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By JONATHAN GOURLAY
Claire L. Evans, a writer and musician exploring ecology, technology and culture, will be the featured artist at the next edition of MacDowell Downtown on Friday, Aug. 2, at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture.She’ll discuss her work,...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
This Friday, June 7, composer Kyle Rivera will share his ever-evolving musical perspective in the June edition of MacDowell Downtown at The Monadnock Center for History and Culture.Rivera will expound on his musical explorations and process and...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
Filmmaker Courtney Stephens brings an anthropologist’s keen observational skills to the subjects of her films, whether creating documentaries or experimental shorts exploring language, historical geography and women's lives. On Friday, she’ll present...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
MacDowell Downtown’s 21st season opener will be Friday, March 1, at The Monadnock Center for History and Culture with performance artist Allison Akootchook Warden.An Inuit tribal member of the Native village of Kaktovik off Alaska’s north slope,...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
Tatiana Arocha, whose installations combine natural materials with digitally altered components, will close the 2023 MacDowell Downtown season of First Fridays Nov. 3 at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., Arocha will...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
While visiting Peterborough for his sixth MacDowell Fellowship, composer and cellist Paul Brantley will take the stage for the penultimate MacDowell Downtown of the season.Beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, at the Peterborough Town Library, 2...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
Lagos, Nigeria, is widely recognized as the commercial capital of the African continent and is frequently described as a loud, chaotic and traffic-clogged city.Photographer Christopher Iduma, at MacDowell for his first residency, will be the featured...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
I didn’t realize my mistake until it was almost too late.My first Medal Day was in 2010. We had lived in Peterborough for six years by then, and while I knew about the magical place where Thornton Wilder had written much of “Our Town,” I had never...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
What do the Vermont Secretary of State, the Ohio Department of Health and MacDowell Fellow James Sturm have in common?They see the value comics have as an engaging, educational tool. Sturm is a graphic novelist and Radcliffe Fellow who has been in...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
Tanya Marcuse, who makes large photographs of incredibly detailed and fantastical scenes, will talk about the lengths she goes to to construct setups for her art during the next installment of MacDowell Downtown Friday, June 2, at the Monadnock Center...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
Firas Zreik is a Palestine-born, Brooklyn-based composer and kanun player at MacDowell for his first residency to work on an instrumental suite featuring the kanun – a multi-stringed instrument common to the Arabic world.Zreik, a Berklee College of...
By JONATHAN GOURLAY
“If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” – Muhammad AliCan a friendship be the most central relationship in our lives? That is the question at the heart of first-time MacDowell fellow Aaron Edwards’ new...
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...
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