Month: January 2015

February Vacation At Maritime Gloucester

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• Feb17

  

  Shipwreck Detectives (PreK – 1st Grade)

  Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 10:00 am

  Registration : $10 for non-members, $5 for Maritime Gloucester members

  Audience: PreK – 1st Grade, Parents/guardians required.

  Our marine science classroom has become the site of a mysterious shipwreck: what can you learn from its artifacts?  Children will become marine detectives as they search for clues and explore our giant shipwreck mat.  What can they discover about the ship and its passengers?  A variety of fun activities will be offered as we learn about marine exploration and shipwrecks in New England.  We’ll fish for facts and learn about boats in Gloucester Harbor through a fun story.              

  10:00-11:30 in our Marine Science Classroom 

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• Feb17

  

  Shipwrecks and Maritime Archeology (2nd – 5th Grade)

  Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 1:00 pm

  Registration : $10 for non-members, $5 for Maritime Gloucester members

  Audience: 2nd – 5th Grade drop-off program

  Become a maritime archeologist and search for clues as we explore our giant shipwreck mat!  As you examine each paper artifact, what can you learn about the ship and its passengers?  Where did the ship come from?  When did it sink?  Through a variety of fun activities, we’ll learn about the famous shipwrecks of New England and the tools and techniques for exploring these undersea sites. Children are encouraged to stay afterwards (2:30-3:30) to watch Ghosts of the Abyss, a documentary about the wreck of the Titanic. 

  Program in our Marine Science Classroom, 1:00-2:30

  Free Maritime Movie for Participants, 2:30-3:30

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• Feb18

  

  Frozen Crystals: Exploring Ice and Snow (PreK – 1st Grade)

  Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 10:00 am

  Registration : $10 FOR NON-MEMBERS, $5 FOR MARITIME GLOUCESTER MEMBERS

  Audience: Pre-K – 1st Grade, parent/guardian required

  Does this time of year have you thinking of ice and snow?  Explore the science of all things frozen!  Make your own saltwater paintings and watch shimmering crystal patterns appear.  Turn an ordinary sock into a toy seal, walrus, or beluga whale. We’ll learn about coldwater creatures, Arctic and Antarctic exploration, and snowy habitats!  

  10:00-11:30 in our Marine Science Classroom                                         

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• Feb18

  

  Polar Explorers and Icy Experiments (2nd – 5th Grade)

  Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 1:00 pm

  Registration : $10 FOR NON-MEMBERS, $5 FOR MARITIME GLOUCESTER MEMBERS

  Audience: 2nd – 5th Grade drop-off program

  What did explorers find on Arctic and Antarctic expeditions?  What kinds of creatures have adapted to freezing temperatures? Students will learn all about ice through a variety of icy experiments, challenges, and projects.  Using a variety of ice shapes, build an ice tower as high as you can.  Paint a snowy scene with saltwater and watch crystals appear.  Children are encouraged to stay afterwards (2:30-3:30) to watch The Blue Planet: Frozen Seas, a nature documentary about polar sea creatures.   

  Program in our Marine Science Classroom, 1:00-2:30

  Free Maritime Movie for Participants, 2:30-3:30

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• Feb19

  

  Submarines and Sea Creatures (PreK – 1st Grade)

  Thursday, February 19, 2015, 10:00 am

  Registration : $10 FOR NON-MEMBERS, $5 FOR MARITIME GLOUCESTER MEMBERS

  Audience: Pre-K – 1st Grade, parent/guardian required

  Imagine you’re exploring the deep sea in a submarine.  What strange sights and sea creatures do you see?  Children will create their own paper portholes, submarine windows to underwater scenes.  We’ll touch and hold live sea creatures from Gloucester Harbor and then create our own deep sea animals for the portholes.   Through a story about Jacques Cousteau, we’ll learn how scuba divers explore the ocean.

  10:00-11:30 in our Marine Science Classroom     

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• Feb19

  

  Mapping the Deep (2nd – 5th Grade)

  Thursday, February 19, 2015, 1:00 pm

  Registration : $10 FOR NON-MEMBERS, $5 FOR MARITIME GLOUCESTER MEMBERS

  Audience: 2nd – 5th Grade drop-off program

  The deep sea is no easy place to explore.  What strange creatures lurk in the depths?  How can we learn about the shape of the seafloor?  Through fun activities, we’ll learn all about the various ways to explore the ocean floor.  We’ll build a deep sea model in a box, complete with creatures and shipwrecks.  Afterwards, we’ll measure ocean depth and surprising seafloor features without even looking in the box!  Children are encouraged to stay afterwards (2:30-3:30) to watch The Blue Planet: The Deep, a nature documentary about deep sea animals.   

  Program in our Marine Science Classroom, 1:00-2:30

  Free Maritime Movie for Participants, 2:30-3:30

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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.

The Wisdom’s Heart URBAN RETREAT with Doug Veenhof

February 6th, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Saturday and Sunday, February 7th and 8th, 10:00am – 5:30pm

Join us for an in-center, “Urban Retreat” with master meditator and author, Douglas Veenhof at Wisdom’s Heart in Downtown Gloucester.

Don’t miss an opportunity to join us for further explorations in The 4 Dimensions of Mental Balance Known as Happiness, a revolutionary meditation approach which combines cutting edge neuroscience and affective psychology with the 2500 year wisdom tradition of Buddhist meditation training.

For more details click here.