Tuesday, May 1
Interwoven Stories: A Nantucket Stitching Gam Noon - 2 pm • Nantucket Whaling Museum 13 Broad St. at South Water
A drop-in workshop in the year-long community project by Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket Historical Association, and Artists Association of Nantucket in which participants create embroidered narratives of their Nantucket experiences. Free kits available with an 8.5” X 11” fabric page, embroidery thread, needle and hoop. Free. nantucketatheneum.org
Lecture: Mark Foster
6 - 7 pm • Nantucket Whaling Museum 13 Broad St. at South Water Mark Foster, historian and author of The Hadwen & Barney Candle Factory: How It Worked, talks about the historic importance of Nantucket’s Hadwen & Barney Candle Factory, now part of Nantucket Whaling Museum. nha.org
Wednesday, May 2
Film for Thought: Cold November
6:30 - 7:35 pm • The Dreamland, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland weekly Film for Thought series continues with the award-winning Cold November, a movie about a young girl’s coming of age in rural Middle America. Tickets are $11-$14. nantuckedreamland.org
Thursday, May 3
Five O’Clock Shadow in Concert
7 pm • The Dreamland, 17 South Water St. The third of Downtown Celebrity Concerts for 2018 from Nantucket Art Council features energetic six-man a cappella group and recording artists Five O’Clock Shadow, with Nantucket native Caleb Whelden. Tickets $25-$30. Local students free with ID. nantucketartscouncil.org
Friday, May 4
Susan J. Berman in Concert: Nantucket Girl Be Ready to Sail
6:30 pm • Nantucket Whaling Museum 13 Broad St. at Federal St. Nantucket Historical Association presents folk singer and guitarist Susan J. Berman in a concert of new and old songs about Nantucket history and events. Tickets $10. nha.org
Poetry in Motion Dance Performance
6:30 - 7 pm • White Heron Theatre Company 5 N. Water St. behind Whaling Museum White Heron Theatre Company / Nantucket Theatre Institute and Nantucket Ballet collaborate to bring Poetry in Motion to the stage. Local classical and modern dancers create choreography then perform dances inspired by poetry. Suggested donations are $5 -$20. Repeats Saturday at 6:30 pm. whiteherontheatre.org
Saturday, May 5
Poetry in Motion Dance Performance
6:30 - 7 pm • White Heron Theatre Company 5 N. Water St. behind Whaling Museum White Heron Theatre Company / Nantucket Theatre Institute and Nantucket Ballet collaborate to bring Poetry in Motion to the stage. Local classical and modern dancers create choreography then perform dances inspired by poetry. Suggested donations are $5 -$20. whiteherontheatre.org
Shingles Reunion Concert
7 - 8:15 pm • Nantucket Atheneum library 1 India Street at Federal The Shingles, an ensemble of five longtime Nantucket musicians, reunites after a six-year hiatus for a concert at Nantucket Atheneum. Free admission. nantucketathenuem.org
Sunday, May 6 Poetry Reading
2 - 4 pm • Nantucket Atheneum library 1 India Street at Federal Nantucket Atheneum hosts an afternoon of poetry written and read by local writers Kathy Butterworth, Bobby Frazier, Amy Jenness, Mary Ellen Redmond, John Stanton, Lucretia Shattles Voight, and a longer reading from featured poet Monica Flegg. Free admission. nantucketathenuem.org
Community Jazz Band Concert
4 pm • Summer Street Church, 1 Summer St. upper Main St. west of downtown near Pleasant Nantucket Music Center Jazz Band performs in a variety of jazz and pop styles at the Summer Street Church. $15 suggested donation. nantucketmusiccenter.org
Thank you to the following for supporting Nantucket Arts Council and its oversight of Nantucket Cultural District including Spring ArtWeek Nantucket Dan & Connie Driscoll Russell Carson George and Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation Hyperion Maritime Holdings LLC Ronay & Richard Menschel Martha & Charles Polachi Max Berry & Pamela Thomas Chris & Joseph Donelan Barbara Elder & Jim Sulzer Kaaren & Charles Hale Linda & Joseph Hale Beverly Hall & David Billings Julie Jensen & Robert Bryan Jeff & Susan Lucier Maria & George Roach Elizabeth & Geoffrey Verney Dorothy & Richard Verney Suellen Ward & John Copenhaver Patricia & Tom Anathan (IM of Robert and Fay Anathan) Diane Archer & Stephen Presser Judith Baltimore Mark & Deborah Beale John & Judith Belash Susan & Harold Bloom Brass Lantern Inn Deborah Bryan Laura & Barry Bryne Katherine Burton (IM of Irma Lee Anapol) Mary Casey & Jeff Blackwell Howard Chadwick Jill & Oliver Coolidge Amanda Cross Barbara Duffy Lee & Tharon Dunn (IH of Jean Halberstam) Sabrina & Richard Elwell (IM of Margherita C. Sutro) Dr. Greta Feeney Alan M. Foster Dorothy & Louis Gennaro Doris Glazer
Toby Ann Greenberg Robin Hammer Hatch’s Package Store Lucy & Patrick Hehir G. S. Hill Gallery Carr Holland & Maxwell Mundy Ann & Peter Holmes Lois & John Horgan Elizabeth S. Jacobsen Patience Killen Carol & Kenneth Kinsley Nancy Wilson Lampe Barbara Lindeman John & Judy Lochtefeld Sharon & Frank Lorenzo Deborah & William Lothian Linda MacKay Robin McElroy Maloney Miriam & Herbert Mittenthal Monomoy Fund Russell & Marian Morash Nantucket Looms Nobby Clothes Shop Harry Pfeiffer Melissa & Nathaniel Philbrick Pittcairn Trust Company Jeremy Pochman & Emily Ryan John & Catherine Sakson Christine Sanford Trudy & Fred Slater (IM of Irma Lee Anapol) Phillip & Beverly Stambaugh Clara Urbahn Caroline & F. Helmut Weymar Clark M. Whitcomb Jacqueline Williams Erica Wilson Needle Works Ken & Cindy Blackshaw Patricia Bridier Rose Gonnella Nina & Bob Hellman Lillian Jean Henning Judith & Paul Kales
Paul & Giovanna LaPaglia Walter & Madeline Lesnevich (IM of Philippe & Patricia Schreiber) Pamela Lohmann Jan Purdy Metcalf Janet Nelson Elizabeth Oldman Charles & Elna Soule David & Barbara Spitler Anne Sweidel Susan Tate & Mark Hogan Dorothy & Robert Thompson Susan & David Beaumont Nancy Broll Tamzin Carr Hutchinson (IM of Pete Sawyer) Kathleen Kasmar Van Lieu Cindy Garrison Mollie Glazer Ellen Metzger O’Shea Jean Rioux Penny Snow George Thomas & Lynn Zimmerman Kay & John Tiffany Linda Zola And to others who helped make Spring ArtWeek Nantucket possible.