Images shot from a kayak by photographer and adventurer Genny Langworthy create a panorama of the rugged, beautiful, and often treacherous coastline of Newfoundland and Labrador. The artist presents a visual journey of the most magnificent sights, from the unique perspective of a sea kayaker. Presentation includes maps and history and culture of the region, and video excerpts, as well as slides and regional music.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
The Appalachian Mountain Club’s Highland Center at Crawford Notch is the setting for the exhibition, “The Painted Sketch: Crawford Notch,” by artist, Michael E. Vermette, which is on display through October 29, in the Mt. Willard Dining Room. The exhibit is free and open to the public when the space is not otherwise in use.
The exhibit features Vermette’s contemporary painted sketches created in the “plein air” style, outdoors in the White Mountain National Forest and Crawford Notch State Park, and at the Highland Center site.
Vermette served as artist in residence at the Highland Center for a week last fall and a week last winter. During those residencies, he created 11 painted oil sketches and 11 watercolor sketches that were made completely outdoors (en plein air) within the region. Sometimes working near the lodge, other times snowshoeing to a site with his studio on his back, he painted in cold weather amid challenging conditions. Each painting was rendered within a two- to three-hour block of time on location to capture the light. “Each painting was an adventure that tells a story,” he says.
Crawford Notch has long been an inspiration for artists drawn by the majesty of the surrounding peaks and crags. White Mountain School of Art painters frequented the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries to practice plein air outdoor landscape painting. One of the school’s more famous members, Frank Shapleigh, worked from his art studio in what is now the Shapleigh Bunkhouse on the Highland Center site.
Vermette’s expressive paintings show a love of color and light. In his evocative oils, watercolors, and pastels, he emboldens color by putting into practice traditional methods of the masters to cause the pigment to be brighter, richer, and more translucent.
For more information on the exhibit, call the Highland Center at (603) 278-4453, or email [email protected].
Compas de Nicaragua, a NH nonprofit organization that supports health and education projects in Nicaragua is sponsoring a Nicaragua Dance Tour performed by a 7-member dance troupe. This multi-media performance includes eloquent cultural dances performed in beautiful dress to marimba music. Short video showings will also be presented while the dancers change into new costumes and dresses. The video will take the audience into the lives of “Women in Action,” a women’s group that lives and carries out community projects in one of the poorest settlements of Managua, Nicaragua.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Guest speaker and author Allen Crabtree has been hiking the hills and mountains of NH and Maine all his life. Join Allen for his stories and photos of adventures hiking as a senior, complete with his hiking tips and outings for seniors in Western Maine and the White Mountains.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
AMC volunteer and historian Bill Moss speaks on trail signage in the White Mountain National Forest. If you’ve every wondered about trail blazes, trail names, or the rhyme and reason behind the signs that you see in the woods, check out this interesting talk.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Join the last BBQ of the season (6-8 p.m.), along with beer tasting from local brwery Rek’lis (5-6 p.m.). For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
The Neskaya Movement Arts Center presents and indoor/outdoor celebration of summer, complete with dancing, drumming, stories, songs, campfire, s’mores and more.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Join the AMC for a BBQ and live acoustic music by singer-songwriter Ana D’Leon.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Guest speaker Bill Moss will present a program on Mt. Washington, notorious for the worst weather in the world. Bill will share the stories of those who’ve lost their lives on the mountain, and what other hikers can do to prevent misfortune on the trail.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
While the path of totality crosses the center of the United States, a partial eclipse will be viewable from New Hampshire. At AMC’s Highland Center we’ll have telescopes out and trained astronomers giving interpretation of the event. We’ll also be connecting with Dr. Douglas Arion as he leads an AMC Adventure Travel trip in the Western US for viewing of the total phase of the eclipse. On Monday night, we’ll continue the sky viewing with night sky observation through telescopes (weather permitting) or indoor sky viewing with our portable planetarium.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
