2011 Arts Festival Calendar

Wednesday October 5
Artists Association of Nantucket 
Permanent Collection Exhibition: Exiled On Main Street
11am-3pm Coffin School, 4 Winter Street
FREE This exhibition is about The Main Street Gallery and the Fabulous Artists from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. When The Main Street Gallery opened in 1970, it was the beginning of an expansive time, when new artists with modern art sensibilities streamed to the island and shook the foundations of local art tradition.  NAC President, Reggie Levine, was there to greet them with open arms.

Afternoon Artist’s Talk Show Series
1:30pm  Preservation Hall, Centre St.
FREE Afternoon session John Stanton (Documentary Film Maker), Nancy Thayer (Published Author).

Artist’s Talk Show Series
6pm  Preservation Hall, Centre St.
FREE Evening session Miki Lovett (Art of Fabric & Paper), Stephen Pitliuk (Satire Art), Christine Sanford (Contemporary Art & Color).

Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents: 
In the Next Room
8:30pm Centre Stage
At Methodist Church, Downstairs at 2 Centre St.  Tickets $25. 

Thursday October 6
Afternoon Artist’s Talk Show Series
1:30pm  Free Preservation Hall, Centre St.
Judy Brust (Modern Art & Earth Connections), Joanna Kane (Contemporary Art & Poetic Expression),
Trudy Dujardin (Interior / Green Design)

Artists Association of Nantucket & Egan Institute
Permanent Collection Exhibition: Exiled On Main Street
2pm Coffin School, 4 Winter Street
FREE Guided tour with NAC President, Reggie Levine, and AAN Gallery Director, Bobby Frazier.  Story-telling of art & history you will not want to miss!

Evening Artist’s Talk Show Series
6pm  Free Preservation Hall, Centre St. Cary Hazlegrove, Greg Hinson (Photography)

Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents: 
In the Next Room
7:30pm Centre Stage
At Methodist Church, Downstairs at 2 Centre St. Tickets $25.

NIAM presents: Jazz Benefit Concert
9pm-10pm, First Congregational Church
Matthew Hutchinson will perform a program of evocative and lyrical jazz standards from the early 20th century, and will share with the audience his vision of the NIAM Jazz Fest 2012 in an exciting panel discussion alongside festival producer, Jen Laskey.

Friday October 7
Artists Association of Nantucket & Egan Institute
Permanent Collection Exhibition: Exiled On Main Street
11am-3pm Coffin School, 4 Winter Street

Afternoon Artist’s Talk Show Series
1:30pm  Preservation Hall, Centre St.
FREE Audrey Sterk (Textile Design), John Evans (Sculture), Leslie Linsley (Product & Graphic Design)

Artists Association of Nantucket - Wet Paint Weekend
6-8pm  Kick Off Party at Joyce and Seward Johnson Gallery
FREE Cocktails at the Gallery—open to the public! “Five Scenes” Exhibition Opening Reception, 19 Washington Street.

The Nantucket Atheneum presents: 
MIME Robert Rivest, The Stress Management Show
7pm Great Hall
FREE The Stress Management Show is a humorous look at the many ways we stress ourselves out. Through comedy, insight, and interaction, Robert Rivest shares his tried-and-true methods of stress reduction. This series of mime stories offers both comic relief and practical stress-relieving techniques. Robert Rivest has the audience entertained and enthralled as he explores how to build concentration, calm the body, and quiet the mind.

Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents: 
In the Next Room
8:30pm Centre Stage At Methodist Church, Downstairs at 2 Centre St. Tickets $25. 

NIAM presents: Jazz Benefit Concert
9pm-10pm, First Congregational Church
Matthew Hutchinson will perform a program of evocative and lyrical jazz standards from the early 20th century, and will share with the audience his vision of the NIAM Jazz Fest 2012 in an exciting panel discussion alongside festival producer, Jen Laskey.

Saturday October 8
Nantucket Community Music Center 
19th Annual Pipe Organ Crawl
9:15am-2:00pm  
Stroll with us through Downtown Nantucket and stop in to hear the island’s six historic pipe organs played to their best advantage by a collection of local and visiting master organists. Also, join us for a light lunch in the garden at St. Paul’s. Don’t miss this unique Nantucket cultural event! Donations accepted.
 9:15  Bigelow Organ St. Mary’s Church, Federal St.
10:00 Steere Organ, First Congregational, Centre St
10:30 Roche Organ, First Congregational, Centre St.
11:00 Appleton Organ, Methodist Church, Centre and Main St.
11:30 Hutchings-Votey, Andover Organ, St. Paul’s Fair St
12:00 Noon light lunch in the garden of St. Paul’s Church
1:30  Goodrich Organ, Unitarian Church, Orange St.

Artists Association of Nantucket
Wet Paint Weekend
Coffee and Pastries with the Wet Paint Artists
10am-12 noon Joyce and Seward Johnson Gallery
FREE 19 Washington Street.  Enjoy mingling with Wet Paint Artists and live artist demos. Pick up your self-guided map indicating where artists will be painting throughout the day.

Artists Association of Nantucket & Egan Institute
Permanent Collection Exhibition:  Exiled On Main Street
11am-3pm Coffin School, 4 Winter Street

Nantucket Dreamland Foundation presents:
Nantucket 24  One Day at a Time
Nantucketers are invited to take to the streets and beaches, forests and fields equipped with smart phones, Flip-cams, Go-pros and any other HD devices to capture the many faces and spaces of the Grey Lady. Inspired by Day in the Life picture books, and more recently by Kevin Macdonald’s  “Life in a Day”  documentary, “Nantucket 24” will chronicle a single day on Island through the eyes of Nantucketers. The raw footage will be submitted to Nantucket Films, which will edit and score the film to create  Nantucket 24–One Day on Island Time. The film will premiere at the Dreamland Theatre in May of 2012.
Imagine your smart phone footage stretched 30 feet wide across the Dreamland Theatre screen. What better way to celebrate its opening season than to be part of the story!  For information on submitting imagery, visit nantucketdreamland.org.


The Nantucket Atheneum presents:
Doomed Tower at Sea  
7pm,  Great Hall
Free Produced and directed by Paul G. Sanderson III of Our Town Films, Inc., “Doomed Tower at Sea” is a ninety-minute documentary special on the tragic story of an Air Force radar platform built 80 miles off the coast of New Jersey during the Cold War. One of several radar platforms constructed off the northeastern coast of the United States, including Cape Cod and Nantucket, the New Jersey tower collapsed during a storm in the winter of 1961 killing all aboard. The radar platforms were constructed during the height of the Cold War with Russia and were used to watch the skies for spy planes.  Originally broadcast on the History Channel, viewers called it riveting and beautifully crafted. The film was awarded a Crystal Award of Excellence and a Telly Award. Paul Sanderson will be present to introduce the film and lead a Q&A with the audience.

Nantucket Historical Association and 
Theatre Workshop Nantucket present: 
The Crucible  7pm, doors open at 6:30pm
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Fair Street  $25 per person
The NHA and Theatre Workshop Nantucket (TWN) celebrate theater arts and the spoken word when costumed actors present a dramatic reading of The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s stirring play about the Salem witch trials.
Set in 1692 in the tumultuous environment of rural Salem Village — a community riddled by conspiracy, fear, and Puritan brimstone — Miller’s play explores a crisis of conscience when an accusation of witchcraft unravels the fabric of a small town. Will John Proctor falsely admit guilt to alleviate his suffering on earth, or will he maintain his honor and safeguard his eternal soul? Directed by Lynne Bolton, this lively reading is presented in partnership with Theatre Workshop Nantucket in the NHA’s atmospheric and historic Quaker Meeting House. For tickets, visit theatreworkshop.com, or call (508) 228-4305.

Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents: 
In the Next Room,
7:30pm, Centre Stage
At Methodist Church, Downstairs at 2 Centre St.  Tickets $25.

Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts  
Site Installation & Celebration
5-6:30pm  66 Washington St. across from NISDA’s Harbor Cottage Artist Colony 
Join visiting artist-in-residence sculptor Nantz Comyns in the creation of a FLOCK OF EGRETS site installation at Land Bank Property, 66 Washington St., across from NISDA’s  Harbor Cottage Artist Colony. A participatory hands-on event for artists, community, and Arts Festival guests. Drop in or stay to help weaving indigenous reeds (Phragmites communis) into wire and wood armatures to make the Egret Flock come alive! Enjoy hospitality and music at NISDA’s Artist Colony, Harbor Cottage Courtyard, across the street at 71 Washington St. Island artists’ work will be on display during the day. This event is an 8-minute walk from Main St. Rain date: Sunday October 9, 11 AM-3 PM.  Call 508-325-6659 for weather update.   www.nisda.org

NIAM Presents: Jazz Benefit Concert
9pm-10pm, First Congregational Church
Matthew Hutchinson will perform a program of evocative and lyrical jazz standards from the early 20th century, and will share with the audience his vision of the NIAM Jazz Fest 2012 in an exciting panel discussion alongside festival producer, Jen Laskey.

Sunday October 9

Nantucket Historical Association and 
Theatre Workshop Nantucket present: 
The Crucible 
3pm, doors open at 2:30pm
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Fair Street  
$25 per person.  For tickets, visit theatreworkshop.com, or call (508) 228-4305.

The Nantucket Atheneum presents:
Play, Ernest Hemingway
3pm Great Hall
Free Richard Clark presents his play Life, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ernest Hemingway Alive! - the remarkable rough-and-tumble life of a literary giant.  Clark is an actor with over thirty years of experience in New England regional theater, New York theater, and television. He is a graduate of Clark University and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, The Actor’s Connection, and the Actor’s Loft in New York City. His Keeping History Alive series brings historical figures such as Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Clarence Darrow, John Barrymore, Ernest Hemingway, and William Shakespeare back to life. His shows are based on biographies, autobiographies, personal letters, books, and the works of various playwrights.

The Nantucket Atheneum presents:
Terry Pommett Film: “Chinatowns”
4:30pm  Great Hall
Free Nantucket Photographer Terry Pommett presents a muti-media travelogue. Pommett, who spent a month in China in the winter of 2011, uses photography, videography, and music to bring his journey to life.

Artists Association of Nantucket Wet Paint Weekend
Wet Paint Auction
4pm Preview, 5-6pm Live Auction.
FREE American Legion Hall, 21 Washington Street  Join us for our ever-popular Wet Paint Auction.  The live auction features fifty wet, fresh-off-the-easel pieces by Nantucket’s finest artists.  Rafael Osona dons his rubber gloves and starts the live auction at 5:00 p.m. sharp.  The live auction is free, open to the public.

Artists Association of Nantucket Wet Paint Weekend
Wet Paint Dinner at Le Languedoc
6:15pm Immediately following the Wet Paint Live Auction.
Immediately following the Live Auction, the fun continues at the Wet Paint Auction Benefit Dinner.  A seated dinner at Le Languedoc, the evening features the Artists’ Quarterboard silent auction, great food, and good company.  It is the perfect ending to the Arts Festival!  To purchase $250 tickets in advance, please visit our website at www.nantucketarts.org or call 508-228-0722.