Month: July 2013

Origami for kids at Art Haven and Theatre Camp for Kids at the YMCA

Posted on by Matthew Green

This Thursday (3:30-5PM) is the last origami class for kids this month at Art Haven!  The content and level of difficulty of the class is entirely flexible according to the needs and interests of those who sign up.

So, for example, if your child (or a child you know) has an origami book and has stopped using it because he/she is stuck on a difficult model or discouraged, register them for the class and bring them with the book in question! I will help them through whatever difficulty they may be facing, and we can fold some model(s) from the book with the other students.

The possibilities are endless! Contact Art Haven for details on pricing and registration, and if you do register and have a specific interest or need, let me know ahead of time so I can prepare if necessary (you can comment on this post).  Here’s a photo from a previous class, showing me with budding origami artist Leon Calvo:

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We folded a boat, a dragon, a lotus flower, and a Brontosaurus (aka Apatosaurus). Leon’s father David Calvo is a wood carver who does beautiful work and teaches classes as well.

It’s not too late to sign kids up for Theatre Camp at the YMCA! I’ve heard great things about this program. “Murder on Rocky Neck: The Opera” was the result of a similar program with Henry Allen in the past.1077257_395860890520460_1502729790_o– Matthew Green

Pet of the Week-Checkers!

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

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Hello!  My name is Checkers, I am an active and sweet, two-month-old boy kitten.  I am brown-and-black and quite handsome. I love to play and wrestle with my brothers and sisters.  I was in a foster home that had a cat friendly dog and we got along well.

If you would like to meet me and my siblings, we are at the Cape Ann Animal Aid located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter, Four Paws Lane in Gloucester.  Please check our website at: CapeAnnAnimalAid.com for upcoming events.  We always enjoy receiving cat and dog toys for animals here at the shelter.   We are continuing to accept returnable bottle and cans on Sundays from 12 Noon – 3 p.m. for our Transportation fund.

Don’t forget my name – it’s Checkers and of course I know how to play checkers and I always win!

 

Community Photos 7/23/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Surfing

Very early SUP at Good Harbor. -Len Burgess

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Hey Joey
The fish in this bucket are pollock caught from the state fish pier.
  Best  Anthony

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Captain Pete on the Harbor Taxi – Gloucester Ambassador

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

Captain Pete Favazza one of Gloucester’s Ambassador is seen below showing a passenger how to tie knots, while waiting to navigate around the harbor. 

For more information and schedule link to Harbor Tours.

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Chickity Check It!- “Tale of 2 fisheries on stage and at the dock Play’s ’80s packing plant a far cry from today” By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times

The 1986 setting for the play “North Shore Fish” — now showing at Gloucester Stage resuming Wednesday night — hints at a foreboding crisis in the fishing industry that started as a trickle in the mid-1980s, and has become a veritable deluge in 2013.

But while the dwindling fish landings feeding into the background story for the Israel Horovitz play continue into the 21st century, it is under dramatically different circumstances.

Local fishermen today are fighting to maintain their livelihood against the pressures of a federal bureaucracy they believe wants to shut them down, but the workers who manned the plentiful fish processing plants in the 1980s and in Horovitz’s play faced a vanishing way of life due to automation, foreign competition and eventually, yes, a dwindling number of landings.

In the mid-1980s, millions of pounds of fish were landed daily by the Gloucester-based fleet — compared to the landings at the Cape Ann Seafood Exchange on Harbor Loop last Thursday, which was 7,700 pounds.

For the entire article click here to read it at The Gloucester Daily Times Site

Community Stuff 7/23/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Free Taylor Swift Concert Tickets! The Magnolia Library And Community Center is now on Facebook! LIKE us on Facebook, post a message and be entered into a drawing for two tickets (retail value $126 ). The tickets are for Saturday, July 27 at Gillette Stadium, Section 301/Row 18. The winner will be notified Tuesday evening, July 23rd

2013 Rhumb Line Striper Tourney This Sunday!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

$20 gets you a t-shirt and entry and cookout at the infamous Rhumb Line Striper Tourney Weigh In Cookout if you sign up by Saturday night.

Sargent House Museum Block Party Pics

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Dear Joey,
Barb Silberman asked that I send along some photos from Block Party at the
Sargent House Museum. This was a big night for us because this was the first
time Judith Sargent Murray’s plays have returned to life after 200 years.
North Shore Folklore Theatre, Co. made this possible by performing Act 5 of
"the Traveller Returned" (1796). To round out the evening, we had some folks
in costume, catered supper picnic boxes from Beach Gourmet, and historic
lawn games.
Thanks, Joey!
-Kimberlee

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Rusty Shatford represents! With His New GMG Cap

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

FOB Frank Ciolino surprised rusty with his new cap at Fort Square Café- Yet Another of Gloucester’s Killer Breakfast Joints!

I’m looking forward to winter when I can get back to my breakfast haunts like Fort Square Café, Mamie’s Kitchen, George’s, Willow Rest, Charlie’s Place and Sugar Mags.

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Painting New Balance Field at Newell Stadium

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

Also see Video below

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Painting New Balance Field at Newell Stadium

Semi-finalist Group Exhibit Reception at the Sawyer Free Library

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Georges and Charles Ryan ©Kim Smith 2013

George and Charles Ryan, Catherine and Cliff’s twin nine-year old sons, are avid GMG readers. They particularly enjoyed the Steak Bomb Challenge posts!

Mayor Kirk HarborWalk Exhibit ©Kim Smith 2013Friday’s reception for the Semi-finalist Group Exhibit, hosted by the Sawyer Free Library and Carol Gray, was well attended and beautifully organized by Catherine Ryan. The wonderfully appetizing and tasty hors d’ourves, dips, crostini, and fruits and cheeses were provided by Matthew Beach of Beach Gourmet

Carol gray ©Kim Smith 2013 copyCarol Gray, Sawyer Free Library Director

Thank you Mayor Kirk, Carol, Catherine, and the Gloucester Committee for the Arts for the exhibit, which is interesting and very informative to see all the semi-finalists responses to the public call to art. The exhibit is up and running through July 30th at the Matz Gallery of the Sawyer Free Library. Click HERE for the Library’s summer hours.

Bartek Konieczny Family ©Kim Smith 2013Finalist Bartek Konieczny and Family

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Sean and Juni Van Dyke ©Kim Smith 2013 copy

Semi-finalist Juni Van Dyke and Her Son Sean

Justin DeSilva ©Kim Smith 2013 copyFinalist Justin DeSilva

Jame Calderwood ©Kim Smith 2013 copyFinalist James Calderwood

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Only a Few Hours Left for Cape Ann Community Cinema’s Fundraising Campaign

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Rob Newton writes:

Here’s an up-to-the-minute update as to what’s going on at the Cape Ann Community Cinema right now! The Penultimate Campaign Update:

If You Are Waiting To The Last Minute… IT’S HERE!

IMG_0719It is so amazing (and a little overwhelming) to see this two-month capital campaign coming to such a positive end. Thanks to the support of our hundreds of our dedicated “Patron Saints,” we have raised $28,727 for our crowdfunding campaign via the online platform Indiegogo. As of today, counting all the offline pledges,we are now over 95% of the way to our goal of $30,000. We have just 1 day left until this campaign is history.

Please visit our Indiegogo page for the specifics as to how we will invest the money we raise through this campaign, as well as a list of 12 keen thank-you gifts (which range from bumper stickers to a private movie party to free admission for a year).

If you have not donated yet and would like to––or if you’d like to donate again––just click on the picture of the door above.

I’m so lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and grateful that I will be able to continue to serve this community I love so much.

See you soon,

Rob (and Zoë Annabelle), Nicole, Anne-Marie, John, Bianca, Owen, Rachel, Gillie, Deborah, Karen, Fiona, and Mary

DONATE YOUR TIME
Our volunteers greet visitors and serve our patrons at special events, and other volunteer positions may be created based on interest and special skills. Volunteering at CACC is a life-changing experience, and we rely on the generosity of our volunteers to keep our programs going. For more information, please call Rob at(978) 309-8448.

Whether or not your high school or college has a for-credit internship program, training with us in an invaluable experience and résumé credit. For a commitment of just 120 hours, you will get a hands-on look at all aspects of Cinema operation, plus all the movies you can watch. An internship at CACC culminates in a movie night that you plan start-to-finish! Call Rob at (978) 309-8448.

Help Ned & the Big Babies Make a CD

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Did you see Ned & the Big Babies at Dog Bar during the Block Party?  Wow!  Tight, crisp, rockin’ sound; you just can’t help but move around!  These guys are one of the most entertaining bands in Gloucester.  And the best thing is that you could hear them all the way up on Main Street.  I saw people dancing their way down to Dog Bar’s gorgeous outdoor dining spot on their Rogers St. side because you couldn’t just walk, you had to dance.  Thankfully, nobody took any photos of me dancing down there (at least none that I know of).

Imagine what kind of party you could throw with a whole CD of new Ned & the Big Babies songs.  Now click here and help make that happen!  Not so sure?  Watch the video:

There will be two pair of Taylor Swift concert tickets up for grabs at the auction this Tuesday evening, courtesy of the Magnolia Library and Community Center! One set will be given away for free, the other set will be auctioned off!

Posted on by Joanne

Here are the details:
Free Taylor Swift Concert Tickets! The Magnolia Library & Community Center is now on Facebook! LIKE us on Facebook and be entered into a drawing for two tickets (retail value $126 ). The tickets are for Saturday, July 27 at Gillette Stadium, Section 301/Row 18.

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The drawing will be held Tuesday evening, July 23rd at 6pm. Auctioneer Walt Kolenda will draw the lucky winner at the start of his monthly Cape Ann Auction at the Magnolia Library & Community Center, 1 Lexington Ave. If you are not the lucky winner, a second set of tickets will be auctioned off during Tuesday’s auction. Visit Magnolia Library And Community Center on Facebook for more information.

So go ahead and enter to win by hitting the like button for the Magnolia Library and Community Center !

See you at the auction. Please like, share this post and pass the word. Thanks!

BTW, here’s a link to get to the Facebook page for the Magnolia Library and Community Center now all ya gotta do to enter the contest is just like em. And that’s not hard to do, they’re a great bunch of peeps!

Don’t forget preview is from 3-6.

Cape Ann Auction at the Magnolia Library & Community Center,

1 Lexington Ave.

Gloucester, Ma

http://www.capeannauction.com/