Day: August 31, 2013

Cape Ann Art Haven and The Hive Center celebrated their 5 year and 1 year anniversaries on August 27

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

TheHiveSideWalkCape Ann Art Haven and The Hive Center celebrated their 5 year and 1 year anniversaries on August 27. Over the past five years, we have emerged as important members of downtown Gloucester, serving hundreds of youth, artists and emerging artists. Our founder David Brooks expressed deep appreciation to all those who have been the backbone of the success that Art Haven has seen over the years. “It has been amazing to see so many amazing people willing to lend a hand to make it all possible. We have been blessed and are excited to have the support as we look to the future at all that is to come.”

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Our anniversary party drew over a hundred people to The Hive and its success was largely due to the support of various donors. We have many “Thank You“s to share! Chive Catering and Sustainable Event Planning provided all the delicious food, which was made possible through food donations from local farms. Chive runs zero-waste events and composts all their left over products.  Ryan & Wood, Cape Ann Brewery Company and Seabreeze Liquors provided all the adult libations. Cape Pond Ice generously donated all the ice to keep the drinks nice and chilled. Most importantly, we want to give a final “shout out”to everyone who came and helped make The Hive truly buzz with life and vitality last Saturday night.

It was such a great time we are planning on making this event an annual summer fling!

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Rebecca Borden

President & interim Executive Director

Cape Ann Art Haven

MA Film Office announces HBO and Playtone filming 4-part miniseries on North Shore this fall.

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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The Massachusetts Film Office announces HBO and Playtone will begin filming Olive Kitteridge next week on MA’s North Shore throughout the fall of 2013.

Olive Kitteridge is an HBO Miniseries presentation of a Playtone production in association with As Is.  Executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Frances McDormand and Jane Anderson. The miniseries is directed by Lisa Cholodenko. Steven Shareshian is co-executive producer; David Coatsworth is producer. 

The four-part drama stars Frances McDormand in the title role and Richard Jenkins as Olive’s husband, Henry Kitteridge.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Elizabeth Strout, with a screenplay written by Jane Anderson, Olive Kitteridge tells the alternately poignantly sweet, acerbically funny, and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center.

“We welcome HBO and Playtone to Massachusetts” said Lisa Strout, Director of the Massachusetts Film Office, “and are so pleased to host such a prestigious project with such extraordinary talent.”

This is HBO’s second recent production in the Commonwealth of MA.  “Clear History,” with Larry David, Jon Hamm, Kate Hudson, Michael Keaton and Eva Mendes, filmed on the North Shore in 2012. The comedy debuted on HBO earlier this month.

The production has hired and cast locally, and is utilizing Massachusetts-based businesses and services.