Incredible Spring Wild Edibles
Place: Harris Center, Hancocok, NH (about 22 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All
Kool Wheels Event
Place: Keen Recreation Center, Washington st., Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: All
Keene Kiwanis Family Fun & Safety Day. Free helmets when they last for children age 4-12. Bicycle raffle. Bicycle safety checks. Bicycle safety course. Safety kits. Healthy snacks. Face painting. Visit from Ribby and more! Ride or bring your bike!
See flyer.
Bike Event
Time: 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Place: Railroad Square, Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: All
Guided trail rides hourly, fun and prizes. safety and maintenance demos, local and club information. Bring your bike!
See flyer.
NH Renaissance Faire
Place: Three Maples Farm, 9 Thorne Rd., Kingston, NH (about 90 miles from Keene)
Price: $12 adults/$8 kids 5-12/4 and under free
Ages: All
The NH Renaissance Faire is a family friendly, educational, visual, theatrical and fantastical event. Come be transported back in time. Live music, magic, knights in armor, royalty and more. A portion of the proceeds will go to charity. Tickets: $12 for adults, $8 for kids ages 5-12 and kids 4 and under get in free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Faire also held May 19-20.
Website
Shadow & Light: A Literary Anthology
Time: 11:00 am
Place: The Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough, NH (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: Older
SHADOW AND LIGHT: A LITERARY ANTHOLOGY ON MEMORY -- reading and signing with editor Tina Rapp and contributors Rodger Martin, Kathleen Fagley, Kathleen Fortin, Linda Thomas and others. This is a publication of the Monadnock Writers Group.
Contra Dance Nelson
Time: 8:00 pm-11:00 pm
Place: Nelson Town Hall, 7 Nelson Common Rd., Nelson, NH (about 11 miles from Keene)
Price: $8 adults/$6 children
Ages: All
Nelson NH Contra Dance sponsored by The Monadnock Folklore Society every second Saturday.
Workshop/lesson 7:30, Dance 8:00-11:00
$8 ($6 for students and seniors)
For more information, phone (603) 762-0235; email lsievert@yahoo.com; or see www.monadnockfolk.org
HSCC Annual Used Book Sale
Time: 9:00 am-1:00 pm
Place: Historical Society of Cheshire County, 246 Main St., Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: All
Friday 10-6, Saturday 9-1. Books are generally sold for $1 each with a limited selection of higher priced items.
HSCC encourages its members and friends to donate their unwanted books for this twelfth annual sale. We are looking mostly for saleable hardcover nonfiction books and some recent fiction. We are not seeking mass market paperbacks, older fiction, textbooks, or damaged items. Book donations should be delivered to HSCC by May 9. Pick-up of donated books may also be possible.
For further information, please contact hscc@hsccnh.org or 603-352-1895.
www.hsccnh.org
Blacksmithing Weekend
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Place: Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Rd., Charlestown, NH (about 28 miles from Keene)
Price:
Ages: All
On May 12-13, 2012 the Fort at No. 4 will feature a Blacksmith Weekend with a newly-formed group of blacksmiths calling themselves “The Granite State Hammer Alliance” demonstrating. They will be displaying the craft of blacksmithing spanning a limited time-line, focusing on traditional methods using charcoal, bituminous coal, and propane and will forge both iron and mild steel into traditional shapes and forms to create items for the gift shop at No. 4.
Although the Alliance is currently small, it is quickly picking up new members and others interested in this traditional craft. The group will be setting up adjacent to No. 4’s current blacksmith shop with various styles of forges, anvils and equipment.
Most blacksmith groups meet only amongst themselves. The focus of the Granite State Hammer Alliance is outwardly focused, demonstrating and educating the public on traditional methods and styles of blacksmith, and how these traditional techniques can be applied to modern forging. Many modern blacksmiths are producing more cost-effective items with electric welding and industrial style tools, and are not practicing the older ways. The Alliance’s goal is to keep these traditional techniques practiced over many centuries alive, and ensure these traditional ways are not forgotten.
Members of the Alliance have both volunteered and worked at No. 4 in the past, and are in total support of the new sponsorship and efforts to keep the Fort at No.4 alive and educating our young in the 18th century way of life of which blacksmith played a necessary and integral part.
www.fortat4.com
Open Mic Poetry & Prose
Time: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Place: Village Square Booksellers, 32 The Square, Bellows Falls, VT (about 22 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All
Every 2nd Saturday. Open Mic Poetry and short stories of 1-3 pages.
Hosted by River Voices Poetry Group.
Open to all ages (youth and adult).
Free.
Comfortable atmosphere. Refreshments served.
802-463-9404
www.villagesquarebooks.com
2nd Annual Bollywood Film Festival
Time: 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Place: Wilton Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton, NH (about 32 miles from Keene)
Price: $12 over 12/$8 kids under 12
Ages: All
A portion of the proceeds from the festival will go toward the Holy Cross Family Learning Center, a Manchester-based volunteer organization that offers English classes to recent refugees from such countries as Nepal, Bhutan, Haiti and Rwanda.
This year’s festival will include a documentary, a modern film, a dance tribute and our feature presentation, Sholay, one of the greatest curry Westerns ever made.
Children's Program - Everything Needs To Eat
Time: 10:00 am
Place: Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge, NH (about 20 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All
Walk along the Cathedral's paths and discover food sources and shelters of different animals. Create a snack for the animals.
National Train Day Celebration
Time: 11:30 am
Place: Brattleboro Train Station, 10 Vernon St., Brattleboro, VT (about 18 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All
Celebrate the rail way at the Brattleboro train station!
Please join us for this fun event for all ages!
Learn about better train service coming to Vermont, and check out historical displays, see the train station and meet train experts
There will be food and festivities.
We have cause to celebrate indeed. Amtrak's Vermonter was 100% on-time in March!
As anyone who watched the train's arrival knows, the train brings connections to love, business, family, culture. The train is fun. The train puts Brattleboro on the map and makes us accessible -- accessible to the 55% of New Yorkers who don't have cars but want to spend their money here -- accessible to people considering retirment or starting a business here who still need to visit clients and family -- and accessible in the future when oil changes our shared economic geography.
Child Safety Day
Time: 9:30 am-2:00 pm
Place: Noyes VW, Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: All
HSCC Annual Used Book Sale
Time: 9:00 am-1:00 pm
Place: Historical Society of Cheshire County, 246 Main St., Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: All
Friday 10-6, Saturday 9-1. Books are generally sold for $1 each with a limited selection of higher priced items.
HSCC encourages its members and friends to donate their unwanted books for this twelfth annual sale. We are looking mostly for saleable hardcover nonfiction books and some recent fiction. We are not seeking mass market paperbacks, older fiction, textbooks, or damaged items. Book donations should be delivered to HSCC by May 9. Pick-up of donated books may also be possible.
For further information, please contact hscc@hsccnh.org or 603-352-1895.
www.hsccnh.org
Blacksmithing Weekend
Place: Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Rd., Charlestown, NH (about 28 miles from Keene)
Price:
Ages: All
On May 12-13, 2012 the Fort at No. 4 will feature a Blacksmith Weekend with a newly-formed group of blacksmiths calling themselves “The Granite State Hammer Alliance” demonstrating. They will be displaying the craft of blacksmithing spanning a limited time-line, focusing on traditional methods using charcoal, bituminous coal, and propane and will forge both iron and mild steel into traditional shapes and forms to create items for the gift shop at No. 4.
Although the Alliance is currently small, it is quickly picking up new members and others interested in this traditional craft. The group will be setting up adjacent to No. 4’s current blacksmith shop with various styles of forges, anvils and equipment.
Most blacksmith groups meet only amongst themselves. The focus of the Granite State Hammer Alliance is outwardly focused, demonstrating and educating the public on traditional methods and styles of blacksmith, and how these traditional techniques can be applied to modern forging. Many modern blacksmiths are producing more cost-effective items with electric welding and industrial style tools, and are not practicing the older ways. The Alliance’s goal is to keep these traditional techniques practiced over many centuries alive, and ensure these traditional ways are not forgotten.
Members of the Alliance have both volunteered and worked at No. 4 in the past, and are in total support of the new sponsorship and efforts to keep the Fort at No.4 alive and educating our young in the 18th century way of life of which blacksmith played a necessary and integral part.
www.fortat4.com
Open Mic Poetry & Prose
Time: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Place: Village Square Booksellers, 32 The Square, Bellows Falls, VT (about 22 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All
Every 2nd Saturday. Open Mic Poetry and short stories of 1-3 pages.
Hosted by River Voices Poetry Group.
Open to all ages (youth and adult).
Free.
Comfortable atmosphere. Refreshments served.
802-463-9404
www.villagesquarebooks.com
2nd Annual Bollywood Film Festival
Place: Wilton Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton, NH (about 32 miles from Keene)
Price: $12 over 12/$8 kids under 12
Ages: All
Classics and Modern film from Bollywood will be screened in New
Hampshire on May 12 as the state’s only Bollywood Film Festival kicks
off seven hours of melodrama, action, comedy, and of course, dance in
Wilton, N.H. The $12 admission includes an all-day pass, Indian snacks
and a live dance performance.
A portion of the proceeds from the festival will go toward the Holy Cross Family Learning Center, a Manchester-based volunteer organization that offers English classes to recent refugees from such countries as Nepal, Bhutan, Haiti and Rwanda.
This year’s festival will include a documentary, a modern film, a dance tribute and our feature presentation, Sholay, one of the greatest curry Westerns ever made.
Children's Program - Everything Needs To Eat
Time: 10:00 am
Place: Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge, NH (about 20 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All
Walk along the Cathedral's paths and discover food sources and shelters of different animals. Create a snack for the animals.
National Train Day Celebration
Place: Brattleboro Train Station, 10 Vernon St., Brattleboro, VT (about 18 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All
Celebrate the rail way at the Brattleboro train station!
Please join us for this fun event for all ages!
Learn about better train service coming to Vermont, and check out historical displays, see the train station and meet train experts
There will be food and festivities.
We have cause to celebrate indeed. Amtrak's Vermonter was 100% on-time in March!
As anyone who watched the train's arrival knows, the train brings connections to love, business, family, culture. The train is fun. The train puts Brattleboro on the map and makes us accessible -- accessible to the 55% of New Yorkers who don't have cars but want to spend their money here -- accessible to people considering retirment or starting a business here who still need to visit clients and family -- and accessible in the future when oil changes our shared economic geography.
Child Safety Day
Time: 9:30 am-2:00 pm
Place: Noyes VW, Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: All
John Walsh Child Safety Day
Saturday, May 12th from 9:30am-2:00pm
at Noyes VW in Keene
Free
Biometric Fingerprints, DNA Kits & more
for more info call 357-7220
Saturday, May 12th from 9:30am-2:00pm
at Noyes VW in Keene
Free
Biometric Fingerprints, DNA Kits & more
for more info call 357-7220
Free Self Defense Workshop
Time: 12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Place: Martial Arts Principles, 233 Marlboro st., Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: Older
Place: Martial Arts Principles, 233 Marlboro st., Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: Older
Open to men and women, teens and adults.
Register Now.
603-352-2299
Awakening Creativity Event
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: Adult $15, Member $12, Teacher $10, Student/Child $5
Ages: All
The Mariposa offers a very special presentation "Awakening Creativity" by Lily Yeh, founder of Barefoot Artists. She will share a slide show of her organization's work in different places in the world including the recent Dandelion Project in Beijing China.
Barefoot Artists brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world through participatory and multifaceted projects that foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development, and preserve and promote indigenous art and culture. Barefoot Artists seeks to bear witness to the forgotten and the oppressed, and works to share their stories with the broad public to promote understanding and action. Each Barefoot Artists project is carefully documented and distributed widely through the internet, publications, speaking engagements, and video.
Lily Yeh is an internationally celebrated artist whose work has
taken her to communities throughout the world. As founder and executive
director of the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia
from 1968 to 2004, she helped create a national model of community
building through the arts. In 2002, Yeh pursued her work
internationally, founding Barefoot Artists, Inc. She has carried out
projects in multiple countries including Kenya, Ivory Coast, Ghana,
Rwanda, China, Taiwan, Ecuador, Syria, Republic of Georgia, Haiti,
Palestine and the United States.
Admission to this event is Adult $15, Member $12, Teacher $10, Student/Child $5
Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, 1937
Florence Nightingale's birthday, 1820
Katharine Hepburn's birthday, 1907
Awakening Creativity Event
Place: Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: Adult $15, Member $12, Teacher $10, Student/Child $5
Ages: All
The Mariposa offers a very special presentation "Awakening Creativity" by Lily Yeh, founder of Barefoot Artists. She will share a slide show of her organization's work in different places in the world including the recent Dandelion Project in Beijing China.
Barefoot Artists brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world through participatory and multifaceted projects that foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development, and preserve and promote indigenous art and culture. Barefoot Artists seeks to bear witness to the forgotten and the oppressed, and works to share their stories with the broad public to promote understanding and action. Each Barefoot Artists project is carefully documented and distributed widely through the internet, publications, speaking engagements, and video.
Admission to this event is Adult $15, Member $12, Teacher $10, Student/Child $5
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Kite dayBritain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, 1937
Florence Nightingale's birthday, 1820
Katharine Hepburn's birthday, 1907
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