Join community gardener & yoga teacher Jasmine Epstein for this hybrid yin yoga class designed specifically for gardeners — including deep stretches and release for the neck, shoulders, and back.

📆 Friday, April 28, 4pm

📍 You can attend this class in-person at Backyard Growers HQ or online.

FREE for Backyard Growers program participants / $15 general admission. Proceeds support our work building healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food. Thanks to Jasmine for donating her time and talent by leading this class!

Fresh off a sold-out preview, Hello Friends brings their NEW Broadway review: “Once Upon a Time” to the Great Hall. Prepare yourself as their voices fill the Hall with beloved songs from Broadway shows such as Sunset Boulevard, Man of La Mancha, Legally Blonde, Shrek The Musical, Hadestown, Finding Neverland & more.

And in the second half, get ready for a modern-day retelling of the classic fairytale, Cinderella, with popular hits from the 50’s through today with music from artist such as Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas, Dolly Parton, The Proclaimers and more!  They are sure to have us all laughing, toe-tapping, and singing right along with this family-friendly show!
 
Featuring the voices and antics of veteran North Shore performers: Bobby Kerrigan, Kelly Murphy, Thom Smoker, April Foley, Becky Pehner Ruccio, Crystal VanArdsdalen, Tom Edmonds, Andrew Hankinson and Sean Murphy.

Hammond Castle Museum Members enjoy discounted admission to this performance.

Shows begin at 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm. Parking is always free.

Tickets at: https://bit.ly/3eGXwqz

Join the Businesswomen of greater Cape Ann for the First Annual Swing into Spring Golf Event at the Ipswich Country Club. Start your morning with some general instruction and breakout sessions with the Country Club’s Golf Pros. After a short break for lunch & networking, we will take to the links and play 9 holes of “Best Ball.” A Continental breakfast and a box lunch are included with the fees.

This event is for all levels of players – from first timers to accomplished players. The Pros will be able to help each of us with new skills and techniques. Come for a great day with other women to learn a game that is so important for doing business on the course.

Learn more and register today at bit.ly/2023SwingintoSpring

Cost is $149 for Chamber members \ $169 for non-members.

Thanks to Cape Ann Lanes for hosting a family-friendly night of bowling, with proceeds supporting Backyard Growers‘ work empowering people to grow their own food.

Tickets to bowl are $25 per person. Your ticket will include three strings of bowling and shoe rentals. There will be a lot of great raffle prizes, and Cape Ann Lanes offers a fun arcade and in-house brew pub. It’s going to be an awesome night!

As our veggie gardeners know well, team work makes the dream work! Please consider recruiting a team to play at this fundraiser — just make sure all team members select the same lane at checkout.

 Join us for one of the first fine art exhibits of the season with a very special exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed and collected Eric Pape (1870 -1938). 

The Eric Pape At Hammond Castle Museum exhibit  will consist of more than two dozen works by Pape, many of which have not been on public display in nearly a century.  At the time of the exhibit, it is expected to be the largest collection of Pape’s artworks on public display anywhere in the world.  The catalog of artwork is primarily on loan from the private collection of Dr. Gregory Conn, one of the world’s leading Pape experts and biographer.  On display will be examples of Pape’s work in various mediums including pencil, pen, watercolors, and oils. The catalog features the recently restored The Wireless Naval Battle of Gloucester Bay,  the only surviving mural by the famed artist.   Pape is perhaps most widely known throughout the Cape Ann community for his 1907 design of the *Tablet Rock Memorial* in Stage Fort Park commemorating the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1623.  

Hammond Castle Museum Members enjoy complimentary access to this exhibit. Reserve your tickets here!

GMGI returns to Gloucester’s City Hall!

Please join us on Wednesday, May 3rd at 6pm for a second, in-person community event! This talk will feature Dr. Andrea Bodnar, GMGI’s Donald G. Comb Science Director and her fascinating research on the long-lived red sea urchin. Click here to register!

All are welcome. The event is free of charge; registration is required. Can’t make it to city hall? Watch live through 1623 Studios live stream!

Representatives from Terry Handley Audio and the Symphony’s Board of Directors met last week at Stage Fort Park as planning for the concert continues for this summer’s concert. Specially planned for the Gloucester 400+ year of events, the concert will take place on July 28, 2023 and will be free and open to the public.

Pictured below, Yoichi Udagawa, Music Director and Conductor of the Cape Ann Symphony (left) points out a potential location of the outdoor stage.

The audience’s ocean view will be perfect for the “Pops in the Park” concert.

The Gloucester Schooner Festival is celebrating its 39th year and we are excited to bring this fantastic weekend to the public once more, this year being even more spectacular as we mark Gloucester’s 400th Anniversary. Each year Maritime Gloucester and the Gloucester Schooner Festival Committee commits to raising all of the funds to put on the four day event, bringing tens of thousands of visitors to Gloucester and getting local residents out on the harbor. Help us support this year’s event and celebrate our maritime heritage with a night of fun auction items, 50/50 raffle, cash bar, light buffet, good drinks, great friends, and music by our friend DJ Scotty Mack!

$39 suggested donation for the 39th Annual year

photo credit and schooner in the picture: Schooner When and If

Thank you to Lenny Linquata and the Gloucester House Team for providing the venue

COME CELEBRATE WITH US! Join Backyard Growers for a special ribbon-cutting to kick off the veggie-growing season in newly-expanded Burnham’s Field Community Garden!

📍 Burnham’s Field Community Garden

📆 Sunday, April 2, 11am

This spring, we are welcoming 55 households to the garden, where they will grow their own fresh food in raised garden beds – a nearly 50 percent increase in capacity

Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce is generously hosting this ribbon-cutting on the same morning as our first Burnham’s Gardener Work Day and our annual Free Seed Swap & Giveaway which is open to the public. It’s going to be a great, vibrant morning down at Burnham’s Field in Gloucester! Join us!

Tuesday, April 4 is the new date for Gardens of New England Artists with Jana Milbocker. (https://www.enchantedgardensdesign.com/) Jana is an experienced lecturer and author. She combines horticulture, design, and travel tips to educate, inspire and delight both new and seasoned gardeners. Jana loves to visit gardens and historic sites in the U.S. and abroad, and share her trips through her books, photos and blog. She published The Garden Tourist: 120 Destination Gardens and Nurseries in the Northeast in 2018, The Garden Tourist’s New England in 2020, and The Garden Tourist’s Florida in 2021.

This program is sponsored by Manchester Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The program is free and the public is encouraged to attend. We welcome the Manchester Garden Club as a co-sponsor and guest of our April 4 meeting.

Seaside Garden Club meets at the Manchester Community Center. Doors open at 7pm; program begins promptly at 7:30pm.