Community Stuff 9/11/13

Open Door Food Panty benefit Sunday

Joey,

  I think you talked to my wife, Diana, about the benefit concert for the Open Door on Sunday.  Details:

  There is a free praise concert and food drive and for the Open Door Food Pantry on Sunday, September 15, at 5:30 PM at the Stage Fort Park Gazebo.  The concert will feature the praise band Mixed Bag of Nuts (picture attached).   Folks are encouraged to bring protein (canned peanut butter, tuna, or chicken), or healthy snacks for kids’ lunches. 

Feel free to call or email for more information.

Thanks!

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Hi Joey,

I’m looking for local storytellers to share their Chicken Stories this Thursday the 12th at 7:30 at the Gloucester Writers Center. The deal is that folks come in and sign up to tell a 5 minute true story that is told not read. We also love having people who just come to listen, which is part of the fun! We have a great lineup, too.

All the best,

Maureen Aylward

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Schooner Adventure’s History Sharing Program – September 13, 2013 (10am) Come see images of old Gloucester and share your own memories during these free monthly presentations at the Rose Baker Senior Center. This month – Early Gloucester Fish Companies: How and where did Gorton’s start? See images of the companies and sites that were once part of Gloucester’s older fishing industry. (Program supported by New England Biolabs Foundation, David Greenwalt Charitable Foundation and Applied Materials). For more information – email bwelin@schooner-adventure.org or call Schooner Adventure @978-281-8079.

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Cape Ann Community Forum

Location: Shalin Liu Performance Center ,37 Main Street, Rockport, MA
Date: October 15, 2013  – 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Lahey Health & Addison Gilbert Hospital will host a community forum to discuss recent updates and developments at Lahey Health and Addison Gilbert Hospital.  Presenters will include Denis Conroy, Chief Executive Officer of Addison Gilbert and Beverly hospitals and Cindy Cafasso Donaldson, Vice President of Addison Gilbert Hospital.  All residents are encouraged to attend this community forum, which will include a question and answer session.

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Another Man’s Treasure…” 4^th Annual Flea Market Extravaganza.  Join us Saturday, Sept. 14^th from 9:00-4:00pm.  Treasures to discover at bargain prices, dancing to the stylings of our in-house DJ and Hoopers Haven hula hoop dance classes…and all at 222 Arts & Wellness Center, 222 Eastern Ave., Gloucester.  Have treasures to sell?  Set up with us for free.  Call Lin for availability  @ 978-281-6222 or 978-852-6228.

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Hello Joey,
Can you post this in the community events section?
Many thanks,
Lenore Balliro
The Lanesville Community Center Tie Dyers designed fab t-shirts for the annual LCC music festival held on September 28. Show up early to purchase your very own, one of a kind t-shirt and enjoy the music. Outdoor music 1-7; inside dance party-7:30-11:00. For more

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Hi! I am having a show of my paintings opening tomorrow, September 11, from 5:30pm-7:00pm at Alchemy Restaurant, 3 Duncan St., in Gloucester. The show continues through October 7.  I have painted in two series. One is inspired by Rebecca Siswick Graham, a local fellow artist and friend, who introduced me to the opening of the Ocean Alliance at the Paint factory. This re-kindled my love of all creatures of the sea, big and small and was the impetus to create an Aquatic Series as part of this show.

The other series in the show focuses on the wonderful Omo River Peoples of Southern Ethiopia who hand paint their bodies with different colored clays and adorn with flowers and plants. I feel the origin of all art forms comes from practices like these.  Our ancestors did this and today as we apply makeup, prune ourselves and choose our clothes, we simulate what was once an organic process. This organic art lives on today in the Omo communities in Africa, where the cradle of humanity began.

Hope you all can swing by some time.  Best wishes. Ramani