Arts
Jaffrey Civic Center sets reception for spring art show
The Jaffrey Civic Center spring art show will run through April 8, with a reception scheduled for Saturday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m.This year’s show includes 62 artists, with art in a variety of styles and mediums. The exhibit will take place both in...
The Vine Story Hour returns in Antrim after COVID
By ROWAN WILSON
Avenue A held The Vine Story Hour for the first time since COVID on Saturday night at The Moka Pot in Antrim.Grapevine’s Director of Teen Programs Jacqueline Roland and Hancock storyteller Julie Brown hosted the event. People told personal stories...
Peterborough Folk Music presents Le Vent du Nord
Peterborough Folk Music presents Le Vent du Nord Friday, March 31, at 7 p.m. at The Park Theatre, 19 Main St. in Jaffrey.Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Québec’s Francophone folk movement. Its repertoire draws from both traditional sources and...
Phil Bean holds live painting demonstration at DubHub
By ROWAN WILSON
Milford-based Artist Phil Bean held a live painting demonstration at the DubHub Saturday morning. He mixed paint colors and spoke to an audience of about 20 people as he painted Mount Monadnock. Bean is the DubHub’s featured artist for March. He...
Peterborough Town Library Film Club to show ‘Julia’
The Peterborough Town Library Film Club will screen the film “Julia,” directed by Fred Zinneman, Tuesday, March 14, at 6:15 p.m. in the 1833 Room at the library, 2 Concord St. in Peterborough.The film, released in 1977, was nominated for 11 Academy...
Waking Finnegan coming to Park Theatre in Jaffrey
Waking Finnegan will perform at The Park Theatre, 19 Main St. in Jaffrey, Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m.Waking Finnegan's take on Celtic rock combines electric guitar and upright bass, topped with accordion, fiddle and vocals, all tied together...
Dominique Caissie and Eva-Lynn Loy ‘In Conversation’ at Peterborough Town Library
Peterborough Town Library’s third exhibition of its “In Conversation” series in the Community Art Gallery features Dominique Caissie and Eva-Lynn Loy through Wednesday, April 26, with an opening reception during First Friday, April 7, from 5 to 7...
Former MacDowell director Nancy Englander dies
By BEN CONANT
Former MacDowell director Nancy Englander died last week at the age of 78.Englander served as director at MacDowell from 1977 to 1981, during which time she oversaw the stays of artists and writers the likes of Mary Higgins Clark, Miyoko Ito and...
Ingalls Memorial Library to view ‘The Goldfinch’
The Ingalls Memorial Library's Page to Screen Book Club will be viewing "The Goldfinch" Monday, March 13, at 1:30 p.m. The library is at 203 Main St. in Rindge."The Goldfinch" is based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A young New Yorker...
Poetry in the Pines contest is open
Cathedral of the Pines and Monadnock Writers’ Group are jointly sponsoring the Poetry in the Pines writing contest.The contest is open to everyone, and submissions of previously unpublished poetry will be accepted through April 7. Guest judge Henry...
Abbi Glines to speak for Monadnock Writers’ Group
PETERBOROUGHGlines to speak for writers’ groupOn Saturday, March 18, at 9:45 a.m., Monadnock Writers’ Group (MWG) will host local romance novelist Abbi Glines at its monthly speaker series at Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St.Glines has written...
Peterborough Players announces summer season
As Peterborough Players celebrates 90 years of producing theater in the Hadley Barn, “Souvenir” by Stephen Temperley will kick off the summer season June 22 to July 3.Based on a true story, “Souvenir” is a comedy that looks into the world of...
Ruth Clark: How you eat matters
It’s very simple. Your gut either keeps you healthy or it makes you ill. A healthy gut determines which nutrients to absorb and does an expert job keeping toxins, allergens and microbes out while helping with inflammation. An unhealthy gut contributes...
Trio Gaia performing for Music on Norway Pond
Fifteen years ago, Music on Norway Pond forged a relationship with Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music, and many of the conservatory’s students, young professionals, graduates in their careers and faculty members have shared their artistry with...
“To Treasure: Explorations in Upcycling” opens March 3
The Gallery at MAXT, the first new art gallery in Peterborough since the closing of Sharon Art Gallery, will hold an open house for the “To Treasure: Explorations in Upcycling” show Friday, March 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at MAXT Makerspace, 49 Vose Farm...
Phil Bean exhibit opens at DubHub March 3
The opening reception for Phil Bean’s new art exhibit at the Dublin Community Center, 1123 Main St., will take place Friday, March 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.Refreshments will be served, and the public is invited to attend.Originally from New England, Bean...
Nora Stanley to open MacDowell Downtown’s 20th season
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
Nora Stanley has been busy.At MacDowell for her first residency, the multi-instrumentalist and composer is taking time out from nonstop session work, gigging and touring in one of MacDowell’s composition studios. She’s composing some arrangements of...
Hancock Town Library event to celebrate Julia Older
HANCOCKEvent to celebrate Julia OlderHancock Town Library, 25 Main St. in Hancock, will host “Julia Older: A Celebration of a Writing Life” Thursday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the Daniels Room.Older was writer, translator and swimmer who wrote without...
Project Shakespeare receives grant for England trip
Project Shakespeare, a nonprofit youth theater education company based in Jaffrey, has received a $2,600 from The Putnam Foundation, a donor-advised fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, to support Project Shakespeare’s tour to England to...
Ice is breaking earlier for Norway Pond contest
By ROWAN WILSON
This is the 11th year that Jane Richards-Jones and Phil Jones have set a replica of the Hancock Meetinghouse out on the ice on Norway Pond to run their annual iceout contest. People participate in the contest by purchasing tickets and guessing what...
