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Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) are therapy dogs trained to be good listeners. Our R.E.A.D. dog for these 'Read to a Buddy' sessions is Mattilda, a brown spotted Dalmatian, owned by Stephanie Cooper.

This program is a Fun, Relaxed and Nonjudgmental way to become more confident and simply ENJOY reading. Mattilda just wants to listen and make you feel great about your reading!!

Sign up to read 15-20 minutes by clicking on the 'sign-up' button below, beginning June 15, 2010. We will call you with a specific time for your reading once we have all the sign-ups in. Bring a book from home or choose a book from the selection we display in the gallery. Free. Children ages 6-9 years old are welcome to register.

Beginner’s English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in beginner’s English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.

Intermediate/Advanced English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.

Jess Clemons is a Vermont native and touring singer/songwriter who has made Nantucket her home base when not touring and traveling.

She is the recent winner of the Burlington, Vermont Acoustic Singer/Songwriter Contest (Nov. 2008), the 3rd place winner of the Vermont Solar Festival's Songwriter contest (2009), and has toured in the US and Canada extensively over the last five years.

She has had her music featured on several compilations, including MVY Radio's 'Fresh Produce Vol. 5' along with the likes of Carley Simon and Tift Merritt. She's shared stages with the Lovell Sisters, Ryan Montbleau Band, Rose Cousins, Wintersleep and Joel Plaskett, among others.

Just home from a winter of kiteboarding and playing house concerts in Baja, Mexico, Jess has been gigging regularly around Nantucket this summer. She's getting ready to hit the road this fall, playing house concerts and folk venues on her way to the west coast.

Kris Feeney, of Nantucket’s Hai Tien school, teaches the ancient Chinese art of Tai Chi.

Feeney has studied and received a Tai Chi degree in China. Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for a variety of health and personal reasons. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Most modern styles of tai chi trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun.

The fee is $10.

To coincide with New York Fashion Week a docuementary that traces Valentino's life from his 70th birthday to his final couture show, this fashionable documentary captures the spirit of the legendary designer's influence on the style and substance of the way we look.

Highlights include an intimate, behind-the-scenes peek at his relationship with longtime business partner and lover Giancarlo Giammetti, as well as an up-close and personal look at the designer's creative process.

96 minutes.

A club for home schooling families and those interested in home schooling to: share ideas and information, offer support to each other, work on projects together, use library space and resources. Join us every Thursday through October, then Fridays for the rest of the school year!

Who was Noah Webster? Today Webster is best remembered as the author of the “first American Dictionary.' However, Webster’s other accomplishments have often been overshadowed and these include: educator, political commentator, Federalist, abolitionist, statesman, co-founder of America’s copyright laws.

His pursuit of universal public education, the creation of a national language, the development of a safety net for the working class and even the study of global warming continue to resonate and be debated in America.

In this multi-media presentation, Christopher Dobbs, Executive Director of the Noah Webster House at the West Hartford Historical Society, highlights Webster’s role in helping to create a national identity.

Prior to the Noah Webster House, Dobbs has worked at Mystic Seaport where he managed the Museum Education Division, The Farmer's Museum, Fenimore Art Museum, Conner Prairie, and Hanford Mills Museum.

Jennifer Dobbs-White, education director at the Connecticut River Museum in New Haven will explore the first successful submarine - the Turtle. Designed and built by David Bushnell of Westbrook CT during the American Revolution, this one man sub was created in an attempt to defeat the British blockade.

What was it like to pilot the Turtle? How did Bushnell's design work? What actually happened in New York harbor? Find out the answers to these and other questions in the course of this program.

Dobbs-White has worked as education director at the New Haven Museum for seven years. In addition. she has also worked at Strawbery Banke Museum and Heritage Museums and Gardens. She holds degrees in museum studies and anthropology.

The Connecticut River Museum celebrates the cultural and natural history of the river from source to sound. Its programs, exhibits and historic waterfront campus provide access to the River past and present. Admission Free. Tea and Sweets will be served.

Peter Alden (author of 15 bird, mammal and eco-travel books) will present 'An Update on the Invasive Alien Plant Crisis in Massachusetts.'

Two dozen or so non-native plants are running roughshod over native ecosystems. What habitats are most and least affected? What impact has the 2007 banning of the import or sale of 100 plants had on our ecosystems? What federal, state and local actions are going on? What is the latest on Japenese Stilt Grass, the major Mile-a-minute infestation in Canton, and the massive Kudzu show in Needham? Can we contain these latest newbies?

Alden helped create the world’s first eco-tourism travel department for the Massachusetts Audubon Society and alter became the Vice President of Lindblad Travel where his safaris and nature tours have spanned every continent.

He currently divides his time writing books and articles, lecturing and leading expedition cruises and safaris throughout the world.

The 4th Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative (NBI) Assessment Week is hosted by the NBI (http://www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org), a partnership of Nantucket conservation organizations, universities, non-governmental organizations, and individuals interested in documenting the biodiversity of the islands and adjacent waters and monitoring and conserving that biodiversity over time.

The purpose of the NBI Week is to inventory and monitor many of the species of plants and animals found on Nantucket and to educate the public about the importance of protecting the rare elements that contribute to Nantucket’s rich local biodiversity. Throughout the week, scientists will be giving lectures, tours and programs in their field of expertise. All are open to the public. This will be an exciting opportunity to work with island and off-island naturalists and scientists.

Story and craft program for children 4-10 years of age. This month's theme is apples! Free admission. No reservation required, but program is limited to the first 20 children. Pick up a ticket at the children's desk.

Boston-Based pianist Stephen Porter and mezzo-soprano Krista River present an opera recital featuring works by the composers Ned Rorem, George Handel, Edvard Grieg and Hector Berlioz. Admission is free.

Porter has performed extensively in the U.S., Italy and Turkey, and last season was the featured guest soloist in a Bach concerto with the Amadeus Orchestra of London at LSO St. Luke’s. Steinway and Sons selected him for its “Legendary Instruments of the Immortals” tour and also asked him to give lecture-recitals on the Horowitz piano.

River began her musical career as a cellist, earning her music degree at St. Olaf College. She is a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music’s renowned Bach Cantata Series. In the 2009-2010 season, she will perform with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Cambridge Community Chorus, and Chamber Music Society.

When Raquel's (Catalina Saavedra) place in the Valdes family -- for whom she's provided 23 years of maid service -- is threatened after they hire more help, she decides to do something about it in this Golden Globe-nominated comedic drama from director Sebastián Silva.

Rolling out anything but the red carpet for the new employees, Raquel's juvenile tricks just might work in this examination of loyalty, family dynamics and duty. Claudia Celedón co-stars.

This 2009 Spanish film won an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Globe Award. In Spanish with English subtitles.

The Rum Soaked Crooks will offer two performances during the the Nantucket Maritime Festival at 10:30 am and 2:30 pm at Children’s Beach.

The Rum Soaked Crooks are Tom Goux, Jacek Sulanowski,and Dan Lanier and they will be joined by Dillin Bustin for their Nantucket performances. They have been cruising the New England shoreline for the last three decades and have inflicted much musical and poetic damage with a pungent mix of sailors’ chanteys, ballads and ditties.

The Nantucket Maritime Festival is a day long celebration sponsored by the Egan Foundation and ReMain Nantucket. The Nantucket Atheneum is underwriting the Run Soaked Crooks ' performances as a festival participant.

The Crooks have shared their songs and stories, both historical and contemporary, at festivals and maritime events across the country and in Europe, and have recorded on the Smithsonian-Folkways and Whaling City Sound labels. Their repertoire spans four centuries of Yankee seafaring and contains an extensive collection of Cape and Islands sea songs and poetry.

Dillon Bustin has a bachelor's degree in Folklore and is presently completing an advanced degree in ethnomusicology at Brown University. Dillon is a writer, a playwright, a composer, and a collaborator of many ethnographic documentaries.

Tim Bromfield, Will Lorimer and Lynn Morris, on behalf of the British charity Atlantic Rising, are on a 32,000 mile journey circumnavigating the Atlantic overland along the 1m contour line. This is the level scientists predict sea levels may reach in the next 100 years.

By the time they arrive in Nantucket around September 19 they will have traveled through England, continental Europe, Africa, South America, Latin America and the United States. Their Nantucket visit is the last stop in the USA before they return to England.

During their visit the trio will work with island middle school students at the Nantucket New School and the Cyrus Pierce Middle School, participate in the Egan Foundation's Maritime Forum and present stories from their travels at the Atheneum.

During their Atheneum talk the group will share stories, images and video from the expedition as well as discuss the group's mission and findings to date .

Along the way they have worked with school students in all the countries and created an educational network between 15,000 students in low-lying coastal communities.

For more information on the project visit www.atlanticrising.org.

Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets as a small child and played all his life.

The backdrop to Sorn's life tale is the story of Thailand's classical music from its golden age during the reign of King Rama V to near extinction after the end of the absolute monarchy when the government banned it as uncivilised in the 1930s -- a time when Field Marshall Plaek Pibulsongkram tried to push the Kingdom into the modern era.

The film shifts back and forth from the time when Sorn was a young man, playing in a xylophone duel with the intense Kun In, to the 1940s, when Thailand was under Japanese occupation and Sorn's playing would provide some inspiration to the oppressed citizenry of the time.

Released in 2004. In Thai with English subtitles. 100 minutes in length.

Wednesday, September 01 1:00PM-3:00PM Gallery	Read to a Buddy Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) are therapy dogs trained to be good listeners. Our R.E.A.D. dog for these 'Read to a Buddy' sessions is Mattilda, a brown spotted Dalmatian, owned by Stephanie Cooper. This program is a Fun, Relaxed and Nonjudgmental way to become more confident and simply ENJOY reading. Mattilda just wants to listen and make you feel great about your reading!! Sign up to read 15-20 minutes by clicking on the 'sign-up' button below, beginning June 15, 2010. We will call you with a specific time for your reading once we have all the sign-ups in. Bring a book from home or choose a book from the selection we display in the gallery. Free. Children ages 6-9 years old are welcome to register.
Thursday, September 02 6:00PM-7:30PM Gallery	LVA - Free Beginner's English Class Beginner’s English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in beginner’s English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Thursday, September 02 6:00PM-7:30PM Kynett Room	LVA Intermediate/ Advanced English Class Intermediate/Advanced English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Friday, September 03 10:30AM-12:30PM Gallery	Read to a Buddy Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) are therapy dogs trained to be good listeners. Our R.E.A.D. dog for these 'Read to a Buddy' sessions is Mattilda, a brown spotted Dalmatian, owned by Stephanie Cooper. This program is a Fun, Relaxed and Nonjudgmental way to become more confident and simply ENJOY reading. Mattilda just wants to listen and make you feel great about your reading!! Sign up to read 15-20 minutes by clicking on the 'sign-up' button below, beginning June 15, 2010. We will call you with a specific time for your reading once we have all the sign-ups in. Bring a book from home or choose a book from the selection we display in the gallery. Free. Children ages 6-9 years old are welcome to register.
Saturday, September 04 7:00PM-8:15PM Great Hall	Concert: Jess Clemons Jess Clemons is a Vermont native and touring singer/songwriter who has made Nantucket her home base when not touring and traveling. She is the recent winner of the Burlington, Vermont Acoustic Singer/Songwriter Contest (Nov. 2008), the 3rd place winner of the Vermont Solar Festival's Songwriter contest (2009), and has toured in the US and Canada extensively over the last five years. She has had her music featured on several compilations, including MVY Radio's 'Fresh Produce Vol. 5' along with the likes of Carley Simon and Tift Merritt. She's shared stages with the Lovell Sisters, Ryan Montbleau Band, Rose Cousins, Wintersleep and Joel Plaskett, among others. Just home from a winter of kiteboarding and playing house concerts in Baja, Mexico, Jess has been gigging regularly around Nantucket this summer. She's getting ready to hit the road this fall, playing house concerts and folk venues on her way to the west coast.
Tuesday, September 07 6:00PM-7:00PM Garden	Tai Chi Class Kris Feeney, of Nantucket’s Hai Tien school, teaches the ancient Chinese art of Tai Chi. Feeney has studied and received a Tai Chi degree in China. Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for a variety of health and personal reasons. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Most modern styles of tai chi trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun. The fee is $10.
Wednesday, September 08 7:00PM-8:45PM Great Hall	Documentary Film: 'Valentino' To coincide with New York Fashion Week a docuementary that traces Valentino's life from his 70th birthday to his final couture show, this fashionable documentary captures the spirit of the legendary designer's influence on the style and substance of the way we look. Highlights include an intimate, behind-the-scenes peek at his relationship with longtime business partner and lover Giancarlo Giammetti, as well as an up-close and personal look at the designer's creative process. 96 minutes.
Thursday, September 09 12:30PM-2:00PM Gallery	Home Schooling Club A club for home schooling families and those interested in home schooling to: share ideas and information, offer support to each other, work on projects together, use library space and resources. Join us every Thursday through October, then Fridays for the rest of the school year!
Thursday, September 09 6:00PM-7:30PM Gallery	LVA - Free Beginner's English Class Beginner’s English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in beginner’s English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Thursday, September 09 6:00PM-7:30PM Kynett Room	LVA Intermediate/ Advanced English Class Intermediate/Advanced English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Saturday, September 11 7:00PM-9:00PM Great Hall	Noah Webster’s Many Faces Who was Noah Webster? Today Webster is best remembered as the author of the “first American Dictionary.' However, Webster’s other accomplishments have often been overshadowed and these include: educator, political commentator, Federalist, abolitionist, statesman, co-founder of America’s copyright laws. His pursuit of universal public education, the creation of a national language, the development of a safety net for the working class and even the study of global warming continue to resonate and be debated in America. In this multi-media presentation, Christopher Dobbs, Executive Director of the Noah Webster House at the West Hartford Historical Society, highlights Webster’s role in helping to create a national identity. Prior to the Noah Webster House, Dobbs has worked at Mystic Seaport where he managed the Museum Education Division, The Farmer's Museum, Fenimore Art Museum, Conner Prairie, and Hanford Mills Museum.
Sunday, September 12 2:00PM-4:00PM Great Hall	The American Revolution and Bushnell's Turtle Jennifer Dobbs-White, education director at the Connecticut River Museum in New Haven will explore the first successful submarine - the Turtle. Designed and built by David Bushnell of Westbrook CT during the American Revolution, this one man sub was created in an attempt to defeat the British blockade. What was it like to pilot the Turtle? How did Bushnell's design work? What actually happened in New York harbor? Find out the answers to these and other questions in the course of this program. Dobbs-White has worked as education director at the New Haven Museum for seven years. In addition. she has also worked at Strawbery Banke Museum and Heritage Museums and Gardens. She holds degrees in museum studies and anthropology. The Connecticut River Museum celebrates the cultural and natural history of the river from source to sound. Its programs, exhibits and historic waterfront campus provide access to the River past and present. Admission Free. Tea and Sweets will be served.
Tuesday, September 14 6:00PM-7:00PM Garden	Tai Chi Class Kris Feeney, of Nantucket’s Hai Tien school, teaches the ancient Chinese art of Tai Chi. Feeney has studied and received a Tai Chi degree in China. Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for a variety of health and personal reasons. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Most modern styles of tai chi trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun. The fee is $10.
Thursday, September 16 12:30PM-2:00PM Gallery	Home Schooling Club A club for home schooling families and those interested in home schooling to: share ideas and information, offer support to each other, work on projects together, use library space and resources. Join us every Thursday through October, then Fridays for the rest of the school year!
Thursday, September 16 6:00PM-7:30PM Gallery	LVA - Free Beginner's English Class Beginner’s English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in beginner’s English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Thursday, September 16 6:00PM-7:30PM Kynett Room	LVA Intermediate/ Advanced English Class Intermediate/Advanced English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Friday, September 17 7:00PM-8:30PM Great Hall	Invasive Plant Lecture: Peter Alden Peter Alden (author of 15 bird, mammal and eco-travel books) will present 'An Update on the Invasive Alien Plant Crisis in Massachusetts.' Two dozen or so non-native plants are running roughshod over native ecosystems. What habitats are most and least affected? What impact has the 2007 banning of the import or sale of 100 plants had on our ecosystems? What federal, state and local actions are going on? What is the latest on Japenese Stilt Grass, the major Mile-a-minute infestation in Canton, and the massive Kudzu show in Needham? Can we contain these latest newbies? Alden helped create the world’s first eco-tourism travel department for the Massachusetts Audubon Society and alter became the Vice President of Lindblad Travel where his safaris and nature tours have spanned every continent. He currently divides his time writing books and articles, lecturing and leading expedition cruises and safaris throughout the world. The 4th Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative (NBI) Assessment Week is hosted by the NBI (http://www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org), a partnership of Nantucket conservation organizations, universities, non-governmental organizations, and individuals interested in documenting the biodiversity of the islands and adjacent waters and monitoring and conserving that biodiversity over time. The purpose of the NBI Week is to inventory and monitor many of the species of plants and animals found on Nantucket and to educate the public about the importance of protecting the rare elements that contribute to Nantucket’s rich local biodiversity. Throughout the week, scientists will be giving lectures, tours and programs in their field of expertise. All are open to the public. This will be an exciting opportunity to work with island and off-island naturalists and scientists.
Saturday, September 18 2:00PM-2:45PM Gallery	Crafts in the Afternoon Story and craft program for children 4-10 years of age. This month's theme is apples! Free admission. No reservation required, but program is limited to the first 20 children. Pick up a ticket at the children's desk.
Saturday, September 18 7:00PM-8:15PM Great Hall	Opera Concert: Stephen Porter and Krista River Boston-Based pianist Stephen Porter and mezzo-soprano Krista River present an opera recital featuring works by the composers Ned Rorem, George Handel, Edvard Grieg and Hector Berlioz. Admission is free. Porter has performed extensively in the U.S., Italy and Turkey, and last season was the featured guest soloist in a Bach concerto with the Amadeus Orchestra of London at LSO St. Luke’s. Steinway and Sons selected him for its “Legendary Instruments of the Immortals” tour and also asked him to give lecture-recitals on the Horowitz piano. River began her musical career as a cellist, earning her music degree at St. Olaf College. She is a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music’s renowned Bach Cantata Series. In the 2009-2010 season, she will perform with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Cambridge Community Chorus, and Chamber Music Society.
Tuesday, September 21 6:00PM-7:00PM Garden	Tai Chi Class Kris Feeney, of Nantucket’s Hai Tien school, teaches the ancient Chinese art of Tai Chi. Feeney has studied and received a Tai Chi degree in China. Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for a variety of health and personal reasons. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Most modern styles of tai chi trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun. The fee is $10.
Wednesday, September 22 7:00PM-8:45PM Great Hall	International Film: The Maid When Raquel's (Catalina Saavedra) place in the Valdes family -- for whom she's provided 23 years of maid service -- is threatened after they hire more help, she decides to do something about it in this Golden Globe-nominated comedic drama from director Sebastián Silva. Rolling out anything but the red carpet for the new employees, Raquel's juvenile tricks just might work in this examination of loyalty, family dynamics and duty. Claudia Celedón co-stars. This 2009 Spanish film won an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Globe Award. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Thursday, September 23 12:30PM-2:00PM Gallery	Home Schooling Club A club for home schooling families and those interested in home schooling to: share ideas and information, offer support to each other, work on projects together, use library space and resources. Join us every Thursday through October, then Fridays for the rest of the school year!
Thursday, September 23 6:00PM-7:30PM Gallery	LVA - Free Beginner's English Class Beginner’s English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in beginner’s English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Thursday, September 23 6:00PM-7:30PM Kynett Room	LVA Intermediate/ Advanced English Class Intermediate/Advanced English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Saturday, September 25 10:00AM-5:00PM Childrens Beach	Nantucket Maritime Festival The Rum Soaked Crooks will offer two performances during the the Nantucket Maritime Festival at 10:30 am and 2:30 pm at Children’s Beach. The Rum Soaked Crooks are Tom Goux, Jacek Sulanowski,and Dan Lanier and they will be joined by Dillin Bustin for their Nantucket performances. They have been cruising the New England shoreline for the last three decades and have inflicted much musical and poetic damage with a pungent mix of sailors’ chanteys, ballads and ditties. The Nantucket Maritime Festival is a day long celebration sponsored by the Egan Foundation and ReMain Nantucket. The Nantucket Atheneum is underwriting the Run Soaked Crooks ' performances as a festival participant. The Crooks have shared their songs and stories, both historical and contemporary, at festivals and maritime events across the country and in Europe, and have recorded on the Smithsonian-Folkways and Whaling City Sound labels. Their repertoire spans four centuries of Yankee seafaring and contains an extensive collection of Cape and Islands sea songs and poetry. Dillon Bustin has a bachelor's degree in Folklore and is presently completing an advanced degree in ethnomusicology at Brown University. Dillon is a writer, a playwright, a composer, and a collaborator of many ethnographic documentaries.
Sunday, September 26 4:00PM-5:15PM Great Hall	Atlantic Rising Lecture Tim Bromfield, Will Lorimer and Lynn Morris, on behalf of the British charity Atlantic Rising, are on a 32,000 mile journey circumnavigating the Atlantic overland along the 1m contour line. This is the level scientists predict sea levels may reach in the next 100 years. By the time they arrive in Nantucket around September 19 they will have traveled through England, continental Europe, Africa, South America, Latin America and the United States. Their Nantucket visit is the last stop in the USA before they return to England. During their visit the trio will work with island middle school students at the Nantucket New School and the Cyrus Pierce Middle School, participate in the Egan Foundation's Maritime Forum and present stories from their travels at the Atheneum. During their Atheneum talk the group will share stories, images and video from the expedition as well as discuss the group's mission and findings to date . Along the way they have worked with school students in all the countries and created an educational network between 15,000 students in low-lying coastal communities. For more information on the project visit www.atlanticrising.org.
Tuesday, September 28 4:00PM-5:00PM Gallery	Nantucket Town Association Meeting
Tuesday, September 28 6:00PM-7:00PM Garden	Tai Chi Class Kris Feeney, of Nantucket’s Hai Tien school, teaches the ancient Chinese art of Tai Chi. Feeney has studied and received a Tai Chi degree in China. Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for a variety of health and personal reasons. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Most modern styles of tai chi trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun. The fee is $10.
Wednesday, September 29 7:00PM-8:30PM Great Hall	International Film: The Overture Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets as a small child and played all his life. The backdrop to Sorn's life tale is the story of Thailand's classical music from its golden age during the reign of King Rama V to near extinction after the end of the absolute monarchy when the government banned it as uncivilised in the 1930s -- a time when Field Marshall Plaek Pibulsongkram tried to push the Kingdom into the modern era. The film shifts back and forth from the time when Sorn was a young man, playing in a xylophone duel with the intense Kun In, to the 1940s, when Thailand was under Japanese occupation and Sorn's playing would provide some inspiration to the oppressed citizenry of the time. Released in 2004. In Thai with English subtitles. 100 minutes in length.
Thursday, September 30 12:30PM-2:00PM Gallery	Home Schooling Club A club for home schooling families and those interested in home schooling to: share ideas and information, offer support to each other, work on projects together, use library space and resources. Join us every Thursday through October, then Fridays for the rest of the school year!
Thursday, September 30 6:00PM-7:30PM Gallery	LVA - Free Beginner's English Class Beginner’s English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in beginner’s English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.
Thursday, September 30 6:00PM-7:30PM Kynett Room	LVA Intermediate/ Advanced English Class Intermediate/Advanced English class for those seeking to improve their English skills. The Nantucket Atheneum Literacy Volunteers offer a drop-in English class every Thursday evening. Taught by Les Ottinger, the class is free, open to all, conducted in English and no pre-registration is required. For more information please call 508-228-8710.