Scriven Arts Center

07/11/2024

The Scriven Arts Center is now permanently closed. Thanks to all who took part in our programs over the years.

08/15/2023

As noted in this eloquent Daily Sun story, the Scriven Arts Center will be hosting prizewinning fiction writer Erica Plouffe Lazure this Saturday, August 19, at 7 pm. Please join us here at 452 New Hampshire Route 140 in Gilmanton. Admission is free.

GILMANTON — The winner of the 2022 New American Fiction Prize, Erica Plouffe Lazure, will read from her debut story collection, "Proof of Me," at the Scriven Arts Center, on

07/05/2023

As noted in this stellar article in The Laconia Daily Sun, political strategist Connor Lounsbury will be giving a talk here at the Scriven Arts Center this coming Saturday, July 8 at 7 pm. 452 New Hampshire Route 140, Gilmanton, NH 03237.

GILMANTON — The messaging strategist for several winning political campaigns, Washington, DC insider Connor Lounsbury will discuss political strategy at the Scriven Arts Center in Gilmanton on Saturday, July 8,

06/08/2023

Please join us here at the Scriven Arts Center at 7 p.m. this Saturday, June 10, as New Hampshire filmmaker Laina Barakat screens her award-winning feature, Light Attaching to a Girl. Free admission; 452 New Hampshire Route, 140, Gilmanton. Here's the trailer.

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09/06/2022

Join us at the Scriven Arts Center Friday for an evening with filmmaker Chris Sessions.

08/31/2022

True crime writer David Howard has connections to The Mob. He can't talk about all of it, but he will talk about most of it here at the Scriven Arts Center on Friday. See you here in the barn at 7 p.m.

08/28/2022

True Crime Writer Dave Howard
Scriven Arts Center
Friday, 9/2; 7 pm

It is a rare day when one gets the privilege to commune with a wordsmith of this caliber. Dave Howard, once my editor, now writes magazine stories, essays, screenplays and nonfiction books with a gift for storytelling. His specialty is true crime, and he'll be speaking about that--and his recent interviews with a Mafia-connected contract killer--at the Scriven Arts Center on Friday. See you here in the barn.

08/25/2022

When the elusive brown bear comes knocking on your door, will you be ready? Learn all you need to know Friday night as naturalist Susie Spikol visits the Scriven Arts Center, at 452 New Hampshire Route 140, in Gilmanton. Her talk starts at 7 pm. Arrive early to secure a seat.

08/16/2022

Filmmaker Chris Sessions is sick, so he will not be sharing his work here at the Scriven Arts Center this weekend. We've rescheduled him for September 9 at 7 pm. Hope to see you here in the barn then!

06/25/2022

Join us at Friday, July 8 at 7 p.m. as Gilmanton Iron Works filmmaker and farmer Marc Dole screens several of his award-winning short works, among them “Mito Kids,” about his four daughters, who’ve all grown up with mitochondrial disease, a chronic genetic disorder.
Located at 452 New Hampshire Route 140, in Gilmanton, the Scriven Arts Center hosts poetry readings, film screenings, and more in an old barn. All events are free and open to the public. scrivenartscenter.com.