44 Main Gallery – 
44 Main Street, Gloucester
Next to Cafee Sicilia Bakery

Meet the Artist:
Wednesday, July 14, 4:30-6:30pm.

Jonathan Wilson has worked as a photojournalist and commercial photographer in India, California and Indiana. Primarily a visual communications educator, Wilson served as Program Chair and Dean of the School of Arts and Design at Ivy Tech Community College, Columbus, Indiana for 38 years before retiring and moving to Gloucester.

As a fine artist, Jonathan has participated in more than 31 group and solo exhibits, including work displayed at the Columbus Ohio Museum of Art, University of Toledo Museum of Art, Lafayette Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art/Columbus, Washington University, John Mellencamp Center for the Arts, and Indiana Art Director’s Club.Wilson says of his work:“Figuratively Speaking includes 17 photographs from India, Mexico and now Gloucester, my new home. The photographs are about people in their environment, where form, gesture and timing come together to express what I’m seeking in most of my work, which is an attempt to document the human condition.” 

Hi Joey,Roz for the Cause here! Lol.  The GHS Class of 1981 is celebrating our 40th Reunion on 8/14/21 at the Elks at Bass Rocks. There are a few classmates we are still searching for.  Any way to post a message to help get the word out to your readership?  
Classmates can contact us a number of ways:  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/48140215184Email: gloucesterclassof81reunions@gmail.com email Website: https://gloucesterclassof81.com/

Best as always, Roz Frontiera

The Last Stop on East Main Street has recently held a ribbon cutting to mark their reopening. I went down to pick up a sandwich for Jim….he’s really been missing their pastries and sandwiches. It’s renovated on the inside and is looking great. A limited number of indoor and outdoor seating is available and I was glad to note that it was quite busy when I stopped by. The turkey sandwich has hearty bread and “real” turkey slices! Give them try!

Gloucester-based nonprofit encourages and invites individuals, businesses, and communities to lend their support and donate items to raise money for ocean preservation

GLOUCESTER, MA-July 6, 2021- Seaside Sustainability, a nonprofit based in Gloucester, MA, is hosting the Coastal Celebration Virtual Auction that opens on Friday, July 23, at 8 a.m. EST, and closes on Saturday, July 31, at 10 p.m. EST. The auction will be hosted on BiddingForGood, and offers exciting, unique items provided by local businesses and artists in the greater Boston area – including a week-long vacation in Ajijic, Mexico! The raised funds will support ocean-cleaning blue technologies, advocacy toward single-use plastic bans, the launch of Seaside Sustainability’s online Green Scholars program, and more. To learn more about Seaside Sustainability and these programs, visit www.seasidesustainability.org.  

Through the support and generosity of individuals and businesses across Boston’s North Shore and beyond, Seaside Sustainability has unique items at a variety of prices. For example, a whale watching voucher, and a pass to the Essex Country Club for tennis and lunch! To learn more about the incredible items available, how to donate, and more detailed information, please visit the BiddingForGood link: https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?vhost=ssustainability. 

There’s still time to donate items for auction. If you’re interested in sponsoring, there are three levels: Trout ($250), Dolphin ($350) & Whale ($500+). To become a sponsor, contact daleya@seasidesustainability.org. 

Huge endorsement out of McCarthy right here-

They are outrageous. Like previously my death row meal would have been a lobster roll but I’m rethinking all of that right now. I’m thinking it might be Alex’ lobster risotto arancini!

Half tide….

Valetango Company’s Trust Me. Trust Me Not fuses tango and dance-theater to explore the opposing forces of trust and distrust 

Rockport, Massachusetts

Valetango Company performs Trust Me. Trust Me Not outdoors at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday July 11 and Tuesday July 13^th at 7:30pm. Valetango, led by award-winning choreographer Valeria Solomonoff, redefines Argentine Tango, stripping the form to its bare bones and committing to a dance-theater aesthetic that  tells non-traditional stories and explores relationships of collaboration and power. 

Co-presented by Windhover and the Gloucester Stage Company as part of GSC’s Neverdark series, Trust Me. Trust Me Not explores the importance and fragility of trust and the longing for profound togetherness. The show is directed by Orlando Pabotoy, Obie Award winning theater director; choreographed by Orlando Reyes Ibarra, 2019 ATUSA tango champion; Rodney Hamilton, former principal dancer with Ballet Hispanico, and Valeria Solomonoff, dancer and ACE and HOLA award winning choreographer. It will be performed by Rodney Hamilton, Valeria Solomonoff and Fabio Angelo. 

Trust me. Trust me Not was developed in part through an artist residency at Windhover last summer. Each year, Windhover hosts 7-10 dance companies from greater New England and New York, providing choreographers a space to create, develop and rehearse new dance works. “We love it when artists return to Windhover to present a full performance of work they developed here,” says Windhover Artistic Director Lisa Hahn. “It shows the full scope of what we do at Windhover, and the way we support dance, from creation through opening night.” Trust Me. Trust Me Not began as a research project through a Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and The Arts, NYU and was developed through residencies at “Aire” Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and “Danspace” at Judson Church as well as Windhover.

Tickets are $34 and can be purchased at www.windhover.org and through the Gloucester Stage Neverdark site at https://gloucesterstage.com/neverdark/. Trust Me. Trust Me Not is presented under and open-air tent and will happen rain or shine. For more information about Covid safety protocols, please visit https://gloucesterstage.com/keeping-you-safe/

About Windhover

For more than 50 years. Windhover has served the community as a place to learn, perform, and share the beauty of dance and the related arts in a natural setting.

In 1967, Herbert and Ina Hahn purchased the last farm in Pigeon Cove, a small village by the sea some two miles north of the town of Rockport, Massachusetts. The farm, on 4.5 acres of land, included a main house, cow barn, stables, slaughter house, various outbuildings and pasture land.

In less than a year Herb Hahn single-handedly converted the barn into a dance studio, the stable into a library, sheds and out-buildings into dormitories and he renovated the main house to function as a dining-kitchen complex. The performing arts camp for teenage girls opened in the summer of 1968 and during its seventeen years was filled to capacity with students from the USA, Canada and Mexico. During that period new buildings were added including a chapel/theater, a second dance studio, an outdoor stage for dance and theater performances, and a dining hall and kitchen in the main barn.

Windhover turned into a 501©3 non-profit organization in 1983 that offers dance classes, a teen dance intensive, residencies and performances in all of the performing arts to the Cape Ann Community and beyond.