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What’s going on? Events in New Bedford.
There’s always something happening in New Bedford! The Taste of Southcoast, Jazz Festival, Folk Festival, Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival, Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, Seaport Chowder Festival, WHALE International Wine Festival, Working Waterfront Festival, Oktoberfest, and the Summer Sound Series, Friday evening concerts overlooking the working waterfront. (Whew! Did you catch all of that?!)
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worth spreading professional development Frozen Disney Lightwire Theatre Christmas at The Z wildlife series Stewards of the Sea whales today Manjiro Manjiro Nakahama Japan Asia whalers Manhattan Short Manhattan Shorts Film festival michel labens handicap access st anthony of padua choir organist david langevin gardening mountainfilm Joshua Slocum local author ghost #triathlon #multisport #duathlon Judy Lund shark Sea Turtles Herman Melville rosalind mohnsen sculpture Hospitality becky chace nutcracker New Bedford Historical Society chanteys Open Water Swim Fundraise Volunteer outsoors Migration and Millwork Story Hour Story SusanWener Folk Fest Yamato drummers drums drumming guest speaker Patti Smith Devotion author event staged reading Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford Jessica Lange modern dance dance company Artsbridge illusionist medium Ladysmith Black Mambazo African Russian ballet classical ballet The Oak Ridge Boys Charlotte's Web kids theater kid friendly soundtrack Antonio Sanchez Oscars Oscar winner Birdman Johnny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis Karl Perkins Sun Recrods Tony winner comedy night portuguese music Ana Moura ukulele Hawaii The Things They Carried book to stage Vietnam War veteran veterans issues war acrobats circus tricks Chinese kid friend tribute performance Ruben Studdard Luther Vandross Pinkalicious free festival Portuguese festival Curious George childrens literature live theater Culture Park folk festival makers space space rental Greater New Bedford Community Health Center New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park Seven Hills Behavioral Health South Coast LGBTQ Network The Women's Center UMass Dartmouth Center for Women Gender & Sexuality YWCA Southeastern MA Douglass Project 2018 Debussy piano Cape Verdean local history Murals mural painting printmaking animation interactive digital media Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Paul Cuffe jewelry making class sailor craft maritime music dinner celebrity speaker July 4 4th of July Custom House Square park ranger rangers pointing at things easter Sleeping Beauty junior ranger all ages school vacation Local History Guild Sailors' Series adult John Burnham lectures World War I navy Day environment worksop symposium Rotch Jones Duff the second half Charlie Kin and Ed Howland recall Norman Fortier Padanaram’s beloved marine painter and photographer. Each has special memories and particular favorites among the nearly 60 native american documentary traditional music appalachian music New Bedford Science Norway Folk art party for the planet community boating center Philip Hoare accordion regatta 29er hand crafted immigration immigrant experience free workshop Creative Classroom folkloric dance Haitian dance Haiti dance workshop Haitian culture veterans military free movie free film screening documentary film veterans experience bus tour Jacobs Pillow The Berkshires roadtrip day trip motor coach Devon Allman The Allman Brothers southern rock kids theatre summer camp theater camp Wizard Of Oz theater instruction acting class youth acting American Idol LIVE Postmodern Jukebox Youtube Youtube Star model boats rocksteady dancehall cooking demo workboats month of portugal classic movie Top Gun Tom Cruise Silver Screen Summer old Hollywood Indiana Jones Lighting the Way Historic Women Spectacle in Motion panorama foodie free fun friday Historic Renovation soul sicilian Italian car meet airport aviation airplanes Party for the ocean crankie world food Tastes of the Panorama Taste of the Panorama Labrador Book reading mancini Indian mariners Wooden Boat Bristol Community College BCC abolitionist literacy march freedom Quaker audition James Jordan organ recital kites Guatemalan MakerSpace echoes of the panorama grand panorama kilburn mill music lessons dance lessons ceramics works on paper science spooky history guild historic houses book signing arctic cathedral church bazaar games raffles hand made crafts meat pies chicken pot pies home made crafts storm plastic tree lighting Home Alone holiday movie New Bedford tree lighting Downtown NB Christmas movie David Crosby 70s Crosby Blackberry Smoke Bing Crosby White Christmas Celtic Christmas puppetry Eric Carle IPMA nasa historic pipe organ Spirit of Saint Anthony Choir sumi ink holiday sale religious holiday party Gardens horticulture fashion boxing amateurboxing kilburnmill kilburnfights Melville in Love valentine's day violin soprano Navy Band Memorial Service #fishingpartnership art film one man show Winston Churchill musical movie Julie Andrews Sound of Music Saint Patrick's Day fiddle player dance lecture dance theory lecture series Jose Mateo Ballet Hispanico fairy tale Women's History Music video beaked whales DTAG WHOI speaker mixedmedia collage artworkshop textiles womans month new bedford half marathon event open mic HERstory March AHA poets Co-Creative Center Commune-N-Tea poetry community writing community poets of NB Nautical Antiques Antiques Scrimshaw scrimshaw weekend Jamaican Cape Verdean food Jamaican food reggae DJs Steel Drums Caribbean Harmony Band El Caribe Steel Drum Ensemble Felix Brown Band Felix Brown reggae bands dolphins Richard Connor Buckcherry Joyous Wolf The Vault at Greasy Luck The Quins Small Town Titans community vecinos kite picnic fly W. Kamau Bell United Shades of America CNN correspondent television improv Whose Line Is It Anyway Drew Carey community dance Groupo Sazon live band dancers David Dorfman dramatic theater Camane Ana Sofia Varela Dena Blizzard Target Mom comic multicultural Arlo Guthrie E Network Hollywood Medium Tyler Henry right whale right whale day spring vacation public art installation NASA Space Day New Bedford Science Cafe design animal The Glass Horse Project poem poems Pride AHA New Bedford Astronaut Summer reading DATMA Summer Winds Paris French Bollywood India acapella vocal group holiday music Christmas Carol Christmas in NB Masters of Illusions magicians Chipper Martin Luther King Day Martin Luther King Jr. Philadanco black box theater Abbey Road documentary play 80's rock Styx scottish Cape Verdean Voices De Wind is Op Dario and the Whale New Bedford Cultural Council LTWwomen outdoor market artisans market drama living history free concert NBSOmusicinthecity Daughtry seamen's bethel 1850s ladies #NewBedfordWhalingMuseum #LocalHistoryGuild #SeaportCulturalDistrict national park service Silver Currents cuttyhunk #WhalesTodayLive #YearOfMusic #MuseumDay #whalingmuseum cornhole sports social NewBedfordHistoricalSociety Movie Mondays Caddyshack Bill Murray classic movies Ten Tiny Dances dance discovery Robin Williams New Orleans jazz dance film Broadway in New Bedford scary movies black and white movies Cher cult classics Halloween at The Z live shadowcast RKO Army Napoleon Dynamite cult movies movice screening cast Q&A meet the cast New Bedford Festival Theatre musical theatre tribute show #LightingtheWay Christmas Vacation holiday film Whitney Houston Second City comedians Get The Led Out rock the Z Philadelphia Dance Company tap dance jazz music Arc Attack Tesla coils electricity kids performance Eric Wyatt Quintet jazz band music performance Japanese drumming Colby James Band Mystery Science Theatre B Movies Joel Hodgson film screening On A Winter's Night John Gorka Cheryl Wheeler Cliff Eberhardt Christine Lavin Patty Larkin Natalia Zukerman Lenny Clarke Joe Yannetty Mike McCarthy Mitch Stinson Ken Rogerson Peking Acrobats Buster Keaton Llama Llama Grace Morrison Emi Sunshine back to school Selena Jennifer Lopez Monica Lewinsky NB Lyceum Voice Trumpet MarthaGannonSouza LinseyGovoni MattRichard marine sanctuary noaa stellwagen bank dutch art paintings art lessons art gallery art collectors original art giclee prints note cards anniversary women changing history soup stand up comedy Howie Mandel New Bedofrd RJD Museum guided tour afternoon tea educators teachers art sale art expo artisan pottery artwork art show art work artists Ellen Kempton holiday shopping hatch street holiday crafts herbalist david touchette spirit of St. Anthony Choir city sidewalks Festivus winter holiday holiday poetry Tidings poetry reading Domesticated Primate publishing book release local authors local poets Winter Solstice art class urban renewal industry truth-telling social healing illustrated talk poet activities networking impression hypnotist frank santos art history children's patriotism Arbor Day new bedford high school needlework nautical cribbage tournament card games ayla brown rob bellamy country 102.5 contest matthew byrne iran contemporary iranian historical imagination NBSO arts enrichment poetry workshop writing workshop art education Fosse dance choreography lesson ukulele classes learn the ukulele music education beginners ukulele intermediate ukulele Malala Yousafzai Southcoast Seven Arts Bridge research Voting 19th Amendment Talks keith lockhart David Chalmers ww2 virtual event variety young adults curator talk historical photographs online
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