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Join us on a captivating journey through history as we explore the profound connections between art, innovation, and the human imagination. Delve into the fascinating intersection of artistic expression and community dynamics, from the medieval world to the present day. Discover how art has shaped our collective identity and inspired generations to push the boundaries of creativity. Don’t miss this enriching series that celebrates the power of imagination to transform the world around us. Join the conversation and be inspired! The series includes:
Television is one of the most ubiquitous technologies in human history, so much so that we tend to take it for granted. However, the story of TV is a winding tale of decades of painstaking research, false starts, technological dead ends and breakthroughs, commercial failures and successes, aspirational ideals, and human drama. The full picture of TV is composed of a mosaic of individual scientists, engineers, and industrialists who helped to bring it to life, including our founder, John Hays Hammond Jr., whose contributions to the medium are often overlooked. “Who invented television?” is not a simple question. Through this presentation, the complex evolution of television will be traced, the pioneers who forged its path will be given their due, and in particular, the significance of Hammond’s work will be revealed.
The form and function of the painted image changed drastically during the 15th-century Italian Renaissance. From the late medieval paintings of Giotto to works of Renaissance painters like Botticelli and da Vinci, one feels as though stepping from an old world into a new one. What were the sources of this transformation of image and world? How was this transformation related to other cultural shifts such as the rise of humanism, a burgeoning secular society, and the scientific revolution? This presentation examines the religious, philosophical, and scientific backgrounds to the changes of the image in Italian Renaissance painting, in particular the development of linear perspective techniques, and connects this visual revolution in painting to its accompanying spiritual, cultural, and scientific revolutions.
Beliefs and fears surrounding witches and the Devil were rampant in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Laws against witchcraft were in place as early as 1542 in England. The resulting witch trials were published in witchcraft pamphlets written for the public to consume. While the church advised the people to trust in the power of God, many people took defense against witches into their own hands. Specific items concealed in walls or specific markings carved into fireplaces were believed to keep the Devil and his agents away. When the British came to colonize America, these practices came with them and can be found in many local historic homes even today.
On July 7, 1956, the librettist John Treville Latouche’s seminal American Opera The Ballad of Baby Doe premiered in Central City, Colorado. “It’s about love and It’s about money,” Latouche had joked, in predicting the public’s response to the Opera, “And there’s no combination an American audience likes more!” Today, The Ballad of Baby Doe is often cited as one of the most significant Operas in the American canon, but Latouche would never know just how right he had been. One month later, John Latouche was dead. He was 41. Over the course of his short years, Latouche lived a remarkably dynamic life; like a brilliant star, he pulled some of the most important artistic figures of 20th-century American culture into his brief orbit. The story of the community which Latouche anchored is one that features well-known characters such as composer Leonard Bernstein and artist Marcel Duchamp and local figures like Margarett McKean and Hammond Castle Museum’s own John Hays Hammond Jr.In fact, through Latouche’s legacy, a curious assembly of artists, poets, and occultists, many of them Queer, came to assemble at Hammond Castle Museum in its founder’s final years. This is a story about the life of John Latouche, but it is also a story about love. About money. About art. About magick. About false accusations of murder, and more. This lecture, the final in Hammond Castle Museum’s May Series on Art & Community Through the Ages, will also serve as an introduction to Hammond Castle Museum’s June Pride Month programming.
Admission: $15 per presentation / $50 for series. Member savings apply.
On Saturday, May 4 from 6:30pm-8:30pm, people of all ages are welcome to a Trivia Night Fundraiser for the Gloucester Student Band at Trinity Congregational Church, 70 Middle St. in Gloucester, MA. The theme for this Trivia Night is music from movies and television. Questions will be based on clips of songs played live by the Gloucester Student Band (GSB). Teams of 1-4 people will compete for prizes. Snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase and there will be a 50/50 raffle. Doors open at 6:30pm. Trivia begin promptly at 7pm and should last about 90 minutes. A team of 1-2 people costs $30, and a team of 3-4 people costs $60. Tickets and more information are available at: gloucesterstudentband.ticketleap.com/trivia
All funds raised during the event will help GSB go on tour this summer. The group will be traveling to New Hampshire for two days and one night to play several concerts, including at nursing homes, at a Manchester Fishercats Baseball Game, and at Canobie Lake Park.
Gloucester Student Band is a new 501c3 nonprofit group of student musicians in grades 5-12 who live in Gloucester. The mission of GSB is to give students an opportunity to enhance their musical abilities outside of school and to share their love of music with the community by offering musical performances.
GSB is a proud recipient of an Awesome Gloucester Foundation grant, and has performed at a variety of locations including the Fishtown Horribles Parade of Trees, Lobster Trap Tree Lighting, Gloucester 400 New Year’s Eve Ball Drop at City Hall, Ipswich River Watershed Association Paddle-a- thon, GHS Racial Equity Event, Annisquam 4th of July Bike Parade, Magnolia Community Farmer’s Market, and The Bluebird Performance Venue.
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