Still more life has been added to the Music Hall's "Live Under The Arch" series, held just outside its front door on Chestnut Street.
"We had always thought there would be a little bit of everything," Director of Marketing & Communications Monte Bohanan. "We've booked music all along. We've added Justin McKinney so there's comedy (Sept.3). Plus two authors are coming."
Author Meg Mitchell Moore, who graced the Loft last year, is back to discuss "Two Truths and A Lie," her latest, on Aug. 20.
Author and climate activist Acadia Tucker, author of "Growing Good Food," speaks on Aug 27, Bohanan says. "She's bringing back the Victory Garden which is timely; gardening as civic action."
The Hall will hold Arch events twice a week through the end of September.
"It will be music, comedy and literary, it's probably what's going to work best out there," he says. "I don't know that we'll do more than those three. There's strict parameters around the size of an ensemble; three on stage is about as big as we can go."
Outside seats 75 people maximum. Drinks are delivered by waitstaff. People are required to wear masks when they leave the table for any reason, he adds.
"It's been good," Bohanan says. "I think James Paone, front of house manager, said it best. It's shaking off the show rust."
The Indoor reopens this month. The new HVAC system is in, and things are being cleaned up and set with all the new safety measures..
"Movies should start sometime after the middle of August, with a 50-person limit," he says. "And we currently have the live shows scheduled in the theater starting at the end of September."
First up will be The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra.
The Hall will stick to a 20 or 25 % percent house, even though the state allows 50% capacity.
"With 900 seats, we can't go above 200 to 250 and properly socially distance," he says. "It's not only about 'in seats,' it's concessions, or going to the bathroom, going in and exiting."
"We also have to have the time to clean and make people FEEL comfortable. So 20 to 25 % is where we've determined we can keep them socially distant at their seats."
More info at themusichall.org.
Artist immortalizes Lily Moonstorm
Artist Jane Starr Weils, a Rochester native currently living in upstate New York, met performing artist Lily Moonstorm at a festival, and her artist's eye was completely taken by her.
Moonstorm is known locally for multiple arts: belly and fire dancer, mermaid performer and painter. For this event, she was in her belly dance guise.
"During the afternoon, as things were slowing for a bit, this incredible 'being' was floating by my table!" Starr Weils says. "It was Lily in all her finery."
As Starr Weils recalls, Moonstorm's black and red costume was decorated with jingling silver coins and adornments. Her long dark hair cascaded down her back, and was decorated "with two large red flowers framing her beautiful face."
"All I could think of was that I had to paint this stunning vision and in an over-exuberant manner jumped up saying 'I have to have you!'" Starr Weils says. "She simply paused, looked at me and quietly and said, 'Excuse me?'"
Starr Weils realized her exuberance might be a little off-putting. She apologized, and explained her interest in painting her. She gave Moonstorm her contact info, "and honestly didn't think I would hear back from her."
Moonstorm says she was in fact flattered. She reached out and sent photos to the painter, "and the rest is herstory," the dancer says.
"I immediately pulled out paper and paints," Starr Weils says, "and when completed sent her prints and my gratitude."
Starr Weils, who is an illustrator as well as fine art painter, is currently working on an oracle deck about Avalon, written by Lucy Cavendish, for Blue Angel Publishing. Updates at https://ift.tt/3gZQ2uY
As for Moonstorm's image, it was not only immortalized in oils, but is currently available as a cross stitch pattern, with Heaven and Earth Cross Stitch Co. Starr Weils has had numerous images licensed by the company over the past decade. More info can be found here.
"Well, it's a huge compliment when someone so talented chooses you as a subject for their art," Moonstorm says. "Makes one feel a bit like royalty!"
Truax receives national attention
Portsmouth Poet Laureate Tammi Truax's thumbs-up to the city's request has made national news. The New York Times printed an article on the inclusion of Truax's poetry in the weekly Portsmouth official newsletter about its reponse to the coronavirus pandemic.
"This was never planned," Truax says. "It happened serendipitously because of COVID. ... I write it in response to what's happening that week."
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