Arts

Sixth annual holiday exhibit comes to the Cultural Center

South Coast Artists will celebrate the holiday season with the 6th annual Holiday Arts Exhibit at the Dartmouth Cultural Center, starting Dec. 1. An official reception will kick off the exhibit on Dec. 1 from 5 to 8 p.m., during the Padanaram...

Dartmouth artists featured in Fine Arts Club at the Cultural Center

As Dartmouth artist Gregoire Marshall unveiled his two large mixed-media canvases — one 30 inches by 40 inches, and the other 48 inches by 60 inches — he passed around five pages of text to go along with it. On those pages, he connected the...
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St. Julie’s Ladies Guild looks ‘to foster community spirit’ with first craft fair

In its first outing, the Ladies Guild of St. Julie Billiart Church’s craft fair brought together hundreds of community members to shop at tables of 30 local vendors, who peddled everything from pepper jam to holiday ornaments to homemade wreaths and...

Follow the yellow brick road to Take a Bow Youth Theater’s new show

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, but pay very close attention to the women behind Take a Bow Youth Theater, who spend months teaching, choreographing and designing each musical. The Dartmouth-based theater will ring in December with...

Dartmouth Middle School to bring ‘Cinderella’ to the stage

Audience members at Dartmouth Middle School Drama’s next performance might not know every song in the show, but they certainly will know the story. “We still find the glass slipper and they fall in love and live happily ever after,” said Alex...

UMass Dartmouth’s 20 Cent Fiction celebrates 30 years of doing the time warp

20 Cent Fiction, one of two theater companies at UMass Dartmouth, will celebrate 30 years of Rocky Horror Picture Show performances with a run starting Thursday, Oct. 26. A special anniversary requires a special performance: Not only will 20 Cent...

Padanaram poses for East Texas in independent movie shoot

Filming “St. Jones Ditch” has brought director Jeffrey Long, writer Sarah Brockmann and the cast and crew all over Rhode Island, the South Shore and the South Coast. The only complication? The movie takes place in East Texas. The latest location to...

St Julie Billiart’s Ladies Guild to host craft fair at Bishop Stang

St Julie Billiart’s Ladies Guild will host a fair featuring creative homemade crafts, an auction and raffle and food and desserts. The fair will run form 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Bishop Stang High School gym, at 500 Slocum Road.

We want to see your Halloween decorations!

Is your yard especially spooky this time of year? Do neighbors cower in fright? Or howl in good fun? We are looking to scare up a cool photo collection of Halloween decorated yards in Dartmouth to give our readers a fright. Send photos of your...

Friends of the Dartmouth Libraries to host local author, breast cancer survivor

Join the Friends of the Dartmouth Libraries on Thursday, October 19, at 6:30 p.m. to hear local author Leslie Lawrence discuss her journey from breast cancer patient to survivor. Ms. Lawrence’s diagnosis came in 2016; five years later, she reached...

Collection at Cultural Center celebrates ‘Folks and Fables’ with antiques and artwork

The Dartmouth Cultural Center’s newest exhibition may focus on fiction, but the work itself owes an indispensable debt to history. Each piece in the collaborative “Folks and Fables” collection contains a little piece of the past: for Dan Cadoret,...

‘Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele' rocks stage at UMass Dartmouth

Jake Shimabukuro is known for his mastery of a commonly used but uncommonly mastered instrument: the ukulele. It’s not uncommon for a fan of Shimabukuro to start playing the uke, according to Zeiterion’s Director of Marketing and Communications...

Painters hit Padanaram for 5th annual plein air contest

Rain postponed the 5th Wet Paint Padanaram event, hosted by the Dartmouth Cultural Center, not once, but twice: the event was scheduled months in advance for Sept. 23, before rain reset the date for Sept. 30, then finally Oct. 1. But that doesn’t...

Wet Paint Padanaram postponed (again) to Oct. 1

After postponing the annual plein air event from last weekend to Sept. 30, a rain forecast has postponed the event again to Sunday, Oct. 1. Artists come to the cultural center at 9 a.m. to get their canvas or paper stamped, proving that the work...

North Branch Library meets Julia Child

Legendary chef, author and television personality Julia Child returned for a bonus episode of “The French Chef” on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 23. But instead of broadcasting from GBH, this episode came directly to Dartmouth’s North Branch...

Cultural Center gears up for 5th Annual Wet Paint Padanaram, registration still available

At last year’s “plein air” event, an artist painted the Padanaram bridge, complete with the bridge tender in his booth. At the public gallery opening later in the day, the painting was purchased by the bridge tender’s wife, said Cultural Center...

South Coast gets artsy at ‘Open Studio Tours’

Rows of homes pressed into glass, painted and or sails billowing in the wind enhanced on canvas with acrylic. South Coast artists invited the public to see their studios and art on Aug. 19 and 20. The Open Studio Tour includes Tiverton, Little...

John George Farms hosts artists and artisans for first craft fair

Visitors to John George’s Ice Cream on Saturday, August 12 may have been surprised to see over 30 pop-up tents alongside it. In a first for the farm, a locally organized craft fair took over the greenery next to the ice cream shop between the hours...

Celebrating 15 years of the Art Drive

For the 15th year, 31 artists across Westport and Dartmouth opened up their studios and homes for the annual Art Drive from August 4 to 6. Organized by the artists, the Art Drive is a juried studio tour that’s intended to connect the local community...

Local photographer finishes exhibition in New Bedford

The exhibition on the lower floor of Gallery X in New Bedford initially seemed to contain work from many different photographers: there were black and white portraits to the left, macrophotography on the right, and a healthy sprinkling of birds,...

Historical society launches comprehensive texts on 18th-century Dartmouth Quakers

After four years of effort, the Historical and Arts Society were able to “relax after a long voyage,” society president Bob Harding said at a luncheon on July 22 celebrating the completion of their two-volume book titled, Minutes of the Dartmouth,...

Music to his ears: A local musician’s passion turned career

While studying music education at UMass Dartmouth, Christian Camarao would wait outside music practice rooms and ask people to play for his album because he “wanted to make [the music] so badly.” “I didn’t care if the recording quality was messy,...

Cultural Center awarded $160,000 grant to ‘keep the building alive’

With a $160,000 matching grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Dartmouth Cultural Center hopes to make its building handicap accessible. The Cultural Center has until 2024 to secure the funds which will be used to upgrade and preserve...