May 08 Wednesday
A self-taught artist and cabinet maker from Fulton, Kentucky, Henderson was an artist with a disability whose paintings and carved birds of the southern United States won accolades and fans among art collectors and others.
A launch party for this exhibit will take place on Thursday, April 4, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. with a short program discussing Henderson’s art with Discovery Park senior director of exhibits and collections, Jennifer Wildes. This event is FREE for all guests. Light refreshments will be served.
The Exchange-Christian County will be set up in the mobile unit in the parking lot of Oak Grove Community Center offering anonymous and confidential HIV and Hepatitis C testing.
A $20 gift card is offered for those that are eligible.
The Calloway County Public Library is Proud to be a 105th Anniversary Children’s Book Week Event Host.
The Calloway County Public Library is proud to host author Jayne Moore Waldrop for a storytime event featuring her books "She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance" and "A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson". Waldrop will conduct a read-a-loud of the books followed by an opportunity for participants to create their own art based on the styles of LaFrance and Wilson. Both artists were from Graves County, Kentucky.This event is free to attend, and all art activity materials will be provided.
"She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance", a children’s book, explores the life and art of Helen LaFrance, a Kentucky memory painter and outsider artist who captured a lively, vibrant view of rural life in a changing world. Her nearly century-long creative journey began at age five when her mother taught her to draw and later to paint with pigments made from berry juice, laundry bluing, and plant leaves. LaFrance developed a unique style of creative expression and worked outside the conventional art world. Her work has been compared to other well-known outsider artists like Grandma Moses, Horace Pippin, and Clementine Hunter.
"A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson" is the story of the artist’s path to become a classically trained artist. Growing up in rural western Kentucky in the early 1900s, Wilson needed to convince his family and neighbors that art was a path worth choosing over becoming a farmer or teacher. He also had to find an art school that judged him for his talent and not for the color of his skin.
Jayne Moore Waldrop is a writer and attorney who loves telling stories about her native western Kentucky. She is the author of A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson (Shadelandhouse Modern Press); Drowned Town (University Press of Kentucky), an INDIES Book of the Year Award silver winner in fiction and a 2022 Great Group Reads List selection (Women’s National Book Association); Retracing My Steps and Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems, both published by Finishing Line Press.
For more information, please email contactccpl@callowaycountylibrary.org.
2.5 mile fun run/walk event along the Greenway trail! Registration Begins at 5:30 pm in Noble Park at Shelter #19, Run begins at 6:00 pm. Wear your favorite tutu or superhero capes, best dressed wins a prize. Bring all the babies too, prize for the best dressed stroller. There will be several door prizes. And stop after you finish for a snack at shelter 19.
GEORGE THOROGOOD and THE DESTROYERS “Bad All Over The World– 50 Years of Rock” with Special Guest, Brooks Young - brooksyoung.comSponsored by Golden Eagle Distributing
ABOUT THE ARTIST: On the evening of December 1st, 1973 at The University of Delaware’s Lane Hall, a guitarist, a drummer, and their rhythm guitarist set up on the small bandstand. Though the three-piece band had barely rehearsed, guitarist George Thorogood and drummer Jeff Simon had been bashing out covers of songs they loved – including ‘No Particular Place To Go’, ‘Madison Blues’ and ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer’ – in suburban Wilmington basements since they were teens. The Lane Hall audience was wary at first. “Then it was like somebody flipped a switch,” Simon recalls. “Everybody hit the dance floor all at once.”
“We had the place rockin’,” Thorogood says. “From that very first show, Jeff and I knew we were onto something.” Five decades, 15 million albums and more than 8,000 performances later, few bands can still rock the house like George Thorogood & Destroyers. And for Thorogood, Simon, and long-time Destroyers Bill Blough, Jim Suhler and Buddy Leach, their Bad All Over The World – 50 Years of Rock Tour will be a celebration like no other.
But when asked to pick a career highlight, maybe one night over the past half century that changed everything for George Thorogood & The Destroyers, he shakes his head, flashes a huge grin and heads off to soundcheck. “My highlight is when I step on that bandstand,” Thorogood says. “The promoters invited us, the fans came to hear us, and we’re ready to rock. Every night I play for people can be the biggest night of my life.”
May 09 Thursday
Join Mr. Shaun upstairs to enjoy playing a variety of board games. If there is a game we have that you want to learn how to play, Mr. Shaun is here to teach the ins and outs of each game.
Ages: For all ages
May 10 Friday
LTAMF is a celebration of all things art, community, and music. Set in the historic Lower Town Arts District, the festival offers art vendors, live music, family activities, and various mouth watering food and beverage options.
The 2024 festival dates are Friday, May 10th from 5pm - 10:30pm & Saturday, May 11th from 10am - 10:30pm, culminating in a weekend full of musical, culinary, and artistic talent from Western Kentucky and the surrounding region.
More festival information can be found at https://theyeiser.org/lower-town-art-music-festival/.
From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Ticket information at www.playhousemurray.org.