Is your to-do list miles long this season? Then drop your children off at Backyard Growers for our gardening and craft workshop: “Holiday Greens for little Gardeners” while you shop!
Our team has developed a window gardening workshop tailored to little gardeners! They’ll learn about planting and growing microgreens, and each child will decorate and bring home a microgreen window planter! The perfect gift for any family member.
Saturday, December 10th, 10am-12pm Backyard Growers Office 271 Main Street $15 per child, cash or check at the door.
Space is limited, so reserve now by signing up here!
All proceeds benefit our school and community gardening programs.
Don’t forget to come to Beeman this Saturday, December 3rd from 9 to 1 for the Holiday Fair! Fun for the whole family with games and crafts for the students, trees and wreaths for your family to choose, and special shopping fun for the adults with vendors selling beautiful and interesting gifts to help with your shopping! As always we will have our fantastic luncheon on sale. Counting on seeing you there!
“Welcome Yule! – A Midwinter Celebration” returns for a third year to the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse.
The Welcome Yule Chorus, Children’s Troupe and Folk Orchestra, under the direction of
Welcome Yule Children – 2015
Rose Sheehan, will present this lively, seasonal pageant on Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 4:00 PM in the sanctuary of Gloucester’s historic Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse. The program is expected to run two hours including a fifteen minute intermission.
Yule is the name for the old, pre-Christian Winter Solstice festivals celebrated throughout northern Europe. ‘Welcome Yule!’ highlights symbols and festivities associated with those older festivals – wassailing, holly and ivy, yule logs, candles – and includes Christmas lore that blends the old customs with the newer festival.
Welcome Yule Mummers – 2015
This family friendly show is filled with music, dance, songs and stories for the longest night. It features a mix of traditional pieces, as well as contemporary works. A mummers’ play, ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ is a comic reworking of an English ritual drama in which a character dies and is brought back to life.
There will be a Yule Log Procession in which the audience is invited to touch the log with a holly leaf and make a wish for the new year.
A number of songs invite the audience to sing-a-long, making for a fun participatory event.
Welcome Yule is produced by Folk Life Studio in cooperation with the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.
Tickets are available at the door.
Ticket prices are
$15 for adults;
$10 for seniors (65+) and children five through sixteen;
$35 family cap;
age four and under free.
Join us for our annual church fair, a key stop on Gloucester’s December 10 Middle Street Walk. Enjoy food, crafts, music, seasonal shopping, and fellowship. We’re also hosting entertainment in our sanctuary throughout the day. Here’s the day’s schedule:
9:00-11:00 Breakfast downstair: Donuts, bagels, coffee, tea, hot chocolate
9:00-1:00 Church Fair downstairs: Cookie walk, artisan tables, hand-knitted scarves, book table, Brad’s Unique Boutique
10:00-10:30 Gloucester High School Chorus concert upstairs in sanctuary
10:00-12:00 Santa downstairs in the vestry, free S’mores on the church lawn
11:00-11:45 Grace Center Jug Band concert upstairs in sanctuary
11:00-1:00 Lunch downstairs in the vestry: chowder, veggie chili, hot dogs
11:45 Tour of the historic Meetinghouse
12:00 Caroling downstairs
2:00-2:45 “Mingling of Souls,” dramatic reading of a play by Jay DiPrima based on the life and writings of Rev. John Murray and Judith Sargent Murray. Sanctuary: $5 suggested donation.
4:00-6:00 “Welcome Yule! A Midwinter Celebration”, a family friendly show filled with music, dance, songs and stories for the longest night. Sanctuary. $15 for adults; $10 for seniors (65+) and children five through sixteen; $35 family cap; age four and under free. Tickets available at the door.
Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. at Gloucester City Hall, where Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken will raise the #WorldAIDSDay flag along with other elected officials and community activists and groups, including North Shore Health Project, to preside over a short ceremony marking this important day of remembrance and gratitude.
Each Wednesday, CATA provides service to shopping centers outside Cape Ann for senior and disabled customers. Locations include WalMart, Christmas Tree Shops, Trader Joe’s, and Liberty Tree/North Shore. Pickups are at the Rockport and Gloucester Senior Centers. The cost is $5 round trip. Please call 978-283-7916 with any questions!
