Arts + Culture events 1.23 - 1.29

1.23
Open Figure Studio
Clothed Model/Painting + Drawing
Held at Plymouth Art Center
11 North St., Plymouth
Mondays, 10AM - 2PM
$10/class, proctor, no instruction
For more info: wendyhalestudioATgmail.com
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1.24/Tuesday
Plymouth Town Meeting to discuss Farmer's Market RFP
Mayflower Room, Town Hall, starts at 6:30PM
11 Lincoln St., Plymouth
Farmers Market RFP scheduled for about 7:15PM




1.25/Wed.
Fiber @ The Library
Free and open to all, 1PM - 3PM
The Manomet Branch of The Plymouth Public Library
12 Strand Ave., Plymouth (Manomet)
Artists, Knitters, Spinners, Weavers!
...And quilters, needleworkers, surface designers - an informal group meets to talk, spin, weave, crochet, knit, sketch, make what we make. Bring a portable project to work on and/or share a recent project. 

1.25
Plymouth Zen Group
Meets every Wednesday in downtown Plymouth
7 - 8:30PM
$5 suggested donation, open to all

1.27 +28 (and future times)
Call for Art
Habitat ReStore (in Kingston, MA)
Habitat for Humanity will have their annual celebration in May, and they're asking artists to pick out pieces from their store to use/recycle/upcycle into artworks to be offered at silent auction in May.
Get to the ReStore on one of the following days, pick out materials and get details.
Friday, 1.27, 10AM - 2PM  
Saturday, 1.28, 10AM - 2PM
Friday, 2.3, 10AM - 2PM   
Saturday, 2.4, 10AM - 2PM

1.28 - 29/Sat + Sun
Cape & Islands Orchid Show 
Hyannis

Thru March 1, 2012
Narrows Center for the Arts
Fall River, MA
Mosaic Show

Arts + Culture events 1.11 - 1.18

1.11 Wednesday
Fiber @ The Library
Free and open to all, 1PM - 3PM
The Manomet Branch of The Plymouth Public Library
12 Strand Ave., Plymouth (Manomet)
Artists, Knitters, Spinners, Weavers!
...And quilters, needleworkers, surface designers - an informal group meets to talk, spin, weave, crochet, knit, sketch, make what we make. Bring a portable project to work on and/or share a recent project.

1.11 Wednesday
Plymouth Zen Group
Meets every Wednesday in downtown Plymouth
7 - 8:30PM
$5 suggested donation, open to all








1.11
DreamSpeak Artists 
A night of spoken word and music
Starts 7PM
Poets, writers, flash fiction artists
@ Crazy Eddie's Bar + Grill
6 Town Wharf, Plymouth  

1.12 Thursday
Winter Farmer's Market @ The Plantation 
2:30PM - 6:30PM
Food, crafts and music
Wampanoag drummers will be there, too!
Directions to Plimoth Plantation

1.14 Saturday
Painting Demonstration by Allie Elia
HanDun Gallery
387 Nathan Ellis Highway
Mashpee, MA
508.428.1796

1.14
The Driftwood Folk Cafe
Kendall Hall at First Parish Church, Plymouth 
Kris Delmhorst and opener, Bethel Steele
Doors, 7:30PM, music starts @ 8PM
Purchase tix online

1.15
Mosaic Demonstration
1PM - 3PM, Free
Artist, Jim Bowen
Woodruff's Art Center
Mashpee, MA

Call for Art~
Deadline 1.27.12
Expressions of Love/work in any media, accompanied by a story
Details @ website
Handworks Gallery of American Crafts
161 Great Road, Acton

Arts + Culture events 12.16 - 12.23

An Introduction to Birding in Plymouth: South Plymouth Ponds
Sat., 12.17, 1PM - 3PM
Free from Mass Audubon
Register by phone by 4:30PM today: 781.837.9400





Kiln opening @ Hatchville Pottery
Sat 12.17, 10AM - 4PM
Sun 12.18, 11AM - 4PM 
494 Boxberry Hill Road
Hatchville, a neighborhood of Falmouth

The Christmas House
Presented by Plymouth Community Theater
Friday 12.16 at 8PM
Saturday 12.17 at 3PM AND 8PM
Sunday 12.18 at 3PM 
@ Blue Room, Memorial Hall
83 Court Street, Plymouth
Tickets: $20 all shows, general admission

A Christmas Carol 
Presented by Hat Trick Theater Group
Dec. 16 + 17@ 8PM 
Dec. 18 @ 4PM
Adults: $20., Under 16, $15.
@ Kendall Hall, First Parish Church
Plymouth

The Book Shack 
Kingston/Independence Mall
Staged reading (in period costumes) of A Christmas Carol
12.17, 2PM + 8PM
12.18, 2PM
$10, Adults $7/Students with ID
Purchase tix online


The seals are back!
Visit Manomet Point at low tide to see seals and less usual migrating ducks. Bring your binoculars and cameras.

What we saw + heard...

Recently, at The Guyer Art Barn in Hyannis, MA~
An installation by Tessa D'Agostino. It'll be up thru November 6.

The artist (Tessa) will offer an Intuitive Art Making workshop there on 11.5.11 from 3PM - 6PM. ($45/email MakeInsideArt@gmail.com)

Robert Peters told stories and read from older and forthcoming books at Han Dun Gallery in Mashpee, MA. What evocative stories about people from the area. He read in The Wampanoag Authors series - on 11.5, Earl H. Mills will be reading from 2PM - 4PM.

AND, a new bookstore will open near us - The Book Shack will go in where Borders was in The Independence Mall (Kingston, MA). They were setting things up last weekend and hope to be open very soon. The owners plan to have a cafe with seating, book readings and other events. Let's support them and all the arts and artists in any way we can - whether it's by setting time aside to attend a reading, attending a show and leaving comments in their book or buying a ticket...

Arts + Culture events 10.20 - 10.27

MASSART Auction
Call for art
Submissions accepted from all artists through Nov. 6

The Sketchbook Project 2012  
Signup deadline 10.31.11




10.21 - 10.23
CONNECTING FOR CHANGE:
A Bioneers by the Bay Conference Presented by the Marion Institute
New Bedford, MA 

10.21 + 10.22
Provincetown Dance Festival
Provincetown


10.21, 10.22
Native Plymouth Tour
Tours from a Native American perspective
(Given only thru November 27, 2011)
tickets
Fridays + Saturdays, 5:30PM
Other days possible by reservation 


10.22
Farmers Market/Plymouth
9:30AM - 1:30PM
Courthouse Lawn

10.22
Han Dun Gallery
Learn to Spin Yarn  W/ Mary Lou E. Ricci
Saturday Sessions from 9AM to 11:30AM
October 22, 29 and November 5 & 12
10.22: Discuss how to select a raw fleece and much more...

Also...
Wampanoag Author Series
Robert Peters
Book Signing & Reading - Da Goodie Monsta: 2PM - 4PM 

October 21-23
Providence Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival 
Rhode Island Convention Center
Hall A
Providence, RI 

Through  Dec. 11, 2011
A Collaboration Between 22 Cape Cod Painters and Fiber Artists
(America the Beautiful:  Artwork inspired by Katherine Lee Bates’ Song)
Inspired by lines from the anthem written 100 years ago by the Cape Cod writer
Cape Cod Museum of Art
60 Hope Lane,
Route 6A, Dennis, MA
Gallery Talks and Demonstrations:
October 23: Anne Garton and Sue Pellowe, 2PM
October 30: Shawn Nelson Dahlstrom and Janet Rice, 2PM

10.23
A Taste of Africa 
6PM Dinner  8-9 Performance
$35-$75 Sliding Scale or $10-$20 for Performance only
An organic dinner featuring traditional flavors and dishes from Zimbabwe followed by a drumming performance by Master Djembe Drummer, Issa Coulibaly. 
Sponsored by Cape Cod Dare and proceeds benefit IHC Tatenda.
Preservation Hall, Wellfleet

10.24
Plymouth Town Meeting
Open to all
Plymouth North High School
41 Obery Street  

10.26
Fiber + Artists Meeting 
1PM - 3PM  Free and open to all
Manomet Branch/Plymouth Public Library 

10.26
Plymouth Zen Group
Meditation 7PM - 8:30PM
Every Wednesday
$5/suggested donation
Open to all

10.27
Taste of the Town
(To benefit The Plymouth Public Library)
7PM - 10PM 
Radisson Hotel
180 Water Street, Plymouth, MA

Oyster Fest was a great event!

Oysters!

Wellfleet is straight across the bay from Plymouth, MA and about an hour and a half drive by car. OK, so it's not just around the corner, but this event is soooooo worth driving to! So, put Wellfleet OysterFest on your calendar for October 2012!

Of course, there are oysters and all manner of seafood (and great corn!) Freshfreshfresh!!!


 All kinds of art, craft and music scattered over the festival area, lots of people watching opportunities. We ran into Ron Wilson, wonderful photographer. One can see his work at his gallery, Wilson & Heywood, in Plymouth. 

Ron Wilson

Lamp Maker

Crafting a wooden duck

Preservation Hall/Wellfleet

Doors - Preservation Hall

Demonstrations, educational opportunities and all manner of fun is built into the weekend. Plenty of dancing while a variety of bands played - we were there for The Rip it Ups. One could be amused for quite awhile.

Provincetown

Provincetown

And we continued up the coast to PTown to catch rough winds blowing the ocean around. Perfect Fall day, all around.

Arts + Culture events 10.13 - 10.20

 (For events in calendar form, go here)

10.12 - 10.14
Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival
Oct 13 He Said/ She Said, Battle of the Sexes at the Radisson Hotel
Oct 14 Raw Comedy at Cabby Shack

RI: A Distant Mirror/E Driscoll

10.15 Saturday
RI Artists In Context 
All day event: Connected and Consequential Rhode Island
Providence, RI







10.15
A couple of events today at
HanDun Gallery
387 Nathan Ellis Highway
Mashpee, MA

Learn to Spin Yarn W/ Mary Lou E. Ricci:
Five Saturday Sessions from 9AM to 11:30AM
+
Wampanoag Writers Series
2PM - 4PM
Book Signing & Meet the Author: Joan Tavares Avant
People of the First Light: Wisdoms of a Mashpee Wampanoag Elder

10.15 + 10.16
Wellfleet Oyster Fest
Wellfleet, MA

Through October 30
RISD Reunion: Todd McKie, Richard Merkin, Karen Moss, Leigh Palmer, Phyllis Gay Palmer
South Shore Art Center
119 Ripley Road Cohasset MA

10.17 Monday
Harlow House Fiber Guild 7PM - 9PM
Meets in Plymouth
For directions, email mariezweigmanATyahoo.com
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10.19 Wednesday
Plymouth Zen Group
Meets every Wednesday in downtown Plymouth
7 - 8:30PM
$5 suggested donation 


10.20 Thursday
Fiber + Artists Meeting
Free and open to all, 1PM - 3PM
The Manomet Branch of The Plymouth Public Library
12 Strand Ave., Plymouth (Manomet)
Artists, Knitters, Spinners, Weavers!
...And quilters, needleworkers, surface designers - an informal group meets to talk, spin, weave, crochet, knit, sketch, make what we make. Bring a portable project to work on and/or share a recent project.
(Not limited to fiber arts.)



Heads up for 10.21
Friday, Oct. 21, 4-5pm

FREE Artist's Talk
Laurie Anderson discusses her life's work and inspiration.
@ Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street, Providence
Seating is limited - to reserve call 401-421-4278
(Ms. Anderson is doing a number of events in Providence.

Check here for info.)