Oscar® Nominated Foreign Film To Screen at The Park Theatre
From Japan, "Drive My Car" nominated for 4 Oscars®, and already won Golden Globe Award.
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (February 16, 2022) An astonishing new film from Japan is the #1foreign motion picture this awards season. Drive My Car has already won Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes awards and three awards from the Cannes Film Festival. The film will screen for one week at The Park Theatre's King Auditorium Screening Room in Jaffrey starting Friday, February 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Drive My Car is the Oscar® nominee for Best International Feature Film 2022 (Japan). Plus, it also has Oscar® nominations for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture overall (a first for a Japanese film).
It became the latest (and the first non-English-language film) of the only six to win Best Picture from all three major U.S. critics groups (LAFCA, NYFCC, NSFC), the other five being Goodfellas, Schindler's List, L.A. Confidential, The Social Network, and The Hurt Locker. It also boasts a 98% Certified Fresh score from RottenTomates.com, an amalgam of film criticism from around the world.
Drive My Car is about a man tortured by love and loss. Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. Adapted from Haruki Murakami's short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.
Tickets are $9 for adults $8 for adults 62+ as well as students/teachers/active military with current ID. Masks are mandatory at all times inside the theatre. Proof of vaccination is required on Wednesdays. The film is unrated.
Tickets can be pre-booked online at theparktheatre.org, by calling the box office at (603) 532-8888 or visit the box office at the theatre.
Bernie & Louise Watson To Perform Weekly at The Park Theatre
Locally beloved musical performers to perform on Saturday nights at the theatre's lounge
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (February 16, 2022) You don't need to mention their last name when talking about Bernie & Louise. Everyone knows who they are. They have played in numerous venues around the Monadnock Region for many years and are beloved by everyone who hears them perform. They will now be regular performers in The Park Theatre's lounge beside the box office at the front of the new performing arts center. They will play from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Saturday nights starting this Saturday, February 19. There is no admission fee. The lounge has a bar featuring regional, craft, domestic, and foreign beers and a wide selection of wines. Fresh popcorn and other tasty treats are also available for purchase.
Among many other locations, Bernie and Louise Watson have performed at the Monadnock Inn, Sunflowers Cafe, and Rivermead. Plus, they have supported The Park Theatre with their music at events for well over a decade.
They are known for playing the great standards, including Rodgers & Hart, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Geroge Gershwin, and Cole Porter. From the turn of the last century until the 1950s, their repertoire is the sweetest music played and sung beautifully by the most adorable couple. Don't be surprised if you see them perform in tux and gown. That's their trademark.
The lounge will open at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 19 and their music begins at 5:00 p.m. The Park Theatre is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, NH. For more information go to theparktheatre.org or call the box office at (603) 532-8888.
Nova Arts Events for This Weekend
Nova Arts is proud to continue in person entertainment at 48 Emerald St in Keene NH!
Friday, February 18, Michael Roberts will be playing in celebration of the release of his second solo album, Sympathizer.
Sympathizer is Roberts's most stripped-down album in over a decade. In nine simple folk songs, Roberts takes us on a meandering journey through field and forest, where animals, trees, and landscapes serve as the subjects and objects of narratives which question what it means to connect to outdoor spaces in a time of rapid technological advancement.
Artist Kristian Brevik is installing some of his work and will be giving an artist talk to start the night off. His art explores the interactions between humans and other-than-humans, by highlighting the commonalities of form shared by ships and whales, by wondering about the ways we shape each other; through domestication, eating each other, and changing each other's experience of the world, increasingly through extinction.
Please help us continue to provide live shows by wearing masks when moving about the space.
That Thing In The Spring Comes to Keene!
The Thing in the Spring returns May 19 through May 22 in its new location at 48 Emerald St in Keene NH! Nova Arts will host four nights of music featuring headliners Sammus, Felecia Cruz, Lee Ranaldo, Anna Fox Rochinski, Jeff Parker, Myriam Gendron, and Pete Bernhard & The Huntress and Holder of Hands.
Other folks set to perform include Perception, Myles Bullen, Rathbone Scruggs Esq, Tashi Dorji, Hellen Gillet, Ned Collette, John Andrews (of The Yawns), Nat Baldwin and Stella Silbert, Friendship, Dave Seidel, Elisabeth Fuchsia, Kioea, David William Ross Trio, William Lawrence, Kimaya Diggs, Brown Bones, The Tines, Dead Gowns, The Burning Sun,, Alexandra Burnet, Ezra Cohen, and Josh Green. Including readings by Rage Hezekiah, Pauline Michelle, and Nat Baldwin. Plus a DJ set by Wooly Mar and a dance performance by Weather Makers Dance.
Day passes, as well as special Four Day Passes, are available at novaarts.org/thething
Please help us continue to provide live shows by wearing masks when moving about the space.
Nova Arts is supported by and under the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Alive.
Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts Awards Third Round of Commonwealth COVID Grants Totaling $458,500
Funding supports nonprofits working to address ongoing pandemic challenges
FITCHBURG, Mass. - The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts (CFNCM), a public charity serving the philanthropic interests of donors in the north central region of the Commonwealth, has awarded an additional $458,500 in grants through the Commonwealth COVID Grant Program in support of nonprofits providing relief to people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is in addition to $654,754 awarded in February of 2021 and the $290,575 awarded in April of 2021, bringing the total to more than $1.4 million.
"We are hopeful that the pandemic is loosening its grip, but many families continue to be affected by the economic impacts of COVID-19," said Stephen Adams, president of the Community Foundation. "The majority of these grants will be used to address housing insecurity, food and clothing assistance and utility support--as well as things like services for and outreach to unhoused people—all pressing needs throughout our region."
The breakdown of grants is as follows:
$65,500 to Making Opportunity Count in Fitchburg
$65,500 to the Spanish American Center in Leominster
$40,000 to the Athol YMCA
$40,000 to Catholic Charities Worcester County
$40,000 to the Fitchburg Salvation Army
$40,000 to WHEAT Community Connections in Clinton
$30,000 to the City of Fitchburg Fiscal Agent for Montachusett Public Health
$25,000 to United Way of North Central Massachusetts
$23,000 to Restoration Recovery Substance Abuse Center
$19,000 to Ginny's Helping Hand
$15,000 to Community Health Connection
$15,000 to the YMCA of Central Massachusetts
$11,500 to South Middlesex Opportunity Council
$10,000 to Community Legal Aid
$10,000 to the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance
$9,000 to Clear Path for Veterans New England
"North Central Massachusetts is blessed with many effective and dedicated nonprofit organizations," said Adams. "We are grateful for the opportunity to serve as a conduit for state funds, as well as the generosity of local residents, to help those who need it most."
About Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts
The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts is a public charity that manages philanthropic funds established by individuals, families, businesses and non-profit organizations. We help philanthropists invest in the communities and causes they care passionately about. For more information, visit cfncm.org.