Wrentham Cultural Council - Picks

Check out the Nutcrackers "Transformation of Mother Ginger" in Cool Clips.

Photographic Canvas Prints

The Town of Wrentham 2012 Calendar. Featuring photos of local landmarks by photographer, Betsy Connors, who was funded by the Wrentham Cultural Council and photos by Robert Meravi.

 

 

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Lodging and House Concerts

Step back in time to experience a taste of yesterday at The Proctor Mansion Inn.  Built in 1861, The Proctor Mansion Inn is a striking example of Second Empire French Victorian architecture.  Amazingly preserved and lovingly restored, it provides a glimpse of grandeur from days gone by.  Proctor Mansion Inn, 36 Common St. Wrentham, MA

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Wrentham Elementary Schools Trust, Inc. (WEST) is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization responsible for raising private capital to fund innovative, educational projects for the Wrentham Elementary Schools. All monies are raised independently through fundraising, tax-deductible donations and matching corporate gifts.  WEST has funded 51 educational grants totaling over $70,000 to Wrentham Public Schools since 2007.

For information on their upcoming fundraiser, Comedy Night at Restaurant 3 in Franklin, visit their website or check out our Around Town calendar.

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E-books: Copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License. 

Project Guttenberg is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects. 


Click here to read the Watchbird by Robert Sheckley.

Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. And interactive painting. Click on the blue link above for access.

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Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

  Henrietta Lacks cells, know as HeLa cells, became of one the most important tools in medicine. The author has woven together science and human-interest to create a story which is tells of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about a mother she never knew.

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Tilt-shift photography is a special type of photography in which either a tilt-shift lens, or a post processing software, is used in order to simulate a miniature scene. Check out these urban scenes.

  TEDTalks is a video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Check out the some in the Cool Clips Vault.

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A WNYC podcast series features Alec Baldwin in conversation with actors, critics, comedians, and public-policy makers.

  In the series “Art Race,” two artists set out to cross America surviving only on their art. Armed with just $1, they must trade their work for rides, beds, and food to travel across America in 40 days. Will their art get them from coast to coast?  Check out other halogentv series, like Art in Progress and featured videos, on line at: http://halogentv.com/live/

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  Taking a cross-country road trip without a car – that’s the goal of quirky eco-adventurer, Boaz Frankel. Join him on his 12,000 mile journey by camel, couch bike, canoe, motorized cooler and 100 other modes of transportation as he meets inventors, entrepreneurs and government leaders on his quest for alternative, sustainable transportation. It’s the most unique and unusually challenging road trip you’ll ever see. It’s “The Un-Road Trip,” a new Halogen original series premiering on Earth Day, April 22nd at 8 pm.

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Project Birdsong Takes Flight
Tweet. Vote. Listen to a unique creation!


  A new music project was launched on January 6th which will see a piece of music written partly by the collective creativity of twitter users. Tweeters are being invited by composer Christof R Davis to contribute lyrical suggestions to use as source text for a new choral work which he will be writing later in the year. Around 15-20 of the best tweets (as chosen by a public vote) will be used in the finished composition, which will receive its world premiere in the Winter of 2012. The concept is as follows - tweet your lyrical contribution to the project in 130 characters (or less) and add the hashtag #BSong (to allow all the tweets to be identified and collected into a central location).

This project is designed to bring these short tweets together to create a brilliant piece of choral music which will both reflect the zeitgeist of 2012 but will also live on as a collectively created musical work.

Find out more at the Project Birdsong Blog and check out the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus singing tweets in our Cool Clips Vault.

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