Month: September 2016
Sawyer Free Library Week of September 11,2016
The bid book is out now through October 3- Come and see all of the art by local artists!
Music on Meetinghouse Green to Benefit the Gloucester Meetinghouse Fire Deterrence Project
Cape Ann Big Band in Free Concert, Friday, September 9, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Corner of Middle and Church Streets, Gloucester, MA
This diverse 17-piece big band entertains and delights audiences with danceable music infused with jazz, swing, New Orleans street bands, soul, and rock n’ roll that will bring you back in time.… Known for operating like a family, Cape Ann Big Band prides itself with having a repertoire that has no boundaries. Their program includes such classics as “Mack the Knife,” “I’ve Got You Under my Skin,” and “Take the A Train.”
This is the final concert in a series of nine free outdoor concerts presented by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation. The family-friendly concert begins at 6 pm. Bring a picnic, folding chairs or blankets. In case of rain, the event will take place inside the Meetinghouse (no food or drink permitted inside.) Donations will be accepted to benefit the Gloucester Meetinghouse Fire Deterrence Project.
About the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation
http://gloucestermeetinghouse.org/
The long term goal of the Meetinghouse Restoration Project is to complete a historically informed but fully functional building restoration, both to preserve this important landmark and to be a cultural gathering place for all of Gloucester and Cape Ann. The church has a long history of community service, with a congregation eager to share the space. Until it can be protected by a comprehensive fire-sprinkler and detection system with fire-stops in the walls it will remain at grave risk of loss.
Seaside Garden Club Kicks off Their 2016/17 Season next Tuesday
The Seaside Garden Club is kicking off their 2016/17 program year with Medicinal Use of Native Plants demonstration on September 13th at the Manchester Community Center (Click here for directions). Social time begins at 7:00 pm and the program begins promptly at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome. $5 guest fee for non-members.
Are you curious about the “weeds” growing around your property or neighborhood? Dr. Nicole will show us some local native and introduced plants and discuss some of their traditional uses. The goal of the program is to begin to identify, and build relationship with, some of our potentially edible, medicinal and useful plants (with a focus on weeds); so that we can correctly identify them in our own backyards and perhaps even grow some. The wild weedy area around the train tracks in back of the Manchester Community Center will be used to find and identify plants as they are seasonally available. Come prepared with bug spray and protective clothing. A reference handout will be supplied for further study.
A traditional medicine woman, community herbalist and family chiropractor, Dr. Nicole K. Andrade, CACCP has been studying and practicing natural healing techniques for 20 years. She owned and operated Atlantic Family Chiropractic, PC in Gloucester for 13 years, was the founder of the Cape Ann Healing Center and a co-founder of Treetop Yoga Studio. She is certified from the Academy of Family Practice and the Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics and has studied reiki, shamanism and ethnobotanical and spiritual healing traditions for 10 years with indigenous and traveling healers of New England, New Mexico and of the Amazon regions of Peru, Brazil and Ecuador. She currently works as an associate doctor at the Lydian Center for Innovative Healthcare in Cambridge, MA.
The Seaside Garden Club has a terrific line up of programs and speakers for this year, including: Aster B Flowers, All about Perennials with Steve Hebert and the Art of the Vignette with club favorite Cheryl Munroe. Always popular workshops are being offered, starting with a holiday workshop lead by Jackie Rich in November and an Outdoor Container workshop at Chapman’s Green House in the spring. The annual Plant Sale and Auction is scheduled for May and our season concludes with a Book Discussion and potluck dinner in June.
The Seaside Garden Club meets the second Tuesday of every month (September through June) at the Community Center, Manchester-by-the-Sea. Social time begins at 7:00 pm; programs begin promptly at 7:30 pm.
Renew your membership by the September meeting in order to be included in the annual Yearbook! Annual membership is $25.00. Guest fee is $5.00 per meeting. Make your check payable to: The Seaside Garden Club, PO Box 94, Manchester, MA 01944.
Be sure to “Follow” the Seaside Garden Club on their Blog: https://seasidegardenclub.wordpress.com/
Or to join our Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeasideGardenClub
An All Acoustic Show By Charlie Farren with Satch Kerans To Benefit The Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team
Architecture Talk at the Cape Ann Museum by documentary film maker Lyda Kuth
Thursday, September 29
7:00 p.m.
The life and accomplishments of Eleanor Raymond (1887–1989), a pioneering woman in the field of architecture during the mid-20th century, will be the subject of a talk presented by documentary film maker Lyda Kuth. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Art and Landscape Architecture for Women, Eleanor Raymond was a noted innovator partnering with solar energy researcher Dr. Maria Telkes to design one of the first successful solar-heated buildings in the Northeast. On Cape Ann, Raymond designed homes for artist Natalie Hays Hammond, anthropologist Carlton S. Coon and a summer cottage for herself overlooking Gloucester’s outer harbor. Lyda Kuth is an independent filmmaker and Executive Director of the LEF Foundation, which supports New England independent documentary filmmakers. She has been recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council with the prestigious Commonwealth Award and honored by Women in Film and Video New England with an Image Award.
Tickets can also be ordered online at Eventbrite.
Not a member of the Museum? Join now and get discounted tickets to all our events!
Coaches Needed- Gloucester Nor’Easters Flag Football
Sawyer Free Library Week of September 4, 2016
Annual Art Auction bidding begins Tuesday September 6 in the Matz Gallery!
Bid on artwork during September – Annual Art Auction is Wednesday October 5
Here are a few pieces:
Welcome to Gloucester’s busiest weekend of the year.
Welcome to Gloucester’s busiest weekend of the year.
Friday September 2 -Schooner Festival – Approximately twenty-five schooners will descend upon our waterfront for the 32nd Annual Schooner Festival
Friday-Downtown Block Party. 5:00p.m.-10:00p.m. – Main Street will be closed from Pleasant Street to Tally’s Corner. Expect heavy traffic in the downtown area.
Saturday September 3 – Maritime Gloucester Heritage Day 10:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Harbor Loop. Harbor Loop will be closed in front of the Maritime Gloucester Building.
Schooner Fest Lobster Bake 1:00p.m.-9:00p.m. at the Gloucester House.
Concert on the Boulevard, Boat Light Parade, Fireworks, 6:00p.m.-10:00p.m. This area with all activities will be very congested. One lane of the boulevard will be closed for a short period to accommodate the crowds. Come down to the Boulevard, enjoy the weather, the festive atmosphere, the holiday. Park outside the area and walk if possible. Expect delays if driving in the Western Avenue, Stacey Boulevard area.
Sunday September 4 – Schooner Fest Parade of Sail 10:30a.m. Start. Expect the Downtown Area and Stacey Boulevard to have traffic congestion for approximately one hour.
Sunday Start of Mayors Race off of Eastern Point 1:00pm
Sunday Open House at the United States Coast Guard Station on Harbor Loop from 12:00noon -4:00p.m.
We are anticipating normal beach conditions for Saturday, September 3. Sunday and Monday we will be keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Hermine anticipated to be passing by the east coast. During high winds and heavy surf, coastal areas should be avoided to ensure the safety of the public. Emergency personnel have been fully briefed and are on standby.
Monday September 5 – YMCA 25k Around the Cape Road Race 8:00a.m. Beginning at the O’ Maley School. Expect traffic delays from Washington Street to the Rockport Line and on Thatcher Road, Bass Avenue, and on Main Street. This is an open course so we are asking motorists to be aware of the pedestrian traffic, to please slow down and to use caution around the runners.
Any updates and cancellations due to weather will be posted on Police outlets.
CAPE ANN SISTERHOOD EXHIBIT NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION AUGUST 5 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
CAPE ANN SISTERHOOD EXHIBIT NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION AUGUST 5 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm They say, “It is better to give than to receive,” but sometimes you can do both simultaneously as a group of current and former board members of North Shore Arts Association has discovered. Some fifteen years ago, Anne Demeter, former and current President of NSAA, Trudy Allen, former Gallery Director, and Judythe Evans Meagher, former Trustee Board Member, arranged to meet for dinner at the Windward Grille in Essex. The folks at the Windward were so welcoming, accommodating and tolerant (there was a fair amount of raucous laughter that evening), that the group decided to do it again and again and again. In a little while, they were joined by the then Treasurer, the late Carleen Muniz, Corresponding Secretary, Janice Turner, and another Trustee, Bonnie Gray. Bonnie introduced to the group Andrea van Gestal, who has since served as President, Treasurer and Recording Secretary, and she invited Trustee, Judy Metcalfe. Before long (nobody remembers exactly when anymore), they were joined by Trustees Pamela Giarratana and the late Connie Mullen. The management of Windward Grille has seen a lot of this group over the years, including their annual Yankee Swap, and has remained welcoming, accommodating and tolerant even though the raucous laughter has never ceased and may even have increased in volume. This is a diverse group of women in many ways, with backgrounds ranging from law to interior design, mediums ranging from oils and watercolor to alcohol inks, and painting styles ranging from photorealism to abstract. All but Janice Turner are painters, but since she has been the wife and helpmate of Rockport artist Bruce Turner for over 50 years, the group considers her an artist by association. These friends have formed strong bonds and a support network that has seen them through the inescapable life challenges of illness, death and divorce. But what binds them together at the core is their love for and dedication to the North Shore Arts Association. If you were to tally their combined years of volunteering as trustees, officers, committee members and chairs, workshop teachers, event coordinators, hangers of exhibitions, writers of programs, along with all the little tasks and roles that don’t even get a name, you would easily surpass a century. They are all very mindful, not of what they have given to North Shore, but what they have gained as a result, something they have dubbed “The Cape Ann Sisterhood.” Read about the “Sisterhood” in the Gloucester Daily Times . . . http://www.gloucestertimes.com/…/article_133dc33a-ca46-5d38…
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