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I’m not sure who’s in charge of the community safety day but wanted to pass along a thank you for putting this event on. My husband and I just happened to be in the area and saw the trucks so we walked through- what a cool experience and opportunity to speak to all those who serve on a full time basis. I only wished my kids were with us!
It would be very cool to see high schoolers attend this event as a career development opportunity. Maybe offer extra credit for attending and speaking to people.
If you’re able to pass along my appreciation for putting this on I would appreciate it. Will plan to bring our crew next year!
Corinne
Bolton, MA
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If you want to submit a topic or question for discussion or if you would like to attend the interviews in person, please respond to: Call or text: 508-284-2418 or email to: LWVCapeAnn@gmail.com.
The following candidates have been invited:
· Greg Verga (Mayor – incumbent)
· Paul Lundberg (Mayor)
· Scott Memhard (Ward 1 – incumbent)
· Tracy O’Neil (Ward 1)
· Scott Benson (Ward 2- incumbent)
· Don Tgettis (Ward 2)
· Marjorie Grace (Ward 3 – incumbent)
· Joseph R. Orlando (Ward 3)
· Frank Margiotta (Ward 5 – unopposed)
· Sean Nolan (Ward 5 – unopposed).
Anyone who wants to attend the taping, please sign up in advance. Space is limited.
Eight artists focused on the health of the ocean and our relationship to it make up the multimedia exhibition, Navigating Art & Science, now showing at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck through October 13.
Incoming Ocean, a site-specific video installation by Georgie Friedman, splashes across the interior architecture of the Cultural Center. The waves, filmed at nearby Halibut Point State Park, break over walls and doors, advancing toward one’s feet while also washing across a school of 50 life-sized Ghost Cod, hand-carved by Jessica Straus. Meanwhile a soundscape of whale songs and ocean sounds, Sky Fathoms Water by Perri Lynch Howard, arrives softly, builds momentum, and ebbs quietly. The visitor is fully immersed in sight and sound.
Beauty is a key ingredient in artist Resa Blatman’s toolbox; her drawings and paintings reflect her reverence for the natural world. Her works are both contrary and compelling. Finally, visitors who have been drawn in by the captivating image announcing this show and the city-wide STAND UP for ART & SCIENCE initiative, can see more of Michelle Samour’s brilliantly colored hand-made paper works on the walls at the Cultural Center.
The public is invited to join several of the artists at the Cultural Center on September 28, from 4:00-5:30 PM for a lively conversation exploring how connections between artistic expression, scientific understanding, and imaginative thinking can address the challenges of the changing ocean.
The panel will be led by Christopher Volpe, artist, writer and educator, whose paintings are literally created with the toxic waste from fossil fuels, tar and oil. Peaks Island, Maine sculptor, Daisy Braun, joins the panel, bringing her perspective on plankton, those sustainers of life that uphold the food chain and produce over half the earth’s oxygen. Michelle Lougee, who makes colorful playful sculptures of sea creatures out of post-consumer plastic a material that both “horrifies and beguiles” her, rounds out the panel.
Navigating Art & Science exhibition continues through October 13, at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester. Gallery hours are 12-5pm, Thursday through Sunday.
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Gloucester, MA — This October, Gloucester-based artist Deborah Read joins the Goetemann Artist Residency at Rocky Neck Art Colony with a deceptively simple but urgent inquiry: Does art have to be an object?
For Read, the answer has long been “not necessarily.” Her interdisciplinary practice—spanning installation, performance, writing, and collaborative projects—frames art as an act of generosity. As co-founder of Gallery RAG in Gloucester and the international foundation Art+Everywhere, she has created platforms that dissolve boundaries between artist and audience, centering collaboration, care, and mutual support.
Read’s projects invite participation and dialogue: immersive performances with Coco Haze that turn galleries into collective canvases, hybrid works with poet Joel Iwaskiewicz where language becomes performance, and community-based installations like Tejido Vivo, which weave craft traditions into living art. In each case, connection outweighs the object itself.
Her foundation Art+Everywhere embodies this vision, described by Read as “a global, artist-led ecosystem built on mutual generosity.” Its mission: expand access to funding, programming, and creative opportunities while removing barriers of gatekeeping institutions. “The challenge is not scarcity, but activation,” Read explains. “Compassion already exists—in hundreds of hands and eyes—ready to help.”
At Rocky Neck, her residency continues this ethos—not as a retreat into isolation, but as a public process of listening, generating, and sharing. “The question is never just ‘what did I make,’ but ‘what did we generate together?’ Generosity is generative—it can enrich lives, spaces, and even economies.”
Public Programs:
Artist Talk — October 5 from 4-5PM at Rocky Neck Cultural Center
Open Studios — October 27 and 29, from 12-2PM at Gallery RAG
Culminating Talk — October 30 at 6PM at Gallery RAG
For Rocky Neck—a community shaped by both maritime labor and artistic innovation—Read’s residency is both a philosophical question and a practical experiment: What if art is not possession, but presence? Not scarcity, but abundance?
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The documentary film, “ Plastic People : The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics” will be shown at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street in Rockport on Wednesday, November 5 at 7pm. This award-winning feature documentary investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. The free screening is sponsored by the Interfaith Committee of the Cape Ann Climate Coalition. Doors open at 6:15 and the program starts promptly at 7 pm. Brief presentations from four panelists and a short Q & A will follow the film. Free! / No registration required. For more information contact: info@capeannclimatecoalition.org
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