for the ARTS record
Winter Community Concert: Eelgrass While the grasses here are frozen or brown, bluegrass promises to lift the spirits. NHS teacher Erik Wendelken and friends will twang your wind-chilled heartstrings as Eelgrass, a bluegrass band, will be playing a free show at the Atheneum Friday night, courtesy of grants from the Nantucket Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. So, why don't you go and enjoy the music while the NCC and the MCC are picking up the bill. When: Friday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m. Where: Nantucket Atheneum, 1 India Street Cost: Free. For more information, call 228-1110.

Sustainable Nantucket Film Festival: Sustainable Nantucket has pursued a wide variety of ventures since its inception - including founding the Nantucket Housing Office and the Nantucket Shellfish Association. But public programming is new for the organization, which is bringing documentaries to the island this winter. The films are all related to issues facing Nantucket's sustainable future.

This week, Sustainable Nantucket joins with the Nantucket Historical Association to screen "Livable Landscapes: By Chance or By Choice." Winner of the Bronze Plaque from the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, this one-hour documentary focuses on people across New England who are rethinking the structure and sprawl of their communities. "This marvelous and unique film shows that we can create the future even if we can't predict it very well, and tells how," said John Gordon, Yale University Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The Sustainable screening will include some snacks for sustenance. Sustainable Nantucket's next film will be "The Future of Food" (Feb. 7), a film about the global implications of patenting genetically modified food. When: Saturday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m. Where: NHA Whaling Museum,

13 Broad Street Cost: Free. Open seating. For more information, call 228-3399. Eureka! Maria Mitchell offers classes for family discoveries This Saturday, the Maria Mitchell Association will open its doors to kids (grades 1-6) and parents wishing to learn more and love more about science. MMA Director of Education Darcie Vallant has designed the "Eureka Lab" to augment lessons being learned at the schools that week. Introduce your nino to some of the science behind El Nino with the first class, "Weather Watchers," which could be of particular interest for children who've been paying attention to all the talk of weather in the news lately. Other classes include "Science as Magic" (Feb. 24), "Grossology" (March 24), "Owls" (April 21), and "Dirt Science" (May 12). All children must be accompanied by an adult. When: Saturday, Jan 27, noon - 2 p.m. Where: MMA's Natural Science Museum,

2 Vestal Street

Cost: $10 per child (nonmembers);

$8 per child (members); Reservations

are not required.

For more information, please call

Darcie Vallant at 228-9198.

Adam Stone, of Cape Cod table waiting and slam! poetry fame Member of six national slam club teams and also of "Poetry is Gay" (a slam team for queer male poets), Adam Stone is the latest guest of the Nantucket Poetry Slam - a merry band of people who just can't pass a live microphone without dropping some poetic science. Observe, a quote from Mr. Stone's "Fireflies Dissolving" -

My mother said my brain was like a tooth in a bottle of Coke That my father wouldn't stop shaking There are fireflies in the Mason Jar But no one poked airholes The light is going out

It's 3AM I am standing outside Jeffrey's window Watching fireflies burn gasoline multiplication tables across his forehead I almost believe I can protect him But the sirens are blowing in my ear It itches But my hands are snakes I've got mice thoughts When: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2 - 4 p.m. Where: UMASS Field Station,

180 Polpis Road

Cost: Free, but NPS "passes the hat"

before the performance. Lint and

chicken bones not accepted.

For more information, please call

Len Germinara at (774) 836-5035, and tell

him that he makes red Crocs look fetching.

Daffodil Schedule Announced Mark the calendar, Daffy friends. If you've planted daffodil bulbs with the intention of showing them at this year's 33rd Annual Daffodil Festival, your very last deadline is now officially April 28, 9:30 a.m. This year's festival is themed "Daffodils at Sea."

"We chose the theme, because when the daffodils all bloom on Nantucket, it reminds me of a sea of daffodils on the island," said Pam Livingston, who is chairing this year's festival with Gretchen Callahan. "We're looking forward to a beautiful weekend, with lots of participation from the community."

The classes for the flower arrangements are as follows: "Somewhere Beyond The Sea" (Mass Arrangement); "Victory at Sea" (Men's Arrangement); "She Sells Seashells By The Shore" (Miniature Arrangement); "Treasure Chest" (Small Arrangement); "'Sea You Later Alligator" (Youth Arrangement); "From Sea To Shining Sea" (Family Arrangement).

In addition to offering its traditional classes for competition, the festival will include a class for photographs of daffodils: submissions will be divided into Adult, Youth-High School, Youth- Middle and Elementary School entries. The festival is looking for photographs of daffodils in a landscape, a garden setting, a flower arrangement, a natural or an unusual setting.

The festival will run from April 28 to April 29

at The Coffin School. I