MUSIC & MEDITATION IN THE MEETINGHOUSE (MMM SERIES) featuring meditation leader Alex Floyd with musician Steve Lacey playing singing bowls and guitar, January 25th, 2015 in the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse
BASICS:
Meditation and Music combined in a candle-lit setting on the last Sunday of each month January 25th, 2015 at 7:30pm in Gloucester’s 1806 Meetinghouse, home of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Corner of Middle and Church Street, parking allowed on the green
Free-will Offering ($10 suggested), disability accessible, all are welcome
Social gathering afterwards with light refreshments
Web site: http://www.gloucesteruu.org Email: info@gloucesteruu.org , Phone: (978-283-3410)
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
The Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church is pleased to announce the next event of its monthly series called Music & Meditation in the Meetinghouse (MMM) that offers Cape Ann residents and visitors a unique combination of beautiful live music and relaxing meditation. Each MMM event offers the participants an opportunity to enjoy a different combination of peaceful self-awareness through various kinds of meditation enhanced by the musical offerings.
The MMM experience is intended to be comforting, entertaining and spiritual but it is emphatically not a church service. It is held in the candle-lit sanctuary of the grand Meetinghouse, a place of gathering and welcoming for the entire Gloucester community for over 200 years. The Meetinghouse, whose lantern tower with a Paul Revere bell has guided generations of mariners safely into our harbor, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the oldest, largest and last surviving historic Meetinghouse in Gloucester.
The January event will feature meditation leader Alex Floyd with musician Steve Lacey playing guitar and singing bowls. There will be a collation with light refreshments afterwards in the Entrance House, giving participants the opportunity to meet the leaders and each other in a convivial atmosphere.
Parking is allowed on the church green at the corner of Middle and Church Street, entering between the granite pillars but please be aware of the newly-installed granite benches. A free-will offering of $10 is requested but everyone is welcome regardless of financial capability. The Sanctuary is accessible with facilities for persons with disabilities via the side entrance at 10 Church Street.
MEDITATION LEADER: Alex Floyd
Alex Floyd has been a resident of Gloucester on and off for over fifty years, boyhood summers in Rocky Neck, Wheelers Point, and lately of East Gloucester.. Grew up in Cambridge, MA and Newton, and was exposed to BaHa’i religion and meditation at 14, at the Harvard Square Unitarian Church. “ I really didn’t understand meditation, back at that tender age, and although I have practiced meditation for 30 some odd years, I don’t think I understand it now.”
He led a yoga and meditation class at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington Kentucky for two years and led some group guided meditation workshops.
He was a Viet Nam era veteran who served in Iran, in 1977. Baha’i started in Persia only coincidentally. He has degrees in biotechnology and food science from UMASS, and worked in R+D biochemistry for 20 years. He is an avid sailor and spiritual seeker practicing but not yet an expert in mindfulness meditation. “ I’ve had some very good teachers and with luck I can impart some of their wisdom.”
MUSICIAN: Steve Lacey
Steve Lacey is a guitarist of 13 years, from Gloucester. He will be playing singing bowls and improvisations on the guitar. He got his B.A. in music, studying jazz and classical music at Salem State University. You can find him performing jazz with a group at the Cape Ann Brewery Tuesday nights. He also teaches private lessons for guitar. With a strong background in both Jazz and Classical theories, Steve strives to incorporate those styles, as well as other influences in his improvisation. He believes in the communicative nature of music, and has experimented in improvisation with different disciples of study in the expressive arts such as poetry and dance.
Good Morning Gloucester 