News and Events for Nantucket Island
For 2025, the Nantucket Historical Association’s annual summer fundraiser celebrating the rich tradition of Nantucket lightship baskets has an added flavor: a bourbon tasting alongside the bubbly, craft cocktails, and light bites. Formerly the annual Baskets & Bubbly is now Baskets, Bubbles, & Bourbon and will feature exciting new additions […]
This Thursday, June 19 a collaboration of Nantucket organizations are hosting an island gathering to memorialize and honor Juneteenth. The block party at the African Meeting House, 29 York Street, runs from 11 am to 3 pm and will include music, a documentary screening, games, arts & crafts, food, and […]
Theater has the unique power to touch your soul, stir your emotions, expand your mind, and broaden your understanding of the world. But sometimes all you really want is to escape reality, and theater can help you do that too.
This week, from Thursday, June 12 through Sunday, June 15, more than 20 distinguished writers will be on Nantucket Island to talk about their craft in onstage conversations, readings, and panel discussions, and they will interact with readers in several informal social gatherings. Tim Ehrenberg, creator of Tim Talks Books and President of the Nantucket Book Foundation, says the four-day Nantucket Book Festival as a favorite among “year-rounders, summer residents, weekenders…the commonality is a love for books. There is such a genuine feeling of connection all weekend long…this connection has been at the root of the Book Festival since the very beginning.”
On July 11 at 8 pm. associate professor and fashion expert Steven Faerm will give a lecture and a free 2-day workshop on July 12 & 13 from 10 am. – 12 pm. Steven Faerm (MSEd) is an Associate Professor of Fashion Design at Parsons The New School for Design […]
This Friday, July 15, the Artists Association of Nantucket will open their Summer Small Works Exhibition with a festive opening reception on from 6 to 8 pm in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street. “The small works exhibition is a perennial favorite for artists and customers […]
The Nantucket Book Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary, June 17-19, with an outstanding line-up of award-winning authors. For three days, book lovers will gather in various Nantucket venues for a series of author readings, panel discussions, and social events that provide opportunities for casual conversations between writers and readers. Most […]
Tickets are now on sale for two Nantucket events that are sure to be sell-outs: an evening with acclaimed underwater diver and photographer Tony Wu, hosted by the Nantucket Historical Association on July 8, and the ever-popular Boston Pops on Nantucket concert, hosted by the Nantucket Cottage Hospital on August […]
