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.”
The Currier Museum of Art will indeed be open until 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, although they are not holding any of their usual “First Thursdays” themed events. During the rest of the month, the Currier is usually closed by 5 p.m. (and it’s closed all day Tuesdays). The Currier will also be closed on July 4.
“Building Books – The Art of David Macaulay” opens today. I’m counting on it to be brilliant. It’s at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester. If you go, let me know what you think. Does anyone else remember reading Macaulay books as a kid?
Ikebana, “living flowers,” is a Japanese style of artistic floral arrangement. Antoinette Drouart, who owns Ikebana Flower in Nashua, demonstrates Tuesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at the Nashua Public Library (2 Court St., 589-4610). The photo is an Ikebana arrangement created by Drouart.
I highly recommend, if you can find your way through the maze that is 21 West Auburn St. in Manchester (it’s sort of behind Murphy’s Tap Room), head to the third floor for painter Dan Greuling’s open studio, between 3 and 9 p.m. (March 1). He’s got some wicked cool stuff, and says other third floor creative types might be participating. Should be a good time with good people.
If you are up in the Concord area, storyteller and author Rebecca Rule is trying out a piece she created from interviews of folks in the Berlin area after the paper mills closed. It’s free, and starts at 3 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium.
It’s not open today (it’s always closed Tuesdays) but the Currier Museum of Art is offering free admission this week because of school vacation. It’s open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (150 Ash St., Manchester) for free Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Feb. 25-27. Bring your lap top and enjoy wifi in their Winter Garden cafe. Check the museum calender for tours or kid programs.
(By the way, it’s always free for kids under age 18 to visit, and admission is free Saturdays between 10 a.m. and noon.)
The Open Doors Cultural Tour of 2008 is in its sixth season in Manchester. There’s an installment of the quarterly event Thursday, June 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. Download a map to find out where to catch the free trolleys that loop between venues at Majestictheatre.net.
Here’s a list of participants:
SEE Science Center, 200 Bedford St.: New exhibits include “lift yourself” pulley chairs, a super bounce ball exhibit and the NASA theater. SEE houses a LEGO model of the Amoskeag Millyard.
Millyard Museum, 255 Commercial St.: “Nous sommes ici! We are here! A Celebration of Manchester’s Franco-American Heritage,” displays photographs, paintings, sculpture, textiles and hockey memorabilia.
Art on the Wall at City Hall Gallery, 1 City Hall Plaza: Work from Peter Noonan’s “City Hall Follies” and the city’s 3rd annual National Art Program/Manchester City Employee art competition. City Hall starts their Open Doors events at 4 p.m. with awards for the employee artwork.
If you are one of those people who gets out of work at 4 p.m., and if you have an interest in fine wood crafts and painting, the public unveiling of the the Griffith Secretary should be interesting. A long time patron of New Hampshire Furniture Master David Lamb wanted to see what would happen if Lamb and acclaimed New Hampshire painter James Aponovich worked together. The resulting mahogany with ebony and flame birch secretary for patron Diane Griffith has a cabinet adorned with a triptych by Aponovich. The public reception is going on from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 25 in the Governor and Council Chambers in the State House.
Earlier tomorrow, there’s also a gallery tour planned at Sulloway & Hollis Gallery, (29 School St.in Concord) for the exhibit “Synesthesia,” of work by Michael Roundy, Charlie Goodwin, Tom Driscoll and Thaddeus Beal. The 1 p.m. tour is followed by a discussion there called “The Art of Collaboration” at 2 p.m. You’ll year from Lamb, Aponovich, New Hampshire Furniture MasterBill Thomas, artist Tom Meyers, the state’s commissioner of the Department of Cultural Resources, Van McLeod, and Rebecca Lawrence, director of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
I highly recommend, if you can find your way through the maze that is 21 West Auburn St. in Manchester (it’s sort of behind Murphy’s Tap Room), head to the third floor for painter Dan Greuling’s open studio, between 3 and 9 p.m. (March 1). He’s got some wicked cool stuff, and says other third floor creative types might be participating. Should be a good time with good people.