Rates for Public Events have been reduced to $20/hr. with a $40 minimum (i.e. 2 hrs) or $100 per day. The security deposit fee has been reduced to $150.
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The Friends of the Town Hall Opera House treated Sarah Lowry and Jade Walker to dinner at Positive Pie in Plainfield on Monday, August 7th, as a "thank you" for the three years of service they put in as co-Event Managers of the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House.
The assistance of this "Dynamic Duo" (as they were dubbed by the Times-Argus in a front page photo) was needed to get the Town Hall up and running after being closed for repairs for several years.
In addition to coordinating and curating events at the Town Hall, Sarah and Jade developed policies and procedures for managing the Hall, assisted with the creation of the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House web site, and helped to organize the Friends of the Town Hall Opera House.
As a result of their work, the Town Hall Opera House is a busy and popular place, and the management of the facility is being handled by our vol
unteer community organization, through a contract with the Town of Plainfield. Members of the Friends of the Town Hall Opera House process rental applications, provide tours of the facility, and monitor post-event clean-up on behalf of the Town of Plainfield - as well as hosting an annual concert series and raising funds for improvements.
Sarah is finishing up her first year in a masters' program in drama therapy, and Jade is getting a degree in career counseling from Goddard. She will be interning at U-32 this fall.
If you are interested in helping the "Friends" manage and operate the Town Hall Opera House, please go to the "Volunteer" page and let us know!
The third program in the 2017 Concert Series organized by the Friends of the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House – a sterling solo piano recital by classical pianist and composer Diane Huling - was held on Sunday, May 21st at 4 pm, witnessed by an audience of forty people.
Here is a brief report from “Friends” member Glenda Bissex. “Diane Huling’s brilliant and powerful piano recital demanded much of our new Baldwin grand piano, and it delivered! Especially dramatic was the opening number, Busoni’s piano transcription of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for organ, which filled the hall with organ-like intensity and resonance. What a privilege and joy to hear such music in our Town Hall Opera House."
Virtuoso pianist Diane Huling playing on the new grand piano at the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House on May 21, 2017. Photo courtesy of Will Walters.
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