Category: Dover

Free Hospice Volunteer training with Wentworth Hospice, 9 Andrews rd Somersworth, on Feb. 13-March 12.Classes are 3 hours, once a week for 6 weeks. For more info call 603-692-0220.

Garrison Players Arts Center Holds Open Auditions for Lost in Yonkers

 

Rollinsford, NH – Garrison Players is auditioning for Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers.  Open auditions are Sunday, February 9 1:00-4:00pm at the Garrison Players Arts Center on Route 4 in Rollinsford.

 

Actors should be prepared to do a cold-reading from the script.  No appointment is needed. Please bring resumes and headshot, if possible.  Performances will be April 10-25, directed by Rick Kincaid.

 

Lost in Yonkers is a coming-of-age story set in Yonkers, New York. Simon’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play centers around two teenage brothers, Arty and Jay, who live with their grandmother and their mentally challenged Aunt Bella, while their father travels, desperately trying to scrape enough money together while working as a salesman to pay off his debts to a loan shark, and their mother has died of cancer. Over the course of the play, the young boys learn lessons about love, responsibility and the importance of family that will carry them into adulthood.

 

Garrison Players Arts Center (GPAC) is a nonprofit, volunteer-based community theatre group dedicated to enriching the cultural life of the area by presenting high-quality theatrical performances geared for family audiences. Established in 1953, the players encourage people of all ages to enjoy and participate in the many facets of the performing arts, and to help maintain the Garrison Players Arts Center. For more information about auditions, shows or GPAC, visit the website at www.garrisonplayers.org.

Woodman Museum – Save The Date! Friday February 7, 2020 “Meat” Bingo Fundraiser

Please join us for a Woodman Museum “Meat” Bingo, social and fundraiser hosted by the Dover Moose Club.

 

The date is Friday, February 7th, and the start time is 7pm. The location is the Dover Moose Club at 45 Chestnut St. with lots of parking nearby.

 

This event will be just over an hour in duration. If you’ve never played Meat Bingo before, it’s very easy, and we promise you will enjoy it!

 

It’s a Bingo-type game played with playing cards, and if you’re a game winner, you will win valuable cuts of meat as prizes. You will also be able to purchase drinks from the Moose Club should you desire. 

 

Cost per card to play is $5.00, and entitles you to 10 games. Of course, you are welcome to play as many cards as you like! We will also have two 50/50 games at the conclusion of the 10 games, and will also host a raffle for various gift cards from local establishments, including a Museum family membership valued at $55.00. 

 

We hope you can join us for this very fun and enjoyable evening, and make a difference to the Museum as well! Bring friends, spouses, relatives, neighbors and make an evening of it!

Saturday Dinner at St Johns United Methodist Church on January 25th from 4:30 to 6pm. This month menu: Roast Pork. Adults $9, Seniors and Vets $8, children 12 and under $4. Call 742-3046. All are welcome.

Showstoppers!

Seasons of Love

Love can be exhilarating, excruciating, enduring…and entertaining!

On Valentine’s Day, our Showstoppers troupe presents “Seasons of Love,” a musical revue that covers the full range of emotions and draws from

Broadway shows through the years.

Showstoppers is a Garrison Players tradition with roots as far back as 1977.

We hope you’ll join us on February 14  8:00pmyou’ll love it!

Click the image above or www.garrisonplayers.org for tickets!

Garrison Players Arts Center

Rollinsford, NH

The Art Center Presents: Granite State

 

The Award-Winning Art Center in Dover, New Hampshire is paying homage to New Hampshire in this month’s exhibit “Granite State” at The Art Center Gallery.  On display now, the show celebrates New Hampshire with an engaging mix of artistic expression.  Most of the work presents scenes from the seacoast area, Rye, Durham, Portsmouth and Dover itself.  Lovely depictions of landmarks such as Wentworth by the Sea, the Portsmouth Music Hall and the Sarah Long Bridge are balanced by exquisite atmospheric landscapes, almost photorealistic landscapes and ocean scenes.  No exhibit of New Hampshire would be complete without paintings of boats and those working the water for a living and this show effectively satisfies that requirement.  Artists featured in this show are  Robert Barker, Jim Reagan, Joanne Rhode, Kent Maxwell, Matt Gunn, Kirk Carter, Doug Vaughan, Ron St. Jean, Prospero Eaton, Dale Tremblay and Nettie Vaughan and Robert Weinstein.  

 

The Granite State Exhibit Artist Reception will be held at Art Center Saturday, January 11th from 6 to 8 PM.  The exhibit will be on display until January 31st.  Parking is available.  For more information visit The Art Center website at www.theartcenterdover.com or call 603-978-6702.  You can also like The Art Center on facebook and follow the latest happenings at theartcenterdover on instagram. 

WACKY ART at the Children’s Museum of NH

 

Dover, NH – (January 3, 2020) The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover now offers Wacky Art Wednesday drop-in art workshops for children ages 2 and up and their caregivers. Each Wednesday at 2pm, a different medium will be explored ranging from clay to paint and everything in between. Cost for workshops is included with museum admission and free for members. Museum admission is $11 for adults and children over the age of 12 months, and $9 for seniors ages 65+. Admission is free for children under age 1.

 

Meredith Brustlin, CMNH Early Childhood and Literacy Coordinator, oversees the art creations in the museum’s MUSE Studio, a welcoming and bright space where making a mess and exploring art is encouraged year round. “Exploring art is something we’ve always done here at the museum,” said Meredith. “Art is a fundamental part of childhood and makes a great companion to play exploration, so we incorporate art into many of our programs and events. Whether that’s a Junior Science class focusing on Math, or a Valentine’s themed T-Rex Tea Party – all programs offered here at CMNH – you’ll find art-making incorporated across the board.”

 

The museum’s commitment to art is clear with the presence of the Gallery 6 art exhibitions, which line the walls of the ramp leading up to the second floor of the museum. These rotating exhibitions feature art by local artists with varying themes. The current exhibition “Unbound” will end January 10^th and features a collection of mixed media art by 5 local artists who, almost mischievously, snip, rip, mark, fill, cover up, and create artwork from the shells and guts of books. The next exhibition in Gallery 6 will be a collaboration with Dover’s own “Wrong Brain” artist’s group.

 

Art programming at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is supported by the NH State Council on the Arts, Georgia-Pacific and the Fuller Foundation.

 

To learn more about Wacky Art Wednesdays or other museum programs visit www.childrens-museum.org.

 

WACKY ART WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP THEMES

 

Wednesday, January 8 at 2pm

Design a Clay Owl

Wednesday, January 15 at 2pm

Melt-A-Cup Mini Sculptures

 

Wednesday, January 22 at 2pm

Cling Film Paintings

 

Wednesday, January 29 at 2pm

Explore Perler Beads

 

Wednesday, February 5 at 2pm

Make a Mini Lid Banjo

 

Wednesday, February 12 at 2pm

Design a Valentine Crown

 

Wednesdays, February 19 & 26: Vacation Weeks, NO WACKY ART

 

About the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire

 

The not-for-profit Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is located at 6 Washington Street in Dover and offers two levels of hands-on, interactive exhibits for children from newborn to middle school. Children can explore a wide range of subjects, from dinosaurs, music and aeronautics to world cultures, art and natural history. Open year-round, the Silver LEED-certified museum specializes in creating memorable family learning experiences and works closely with schools, social service agencies and educators. The museum also hosts a variety of live performances, workshops, classes and special events for families. For more information, please call the museum at (603) 742-2002 or visit www.childrens-museum.org

Sasquatch in New Hampshire !?! Come learn about the strange encounters and sightings of Bigfoot (or Sasquatch) across New Hampshire on Wednesday, January 22 at 6:30pm in the Dover Public Library.

T-Rex Tea Party

Sunday, February 9, 9:30-11am

This year the Dino Tea Party will be open to more visitors, and families can visit the museum before we open to the public! Sweet treats, tea, and juice will be in the Deep Sea Classroom. Special Valentine’s Day and Dino crafts will be in the STEAM Lab, which will be decorated for Valentine’s Day. A fun photo booth, and 2 story times with special guest T-Rex will take place in the Muse Studio at 10am and 10:30am. All of the exhibits will be open for play time until the end of the event at 11am. Tickets for Members go on sale Friday, January 10^th. Tickets go on sale to the public on Monday, January 13^th. Cost is $9 per person for Members or $15 per person for Non-members. Visit www.childrens-museum.org to learn more or to register.