Kasia Baker first started visiting Nantucket when she was a
teenager and has called the island home for 25 years. Kasia shares her
journey of art and life on Nantucket in this Plum Life.
Head behind the scenes of Theatre Workshop of Nantucket's "Doubt, A
Parable". In this segment we catch up with the cast and crew during
their dress rehearsal.
Island photographer Cary Hazlegrove started taking pictures for her
high school yearbook and hasn't stopped since. In this Plum Life, Cary talks about how her
photography has changed over the years and why she calls Nantucket home.
Nantucket's creative community opened its arms yet again to embrace the art of poetry and spoken work during National Poetry Month. The entire weekend of April 4 through April 6, Nantucket Spoken Word brought us a weekend of poems and the arts.
Welcome to Verbatim, a re-telling of anything and everything on Nantucket through your own words. We accept photos, writing, and pretty much anything else that is an
expression and celebration of the community we live in and the beauty
around us. This week, poet Leonard Germinara of Spoken Word Nantucket shares his piece Ring Around the Moon.
Nantucket is truly a community for the arts. While some islanders paint or make music, others use the English language as their creative medium. Listen as
local poets read their own writings and talk about why they love
poetry.
Joy and happiness are just a couple of words describing what dancing
brings to a group of Nantucket kids. All of the dancers started dancing
before they can remember and continue to dance for themselves, memories
and each other.
Ask Nantucket High School teacher Beth Morris what makes her class different from the rest and she'll probably just smile. Morris' photography class has been handing kids cameras and letting them loose on the island for many years now, teaching them how to work the manual settings on mostly older version Pentax cameras, developing photos the "old school" way in a dark room, and even rolling their own film on metal reels straight out of the cameras.
See how the students capture the moment in our video coverage and slideshow below.
It's a digital world, but Nantucket High School Photography students
continue to learn the art of photography by loading film into their
cameras and heading into the darkroom. NHS photography teacher Beth Morris stresses the importance of learning how to
manually use a camera and having students express themselves through their work.
