{"id":2004440,"date":"2025-09-07T18:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2004440"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:53:45","slug":"new-bedford-aha-night-celebrates-cultures-with-art-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-bedford-aha-night-celebrates-cultures-with-art-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bedford AHA! Night Celebrates Cultures With Art and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AHA! Night on the second Thursday of every month is a great place to learn what makes New Bedford tick,\u00a0along with taking in the art, history and architecture that’s made the Whaling City famous.<\/p>\n
Kim Goddard is director of AHA! Night in New Bedford and she visits\u00a0Townsquare Sunday<\/em>\u00a0every month to preview upcoming events.<\/p>\n
Wampum, Games and Cape Verdean Music<\/h3>\n
The next AHA! Night is Thursday, September 11 and the theme for the evening is a celebration of New Bedford cultures. It starts with a discussion of wampum at the Bushwood Tailors OppShop, located at 763 Purchase Street, at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
“Wampum is actually beads and jewelry cut from a quahog clam shell, and Hartman Deetz, a Mashpee Wampanoag, will be there to talk about his work with wampum jewelry,” Goddard said.<\/p>\n
Outside the shop, you can learn how to play a traditional Azorean marble-and-dice board game, and then check out an AHA moment at the Stepping Razor Barbershop: a sonic voyage to Cape Verde, with traditional music from the Harmony Band from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
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For those of you into knots,\u00a0visit the International Guild of Knot Tyers Exposition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. It’s a three-day event celebrating New Bedford’s maritime traditions while highlighting knot-tying practices from around the world.<\/p>\n
More music is on tap at 6 p.m. with a performance by a Fado quartet led by Sandy Batista in the museum’s Lagoda Room.<\/p>\n
Art, Exhibits, and Historical Reenactments<\/h3>\n
Gallery X is presenting a historical reenactment of the New Bedford Textile Workers Strike of 1928, adapted from the Spinner Publication book The Strike of ’28<\/em>. The performance starts at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
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New Bedford Art Museum<\/span><\/p>New Bedford Art Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
The New Bedford Art Museum on Pleasant Street is holding receptions for two photography exhibits: “The Shape of Who We Are: Exploring Identity” and “I Return with a Feeling of Us: The Photography of Anthony Barboza.” The receptions run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n