September 9th AHA! Night
NB Cultures
Sponsored in part by the New Bedford Local Cultural Council
After Nine sponsored by the Ginger Grill

Welcome to AHA! night when downtown New Bedford comes alive with Art, History and Architecture! On September 9thjoin us in celebrating the rich diversity of New Bedford’s cultures through the arts, stories and foods of the many groups who help create the fabric of New Bedford and make it the authentic city that it is.

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING

Working Waterfront Festival presents a mini maritime culture film festival as a preview to the WWF.  Screening 4 films from 5-8:30pm in the Corson Maritime Learning Center (33 William Street) with short breaks in between to talk about the festival.  2010 Festival t-shirts will be available for purchase.
Film Schedule:   

• Whales of Gold (5-5:30pm) – About a traditional fishing community in Baja California which has become an eco tourism destination for whale watching.
• Tugging Through Time (5:40–6:40pm) – About the history of tug boats in the New York harbor.
• Scalloping With the Courageous (6:50–7:20pm) – Documents a full trip as shot by the crew.
• Truth: Fishing Crisis or Government Mismanagement (7:30–8:30pm) - Chronicles the controversy around fishing regulations in the United States including interviews with Mayor Scott Lang, SMAST Dean Emeritis Brian Rothschild and Sig Hansen of Deadliest Catch.

Pilgrim United Church (634 Purchase Street) hosts a Polish exhibit, egg decorating and food tasting sponsored by the Polish Women’s Business & Professional Club. The PNA #536 will sponsor a Polish Historical Talk on the Haussars of the 17thCentury. 6-8pm

Special Guest Venue! Salvation Army (619 Purchase Street) celebrates their 125thAnniversary of service to the City featuring Fado singer Ana Vinagre, 6:30pm.  This year, the New Bedford chapter of the Salvation Army  is celebrating its 125thanniversary of providing continuous services and assistance to the local community. To celebrate the Salvation Army is participating in New Bedford’s AHA! nigh t on September 9thoffering a buffet dinner starting at 5pm catered by Ricarrdi ‘s restaurant with tickets to be purchased in advance by September 1stfor $15.00.

New Bedford Free Public Library (613 Pleasant Street) Talk: French Acadian Immigrants to New Bedford with Paul Albert Cyr, Curator of Special Collections, 7pm.

New Bedford Whaling Museum (18 Johnny Cake Hill)
•  Whaling in the Azores with Manuel Francisco da Costa, Museo de Pico. 6pm in the Whaling Museum Theater.
• “Alfred Lewis and the American Dream” with Dr. Frank F. Sousa, professor of Portuguese and Director of the UMD Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture. Part of the “Communities of New Bedford Lecture Series”, 7:30pm in Whaling Museum Theater.

The Azorean Maritime Heritage Society presents s meet & greet with the Crews from the Azores here for the Fifth International Whaleboat Regatta. 7pm in Azorean Maritime Heritage Society's Casa dos Botes (11 North Water Street, just north of Union Street).

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park (33 William Street) The 1850s census shows a diverse population.  The 19thcentury Ladies, Ruth and Abby will share the stories, food and recipes of their friends and neighbors.  6-8pm at the National Park Visitor Center.

Ginger Grill celebrates their One Year Anniversary including a new menu of Korean specialties!

Your Theater presents "A Bridge too Old": a short play written by New Bedford's own, Ray Veary, focusing on the angst-love of the bridge between NB and Fairhaven. Performances at 7, 7:30 & 8pm at the Seamen’s Bethel (15 Johnny Cake Hill).

Celebrate the Culture of Brewing!
• Pour Farm Tavern (780 Purchase Street) presents Ask the Brewer Series! Enjoy a tasting & presentation with their Craft Brewer of the Month Ryan Gwozdz from Mayflower Brewing Company of Plymouth, MA, 6:30pm. Plus NEW ART! Works by Alison Wells.
• Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum (396 County Street) The Culture of Brewing with Chris Camara. An evening of learning all about beer-brewing. At 5pm, brewing begins for a special fall seasonal beer just for this occasion.
From, 5-6pm, following the start of the brew, demo and Q&A on the ingredients and procedures that make beer. From 6-7pm, wrapping up the brew, along with demos and Q&A on fermentation and the hardware needed for fermentation. From 7-8pm, information about the yeast and cover the various ways to package/bottle your homebrew.

NEW & CONTINUING EXHIBITS 

Gallery X (169 William St)
New Exhibit! "Sample: Artists of New Bedford Open Studios" is a great way to preview work from the artists who will be participating in NB Open Studios.  

New Bedford Art Museum (608 Pleasant Street)
• The Starting Place: a talk by Sandra Hall , artist and author of The Starting Place, a book about the life of a family of barn swallows. 6pm
• Art @ 8! Audubon and the American Identity: at alk by Janice Hodson , co-curator of the exhibition, on how Audubon interpreted the grandeur of the wilderness.

• Taking Flight: The Birds of J.J. Audubon. From the Collection of the New Bedford Free Public Library & presented by The Audubon Preservation Partnership.
• Birds of the Enlightenment
Predecessors and Contemporaries of J.J. Audubon curated by
Tom Puryear.
• Vault Series: Portraits curated by Joan Backes

Artworks! (384 Acushnet Avenue) New Exhibit! Stop by for the opening reception of Heart to Hearth: featuring art donated by artists through The Art Connection in Boston to begin a project that places the work of local artists into non profit sites.

Navio Artisans Collective (65 Williams Street) New Exhibit featuring David Jusseaume, Adam Buck and friends.

Crowell’s Fine Art (382 Acushnet Avenue) New Exhibit: David Loeffler Smith: Recent Work

Judith Klein Gallery (752 Purchase Street) New Exhibit: The paintings of HENRY MC.MAHON. Artist Talk at 7pm.

Colo Colo Gallery (25 Centre Street) New Exhibit! “Empty Chairs”: new paintings by Alison Horvitz. Horvitz’s “Empty Chair” paintings fill the canvas, as objects personified,  conversations imagined, advice sought, conflicts resolved, and unspoken words of love.Alison studied art at Boston University, U Mass  Dartmouth  and Rhode Island School of Design, as well as the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnston, VT.  She was awarded an Artist Stipend from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Three of her paintings have been selected to hang at Massachusetts General Hospital, as part of the Illuminations Project. 

University Art Gallery at CVPA/Star Store (715 Purchase Street)
• Going Forward, Looking Back: Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st  Century.
• Jesseca Ferguson: Presence, Absence & Pinhole Photography & Walter Crump: A Personal Vocabulary. Lecture Hall, 7pm.

Ocean Explorium (148 Union Street) Watch Ernestina voyages on the Sphere, plus hands-on activities, & a variety of living exhibits.

LIVE MUSIC

Celtic Coffee House (42 North Water Street) hosts Aoife Clancy performing small sets at 6:30 & 7:30pm.

Café Arpeggio (800 Purchase Street) Celebrating the Sixth Anniversary of Open Mic! Featured performers will be DANCING EYEBROWS, a tasty duo of Denn Santoro & Helen Granger.  Their collection of nifty covers - from the rock & roll years back through the American songbook of the 30's & 40's - is wide and fun.  Toss in some original Denn Santoro songs, and their twisted take on the News of the Week, and you have a good time with Cafe Arpeggio's favorite in-house duo. 6-7pm followed by the weekly Open Mic hosted by Art Tebbetts, 7-10pm.

New Bedford Symphony Orchestra:
• A Concert Prelude with NB Symphony Orchestra Conductor David MacKenzie. David will talk about the music the NBSO will be performing at its Opening Night. 7–7:30pm in the Zeiterion’s Penler Space.
• Open Rehearsal of the NBSO: Come hear the NBSO prepare for its Opening Night concert.  7:30-8:30pm at The Z (684 Purchase Street).

The summer tradition continues! Centre Street Sessions presented by Whaling City Sound and Fiber Optic Center, Inc. This evening enjoy Shawnn Monteiro and the NB Jazz Quartet featuring John Harrison III, Jim Robitaille, Bill Miele and Chris Poudrier! In the Kaller Beef Building parking lot on Centre Street. Sets at 5:30 & 7:15pm. Rain location: Citizens Union Savings Bank (95 William Street).