The 2025 season of MacDowell Downtown featured a lineup of presentations by ten incredible MacDowell Fellows, showcasing the breadth and depth of artistic disciplines, practices, and talent represented at MacDowell.
From March through November, audiences in downtown Peterborough, NH, gathered on the first Friday of each month for film screenings, readings, performances, and artist talks—each event offering a unique window into the creative process. Held at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture, the series continued its tradition of providing free, public access to exceptional work in the arts.
Across genres and disciplines, the 2025 MacDowell Downtown series wove together stories of identity, memory, justice, transformation, and creative possibility— a testament to the power of the art to challenge boundaries, interrogate cultural narratives and illuminate the profound ways creativity shapes our understanding of the world.
MacDowell Downtown
(Oriana Camara photo)
MacDowell Downtown is a series of presentations by MacDowell Fellows that take place on the first Friday of the month from March to November in Peterborough, NH. The events are free and open to the public. Each season features a wide array of programming, including film screenings, readings, talks, interviews, performances, and more. MacDowell Downtown begins at 7:30 p.m. typically at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough.
Events in season
November 7 - Slicing Time with Animator and Visual Artist Danski Tang
October 3 - Code & Canvas: Reimaging Art in the Digital Age with Brent Watanabe
September 5 - Borderlines & Belief with writer Elizabeth Nicholas
August 1 - Legal Lines, Legal Ambiguity with Writers April Dembosky and Jessie Allen
June 6 - Palimpsest as Image with Sama Alshaibi
May 2 - Loops & Layers: Past Work and Present Sound with Marcus Fischer
April 4 - A Conversation with Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron
March 7 - Filmmaker Billy Luther Brings Native Stories to the Screen