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Nantucket Arts & Festival News
Pirate Radio, a new rock and roll comedy film, will be shown in a special advance screening on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room (2 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY). The screening will be followed by a conversation with the movie’s writer/director Richard Curtis, moderated by Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Maureen Orth and a cocktail reception to benefit the Nantucket Film Festival. Tickets are $150 and can be purchased via email at pirateradio@nantucketfilmfestival.org or by calling 212.708.1278.
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh, Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and writer/director of Love Actually), spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose “pirate radio” captivated and inspired 1960s Britain. The film will be released nationwide on Friday, November 13th.
The fifteenth annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) takes place June 17th-20th, 2010. They are currently accepting submissions for next year’s lineup and for Showtime’s Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting. Submissions will be accepted through the official festival website (www.nantucketfilmfestival.org) and at withoutabox.com beginning in January. The deadline for submissions is March 12th.
The new album from Jake Vohs is available at CD Baby.
The Artists Association of Nantucket’s Fall Classes & Workshops is registering for fall classes.
Children’s classes begin on Oct. 31, and include Exploring Autumn, Sculpture, Arts & Crafts, Comic Book Creations, Draw, and Print & Paint.
For adults and teens over 15, classes begin October 27 and include Beginner/Intermediate Wheelthrowing, Clay Holiday Votives, Figure Drawing, Drawing, Charcoal Drawing, Figure Drawing Open Studio, Watercolor Painting, Multi-Level Oil Painting, Oil Painting, Beginning Painting Critique, Digital Photography Workshop, Intro to Mac, Intro to Photoshop, Intermediate Photoshop, and Graphic Design Principles for Web Design.
Click www.nantucketarts.org, or stop by One Gardner Perry Lane for details.
The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation “ENCORE!” arts education program is in full swing. Some of the classes that have not yet begun are: Acting the Ingenue…:(The Villian, and the Comedic Character), Acting for the Little Ones: Story Telling With Many Hats, Tiny Stars: Dress-Up Workshop, Hip Hop/Jazz Dance Classes, Blast from the Past Dance Class, New Stars Hit Broadway, Beginner Tap Class, Make Your Own Fall Centerpiece, Make Your Own Winter Centerpiece, A Holiday Gift Giving Idea for Little Ones, A Holiday Gift Giving Idea for Teens, and Gingerbread House Making.
The “ENCORE!” programs will be held in Saint Paul’s Church and The Nantucket Yacht Club. The Programming guide is online at www.nantucketdreamland.org.
Add comment November 2, 2009
Nantucket Arts News
Mystelle Brabbee, co-founder of the Nantucket Children’s Film Festival originally announced for this summer, has been postponed until August, 2010.”
The Nantucket Historical Association’s “Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850″, a traveling exhibition organized by Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, is now open in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. The show explores the largely unstudied region of New England furniture — specifically the area between Boston and Providence, including the Cape and islands. Also included are paintings, portraits, maps, prints, and ship furniture. The NHA has in the show pieces from the Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association and the Max and Heidi Berry Acquisition Fund, including Nantucket cabinetmaker Heman Ellis and Walter Folger Jr., who made the 1790 astronomical tall-case clock frequently cited as one of the most important American clocks to have been made during the days of the early republic.
The Nantucket appearance of the exhibition is made possible with support from Wilmington Trust FSB Massachusetts, Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Hampton S. Lynch, and Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wilson, and Anonymous.
The exhibition is on display in the Peter Foulger Gallery through November 2. The museum is open daily, 10 A.M.–5 P.M. and on the first and third Wednesdays in July and August until 8 P.M.
Add comment July 9, 2009
Nantucket Film Fest Opening Night Party
The Nantucket Film Festival Opening Night Party took place at the Chanticleer immediatelyafter the opening film at the Casino, “Cold Souls”. Some of the people we saw there: Katherine Kay, Nancy Thayer, Mike and Charlotte Jehle, Jack & Anne Curlett, Hazel Fleming, Bill Frederick, Susan & Larry Levine, Susan & Howard Bloom, Jeniffer Blum, Anne Chaison, Jonathon Burkhart, Michael Kopko, Jesse & Billy Voss, Marietta Hale, Jessica Garner, Susan Galvani, Mark Hsu, Nancy Thayer, Melissa Murphy, Natalie Ciminero, Christine Malia, Jason Briggs, Ivey Day, Suzanne Lewis, Justin Levitas, Kirby Hosea, Brandon Rohwer, Lauren Hall, Jennifer DiMartino, Lisa Frazar, Paul Giamatti, Michael Kopko, Anna & John Shaw, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Elle Christy, Deanna Chandonnet, Scott Leonard, Christina Samone, Charlene Kelly, Jennifer Boysen, Rick James, Christina Dirossos, Josie Williams, Amy Bicikler, Hans Dalgaard, Kevin Flynn, Keith War, Melanie & Mike Hajjar, Cheryl Fudge, Gabriel Gould, Tom Scott, Kate Brosnan, Dagmar Klein, Dave Murphy, and Katie McGrath. Photos by Gene Mahon, assisted by Amanda Morgan. More photos online. See also Plum TV’s coverage of the opening night.
Add comment July 6, 2009
