Nantucket Arts and Social Events
Here are videos Nantucketers have made recently.
The Acapella Singing Competition with the Accidentals and winning soloist Kim McHugh
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Scott Capizzo has done a series of pieces on the 2007 Nantucket Film festival. Here’s Part 1.
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The Sea Gam: Stories of the Sea with Maurice Gibbs, originally scheduled for this Friday night, has been postponed.
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Dr. Maria Trozzi, director of the Good Grief Program at Boston Medical Center and co-author of ‘Talking with Children About Loss’, will address parents and other adults from the community on Tuesday, February 12, at 6 p.m. in the High School auditorium. Dr. Trozzi has appeared as an expert on family resilience and loss on CBS’s The Early Show, Good Morning America and Larry King Live. An assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, she is the director of the Good Grief Program at Boston Medical Center. The program, now in its 20th year, provides national training, crisis consultation, and direct services to children, parents, educators, and health professionals. The program’s mission is to help adults help children who are “facing life’s speed bumps.” For more information, contact Dr. Robert Pellicone at (50 
228-7285.
BENEFITS
Second Annual Valentines Dance, sponsored by The Nantucket Historical Association, is Friday (8th) from 7 to 10:00 pm, with music by the Nantucket School of Music Jazz Band playing jazz and salsa. Salsa dance instruction will be offered, as well as complimentary beverages and snacks. Whaling Museum Gosnell Hall. Tickets available at the door.
The Children’s House 25th Anniversary Dinner/Auction, celebrating 25 years of the Children’s House, includes live auction packages with trips to St. Barths, Stowe, and Vieques; Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics tickets and more. Catered by EJ Harvey. Saturday the 9th from 6 to 10 pm. Contact Tracy Halik at 325-7955 or tracyor1@aol.com for tickets.
The Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament this Sunday the 10th benefits the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club. Registration at noon, play begins at 1 pm at Faregrounds.
The Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum is throwing a Valentines Day Party from 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm on Thursday the 14th.
The Queen of Hearts Ball benefits the Nantucket Lighthouse School. Silent auction, dancing to the Shingles. Come as you are or dig out your prom dress, ugly tux shirt, cupid outfit, or your best love get up. A king and queen will be crowned. Prizes for best two costumes. 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm at the Box, Thursday the 14th.
ONE BOOK, ONE ISLAND EVENTS
Dr. Robert Kennedy of the Maria Mitchell Association and Dr. Sarah Oktay of the University of Massachusetts Field Station present “The Marlin, the Mako, and Man” and “Sailing a River in the Ocean: Charting Santiago’s Deep Blue Journey”. Free. Thursday (7th), 1:30 pm at the Whaling Museum.
‘The Old Man and the Sea’ In Words and Music closes out this years One Book, One Island with musical performances by Molly Glazer, Robert Behrman, Armen Ghazaryan, Susan McGinnis (a Shakespeare sonnet set to music), and Joshua Mencer. Also readings from ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, Walt Whitman, and Jose Marti, performed by members of the community: Ted Anderson, David Kopko, Chris Lohman, Bill MacEachern, Donald Noyes, Richard Ross, Pete Sawyer, Craig Spery, and Jim Sutherland. Poems by Dick Burns and Frank Cunningham. Free. Organized and presented by Len Germinara. Atheneum, Sunday the 10th beginning at 3.
SPEAKERS
Retired educator and Nantucket resident Chris Lohmann will discuss Melville’s Benito Cereno: The Unspeakable Story of Slavery. Free; bring your lunch. Whaling Museum, Thursday the 14th at noon.
MUSIC
The High School Chorus and Band presents a concert Thursday (7th) at 7:30 pm at the High School Auditorium.
The Nantucket High School present “Music Man” at the High School. Friday and Saturday nights (8th and 9th) at 7:30, and Sunday at 2.
NIGHTLIFE
At the Rose & Crown, it’s Poker Night on Monday’s, Trivia Quiz Night every Tuesday (at 7 pm), karaoke on Thursday (9pm), and DJ Bri Guy Friday and Saturday nights.
FILM AND VIDEO
Rock of Changes: Race, Faith, and Freedom on Nantucket will be shown by the Nantucket Historical Association at 12 noon, Thursday the 7th at the Whaling Museum. The film presents the history of school desegregation on Nantucket, and the efforts of the black community to bring it about through legislation. Free; bring your lunch.
La Vie En Rose stars Marion Cotillard in the life of Edith Piaf. Saturday night in the Great Hall at 7.
Tapping Maple Ridge explores the unexpected parallels between wind energy and maple syrup production, as part of the Sense of Place II: A Film Series About Community, Sustainability, & the Environment. Wednesday, February the 13th, 7:00 pm in the Great Hall.
Free Admission
THEATER
Phyllis Perelman hosts Armchair Theatre, and Grace Noyes directs A. R. Gurney’s ‘Ancestral Voices’. Bring a beverage, main dish, salad, or dessert to share; coffee provided. Potluck at 6; reading at 7. It’s at Sherburne Commons, 21 South Shore Road.
Nantucket Theatrical Productions and the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket present “Cupid’s Nightmare”, four short plays from the Short Play Festival. February 14, 15, 16, 22, 23 at 7 p.m., upstairs at the Methodist Church on Centre St. Admission is $10.
See the Arts & Social Calendar for more details on all events listed above.
For a more comprehensive listing of ALL Nantucket events, pick up the Nantucket Independent for my Community Calendar, or click here.
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Some videos worth a watch:
First up, Michael Maury. Michael graduated from Nantucket High School where he was in the band and chorus, and sang in the Naturals. He graduated from Ithaca College as a music major and theatre minor. When on Nantucket, he was sang in the Cobbletones, and was in Theatre Workwhop and Actors Theatre productions, beginning at the age of eight. Michael is now in LA, acting, singing (waiting tables and bartending) and doing everything he can to get his name and face out there with networking.
Michael is asking for your vote for Rock Star 987 from an L.A. radio station, 98.7. Only 1 vote per email address is allowed, and voting ends 5pm (PT) on January 2nd. Your votes will narrow it down to the Top 25. Round 2 voting will begin on January 3rd where one artist/band will win $25,000, a record deal with ATO Records, and go on tour. The details are here. Here’s his video entry.
Annette McFarland. I found this video on the web. Man In My Head, from the album Takas Paradise by Annette McFarland. It’s a good song, well produced, apparently sung by her, and presumable that’s her in the video, and it was shot on Nantucket.
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Jamie Ranney interviewed me on his show on GenoTV, Channel 17, about the origins and story of Mahon About Town. Geno Geng, owner of Geno TV, was kind enough to put that interview up on his site for all to see. Here it is, and while you’re there, check out the dozens of other video clips on the site.
Here’s the photo I took on the set:
Barbara Gookin has produced a slide show of pristine Nantucket scenes. Here it is:
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Diane and Bob Lehman have a new website for fans of “Nantuckot“, their parady of “Camelot”, sung by Bob at all their performances.
The 2007 Arts Guide is on the stands, published by Arlene O’Reilly of Mind’s Eye Productions. In it are 6 suggested Arts Tours with maps, gallery schedules, a comprehensive illustrated listing of galleries, designers, craftsmen, antiques dealers, auctions, museums, and the performing arts, as well as a feature article on the Nantucket Arts Council. Free at the usual places.
Another valuable arts resource is the 74 page Nantucket Independent 2007 Summer Arts Guide, now also available on newsstands and at their offices. The Guide includes listing of arts events for the year: books & lectures, galleries, children, museums, music, stage and screen. It also contains a comprehensive list of island restaurants.
Claire Murray’s La Vie Claire Spring issue features interior designer Donna Elle with photographs by Jeffrey Allen. $6.99 on magazine racks.
The Late Spring issue of N Magazine visits the wine cellar of and talks with Michael Kittredge, founder of Yankee Candle. Also in this issue: profiles on island antique stores; Connecticut antiquing, more from Theresa Heinz Kerry on politics and the environment; the latest Arts and Social Calendar; restaurateur partners dine at Water Street; and of course, the Foggy Sheet with 5 pages of photos of the social scene by Fifi Greenberg and me. My monthly column “Hot Dish” this time sees our island chefs and restaurant owners as ambassadors, speading the gospel of Nantucket fine dining to the world. Free in all the usual locations.
The June issue of Nantucket Today has articles on Scotch Broom, Feeding Weekend Guests, a trip to the Azores, the carvings of Paul McCarthy, Water Street restaurant, a Trudy Dujardin house tour, and Will and Julai Conroy in Arizona.
Pauline Proch has received an “Unsung Heroine Award” for the Town of Nantucket from the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.
Alexandra Kopko sings Benedictus:
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Jamey Bennett, owner of LightWedge, has been selected by the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce to receive a ‘Build a Better Mousetrap Award’ from Cape Cod SCORE at its fourteenth annual awards breakfast to be held Tuesday, June 5 at Old Yarmouth Inn.
Jamey invented and patented the LightWedge product in the summer of 2001, based on a concept he had first developed while in high school. Lightwedge is a Nantucket based small business that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative lighting and magnification products. The five-year-old company started with its flagship LightWedge Original product in 2002. The company now has 12 full-time employees and sells more than 200 products to retailers nationwide. LightWedge products use energy-efficient LEDs and patented LightWedge technology that directs light efficiently onto the page.
LightWedge was named to Inc. Magazine’s prestigious ‘Inc. 500′ list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.
Tickets for the event are $20.00. To make a reservation or get additional information, telephone Cape Cod SCORE, 508-775-4884.
A unique and pertinent interpretation of U.S. home prices, adjusted for inflation, from 1890 to present, plotted to a roller coaster.
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A recent New York Times article reports that lobsters are getting harder to find and therefore more expensive, due to bad weather, very cold water, and little or no back up inventory in tidal pounds. Larger lobsters are even harder to find. The price is nearly double what it was a year ago.
Nantucket will receive $11.9 million over a three-year period for the airport terminal expansion. Groundbreaking set for October 2007.
The new Esther Island on YouTube
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