February Break with Backyard Growers! Tickets selling fast!

~ backyardgrowersgloucester
Tickets are selling fast for Backyard Grower’s February Break program– grab yours today! Contact Sarah: 978-281-0480 or sarah@backyardgrowers.org
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Backyard Growers is hosting three days of children’s workshops during February break for children grades K-5 packed with hands-on activities. Each day children will learn and discover more about food and gardening though activities such as: grinding wheat to flour, making and painting with plant dyes, holding and learning about worms, dressing up like a plant, and more!

For more information go to: backyardgrowers.org/events

Students: Apply NOW for GHS Summer Internship Program!

~ GloucesterU

ATTENTION Gloucester High School Students and Parents:

Applications for 2018 summer jobs are now being accepted!

Apply for a GHS summer internship for July and August. Get a jump on your friends and nail down a summer job. THERE ARE ONLY 20 OPEN SLOTS, SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO REVIEWING YOUR APPLICATION ASAP!

As part of this internship you will:

  • Be matched with a local company where you will gain important workplace skills
  • Be paid minimum wage or a stipend
  • Start to build a solid resume for college and future endeavors

Internship highlights:

  • Open to students in 9th through 12th grades
  • Applications are available starting NOW!
  • Interviews will be conducted starting in March and we will let you know by April if you are accepted into the program
  • Employee orientation will be held in June
  • A 2.5 hour workplace skills workshop each Wednesday at GHS during the weeks of July 9th- August 17th, and an internship placement at least 10 hours per week (exact weeks/hours will depend on the employer but will mostly be over those 6 weeks)

Applications are available online through LEAP for Education’s website (www.leap4ed.org and wait for the rotating internship banner). You may also pick up and fill out a hard copy application in the Guidance Office. Or apply by contacting JoAnn Leavitt at 774-270-0119 or jeavitt50@gmail.com. There is also a QR code on the internship flyer below.

 If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact your guidance counselor, or JoAnn Leavitt:
JoAnn Leavitt
Gloucester Program Coordinator
LEAP for Education
774-270-0119
jleavitt50@gmail.com

February Vacation Art Classes

~ Cape Ann Art Haven

OA-Collaboration_PostLooking for something fun to do over February Vacation?

We’ve teamed up with Ocean Alliance to offer two fun 2-day workshops for kids grades 1-6. Learn about whales, drones, and the ocean—then make art inspired by nature and science!

Session One: Artists as Young Scientists
Tuesday February 20 and Wednesday February 21
9:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.
$120.00  / Sibling Discounts and Scholarships Available

TO REGISTER visit https://arthaven.squarespace.com/school-vacation

• Learn about Ocean Alliance’s SnotBot drones then build and present your own model.
• Hold whale bones, listen to recording of whale songs, learn about different species and where they live, then create art inspired by the science you have learned.
• Have fun painting, drawing, and building!

Session Two: It’s All About Creativity!
Thursday February 22 and  Friday February 23
9:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.
$120.00  / Sibling Discounts and Scholarships Available

TO REGISTER visit https://arthaven.squarespace.com/school-vacation

• Learn about these majestic animals, their songs, behaviors and habitat.
• Get super creative with materials! Paint, Collage, Print, Mix it all up in new ways!
• Hold whale bones, listen to recording of whale songs, learn how scientists id whales by their tales, then write a story to tell us about your whale, it’s name, and create a collage of it’s tale with paint, papers, glitter. We’ll do these and more fun creative activities.

TO REGISTER visit https://arthaven.squarespace.com/school-vacation

Love What You Do! Community Art Project

~ Cape Ann Art Haven

Send Us Your Art!

It’s Valentine’s this week and a great time to let our love for what we do shine! We want your art to help us show off the creativity of our community in our front window!

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HOW IT WORKS: Email or Post your drawing or painting of a heart for Valentine’s Day (format should be square) and we’ll print it out and include it in a “quilt” of hearts to display in our front window . Drive by all this week to see the hearts go up in our window. We’ll be posting an album with art and your name if you’d like on Thursday. Send us your art today!

Email: cathykelley@arthaven.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/capeannarthaven
Instagram: #arthavendowhatyoulove

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Art Haven is a non-profit Community Art Center for kids, teens and adults located in Gloucester, Ma. We love to make art!

For more information visit http://www.arthaven.org

When is SeniorCare’s Valentine Breakfast?

~ trixy546

SeniorCare Inc. will hold its annual Celebrate Spring Breakfast to benefit Meals on Wheels on Friday, March 16, 2018, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at The Gloucester House, located 63 Rogers Street in downtown Gloucester. Tickets are $12 per person and include a buffet breakfast. Placemat sponsorships are still available.

Formerly the SeniorCare Valentines Breakfast, proceeds from the breakfast will benefit SeniorCare’s Meals on Wheels program.

Buy tickets or reserve your sponsor space here.

Astrophotography Program at Feb 9 Gloucester Area Astronomy Club Meeting

~ Michael Deneen

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Image Copyright © 2018 Phil Orbanes, GAAC

As I write, it’s yet another cold, grey day, but GAAC has the perfect antidote to February — on Friday night, February 9 at 8:00pm, we will bring you our annual evening of astrophotography.

Five of our best astrophotographers will each show off a handful of favorite pictures they’ve taken of galaxies, nebulae and other astronomical objects, and will tell you what each one is, how big and far away it is, and any interesting issues they had getting the shot.

This event is always a colorful, fun and exciting evening, one that will leave you with a new appreciation of what these folks do, as well as a lot of new knowledge about the strange, distant and compelling objects they photograph.

Come early to see friends old and new, grab a good seat and some great goodies, and share some terrific conversation and some wonderful views. See you on the 9th!

The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm on the first Friday of the month at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan St in Lanesville. See the website for more info, or the Facebook Page, or follow us @GAACster.

All are welcome, and there is no cost. Plenty of free off-street parking.

CHILDREN’S CHOIR FESTIVAL IN GLOUCESTER!

~ chasnaz

Children’s Choir Festival Makes First Gloucester Appearance on Sunday

Nearly three dozen young voices will be joined in song on Sunday, February 11th  beginning at 4 p.m. in the 10th annual Children’s Choir Festival.  It will be held in the Sanctuary of the historic 1806 Gloucester Meetinghouse, home of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, on the green at the corner of Middle and Church Street.  This is a wonderful event for the whole family to enjoy!

The singers, ages 5 through 18, are from three Episcopal churches, St. John’s of Gloucester, Christ Church in Andover, and All Saints Church in Chelmsford, assembled to give them an opportunity to sing as part of a larger ensemble in a grand space with a bigger audience than their home choir situations permit.

The works will range from the famous Shaker Tune, “Simple Gifts,” through religious melodies, spirituals, and a work, ‘The Call of Wisdom,” written in 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

The audience will be invited to join the combined choirs in singing “All Creatures of Our God and King and Beethoven’s “Hymn to Joy.” Prayers and scripture readings will be interspersed throughout the hour-long program. A reception will follow.

The Choir Festival dates back to 2009 but this is its first appearance in Gloucester. Mark Nelson, music director at St. John’s Church, said the Meetinghouse was chosen as the venue for its ample seating for over 300 persons, as well as its fine acoustics.  Nelson will be joined in conducting by Barbara Bruns of the Andover church and Maggie Marshall of the Chelmsford Church.

The Gloucester Meetinghouse is located at the intersection of Middle and Church Street. Parking is available on the green in front of the Meetinghouse, in the St. John’s Church lot at 33 Washington St., and in the municipal lot at nearby St. Peter’s Square, on Rogers Street.   Access for persons with disabilities is from the side door at 10 Church St.

The event is being hosted by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation. Admission is free (donations gratefully accepted).  More information is available at:

http://www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org

http://www.facebook.com/gloucestermeetinghouse/