The Chelsea Library is hosting a reception and film screening for our current exhibit, The Quarry Project: A Collection of Photographs by Julia Barstow on Thursday, May 19 from 6 to 8 PM. The film "At The Edges of Us" by Lukas Huffman will be shown at 7pm. Hannah Dennison, choreographer and mastermind behind the project, and a few members of the ensemble will be on hand to discuss the project.

The Quarry Project, conceived and directed by Hannah Dennison, is a site-specific dance/theatre piece being created for the Wells Lamson, one of the oldest, deepest granite quarries in the country, now flooded and "in reserve." It is situated in the small village of Websterville, VT where many residents had relatives who worked in that quarry. Six years in the making, performances will start August 5, 2022. www.thequarryproject2022.com

Julia Barstow is a dance and landscape photographer from Adamant, VT and has been the project photographer since its inception in 2017. She earned a BA from Bennington College, where she studied photography and dance and sees site-specific movement as a dialogue of people and places.

Lukas Huffman is an award-winning writer and director based in Brooklyn. Huffman's narrative feature film, WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY (2016), won more than a dozen awards worldwide and was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival Circuit. He has been commissioned to create films for networks and organizations such as The New York Times, Vice Media, ESPN, The Boston Globe, The National Wildlife Federation, and more. Huffman's experimental and dance films explore the boundaries of storytelling formats. AT THE EDGES OF US is the sixth creative collaboration with the choreographer Hannah Dennison.

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