Author: God's Morning

An enjoyable afternoon of bowl painting took place recently

at the Rockport Senior Center preparing bowls for The Open Door’s

annual “Empty Bowl” event to be held on Thursday, May 10

from 4-8 p.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester, Six Rowe Square,

Gloucester.  Tickets are available at the door $15. for adults

and $10. for children under ten.

Faith Ronan (L), Lisa Novello, volunteer coordinator

for The Open Door and Rachael Ketchopulos

prepare paints for the nearly 50 people who attended this

fun event!

Empty Bowl events are held nationally to generate awareness

concerning hunger and to raise money for local hunger-relief

programs. Proceeds from this event will benefit the

Summer Lunch and Mobile Market programs.

E.J. Lefavour

If you are a painter looking for studio space for the season, there is space available for rent in the back of Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery on Rocky Neck for the season (June through September) – a fun and inspiring place to be.  The space is just under 100 sq ft, has a separate entrance, storage shelves for paints and supplies, and a work table.  There is also a table and standup easel available to use.  If interested, please contact EJ at khanstudio@comcast.net

E.J. Lefavour

Joey came by the gallery on Rocky Neck yesterday and took these shots.  His new work looks great, and I don’t look too wild for four days without a fix.  Still in the process of hanging and organizing – aiming to open Mother’s Day weekend with a grand opening bash Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, and the first Mug Up of the season on Sunday, May 27th.

E.J. Lefavour

Smoking, that is.  On April 24th.  After 40 years.  Right now I am a short tempered bundle of unfocused energy, trying to get my mind to stick with one thing long enough to complete something, anything.  I am wandering aimlessly from one room to another, starting things and then moving on to something else.  Being usually very focused, this withdrawal symptom drives me nuts and makes me cranky. 

I can use some help from my GMG family, words of encouragement, suggestions, along with some serious threats if I even think about having a cigarette.  Well I will obviously think about it, but no one will know except me, as long as I don’t actually take one up.  And you friends, contributors, and neighbors who smoke, please do not offer or give me a cigarette, or even a puff, no matter how nicely or persistently I might beg you.  Also, please don’t take offense if I avoid you while you are smoking, at least until I feel strong enough to be in its presence without fear of caving in.

I am eating so many carrots that I will probably soon be able to see at night like a cat, through orange tinted eyes.

E.J. Lefavour

The Cape Ann Farmers’ Market provides consumers with fresh, nutrient rich food produced with environmentally benign methods and delivered with a smaller carbon footprint. Buying from local producers keeps food dollars in the local economy.

Cape Ann Farmers’ Market includes music, work by local artists, educational booths, children’s activities, and cooking demonstrations that create a festive community-building atmosphere. The Cape Ann Farmers’ Market is a huge success, attracting at least 1,200 visitors per market and reaches out to provide fresh, nutritious food for the entire community, regardless of income. Through The Food Project, they accept Women, Infants and Children (WIC) coupons, Seniors’ Farmers Market Nutrition Coupons, and Food Stamps.

For more information about how to become a member, click http://www.capeannfarmersmarket.org/join-us/index.html

In addition to all the above benefits, your membership also gives you discounts to a number of great local business, including: Alchemy Tapas and Bistro, Jalepeno’s Mexican Restaurant, Lobsta Land, Again and Again, Alexandra’s Bread, Black Earth Hauler, Green Life, and Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery on Rocky Neck.

 It’s a no brainer.  Join or renew your membership today.

E.J. Lefavour

This is the 2012 season schedule for Nights on the Neck at the Rocky Neck Art Colony.  Mark your calendars now so you don’t miss any of these great nights.  Nights on the Neck are free and fun for all ages.  First Thursday of the month.

E.J. Lefavour

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This is Cassie at Ace, the friendly hardware place, at Gloucester Crossing, mixing the floor paint for the gallery.  It is a lovely tourquoise.

E.J. Lefavour

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I’ve never seen one of these before – it looks like a butterfly, but also looks like a moth.  Do you or does anyone know what it is?

That is a question I am often asked by friends after they see one of our performances, after they give the obligatory praise. It has many answers, from a slightly offended, “What do you mean?” to an incredibly infuriating “Well, what do you think happens?”

         Endings are always difficult, for both the performer and the viewer. After many a final performance I have gone home and stared at the ceiling in my bedroom, still in costume, wondering what to do now. When an actor takes that final bow, there is always a sense of finality. When will I get to play Beatrice/Maid Marian/a tree again? All right, maybe I wasn’t too sad about the last one, but still. Maybe because its easier and maybe because it’s not as hard, we often don’t have endings in our plays. I’ll allow you a moment of horrified silence.

         Now then. I don’t remember much about my earlier plays, so I mostly have to go on the ones I have done in the past five years. After every single performance, there was at least one person who asked why I fell in love with the guy I hated, which happens a lot, or why that person stopped being evil in time for the curtain call. Well… I can never answer them, at least not to their satisfaction. Usually I’m saved by someone asking me to help clean up. But when I’m not, and the person won’t stop asking questions, you do have to wonder why we don’t write in a clear and concise ending.

         `There is a very simple answer to this question, hidden among some more complex and twisted ones, which I won’t address here. What we do in Coupe is play. We play like we are little kids and we don’t have to worry about science projects and climate change, or science projects about climate change. We play with lines and characters that haven’t been tampered with since the great scriptwriters came up with them. We play and we don’t care what other people think of what we come up with. So, if I had time to come up with a clear and concise answer to “What happens next?” it would be this.

         Our acting has a kind of surreal, ethereal beauty to it, since we are children and we are impossibly cryptic to those who don’t know us. We do plays without endings, or without beginnings. Sometimes there are neither and our characters were just born as they are, right now. It’s like when I was little and my family’s garden, with its decrepit statues and sad flowers, was my stage and no one knew or cared that the characters I created had no past, though they always had a future.

         I don’t always have a chance to come up with something like that, though, so my answer is always different. But, I can promise you this: While we are still in Coupe, and while we are still playing, there will always be an after, even if it doesn’t make sense. What did I do after marrying Robin Hood? Why, I moved to Camelot, of course! What else is there to do in Coupe, other than move on and keep on acting?

Love, Mary C. 

Keep an eye on this girl, I think she’s going places.  EJ

This is an aerial view video of Good Harbor Beach and surrounding environs taken from a remote plane piloted by Charlie Carroll.  Great takeoff and landing.

Aerial View of Good Harbor

Our Gifts and My Shoes

by Mary Colussi, 8th Grader at the St. Ann School, Poet Laureate of the cOupE.