There’s a little something for everyone at Willow Rest, 1 Holly Street, Gloucester, MA
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Author: Catherine
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(thumbnail portrait of Catherine at MFA, Boston © David Cox photo)
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Spring Flower and Plant Sale
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Helmut’s Strudel open for its 39th season | Rockport Bearskin Neck
Helmut’s Strudel is open seasonally: 7AM weekends now and daily by mid-May. Sharon McDonald opened the Helmut Moelk strudel shop on July 1, 1978.
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It was a Whistler to Tiepolo sort of beach day
April 28 6:02AM
April 28 3:14PM
April 28 6:02AM
April 28 3:14PM
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Opens today: Andrew Manning solo exhibition at The Hive includes this coyote painting
The opening reception for Andrew Manning’s solo exhibition is today from 2-4pm at The Hive, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA. The show features 22 (mostly) recent paintings –like that arresting coyote painting on the exhibition poster– and intaglios. The show will continue through May 6th. Andrew teaches at Art Haven, too.
The Hive
presents
ANDREW MANNING
INHABITATIONS|Negotiating the dynamic tensions between spaces
Opening Reception:
Saturday. April 29th. 2-4PM
Falcon’s Nest gallery at The Hive
11 Pleasant Street. Gloucester MA
April 29 – May 6, 2017
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O’Maley Academy benefit Thursday May 4th: dine and enjoy the Drama Club’s medley of Broadway music and theater!
Mike Springer photograph for Gloucester Daily Times “Olivia Heasley rehearses a scene in “Be Our Guest” a musical revue at O’Maley Middle School…Dinner and drama: Performance meal to benefit O’Maley Academy 18 (after school) clubs”
- Tickets: $10 adults, $5 kids and seniors, $20 per family, includes dinner and medley of Broadway musicals and drama
- Date: Thursday May 4, 2017
- Time: 6PM
- Where: O’Maley
- O’Maley Drama Club O’Maley Academy
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Surfer and jogger on ethereal fog wrapped morning
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Last chance: Saturday party and performance at Trident Gallery for Political Body exhibit
Saturday, April 29, 5-7pm, with performance event commencing at 7pm
Installation from “The Political Body”, group exhibit at Trident Gallery, 189 Main Street, Gloucester, MA (triptych by Gabrielle Barzaghi: Cephalic Frieze, 2014, Pastel, Charcoal, and Ink on Paper, 50 x 129 inches overall, Three 50 x 43 inch sheets)
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2017 Call for Applications for Gloucester’s 5th POET LAUREATE is OPEN!
APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JUNE 9
Links for: 2017 Poet Laureate application (digital format) or 2017 Poet Laureate application (PDF format submit 5 copies).
The City of Gloucester’s Committee for the Arts announces the release of the 2017 Call for Applications for the four year position of Gloucester Poet Laureate.
The position of Gloucester Poet Laureate is dedicated to building community through poetry and encouraging a love of poetry among people of all ages. The position was most recently held by the late Peter Todd, appointed in 2014. During Peter’s time as Poet Laureate, he generously shared his talents with his beloved City of Gloucester.
Under City Ordinance, the process to select the Poet Laureate is administered by the Committee for the Arts and will involve a Selection Panel including representatives from the local literary community thanks to Eastern Point Lit House and The Gloucester Writers Center. A recommendation from the Selection Panel will be forwarded to the Committee for the Arts for review and then forwarded on to the Mayor for nomination, subject to confirmation by the City Council.
The Call for Applications is available for download at the Committee for the Arts page on the City website: http://gloucester-ma.gov/index.aspx?nid=102. Copies also are available at the Sawyer Free Library, the City of Gloucester Mayor’s Office, Eastern Point Lit House, the Gloucester Writer’s Center, and other locales. Applications must be submitted by 12 pm on Friday, June 9th , 2017. Contact Judith Hoglander, Committee for the Arts with any questions.
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When one door closes another door opens …peek inside the new Serenitee Restaurant Happy Belly opening summer 2017!
Reclaimed doors and wood everywhere
are just some of the featured and fitting design details coming into focus at Happy Belly, 3 Duncan Street, Gloucester, MA. The everyday casual restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. And small craft brew. And coffee. They’re roasting their own beans! What else? The floor’s been raised. A lengthy drink rail and counter stools gives one section a warm and chic soda-shop vibe. Nearby a massive antique metal lathe will be re-purposed into a showstopper pedestal table. The former Alchemy space is in its BEFORE stage as it undergoes a transformation by master builders, P Bevan Builders. They built Maggies Farm and other Serenitee Restaurant Group properties plus the recent renovation of the former Empire store.
photo caption (above): Peter Bevan, P. Bevan Builders, 617 356 7107
Happy Belly along with Minglewood Tavern and Latitude 43 brings the Serenitee restaurant count back up to 3 happy and popular eateries in Gloucester, MA, each with its own lively aesthetic and yummy grub.
Happy to see Happy Belly coming soon!
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Live: Full house at City Hall for MBTA train closure forum and link to petition
On line PETITION: http://gloucester-ma.gov/CivicAlerts/SingleAlertItem?alertID=1128
Senator Tarr, Representative Ferrante, Representative Hill, Mayor Romeo Theken hosting. Congressman Moulton sent a great letter. People showing up and to the mic one after the other: commuters, municipal reps from every town–Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester– City councilors, experts in transportation, environment, retail, business, tourism, visitors and residents. Issues of extra cars…A few scenes and petition below:
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Accident on Cherry Street clearing up Gloucester 👮 on it
Car hit bus towed off
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Of the 226,000 North Shore jobs, how many do you think arts and culture?
In 2014, the Massachusetts labor force was 3,570,000 (vs 3,626,800 in February 2017 ); and the North Shore accounted for 6.3%. Yesterday, the US Dept of Commerce Bureau of Economics announced the state by state breakdown of arts and culture employment –for the first time ever– based on the 2014 national data. MA arts and culture jobs were reported to be 128,350, and 3.6% total MA labor. Various reports overlap categories. Sometimes “Health and education” are packed together or “arts, entertainment, recreation and leisure”. In MA top industries such as Financial services (20%), Technology, Medicine and Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Fishing, and Tourism (125,000–note how similar in size this is to the arts and culture jobs) are discussed.
Massachusetts Work Force and Labor Area Review (2015). pp44-45
US Dept of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis reports the following MA stats: “The states with the highest concentration of arts and cultural jobs, with their location quotients: New York (1.47), Wyoming (1.30), Washington (1.28), California and Utah (both 1.17), Rhode Island and Colorado (1.13), Alaska (1.11), Massachusetts and Oregon (both 1.09)…The Location Quotient (LQ) is a measure of an industry’s concentration in a state or region relative to the industry’s national concentration. • As for compensation, in 2014 Massachusetts and NEFA had an LQ of 1.02 and 0.94 respectively. • In 2014, Massachusetts had a location quotient of 1.09 for ACPSA employment. In Massachusetts, therefore, ACPSA employment was 9 percent above the national average. By comparison, the LQ for arts-and-cultural employment in all states belonging to the U.S. regional arts organization NEFA (of which MA is a member) was 1.03 or 3 percent above the national average.
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Puppies and Poetry at Sawyer Free and Poetry without Paper deadline
National Poetry Month at Sawyer Free included this past Saturday’s super cute puppies and poetry program with Cape Ann Animal Aid .
Poetry without Paper contest is open and National Poem in Pocket Day is April 27.
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1938 no-nonsense classroom film New England Fishermen shows Gloucester, schooner, steam, and diesel trawlers
At the dawn of talkies, ERPI (Electrical Research Products Inc) sought to “bring the world to the classrooms” via 16mm A/V equipment and a catalog of films. ERPI was a subsidiary of AT&T and a forerunner of Encyclopedia Britannica Films.
They produced GLOUCESTER FISHERMEN (under 9 min) in 1938 with backing from Clark University. The film’s narrator was James Brill. There was also a 1938 film titled Shell-Fishing.
from the A/V Geeks archive youtube channel
Here’s James Brill narrating and before the camera in the 1946 film: FROM DEMOCRACY TO DESPOTISM, 1946, Encyclopedia Britannica Films.
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zoetrope sculpture: The Centrifugal Soul by Mat Collishaw
(Video courtesy the artist, MONA Tasmania and Blain|Southern, edited by Ray O’Daly)
MAT COLLISHAW | THE CENTRIFUGAL SOUL
Blain|Southern Gallery, 7 April 2017 – 27 May 2017, London
MAT COLLISHAW | THRESHOLDS| Somerset House, London, opens May 18
Attention artist, history, photography, cinema and gear buffs: Mat Collishaw’s virtual reality exhibit opens May 18th at Somerset House in London. It will restage William Henry Fox Talbot’s 1839 photo exhibition. The dawn of immersive VR exhibitions looks back to the dawn of photography. “Using the latest in VR technology, Thresholds will restage one of the earliest exhibitions of photography in 1839, when British scientist William Henry Fox Talbot first presented his photographic prints to the public at King Edward’s School, Birmingham. The experience will be a fully immersive portal to the past; walk freely throughout a digitally reconstructed room, and touch the bespoke vitrines, fixtures and mouldings; even the heat from a coal fire will be recreated.”
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Earth day every day- off the mark by Mark Parisi
Mark Parisi’s off the mark comic panel has been published since 1987. Parisi has been nominated for the National Cartoonists Society Best Newspaper panel 4x and won twice (2009 and 20012). He grew up in Gloucester. We bought the desk calendar at The Weathervane.
Earth Day Volunteer Today– link to Donna Ardizonni’s reminder about the Great Gloucester Cleanup.
Treat yourself tonight to the art of music on Middle Street: Joonho Park’s all-Bach organ double concert. The doors open at 7PM at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church; following intermission and a stroll, the recital continues at St. John’s Episcopal Church!
Next week Cape Ann Sustainability Fair and Gloucester Pride Stride.
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Gloucester recognized as one of America’s top 10 towns for craft lovers | 2017 annual American Craft Week October 6-15
Thanks to Pauline Bresnahan for promoting Gloucester and MA.
Our neighbors in ME have a lot of listings.
Now in its eighth year, American Craft Week is the country’s largest celebration of handmade American craft. It will take place this October 6 – 15 2017 in galleries, festivals, museums, libraries and artist studios across the country. Learn more at americancraftweek.com.
PBS
Craft in America premieres its newest episode, NATURE, this Friday, April 21 on PBS. (Check local listing for time.) One of the featured artists is Iowa City basket maker extraordinaire, Mary Merkel-Hess. Learn more about this new episode and the wonderful craft artists it features: www.craftinamerica.org.
UNDER 30
See the winners of the 2016 Rising Star Competition, naming 30 exceptional craft artists under the age of 30. See them all at www.ACWshowcase.com
Cape Ann Fall art fairs and events
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New candy cane curb appeal at SurfSide Subs and they’re GHS Interact Pizza Taste off winners
Opening Tomorrow–
Looks great! The green and yellow is gone, replaced by a cohesive festive summer look, red and white stripes matched up with the blue and white.
Plus they’re heralding good news: SurfSide Subs and pizza & Ice Cream is the 2017 Rotary GHS Gloucester Interact Club‘s 10th Annual Pizza Taste Off (held at Cruiseport) winner – 3x!
1st place best overall
1st place best sauce
1st place best crust
Look for pizza specials on Wednesdays
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Gloucester foreclosures include one of the 100+ Gloucester MA houses that Edward Hopper painted
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Houses, 1923, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N Hopper bequest. You can match the boulders in Hopper’s drawing that the domiciles were built upon; Lee’s Breakfast Restaurant at the far right; and the stacked granite blocks to the left of #7.
