for the ARTS record
NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL PRESENTS QUARTETTO GELATO
On Sunday, April 13 the Coffin School on Winter Street will fill with the brilliant sounds of Quartetto Gelato, a group that has its roots in classical music but stretches its mastery and entertainment with six instruments and a variety of unexpected, and sometimes quite lively presentations. Instruments include violin, mandolin, accordian, piano, bandoneon, clarinet and cello. The group, hailing from Canada, will perform at 4 p.m. on April 13. Single tickets are $20 for council members and $25 for noncouncil members. Student tickets are free. Call 325- 8588 for more information.

ART WITH THE SPOKEN WORD On Friday, April 4 at 6 p.m. the Joyce and Seward Johnson Gallery at 19 Washington St. will open its annual Teacher/Student Show, featuring the work of AAN students of all ages along with work by their teachers.

The gallery will be open on Saturday April 5 from 11 a.m. to 5p.m. Students (19 and under) from Nantucket are invited to come to this exhibition during gallery hours, choose a piece of art and write a poem about it (Ekphrastic Poem). On Sunday, April 6, at a special event in the gallery, students will be encouraged to submit their work for a juried competition that will select the top three poems submitted. Prizes will be provided from Nantucket Bookworks, Mitchell's Book Corner and The Even Keel.

All poems submitted will be included in a "Chapbook" along with the images selected by the poets. Poems will be read aloud on April 6th as part of the reading featuring Jack McCarthy.

Jack McCarthy has been writing poetry since the mid-60s. He'd been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93, when two things happened. First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him into attending a workshop with Galway Kinnell; then he brought his daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the open mike at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping she'd get excited about poetry. Jack was the one who got hooked.

Since then he's brought out Grace Notes, two chapbooks (Actual Grace Notes and Too Old to Make Excuses (But Still Young Enough to Make Love)), a 60-minute cassette tape (Poems for Hannah), and a CD (Breaking Down Outside a Gas Station). A major book, Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, was released in 2003 by EM Press to rave reviews. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution.

Contact Len Germinara 774-836-5035 or lensir@hotmail.com .

THINK YELLOW Plans are underway for the 34th Annual Daffodil Flower Show to be held on Saturday, April 26 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at The Coffin School, 4 Winter Street. Admission is free, but donations are accepted for the Island Daffodil Planting Fund.

The entire Nantucket community is encouraged to enter the arrangement, horticulture and photography classes. Horticulture entry cards and show schedules will be available early April at island florists and garden centers. Exhibitors must bring their entries to The Coffin School either on Friday, April 27 between 3 to 6 p.m. or Saturday, April 28 between 7 and 9:30 a.m. Children and first-time exhibitors are encouraged to enter on Friday afternoon when members of the Nantucket Garden Club will be available to answer questions. The American Daffodil Society has a new web site www.daffodilusa.org where there is a database of thousands of daffodils, many with photos, to assist all exhibitors with the identification of their entries.

The theme for this year's show is "Rainbow of Daffodils" chaired by Gretchen Callahan and Paulette Boling. The titles for arrangements are: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Mass Arrangement), "Stormy Weather" (Men's Arrangement), "Pot of Gold" (Miniature Arrangement), "You Are My Sunshine" (Small Arrangement), "Rainbows on Parade" (Youth Arrangement), "Singing in the Rain" (Family Arrangement),

There is also a horticulture section for single stem daffodils and for collections of daffodils. Last fall, the Nantucket Garden Club with the assistance of the Ann Maury, Irene Egan, Carol Caton and CPS middle school students distributed daffodil bulbs to Nantucket students to plant and enter in the show.

This year there will be a special section for photography entries of daffodils in a landscape, a garden setting, a flower arrangement or a natural or unusual setting. Daffodils must be represented in some form in all photographs. Entry classes are for adult - either amateur or professional - and youth, from the high school, middle school and lower schools. Each photograph must be mounted or matted (not framed) with a maximum of 14" or minimum of 6" in either direction and will be limited to one photo per entrant.

The American Daffodil Society will also have Judging School III on Sunday, April 29. This is the third course of the required courses to assist individuals in becoming an American Daffodil Society Judge. There will be a nominal fee for the judging school and advance registration is required. To be placed on the mailing list to receive information, contact Mary Malavase at 228-4097.

PUT YOUR BEST PAW FORWARD Applications are now being accepted for the third annual Canine Couture Fashion Show, benefiting homeless animals, to be held August 6, 2008, at the Nantucket MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center 21 Crooked Lane. Event information and details will be forthcoming. Tickets to last year's party quickly sold out. Now is the time to sign up your fashionable dog by filling out the application. They are available at the MSPCA, Geronimo's at 119 Pleasant Street, or Nantucket Visitor Services at 25 Federal Street. You may also apply online at www.mspca.org/fashion.

All dogs are special, but for this event only 20 can be selected. The application deadline is May 15 and must be mailed or dropped off to the MSPCA, 21 Crooked Lane, Nantucket, Mass. 02554, Attention: Jessica Sosebee.

For further information, call 825-2287 or 228- 1491. Ext. 342.

INCH BY INCH, ROW BY ROW Kathrina Pearl will discuss, Inch by Inch, Row By Row: Historic Gardens and Landscape Preservation at the Nantucket Historical Association's Food for Thought Series on Thursday, April 3 in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street, at noon. Free admission; bring your lunch.

A member of the NHA staff, Pearl is currently completing a certificate program in Historic Landscape Preservation at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum. She will provide an overview of landscape preservation and discuss the landscapes and gardens at various NHA sites. Special emphasis will be given to the recently completed kitchen garden - researched and designed by Pearl - and orchard at the Oldest House, and a discussion of further landscape preservation work at Greater Light.

The April 10 Food for Thought, the last of the

spring season, will feature "A Tuckernuck Gam." I