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Make it a binge weekend! SHAKE THESE BONES streaming from the Seattle Film Festival June 7 – 10. With a $15 All Access pass, you can keep watching more movies 🎦🎬🍿

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June 5, 2024. Movie tip for this upcoming weekend!

I’m sharing news about a project I’ve been working on that I think GMG readers, film buffs and dance fans would be keen to know. My dear friend’s remarkable movie is building momentum at film festivals. The next screening is virtual thanks to the Seattle Film Festival and its partner EOFlix. This special pre-release screening opportunity for SHAKE THESE BONES is available all weekend at your convenience wherever you may be.

**Friday 5 p.m. (EST) June 7th, 2024 until Monday at midnight (PT) / 3 a.m. (EST)**

ANY SEAT, ANY SCREEN

Viewers select the time and device that works for them anytime June 7 – June 10, 2024! Plus there’s a fun bonus perk: With the All Access Pass ticket ($15), you can enjoy SHAKE THESE BONES plus dip in to curate your very own weekend film festival from the full slate of ‘Official Selection’ films accepted into the Seattle Film Festival 2024!

Seattle Film Festival Full program can be found online: here 

caption: Purchase tickets here

Read more about the film | Press Release

(printable PDF)

GMG readers may recognize producer Amy Sewell’s award winning film MAD HOT BALLROOM. Gloucester residents may be familiar with it as well, because the Gloucester Public School district like others across the country were inspired to program the 5th grade Ballroom dancing initiative district wide.

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Big day! The newly expanded Jane Deering Gallery Opens June 1

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JANE DEERING GALLERY Saturday June 1, 2024. Reception 3-5pm

On view: Solo Bobbi Kovner exhibition plus a group show, ‘Blue arrived, and…’

New expanded space at Jane Deering Gallery opens June 1! Solo art show Bobbi Kovner Green Resolutions #GloucesterMA

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Bobbi Kovner. Green Resolution 1A. 2024. Oil on Arches Paper
Bobbi Kovner. Green Resolution 2. 2024. Oil on Arches Paper

News from Jane Deering

Opening Reception. Saturday, June 1, 2024 from 3:00-5:30 P.M. ‘Bobbi Kovner | Green Resolutions #1-12’ Jane Deering Gallery

“I am besotted by plants and flowers -their form, their color, their contrasting meaning and function…As markers of seduction and marriage, birth and death, serenity and celebration; As sexual receptacles vibrating with thrum, buzz, wind and heat; Indoors as cut, curated artistry and ornament; Devolving from their prime into rank chaos – faded, battered, hanging by a single thread to a stalk.”

Bobbi Kovner

Bobbi Kovner has a BA from Wheaton College; MA Degrees from Columbia University and Lesley University; and a diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has taught Theory of Design seminars and Advanced Drawing at Endicott College. Her work has been shown at the New Museum in NYC, Tryst Gallery, Forest Gallery, Gallery Lumiere, and the Attleboro and Springfield Museums in Massachusetts. Works are currently on loan to the Decordova Museum. Kovner has been selected for numerous exhibitions and awards. Her work is held in private and public collections. Kovner has completed multiple commissions for national corporations, including a 36-ft long mural for the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas commissioned through Creiger Dane Gallery. This is her first solo show at Jane Deering Gallery.

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Red tulips, trees and skyline photos | Stacy Boulevard Sunrises. Springtime in Gloucester.

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photos: Spring in Gloucester, Ma. Different mood sunrises April 18 and May 10, 2024

APRIL 18

May 10

The cupboard is not open for the season, BUT IT WILL BE! Rumors of its status have been exaggerated

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It’s past that time of the year for the de rigeur “Hooray, the Cupboard’s open for the season!” post. Perhaps you’ve heard it’s been sold.

photos above (April, May 2024): Forlorn Cupboard, Stage Fort Park

Not true! The Cupboard will be opening for the 2024 season. That Hooray post will be coming soon!

photos (2017-23) below: The Cupboard

Thai Choice Restaurant Says Goodbye

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Although Thai Choice restaurant has been for sale, we hoped it wasn’t true. It is. Thai Choice announced their retirement and are indeed closing. The last day of operation will be May 25, 2024.

Everyone involved in their business is so amiable! Thai Choice made our family feel special whether we were grabbing take out or dining in, even more so when we gathered for small family celebrations. There is so much variety and tasty options on their menu, carefully cooked and customizable– for us it was a combination of spicy for some family members, tame for my mother in law, and just right for me.

There’s still time to order your favorite meal, thank them, and wish them well.

Thai Choice Restaurant says Goodbye

Coming up for Manchester-Essex Middle School Theatre

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YMCA of the North Shore and Manchester-Essex Middle School Present the 2024 Young Theatre Artists Festival 

photo caption: playwrights, actors and directors

featuring 6 world premiere 10 minute plays written and directed by Manchester-Essex Middle School students. The theme for the 2024 Festival is Facing Your Fears: From Beasts to Bullies. The playwrights have spent the past 2 months writing plays in a multi-draft process that adhered to the 2024 theme. 

 All tickets $11.00 

Performances: Friday,  May 17 at 7pm; Saturday, May 18 at 7pm and Sunday, May 19 at 2pm.

Purchase Tickets here: https://our.show/YoungTheatreArtistsFestival2024

The 2024 Young Theatre Artists Festival 

My Very Best Enemy – Written and Directed By Kit Carpenter

Shivers down my spine – Written and Directed By Scarlett Z. Chobanian

The Extra-Ordinary Life of an Extraordinary Alien – Written and Directed By Annabelle Kerivan

Little Girl -Written and Directed By Maya Khan

The Quest of Charles – Written and Directed by Calvin Lee

Don’t Worry – Written and Directed by Antonia Vivanco 

On this first Sunday in May, smile! It’s International Dawn Chorus Day, World Laughter Day, and Cinco de Mayo 🔊🐦🎶:)

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listen caption: trio of ‘Good morning Dawn Chorus’ birds singing sound snippets

A Perfect Mother’s Day Concert May 12, 2pm

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Celebrate Mom! Save the date May 12, 2024 at 2pm

Read more about LUCIA LIN :

“Born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Lucia Lin made her debut at age eleven, performing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Chicago Symphony and went on to be a prize winner of numerous competitions, including the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Described as a soloist with “virtuosity and insight” who is “passionate and graceful” (Indianapolis Star), and whose playing has “a genuine fresh quality not often heard” (Cincinnati Enquirer), Ms. Lin has performed on the international stage, including appearances with orchestras in Europe as well as a solo recital at Carnegie Hall.

At the age of 22, she won a position in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She then went on to become acting concertmaster with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and subsequently spent two years as Concertmaster with the London Symphony Orchestra, where she was leader for numerous tours, including to Japan, Italy, Scotland, and Spain.

A return to the U.S. in 1995 brought her back to the Boston Symphony. She also founded the Boston Trio and then became a member of the Muir String Quartet in 1998.

Lucia teaches applied violin, chamber music, and orchestral studies as Professor of Music at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. In the summers she participates in a mentorship program at the Tanglewood Music Center as well as an intensive quartet program at Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

As an accomplished dancer, she collaborated with the dance company Snappy Dance Theater in the world premiere of “String Beings”, an innovative piece integrating music with dance and technology. The work was performed at the Wimberley Theater in Boston where Ms. Lin “proved to be as fearless and fine a dancer as musician.”

Ms. Lin has recorded for many labels including a recent recording with the Muir String Quartet performing works of Kreisler, Berg and Schulhof. And most recently collaborated with harpist, Ann Hobson Pilot and bandoneon player, J.P. Jofre, featuring the works of Astor Piazzolla.”

CAPE ANN SYMPHONY

CHECK OUT special event AND BUY TICKETS HERE!

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Happy Passover!

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April 22, 2024. Observance of the first night of Passover begins tonight. As families and friends gather at the table to celebrate may love and joy abound. Happy hopeful Passover!

Video. Driving from Annisquam to Halibut Point State Park and back again. It’s spring!

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April 2024.

1. Early spring. Driving Washington St., (5 min) from Deacon to Annisquam Village Church. 

caption 2: Early Spring. Driving Washington Street from Annisquam to Lanesville (5 min)

caption 3: Early Spring. Driving Washington St./ Rt. 127 from Lanesville to Seaside Cemetery (1 min)

caption 4: Early Spring. Driving Rt. 127 from cemetery to the turn off for Halibut State Park

Turning back around

caption 5: Early Spring. Turning back around. Driving Rt. 127/Washington St. (‘the back way’) from Halibut State Park sign to Annisquam. (7 min)

Driving the new road: Deacon Farm Lane early spring #GloucesterMA

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Video series caption: Early spring, Deacon Farm Lane. (50 sec) Mute to silence wind. Adjust video for higher resolution.

Note: videos are not displayed in the GMG daily roundup email and must be viewed on the GMG website.

Driving the road to Annisquam Village Church. Washington St. #GloucesterMA

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Video series caption: Early spring, April 2024. Driving Washington St., Part 1 (5 min) from Deacon to the Annisquam Village Church. Mute to silence wind. Adjust video for higher resolution.

Note: videos are not displayed in the GMG daily roundup email and must be viewed on the GMG website.

Daffodils, dots and dashes #GloucesterMA

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photos: just spring morse code. sun blazed yellow high notes light up natural and man made staffs.

Dreams and Dances | Concert at Annisquam Village Church

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Mark your calendar!

Scott Moore’s and Erica Pisaturo’s concert Dreams and Dances on Friday April 26th, 2024 7:30 P.M. at the Annisquam Village Church in Gloucester.

“The Annisquam Village Church, where violinist and composer Scott Moore is Artist-in-Residence, will host Moore and his wife, violinist Erica Pisaturo, for a performance Saturday, April 26 at 7:30pm. The program is titled ‘Dreams and Dances’ and spans some 300 years of music: from the capricious elegance of Telemann’s Canonic Duos to the tender melodies and swirling textures of Moore’s Suite for Two Violins, which the composer describes as “equal parts ballet score, barn dance, Impressionist painting; like little postcards to favorite influences from all over music, art, literature, and life.” Folk music is the connection to another work on the program, Bela Bartók’s rustic Duos, whose evocative titles include “Whirling Dance,” “Bagpipes,” “Harvest Song,” and “Mosquito Dance.” And the world of ballet provides common ground with the other composer on the docket, Sergei Prokofiev, whose Sonata for Two Violins (from 1932) is a window on the modernist neoclassicism made famous in works like Romeo and Juliet (1935), Lieutenant Kijé (1934) and Peter and the Wolf (1936).

“The intimacy, beauty, and lush acoustics of the Village Church are an ideal place to play music like this,” offers Moore.”

A reception will follow the concert.

Annisquam Village Church. 820 Washington Street. Gloucester MA

$25 suggested

“There’s something fascinating about the idea of a violin duo. It’s transparent, elemental: there’s the fire, sonorous beauty, and all the other qualities we associate with the violin, writ double, amid the dynamic of an ensemble of two—at once duel, duet, dance. . . We’re excited to play this program of rare delights.”

Scott Moore

Read more about the concert, print and share press release

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Lahey Urgent Care #GloucesterMA

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So this happened, and once again Lahey Urgent Care in Gloucester was a huge help and convenience. Did you know they have medical imaging (x-rays for me) right on site? Although I won’t be walking far for a few weeks, overall it’s going to be sooner because of the prompt and efficient care I received in Gloucester. The clinic is clean. The staff is kind and professional. On the few times we’ve needed to go, they have been a great resource for referrals.

Lahey. 305 Gloucester Crossing Road. Gloucester, MA 978-381-7700

Thank you Lahey Health in Gloucester 🙂