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MHS Culture Feast a big hit, students produce video of event
01 Jun

MHS Culture Feast a big hit, students produce video of event

Leigh Blander0 CommentsArt, Community Resources, Culture, Education, Local News, Marblehead Public Schools, Top Stories
More than 150 students, families and residents came out for Marblehead High School's annual Culture Feast on May 19, organized by the METCO program. The night featured several live performances by students, as well as Kenyan singer, writer and activist Wangari Fahari. There was food from around the world, including food trucks Jamaica Mi Hungry, Bon Me and Cookie Monstah. MHS student Tamia Johnson produced a video piece about the evening. Her sister Tamya provided the voiceover. Students Piper Morgan and Alex Hersey recorded the…
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Current Events: Marblehead’s best bets May 31-June 7
31 May

Current Events: Marblehead’s best bets May 31-June 7

Leigh Blander0 CommentsArt, Community Resources, Culture, Entertainment, Life Style, Local News, Top Stories
Current Events spotlights exciting happenings in the coming week. If you’d like to contribute a listing, please email Current associate editor/senior reporter Leigh Blander at lblander@marbleheadnews.org.    Cod & Whale unveiling partyFriday, June 2, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Join the Marblehead Festival of Arts Board and the artists behind this year’s Festival of Cod and Whales on the lawn at Abbot Hall for a launch party. Get the first look at these pieces and raise a glass to kick-off the online auction, which will be live…
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Tradition: Epstein Hillel students hit all the right notes in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
31 May

Tradition: Epstein Hillel students hit all the right notes in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

Leigh Blander0 CommentsArt, Education, Local News, Religion
Epstein Hillel School’s upper school performed three sold-out shows of “Fiddler on the Roof” recently at Marblehead Little Theatre. Under the direction of EHS teachers Leslie Smith-Rosen and Ori Baruch, every student in fifth through eighth grade participated in the play: as actors on stage, assistant directors or as part of the stage crew.   Lily West (left) as Tzeitel, Leah Bruner (middle) as Chava, and Naya Bodner (right) as Hodel in 'Fiddler on the Roof' COURTESY PHOTOS  Epstein Hillel students perform ‘Fiddler on the Roof’…
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Spring ‘Paint-Out’ attracts artists from around New England
31 May

Spring ‘Paint-Out’ attracts artists from around New England

Will Dowd0 CommentsArt, Culture, Top Stories
As the late May sun set over Marblehead Harbor recently, the Arnould Gallery’s cozy second floor on Washington Street was packed with artists, their friends and family, and aficionados from the community gingerly making their way around newly-hung, still-wet canvases, the fruit of three days of plein air painting by the Arnould Gallery Plein Air Painters. Plein air painting (from the French for “in the open air”) is the practice of painting in nature, getting outside of one’s studio and working with natural light. It…
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MHS alum to premiere political thriller at Warwick during reunion
30 May

MHS alum to premiere political thriller at Warwick during reunion

Leigh Blander0 CommentsArt, Culture, Education, Local News, Marblehead Public Schools, Politics, Top Stories
Coming home for your 50th high school reunion can be a little intimidating. Less so for Greg Newberry, who will be premiering a film he wrote, produced and directed at the Warwick Cinema the same weekend as his Marblehead High reunion. A poster for Greg Newberry's movie. It will premiere at the Warwick on June 3. COURTESY PHOTOS The Warwick will screen “Who is Amos Otis?” on Saturday, June 3, at 1 p.m., followed by a Q&A with Newberry. Newberry now lives in Cincinnati where…
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