Helena-area arts and entertainment news

“Landscapes On My Mind” is a show of 13 new pieces by Carroll Jenkins and during August will be at Queen City Framing & Art Supplies in the Lundy Center, 400 Euclid Ave. in Helena.

Jenkins is a local self-taught painter of abstracts and landscapes in acrylics, oils and cattle markers. He started painting after his military service in the ‘60s for meditation and to help pay for college, and then continued to paint while in private practice in Helena as a psychotherapist. Retired now, Jenkins is happy to have more time to paint the places he has traveled and the memories of his experiences.

For more information, call Queen City at 406-442-2760.

The Bray’s Fall Continuing Education Clay Classes are back. The Bray offers adult (age 16-plus) continuing education classes for all student types, abilities and backgrounds.

Clay classes are 10-week sessions taught by professional artists. Students will have access to open studio time seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (outside of other scheduled classes).

General registration for fall 2024 classes opens Aug. 20 at 10 a.m., with classes beginning Sept. 23.

Register and sign up for our newsletter at archiebray.org/education/adult-continuing-education.

Wilbur Rehmann Quintet with guest MJ Williams, vocals and trombone have a couple of summer concerts coming up soon:

• Sunday, Aug. 25, at 3 p.m. in Anchor Park, sponsored by the Lewis & Clark Library
• Saturday, Aug. 31, at 4 p.m. in Lincoln, Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild

Bring a blanket and/or camp chair to either gig and enjoy summertime Jazz in the Wild.

Join us on Saturday at 8 p.m. for the garage/psych rock trio Floating Witch’s Head in Helena at the Lewis and Clark Brewing Co., 1517 Dodge Ave.

Built to Spill, an indie rock band from Boise, will follow the opening act.

Visit www.lewisandclarkbrewing.com for more information and tickets.

Raven’s Feather Productions is featuring international performance artist Bremner Duthie for his one-man show “Singing Into the Dark, 1933,” in Helena, Sept. 19-22.

The show gives a haunting glimpse into the end of the Weimar era before WWII. After the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis attacked cultural workers and dragged performers to “re-education” camps. This one-man play is set in an imagined version of a cabaret, Berlin’s Eldorado Club, after Hermann Goring ordered the theatres to close. One defiant actor attempts to perform the entire show.

Duthie was born in New York and grew up in Scotland and Canada. He started singing with punk bands in Vancouver, BC, moved on to singing opera and trained at the Centre for New Opera in Banff, Alberta. He has been creating performance pieces that are an emotional collage of ideas and songs. These pieces have been performed across North America and Europe to critical praise.

Shows will be at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18-21 with a 2 p.m. matinee Sept. 22 at the Helena Avenue Theatre, 1319 Helena Ave. Advance tickets can be purchased online at the Raven’s Feather website, www.ravensfeather.org/tickets, for $20 each.

Cohesion Dance Project is celebrating 10 years of “Shira Greenberg’s Nutcracker on the Rocks” in Helena.

Group auditions will be held Sept. 2-4. Those interested in joining the cast must sign up by Sept. 1 for a group audition time slot, either online at cohesiondance.org or call 406-422-0830.

The performance is a community-based, rock-n-roll rendition of the traditional holiday classic. Performances will be Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 30-Dec.1 at the Helena Civic Center.

Adults and youth, ages 7 and up are welcomed, of all skill levels and physical abilities, including those with disabilities. No dance experience is required.

Audition times are based on age and skill level and will include a warm-up and movement sequences similar to the performance. Auditioners do not have to come prepared with any material.