Arts Fest Continues
The 16th annual Nantucket Arts Festival continues through Sunday, September 7, featuring a variety of ongoing exhibitions, demonstrations, talks, special events, concerts, and open studios across the island. Dance, music, fine art, textile art, photography, theatre, literary art, and handcrafts are all being represented.
The main downtown exhibit, Departures and Diversions: Exploring New Directions in the Visual Arts, ended on Wednesday evening, and being mounted in its place at Preservation Institute: Nantucket, upstairs at 11 Centre Street, is a special event and exhibit devoted to a locally created and produced television series called Detention with Oliver Diamond.
This exhibit opens at 7 pm this Friday night, September 5, with a Nantucket Red Carpet Premiere. Guests can meet the cast and crew and enjoy live music by the local group Four Easy Payments. Nantucket’s Mark Carapezza is the moving force behind this series of 30-minute television shows for children, written, story boarded, and then performed by children. From the evening of the premiere through Sunday, September 7, the interactive exhibit entitled “10 Years in Detention, the Making of 'Detention with Oliver Diamond’” will be open from 10 am to 9 pm. This showcases the original hand-written concept of Detention with Oliver Diamond,” and includes the kid-written scripts and storyboards, deleted scenes, still photos from production, props from the production, and your last chance to be in the show.
Other Festival events of note this week are two more concerts at the First Congregational Church, 62 Centre Street. Thursday evening, September 4, at 8 pm, violinist Armen Ghazaryan will play music of 20th century composers and at 8 pm on Saturday evening, September 6, violinist Marc Thayer and Mollie Glazer will perform a concert of Baroque music. On Sunday, September 7, at 5 pm at the church, Pianist John Buttrick will perform a benefit concert to raise funds for the Saltmarsh Senior Center.
The Nantucket Arts Festival is organized by the Nantucket Arts Council. Founded in 1973, the Arts Council promotes the appreciation of, provides access to, and supports the arts on Nantucket with year-round programming in the visual arts, film, music, dance, theater and performing arts for all ages.
