Collaborative Concert with Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, November 5, 2017 Collaborative Concert with Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra at the Music Hall 3:00 p.m. Athenaeum 200th Anniversary Celebration Program: Ravel, Kraft and Debussy This special collaborative concert with the Portsmouth Athenaeum, celebrating 200...Author Mike Dater Book Signing
Author Mike Dater will give talk and book signing for his book “Mr. Obama Goes to Washington, And Then What Happened, Mommy?”. Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in the Reading RoomOmer String Quartet Concert October 15, 2017
The last of the 2017 Historic Portsmouth Chamber Concerts The Omer String Quartet returns to Portsmouth this year with Bartok’s Quartet Number 3, which the group is preparing for the June Borciani Competition in Italy. In this shortest of Bartok’s...“Pretty Halcyon Days: On the Beach with Ogden Nash”
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Fall Lecture Series: Pontine Theatre, “Pretty Halcyon Days: On The Beach with Ogden Nash” 7 p.m. in the Research Library. Ogden Nash, Portsmouth Athenaeum Proprietor, spent his summers on Little Boar’s Head in North...Gallery Talk on “Treasures of the Athenaeum, Part IV”
Saturday, October 7, 2017 11 a.m. Join Curator Richard Candee to learn how the Athenaeum became what it is today as he focuses on key elements from his exhibit “Treasures of the Athenaeum Part IV: Renewal, Growth, and a Public Research Library, 1980 –...Treasures of the Athenaeum Part IV, 1980-2017: Renewal, Growth & A Public Research Library
The current exhibit “Treasures of the Athenaeum Part IV, 1980-2017: Renewal, Growth & A Public Research Library” opened Sept. 15 in the Randall Gallery at 9 Market Square. Curator, Richard Candee will give a talk on this exhibit on Saturday, October...Jose Lezcano with String Quartet Concert
Sunday, September 17, 2017 HPCM presents Jose Lezcano with String Ensemble at the South Church in Portsmouth Guitarist Jose Lezcano, violinist Jennifer Elowitch and members of the Portland Chamber Music Festival team up to play a program of music for guitar and...Athenaeum Cruise on the Piscataqua Gundalow
On Saturday, September 16th, from 2 to 4 pm, there will be a wonderful opportunity to see Portsmouth the way it was viewed by many of its residents for the city’s first 300 years…from the water. The non-profit Gundalow Company has offered the Portsmouth Athenauem the...The Athenaeum Featured on NHPR
In 2016, Roland Goodbody, contract archivist at the Portsmouth Athenaeum, cataloged the NH-Maine border dispute papers of Harrison “Workie” Workman (1919-2007), a Portsmouth resident and lobsterman. MS120 Harrison Workman Border Dispute Papers,...Events Calendar
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