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'Recovered Dreams and New Creations' at the Dartmouth Cultural Center

The Dartmouth Cultural Center is welcoming their next Exhibit, “Recovered Dreams and New Creations,” from Thursday, June 5 until Friday, June 27. This…

Register for the eighth annual Wet Paint Padanarm Plein Air

The Dartmouth Cultural Center is bringing back its Wet Paint Padanarm Plein Air for an eighth year. Artists will gather at a designated location that has views of the…

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Picture this: ArtWeek returns to Dartmouth

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ArtWeek SouthCoast is set to return on Friday, May 8 and will feature several Dartmouth events. The 10-day event celebrates creativity across the South Coast and includes hands-on workshops, live performances, open studios, exhibitions and...

Art in wax at the Dartmouth Cultural Center

Susan Medyn and David Formanek pose in front of some of their art. Photos by Kat Sheridan

This couple makes very different art with the same medium: wax. David Formanek and Susan Medyn unveiled their exhibit, “Found Wax” at the Dartmouth Cultural Center on Friday, May 1. The curator of the Cultural Center, Jill Law, saw Medyn’s work and...

That's so fetch. Dartmouth theater to perform Mean Girls musical

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On Wednesdays, The Plastics wear pink, but soon Dartmouth High School theater students will be donning the color instead. Students at Dartmouth High School have been busy preparing for their spring musical, “Mean Girls,” based on the 2004 movie by...

Resident publishes fifth poetry book

Theresa Hickey, a writer from Dartmouth, is publishing her fifth collection of poems called “Glimpses of Light.” Her poems, “...trace quiet moments of healing, gratitude, struggle, and renewal. Drawing deeply on Scripture, prayer and lived...

Bishop Stang puts on "Anastasia" for annual musicial

Vlad (Nolan Woodard,) Anya (Emerson Palumbo) and Dimirtry (Jack Nylin) sing before getting on the train. Photos by Kat Sheridan

Conmen, royals, streetsweepers and communists roam the streets of an alternate 1926 together, singing about their pasts and their hopes for their futures. Visit Bishop Stang to take a step back in time to Soviet Russia, and join “Anya” on a...

Dartmouth director takes the Greater New Bedford Choral Society to new heights

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When Dartmouth resident Brian Dean Sousa was growing up in New Bedford, he was drawn to music — first to instrumental then to choral. “By the time I was in high school I was in the marching band, the concert band. I was in the pit band for the...

Bees and wax at the Dartmouth Cultural Center

A piece by David Formanek. Source: Elizabeth Antonell

The Dartmouth Cultural Center is welcoming its next exhibit, “Found Wax,” on May 1 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Married artists, Susan Medyn and David Formanek, are having their first joint exhibition in 25 years. Medyn works with living honeybee...

Photos not taken with a digital camera at the Cultural Center

Film edited to be printed. Photos by Kat Sheridan

The Dartmouth Cultural Center took an alternative approach to their monthly show, featuring photography prints created by members of the Central Village Alternative Photography Society. The Society, based in Westport, explores ways photos can be...

They've got your back: School orchestra honors 'Big Nik,' spreads a message of unity

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NEW BEDFORD — With a slideshow of photos of Nikoles Joseph — or "Big Nik" — playing in the background, the Dartmouth High School orchestra performed a song composed to honor Joseph's life while teachers, coaches and others shared stories...

Alternative photography exhibit

The Dartmouth Cultural Center is having the opening reception for the Alternative Photography exhibit on Friday, April 3 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The show will be on display from April 3 to April 21. There are a total of 14 local artists showing 43...

Want some more? Take A Bow to take on 'Oliver!'

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With heads bowed and arms outstretched, kids marched through the hall of the Smith Mills Christian Congregational Church in preparation for the workhouses they will soon find themselves in. But the labor that these children will be undertaking is...

Students to perform a murder mystery in the midst of a bingo game

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When someone thinks of high school theater the first thing that may come to mind are stage productions put on in a dark auditorium, though the Dartmouth High School Theater Company’s upcoming show “Murder at the Bingo Hall” is anything but....

High school students show off their artistic talents

The Art II pieces from King Farm. Photos by Kat Sheridan

Every year, the Dartmouth Cultural Center hosts a show featuring the Dartmouth High School’s AP Art Student’s work. This year, the show featured a wider variety of students’ art including the AP Students, seniors and the Art II class.The Cultural...

Color guard performers are the architects of their story

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Peeking in and out of doors and twirling flags featuring floor plans, the Dartmouth High School winter guard put on a performance fit for an architect. The routine, titled The Architect, follows the story of a house being built, beginning with the...

Spring into spring with a wreath

Many think of wreaths as something for Christmas time, with pine trees and bright red bows. But wreaths can be a great way to decorate your door with a bit of spring. The Dartmouth Cultural Center is hosting a wreath-making workshop, led by Debra...

Visit a gallery featuring cameraless photography

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The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts is presenting an art exhibit featuring cameraless photography. The solo exhibit will be on display until Tuesday, March 31 and features the work of Anne Arden McDonald, a New York City-based...

Eighties ghost stories brought back to life in new film

The first script and storyboard for Sins of the Devil. Source: Garry Medeiros

Kids who grew up in Dartmouth in the 80s remember the tales and warnings of demonic cults lurking in the woods. Filmmaker and Dartmouth local Garry Medeiros brought these warnings to life in his latest film, “Sins of the Devil.” “It’s almost like a...

Dartmouth residents display art at new Marion Art Center gallery

Laura Bedard stands in front of her watercolor octopus at the Marion Art Center Member's Show. Photos by Mari Huglin

MARION — The walls of the Marion Art Center were adorned with paintings, photographs and even quilts giving artists from across the South Coast a chance to showcase their skills at the debut for a new gallery show that will last through the...

A ho ho ho-liday market at Round the Bend Farm

Sage and Oliver Dellecese pet the farm dog. Photos by Kat Sheridan

A dog walks around greeting everyone, kids roll down a hill and families complete some last minute Christmas shopping. Round the Bend farm held their final open farm day of the year on Saturday, Dec. 20, which included a Kwanzaa celebration and an...

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 audience packed into the library’s community room in...