Regie Gibson
No paper tickets. All names will be checked off at the door.
Whatever you think about poetry, Regie Gibson will make you re-think it. Named the Commonwealth’s first poet laureate by Governor Maura Healey, he doesn’t recite his poetry. He performs it in rousing style — with a three-piece backup band. A National Poetry Slam champion, Gibson has worked with the likes of Gwendolyn Brooks, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Legend and has performed both nationally and internationally.
Gibson has also served as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts “How Art Works” initiative and the “Mere Distinction of Colour” — a permanent exhibit examining the legacy of slavery and the U.S. Constitution at President James Madison’s home in Montpelier, Virginia. And he is the author of Storms Beneath the Skin as well as the creator of the Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy — a theatrical, literary-musical performance focusing on the life, works, and influence of William Shakespeare.
We’d love to tell you who his performances remind us of, but we can’t. His are truly iconoclastic presentations.
The show starts at 7:30 PM, but doors open at 7 for wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres.
Tickets: $25 each
The Ames Chapel is located at 12 South South Street, Hingham, just up the gentle hill as you drive through the granite posts of Hingham Cemetery.
Nat Seelen
No paper tickets. All names will be checked off at the door.
Nat Seelen is clarinetist, composer, and educator whose work explores the intersections of tradition, innovation, and community in klezmer music and beyond. A dynamic performer and creator, he is the founder and artistic director of the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music, a concert series that has presented more than 180 artists and reached thousands of audience members with original, culturally rooted music since its inception just five years ago.
As a composer, Seelen’s recent works include 56 New Klezmer Tunes for Dancing, Gathering Sparks, and Di Khassene, a multimedia song cycle. He is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, CJP Arts & Culture Fund, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
The show starts at 7:30, but doors open at 7:00 for wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres.
Tickets: $25 each
The Ames Chapel is located at 12 South South Street, Hingham, just up the gentle hill as you drive through the granite posts of Hingham Cemetery.
The Ames Chapel’s Dead of Winter’s Cultural Series would not have been possible without the support of:
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Sally Weston Associates
Architecture, Planning, Interior Design
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Hingham Cultural Council
Peter and Liz Comrack
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Hennessy’s
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