meet new friends. Students can sign-up for one or multiple weeks of summer fun! Weekly academy sessions are geared toward those kids who want to fully explore different visual art mediums. Their day will include studio time with teachers covering different mediums such as watercolor, pastels, ceramics handbuilding and pencil drawing. The students will also work on a group activity each day and spend time outside.

ALL ART SUPPLIES INCLUDED.

Please bring a lunch, snack and water bottle each day. Social distancing guidelines are being followed to ensure a safe summer. Click here to see all of our safety guidelines for Summer 2020 programs.

In the event that Covid-19 social distancing guidelines do not allow for in-person attendance, registrants may opt to select from a variety of morning-only, shorter virtual programs.