Month: January 2016

Gloucester Writers Center Fish Tales

Call for Storytellers

GWC Fish Tales is seeking storytellers for our upcoming show: Tattoo Show and Tell. If you have a tattoo AND a story AND are willing to show your tattoo, then please contact Maureen Aylward at maureenaylward@comcast.net.

The next show is scheduled for Friday, February 12th; location to be determined.

Fish Tales is a live storytelling event that features nine local storytellers at each show. Each storyteller has five minutes to tell a true story that relates to a theme for the night. Similar to The Moth Radio Hour, performers stand before the crowd with just a microphone and let loose a story.

Over the last three years, Fish Tales has grown from a cozy storytelling evening at the GWC to a happening weekend event every five to six weeks with an audience of 80-100 people at every show. We have a fan base. People tell us that Fish Tales is their favorite event in Gloucester because it showcases real people, telling true stories from the heart. Our storytellers are vulnerable, ready to share, funny and honest, and our enthusiastic audience reminds us that it is a joy and privilege to sit and listen to someone else’s life for a while.

For more information and to see a video of our last show, check out the website at gloucesterwriters.org.

Joey, you and I have known each other 7 years now, and I have never felt more strongly about anything I’ve ever recommended to you than I feel about this.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE!

This show is the funniest musical comedy I’ve ever seen.

It is GUARANTEED to make you laugh.

After you see it, in less than 2 hours, you’ll be on your way home, and you’ll be SO GLAD you spent the time and money to experience this outrageous, oddball musical comedy.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE!

Never heard of it? Neither had I. But it won 5 Tony Awards on Broadway in 2006. And now I have the lead!

(What character am I? “The Man in the Chair!” They didn’t even give me a name! What’s up with this?)

Plus, this is the ideal theatrical experience for anybody who hates theatre.

In this show, literally the first words you hear are: “I hate theatre!” And it goes downhill from there!

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE!

I’m tellin’ ya, Joey, if you only see one community theatre production this year, see The Drowsy Chaperone.

And you save a third of the ticket price by ordering ahead.

Tickets are $25 at the door, but only $18 (plus service charge) online.

Here’s the link for that: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2469498

6 performances over the next 2 weekends at the Community House in Hamilton.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE!

Joey, this show has everything: 

A blindfolded guy on roller skates.

Gangsters posing as pastry chefs.

A rich woman spitting vodka in her butler’s face — about 14 times in a row. (I have the privilege of mopping up the mess.)

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE!

I hope every North Shore reader of GMG comes to see this show and then comes up and says hi to me afterward.

They’ll know who I am because I’m the guy who starts the whole thing off by announcing, “I hate theatre!”

Anybody who wants to email me personally with questions about the show can contact me via Unconventional@DougBrendel.com.

See ya there!

Doug Brendel

Big time thanks to Jim Capillo, Becky Tober, Henry Cooper and Anthony Farenwald for taping GloucesterCast 167

GloucesterCast 167 Taped Live at Cape Ann TV With Megan Merlin, Kim Smith, James Eves, Craig Kimberley and Host Joey

Topics Include:

Kudos To The Rhumbline For The Excellent Staff and Libations- Now Featuring A Dart Board and Cribbage Night on Monday nights thanks to Kathy Hopkins.

This weekend’s monster storm possibility Is it going to be another winter like last winter- Who Is Excited- Who is Prepared?

Art Haven Buoy Auction & Family Fun Night
Friday, January 22, 2016
Cruiseport Gloucester
5pm-8pm
Tickets are $10 before the event and $15 at the door. Free admittance for children. Purchase tickets at the Art Haven and Hive locations or online here.
Free admittance for families with children who painted a buoy during buoy painting week. No tickets necessary – names will be checked at the door.
Join us for a spirited night of fundraising and family fun to support our organization. The funds that are raised will sustain our efforts to provide our classes free of charge to students from low-income families.
This year, Cape Ann Power Yoga is donating one free class to every individual who buys a buoy!

James Eves awesome Photoshop class!

James’ new pellet stove and gets his pellets at Cape Ann Chimney and Hearth

Craig recommends a window energy sealing product that was easy to install

I’d be most upset if The Rhumbline closed out of every other joint in town

Juni Van Dyke’s ongoing quilt exhibit at the Cape Ann Museum, through February, thirteen quilts and several more to come, free admission to Cape Ann Museum for Cape Ann residents.

“For the Birds”

Opening January 28^th,
Reception January 31^st, Sunday from 2 to 4
Chris Leahy Audubon Talk Februarty 11^th
Kim Smith talk, February 18^th
The Artful Birdhouse, auction February 12th

James Eves Cape Ann Art Rundown

Art Happenings This Month

Cape Ann Museum Offers Free Admission for Cape Ann Residents during January 2016

Gloucester, Three Visions Panel Discussion
For this panel discussion, Jeff Weaver and Don Gorvett will be joined in conversation by Debbie Hagan, arts editor, and Peter Anastas, a local historian and cultural observer. This program is offered in conjunction with the current exhibition Vincent, Weaver, Gorvett: Gloucester, Three Visions (on view through February 28, 2016).

Cape Ann Reads with the Eric Carle Museum
The Eric Carle Museum will be offering workshops for children and adults to kick-off the new Cape Ann Reads initiative. This program will take place at the Cape Ann Museum and is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Reservations are required

Cape Ann Museum Printmaking Workshop (Part I)
A three-part Folly Cove Designer-inspired printmaking workshop at the Cape Ann Museum.
Enjoy three days of close instruction from artists Mary Rhinelander and Victoria Petway as they delve into the world of block printing.

Patriots- Denver Bronco Defender Antonio Smith Has Been spouting off saying that Tom Brady Is a Crybaby and he whines when the refs don’t call a penalty when he gets hit.
I would just like to say in advance “Thank You” to Antonio Smith for giving that little extra motivation and making a Pats victory that much sweeter when Brady picks the Denver Defense apart and gets in their face about it.

Kim’s talk for North Shore Horticultural Society (American Legion Hall, 12 Church Street, Manchester) Tuesday, January 26^th, (if we don’t talk about “For the Birds”). Open to the public.

“… for fog was merely a cloud that wasn’t too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.”
― Jan Karon, Come Rain or Come Shine

Buoy auction Cruiseport

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