NHIA’s Sidewalk Artfest date change

The New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Sidewalk Artfest is now happening Sunday, Oct. 4, rather than Saturday, Oct. 3, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Spain Brothers are playing, it’s free, and you can register ahead of time if you want to create your own chalk masterpiece.

More free park concerts

Henniker apparently offers free concerts on Tuesdays it looks like.

More summer park concerts in southern New Hampshire are posted here.

Film-tastic

The “Best of” New Hampshire’s first 48 Hour Film Project are screening tonight at Red River in Concord. Check them out.

The Sarah Silverman show is NOT sold out

There was a mistake in The Hippo this week. We are sorry. Things can get crazy on deadline.

However,  the Palace Theatre assures me there are plenty of seats available for the benefit show, “An Evening of Comedy with Sarah Silverman and Friends,” Sunday, July 19. You can pick up tickets at the box office at 80 Hanover St. in Manchester, which is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and three hours before a show starts (or order them via phone or Web).

The show benefits New Thalian Players free Theatre in the Park performances.

Wednesday music in a park

Grammy nominated Cajun band, The Pine Leaf Boys, play the Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth tonight at 7 p.m.  I’m told this should be a good show.

Closer to home, recent South by Southwest performers, The Jason Spooner Trio, play in Londonderry’s common.

I’ve listed links to lots of free concerts in parks around the area, but let me (Heidi)  know at the Hippo if I missed any, or leave a comment.

Water’s plight

If you are in the Peterborough area, The Water Front is showing at 5:30 p.m. today (July 14) as part of the exhibit, “Water: Mystery & Plight” at the Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries. (Check out Christine Destrempes project.) The Harris Center for Conservation Education cosponsors the screening at the Peterborough Community Theatre, 6 School St., followed by a discussion and reception at the gallery.

This is from their press release:

“The movie The Water Front is a documentary about Highland Park, Michigan and what happened to its citizens when the city government decided their water plant was the city’s only positive financial asset. The city council marketed the water as a commodity to solve the city’s financial woes.  Residents, mainly poor and black, saw soaring water bills and lost control of their own water, a basic human need.  The Highland Park situation is a microcosm of many other cities, states and countries, and readily available, potable water is becoming rare.”

Park concerts

• Concord holds concerts in Eagle Square on six Thursdays at 7 p.m., and the Nevers’ Band performs at different parks throughout the summer.

• The Londonderry Arts Council plans Concerts on the Common, mostly on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at the bandstand on the Londonderry Town Common at Mammoth and Pillsbury Roads. They also run the monthly open mic Nutfield Sessions.

• New Boston’s Recreation Department organizes summer concerts on alternate Sundays at 6 p.m. (New Boston’s Blues Association’s “Barnful of Blues Festival” Aug. 1 is at the county’s 4H Youth Center.)

• Derry uses their MacGregor Park bandstand for Tuesday and Thursday night summer concerts.

• Milford’s “Sounds on the Soughegan” concerts run Wednesdays for about 10 weeks this summer at Emerson Park.

• Merrimack holds concerts mostly Wednesdays at 7 p.m. through Aug. 26 at the Abbie Griffin Park bandstand. (The form to request use of the bandstand is here.)

• Community Events, LLC, is running outdoor family film series at Veterans Park in Manchester and Greeley Park in Nashua this summer.

• New Thalian Players produces Disney’s High School Musical at Veterans Park and Nashua Theatre Guild produces Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Greeley Park (July 17-July 26). (The application to use Veterans Park is here.)

• For information about concerts and other events at Nashua’s Greeley Park’s bandshell see Nashua’s “SummerFun” calendar and check for updates here.

• For more downtown Manchester events, also see Intown Manchester.

• Not outdoors, or in a park, but still free, the SummerSundays Concert Series is at the Hillsborough Center Congregational Church.

~Let me know what else to list…

A map

Looking for still more summer stock? Try checking the New Hampshire Professional Theatre Association map.

Ballet at Dartmouth

The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performs contemporary ballet works “from 1975 to the present by dance legends Twyla Tharp and William Forsythe and new stars Jorma Elo and Cayetano Soto” at the Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College in Hanover Thursday, July 9, at 7 p.m. and Friday, July 10, at 8 p.m. (646-2422, $10-$26).

There’s a related free lecture by Professor Thalia Wheatley, called “Setting the Stage: The Intersection of Movement and Emotion,” July 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the Faulkner Recital Hall.

Live at the Hop events continue throughout the summer.

More summer stock

“A mysterious Scottish village appears out of the mists for one day every hundred years. On that fateful day, two American hikers stumble into the village, where a wedding is about to be celebrated–an arrival that threatens the very existence of Brigadoon,” according to The Barnstormers Theatre (323-8500).

The Tamworth professional company opens their 79^th summer with the musical Brigadoon, running July 7 through July 11. Bob Shea is the Barnstormers artistic director, and also a familiar face in Manchester where he heads the Dana Center at Saint Anselm College.

Brigadoon is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, (My Fair Lady, Camelot) and hit Broadway in 1947.