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Calendar for Saturday, May 8, 1999
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Maritime Heritage Festival
Learn about traditions of the sea at this annual event that features folk music, an oral history project on "Faces of Whaling," and demonstrations of maritime crafts including boat-building, rigging, and sail-making. Performers include Gordon Bok, Compass Rose, and the Rum-Soaked Crooks.
Noon-4 p.m. New Bedford Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill. Free. Rain or shine. 508-997-0046 (Get directions).
Bunker Hill Antiques Market
Dealers from as near as Boston and as distant as Florida exhibit pieces from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Included will be nautical items, folk art, porcelain, early glass, textiles, furniture, brass, reference books, prints, and architectural pieces. Proceeds benefit the Charlestown Preservation Society.
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Bunker Hill Community College, Rutherford Avenue, Charlestown. $6. Rain or shine. 617-241-7500(Get Directions).
COAXIAL
Musicians from Boston and beyond team up for two days of electronic music in conjunction with the CyberArts Festival. Tonight's program features New York's Soundlab members DJ Olive of We and Acustyk of Byzar, plus members of the local Toneburst Collective in dub, hip-hop, jungle, dancehall, and experimental audiovisual exploration. Tomorrow highlights "The Magic Number" by Harvard's Electronic Music Studio, Eric Chasalow's World-Wide Electronic Music Show, and performers from the MIT Media Lab.
9 p.m.-2 a.m. Middle East, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. $10 advance, $12 at the door. Also Sunday at 6 p.m.-1 a.m. $5, or free with ticket from Saturday. 617-625-5744 (Get Directions).
Titanic Grand Ball
Indulge in a little fantasy with the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers as they put a new spin on their annual gala event, imagining that this time the ill-fated ship actually arrives safely in New York. Guests are encouraged to come in formal or period dress and dance the night away, doing ragtime tangos, waltzes, one-steps, and Castle Walks to the New River Dance Orchestra.
7:30-11 p.m. First Unitarian Society, 1326 Washington St., Newton. $20. 617-666-1596(Get Directions).
Vernon Street Open Studios
Boston's oldest open studios event celebrates its 22nd year with displays of painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs. More than 40 artists and their work spaces are featured. Also highlighted will be demonstrations of encaustic painting and silk-screening.
Noon-5 p.m. Vernon and Central streets, Somerville. Also Sunday. Free. 617-666-1463.
Arts First '99
Harvard and Radcliffe's celebration of the arts features dance, theater, poetry, and plays. Today, John Lithgow leads a parade down Massachusetts Avenue in the morning, followed by an afternoon of more than 80 performances in and around Harvard Yard. In the evening, the Kuumba Singers present gospel and spiritual music.
11:15 a.m., parade leaves from The Inn at Harvard. Performance fair 1-5 p.m. Concert 8 p.m. at Sanders Theatre. Free. Events run May 6-9. 617-495-8676.(Get Directions for The Inn at Harvard) (Get Directions for Sanders Theatre).
Dr. Jared Diamond
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, MacArthur Foundation fellow, and UCLA physiology professor draws from his latest book, "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," in this Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture. Diamond explores how world-conquering cultures developed.
4 p.m. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge. Free. Reservations encouraged. 617-496-2222 (Get Directions).
Chanteyfest
Lynn Noel, Carl Thornton, Daisy Nell, and Barry Finn are among performers singing songs of the sea and telling stories of New England maritime history. Musicians will perform on the docks of Canada's largest tall ship, the 200-foot schooner Empire Sandy, which will be open to visitors all day.
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Federal Courthouse Docks, Fan Pier, South Boston Seaport District. Free. 781-344-1749.
Harvard Square Book Festival
A week of literary events kicks off with Salman Rushdie reading from his new novel, "The Ground Beneath her Feet," and taking questions. Among other writers at the fest will be David Guterson, Christopher Hitchens, Anne Roiphe, Grace Paley, Anita Shreeve, Gish Jen, Frederick Busch, and Brendan O'Carroll. The festival schedule is on page 33.
Rushdie reading 7 p.m. First Parish Church, Mass. Ave. and Church St. $12, students and seniors $10. 617-499-2082.
"King's Chapel Noon Hour Recital"
Boston Viola Quartet performs works by Bowen, Weinzierl, and Vivaldi as part of this weekly series in the heart of downtown.
12:15 p.m. King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St., Boston. Free, donation requested. 617-227-2155 (Get Directions).
"Peter Mulvey"
The Milwaukee-based singer-songwriter whose skills were honed in Boston subways and on Dublin Streets is on the road to celebrate his new live CD, "Glencree." Christopher Williams opens the show.
8:30 p.m. Johnny D's, Davis Square, Somerville. $10. 617-776-2004(Get Directions).
- Milva Didomizio
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