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Trio orchestrates a spirited Christmas concert

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A cello, a viola and a violin were all it took to herald in the Christmas season at the North Branch Library. On Saturday, Dec. 6, a trio from the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra performed for an…

The Unlikely Strummers have an unlikely Christmas concert

Deb Sorgman and Jen Wallance laugh as Jonathan Keller, dressed as the Grinch, entertains the crowd. Photos by Kat Sheridan

The Unlikely Strummers held a Christmas concert so good even the Grinch showed up. On Tuesday, Dec. 2 the band performed at the Dartmouth Grange. During the…

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Celebrating Artist Sunday in Padanaram

Animal statues by Ronnie Gould with more art in the background. Photos by Kat Sheridan

The Bridge Street Gallery is trying to bridge any gap between artists and the public at their Artists Sunday open house on Sunday, Nov. 20. Bridge Street Gallery is a cooperative in Padanaram Village that has eight full time members and 28...

An essential quintessential concert with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra

The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra finishes their Quintessential series. Photos by Kat Sheridan

The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra performed a number of songs at Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Dartmouth in a sold-out show for the last day of the Quintessential’s series on Sunday, Nov. 23. “I’ve been playing with the New Bedford Symphony...

One UMass Dartmouth student's journey to becoming Illustrator of the Future

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Josie Moore’s imagination has been filled with ideas of fantasy worlds ever since she was a kid and her mind was bursting with ideas. It wouldn’t be until 2020 when the UMass Dartmouth sophomore and illustration student began taking her art...

'Look here, old sport': Students perform 'The Great Gatsby' in a roaring good time

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For most students, “The Great Gatsby” is simply a book read in English class, but for theater kids at Bishop Stang, the story has come to life on stage. “I think we’ve done an amazing job bringing the story to life, what you visualize when you’re...

From fact to fiction: Author tells a story of New Bedford's South End

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For most readers, “Blue Collars” is the story of an Irish American girl and her family living in the South End of New Bedford during the 1950s and the poverty, abuse and heartache they endure. But for Dartmouth author Catherine McLaughlin, the...

Unicorns at UMass Dartmouth

Gallery Director Vierra Levitt, Sapar Contemporary Director Nina Levant and Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer. Photos by Kat Sheridan

The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Campus Gallery welcomed Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer’s exhibit “The Unicorn, and Other Creatures of Hope.” Ferrer is the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn, and this is her second show and her...

Band members find their way home on and off the marching band field

Beneath the stadium lights at Memorial Stadium, the Dartmouth High School marching band performed a show about rocky waters and finding a way to the light. In this case, this is done quite literally. Groups of band members started near “sailboats,”...

Songs and social justice

Listen to some good music and music for good at the Social Justice Choir of Southeastern Massachusetts Fall Festival on Sunday, Nov. 9 starting at 4 p.m. The festival melds voices from Bridgewater State University, UMass Dartmouth and those in the...

Brushing up on the cultural center's newest art exhibit

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Michael Walden of Westport began his career in art when he was a child making art and objects out of anything he could find. His artwork has since been on display in galleries in New York City, and now it adorns the walls of the Dartmouth Cultural...

One woman's journey from poet to lyricist

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For decades, 80-year-old Kathleen Flaherty Denizard of Dartmouth has written poetry based on her life experiences, and now, her poems are taking on a new life of their own by being turned into songs. The project began several months ago when Jay...

See and be seen at UMass Dartmouth featuring south coast artists

Some of the boat sails set up. Photos by Kat Sheridan

Rainbow-decorated boat sails cover the walls, both inside and out, of the UMass Dartmouth art gallery as a part of their latest art show “Being Seen.” Massachusetts Design, Art and Technology created “Being Seen: Celebrating Southcoast Pride”...

The Grata Retro is a real work of heart

Music filled the UMass Dartmouth campus center as students walked around with armfuls of artwork, such as crochet jellyfish, prints and chainmail necklaces, during the school's annual Grata Retro art show. The Grata Retro, which was held on Sept....

Dartmouth Cultural Center hosting art show, ‘Composition’

Jonathan Garcia of East Taunton is showing his two most recent pieces at the Dartmouth Cultural centers Member-Guest Summer Invitational. He used oil on canvas as his medium of choice, enjoying the time oil allows him. His first piece shows a...

Explore Batik art with the Dartmouth Cultural Center

Get immersed in Batik arts at the Dartmouth Cultural Center with their AT-140 Line and Wash Watercolor Batik on Kinwashi Rice Paper event. Batik art is a style of textile dying using hot wax and dye to create patterns. Using waterproof markers, a...

Seven years of painting Padanaram en plein air

When painting “en plein air,” artists struggle with a number of difficulties and most of them can be chalked up to the constantly changing environment. But artists took on the challenge anyway in the seventh annual Wet Paint Padanaram event hosted...

Dartmouth alumni named world champions with Boston Crusaders

Dartmouth High School alumni Jaeda Walker and Jesse Walker captured gold medals in the Drum Corps International as a part of the Boston Crusaders Aug. 9. The Crusaders taking to Facebook said, “A chapter 85 years in the making, the Boston...

If SNL and Broadway ran into each other, really fast

When Erin Ban steps onto the stage at Steeple Playhouse this week as Rona Lisa Peretti, she’s not just playing a character, she’s embodying a full-circle moment years in the making. Ban, a Dartmouth native and 2004 graduate of Dartmouth High, has...

Seniors spend an afternoon with over 125 pieces of art

Visitors from the Dartmouth Autumn Glen Senior Living Center toured the Westport Art Group Summer Community Show last week. Over 125 pieces of artwork are part of the Show open to artists in the SouthCoast area. "The participants seemed to really...

Art shared and inspired from Westport to Dartmouth

A stroke of genius is not required to become an artist. What is needed, artist Carol Bliven said, is enthusiasm, an eye for the interesting and the willingness to keep trying, and sometimes failing, as one learns. A fondness for art was the shared...

En plein air: Capturing Padanaram with the paint brush

Join the artists capturing the scenes of the village “en plein air” in the seventh annual Wet Paint Padanram hosted by the Dartmouth Cultural Center Saturday, Aug. 23. The event invites artists of all experience levels to paint outdoors in scenic...

Join in the canvas cruise and see the 17th annual Art Drive

The Art Drive, a juried open studio tour through the coastal villages of Dartmouth and Westport, returns for its 17th year from August 1 to 3, running daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This year’s drive includes 27 stops, with 21 located in Dartmouth,...

Take a peek inside the studios, hear their stories

Bruce Bailey didn’t touch his art for more than 30 years. After dropping out of art school in the early ’70s, he left behind a world of drawing and design for a long career in engineering. Now retired in Dartmouth, he’s returned to the work he...

Watercolor batik workshop coming to Dartmouth Cultural Center

The Dartmouth Cultural Center is offering an opportunity for artists and creatives to explore a distinctive mixed-media technique in its upcoming workshop, “Line & Wash Watercolor Batik on Kinwashi Rice Paper,” led by artist Peter Sterling Turner....

‘About Face’: Shift perspective with an array of art at the Cultural Center

For Sepi Golestani, the feeling of chronic anxiety has never been abstract. “I’m originally from Iran,” the Newton-based artist said as she referred to one of paintings set to be hung in the latest Dartmouth Cultural Center exhibit. “So the story...