Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

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Attached are some photos of the work in the show. (Snake Eyes – Ken Riaf assemblage; Etude #1- Paul Cary Goldberg photograph David -Jon Sarkin mixed media). The opening should be a ‘happening’ and we’d gladly welcome your coverage. Please don’t hesitate to call for more info 

978-353-9111., or better yet stop by for a visit.  Best- Anne Marie and Cynthia

DRIVEN- At Flatrocks Gallery Through February 24th VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

DRIVEN, the new show at Flatrocks Gallery, focuses on the obsessive aspect of the creative process – the urge to work and rework an idea or an image until its possibilities have been exhausted. In the new works of Jon Sarkin (mixed media), Paul Cary Goldberg (photographs) and Ken Riaf (assemblage) we see three artists responding with grace and wit to a fixation.

Please join us for an artists’ reception on January 19th 6-8pm.

DRIVEN will be on view through February 24th.  Open Thurs-Sun 12-5pm and by apt. 978-879-4683

Flatrocks Gallery 77 Langsford St. Gloucester

Auditions for the Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative’s Spring show, “Becky Shaw”,  Gina Gionfriddo’s searingly funny comedy about love, marriage, blind dates from hell and the quirks of family dynamics will be held January 16 and 17 at 7:30pm at the Pigeon Cove Circle, 6 Breakwater Ave., Rockport. The show will run for 2 weekends, April 26, 27,28 and May 3,4,5 at Gorton Theatre, home of Gloucester Stage Company. Past productions of CAT Collaborative include “Rumors,” “Sylvia,” “Beyond Therapy,” “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” and “The Weir.”  Visit our website at www.catcollaborative.org

Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative members look at Becky Shaw set designs

Roles for Becky Shaw are:

Max Garrett, acerbically funny family “adoptee” and family financial advisor- mid to late 30’s

Suzanna Slater, Max’s “sister,”neurotic and funny, redeemed by play’s end-mid to late30’s

Susan Slater, family matriarch with a no nonsense bent with no “sugar coating” life-60-ish

Becky Shaw, the blind date from hell- mid to late 30’s

Andrew Proctor, Suzanna’s naive would-be writer husband – mid to late 30’s

Hope to see you at auditions!

My favorite is Kwazzi and Peso.

*This is sarcasm

*What a tremendous value.

I suppose I should add that the mistake was mine for not checking to see how much they were charging. If they can get $1.81 for a bottle of water and there are enough people like me who are too stupid to check the price then it’s not their fault, it’s mine.

*This is sarcasm

Dear Joey,

   If you’ve ever found an injured bird on Cape Ann and tried to find a place to bring it, you know Jodi Swenson, the founder of the Cape Ann Wild Bird Rescue Center.http://www.valentine-design.com/Birds/

It sounds like a fancy place but in reality, it’s just her rented home that she shares with the many birds that she rehabilitates. She funds the center mostly with the proceeds she makes from repairing fine china. She is now facing the possibility of losing this rented facility due to foreclosure. People close to Jodi, including me, have decided not to wait and have been circulating an online petition addressing the State Government on all levels. It would be great if Bank Of America came to the rescue. WIth an advertising budget well over a billion dollars per year, BoA can afford to not only GIVE her the title, free and clear, but offer to fund her operation with a supporting grant. If we can offer BoA the press coverage that would warrant such an expense, we believe it would be in their best interest to do just that. 

    That’s why we are contacting you today. What would live on Cape Ann be like without all the birds that fill the sky with sound and sights of their ever present beauty. Please help us help Jodi help these little feathered friends.

Thank you

Please sign and share this petition. This rescue center is a critical part of Cape Ann and Jodi Swenson has committed her life and personal resources to saving thousands of injured and orphaned birds, one bird at a time. Each bird she saves, multiplies in 5 years to an additional 1,000 birds when factoring their offsprings offspring and taking into consideration that about half would survive. The number of birds that she has helped over the years is staggering. Let’s help her continue helping wildlife on Cape Ann

Here is the link to the petition. 

http://www.signon.org/dashboard.html

Thank you, 

   Steven J Restmeyer

Hello Joey

This morning’s 1/11/13 predawn sky looking towards Addison Gilbert Hospital from Rust Island was awesome.    Mary Page