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WHFF Virtual: The Race to Alaska
2020-12-10 - 2020-12-13 | Virtual Film Festival, 89 Water Street Second Floor, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival season series WHFF Virtual presents the documentary THE RACE TO ALASKA, including a live online Q&A with the the film’s director Zach Carver on Saturday, December 12 at 7pm EST. Presented in partnership with the Woods Hole Yacht Club.
ABOUT THE FILM:
The Race to Alaska is an adrenaline-fueled, 750-mile boat race through the dangerous and spectacular wilderness of the Inside Passage to Alaska.
Described as “the Iditarod, on a boat, with a chance of drowning or being eaten by a grizzly bear,” it’s amazing anyone enters at all. This epic endurance race attracts the intrepid and unhinged who find their edge along a coastline that is as punishing as it is beautiful.
For the best community viewing experience, we recommend starting the film at 5:00 p.m. EST on Saturday, December 12 and then join WHFF Executive Director Judy Laster and The Race to Alaska director Zach Carver for the Q&A on Zoom at 7:00 p.m. EST.
The film will be available to watch between Thursday, December 10 at 8am and Sunday, December 13 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 10. If you purchase a ticket on or after December 13 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 13, whichever comes first.
Tickets are $14 per person and $12, for Woods Hole Film Festival members and are on sale in now at: https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/e/WHFFVirtualTheRaceToAlaska
The series is supported in part by grants from the Cape Cod 5 Foundation, 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.

MBL Falmouth Forum - “Refugees and Migrants, A Test for Civilization” - James Purcell
2020-12-03 09:00 - 10:00 UTC | MA
The Falmouth Forum series hits the airwaves this fall in collaboration with WCAI, the Cape, Coast, and Islands NPR station. Forum speakers will join host Mindy Todd on “The Point” at 9:00 AM on the first Thursday of each month for discussion and listener Q&A. Tune in to WCAI 90.1, WNAN 91.1, WZAI 94.3 or online at capeandislands.org.
After graduating from Syracuse University’s Maxwell Graduate School in 1962, James Purcell was appointed as a Kennedy Administration management intern and served the next fifteen years in the Atomic Energy Commission, the Agency for International Development, and the Bureau of the Budget/Office of Management and Budget.
In 1977, he moved to the State Department, where the deputy secretary of state asked him to oversee the creation of a new rescue organization for Vietnam War refugees in 1979. As “acting” and then “permanent” director of the new bureau for refugee programs (RP) from 1979 to 1987, Mr. Purcell directed his team’s implementation of initiatives passed by Congress in the Refugee Act of 1980, including consultations with state and local governments and other partners. Many of the original implementation measures were maintained and further refined by successor administrations. More than 1.1 refugees were resettled in the United States during his administration and many millions more (up to 10 million annually) were aided overseas.
Mr. Purcell was subsequently elected to two five-year terms as director general of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, serving from 1988 to 1998.
He is presently board chair for USA for IOM, a U.S. private sector advocacy and fund-raising organization. His book We’re in Danger! Who Will Help Us? Refugees and Migrants: A Test of Civilization was published in 2019.

MBL Falmouth Forum on WCAI: “The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution” - Susan Hockfield
2020-11-05 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual Lecture, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Falmouth Forum series hits the airwaves this fall in collaboration with WCAI, the Cape, Coast, and Islands NPR station. Forum speakers will join host Mindy Todd on “The Point” at 9:00 AM on the first Thursday of each month for discussion and listener Q&A.
Tune in to WCAI 90.1, WNAN 91.1, WZAI 94.3 or online at capeandislands.org.
Susan Hockfield is President Emerita, Professor of Neuroscience, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2012 she served as the sixteenth President of MIT, the first life scientist and first woman in that role. As President, Hockfield strengthened the foundations of MIT’s finances and campus planning while advancing Institute-wide programs in sustainable energy and the convergence of the life, physical and engineering sciences, with impact across the region, the nation and around the world. She helped shape national policy for energy and next-generation manufacturing, appointed by President Obama in 2011 to co-chair the steering committee of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and by serving as a member of a Congressional Commission evaluating the Department of Energy laboratories in 2015. As a biologist, she pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research, identifying proteins through which neural activity early in life effect brain development. Before joining MIT as its president, she was the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1998-2002), and Provost (2003-2004) at Yale University. In all her roles she has advanced opportunities for women and minorities. She studied at the University of Rochester and Georgetown University and carried out research at the NIH and UCSF before joining the faculty at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and then Yale. She is the past president and chairman of AAAS and currently is a director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Partners HealthCare System, and Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation. She is a life member of the MIT Corporation and a board member of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.

WHFF Virtual: Spooky Shorts
2020-10-29 - 2020-11-01 | Virtual Film Festival, 89 Water Street Second Floor, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival’s virtual season series WHFF Virtual continues with a collection of scary, spooky, weird, and sometimes just a little twisted short films from the past four festivals. The program will be available beginning at 8am ET Thursday, October 29 until midnight Sunday November 1. Films in the program include:
Knock Knock (2019) by Alex Mancuso
A young woman attempts to find the source of a mysterious knocking in her room at night.
In The Mirrors (2020) by Merlin Camozzi
Clara discovers she has much bigger problems than a nerve-wracking meeting when her airbnb turns out to be haunted by invisible creatures.
Motel (2020) by Eric Ogden
Caitlin holes up in a secluded motel with her distressed younger sister.
motherhood (2020) by David Tyson Lam
When a woman desperate to connect with her husband is hindered by their unwanted child, dire consequences unfold.
Flesh & Blood (2017) by Merlin Camozzi
When a sweeping pandemic threatens to turn her father into a violent monster, 18 year-old Max must lead both him and her younger sister through a rugged wilderness in search of a cure.
Tomorrow (2019) by Karis Campbell
How will we think of yesterday when it becomes our tomorrow?
The Keeper (2020) by Bob Celli
A lonely widow and a lover of art meet at a speed dating event.
More TBA…
Ticket purchasers will receive an activation link via e-mail on Thursday morning, October 29. Once you start playing the films you will have 48 hours to finish watching, or until midnight on Sunday, November 1, whichever comes first.
The series is supported in part by grants from the Cape Cod 5 Foundation, the Mass Cultural Council and the Falmouth Fund of The Cape Cod Foundation.
Tickets are $14 per person and $12, for Woods Hole Film Festival members and are on sale in advance at:
https://www.goelevent.com/WoodsHoleFilmFest/e/WHFFVirtualSpookyShorts
For more information email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.

Ocean Encounters Virtual Series — Our Enchanted Ocean: A night of art, performances, and science
2020-10-28 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
Featuring: “High Tide” Harold playing a myriad of giant Conch shells, a live performance by the Boston Dance Theater, a special collaboration with Keith Lockhart, a short film premier with Megan Lubetkin, live spoken word by Victoria Bautista, live music by Zach Deputy, and WHOI Scientists Dr. Daniel Fornari and Dr. Larry Pratt
Host: Dr. Véronique LaCapra, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Ocean Encounters Virtual Series — Sea Change: Solutions for an Ocean Planet
2020-10-21 20:00 - 21:00 | MA
Speakers: Peter de Menocal, WHOI President and Director and Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor, Columbia University and Senior UN Advisor
Host: Dr. Véronique LaCapra, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Humanity is at a crossroads and the choices we make today will resonate for generations to come. Fortunately, we have many tools and resources at our disposal and a growing body of science-based knowledge about our ocean and our planet to help us make the best decisions possible. Join us for an exhilarating exploration of the paths ahead for humanity and for all life on Earth at a time of widespread environmental change.

Woods Hole Library Perennial Plant Sale
2020-10-10 09:00 - 12:00 | Woods Hole Library, 581 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
Just like the Library’s time-honored Spring Plant Sale (which was not held this year for the first time in decades) all the plants will be donated by local gardeners, so the plants are perfectly attuned to the local conditions (although the drought is taking a great toll). Both perennials and house plants will be available. Obviously since this is a Fall Sale, annuals or vegetable plant starts will not be offered, but the perennials should have plenty of time to settle into their new spots in Cape Cod’s long mellow autumn weather.
As always, the Library asks people to donate their plants. Because of COVID restrictions the Library does not have the usual army of helpers to collect and pot up donated plants. Instead, Master Gardener Kate Eldred, of the Library’s Board and Plant Sale committee, recommends that gardeners water their plants generously for a few days before they dig them, and continue watering after they are potted to stabilize them. Pots are available at the Library’s lower level for pick-up any time.
Unlike previous sales, there are only two days for people to deliver plants to the Library. All donations, already potted and labeled, must be brought to the Woods Hole Library when it is open on either Thursday, October 8 or Friday, October 9 from 10 AM
to 2 PM. (Donations cannot be accepted Saturday morning.)
On the day of the sale, due to COVID restrictions, shoppers must wear masks. The plants will be spread out more widely over a much larger area of the Library property so shoppers can stay 6 feet away from each other. As always, but with even more reason now because of COVID, it is suggested that shoppers do not arrive early for the sale. Library volunteers will ensure that people stay spaced out and will be available to help people carry their purchases to their cars.

MBL Falmouth Forum: “Cape Symphony: Composing a New Future in a Changing World" Jung-Ho Pak, Artistic Director & Conductor, Cape Symphony
2020-09-16 09:00 - 2020-10-01 10:00 | Virtual Lecture, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Falmouth Forum series hits the airwaves this fall in collaboration with WCAI, the Cape, Coast, and Islands NPR station. Forum speakers will join host Mindy Todd on “The Point” at 9:00 AM on the first Thursday of each month for discussion and listener Q&A.
Tune in to WCAI 90.1, WNAN 91.1, WZAI 94.3 or online at capeandislands.org.
Sponsored in part by The Falmouth Fund of The Cape Cod Foundation.
Described by the New York Times as a conductor who “radiates enthusiasm” and the Los Angeles Times as “a real grabber”, Jung-Ho Pak is known for his unique vision of the role of classical music. Since 2007 he has been Artistic Director and Conductor of the Cape Symphony in Massachusetts, one of the largest orchestras in the New England region. Previously, he has been Artistic Director and Conductor of Orchestra Nova, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and the San Diego Symphony, which Mr. Pak guided from bankruptcy to unprecedented financial success. As a nationally recognized educator, he served as Music Director with the University of Southern California (USC) Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, as well as Director of Orchestras and Music Director of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Principal Conductor of the Emmy-nominated Disney Young Musicians Symphony, Music Director of the Debut Orchestra, Colburn Chamber Orchestra, and Diablo Ballet. Guest conducting has taken him to Europe, Russia, South America and Asia. Mr. Pak is also a frequent speaker on television and radio including TED Talks and NPR appearances, as well as a clinician and conductor at national music festivals.

MBL Friday Evening Lecture: Forbes Lecture - “Personal, National, and World Crises” - Jared Diamond
2020-07-10 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Lecture, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Nations experience crises, whose solution requires adopting selective changes, and which some nations are more successful at solving than are other nations. We as individuals also experience personal crises, either associated with certain ages (e.g., teen-age or midlife crises) or else triggered by external shocks (e.g., relationship problems or break-ups, the death of a loved one, or a health or job or financial blow). The solution of a personal crisis also requires adopting selective changes, which some of us are more successful at accomplishing than are others of us. Counselors and psychotherapists have identified many factors that make it more or less likely that an individual will overcome a personal crisis. In this lecture, Dr. Diamond will examine the extent to which similar considerations help understand the outcomes of recent and impending national crises, and the impending world crisis.
Jared Diamond is a Pulitzer-prize-winning author of five best-selling books, translated into 38 languages, about human societies and human evolution: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, and The World until Yesterday. As a Professor of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, he is known for his breadth of interests, which involves conducting research and teaching in three other fields: the biology of New Guinea birds, digestive physiology, and conservation biology. Dr. Diamond’s prizes and honors include the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Science, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a director of World Wildlife Fund/U.S. and of Conservation International. As a biological explorer, his most widely publicized finding was his rediscovery, at the top of New Guinea’s remote Foja Mountains, of the long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird, previously known only from four specimens found in a Paris feather shop in 1895.

Juneteenth Lecture - "Freedom-Seeking"
2020-06-17 15:00 - 16:00 | MA
Join the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee oncZoom for a Juneteenth Lecture by Dr. Donique McIntosh.

Ocean Encounters: Oceans Beyond Earth - From Earth's deep ocean to the search for extraterrestrial life
2020-06-10 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
With NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrobiologist Kevin Hand, WHOI deep-sea explorer Julie Huber, WHOI marine geoscientist Chris German, and special guest, comedian Eugene Mirman

Ocean Encounters: Corals in Crisis - How scientists are racing to stop a deadly disease
2020-06-03 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
Speakers: Marine biologist, ocean explorer, and conservationist Sylvia Earle, University of the Virgin Islands coral disease ecologist Marilyn Brandt, and WHOI marine microbial ecologist Amy Apprill.
Worldwide, corals are struggling to survive, decimated by pollution, destructive fishing practices, and climate change. Six years ago, a deadly coral disease outbreak started in Florida and has now made its way to the coral reefs in U.S. Virgin Islands, killing corals at an unprecedented rate. Can scientists help stop this underwater epidemic and contain its spread? Hear what three scientists are doing to help save corals and the spectacular ecosystems they support.
This is a virtual event hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Please go to this link to register (https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-encounters/).

Quick's Hole Taqueria Opens!
2020-05-18 11:30 - 19:00 | MA
Quick’s Hole Taqueria will be open for take out service.

The Captain Kidd Opens
2020-05-15 17:00 - 20:00 | MA
The Captain Kidd opens today with a limited lunch/dinner menu to go!

Pie in the Sky Opens!
2020-05-09 09:00 - 13:00 | MA
Pie in the Sky will be open weekends from 9-1 with a limited menu.

Landfall Opens
2020-05-06 12:00 - 19:00 | MA
The Landfall will be open with a clam shack-style menu to go including fried seafood and other quick bites.
