Icons Grand Tour

 

The 2010 Iditarod begins today!  This sled dog race goes 1,049 miles through mountain ranges and over frigid sea ice, from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska and only the toughest, most skilled mushers and their sled dog teams participate.
This film features Susan Butcher in her bid to win the 1985 Iditarod.  Butcher has carved out a life for herself in the Alaskan bush where she raises sled dog puppies and trains her winning dog teams. Her rugged way of life requires all the discipline of a true athlete. Each year, Butcher and sixty other mushers brave the dangers of the Iditarod Trail in temperatures that often drop to -40 degrees, in this race which takes from 11 to 14 days to finish. With raw courage and determination, she battles it out with the toughest mushers in the North to set a new Iditarod record. Susan's goal is to be the best and she's a winner!  The film will be introduced by Dan Ross, who worked for Susan Butcher.  Free admission.  Refreshments will be served.  Adults and teens welcome!

 

 

 FREE, bring your lunch.

Tony Dumitru and Ben Simons,
“Whalers’ Souvenirs”

Bring your brown-bag lunch to Gosnell Hall of the Whaling Museum. Enter by the Whaling Museum front door at 13 Broad Street. Talks are free to the public and are given by notable Nantucketers on a range of fascinating topics. The Food for Thought programs are supported by a grant from the M. S. Worthington Foundation.

This year's annual theme is "Travel to and From Nantucket," focusing on Nantucket as a hub for global travel, both in the whaling days and today.   FREE, bring your lunch.

Life of Birds: "To Fly or Not to Fly"
Join Ken Blackshaw for three Sunday afternoons this month to view selections from this fabulous set of films. Ken will introduce and discuss three of the episodes featured in this 10 part dvd set.  We know that you will enjoy viewing parts of this popular and beautifully filmed series.  You will learn more about the evidence for evolution of flight in this work of art.

Tea and cookies will be served.  Admission FREE.

In the taut latest from Enright (What Are You Like?), middle-aged Veronica Hegarty, the middle child in an Irish-Catholic family of nine, traces the aftermath of a tragedy that has claimed the life of rebellious elder brother Liam.

As Veronica travels to London to bring Liam's body back to Dublin, her deep-seated resentment toward her overly passive mother and her dissatisfaction with her husband and children come to the fore. Tempers flare as the family assembles for Liam's wake, and a secret Veronica has concealed since childhood comes to light. Enright skillfully avoids sentimentality as she explores Veronica's past and her complicated relationship with Liam. She also bracingly imagines the life of Veronica's strong-willed grandmother, Ada. A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly.

The discussion is facilitated by Maureen Beck and Molly Anderson and open to all. 

Icons Printmaking Talk

 

Lawrence Dober,
“Come On from Off: Picture Postcards”

Explore early 1900's sights and scenes as seen by coofs and strangers as documented by historic postcards.

Bring your brown-bag lunch to Gosnell Hall of the Whaling Museum. Enter by the Whaling Museum front door at 13 Broad Street. Talks are free to the public and are given by notable Nantucketers on a range of fascinating topics. The Food for Thought programs are supported by a grant from the M. S. Worthington Foundation.   FREE, bring your lunch.

9:30 a.m. Registration
10 a.m. Keynote Lecture With Dr.Joan Borysenko
11:30 a.m. Q&A
12 p.m. Light Lunch
1 p.m. Panel Discussion

$25 Suggested Donation

Dr. Joan Borysenko is a distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine and a world-renowned expert in the mind/body connection. In 2007 the 20th anniversary edition of her best selling book 'Minding The Body, Mending The Mind' was published. She has written or co-written 13 books, appeared on numerous television shows and is the founding partner of Mind?Body Health Sciences in Boulder, CO.

Her latest book, 'It's Not the End of the World, Developing Resilience In Times Of Change' was published in the fall of 2009.

This year's A Women's Gathering theme is 'The Rising Tide of Light: Developing Resilience in Times of Change.'

The event is cosponsored by the Nantucket Institute of Spirituality & Health, The Nantucket Atheneum and A Safe Place.

Cecil Barron Jenson, “Nantucket Art and Artists”

Bring your brown-bag lunch to Gosnell Hall of the Whaling Museum. Enter by the Whaling Museum front door at 13 Broad Street. Talks are free to the public and are given by notable Nantucketers on a range of fascinating topics. The Food for Thought programs are supported by a grant from the M. S. Worthington Foundation.

Join AAN and Betsy Tyler for this ancient Ukrainian custom of dyeing Easter eggs with sophisticated decorations using a wax-resist method. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Please register online in advance.

 

Happy Birthday Johann Sebastian Bach! This concert is a tribute to Bach, and will include his music as well as the music of Haydn, Hassler, Rorem, Levine, Billings. Special guest instrumentalists will open the program. Directed by Barbara Elder.

4pm Admission $10 Congregational Church vestry, 62 Centre Street

 

 

An intimate, funny and surprising behind-the-scenes look at VOGUE’S legendary editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of larger-than- life editors, this is the captivating story of how they create the must-have bible of fashion: THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE.

At the eye of this annual fashion hurricane is the two-decade relationship between Anna and Grace Coddington, incomparable creative director and fashion genius. Through them, we see close-up the delicate creative chemistry it takes to remain at the top of the fashion field.

Now, with the biggest issue ever hanging in the balance, Anna and Grace confront the runways of Fashion Week, the back rooms of the world’s biggest designers, the high-stakes photo shoots – and each other – as the VOGUE team scrambles to find the perfect look for each page. Director R.J. Cutler delivers this riveting look into the world of fashion that is as fun, fabulous and fast-paced as the world it captures.

Before she became Coco, the world-famous fashion designer, Gabrielle Chanel (Audrey Tautou in a fiercely determined performance) struggled to make ends meet. After her mother's death, her father deposited her and her sister, Adrienne (Marie Gillain), at an orphanage, where they learned to sew (and where Chanel developed a taste for monochromatic ensembles).

They went on to become cabaret singers, but when Adrienne runs off with a wealthy suitor, the newly christened Coco must go it alone until she meets gentleman farmer Étienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde). She lives comfortably at his chateau, but he refuses to take her out in public, so she puts her skills as a seamstress to good use and designs outfits for his lady friends, like Emilienne (Emmanuelle Devos), an actress.

Chanel's situation improves further when British investor Arthur 'Boy' Capel (Alessandro Nivola with an impeccable French accent) enters the scene. Her working-class origins present less of a problem with Capel, though the couple will have other issues with which to contend. In the meantime, he gives her the money to open her own Parisian studio, and the film ends with the tweed suit-clad Chanel of the popular imagination.

Until that time, writer-director Anne Fontaine (The Girl from Monaco) presents a very different character, a woman who wasn't worldly or sophisticated, but who saw no reason why fashion--or 'style,' as she called it--should be complicated or uncomfortable. In transforming herself, Coco Chanel transformed an entire industry and, arguably, an entire gender.