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2008 Schedule of Other Events
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Newburyport Pedicab will be on hand on Saturday and Sunday to aid people in getting
to our seven different venues. This is a free service, but tips are appreciated and
will help support the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. http://www.newburyportpedicab.com/
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Join us for Dinner with the Authors
Masonic Temple, 31 Green Street, Newburyport, MA
Friday April 25, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $50.00
Please respond by April 15, 2008
Buffet Cash Bar
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ArtWalk - Various Newburyport Art Galleries
3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Fifteen participating Newburyport galleries will be joining in the celebration of the Newburyport Literary Festival with art works that are related to, or inspired by, literature. From the original paintings used to produce children's picture books to photography stimulated by a favorite quote, the galleries offer numerous perspectives on how images may extend the meanings of words. Many gallery artists will be in attendance to discuss their works. Gallery maps will available in many venues or may be downloaded along with other information from the website of the Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce and Industry at http://www.newburyportchamber.org/artwalk.shtml.
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Books by festival authors (and prints by festival illustrators)
will be available all day at the venues and at local bookstores.
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Closing Ceremony: The Final Word
Saturday 6:00 PM
Firehouse Center for the Arts
Our closing program features remarks by Dana Gioia, poetry by the distinguished New England poet Erica Funkhouser, a melopoeia (poetry recited with a musical background) performed by poets Alfred Nicol and Rhina P. Espaillat and guitarist John Tavano, and a reading of one work by Espaillat from her collection of short stories published in 2007.
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Playwrights’ Forum: The Creative Process of Playwriting
The Actors Studio at the Tannery Mall, Mill 1, Suite 5, Water Street at Federal Street, Newburyport
1:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Newburyport’s lively theatre community bustles with acclaimed and aspiring playwrights. This forum in our local black box theater will focus in a unique and dynamic way on the process of playwriting. We will present two short staged readings followed by a comprehensive description by each play’s author of the creative experience involved in that play. Then a moderated panel of esteemed local playwrights—Hailey D.D. Klein, Marc Clopton, Michael Kimball, Joshua Faigen, and Gregory S. Moss—will more fully discuss the creative process of playwriting.
Please visit www.ronpullins.com for further information.
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Custom House High Tea
Custom House Maritime Museum, 25 Water Street, Newburyport
4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Please join us for the second annual High Tea in the Marquand Library of Newburyport's Custom House Maritime Museum! Award-winning biographer, literary critic, and professor Millicent Bell will speak on John P. Marquand (1893–1960), the most prominent New England novelist of his generation and Newburyport's most famous literary son.
Visit www.customhousemaritimemuseum.org for further details.
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Lecture: Whittier's Idiosyncratic Relatives
Amesbury Friends Meetinghouse, 120 Friend Street, Amesbury
2:00 p.m.
Retired professor and editor Ben Pickard, who now lives in North Carolina, is the great grandnephew of John Greenleaf Whittier. Mr. Pickard presents his second lecture of the weekend at the Friends Meetinghouse in Amesbury. This talk might as well have been titled “Fame and Its Effects on Relatives” or “The Price of Being Famous,” since it examines how Whittier endured the public trials brought on by his public reputation. In particular it considers how fame and financial success affected his relationship with various nephews and nieces.
Visit the Friends Meetinghouse website at www.amesburyquaker.org for directions.
Reception follows at the Whittier Home at 86 Friend Street in Amesbury.
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Cemetery Walks: Tiptoe Through the Tombstones
Oak Hill Cemetery, State Street and Brown Street; meet at Ellen T. Brown Memorial Chapel
Two sessions available: 10:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. (duration: 1 hour 15 minutes)
In 1988 Todd C. Woodworth began leading Tiptoe Tours of Newburyport cemeteries and continued to entertain and inform audiences until 2005. Ghlee, his daughter, took over the tours in 2006 and is currently writing a book about Oak Hill Cemetery and its many notable burials. Visit the gravesites of authors Harriet Prescott Spofford, Emily and Jane Andrews, and the Parton family. Hear about the editors of the Newburyport Herald newspaper in the 1800s and the benefactors who began the Newburyport Public Library. And say hello to William Ashby, who held parties for literary greats such as William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A tour will also be given of the Ellen T. Brown Memorial Chapel, which is currently under restoration. Visit http://www.newburyportchamber.org/tour.shtml for further information.
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Sixth Annual Favorite Poem Project of Greater Newburyport
Arakelian Theater, Firehouse Center for the Arts, One Market Square, Newburyport
3:00 p.m.
In 1997 former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky instituted the Favorite Poem Project, which invited Americans to share their favorite poems with the public at large. The Record Magazine staff and Poetry Soup at Newburyport High School are sponsoring a local version of this celebration of the pleasure of poetry: NHS creative writing students help choose a representative sample from among numerous submissions of poems sent from people in the greater Newburyport community. Parents, business people, politicians, clergy, leaders, and others who have been touched by poetry have sent in their favorite pieces with explanations of how these poems have affected them. Poems have been submitted in Swahili, Spanish, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian. Students and other local residents will read the chosen entries at this event. Send favorite poems to facilitator Deborah Szabo of the English Department at Newburyport High School: DSzabo@Newburyport.k12.ma.us.
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