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Live music — Latin American and via America’s Got Talent — is a highlight of the happenings this week in the Huntington area. What: First Friday Series: “Viva Americas!” Latin American Flute and Guitar Where: Heckscher Museum of Art When: Friday, Mar. 1, 5:00 – Read More …
Listen to music; appreciate art, poetry, and prose; and dust off your dancing shoes at happenings this week and beyond in the Huntington area. What: Northport Arts Coalition Presents: Starlight Coffeehouse Where: St. Paul’s United Methodist Church When: Friday, Jan. 11, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm About: Read More …
And, in between, a play, a lecture, and art, this week and beyond in the Huntington area. What: Walking with Whitman: Steve Dalachinsky Where: Walt Whitman Birthplace When: Friday, Dec. 7, 6:00 pm (Doors open 5:30 pm) About: There is an open mic at 6:00 Read More …
Treat yourself to an art, comedy, film, or holiday event this week in the Huntington area. What: “O Workmen and Workwomen Forever for Me!” Artist Talk and Reception Where: Walt Whitman Birthplace When: Friday, Nov. 30, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm About: Meet, hear, and see Read More …
Take in or take on a variety of creativity this week in the Huntington area. What: Walking with Whitman: Elaine Equi Where: Walt Whitman Birthplace When: Friday, Nov. 2, 6:00 pm (Doors open at 5:30 pm.) About: There is an open mic at 6 pm, Read More …
Take an artistic tour of your town, relax and listen to a painter, and more, in this week’s happenings around Huntington. What: She Kills Monsters Where: Vanderbilt Museum’s Carriage House Theater/Education Center When: Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 19, 20, 26, and 27, 8:00 pm; Read More …
Music, poetry, drawing, and dance are all on tap this week. See what is happening around town: What: Walking with Whitman: Tom Pickard Where: Walt Whitman Birthplace When: Friday, Oct. 5, 6:00 pm (Doors open at 5:30 pm) About: There is an open mic at Read More …
The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association has received an $82,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to refurbish its Interpretive Center exhibit and to execute 2019 programming in celebration of Walt Whitman’s Bicentennial Birthday. Whitman was born at the birthplace on May 31, 1819, Read More …
The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association handed out awards Sunday at its 32nd annual Student Poetry Contest award ceremony. This year’s theme was “Tribute” and the WWBA had hundreds of people as well as local government officials attend, including Town Supervisor Chad Lupinacci. Pulitzer Prize-winner Vijay Seshadri Read More …
A 300-book collection, some rare, all relating to Walt Whitman, was donated to the new Norman and Jeanette Gould Library, which is housed in the Walt Whitman Birthplace, and celebrated on Thursday’s launch, in part, by the attendance of Suffolk County Legislator Tom Donnelly (D-Huntington Read More …
The Huntington Town Board has recognized 15 teen poets from the community selected for participation in the Town’s Poetry for the HART Public Art Initiative, with the winners receiving certificates signed by members of the Huntington Town Board in an April 23rd award ceremony at Read More …