Events

Each year the New Bedford mayor gives a State of the City speech at a luncheon in front of hundreds of attendees. WBSM and the public TV network typically cover the event. We posted a review of Mayor Lang’s 2011 State of the City address here. The hot topics for …

Every school day 7,000 students become dropouts nationwide, that’s one every 26 seconds. The Greater New Bedford Connecting Activities Partnership needs volunteers to help address this crisis within the New Bedford area by delivering CHOICES, an interactive decision-making workshop that empowers teens to achieve academic success in pursuit of their …

On Saturday, March 3, beginning at 10:00 AM, the Friends of the New Bedford Public Library, the New Bedford Historical Society and the New Bedford Civil War Roundtable, in partnership with New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, present an author talk and family-friendly programming about New Bedford’s role in the …

The Ocean Explorium, with generous support from the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, announces the fourth annual speaker series aimed at promoting the “STEM” subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to girls and young women. The Girls Interested in Real Life Science (GIRLS) series will run each Thursday in March.  Formerly offered …

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park announces the next sessions in its Exploration Series. On Thurs., Feb. 23, Mike Dyer, Maritime Curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, will talk about the worldwide business of whaling and share treasures from whaling times, such as atlases, maps, whaling journals, and more. …

Mayor Jon Mitchell will join with Lara Harrington and Angela Corrieri-Johnson to celebrate the opening of Boutique Fitness, a unique personal training studio and the newest business to open in Downtown New Bedford.   A ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned at the studio, located in a redesigned space at 516 Pleasant Street in …

On Friday night, Febuary 24, Harvard educated and award-winning singer-songwriter Mieka Pauley will join local singer-songwriter Rebecca Correia to perform at the UGLY Gallery on Union Street in Downtown New Bedford. Originally from Boston, Pauley comes to New Bedford with an impressive resume. In 2005, she won the Starbucks Emerging …

Mocha Dick is purported to have been a real sperm whale that terrorized whaling crews in the 1830s. Some scholars believe he was the inspiration for Herman Melville’s great white whale, Moby-Dick. Beyond this obscure reference to mocha, is there any connection between 19th century American Whaling and chocolate? It …

Dr. Peter Capelotti, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Penn State Abington will present an illustrated lecture titled, “The Whaling Expedition of the Ulysses 1937–38,” on Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Cook Memorial Theater, New Bedford Whaling Museum. Writer, editor and member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, …

The City of New Bedford and the New Bedford Economic Development Council, today announced plans to host an open house to update the public on the results of the first phase of the Acushnet Avenue International Marketplace project.  The Acushnet Avenue International Marketplace project is an initiative to redesign a …