Arts & Culture Partners of New Bedford - June 2025
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Arts & Culture Partners of New Bedford - June 2025

This quarterly meeting is for anyone in the arts, culture, heritage, tourism and creative communities in the city of New Bedford.

By New Bedford Seaport Cultural District

Date and time

Wednesday, June 4 · 12 - 1:30pm EDT

Location

Your Theatre, Inc.

159 William Street New Bedford, MA 02740

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

New Bedford Arts & Culture Partners.

This quarterly meeting was established for anyone who does arts, cultural, public, and/or educational programming in the city of New Bedford. We chat about what we have coming up and find ways to coordinate our efforts. It's fun and quite productive. We'd love for you to join us and we welcome you to invite a friend.

Guest Speaker:

Carole Copeland Thomas, MBA, CDMP, CITM, is a global diversity strategist, speaker, trainer, and business owner with over three decades of experience. Carole works with industry leaders to address key issues impacting the global marketplace, having spoken at organizations like SHRM, Hewlett Packard, Verizon, and the Federal Highway Administration. She is the founder of the Multicultural Symposium Series and a radio talk show host on Focus On Empowerment. Carole’s career includes international speaking engagements and co-founding a nonprofit organization focused on humanitarian projects in Kenya. As a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, Carole has also contributed to political campaigns and served in various civic roles.

This meeting will be cohosted by AHA! New Bedford, New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, Seaport Cultural District, and New Bedford Creative.

Thank you to New Bedford Art Museum for hosting our June 2025 meeting. Light refreshments will be served.

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New Bedford Seaport Cultural District

The Seaport Cultural District stands out for its wicked cool places and events, including AHA! (Art, History, Architecture), New Bedford’s free downtown Cultural Night with over 60 venue partners; DATMA, presenting contemporary public art with the convergence of design, art, and technology; Gallery X, the city’s pioneer art cooperative; New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! showcasing exhibitions of local and national talent plus arts education for all ages; New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center celebrating the history and culture of New Bedford’s commercial fishing industry; New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, the heart of the historical heritage of the city, featuring the Corson Makerspace and an artist-in-residence program; New Bedford Whaling Museum, the touchstone to the region’s past informing a sustainable future; New Bedford Historical Society celebrating the history and legacy of African Americans, Cape Verdeans, Native Americans, and other people of color at the Nathan and Polly Johnson House and soon-to-be-developed Abolition Row Park; and Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, presenting nationally and internationally acclaimed performing artists, and home to New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, New Bedford Festival Theatre, New Bedford Ballet, New Bedford Folk Festival, and Southcoast Children’s Theatre. Each summer, the annual Seaport Art Walk features temporary sculpture and murals along New Bedford’s working waterfront.