Join us for an in-person Auction Preview! View and bid on a variety of unique auction items and enjoy live music from Hot Club Cheese Roll featuring Jason Smith on guitar and vocals, Mark Russell on violin and vocals, and Michael Lavoie on upright Bass . This is the kick-off event for the Center’s 2020 Seafood Soirée. Click here for more information on the Soirée.
Inspired by the amazing musicianship of Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli of the The Quintette of the Hot Club of France, The Hot Club Cheese Roll plays a mix of jazz standards and more contemporary hits interpreted in the gypsy jazz style. As you may gather from the name, we do not take ourselves too seriously…
The event will take place in the parking lot at the Fishing Heritage Center. Masks and social distancing will be required.
Please contact operations@fishingheritagecenter.org with any questions about this year’s Soirée.
Join us for an evening of beautiful Portuguese fado music with Ana Vinagre and her ensemble.
Ana Vinagre is one of the area’s best known, and most respected Fadistas. Born in Portugal, she immigrated to New Bedford as a young woman with her husband Jose. Both had been members of folkloric dance and music ensembles and they have continued to perform at area Portuguese restaurants, community events, and in festivals and concerts around the nation. They take great pride in their culture and enjoy teaching American audiences about the tradition of Fado music, a genre that developed in the port city of Lisbon and was performed at waterfront clubs and bars frequented by sailors and seamen.
The performance will take place in the Fishing Heritage Center’s parking lot. Masks and social distancing will be required. Free and open to the public as part of October’s AHA! Night.
This concert is a part of our series of programs related to our latest exhibit, We Came to Fish, We Came to Work: Stories of Immigration. This exhibits explores stories of immigration and cultural heritage on New Bedford’s working waterfront. Over the next 8 months, we will look at cultural heritage through a variety of programs including film screenings, cooking and craft demos, performances, and talks, which will be offered virtually until we are able to re-open the Center.
Tune in for our October Dock-u-mentary screening, Saudade. Click here to join the ZOOM Meeting. We will screen the film directly on the ZOOM Meeting.
Saudade (Nostalgia) provides a sensitive and perceptive portrait of the human dimension of immigration. Placed against a background of local history, this video highlights how Portuguese immigrants have recreated their homeland’s past in their everyday life in New Bedford. The story-line of Saudade is based on the personal reminiscences of seven Portuguese women and men in New Bedford: six immigrants from the Azores, Madeira, and the mainland and one second generation Portuguese-American. The unfolding of memories, songs, and visual representations of the past is juxtaposed with contemporary ways of life; reconstruction of the homeland’s past provides continuity of immigrants’ lives in the context of their specific experiences in an American industrial city.
This talk is a part of our series of programs related to our latest exhibit, “We Came to Fish, We Came to Work: Stories of Immigration.” This exhibits explores stories of immigration and cultural heritage on New Bedford’s working waterfront. Over the next 8 months, we will look at cultural heritage through a variety of programs including film screenings, cooking and craft demos, performances, and talks, which will be offered virtually until we are able to re-open the Center.
Thank you to BankFive for supporting our film series.
Stop by on AHA! Night to browse our unique selection of books, jewelry, and artwork and take 10% off your purchase in the gift shop. Kids can take home an ornament making kit to create their own “fishy” holiday decor!
It’s a busy time of year, so tune in for a quick and fun Virtual Dock-u-mentaries Screening of Laurel & Hardy’s Towed in a Hole (1932). Join the ZOOM meeting by clicking this link, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85370804041
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too – but making a boat seaworthy is not an easy task!
Dock-u-mentaries are presented by New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. Thank you to BankFive for supporting our film series.
Tune in for a book talk by Mike Foley of Foley Fish Company, author of Swimming Upstream: Four Generations of Fishmongering. Click here to join the ZOOM meeting. Learn more about Mike Foley and Swimming Upstream by clicking here.
This program is free and open to the public.
Dock-u-mentaries are presented by New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. Thank you to BankFive for supporting our film series.
Information about Swimming Upstream:
In 1898 a 16-year-old immigrant with a sixth-grade education and not much more than the clothes on his back landed in Boston. By 1906, this immigrant, Michael Foley, had started a fresh fish company. In 2005, Michael Foley’s great-granddaughter, Laura, together with Peter, her co-owner husband, became the fourth generation to own and operate the Foley Fish Company, the seafood industry’s standard for quality, consistency, and integrity. Swimming Upstream is the story of four generations of Foley fishmongers, their successes and failures, their talents and foibles. Each generation has met the changing needs of the business in its own way, but in four generations, the goal set by the founder to provide customers only truly fresh, delicious, nutritious seafood has never been compromised. Swimming Upstream is more than the story of a family and a business. It is an immigrant’s story of Boston in the early 1900s. Michael Foley arrived when “No Irish need apply” signs were posted, but in spite of this his son Francis graduated from Harvard College. This is the story of the daunting challenges faced by the Foleys in producing a highly perishable product with highly variable pricing, and the many loyal and talented employees who enabled them to meet innumerable challenges through two World Wars, the Depression, resource depletion, and now the Covid pandemic. It is about competing with producers who added water-weight to lower prices, or substitute species to average down costs. It is the story of the vagaries of U.S. fisheries management and Foley Fish’s efforts to support the resource. It is also the story of Foley Fish’s attempt to educate the consumer, and even chefs, on how to care for and prepare fish, and to assure the public that truly fresh fish doesn’t smell fishy.
Sea Summit Conference 2021- Click here to register; Click here to learn more about the event
Presented by Partner Organizations: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Northeastern University, Eastern State Connecticut University, Massachusetts Maritime, New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
How can New England institutions better leverage their influence to support local seafood and seafood producers? With the nation’s top dollar fishing port in New Bedford, why do we not see more local fish on the menu at colleges and other institutions? Can our institutional supply chains take advantage of underutilized species to help address these issues?
UMass Dartmouth and Farm to Institution New England welcome you to attend an online Sea Summit focused on these questions. Join us for an engaging panel and stakeholder dialogue, where speakers will share how a team of colleges and supply chain partners tackled these issues through a 2018 New England Food Vision Prize from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation. Learn more about the challenges and opportunities of producing and sourcing farmed kelp and underutilized fish species in New England. Speakers will also share how they worked to bring underutilized species into community and university dining programs, even with the added challenges presented by a global pandemic.
Conference speakers include Barton Seaver, Briana Warner, Kate Masury, and Jamey Lionette.
This is a free event. With a free registration, we are asking folks (who are financially able) to please donate to the Fisherman Resilience Fund. Please donate now.
This event is made possible with the generous support of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation
About the Projects
UMass Dartmouth, Eastern Connecticut State University, Northeastern University, and Massachusetts Maritime Academy (all Chartwells’ accounts) partnered with the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center to better support local aquaculture and fishing industries. This team collaborated on two Food Vision Prizes: 1) Underutilized, Local Fish and 2) Kelp Farming. Both projects sought to create a market for and raise awareness about underutilized local seafood products. To do this, the teams worked on supply chain logistics, developed new menus and recipes for the products, and engaged students and community members to build enthusiasm.
