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Events for April
29th
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Nantucket Walkabout – Sankaty BluffExpired
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Mommy (or Daddy) and Me YogaExpired
Nantucket Atheneum
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
MELLOW YELLOW ~ FINE CONTEMPORARY ART GLASSExpired
The Gallery at Four India Street
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nantucket Walkabout – Polpis HarborExpired
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Community Jazz BandExpired
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor
Events for April
30th
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
MELLOW YELLOW ~ FINE CONTEMPORARY ART GLASSExpired
The Gallery at Four India Street
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Mindful History: Art and ConversationExpired
Nantucket Whaling Museum
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nantucket Walkabout – Gardner FarmExpired
2:20 pm - 5:00 pm
SPRING II After-School Series Grades K – 5Expired
Maria Mitchell Association
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Youth Chorus Ages 8+Expired
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor
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6:00 pm
Dreamland Presents: Prevention Starts with All: The Chris Herren StoryExpired
Nantucket high School
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Lecture: Ana Ericksen |Lecture: Ana Ericksen | ACKace Illustrations
Nantucket Whaling Museum
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21st
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Birding at the Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum
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1st
10:30 am - 11:30 am
NHA Walking Tours
Nantucket Whaling Museum
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Read to a Buddy
Early Childhood Playroom
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
NHA Walking Tours
Nantucket Whaling Museum
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Nantucket Dance Theater Presents “Once Upon A Time”
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Nantucket Dance Theater Presents “Once Upon A Time”
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
Events for June
2nd
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nantucket Walkabout – Polpis Harbor
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Nantucket Dance Theater Presents “Once Upon A Time”
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Nantucket Dance Theater Presents “Once Upon A Time”
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Beginner Ukulele Drop In
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor
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May 2024
5th Annual Litter DerbyOngoing
Tidy up Nantucket and win big for your team of 6. See how much litter you can collect in 2 days. $1,000 first prize. Sign up your team at NantucketLitterDerby.com
04 May, 2024
7:00 am - 7:00 pm
Mindful History: Art and Conversation
Please join us as we connect to art and history through conversation. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 10:30 at the Whaling Museum!
04 May, 2024
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Nantucket Whaling Museum13 Broad St
Read to a Buddy
NiSHA and our certified animal therapy teams, in collaboration with NCS, offer Read to a Buddy, a literacy program encouraging pre-reading and reading skills. This program is a fun, relaxed, and nonjudgemental way to become more confident and simply enjoy reading. Bring a book from home or choose a book from the collection. Registration will […]
04 May, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Early Childhood Playroom56 Centre Street, 106
Spring Family Festival
Games, prizes and fun for the whole family! Food, snacks and ice cream by Island Kitchen!
04 May, 2024
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Children's House9 Pheasant Drive
$10.00
Transcription Afternoons
Help us transcribe historical materials from the NHA manuscript collection! Join us for drop-in transcription afternoons for an opportunity to get started with or continue working on transcription projects in a social environment as part of the NHA’s Volunteer Transcription Project. Research Associate Peggi Godwin will be on hand to help with any questions, from signing […]
04 May, 2024
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nantucket Whaling Museum13 Broad St
Nantucket Walkabout – Shawkemo Hills
Shawkemo Hills offers a hiking experience through a portion of the island dramatically shaped by the last glacier to cover most of North America. From a high spot on this hike, see and learn about the formation of Coatue, Great Point, the Haulover, Nantucket Harbor and inner harbor shores. And from a low spot along […]
04 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Cosmic Jibaros
Featuring Cosmic Jibaros at Cisco Brewers
04 May, 2024
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Concert: Hungrytown
Join us for an evening of music with Hungrytown. Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson, through their years of worldwide touring and tireless devotion to many classic genres of music, have crafted Hungrytown into a true artistic hybrid, able to hold Celtic and Americana, ballads and psychedelia, sunshine and darkness, joy and despair–not only within the same album, but […]
04 May, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Veronica Robles & Her Mariachi Band
An evening of music & dancing featuring Latino icon and mariachi band leader Veronica Robles and her all-female band as they play the evening away on the second floor of The Dreamland, S. Water Street. Cash bar & lite bites will be available for this concert celebrating the Cinco de Mayo holiday. Tickets $35 at […]
04 May, 2024
7:00 pm
Nantucket Dreamland Theater17 South Water Street
5th Annual Litter Derby
Tidy up Nantucket and win big for your team of 6. See how much litter you can collect in 2 days. $1,000 first prize. Sign up your team at NantucketLitterDerby.com
05 May, 2024
7:00 am - 7:00 pm
Nantucket Walkabout – Sankaty Bluff
Sand, gravel and boulders laid down by the last glacier during the Wisconsinan Glacial Stage was not the first layer of foundation for Nantucket; an ocean bottom created during the Sangamonian Interglacial Stage and another pavement of glacial material during the Illinoian Glacial Stage are also underneath us. The only place to see all three […]
05 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Cosmic Jibaros
Featuring Cosmic Jibaros at Cisco Brewers
05 May, 2024
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Beginner Ukulele Drop In
No Instrument? No Problem! Ukuleles available.
05 May, 2024
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Mommy (or Daddy) and Me Yoga
Join certified yoga instructor Jill Lauren for some fun yoga with your little one. Start the day playfully connecting to our bodies and our little ones. Move, stretch, and breathe together. Begin to explore the connection between our bodies and the present moment. Space is limited to one caregiver per child.
06 May, 2024
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Community Jazz Band
Winter ’24 led by Nigel Goss
06 May, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
SPRING II After-School Series Grades K – 5
Join the MMA for the Spring II After-school Series, April 23 – May 16! This second fall series of programming is DAY SPECIFIC and explores Nantucket Island. Participants will be picked up (with parent permission) from NES & NIS at 2:20pm, Nantucket Lighthouse School at 2:30pm, and the Nantucket New School at 2:40pm and depart […]
07 May, 2024
2:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Maria Mitchell Association33 Washington St.
Youth Chorus Ages 8+
A fun beginner music program to get kids used to singing in groups.
07 May, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Annual Nantucket Town Meeting
Held in the Mary P. Walker Auditorium in Nantucket High School on Surfside Road. Details at https://www.nantucket-ma.gov/2751/2024-Annual-Town-Meeting
07 May, 2024
5:00 pm
Nantucket high School10 Surfside Road, Nantucket
Nantucket Walkabout – Polpis Harbor
Although Polpis Harbor is part of Nantucket Harbor, with its own narrow channel leading into it and two distinct coves or, lobes, this former kettle hole definitely feels like its own small harbor with a mooring field in its east lobe and a few boats in its west cove. Native Americans living around it spelled […]
08 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
SPRING II After-School Series Grades K – 5
Join the MMA for the Spring II After-school Series, April 23 – May 16! This second fall series of programming is DAY SPECIFIC and explores Nantucket Island. Participants will be picked up (with parent permission) from NES & NIS at 2:20pm, Nantucket Lighthouse School at 2:30pm, and the Nantucket New School at 2:40pm and depart […]
08 May, 2024
2:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Maria Mitchell Association33 Washington St.
Lecture: Ana Ericksen |Lecture: Ana Ericksen | ACKace Illustrations
Ericksen’s work cleverly engages Nantucket culture and community, striving for friendly and charming images that create a bond with her audience. This talk will look at the work Ericksen does to cultivate her audience and her bond with them, as well as her creative process and the decisions that go into each of her drawings. […]
08 May, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Nantucket Whaling Museum13 Broad St
Table Top Game Night
Join us for our Weekly Table Top Game Night at the Nantucket Atheneum. Every week we will have one table devoted to a rotating selection of games and one table for Dungeons & Dragons (limited seating for D&D, first come first serve!) New players and old are all welcome! Game Night is open to ADULTS […]
08 May, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Atheneum Knitting Group
Calling all knitters! Gather your projects and supplies and come knit with us. Are you curious about learning how to knit? Our group of veterans can get you started. Are you stymied by a challenge in your project? Our group can help with that. The Atheneum Knitters Group is a fun, relaxed place to share […]
08 May, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Celtic Sessions
Drop in and enjoy playing classic Celtic tunes in a group setting.
08 May, 2024
7:00 pm
Kitty Murtagh's4 W Creek Rd
Community Chorus
Come sing your heart out with one of Nantucket’s longest-running community choirs.
08 May, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
St. Paul's Church20 Fair Street.
Nantucket Walkabout – Shawkemo Hills
Shawkemo Hills offers a hiking experience through a portion of the island dramatically shaped by the last glacier to cover most of North America. From a high spot on this hike, see and learn about the formation of Coatue, Great Point, the Haulover, Nantucket Harbor and inner harbor shores. And from a low spot along […]
09 May, 2024
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Circle of Moms
Circle of Moms creates a free, confidential space where moms can connect, brainstorm, vent and share successes and ideas and feel empowered to talk about the adjustment to motherhood and feel connected, refreshed and ready to face another day! Mothers are welcome in this space to say what is true for them about motherhood. Expectant […]
09 May, 2024
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Early Childhood Playroom56 Centre Street, 106
Tree Tours
The Nantucket Land & Water Council offers free historic downtown tree tours. Learn about the beautiful and historical species of trees that line our downtown streets. Led by Nantucket Waterkeeper RJ Turcotte, whose combined biology and island history knowledge generates interesting conversations and surprising questions. Find out how our town’s trees have been preserved over […]
09 May, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Nantucket Walkabout – Linda Loring Nature Foundation
This is about a two-hour hike experience from pick up to drop off. Check the hike calendar to see when we are heading out to the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, but realize that this is a seasonal hike, which is on our hike calendar from spring through early fall. However, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation […]
09 May, 2024
12:45 pm
SPRING II After-School Series Grades K – 5
Join the MMA for the Spring II After-school Series, April 23 – May 16! This second fall series of programming is DAY SPECIFIC and explores Nantucket Island. Participants will be picked up (with parent permission) from NES & NIS at 2:20pm, Nantucket Lighthouse School at 2:30pm, and the Nantucket New School at 2:40pm and depart […]
09 May, 2024
2:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Maria Mitchell Association33 Washington St.
Music & Movement
A beginner music class including songs, rhymes and stories in English and Spanish for kids ages infant through 5 years and their caretakers.
10 May, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Playground Pals
A weekly free playgroup held Friday mornings at the Discovery Playground on Old South Road. All ages are welcome to join with their parent or guardian. This group does not require registration.
10 May, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Discovery Playground54 Old South Rd
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Buckle & Shake
Featuring Buckle & Shake performing at Cisco Brewers
10 May, 2024
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Free Sing Along with for Ages 5+
Nantucket Community Music Center presents a special drop-off program for youngsters 5 and older. Parents may drop the kids off at 6 pm at NCMC’s campus at 56 Centre Street and return to pick them up by 8 pm. Well serve them pizza and beverages and they can enjoy a fun sing-a-long: costumes are encouraged.
10 May, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Friday Night Karaoke
Join the fun and sing along at the Rose & Crown, 23 South Water Street.
10 May, 2024
10:00 pm
Rose & Crown23 S Water Street
STEM Grab & Go Bag: Symmetry in Nature
Stop by the Weezie Library today and pick up this week’s Grab & Go project: Symmetry in Nature. This project explores the difference between rotational and reflection symmetry, takes you on a nature walk, and finishes with a fun sun art project! All supplies and instructions are included. While supplies last.
11 May, 2024
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Read to a Buddy
NiSHA and our certified animal therapy teams, in collaboration with NCS, offer Read to a Buddy, a literacy program encouraging pre-reading and reading skills. This program is a fun, relaxed, and nonjudgemental way to become more confident and simply enjoy reading. Bring a book from home or choose a book from the collection. Registration will […]
11 May, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Early Childhood Playroom56 Centre Street, 106
Transcription Afternoons
Help us transcribe historical materials from the NHA manuscript collection! Join us for drop-in transcription afternoons for an opportunity to get started with or continue working on transcription projects in a social environment as part of the NHA’s Volunteer Transcription Project. Research Associate Peggi Godwin will be on hand to help with any questions, from signing […]
11 May, 2024
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nantucket Whaling Museum13 Broad St
Nantucket Walkabout – Sankaty Bluff
Sand, gravel and boulders laid down by the last glacier during the Wisconsinan Glacial Stage was not the first layer of foundation for Nantucket; an ocean bottom created during the Sangamonian Interglacial Stage and another pavement of glacial material during the Illinoian Glacial Stage are also underneath us. The only place to see all three […]
11 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: 100 Proof
Featuring 100 Proof at Cisco Brewers
11 May, 2024
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Summer Decks Warm-Up featuring Pete Ahern & Friends
Join us for a series of very special Saturday evenings at The Dreamland this spring featuring DJ Pete Ahern. Cash Bar available all night! Tickets are very limited, so get yours today! General Public: $35 + $3 service fee Dreamland Members: $30 (& no service fee) 21+ with wristband
11 May, 2024
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Nantucket Dreamland Theater17 South Water Street
Mother’s Day Brunch
Join The Breeze for their annual Mother’s Day dining experience! Treat mom to a scrumptious spread and take a ride in one of The Nantucket Hotel’s antique vehicles! Whatever the year brings we know moms deserve all the praise they get this Mother’s Day.
12 May, 2024
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
The Nantucket Hotel77 Easton Street
Nantucket Walkabout – Shawkemo Hills
Shawkemo Hills offers a hiking experience through a portion of the island dramatically shaped by the last glacier to cover most of North America. From a high spot on this hike, see and learn about the formation of Coatue, Great Point, the Haulover, Nantucket Harbor and inner harbor shores. And from a low spot along […]
12 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: 100 Proof
Featuring 100 Proof at Cisco Brewers
12 May, 2024
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Beginner Ukulele Drop In
No Instrument? No Problem! Ukuleles available.
12 May, 2024
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Mommy (or Daddy) and Me Yoga
Join certified yoga instructor Jill Lauren for some fun yoga with your little one. Start the day playfully connecting to our bodies and our little ones. Move, stretch, and breathe together. Begin to explore the connection between our bodies and the present moment. Space is limited to one caregiver per child.
13 May, 2024
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Hospital Thrift Shop Re-Opens
The Hospital Thrift Shop reopens for the 2024 season at 17 India Street.
13 May, 2024
10:00 am
Nantucket’s Hospital Thrift Shop17 India Street
Nantucket Walkabout – Polpis Harbor
Although Polpis Harbor is part of Nantucket Harbor, with its own narrow channel leading into it and two distinct coves or, lobes, this former kettle hole definitely feels like its own small harbor with a mooring field in its east lobe and a few boats in its west cove. Native Americans living around it spelled […]
13 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Community Jazz Band
Winter ’24 led by Nigel Goss
13 May, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Nantucket Walkabout – Sankaty Bluff
Sand, gravel and boulders laid down by the last glacier during the Wisconsinan Glacial Stage was not the first layer of foundation for Nantucket; an ocean bottom created during the Sangamonian Interglacial Stage and another pavement of glacial material during the Illinoian Glacial Stage are also underneath us. The only place to see all three […]
14 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
SPRING II After-School Series Grades K – 5
Join the MMA for the Spring II After-school Series, April 23 – May 16! This second fall series of programming is DAY SPECIFIC and explores Nantucket Island. Participants will be picked up (with parent permission) from NES & NIS at 2:20pm, Nantucket Lighthouse School at 2:30pm, and the Nantucket New School at 2:40pm and depart […]
14 May, 2024
2:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Maria Mitchell Association33 Washington St.
Youth Chorus Ages 8+
A fun beginner music program to get kids used to singing in groups.
14 May, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Birding Field Trip
These trips will explore Nantucket’s birding hotspots and offer participants a chance to observe birds in their natural habitats. Binoculars, spotting scope, and field guides are available to borrow. All experience levels welcome. BIRDING FIELD TRIPS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! Pre-registration is required. Please submit a unique registration for each participant. The deadline […]
15 May, 2024
7:45 am - 10:30 am
Nantucket Wine & Food Festival
Receptions, wine tastings, seminars, talks, wine dinners, luncheons, and more.
15 May, 2024
All Day
Wine Festival Art Glassware by Robert Dane
Robert Dane is a master glass blower of fine wine, water, rock glasses, and wine decanters. Celebrate your extraordinary wines in one of his one-of-a-kind glasses. Using many of the Italian Murano glass techniques, his wonderful artworks will bring more great conversation to your table. This is a special offering during the 2024 Wine Festival […]
15 May, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Gallery at Four India Street2nd floor of 4 India Street
SPRING II After-School Series Grades K – 5
Join the MMA for the Spring II After-school Series, April 23 – May 16! This second fall series of programming is DAY SPECIFIC and explores Nantucket Island. Participants will be picked up (with parent permission) from NES & NIS at 2:20pm, Nantucket Lighthouse School at 2:30pm, and the Nantucket New School at 2:40pm and depart […]
15 May, 2024
2:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Maria Mitchell Association33 Washington St.
Table Top Game Night
Join us for our Weekly Table Top Game Night at the Nantucket Atheneum. Every week we will have one table devoted to a rotating selection of games and one table for Dungeons & Dragons (limited seating for D&D, first come first serve!) New players and old are all welcome! Game Night is open to ADULTS […]
15 May, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Atheneum Knitting Group
Calling all knitters! Gather your projects and supplies and come knit with us. Are you curious about learning how to knit? Our group of veterans can get you started. Are you stymied by a challenge in your project? Our group can help with that. The Atheneum Knitters Group is a fun, relaxed place to share […]
15 May, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Celtic Sessions
Drop in and enjoy playing classic Celtic tunes in a group setting.
15 May, 2024
7:00 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Community Chorus
Come sing your heart out with one of Nantucket’s longest-running community choirs.
15 May, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
St. Paul's Church20 Fair Street.
Nantucket Wine & Food Festival
Receptions, wine tastings, seminars, talks, wine dinners, luncheons, and more.
16 May, 2024
All Day
Circle of Moms
Circle of Moms creates a free, confidential space where moms can connect, brainstorm, vent and share successes and ideas and feel empowered to talk about the adjustment to motherhood and feel connected, refreshed and ready to face another day! Mothers are welcome in this space to say what is true for them about motherhood. Expectant […]
16 May, 2024
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Early Childhood Playroom56 Centre Street, 106
SPRING II After-School Series Grades K – 5
Join the MMA for the Spring II After-school Series, April 23 – May 16! This second fall series of programming is DAY SPECIFIC and explores Nantucket Island. Participants will be picked up (with parent permission) from NES & NIS at 2:20pm, Nantucket Lighthouse School at 2:30pm, and the Nantucket New School at 2:40pm and depart […]
16 May, 2024
2:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Maria Mitchell Association33 Washington St.
Nantucket Wine & Food Festival
Receptions, wine tastings, seminars, talks, wine dinners, luncheons, and more.
17 May, 2024
All Day
Music & Movement
A beginner music class including songs, rhymes and stories in English and Spanish for kids ages infant through 5 years and their caretakers.
17 May, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Nature Ramble
Walking over our gently rolling trails, we’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond and Nantucket Sound as we traverse a portion of the Linda Loring Nature Foundation’s Eel Point Road property. We’ll see what’s blooming, budding, flying, and crawling around the trails. Each walk will be guided by […]
17 May, 2024
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Playground Pals
A weekly free playgroup held Friday mornings at the Discovery Playground on Old South Road. All ages are welcome to join with their parent or guardian. This group does not require registration.
17 May, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Discovery Playground54 Old South Rd
Nantucket Walkabout – Gardner Farm
Formerly a vegetable farm along the east of side of Hummock Pond, the Land Bank’s Gardner Farm property runs along Hummock Pond, a glacial meltwater river bed that once ran roughly 75 miles south out to the edge of the continental shelf. Now closed off to the ocean and filled with slightly brackish water — […]
17 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Buckle & Shake
Featuring Buckle & Shake performing at Cisco Brewers
17 May, 2024
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Friday Night Karaoke
Join the fun and sing along at the Rose & Crown, 23 South Water Street.
17 May, 2024
10:00 pm
Rose & Crown23 S Water Street
Nantucket Wine & Food Festival
Receptions, wine tastings, seminars, talks, wine dinners, luncheons, and more.
18 May, 2024
All Day
Nantucket Walkabout – Shawkemo Hills
Shawkemo Hills offers a hiking experience through a portion of the island dramatically shaped by the last glacier to cover most of North America. From a high spot on this hike, see and learn about the formation of Coatue, Great Point, the Haulover, Nantucket Harbor and inner harbor shores. And from a low spot along […]
18 May, 2024
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Read to a Buddy
NiSHA and our certified animal therapy teams, in collaboration with NCS, offer Read to a Buddy, a literacy program encouraging pre-reading and reading skills. This program is a fun, relaxed, and nonjudgemental way to become more confident and simply enjoy reading. Bring a book from home or choose a book from the collection. Registration will […]
18 May, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Early Childhood Playroom56 Centre Street, 106
Transcription Afternoons
Help us transcribe historical materials from the NHA manuscript collection! Join us for drop-in transcription afternoons for an opportunity to get started with or continue working on transcription projects in a social environment as part of the NHA’s Volunteer Transcription Project. Research Associate Peggi Godwin will be on hand to help with any questions, from signing […]
18 May, 2024
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nantucket Whaling Museum13 Broad St
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Shot Down
Featuring Shot Down performing at Cisco Brewers
18 May, 2024
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Nantucket Wine & Food Festival
Receptions, wine tastings, seminars, talks, wine dinners, luncheons, and more.
19 May, 2024
All Day
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Shot Down
Featuring Shot Down performing at Cisco Brewers
19 May, 2024
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Beginner Ukulele Drop In
No Instrument? No Problem! Ukuleles available.
19 May, 2024
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Mommy (or Daddy) and Me Yoga
Join certified yoga instructor Jill Lauren for some fun yoga with your little one. Start the day playfully connecting to our bodies and our little ones. Move, stretch, and breathe together. Begin to explore the connection between our bodies and the present moment. Space is limited to one caregiver per child.
20 May, 2024
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Walkabout – Sankaty Bluff
Sand, gravel and boulders laid down by the last glacier during the Wisconsinan Glacial Stage was not the first layer of foundation for Nantucket; an ocean bottom created during the Sangamonian Interglacial Stage and another pavement of glacial material during the Illinoian Glacial Stage are also underneath us. The only place to see all three […]
20 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annual Town Election
Held in the Mary P. Walker Auditorium in Nantucket High School on Surfside Road. Details at https://nantucket-ma.gov/2752/2024-Annual-Town-Election
21 May, 2024
8:00 am
Nantucket high School10 Surfside Road, Nantucket
Birding at the Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
Join us at the Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum, on the edge of the scenic Folger’s Marsh, a Nantucket Conservation Foundation property, with birding experts Seth Engelbourg from Linda Loring Nature Foundation and Neil Foley from Nantucket Conservation Foundation as they guide you through observation of the abundant bird life in this unique ecosystem. Participants […]
21 May, 2024
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum158 Polpis Road
Nantucket Walkabout – Polpis Harbor
Although Polpis Harbor is part of Nantucket Harbor, with its own narrow channel leading into it and two distinct coves or, lobes, this former kettle hole definitely feels like its own small harbor with a mooring field in its east lobe and a few boats in its west cove. Native Americans living around it spelled […]
21 May, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Youth Chorus Ages 8+
A fun beginner music program to get kids used to singing in groups.
21 May, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Buckle & Shake
Featuring Buckle & Shake performing at Cisco Brewers
22 May, 2024
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Suicide Loss Survivor Peer Grief Support Group
Join our safe and supportive space for suicide loss survivors. Connect with others who understand your pain. Led by Sharing Kindness and Fairwinds, this support group is tailored for those aged 18 and above, providing a space to share, heal, and find solace together. This group is held every 4th Wednesday of the month. To […]
22 May, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Table Top Game Night
Join us for our Weekly Table Top Game Night at the Nantucket Atheneum. Every week we will have one table devoted to a rotating selection of games and one table for Dungeons & Dragons (limited seating for D&D, first come first serve!) New players and old are all welcome! Game Night is open to ADULTS […]
22 May, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Atheneum Knitting Group
Calling all knitters! Gather your projects and supplies and come knit with us. Are you curious about learning how to knit? Our group of veterans can get you started. Are you stymied by a challenge in your project? Our group can help with that. The Atheneum Knitters Group is a fun, relaxed place to share […]
22 May, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum1 India St, Nantucket, MA
Celtic Sessions
Drop in and enjoy playing classic Celtic tunes in a group setting.
22 May, 2024
7:00 pm
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
Nantucket Walkabout – Gardner Farm
Formerly a vegetable farm along the east of side of Hummock Pond, the Land Bank’s Gardner Farm property runs along Hummock Pond, a glacial meltwater river bed that once ran roughly 75 miles south out to the edge of the continental shelf. Now closed off to the ocean and filled with slightly brackish water — […]
23 May, 2024
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Circle of Moms
Circle of Moms creates a free, confidential space where moms can connect, brainstorm, vent and share successes and ideas and feel empowered to talk about the adjustment to motherhood and feel connected, refreshed and ready to face another day! Mothers are welcome in this space to say what is true for them about motherhood. Expectant […]
23 May, 2024
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Early Childhood Playroom56 Centre Street, 106
The Art of Giovanni Decunto
Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with the art of Giovanni Decunto in The Gallery at Four India. A patriotic exhibition of the American flag series, created by the artist. The American flag is a symbol of freedom—it defines who we are! American-made is something to be proud of. It is a source of culture, we band […]
23 May, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Gallery at Four India Street2nd floor of 4 India Street
Music & Movement
A beginner music class including songs, rhymes and stories in English and Spanish for kids ages infant through 5 years and their caretakers.
24 May, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Nantucket Community Music Center Parlor56 Centre Street
The Art of Giovanni Decunto
Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with the art of Giovanni Decunto in The Gallery at Four India. A patriotic exhibition of the American flag series, created by the artist. The American flag is a symbol of freedom—it defines who we are! American-made is something to be proud of. It is a source of culture, we band […]
24 May, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Gallery at Four India Street2nd floor of 4 India Street
Tony Sarg: Genius at Play Exhibit Opens
This is the Nantucket Historical Association’s featured exhibit for 2024 in their Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. Tony Sarg’s vast knowledge of puppet technology was instrumental in his design of the inaugural Thanksgiving Day parade balloons for Macy’s Department Store in 1927, as well as automated displays for the company’s festive holiday windows, which were imitated […]
24 May, 2024
10:00 am
Nantucket Whaling Museum13 Broad St
Playground Pals
A weekly free playgroup held Friday mornings at the Discovery Playground on Old South Road. All ages are welcome to join with their parent or guardian. This group does not require registration.
24 May, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Discovery Playground54 Old South Rd
Tony Sarg: Genius at Play Opens for the Season
Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in partnership with the Nantucket Historical Association, Tony Sarg: Genius at Play will go on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum this summer season, the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the life, art, and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880-1942). Tony Sarg’s vast knowledge of puppet technology was […]
24 May, 2024
11:00 am
Nantucket Whaling Museum13 Broad St
Live Music at Cisco Brewers: Concrete Jungle
Featuring Concrete Jungle performing at Cisco Brewers
24 May, 2024
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cisco Brewers5 Bartlett Farm Rd
Friday Night Karaoke
Join the fun and sing along at the Rose & Crown, 23 South Water Street.
24 May, 2024
10:00 pm
Rose & Crown23 S Water Street
The Art of Giovanni Decunto
Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with the art of Giovanni Decunto in The Gallery at Four India. A patriotic exhibition of the American flag series, created by the artist. The American flag is a symbol of freedom—it defines who we are! American-made is something to be proud of. It is a source of culture, we band […]
25 May, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Gallery at Four India Street2nd floor of 4 India Street
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2024 Annual Events
April 25 -28, Daffodil Festival
May 15 – 19, Wine & Food Festival
June, Nantucket Preservation Month
June 13 -16, Book Festival
June 19 – 24, Film Festival
July 4, – Independence Day Festivities
July 9 – 14, Nantucket Dance Festival
July 11 – 13, Comedy Festival
July , Nantucket Art and Artisan Show
July 18 – 20, Weekend at the Atheneum
July 23 – 25, Nantucket Garden Festival
August, Nantucket Beach Fitness Camp
August 10, Boston Pops
August 15 – 18, NHA’s Nantucket by Design
August 14 – 18, Nantucket Race Week
August 18, Opera House Cup
August, Marine Life Release Day
September: Nantucket Harvest Fair
November, NHA’s Festival of Wreaths
December 1 – 3, Christmas Stroll
December, NHA’s Festival of Trees