Join The Friends of the Audi on Sunday
On Sunday, in the reception lobby, The Friends of the Audi will hold its annual meeting.
Shining a spotlight on the little gopher who has watched over the house from his balcony railing perch since the Friends formed in 1991, the meeting day promises to be a grand community event.
The Concord Community Concert Association meets at 4 p.m. for its annual meeting, where the five-concert season for 2016-17 will be announced. Then at 6 p.m., the CCCA joins The Friends of the Audi for a true pot luck supper, welcoming all to come and bring whatever dish they wish.
The supper’s sweet desserts lead into the Friends’ Annual Meeting, with Cindy Flanagan, Steven Meier, Betty Hoadley and David Murdo introducing what’s on tap for the 2016-17 season, the annual GALA and seat restoration project.
Already 33 local arts and service organizations have booked the theatre for dozens of events next season.
Everybody is welcome at the supper and meetings.
For more information, contact David Murdo at 344-4747.
Friends of the Audi
Acoustic show at West Street Ward
A small, live acoustic show featuring the music of Concord singer/songwriter Jade Marie will be held at the West Street Ward House, 41 West St., on Friday at 7 p.m.
Food, drink and copies of Marie’s demo “Cemetery” will be available. All are welcome to this live music event. Tickets will be $5 at the door.
For more info, email jademariemusic.contact@gmail.com.
Jade Marie
Pickapalooza at Gibson’s book club
Join fellow book lovers for book-talk and snacks on Monday at Gibson’s book club’s ‘Pickapalooza.’
Please bring a list of one to three of your favorite titles to share. The club, which typically meets on the first Monday of the month, but was pushed back a week due to the Fourth of July, is held at 7 p.m. and is free and open to all.
For more info, email gibsonsevents@gmail.com.
Gibson’s Bookstore
Potluck supper at The River Guild
Meet some new friends and see some old at the monthly community potluck at The River Guild on Friday at 5:30 p.m.
The potluck, held at The River Guild’s 254 N. State St. Unit E location, is free and family friendly – just bring a dish to share.
If you believe in the power of community, this event is for you.
For more info, email theriverguild@gmail.com.
Kate Hartwell
Irish music at Mill Brook Wednesday
This month’s Wednesday’s Wisdom Pot Luck will be held July 13 at the Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden (236 Hopkinton Road) at 6 p.m.
Traditional Irish music by local musicians David Levine, Brad Dorsey, Jake Stewart and others is on tap for the evening.
Come and enjoy this informal group of musicians.
Bring your lawn chairs and your pot luck, and enjoy the Irish music.
Wednesday’s Wisdom is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by Kimball Jenkins School of Art and the Mill Brook Gallery.
For more info, visit themillbrookgallery.com.
Pam Tarbell
July book sale at Baker Library
The Friends of the Baker Free Library are holding a month long $2 a bag book sale. This event runs for all of July during library hours. Come on down and fill a grocery bag or two with your summer reading!
Christine Carey
Game development program at NHTI
Starting this fall, NHTI will be offering an 18-credit, six-course certificate program in Game Development Programming. No prior game development or programming experience is required. Students in this new certificate program will take the introductory courses from NHTI’s popular two-year Animation and Graphic Game Programming (AGGP) Associate Degree.
Students who complete this certificate will obtain the skills necessary to enter an internship, apprenticeship or on-the-job training program in the field of game development. Completion of this certificate also enables students to prepare for entry-level game development certification exams. Students can also choose to continue their education in NHTI’s AGGP associate degree program.
For more information about the program, visit nhti.edu/academics/programs-study/computer-programs or contact program coordinator Greg Walek at 271-6484 ext. 4333 or gwalek@ccsnh.edu.
Doug Schwarz
Concord doctor to speak at Gibson’s
On Friday at 5:30 p.m., Concord Hospital’s Dr. David Nagel visits Gibson’s Bookstore to discuss his book about chronic pain.
Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain offers a sociological examination of a complex medical problem: chronic pain and the inability of doctors and other health professionals to understand and manage it in their patients.
People in pain, writes Nagel, are the poor of the medical world. Like the poor, they are stigmatized and left at the mercy of powerful social actors who tend to work in their own self-interest, frequently at the expense of those they propose to serve. This leaves those who suffer with little control over their own destinies and creates a dysfunctional status quo that harms instead of helps.
Drawing on his own experience witnessing his mother’s chronic pain and numerous clinical stories from over 30 years expertise as a pain management specialist, Nagel looks first at patients, their families and their doctors (usually not trained in pain management), and then broadens his canvas to elaborate a pain power structure that includes the entire healthcare community, insurers, lawyers, government regulators, employers, politicians, law enforcement agencies and painkilling drugs.
Concluding with concrete reforms to create more effective and compassionate pain care, this book is designed for pain patients and their families, healthcare providers, legislators and other public policy makers, judges, personal injury and other attorneys, insurers, government regulators, law enforcement personnel and health care businesspeople.
The event is free and open to the public.
Elisabeth Jewell
