SEPTEMBER EVENTS
Working Waterfront Festival Set For September
2010 Theme: All in One Boat: The Cultural Mosaic of New England’s Working Ports
Welcome aboard as New Bedford, America’s largest commercial fishing port, hosts the 7th Working Waterfront Festival, a celebration of commercial fishing culture.
FESTIVAL OVERVIEW
More than simply a celebration, the Working Waterfront Festival is a unique opportunity for the public to get a firsthand look at the culture of fishing and for the commercial fishing community to tell its own story. The event presents all that goes into bringing seafood from the ocean to the table in a way that is hands-on, educational and fun. We encourage you to listen and watch, but also to taste, touch and converse.
2010 THEME
While continuing to focus on commercial fishing and other port industries, the 2010 Working Waterfront Festival will present an expanded look at the ethnic diversity of the region’s working waterfront communities with a program entitled All in One Boat: the Cultural Mosaic of New England’s Working Ports. Immigrants from around the globe have settled in New England’s port cities and helped shape these working waterfront communities which today include a rich mosaic of cultures. Festival programming will include performances of traditional music, dance and storytelling and demonstrations of traditional crafts reflecting this varied ethnic heritage. Foodways programs will highlight family recipes and traditional approaches to preparing and preserving seafood. On the Festival’s Narrative Stage, working waterfront community members from a multitude of ethnic backgrounds will share immigration stories and explore how ethnic identity has shaped religious and community celebrations and traditional beliefs and practices at sea and on shore. Author readings and documentary film screenings will further illuminate these topics.
PERFORMERS
The Festival brings together a unique array of music, dance, poetry and theater presented on three stages. Performances include traditional sea chanteys, music and dance reflecting the industry’s ethnic diversity and poetry and music about commercial fishing and the sea often performed by musicians who work in the industry.
FILMS
The Dock-U-Mentary Film Area (Pier 3) screens historic and contemporary footage taken at sea and on shore, chronicling the history and experiences of the working waterfront and the commercial fishing industry. Many presentations feature live narration by fishermen, filmmakers and others. Several short documentary films will also be shown including several programs on farming.
In addition to many other events there will be Ethnic Arts Demonstrations.
Whaleboat Races –
The Buzzards Bay Rowing Club presents whaleboat races from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 26th. Come cheer on your favorite team. Best viewing: head of State Pier.
Tugboat Muster And Kid’s Activities
The Working Waterfront Festival is a project of the Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern MA, a non-profit organization. The FREE festival takes place in New Bedford, MA, America’s #1 fishing port, on the fourth full weekend of September. Navigate to us at www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org.
Golfers Invited to the 13th Annual Schoodic Scramble
The 13th Annual Schoodic Scramble will be played on Saturday and Sunday, September 18 and 19, at the Grindstone Neck Golf Course in Winter Harbor and the Blink Bonnie Golf Course in Sorrento. The now famous event sponsored by Edith Dixon and Alan Goldstein will feature signature lobster stew provided by Garbo Lobster and prepared by Chef Carl Johnson of the Fisherman’s Inn. To add to the excitement the tournament will feature two hole-in-one opportunities – one for a new Chevrolet from Morrison Chevrolet and another for a scooter from Stanley Scooters.
This fundraiser for the Eleanor Widener Dixon Memorial Clinic, an outpatient department of Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, will also include a tournament hat, continental breakfast, wine and cheese, and ice cream sundaes for all the golfers.
The entry fee is $85 per person ($340 per team) with $77 per person being tax deductible. This two day tournament offers $3,000 in prize money and giveaways. The Schoodic Scramble is a best ball team play tournament with each foursome having mixed handicaps. Prizes will be awarded for Men’s A & B, Women’s and Couples categories. Tee sign sponsorships are available for $125.
Golfers interested in playing in the weekend tournament on the beautiful coast of Maine should call now!” said Tournament Director Richard Babcock; “this tournament is popular and offers golfers all the extras.”
For more information or to register, contact Maine Coast Memorial Hospital’s Public Relations Office at 664-5337 or online at www.mainehospital.org
Maine Media Women To Hear LCTV Speakers
LCTV board members Laurel Cooley and Susan Bickford will address MMW members and the public on the topic of community access television, community producers, and services that organizations like LCTV provide. LCTV Channel 7 broadcasts around the clock to cable households in ten of Lincoln County’s sixteen communities. The organization also offers free classes in field videography, editing and studio production to eligible individuals and area organization representatives.
Cooley, who coordinates LCTV public relations and activities, has worked as a writer and editor in the New York City publishing industry and for global corporations and national nonprofits. Bickford teaches visual and electronic art at the University of Maine at Augusta, with a focus on new media, incorporating projected video, for theater and stand-alone installation. She recently filmed and created a continuous projected backdrop, while actors performed “13,” a new musical, on stage at the New England Youth Theater in Brunswick. Maine Media Women is a community of communications professionals who meet regularly to exchange ideas and information, and to offer mutual support and professional recognition. Guests welcome. 9:15 coffee and networking; program 10:00. Suggested donation: Members $3, non-members $5. www.mainemediawomen.org FMI, or 207-563-8377 or email sbart@tidewater.net. Saturday, September 11, 2010
Lincoln County Television
Media Center Sheepscot Road, Newcastle