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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Nine

Fung Ming Chip, Rubbing Script, 2017, ink on paper 24 x 48 in (61 x 122 cm). Courtesy of Fu Qiumeng Fine Art.

Day 9

Asia Week New York ends today. This is your last chance to visit the galleries and to view the online exhibition.

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Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

 

The galleries mentioned below are exhibiting online only.

Rajasthani Barahmasa
One of a group of the twelve months, this Rajasthani Barahmasa (barah = 12 and masa = month) and coincides with the coming of the rains. When the weather cools, people run joyfully into nature. It is also the time for the festival of Teej celebrated by women with singing, dancing, and swinging, dedicated to Parvati, the wife of Shiva.
Art Passages.

 
Fahua
The Fahua Eight Immortals Porcelain Jar, Ming dynasty, late 15th century, 12.8 in. height (32.5 cm.) x 12.9 in. diameter (32.7 cm.) from a Japanese collection inspired the online exhibition Safety In Numbers, alongside a Heian-period image of Shō Kannon from a staggering group once enshrined in the Kōfuku-ji in Nara.
Kaikodo LLC.

 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Japan Society
A new generation of Japanese bamboo artists from Tai Modern produce functional, sculptural, and refined works with their individual sensibility and creativity. 27 baskets on display reflect the longstanding basket-weaving traditions and transformations of Japanese basketry with advanced plaiting skills and experimentation with new shapes.
Curated by Jinyoung A. Jin, director of cultural programs at the Charles B. Wang Center, the treasures in this exhibition take visitors on a remarkable journey across regions and time.
Charles B. Wang Center.

 

Doyle

The Asia Week New York daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

elephant handled vase
Chinese Imperial Brown Embroidered Silk Semi-formal Dragon. Robe, Jifu, 18th Century, from Property of an American Collector. The naturalistic border at the hem and fine embroidery greatly enhance this nine five-clawed dragon robe. The brown ground, considered an offshoot of yellow, as well as the decoration, indicate that this is an Imperial prince's robe.
iGavel.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 9 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Eight

Illustration to a Ragamala series, Holi Festival with Nawab Siraj al-Dawla as the Nayaka (Vasant Ragini) (detail) Murshidabad, Bengal, circa 1755, Opaque watercolour with gold on paper, 9 ¼ by 5 4/5 in.; 23,5 by 15 cm. painting; 11 by 7 in.; 28 by 17.8 cm. folio; courtesy Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.

Day 8

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

View all calendar events here

Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

 

Sebastian Izzard LLC and Onishi Gallery are open today. Akar Prakar is exhibiting online only.

Hokusai
With Japanese Paintings and Prints: 1800-1860, Katsushika Hokusai’s works are complemented by landscapes by his rival Hiroshige, including a first edition of his famous snowscape Evening Snow, Kambara, and his moonlit masterpiece Seba.
Sebastian Izzard LLC..

 
painting by Suman Kaur
Ganesh Haloi (born 1936) is a Kolkata-based artist, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). He moved to Calcutta in 1950 following the Partition of India. The trauma of displacement left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. Since then, his art has exhibited an innate lyricism, coupled with nostalgia for a lost world.
Akar Prakar.

 
Bakufu
A beautiful vase in hammered silver, entitled Bakufu, 2011 by Living National Treasure artist, Osumi Yukie (b.1945), one of the few women in that group, is the embodiment of the skilled use of the extremely complex metalsmithing techniques developed in Japan.
Onishi Gallery.

 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Japan Society
The highest forms of Chinese art have always been regarded as painting and calligraphy, with landscape, figures, and flower-and-bird painting. Introducing masterworks from the Tianjin Museum and Changzhou Museum is Flowers on a River, a 40-ft hand scroll by famous monk painter Zhu Da (1626-1705).
China Institute Gallery.

 

Doyle

The Asia Week New York daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

elephant handled vase
Clair-de-lune or 'tian lan' (sky blue) glazed wares were highly prized in the Kangxi period and the color was strictly reserved for imperial porcelain. Sturdily potted with broad, rounded shoulders beneath the lipped rim, the jar is molded with narrow, vertical ribs and is covered overall with an even sky-blue glaze with the exception of the flat base. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) wide, cloth box.
Christie's.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 8 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Seven

Hiroshi Yoshida, 1876-1950, Kumoi Cherry Tree (Kumoizakura), ca. 1926, 23 by 29 1/8 in., 58.5 by 74 cm.; courtesy Scholten Japanese Art

Day 7

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

View all calendar events here

Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Ralph Chait Galleries
Spring Exhibition of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art includes 35 notable objects, many with important provenance. These include a pair of Large Famille Verte Vases and Covers with relief decoration, Kangxi period, a fine group of Porcelain Production watercolors, and a Japanese porcelain.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries Inc.

 
painting by Suman Kaur
In addition to his signature selection of stunning military paraphernalia, Britain-based Runjeet Singh includes a new contemporary arm of his showcase with Sikh-focused portraiture, incorporating tenants of the cultural identity with fellow Brit, artist Suman Kaur.
Runjeet Singh.

 
Writing Box
Set of Writing Box and Document Box with Poem Cards, ca. 1920 (document box featured here). Both boxes with wood substrate finished in highly polished blackened roiro lacquer and decorated in gold, aokin, silver, and colored takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with embellishments of gold hirame flakes and individual okibirame squares of gold foil.
Thomsen Gallery.

 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Japan Society
The first institutional solo exhibition of Kyohei Inukai (1913–1985), a largely unknown, yet prolific Japanese-American artist, presents many never-before shown abstract and illusionary paintings and screenprints from the 1960s-1980s. Additionally, traditional sumi-e Japanese ink paintings, dovetail Inukai’s curvilinear forms and nuanced color palettes.
Japan Society.

 

Doyle

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

elephant handled vase
A yellow-ground famille-rose 'elephant' handled vase, Mark and period of Tongzhi, the base with a four-character mark in iron red Height 14⅝ in., 37.2 cm. Repeated shou characters are a distinctive feature of Tongzhi period porcelain. Lot 761 of the Important Chinese Art sale. Estimate $30,000-50,000.
Sotheby's.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 7 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Six

Pair of Painted Earthenware Zhenmushou Tomb Guardians 彩繪鎭墓獸陶像一對 Tang dynasty, 8th century Heights: 62.9 cm. (24 3/4 in.) & 59.5 cm. (23 3/8 in.); courtesy Kaikodo

Day 6

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

View all calendar events here

Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Ralph Chait Galleries

A beautiful 15th-16th century figure of Nampar Gyalwar, from Tibet, with silver and copper inlaid eyes, his right hand raised in the typical gesture of this Bon Deity is one of the works on view at Buddhist Art.
Buddhist Art.

 
Buddha
Dai Ichi Arts includes works by Japan’s ceramic Living National Treasures, from porcelain to stoneware; from celadon to iron glazes. Tokuda Yasokichi III was designated in 1997 for his production of colorful porcelain (saiyu jiki). His use of polychrome enamel on pigmented glazes on simple forms is famous in the Kutani canon. 
Dai Ichi Arts Ltd.

 
Nagare
Kim Hyunggeun's Day of Blossoming Cotton Flowers 1995, oil on canvas, 17 x 20 in. (43.2 x 50.8 cm.) features in the modern and contemporary Korean paintings showcase, which also includes work by Kim Sou, Su Kwak, Kyung-ja, and Cho Yong-lk among others. The open house and the online exhibition also includes Goryeo celadons. 
HK Art & Antiques LLC.

 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Metropolitan

Seongmin Ahn fuses her insight into the relativity of perception with a deep regard for traditional Korean art, especially minhwa–folk painting. Traditional forms and themes are extended into multi-disciplinary and multi-media practices by adopting science, technology, and multiple cognitive models. She will be present tonight for the lecture.
The Korea Society.

 

Doyle

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

Vase
An important white porcelain moon jar from the Joseon Dynasty (18th century) is round and well-proportioned, formed by two parts joined at the belly, set with a slightly everted short neck, covered with a lustrous and translucent glaze, and set on a circular upright foot with a deep recessed base. Estimated at $1,000,000-2,000,000. 
Christie's.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 6 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Five

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861) Mitsukuni Defies the Skeleton Specter Conjured by Princess Takiyasha, color woodblock print: ōban tate-e triptych, each sheet approx 14⅞ x 10 in. (37.8 x 25.4 cm); ca. 1845–46; courtesy Sebastian Izzard LLC

Day 5

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

View all calendar events here

Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Pigeons have long been considered sacred in India, where they were kept and trained by princes and paupers and considered sacred to both Hinduism and Islam. At Akbar’s court there were thought to be more than 20,000 pigeons, but only 500 were considered select.
Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch.

 
Buddha
Hiroshi Yanagi brings a Selection of Japanese Art ranging from 9th century to the 20th centuries, but 2023 is their first year bringing Korean art to New York. This Seated Amida Nyorai (Amitābha) Wooden sculpture Late Kamakura period dates back to 13th-14th century Japan and stands at 42cm.
Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art.

 
Nagare

Light Shifts Every Second is a recent oil on canvas painting by Manika Nagare, based on the artist’s contemplation of natural light each day. She recognizes and celebrates the diversity of humanity, and believes it is important to actually see the work face-to-face with the naked eye, to convey what cannot be seen through reproductions.
Miyako Yoshinaga.

 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Metropolitan

Learning to Paint in Premodern China explores pathways to mastery through a rich selection of paintings from The Met along with loans from private collections. Alongside culturally significant and beautifully rendered hand scrolls, this included 17th century incense box is attributed to Hu Wenming.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

Doyle

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

Vase
A Fine Japanese Plique a Jour Vase Attributed to Hattori Tadasaburo, Meiji Period, 7 1/4 inches. Stout baluster form, worked in silver wire, and colorful translucent enamel, which shows songbirds and insects among spring blossoms and rockwork before a pale blue sky with silver-wire clouds. Silver rim and base stamped with silver mark. Estimate at $15,000-$20,000.
Doyle.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 5 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Four

A small image of a Lama with its original seal. Tibet, 15th century. 11 cm high.; courtesy Buddhist Art

Day 4

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

TODAY'S FEATURED EVENTS

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Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Morino Hiroaki Taimei is acclaimed for his ability to create elegant and bold forms. His surface patterns beautifully reflect his Kyoto heritage. Aside from his classical ceramic training with Living National Treasures Tomimoto Kenkichi and Fujimoto Yoshimichi Nōdō, Morino was also influenced early on by his time teaching at the University of Chicago. Joan B. Mirviss LTD.

 
Complimenting Joan Mirviss is The Colors of the Postwar Japanese Abstract Arts. Abstract paintings by Domoto Insho's exhibit alongside three other great masters, Yamaguchi Takeo, Morita Shiryu and Inoue Yuichi. A valuable piece is also featured by a Mid-Edo period Zen priest, Hakuin Ekaku, who has inspired many artists with his Zen ideology and aesthetics. Shibunkaku.

 

From the extremely rare Mirrors of the Modern Boudoir series published by Azuma-ya Daisuke comes the animated Plucking Eyebrows c. 1823 by Kunisada (1786-1865), included in the showcase Fine Japanese Prints: 300 Years of Japanese Prints, Ukiyo-e-Modern by Art of Japan.

 

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

A Tibetan Gilt Bronze Mahasiddha Figure. Overall impressive scale with rubbing to gilding throughout and stabilized hole to underside. Traces of oxidation throughout, especially to underside; wear indicative of age, display, and handling. Estimated at $60,000 – $80,000 with a $50,000 reserve. 
Heritage Auctions.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 4 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Three

Hamza and his men attacked by a sea creature (detail), opaque watercolor and gold on paper, Mughal style at Bikaner, India, c. 1680 Folio: 9 7/8 x 6 1/3 in; painting: 9 x 5 1/2 in; courtesy Art Passages

Day 3

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

TODAY'S FEATURED EVENTS

  • 3-5pm afternoon tea, INK Studio
  • 3pm: lecture Treasures of the Sakya Tradition with Jeff Watt (Director and Chief Curator at Himalayan Art Resources)
    and 
    Master of the Jagged Water's Edge: New Classification of early 18th century paintings from Mewar with Catherine Glynn
    Both hosted by the department of Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art at Bonhams. Please note that capacity for this event is limited. Kindly RSVP to [email protected].
  • 5-6pm lecture,Two Milarepa Masterworks, also with Jeff Watt, at Sotheby's.

View all calendar events here

 

Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

The incredibly animated and illustrative Prints and Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), Master of Graphic Storytelling went on to dictate the future of ukiyo-e prints and manga. The show is only on view in person by appointment at the Conrad New York Midtown through tomorrow at Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints.

 
Tanabe Chikuunsai II, Truthful Flower Basket, 1970, made with madake bamboo and rattan, is part of a showcase of some of the world's premier Japanese bamboo art. Elegant craftsmanship with geometric mastery renders each work independently beautiful and collectively educational at Tai Modern.

 

Exceptional textiles, including this detail of a Ramayana Trade Cloth made in Indonesia for the Indian market and included in the online exhibition have been brought to the Park Lane hotel in NY, where they can be viewed by appointment through the 22nd by Thomas Murray.  They are supplemented with found objects and antipodal jewelry offerings from Indonesia. Thomas Murray.

 

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

A gilt copper alloy figure of Tara, Nepal, Early Malla Period, 14th century. Part of the Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian art sale at on Tuesday. This large, bejeweled figure sits with her legs loosely crossed in the posture of royal ease, her hips swaying to the side. The heavy copper content of the metal alloy gives this figure with a luxuriant glow. Bonhams.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 3 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Two

Hagino Noriko, Uchidashi Silver Water Jar 02, 2021, Silver and copper h. 6 1/4 x dia. 7 1/2 in. (16 x 19 cm), courtesy Onishi Gallery

Even more art to discover!

Asia Week New York 2023 continues with more previews:

TONIGHT’S EVENING RECEPTIONS
(organized by event opening and duration)

 

Online Exhibitions
March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year’s participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com
 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Fung Ming Chip (冯明秋, born 1951) explores writing and numbers with 19 works in Traces of Time, on view through May 20th. Arabic, ink wash, and seals all feature in the stylized works. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Daniel Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.
Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
 
MULTIPLE MASTERS: Modern Prints & Paintings highlights artists following the intertwined shin hanga (‘new print’) and sosaku hanga (‘creative print’) movements. In dialogue is Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints from the Shin Collection, the source-code of floating world imagery, assembled by gallerist Hong Gyu Shin with prints collected while studying art conservation.
Scholten Japanese Art.
 
Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment features rare objects of worship from Tibet, Nepal, India and a large selection of sculpture from Gandhara. Objects include this deceptive, complex Buddha Vajradhara, as well early 19th century Kangra school watercolors.
Kapoor Galleries.
 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

At 4:30pm today, this lecture explores the lived traditions of early Indian Buddhism as witnessed in the rich archaeological and artistic legacy of the Deccan, the focus of a major exhibition Tree & Serpent: Buddhist Art in Early India, 200 BCE–400 CE. Free with Museum admission.
Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

A diverse selection of Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian painting and sculpture is now on view at Christie’s, alongside a robust array of Asian sales. This highlight is an 18th century Deccan image of Prince Muhammad Sai’d Hunting, with provenance from Forge & Lynch in 2013. The spectacular scene includes animals of all kinds, including deer, big cats, and a hunting falcon.
Christie’s.
 

We hope you’ve enjoyed this daily digest for Day 2 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day One

Shirt of mail and plate, Bijapur, India, 16th-17th Century, 850mm (33 ½ inches), courtesy Runjeet Singh

Put your armor on…we're off!

Asia Week New York 2023 launches today with a day of previews:

TONIGHT'S EVENING RECEPTIONS
(organized by event opening and duration)

 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Open until March 19th, this gallery features figure paintings and portraiture by Tianjin-based Li Jin from The Heart Sutra series document his response to self-isolation during China’s first COVID lockdowns. Anonymous urban portraits Americans from his pre-COVID excursions to the United States juxtapose his reflections.
INK studio

 

Fifty stunning pieces assembled over fifty years are assembled in The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Chinese Ceramics. From the 4th through 14th centuries, they include white and sancai Tang Dynasty earthen wares, Yue, Yaozhou, Ding, Qingbai, Jun, and Cizhou type wares, and black and brown kilns represented from Northern and Southern China.
Zetterquist Galleries

 

A Zoom link is available for yesterday's talk with art historian Deborah A. Goldberg, PhD with artist Terumasa Ikeda in discussion of his contemporary Japanese lacquerware, moderated by gallerist Shoko Aono. This is the artist's first visit to the United States, and his first solo show in the country. Tonight is the opening reception.
Ippodo Gallery

 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Death and afterlife through Tibetan Buddhist and Christian art is explored in over fifty objects spanning the ninth to twenty-first century, including prints, oil paintings, illuminated manuscripts, bone ornaments, thangka paintings, sculptures, and ritual items. A private reception opens the showcase tonight from 6-8pm.
Rubin Museum

 

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art goes to auction March 20th, with viewing open today through the 18th from 10-5pm and the 19th 1-5pm. Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998), whose work is shown here, trained with craftspeople and honored Indian daily life. This bronze, Zero Hour, is estimated at $40,000-$60,000
Sotheby's

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 1 of our 2023 edition!
Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

 

 

 

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Asia Week offers PDF guide with gallery openings chart

Asia Week New York has carefully compiled a full schedule of galleries, museums, and auction houses in our annual PDF guide. A calendar of events, dealers by areas of specialization, auction house partners and museums and institutions are all included. On page 11, a chart shows a complete list of gallery opening dates and times, including their online showcases. The final page has each dealer by address.

Click into the PDF in-line here:

For the most up-to-date calendar of events click here.

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