Tuesday
In the thick of football season now, it’s important to remember that concussions can and do happen on the field, and that you don’t want to get one. What you do want to do, however, is check out the Concussion Awareness Day Fundraiser at Orange Leaf from 5 to 9 p.m. The event will benefit the Brain Injury Association, with 20 percent of sales going toward BIANH programs that promote concussion education.
Wednesday
You can’t have a Wednesday without wisdom – at least at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art. This month’s Wednesday’s Wisdom Pot Luck, at 6 p.m., will feature a discussion on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rob Fried and others will try to answer: Why is Hamlet seemingly unable to do his duty and avenge his father’s murder?
We almost forgot – Wednesday is Veterans Day. So first of all, thank you, veterans. We appreciate it. And so does the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, which will show this appreciation by opening from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free admission for all veterans. Can’t beat that deal!
If you’re up for a movie and a little chat, you might want to head over to Red River Theatres at 5:30 p.m. to join the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness for a screening of Time Out of Mind. A panel discussion moderated by Peter Evers, director of Riverbend Community Mental Health, will follow. Tickets are $12 and $11 for members.
Thursday
Music, food, fire. All good things, in our book. If you agree, you might be interested in Bach’s Lunch Concert: I Lit A Fire, Isn’t It Good: Music From the Swinging Sixties. It’s a presentation at Concord Community Music School that takes place from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. featuring music of three pioneers of world music fusion from the ’60s: Davy Graham, George Harrison and Andy Irvine. David Surette will be playing guitar, mandolin and vocals, and Jordan Tyrell-Wysocki will be on the fiddle. Oh yeah, and bring a lunch with you.
Friday
If computer games are your thing, you might want to check out NHTI’s Fall Game Jam, which starts at 5 p.m. and runs through Sunday. The Fall Game Jam is a marathon computer game development event. And no, that doesn’t mean you’ll be developing a computer game that involves running in marathons. It means participants will throw themselves headlong into their work for a whole weekend, with minimal time for food and sleep. At 5 p.m. Sunday, the games must be ready for prime time, so make sure you can handle the pressure.
For more information, contact professor Greg Walek at gwalek@ccsnh.edu.
It’s always interesting to meet an author and learn about the writing process and hear about their stories. Luckily, Gibson’s Bookstore is holding a two-author event at 5:30, free and open to the public. Rebecca Kaiser Gibson will discuss her new book of verse, Opinel: Poems, and Leaf Seligman will lead the audience in an exercise of writing prompts as she discusses her new book, A Pocket Book of Prompts.
Saturday
Is it awards season already? Well it is at the Grappone Center. The Junior Service League of Concord will host a red carpet gala at the center starting at 7 p.m.
The night will benefit the Friends of Forgotten Children.
There will be dinner and dancing, live auction items, hourly wine raffles and a grand prize cash give-away. Nice!
Sunday
The man behind “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Gordon Lightfoot, will play at the Capitol Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $39.50 to $59.50. Call 225-1111 for more information.