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This Week 26/11/12

Friday, Nov. 13

The “2026 Small Works/Big Impact” show is open at the Creative Ventures Gallery, 411 Nashua St. in Milford, through Thursday, Dec. 24, with an opening reception on Friday, Nov. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. where you can meet the artists, according to creativeventuresfineart.com. “All the artwork is under 12 [inches] in size plus frame,” the website said.

Saturday, Nov. 14

Being Heumann (R, 2026) will screen at Red River Theatres in Concord on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 10 a.m. with a post-film discussion with Emmy-winning filmmakers Samuel and Dan Habib, according to redrivertheatres.org, where you can purchase tickets. The movie is based on the memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy Heumann, the “Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the Department of Education” during the Clinton administration, according to judithheumann.com.

Saturday, Nov. 14

The Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St. in Manchester, will offer its Second Saturday free admission for New Hampshire residents on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Racial Unity Team’s annual Art and Poetry Challenge exhibition will open in the Community gallery (with an official opening at 2 p.m.). and there will be an art-making activity from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to a press release. See currier.org.

Saturday, Nov. 14

Mosaic Art Collective, 410 Chestnut St. in Manchester, will hold an opening reception on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 5 to 7 p.m., for its new exhibition “Works With Paper,” which runs through December, according to a Mosaic email. See mosaicartcollective.com.

Saturday, Nov. 14

Meanwhile, over at the Mosaic Arts Collective Studio Gallery, 66 Hanover St., Suite 201, in Manchester, the New Hampshire Potters Guild will hold an opening event for its exhibit “Clay Stories: NHPG Biennial 2026” on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Dec. 22. See nhpottersguild.org.

Saturday, Nov. 14

Nashua Chamber Orchestra, nco-music.org, will hold its fall concert, “Brahms and Shepherds,” Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Nashua Community College and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 3 p.m. at the Milford Town Hall, according to the website, where you can purchase tickets. “It will feature multi award-winning 11th grade cellist Benjamin Mandigo in a performance of the 2nd movement of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto. The spotlight will also fall on native New Hampshire composer Larry Mizen. The orchestra and guest Nashua Choral Society will perform his work based on the ‘23rd Psalm, The Divine Shepherd.’” Other program works will include Mozart’s “Il Re Pastore Overture,” Brahms’ “Nanie,” and Beecham’s arrangement of Handel’s “The Faithful Shepherd Suite,” according to a press release.

Tuesday, Nov. 17

Put down that Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time and head to An Evening with Peter Billingsley and A Christmas Story, featuring a screening of the film and an audience Q & A, at the Chubb Theatre(44 S. Main St. in Concord) on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m., according to ccanh.com, where you can purchase tickets.

Save the Date! Friday, Nov. 20
The dance studio Danceworks Movement Design will present Marilyn, directed by Tanya Bosse, on Friday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 21, at 1 p.m., at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts in Milford, according to an email from Danceworks. “Marilyn is a contemporary dance production that takes a closer look at the life of the iconic actress and the cost of fame. Emotional and glamorous, this production by DanceWorks Movement Design will leave you breathless,” according to a post on Danceworks’ Facebook page. For tickets, go to buy.tututix.com/danceworksmovementdesign.

Quality of Life 26/11/12

Big turnout for the Manchester Marathon

Thousands of runners took part in the 20th Manchester Marathon Saturday, Nov. 8. According to a Nov. 8 online article by WMUR, “about 2,400 people ran in the Manchester City Marathon this year. There were people from 41 different states, five different countries and five provinces.”

QOL score: +1

Comments: According to MarathonGuide.com, the winners of the full marathon were Dean Allen from Chelmsford, Mass., in the men’s division, with a time of 2:33:12, and Amelia Tucker from Weston, Mass., in 3:05:17. 8.47 percent of the runners qualified for the Boston Marathon.

Looking for ancestors in the mills

According to a Nov. 9 online article by New Hampshire Public Radio, one often-overlooked resource for people searching for ancestors is the employment records from Manchester’s mills. “People arrived in Manchester from all over the world to work in the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company’s mills in the 1800s,” the NHPR story read, “and some of their descendants still live in New Hampshire. The Manchester Historic Association has nearly 500 boxes of documents on the textile mills’ employees and operations going back centuries.”

QOL score: +1

Comment: According to the NHPR article, many of the mills’ employee records are accessible online but people researching their family trees can search through records in person. Visit manchesterhistoric.org/catalog-holdings.

Our eight-legged nemesis persists

New Hampshire Public Radio broke the bad news in a Nov. 6 online article that some very cold days over the past few winters have not brought down the population of ticks in the state. Laura Ferguson, a biologist at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, confirmed in the article that cold weather can kill ticks but only if they are exposed to temperatures lower than -10 degrees C [14 degrees F]. In Nova Scotia, for instance, during a recent polar vortex “we hit -26 [Celsius] degrees overnight…,” Ferguson said in the NHPR article. “And then underneath the leaf litter and snow cover, it was minus six for maybe an hour. That was as low as it got.”

QOL score: -1

Comment: The story also noted that ticks infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease seem to survive cold temperatures better than their uninfected tick colleagues, because of course they do.

QOL score last wee: 61

Net change: +1

QOL this week: 62

What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

News & Notes 26/11/12

Award

Five businesses received the 2026 Employment Leadership Awards from the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation for “a commitment to hiring, supporting and advancing individuals with disabilities in the workplace,” according to a press release from the NH Department of Education. The award recipients are Concord Hospital Health System; Duprey Hospitality, Tru by Hilton in Concord; New Hampshire Hospital in Concord; St. Vincent de Paul Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Berlin, and Tractor Supply Co. in North Conway, the release said. “When employers focus on what individuals can do and provide the right opportunities and support, they open doors to meaningful careers and long-term success. We commend this year’s honorees for their leadership and for showing other New Hampshire employers how hiring individuals with disabilities can make a real difference in our state’s workforce,” said Christopher Semonelli, administrator of VRNH, in the release.

Farm Con

The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire will hold its annual Winter Conference on Saturday, March 6, at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord, according to an Association email. “This year our theme is Resilient Roots, Radiant Horizons, which is both a tribute to where we’ve come from and an invitation to imagine, together, where we’re going next,” the email said. The event is seeking sponsors, exhibits, workshop proposals and speakers, according to the email and the conference website, nofanh.org/winterconference, where you can find details and get in touch with the conference coordinator.

Second act

The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance is holding an event about “New and Original Uses for Historic Religious Properties” on Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to noon at the First Parish Congregational Church, 47 East Derry Road in Derry, according to an email from organizers. Register at nhpreservation.org; the cost is $12.

Audition notice

The Community Players of Concord will hold auditions for a February production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced (a Miss Marple mystery) on Monday, Nov. 23, and Tuesday, Nov. 24, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Community Players Studio, 435 Josiah Bartlett Road in Concord, according to a press release. “The show includes roles for 12, ranging in age from 25 to 60+,” the release said. Register in advance at communityplayersofconcord.org/auditions.cpc, where you can also find character details and audition sides.

Auditions notice

Cue Zero is holding auditions for its 2027 season on Sunday, Dec. 6, and Monday, Dec. 7 at the Arts Academy of New Hampshire in Salem (which is also where rehearsals and performances will take place), according to a press release. “Be seen by all of the Season 8 directors at once” the release said. Upcoming shows include Love Isn’t Real in late February, Trey Parker’s Cannibal: The Musical in late April and early May, Hedda Gablerin June and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in October, according to cztheatre.com, where you can find the registration form to audition under “Upcoming Auditions” in the “Get Involved” tab. Callbacks for Love Isn’t Real will take place in December, the release said.

The documentary Fork in the Road, described at forkintheroaddocumentary.com as “shed[ding] light on the struggles and resilience of small-scale farmers and communities working around an unjust food system,” will screen on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. at Red River Theatres in Concord, according to redrivertheatres.org, where you can purchase tickets.

There will be an artist reception for the Microgallery Exhibition at New London Hospital, 273 County Road in New London, on Thursday, Nov. 12, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., according to a Center for the Arts press release. The exhibition will feature the works of Adrien Elliot, Carol Weatherbee, Chris Scott, Denise Backman, Mark O’neil, Sean Carroll and Shari Samuels, the release said. The exhibition is on display through February.

Strugglebus Improv will hold an improv jam at Mosaic Art Collective, 410 Chestnut St. in Manchester, on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., according to a post on the Mosaic Facebook page. “Come join us for two hours of fun and creative improv games … . Suggested donation: $5,” the post said.

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