News and Events for Nantucket Island
The 20th annual Nantucket Film Festival announced that Golden Globe®-winning actress Robin Wright, and Academy® and Emmy®-Award nominated House of Cards creator and screenwriter Beau Willimon will participate in an In Their Shoes… ® conversation moderated by Chris Matthews at the Nantucket High School on Sunday, June 28. Additionally, Chris Matthews will also […]
The Nantucket Film Festival announced today that acclaimed Academy® & Emmy®-Award nominated House of Cards creator and screenwriter Beau Willimon will be honored with Variety’s Creative Impact in Television Writing Award. The award will celebrate Willimon’s extraordinary career, whose achievements include projects in television, film and stage. Variety’s Managing Editor […]
• by Hilary Newell – Hilary Newell came around the point 28 years ago and has been learning island-style gardening ever since. • Window boxes are everywhere on Nantucket. The muted grey of weathered shingles lends itself to the addition of all sorts of colors to underline the windows. There’s […]
The award-winning acapella group North Shore Acapella returns to Nantucket for Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10 at 4 p.m., in the Dreamland Film & Performing Arts Center, presented with Nantucket Arts Council as part of the spring 2015 Downtown Celebrity Concerts. Performing nationally for over 30 years, the group won […]
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay – Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station • As tourists and summer residents start streaming back to the island, Nantucketers are emerging from our hobbit holes to bask in the sunnier and warmer days like a pack of painted turtles and all this […]
Nantucket Arts Council scholarship applications are open now for all year-round Nantucket residents who are students from middle school grades through graduation. Graduating seniors who are majoring in the arts may apply now for college scholarships to continue their studies at an accredited university. Awards typically range up to $2,000. […]
Organizers of the first Nantucket Music Festival last summer knew their idea of a two-day, live music celebration for visitors and residents of the historic resort destination had enormous potential. But, nothing could prepare them for the overwhelmingly positive response they received from sponsors and the performing arts community. The […]
On August 14, 1819, the whaleship Essex sailed out of Nantucket Harbor— Captain George Pollard, one of the youngest ever to command a whaling ship, anticipated a successful two-and-a-half year voyage; its crew of twenty hoped for greasy luck. Their experience was anything but lucky. Fifteen months after the start […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will celebrate the diversity of people and cultures on our small island this Sunday, April 12, from 5 to 7 pm, with the first installment of Our Nantucket, a new diversity series at the Whaling Museum. Focused on highlighting the rich and varied cultures that […]
