Skwalking Heads Productions will be bringing an unpredictable group of good-natured improvisers to the Creative Arts Guild in Dalton Friday for an evening of fun and hilarity. The Guild closes its Beat the Winter Blues series with this group and dinner provided by the Dalton Depot.
The improvisers are Colleen and Ray Laliberte, Jessica Laliberte-Bowman and Jerry Bowman (all founding members of Skwalking Heads Productions) and Trent Creswell, Jeannie Hacker-Cerulean, Magge Hudgins, Casey Jackson, Karen Henderson, Stephanie Smith and Jen Thrasher (from Atlanta) and your friends from the Creative Arts Guild.
“We promise an evening of scenes that have never been seen before and an evening of audience participation in stories and games that haven’t been rehearsed,” said Colleen Laliberte.
“If you are familiar with the hit TV show ‘Who’s Line is It Anyway?’ then you have some idea of what to expect with improve but we must warn you, expect the unexpected, expect the obvious, expect us to want to make friends with you, expect milk and cookies! We promise we have no idea what will happen! Won’t it be fun to find out?” she said.
Each of the improvisers of Skwalking Heads Productions have just completed a weeklong improv intensive with Keith Johnstone, founder of the Loose Moose Theatre Company of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and are eager to share the fun with the audience.
Admission to an evening of Improv is $35 per person and includes dinner catered by the Dalton Depot. Doors open at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. The Guild invites you to come as casually as you would like and help us say goodbye to winter and hello to spring and summer. “Come on …. it’s imrov … seriously!” said Laliberte.
Call the Guild at 706-278-0168 to make reservations or for additional information.
Noah Collins returns to Noon Arts at the Guild
The Creative Arts Guild welcomes guitarist and vocalist Noah Collins for its April Noon Arts Program. Noah’s specialty is pure Americana and at 24 years old, his reputation as one of the region’s hottest up and coming folk artists is rapidly growing.
With coarse, heart-filled vocals comparable to Manchester-born musician David Gray and American songwriter Jackson Browne, Collins is a regular at open mic nights and regional venues like Atlanta’s Eddie’s Attic, Chattanooga’s Rhythm and Brews, and Nashville’s Bluebird Café.
While he started out in the industry as a 15-year-old putting a personal spin on the classics, today he also turns out his own tunes inspired by real places and real people he encounters as he travels throughout small towns across the Southeast.
“The first guitar I ever touched was my grandfather’s, an old Silvertone acoustic,” he said. “I started learning old songs by Van Morrison and Credence Clearwater Revival and eventually took up piecing together my own stuff. If there was something I wanted to hear that wasn’t out there, I would write it myself. I never planned on becoming a songwriter, but it came naturally.”
A Chattanooga native, Collins joined his first band, Black Tuesday, as a drummer in 2000. In 2002, he joined acoustic rock group Dear Abi, where he tried his hand at songwriting, vocals, guitar and harmonica. His first copyrighted single, “Maria,” was released on Dear Abi’s 2002 self-titled album.
After a brief stint playing drums and harmonica with regional honky-tonk/rockabilly group The Tennessee Rounders in 2004, Collins returned to working solo. In addition to large city restaurants and bars, Collins also performs at Colleges, festivals, cafes and coffee houses. His first independent album, “Heart on a Line” is available at www.CDBaby.com and at McKay Used Books and CDs in Chattanooga. For more information, E-mail to: Booking@noahcollinsmusic.com.
The Noon Arts program is Thursday beginning at noon and concluding by 1 p.m. in the Creative Arts Guild Main Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public. Those attending may bring a lunch or purchase one for $8 from the Guild by calling 706-278-0168 a day prior to the event.
For more information, contact Creative Arts Guild Music Director Lisa Elders at 706-259-1822 or email music@creativeartsguild.org.
The Creative Arts Guild is the oldest multidisciplinary community arts organization in the state of Georgia. The Guild is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through appropriations of the Georgia General Assemby. GCA receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts.
