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WHFF Virtual presents: Jack London's Martin Eden
2021-12-16 08:00 - 2021-12-19 23:59 UTC | Virtual Film Festival, 89 Water Street Second Floor, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival season series WHFF Virtual kicks off with the return of WHFF alum Jay Craven’s new feature film, JACK LONDON’S MARTIN EDEN, including an online Q&A with Jay on Saturday, December 18 at 7pm EST.
ABOUT THE FILM:
Set in 1909 and produced on Nantucket, ”Jack London’s Martin Eden” tells the story of a poor and unschooled sailor, Martin Eden, who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends – and changes – both lives.
For the best community viewing experience, we recommend starting the film at 5:00 p.m. EST on Saturday, December 18 and then joining WHFF Executive Director Judy Laster and director Jay Craven for the Q&A on Zoom at 7:00 p.m. EST.
The film will be available to watch between Thursday, December 16 at 8am and Sunday, December 19 at midnight EST. If you purchase a ticket in advance you will receive an activation link to view the film via e-mail on Thursday morning, December 16th. If you purchase a ticket on or after December 16th you will receive a watch link immediately after your order confirmation. A free ticket to the virtual Q&A will be made available when you purchase your ticket. A separate access link for the Q&A will be e-mailed to you approximately one hour before the start of the event. Once you start playing the film you will have 48 hours to finish watching, or until midnight on Sunday, December 19, whichever comes first.
Note: Tickets will go off sale promptly at 9pm EST on Sunday, December 19.
Tickets are $14 per person, $20 per household ($12/17 respectively for Woods Hole Film Festival members) and are on sale in advance at https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/e/WHFFVirtualJackLondonsMartinEden
And remember, WHFF Members get a discount to all screenings. You can become a member at:
https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/Membership/Sale
The series is supported in part by grants from the Cape Cod 5 Foundation, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Mass Cultural Council and the Falmouth Fund of The Cape Cod Foundation.
For more information email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.

Virtual Book Reading in partnership with Footprints Café
2022-02-03 18:00 - 2022-02-28 18:00
Virtual book reading of I AM EVERY GOOD THING and The Me I Choose to Be, in partnership with Footprints Café
Read by Stefanie Corbin, owner of Footprints Café. The books are appropriate for ages ~4-8.
Footprints Cafe is a black, woman-owned, bookstore. A place where inclusivity and diversity is celebrated and honored. A bookstore where people and authors of color voices are amplified and represented in their fullness.

Meet Jacki Hartman, Falmouth Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
2022-02-09 19:00 - 20:00
Introducing Jacqueline Hartman, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer for the town of Falmouth. Ms. Hartman will be interviewed by George Liles (NOAA Fisheries’ Director of Academic Programs and co-founder and director of the Partnership in Education Program (PEP) and will answer questions from the audience at our February 9th conversation.
Register for this (zoom) event here.

Woods Hole Film Festival Virtual Screening of Human Nature Film
2022-02-10 08:00 - 2022-02-13 23:59
Human Nature Film screening, in partnership with the Woods Hole Film Festival
Film trailer: https://vimeo.com/321559059
Film access is free through this link. It is available from Thursday, February 10th at 8 am through Sunday, February 13th at 11:59 pm: https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/e/WHFFVirtualHumanNature
Synopsis: A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.

Yoga 4 All with Linda Wells
2022-02-16 19:30
Linda Wells, M. Ed., CYT-500, is Linda Wellness Warrior, Yoga Instructor specializing in Resiliency and Stress Management. Linda is an African American cis-gendered, plus-sized woman residing on the land of the Massachuett (Cambridge, MA). She is a social disruptor of unhealthy societal ideals. Linda offers classes that make the yoga practice inclusive through variations, language, and location.
Linda wants to give people the skills to mitigate the challenging circumstances of their lives. Linda Wellness Warrior exists to teach that wellness is your birthright.
Workshop description: This workshop will help dispel the mythology that you have to be thin, white, young, and flexible to get the benefits of a practice of Yoga. Yoga is a powerful tool that everyone has access to, to relieve stress and improve health. The practice of yoga is beneficial to all bodies, all shapes, and all abilities. Join Linda Wells, for Yoga for All which encourages you to show up as you are and experience the kind of practice that you need on any given day. This class explores how using props can make yoga accessible and adaptable for everyone regardless of age, size, or ability. Practice how you’re comfortable with options to stay seated on your mat, standing, or moving between the two.

Who Inherits the Waves?, in partnership with the WHOI Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2022-02-17 12:00 - 13:00
A discussion about closing the racial gap in swimming skills and water competency.
Panelists:
Dr. Jeff Wiltse – Noted historian and author of Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Dr. Nevada Winrow – Founder and President of Black Girls Dive Foundation
Carlee Jackson – Director of Communications for Minorities in Shark Sciences and a member of Black in Marine Science
Jaida Elcock – Director of Public Relations for Minorities in Shark Sciences and a PhD candidate IN in the MIT/WHOI joint program
Moderator – Gwyneth Packard, a member of the Woods Hole Black History Month Committee, and a Black/White biracial engineer, WHOI.

What Lies Beneath: Unearthing Not-So-Subtle Roadblocks to Wellness
2022-02-24 18:00 - 19:00
Presented by Dr. Misty Boachie, the Founder and CEO of Excavate Wellness.
Dr. Boachie is a Pharmacotherapy Board Certified Pharmacist, currently serving in leadership at Northside Hospital. She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Georgia (’01) and Master of Business Administration from George Washington University (’17). She completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at Columbus Regional Healthcare System (’02). She resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, Kofi, and sons, August (12yo) and Alistair (10yo).
Presentation abstract: An intimate, solutions-oriented exploration of often unexamined obstacles to achieving optimal physical and emotional wellbeing namely trauma, addiction, and mental illness. This lecture will be a 30 minute presentation followed by 30 mins of Q&A.

COVID-19 and Health Inequality - The Strained Alchemy of Two Pandemics
2022-02-28 19:00 - 20:00
Presented by Dr. Kathryn Hall, Deputy Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission
Dr. Kathryn Hall is the Deputy Executive Director for Population Health and Health Equity at the Boston Public Health Commission. After receiving her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Harvard University she spent 10 years in the biotech industry tackling problems in drug discovery and development where she became an Associate Director of Drug Development. Dr. Hall returned to Harvard Medical School in 2010, joining the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2012, and receiving a Master’s in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2014. Dr. Hall is also an Assistant Professor part-time in the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and serves as the Interim Director of Basic and Translational Research at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hall also has a Masters in Documentary Film from Emerson College.
**COVID-19 protocols/requirements for Falmouth Academy**
Proof of vaccination required and masks must be worn at all times.

Outdoor Film Screening: Disneynature Oceans
2022-07-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Redfield Lawn, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution & Woods Hole Film Festival presents Cinema & Science by the Sea featuring Disneynature, Oceans.

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Big Ideas from the “Little Brain”: Insights from the Cerebellum about Learning and Meta-Learning” Jennifer L. Raymond
2022-07-15 20:00 - 21:00 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The brain is a learning machine, storing information about the statistical relationships between events in the world, and using that information to guide behavior. In this lecture, Raymond will share insights about the neural mechanisms of learning from her research on the cerebellum, or “little brain.” The cerebellum is well known for its role in motor skill learning and is increasingly implicated in cognitive functions ranging from navigation to emotion, social behavior, and reward prediction. Yet the circuit architecture of the cerebellum is highly conserved and relatively simple, creating an opportunity to understand the principles governing computation in this circuit, and the algorithm it uses to tune its own performance through experience. By leveraging the analytical advantages of the cerebellum, Raymond’s laboratory recently discovered a new property of synapses that seems to provide a mechanism for meta-learning, or learning to learn.
Jennifer L. Raymond is the Berthold and Belle N. Guggenhime Professor of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine. She grew up in Seekonk, Massachusetts, spending as much time as possible at and in the ocean. Raymond earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College. She then became interested in how neural circuits compute and conducted her dissertation research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston on the neural mechanisms of learning in the marine mollusk Aplysia californica. Raymond transitioned to studying learning in the mammalian cerebellum as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. She joined the faculty at Stanford as an assistant professor in 1999 and built a research program investigating the algorithms used by the brain to implement learning and memory. Her work is noted for being particularly integrative, spanning from the molecular details to the computational principles governing the changes in a neural circuit during learning. Raymond’s scientific achievements have been recognized with awards including a Sloan Fellowship, a McKnight Scholar Award, and the Albert & Ellen Grass Lectureship at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. She is also an award-winning teacher. In addition to her neuroscience research, Raymond has done research and written extensively about the practice of science and been a longtime advocate for changes to advance diversity and equity in the scientific workplace.

31st Woods Hole Film Festival
2022-07-30 - 2022-08-06 | Woods Hole Film Festival Headquarters, 89 Water Street Second Floor, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival celebrates its 31st year of bringing the best in independent film from around the world to Cape Cod. The festival dates are Saturday, July 30 through Saturday, August 6.
The film program includes 116 films selected from submissions from around the world: 17 feature narratives, 27 feature documentaries, and 72 short films.
In spite of the challenges of presenting a film festival during a pandemic, we are thrilled that this year we will be fully back in-person with live screenings at Redfield Auditorium (WHOI), Clapp Auditorium (MBL), Falmouth Academy, and the Cotuit Center for the Arts. We will also offer the festival program on the WHFF virtual platform for virtual pass and virtual ticket holders.
Ticket Packages for in-person screenings and Virtual Passes are on sale now at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org.
Individual tickets for in-person and virtual screenings on sale now.
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and check our website for more details and updates.
We look forward to welcoming everyone to the 31st Woods Hole Film Festival.

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: "Pocket Doctors: Diagnosing Diseases with Mobile Phones" - Dan Fletcher
2022-08-12 20:00 - 21:00 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Lecture Abstract:
Light microscopy remains a central tool for disease diagnosis. Direct imaging of pathogens in blood, sputum, and stool can enable rapid screening and diagnosis of multiple diseases and has been in use since the earliest days of the microscope. However, modern microscopy requires advanced equipment and skilled users typically not available outside of well-equipped laboratories and hospitals. In recent years, mobile phones have emerged as powerful tools for capturing clinically useful data. This talk will describe ongoing work using mobile phones as light microscopes for disease diagnosis. By combining mobile phone cameras with optical attachments and automated image processing, we aim to expand access to basic diagnostic testing for diseases that range from blood-borne pathogens to viral infections. These mobile phone microscopes also open up new possibilities for biological discovery outside of the laboratory.
Daniel A. Fletcher is the Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering & Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his laboratory develop new technologies to study the role of mechanics in biology and detect diseases in low resource settings. Their cell biological work is identifying how molecular-scale forces drive spatial organization of membranes and the actin cytoskeleton and movement of immune cells and pathogens. Their diagnostic work is introducing new mobile tools to fight infectious diseases with collaborators around the world. Fletcher is a faculty member in the Bioengineering and Molecular and Cell Biology Departments, a Visiting Investigator of the Gladstone Institutes at University of California, San Francisco, and is currently Director of the Blum Center for Technology and Development. He is also a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-Director of the Physiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dan received a DPhil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and a B.S. from Princeton University. His research has received an NSF CAREER Award, a National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Award, and was designated “Best of What’s New” by Popular Science magazine among other awards. He has been a Miller Professor, a Bakar Fellow, a Hellman Fellow, and served as a White House Fellow during the Obama administration.

Halloween in the Hole
2022-10-29
See full detail here.

Captain Kidd Best Costume Halloween Party
2022-10-29 20:00 - 23:00 | Captain Kidd, 77 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States

Book event: Lethal Tides with author Dr. Catherine Musemeche
2022-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
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presented by the WHOI Women’s Committee
When Mary Sears entered marine science, women were few in number, but she wasn’t deterred. During WWII she got her chance to excel as a naval oceanographer and performed at a level very few could imagine for a woman of her time. She helped change the course of the war. Mary Sears represents the generations of women who came before us in science, and paved the path we walk now.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
2 p.m. Discussion and Q&A
3 p.m. Refreshments and book signing Redfield Auditorium
45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543
This event is FREE and open to the public
MBL WHOI Library will have Mary Sears materials from the archives on view!

MBL Falmouth Forum: “Dare to be Naive” - Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design, Schumacher Center for a New Economics
2022-11-18 19:30 - 20:30 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Greg Watson and his family moved to Cape Cod in 1980 when he was hired as education director at the New Alchemy Institute. New Alchemy was a revolutionary “think-do tank” located on 12 acres in Falmouth, MA that became world renowned for its systems approach to the development environmentally sound and socially just approaches to meeting basic human needs. Watson’s lecture will focus on the lessons he learned during his four years there and how he has applied New Alchemy’s problem-solving approach throughout his professional career in the areas of agriculture, renewable energy, community organizing, and new economics. He will conclude with a discussion of his current work on an approach to addressing the climate crisis inspired by Buckminster Fuller – considered by many to be the “father of whole systems thinking.”
Greg Watson is Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work focuses on community food systems and an initiative to improve global systems literacy informed by a reimagining of Bucky Fuller’s World Game Workshop. Watson has spent nearly 50 years studying systems thinking as inspired by Buckminster Fuller and to apply that understanding to achieve a just and sustainable world. He has served on the board of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and as a juror for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. In 1978 he organized a network of urban farmers’ markets in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area. He served as Commissioner of Agriculture in Massachusetts from 1990 to 1993 and again from 2012 to 2014 when he launched a statewide urban agriculture grants program.
Watson gained hands-on experience in organic farming, aquaculture, wind-energy technology, and passive solar design at the New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, first as Education Director and later as Executive Director. There he led the effort to create the Cape & Islands Self Reliance energy cooperative. He served four years as Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a multicultural grassroots organizing and planning organization where he initiated one of the nation’s first urban agriculture projects. Watson was the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and was part of the team that landed the National Wind Technology Testing Center in Massachusetts. He served on President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Department of Energy transition team in 2008. In 2015 he founded the Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network which links small farmers and sustainable farm organizations in both countries to share information and provide mutual support.

Small Business Saturday
2022-11-27
Shop Small and Dine Local in Woods Hole on Small Business Saturday, November 26, 2022
Shopping
Inlet: 20% off
Soft as a Grape: 20% off Sweatshirts
Handworks: 10% off
Masterson Made: 20% off
MBL Gift Shop: 25% off
Dining
Landfall: 10% off Gift Cards & Happy Hour (4-6 pm)
Captain Kidd: $1 Oysters/Wings (4-6 pm) & Fall Formal (8 pm)
Woods Hole Market & Provisions: Gift Certificate Giveaway & Seasonal Tasting
Accommodations
Woods Hole Inn: 20% off Gift Certificates

Caroling in Woods Hole Village
2022-12-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Woods Hole Waterfront Park, 112-138 Water Street, Woods Hole, 02543, United States
Join us as we herald in the Christmas Season with Caroling at Woods Hole Waterfront Park
The Solstice Singers will lead us in a festive seasonal sing-a-long of Holiday classics
Hot cocoa and cookies will be provided by the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce

WHFF presents A CAPE COD CHRISTMAS
2022-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Back by popular demand! On Friday, December 2, at 7 pm, the Woods Hole Film Festival presents a special event screening of A CAPE COD CHRISTMAS by John Stimpson at Clapp Auditorium, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole.
ABOUT THE FILM
When a children’s author comes down to the Cape to host one last Christmas dinner with her disagreeable siblings before they sell the family house, she reunites with her childhood sweetheart, a local artist, who helps her find a way to keep the house she loves so dearly. Filmed entirely in Falmouth, MA. Starring Katie Leclerc and Brent Bailey, 90 mins, 2021.
Q&A with writer/director John Stimpson following the film.
Tickets $20, $16 for members. For more information call 508-495-3456.

MBL Falmouth Forum: “The Changing Face of Whale Trauma: What We Know and Have to Do” - Michael Moore
2022-12-09 19:30 - 20:30
Large whales have suffered at the hand of man for millennia: by intent with harpoons, and recently by mistake through vessel collisions, and fishing gear entanglements. This has affected both the status of populations, and the welfare of individuals. The latter most especially, where larger species, such as North Atlantic right whales, have the power to swim off with entangling gear, whose deleterious effects can take months to be lethal. In this talk Moore will discuss how he, as a veterinarian and a scientist, and his colleagues have used diagnostics, energetics, therapeutics, and photogrammetric health assessment to gain this understanding. He will also lay out the steps they are taking, collaboratively with the fishing industry, to enable both the industry and the animals to prosper.
Michael J. Moore is a veterinary scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has studied the effects of trauma from the shipping and fishing industries on North Atlantic right whale (NARW) survival and welfare. He is currently assessing NARW health using aerial photogrammetry and working with a group of stakeholders to establish ‘On-Demand’ fishing systems as a viable tool to remove entangling line from the water column.

WHFF presents EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE
2022-12-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
On Saturday, December 10th at 7 pm at Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street Woods Hole, the Woods Hole Film Festival presents a screening of the feature documentary film EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE by Mark Shaffer.
ABOUT THE FILM
The story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see–Leland Stanford’s galloping horses. He also produced a sprawling and spectacular landscape catalog, ranging from Alaska to Central America, Utah to California. Artful, resilient, selfish, naive, eccentric, deceitful–Muybridge was a complicated, imperfect man and his story drips with ambition and success, loss and betrayal, near death experiences and even murder. More than a century after his death, Muybridge’s photographs have never ceased to seduce cutting-edge artists, scientists, innovators, and general viewers alike. 88 minutes, 2021.
For information call 508-495-3456

Woods Hole Holiday Stroll
2022-12-17 | Woods Hole
Community support powered by Martha’s Vineyard Bank
Schedule of events
WOODS HOLE SCIENCE AQUARIUM
11 am Santa arrives!
11 am-2 pm Meet Santa (Aquarium hours: 10-3pm)
MARTHA’S VINEYARD BANK
11 am-1 pm Hot drinks and treats with Mrs. Claus in front of the bank
WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
1-5:30 pm Library & book sale and craft supplies available in children’s room
MASTERSON MADE
3-4 pm Wine tasting and charcuterie board. Cutting board raffle
CAPTAIN KIDD
4-6 pm $1 oysters/$1 wings
COMMUNITY HALL
The Solstice Singers presentation of “The Holly and the Ivy”. Showings at 4 pm and 7 pm
WOODS HOLE MARKET & PROVISIONS
Holiday treats and gift card raffle
SOFT AS A GRAPE
20% off sweatshirts, sweatpants, blankets, ponchos & winter accessories
WOODS HOLE INN
Tasty treats & tour of decorative Woods Hole Inn
INLET
Refreshments and pop up with LilWolfGoods
PIE IN THE SKY
Hot apple cider & gift card raffle

Dinner & A Movie: WINTER SHORTS
2023-01-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival Dinner & A Movie Film Series presents the short film program WINTER SHORTS
The Woods Hole Film Festival is pleased to announce the return of the Winter/Spring Film Series with twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from January through May 2023. The screenings will be held in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. The program will include films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.
ABOUT WINTER SHORTS
Think it’s too cold for shorts? NONSENSE! We’re bringing back WINTER SHORTS. Here are eight inspirational, funny – and maybe a little quirky – award-winning and audience favorite short films that are sure to keep you feeling warm and happy on a cold, January evening.
Non-Negotiable • Comedy by Mike Doxford, UK, 2022, 9 mins.
A couple in a cafe await with trepidation their harshest critic and most important confidant… their 9 year old daughter. Here she outlines the terms and conditions she requires for the arrival of her new sibling.
Tiny Titanic • Documentary by Mike Scholtz, US, 2022, 9 mins.
A Minnesota family discovers some surprising connections to the Titanic disaster. They decide to honor the ship by building a miniature replica in their front yard.
The Diamond • Comedy by Vedran Rupic, Sweden, 2021, 14 mins.
Stefan is lonely with a blinding ambition to make friends. One day he stumbles upon a diamond in the woods. Unable to reach it, the solution presents itself in the form of an even smaller man.
8 ¾ • Comedy by Shawn Matthew Cheatham, USA 2020 10 mins.
Armed with a formidable knowledge of Italian cinema, an irrepressible eight-year-old boy helps his grandfather recover from a catastrophic loss.
Wei-Lai • Comedy by Robin Wang, USA 2022 14 mins.
Tired of getting pushed and punished by his own parents, Wei-Lai, an 11-year-old Chinese American boy, decides to show up at his best friend’s family and offer himself up for adoption.
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver • Documentary by Lewie & Noah Kloster, USA, 2021 10 mins.
In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch’s sophomore film, Stranger Than Paradise, hinged on producer Sara Driver’s willingness to smuggle one of the world’s rarest and most controversial films across the Atlantic Ocean.
The F-Word • Comedy by Alex and Paul Cannon, USA 2022, 7 mins.
A father explains to his young daughter what the f-word means.
Favorite Daughter • Documentary by Dana Reilly, USA, 2022, 19 mins.
A filmmaker’s grandmother and mother shelter in place together in a lower Manhattan apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic. A raw and charming, melancholy and funny portrait of two women with vastly different experiences coming together and supporting one another through the uncertainty of spending the next chapters of their lives “alone,” without a partner.
Screenings begin at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $16 ($12 for WHFF members) and are on sale in advance at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org and at the door.
Restaurant partners will be announced soon. Check our Facebook page for updates.
The Festival is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Woods Hole Foundation, the Cape Cod Foundation, the Martha’s Vineyard Bank Foundation and the Cape Cod 5 Charitable Foundation Trust.
For more information email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.

Dinner & A Movie: The Long Rider
2023-04-01 19:00 - 20:45 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival series Dinner & A Movie continues on Saturday, April 1 at 7:00pm with the feature documentary, THE LONG RIDER, by Sean Cisterna, Canada/Brazil, 2022, 96 mins.
ABOUT THE FILM
When Filipe Leite leaves his adoptive home of Canada, the aspiring journalist sets out on an epic quest to ride from Calgary to his family’s home in Brazil – and later beyond – entirely on horseback. Inspired by Aimé Tschiffely’s 1925 equestrian journey, Filipe’s 8 year odyssey of over 25,000 kms across 12 international borders, sees the young immigrant battle intense heat, drought, speeding transport trucks, nature’s wrath and corrupt border guards on his history-making long ride home.
Dinner & A Movie is a program of the Winter/Spring Film Series, twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from January through May 2023. The screenings will be held in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. The program will include films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.
Tickets are $16 general, $12 WHFF members, $10 student/military.
Not a member yet? You can check out your options and become one here:
https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/Membership/Sale/Member

Ocean Encounters: Ocean Plastics
2023-04-12 19:30 - 20:30
How harmful are they, and how do we know?
Plastics are one of the most common substances in everyday life, found in everything from toothbrushes to cell towers. Now they have spread throughout the ocean, with surprising–and costly–consequences for us and for our ocean planet.
Speakers:
Sarah Dunlop, Head, Plastics & Human Health, Minderoo Foundation
Kara Lavender Law, Oceanographer, Sea Education Association
John Stegeman, Ocean toxicologist, WHOI
Host:
Veronique Lacapra, Director of Special Projects for Advancement, WHOI

Dinner & A Movie: Hello, Bookstore
2023-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Redfield Auditorium, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival series Dinner & A Movie continues on Saturday, April 15 at 7:00pm with the feature documentary, HELLO, BOOKSTORE, by A.B. Zax, USA, 2022, 86 mins.
ABOUT THE FILM
In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore in its hour of need. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner, Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. Presiding at The Bookstore for over forty years, Matt is a true bard of the Berkshires and his shop is the kind of place to get lost in. This intimate portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart offers a journey through good times, hard times and the stories hidden on the shelves.
Dinner & A Movie is a program of the Winter/Spring Film Series, twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from January through May 2023. The screenings will be held in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. The program will include films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.
Tickets are $16 general, $12 WHFF members, $10 student/military.
Not a member yet? You can check out your options and become one here:
https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/Membership/Sale/Member

MBL Falmouth Forum: “Speaking Science to Power: My Eight Years in the Obama White House” - John Holdren
2023-05-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The President’s Science Advisor is the chief scientist of the U.S. government—a position that few people other than government officials and science-policy wonks have ever heard of. Why does the President of the United States need a science expert close at hand in the White House? What does the Science Advisor actually do on a typical day? (Actually, few days are typical in the White House.)
In this lecture, John Holdren, former Science Advisor and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama will discuss his experience in the White House—how he got the job, what Obama was like, as a person and a boss, the main achievements of the Obama administration applying science and technology to the public interest, and where they failed. Holdren will also discuss what challenges and opportunities President Biden’s Science Advisor—Arthi Prabhakar, the first woman and first Asian-American to hold the job—faces.
John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is also Senior Advisor to the President at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth. From January 2009 until January 2017, he was President Obama’s Science Advisor and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His responsibilities in those roles included advising the President on all science and technology issues bearing on the national agenda; coordinating R&D strategy & budgets across the Executive Branch; and leading the Administration’s efforts on science and technology cooperation with other countries. Trained at MIT and Stanford in aerospace engineering and fusion-energy science, Holdren spent most of his career focused on energy technology and policy, environmental science and policy, and nuclear nonproliferation and arms control. In 1995 he gave the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in leadership positions from 1982 to 1997. He and his wife Cheryl live in Falmouth.

MBL Falmouth Forum: “ROGUES: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks—12 Tales of Skulduggery and Intrigue" - Patrick Radden Keefe
2023-06-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Join us for a conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and bestselling author who will discuss his New York Times bestselling book Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks with Mindy Todd, host and producer of The Point on CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station. Rogues brings together a dozen of Radden Keefe’s most celebrated articles from The New Yorker, covering a dozen years, most of them about people behaving badly.
A book signing will follow the presentation. Books available for purchase on event night from Eight Cousins Books.
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks.
Radden Keefe started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade.” Empire of Pain was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year.
He is also the writer and host of WIND OF CHANGE, an 8-part podcast series, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
Radden Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and went to college at Columbia. He received masters degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Yale. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York.
Mindy Todd is Managing Director of Editorial at CAI and host and producer of The Point, which examines critical issues for Cape Cod and the Islands. Her 30+ year career has covered nearly all aspects of broadcasting. Todd has received numerous awards, most recently her 5th National PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Incorporated) award for best Call-in program and best Interview.
Photo Credit: Philip Montgomery

MBL Friday Evening Lecture Series: “Changing the Complexion of the Life Sciences” - Kenneth Turner
2023-06-16 20:00 - 21:00 | The Cornelia Clapp Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Lecture Abstract:
The life sciences is the sector ready for the moment we’re in. The life sciences remain a major economic and workforce driver for Massachusetts. But until recently, you’d be hard pressed for people to recognize names like Moderna, ThermoFisher, or the role an MBI plays in Worcester or LabCentral in Cambridge. The COVID-19 vaccine has literally and figuratively given our society a shot in the arm about the impact of the life sciences. Yet, we have companies across all sectors experiencing a crisis in finding talent. The future of work and demographic shifts adds significant layers of opportunities and challenges to this. The life sciences is positioned to meet these converging forces perfectly. Our key priority must be to meet the clarion call to continue to engage young women and men of color early on in STEM and the opportunities it can offer, to capture their interest and curiosity. Then supporting them through middle school, high school, and college, and preparing them for a career that they deserve opportunity in. For Turner, it comes down to role models. People need to envision themselves in any job or career, STEM or otherwise. Young people of color need to see scientists, engineers, chemists, and data scientists who look like them. This requires a paradigm shift and thinking differently and acting boldly. Turner will discuss his background in service to our nation and his success in the private and public sectors. He will also provide an overview on how we can take the current state of play and change the complexion of the life sciences—the critical component of Massachusetts remaining the global leader in this space.
Kenneth Turner is President and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC), an economic development and investment agency dedicated to supporting the growth and development of the life sciences in Massachusetts. He directs and oversees the center’s operations, investment strategy, programs, and partnerships. Prior to joining the MLSC, Turner served as Director of Diversity & Inclusion/Compliance with Massport. He oversaw and managed the Authority’s multiple diversity programs, including business and supplier diversity, workforce diversity, and airport concessions, as well as all compliance initiatives associated with Massport’s Disadvantaged/Minority/Women Business Enterprise programs. Previously, Turner served as Deputy Secretary for Administration & Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services. He has over 20 years of general management and executive experience in various Fortune 100 media and package goods companies including having served as Senior Vice President of Emerging Markets at AOL Time Warner as well as having held various marketing positions at Hallmark Cards and Hasbro Toys. A retired U.S. Navy Captain and submarine nuclear weapons system officer with 26-years of service, Turner holds a B.S. degree from Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA.

Woods Hole 4th of July Parade
2023-07-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Woods Hole
This annual, science-themed parade will begin at 12:00 noon at the entrance to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s parking lot located on School Street in Woods Hole, and will travel down Water Street, and end at Waterfront Park, 100 Water Street.
This long-time Woods Hole tradition, organized by the Marine Biological Laboratory, brings students, scientists, locals, and visitors together to celebrate Independence Day with costumes, dancing, and music.
