Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Save the Date

Rockport High School DECA is sponsoring ……………

3rd Annual Sea Shells and Jingle Bells Holiday Inn and Home Kitchen Tour

Sunday, December 8, 2013

1-5 PM

6 Homes and 4 Inns on tour —all new locations

Tour starts at Rockport Inn and Suites 183 Main Street Rockport

Tickets available online at www.rhsdeca.com or at the Holiday PTO Fair on November 16.

Ticket prices: $20 in advance and $25 on the day of the event

For more information call 978-546-1234 or email slarsen@rpk12.org

The Gloucester Writers Center presents Endicott Writers Night on Wednesday, November 20^th 7:30 p.m., at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center. The featured writers are a group of students and professors from Endicott College who demonstrate the breadth of literary talent on campus.

Our first reader, Dan Sklar, is a creative writing professor at Endicott well known not only for his colorful poetry, stories and plays but also for his ability to inspire students through his positive attitude and free spirit. Recent publications include the Harvard Review, New York Quarterly, Ibbetson Street Press and The Art of the One-Act. His one act play Lycanthropy was produced at the Boston Theatre Marathon in 2012 and was reviewed by the Boston Globe. Ibbetson Street Press published Flying Cat (Actually Swooping) Poems, Stories and Plays this year.

Our next reader is Endicott student Meghan Perkins, well known around campus for her work ethic. She is scheduled to graduate with a B.A. in English and a minor in Environmental Studies in December 2013. She has been published in the Endicott Review, the Ibbetson Street Press, the Somerville News, the Small Press Review and the Gardener News. Post-graduation, she hopes to follow her goals of writing academically and creatively, helping the environment and traveling the world.

Our other student reader, Emily Pineau, is a junior whose poetry has appeared in the anthology, Like One: Poems For Boston, and in newspapers and literary journals such as the Somerville News, The Endicott Observer, The Endicott Review, Ibbetson Street Press, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Notes from the Gean:Monthly Haiku Journal. In 2012 her poem ,“I would for you” was nominated for a pushcart prize. In 2013 the Ibbetson Street Press published her poetry collection, No Need to Speak. The Aurorean chose No Need to Speak as the Editor’s Chap/ Book Choice to be featured in their October/2013 issue.

Our last featured reader is Doug Holder, a writing professor at Endicott College and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. He is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press and a well known writer in the metropolitan Boston area. His latest collection of poetry, Eating Greif at 3AM (Muddy River Books) was released in October of 2013. Holder’s poetry and prose have appeared in Rattle, Main St. Rag, Caesura, Long Island Quarterly, Toronto Quarterly, the new renaissance, the Café Re-view and others. He holds an M.A. in Literature from Harvard University.

After our four writers are finished reading there will be an open mic for all Endicott students who show up and would like to read. There will also be refreshments served.

The Gloucester Writers Center was founded in 2010 to save the late poet Vincent Ferrini’s home and turn it into a working writer’s center. Its mission is to preserve, promote, and celebrate Cape Ann’s rich literary legacy and to encourage writing in the belief that all voices count.  The Gloucester Center is “a working writers center in a working town. If you would like more information about what the Gloucester Writers Center does or any of the recent events, workshops and classes visit gloucesterwriters.org

2013 Rockport PTO Holiday Fair

Innovation House

The EDIC is pleased to announce to the City that an Innovation House is going to be established in Gloucester.  The Innovation House is a creative concept developed by Mr. Jon von Tetzchner, the founder and former CEO of Opera Software (a web browser company that under Jon’s leadership grew to over 300 million users).  Last year Jon and his family moved to Gloucester and settled in Magnolia.  He has decided to acquire and convert the Inn Magnolia into his second Innovation House.  His first is in his homeland of Iceland.  The Iceland facility houses 18 early stage start-ups and Jon’s entrepreneurial efforts are also coordinated with a similar effort in Norway, where 60 start-ups are already housed.

His Gloucester Innovation House will be a place where Gloucester start-ups can get a beginning  within an environment that nurtures creativity and it will also be where European ventures might come to establish their first presence in the United States.  Jon is just completing the acquisition of the Inn Magnolia and internal modifications will need to be completed, but it will soon be operational.  

Jon’s decision to reside in Gloucester and establish one of his Innovation Houses here will be news literally heard around the world within the high tech internet business sector.  Our City should feel proud that the core of our heritage … Courage from our fishermen and Creativity from our artists … is also a description of the high tech entrepreneurial spirit.

It is very important to note that the Innovation House would not have come into existence without the impressive, professional support from many members of the City government team.  Jon’s requirements were unique and without the creativity and effort from the City the right solution would not have been found and eventually approved by the City Council.  In particular the EDIC and Jon thanks Mayor Kirk for her leadership and Jim Duggan, Tom Daniel, Gregg Cademartori, and Bill Sanborn for their knowledge and invaluable expertise. 

Thomas F. Gillett

Executive Director – Gloucester Economic Development and Industrial Corporation [EDIC]

Contra Dancers

Hi Joey,

Mary Barker stopped by and took some great photos at our last dance.  We want everyone to know that there is another contra dance on Sunday, November 10 at the Baptist Church on Gloucester Avenue.  The dancing starts at 7:00 following a 5:00 pot-luck supper.  The dancing is fun and appeals to all ages.  And it’s okay to come and just listen to the music.  All are welcome!  Come check it out!

Thanks for all you do!

Rose Sheehan

Cape Ann Contra Dance

“A Sense of Place” — paintings by John and Pamela Lang Redick

November 5-30

Time & Tide at Post Road Framers, Route 1, Rowley

Opening Party!

Saturday, November 9 5-7pm

Contact: Kristina Brendel 978 238 8848

Do opposites really attract? Or do they just fit together so well that it seems that way? 

John and Pamela Lang Redick create art together, often side by side in the same location. But their paintings are as different in technique and style as can be. John’s free flowing paintings resemble marbleized paper, the liquid paint creating liquid images, most often of the ocean or mountain lakes. Pamela’s meticulously detailed paintings capture both natural man-made elements that might be overlooked by the casual observer, in her hand tree bark becomes mosaic.

The couple’s work is on display now through November 30 at Time & Tide at Post Road Framers in Rowley. The opening party on Saturday, November 9, 5-7pm, offers a chance to meet these fascinating artists and to see their intriguing artwork.

In 1999, Senator Harry Reid, a survivor of his father’s suicide, introduced a new resolution to the United States Senate. With its passing, the US Congress designated the Saturday before American Thanksgiving as National Survivors of Suicide Day; a day in which friends and family of those who have died by suicide can join together for healing and support.

In recognition of suicide’s worldwide impact and that sites are organized on every continent, our program is called International Survivors of Suicide Day.

At hundreds of local gatherings on six continents, survivors of suicide loss gather together to remember their loved ones and offer each support.

At each of these community centered events, organizers show a 90 minute DVD created by AFSP that features the personal stories and advice of other survivors and psychiatric professionals.

Survivors of suicide loss are also able to watch from the comfort of their own homes, as we stream the program on our website.

To learn more about International Survivors of Suicide please visit www.afsp.org/survivorconference. 

There will be a gathering on Cape Ann this year:

November 23,2013 at Addison Gilbert Hospital, from 12 -3:00pm. Food and beverages will be served. A suggested donation of $15 will be received at the door.

To pre-register please contact the event facilitator: Anita Pandolfe Ruchman, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner @ A Tender Place~Mind,Body,Spirit, Therapy. 978 546 6599, apr822@verizon.net.

Feast! – A show celebrating the art of gathering and eating, opens November 7th at Flatrocks Gallery. Our walls are stuffed with a smorgasbord of artists to whet your appetite for the holidays. We collected the finest locally made tablewares in clay, metal, wood, glass and linen to bring your table to life. Our special guest ‘Rabelais’ Fine Books on Food & Drink, will be offering rare and historical cookbooks, menus and food posters.

And gather we shall – hosting Don Lindgren proprietor of Rabelais for a talk on “Feasting: A Look at Some Grand Meals”; for a weekend of fundraising;  with an evening of song;  and of course, for our usual bacchanal opening of the show. Join us for all the joys of the season –

Bon Appetite!

Feast! opens November 7th and runs through December 29th.

Nov. 9   6-8p  An Opening reception

Nov. 21  7:30 pm  “A Look at Some Grand Meals”- talk by Don Lindgren

Dec. 14 &15  A Fundraising weekend

Dec. 22  4-6  Songs of Joy & Peace

Flatrocks Gallery 77 Langsford St/Rt 127  Gloucester, MA

Open Thu-Sun 12-5pm (& by appt) 978-879-4683

Beet :photograph by Paul Cary Goldberg

Gloucester Stroke Club meeting Thursday, November 7th at 7 pm,  Addison Gilbert Hospital, 298 Washington St., Longan Room, Front Entrance. Registered Dietitian, Birana Caruccio will be the guest speaker.

Topic will be good nutrition. Refreshments. All are welcome, especially Stroke survivors, caregivers , families and friends. For more information  please call Cynthia 978-283-2633 or Virginia 978-283-3968. 

Submitted by Virginia R. McKinnon, 2 Stanwood Terrace, Gloucester, MA

978-283-3968

Hello!
This Thursday, November 7, at 7pm I’m giving a talk on my new book, The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World.
The event, sponsored by the Bookstore in Gloucester and the Rocky Neck Cultural Center, will be at the latter’s wonderful facility at 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester.They’re just beyond the small causeway going over to the Neck. There’s public parking nearby.
Rather than read from the book, I’ll provide a multi-media glimpse of the work on which it’s based, including:

• A revealing study with psychologist Kim Leary on why many people feel anxious about negotiating;
• Interviews with great negotiators like UN trouble-shooter Lakhdar Brahimi and former Senator George Mitchell, who mediated the Good Friday Accords in Northern Ireland; and
• Surprising lessons I’ve learned from master improvisers in other realms, including trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the visionary artists, Christo and Jeanne Claude.

I’m looking forward to seeing friends and neighbors and sharing what I’ve learned about negotiation over the years (and what still puzzles me). We’ll have wine, soft drinks, and light refreshments. I hope you can come!
Mike Wheeler

Join Us:
Thursday, November 7th at 7pm
ROCKY NECK CULTURAL CENTER
6 Wonson Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

THE ART OF NEGOTIATION:

How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World
Michael Wheeler

Harvard Business School & the Program on Negotiation

Maritime Gloucester 2013 collage

Curtis Sarkin submits-

We had an amazing 2013 season! Our Museum and Aquarium will reopen in late May 2014, but be on the lookout for special winter programs, including maritime lectures and children’s activities.
While we are currently closed to the public, we’re busy visiting Cape Ann’s elementary schools and hosting field trips through our expanded Ocean Explorers program!

SEACOAST NEWS

November 2013

Thank you to the Friends of Seacoast!

The Friends of Seacoast have recently provided our facility with a couple of wonderful foliage trips a lunch trip to Turner Hill and Russell’s Farm in Ipswich. A special Halloween Variety Show with exceptional entertainment provided by Big Smile Entertainment, Dinner Theater and weekly concerts.

The Friends of Seacoast enhance the resident’s lives at the Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with hours of enjoyment by providing the finances needed for the special entertainment, supplies and community outings.

Any and all donations to “The Friends of Seacoast” are gratefully accepted.

The Cape Ann Museum received a grant from “Mass Humanities” and will be offering Seacoast an on going program from September 2013 through June 2014 called  “The Power of Place”

This artistic expression project will include poetry, painting

A museum tour and art demonstrations within the Seacoast facility.

We are looking forward to many upcoming events with the support of the Friends of Seacoast including A Veteran’s Day Celebration with Singer Sargent Dan Hart, Dinner Theater with entertainment and special foods, outings, weekly concerts and more……

The Holiday Bazaar is scheduled for Saturday, November 23, 9AM-2PM. Will Feature a Cookie Walk, Bake Sale, Raffle, White Elephants, Many craft vendors. Food and Fun for Everyone in the Community.

All Donations to white elephant table and bake sale will be accepted.

Alison Cox

Activities Director