Roberto Devereux

Met Opera’s “Roberto Devereux” To Be Shown On Screen at Players Met Opera’s “Roberto Devereux” presented on screen this Saturday April 16, 2016 at Peterborough Players.  PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire (April 11, 2016) Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes on the extraordinary challenge of singing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor queens in the course of a single season, a

Tibetan Monks’ Cultural Pageant

TIBETAN MONKS TO PRESENT CULTURAL PAGEANT AT ALL SAINTS CHURCH IN PETERBOROUGH Peterborough, NH — A delegation of Tibetan monks visiting New Hampshire from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in South India will present a Tibetan Cultural Pageant at All Saints Church in Peterborough, April 13th, at 7 p.m. The pageant will be held in Reynolds Hall at 51 Concord Street,

Tibetan Monks at the Mariposa Museum

Tibetan Monks at the Mariposa Museum will create a peace mandala A delegation of Tibetan monks at the Mariposa Museum and World Culture Center in Peterborough, April 12-17, 2016. They are from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India. The monks will create a peace sand mandala, speak with visitors, and share information about Tibetan culture.  Special programs are also available for

Scottish Music for Tartan Day Celebration

An Afternoon of Scottish Music in Peterborough The Monadnock Center for History and Culture is excited to the fourth annual Tartan Day Celebration Concert, on Sunday, April 10,  featuring the Strathspey and Reel Society of New Hampshire.  The Society was founded in 1988 to encourage the learning and preservation of traditional Scottish music. In addition

Monadnock Center workshop on Hearth Cooking

Learn to cook like your great, great grandmother at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture on April 9 when the center will offer a hearth cooking workshop. Workshop participants will work together to prepare a meal typical of the 1830s over the open hearths in the center’s Phoenix Mill House. The workshop will explore

Planetary Art

Filmmaker Jeanne Liotta and Her Planetary Art Friday, April 1, 2016 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. The Monadnock Center for History and Culture 19 Grove Street Peterborough, NH Cost: Free This Friday at 7:30 p.m. award-winning filmmaker Jeanne Liotta will tell stories and share images from her recent collaboration with climatologists at the National Oceanic and

Madama Butterfly

Puccini’s Breathtaking Opera “Madama Butterfly” To Be Shown On Screen at Players Met Opera’s “Madama Butterfly” presented on screen this Saturday April 2, 2016 at Peterborough Players.  PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire (March 29, 2016) The title character of Madama Butterfly — a young Japanese geisha who clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American

Coffeehouses in the Monadnock Region

Coffeehouses have been part of the American scene since the 1950’s, serving up music, beverages and light fare, conversation, and a welcoming place to meet up with friends and neighbors. Coffeehouses are part of the music scene in the Monadnock region as well – some with open mic format; others with scheduled acts. Here are

Mariposa Museum: Cardboard art & more in latest exhibit

Music, Sacred Text, Cardboard art Fuse in Huge Animal Sculptures at Mariposa  “Haunting,” “mysterious,” “mind-boggling…” These are some of the adjectives heard when people encounter the newest exhibit at the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, Rich Entel’s Cardboard Menagerie.  The exhibit opened this week and is open Tuesdays through Sundays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. through May

English Country Dance in Peterborough

English Country Dance in Peterborough NH on Sunday March 20th   Nelson, NH — February 28, 2016 — The Monadnock Folklore Society presents the third in its series of English Country Dances with the theme “Dance Around Monadnock.”   On March 20th from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, the dance will be held in Bass Hall