Year: 2012

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The theme of seARTS Annual Meeting on Tuesday, February 28 (6 – 9pm) is FOCUS on CULTURAL DISTRICTS at Rockport Music’s Shalin Liu Performance Center Reception Hall. Please join us and send the attached notice to your members, friends, and mailing lists.

We chose this theme to keep the momentum you’ve all been working hard at alive and well and to further the discussion throughout Cape Ann. We have terrific speakers who will address many facets of Cultural Districts and their role in economic and cultural development including: development, hands-on management, challenges and public policy.If you have specific questions or topics you’d like the speakers to address, please send them to me by February 15.

6:00 – 6:30 Reception

6:30 – 7:00 seARTS Business Meeting

7:00 – 8:00 Speakers: Ann Galligan and Herb Weiss (see bios on attachment)

8:00 – 8:30 Q & A

We look forward to seeing you!

Anne Robinson  seARTS

Vice President, Board of Directors

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Karen Ristuben "Just, one word…" at the Ipswich Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, February 15

Hello friends,
I will be presenting my performance/lecture, "Just, one word…" at the Ipswich Performing Arts Center on Wednesday,  February 15, at 7 pm.  The Town of Ipswich Recycling Committee (RAC), in conjunction with the Ipswich River Watershed Association (IRWA) and iCARE,  will be hosting the event.
In this 45-minute multi-media presentation, I present the important environmental issue of marine plastic pollution through photography, video, sound, and archival images, addressing it through the various lenses of marine science, economics, politics, and our consumer culture. I recently gave this presentation at Cape Ann Museum, NOAA’s Gloucester headquarters, the Marine Mammal Conference in Tampa, FL and I will be presenting at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City at the end of February.  This presentation is free and will be followed by refreshments in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center.  For more information, call 978 356 6613.
The Ipswich Performing Arts Center is located in the Ipswich Middle/High School Complex at 130 – 134 High Street in Ipswich.  
We hope to see you there!
Yours,
Karen
www.karenristuben.com

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St. Ann School Comedy Night

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NORTH SHORE UNITED WAY’S WOMEN IN ACTION

EVENT TAKING ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY

Over one hundred North Shore women and men have taken on the epidemic of childhood obesity by participating in the North Shore United Way’s new Women in Action (WIA) initiative.  Setting a goal of $40,000, the WIA group has raised an impressive $25,000 so far with 3 months to go until the end of this year’s North Shore United Way (NSUW) Campaign on April 30.

The Women in Action initiative will support innovative new local programs focused on increasing access to healthy food and opportunities for physical activity for low-income families.  Grants for new programs will be awarded later this spring.

On Thursday, February 16 from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. NSUW will host its second Women in Action Breakfast.  The event is generously sponsored by Glen Urquhart School and will be held on their campus in Beverly.  Speakers include Jonathan Gay from Playworks Metro Boston on “Re-Imagining Recess: Our school’s untapped opportunity to accelerate learning and health."  The event will also highlight the work of a pilot project at Veterans’ Memorial School in Gloucester that is combining healthy food with physical activity after school.

The Women in Action Breakfast is free and open to the public but pre-registration is required.  Register via the NSUW website at www.nsuw.org.  Donations to Women in Action can be made online at www.nsuw.org/Donate.html or via check to “North Shore United Way” noting designation to WIA and mailed to NSUW at 248 Cabot St., Beverly, MA 01915.

For more information about Women in Action or the North Shore United Way, visit www.nsuw.org or contact NSUW at 978-922-3966.