28^th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival ready to set sail

The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and the Schooner Festival Committee are proud to announce that the 28^th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival will take place Labor Day Weekend in Gloucester Harbor from August 31 to September 2.

Among the highlights for the weekend is the Parade of Lights and fireworks on Saturday, September 1, followed by the Parade of Sail and Mayor’s Race for the Esperanto Cup on Sunday, September 2.

Participating schooners include The Adventure, Adventurer, American Eagle, Ardelle, Bald Eagle, Brilliant, Estrela, Fame, Green Dragon, Irena, Lewis H. Story, Liberty Clipper, Roseway, Spirit of Massachusetts, Sugar Babe, Summer Wind, Thomas E. Lannon, Tyrone and more to come! Select schooners will be open for tours throughout the weekend.

In addition to the many beautiful medium and large schooners that will grace the waters of Cape Ann, will be a visit from the HMS Bounty from East Setauket, New York. The 180-foot long replica vessel was a floating movie set for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty and also appeared in the Johnny Depp film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

Throughout the weekend, raffle tickets will be on sale to benefit the 2012 Gloucester Schooner Festival and the 2012 Summer Sailing Scholarships that fund the Gloucester High School Sailing Team and Gloucester’s Project Adventure.

For more information on the entire weekend go to www.capeannvacations.com/schooner or contact Tim Burton at tim@capeannchamber.com or call 978-283-1601.

The HMS Bounty will be visiting Gloucester, Massachusetts as part of our East Coast Tour and the Gloucester Schooner Festival. The ship will be open for dockside tours.

The HMS Bounty is one of the most famous ships in the world.  Known for the storied mutiny that took place in Tahiti in 1789 on board the British transport vessel, the current Bounty, a replica, has survived to tell the tale.  Built for the 1962 movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” with Marlon Brando, HMS Bounty sails the country offering dockside tours in which one can learn about the history and details of such sailing vessels from a lost and romanticized time in maritime history.  Since her debut in “Mutiny on the Bounty”, HMS Bounty has appeared in many feature films and documentaries such as the Edinburgh Trader in Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest with Johnny Depp.

The ship will arrive on the Friday August 31^st and stay through Monday evening September 3^rd 2012.  During her stay she will be open for tours on Saturday, Sunday and Monday September 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd from 10am – 5pm.  Tour prices will be $10 per adult, and $5 per child with children under 5 free.    All tour proceeds go to the continued support of the ship.

For more information on the HMS Bounty visiting Gloucester,

please call (631) 584-7900.

Schooner Ardelle Sailing Schedule

North Shore Arts Association will celebrate the 90th anniversary of its founding with a special historical exhibit. "NSAA at 90" runs August 16 – September 18 with a Gala opening featuring music and refreshments to be held on Sunday August 19th from 2-4pm. The public is encouraged to come dressed up in period attire.

NSAA at 90 will give viewers the opportunity to see major works by Cape Ann legends; Lester Stevens, Aldro T. Hibbard and Émile Gruppé, as well as seldom seen works by first year members Kathryn Cherry, Harry Vincent and Edmund Klotz.  In addition to paintings, the exhibit will feature more than a dozen works by some of the era’s most renowned sculptors including Anna Hyatt Huntington, Katharine Lane Weems and Richard Recchia. All of these historic works will be displayed in the same rooms where the artists originally showed their work.

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photo credits Kathy Chapman and Anna Vojtech

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FRI, Aug 17 : Pass the Hats, 6-10pm, The Center at Rocky Neck

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck presents “Pass the Hats” – a Gala Celebration of Gloucester’s Rocky Neck Cultural District on Friday, August 17, from 6-10 pm. at 6 Wonson St. in Gloucester. 

In the spirit of Rocky Neck’s Beaux Arts Ball and with the theme of HATS, the Rocky Neck Art Colony and its Cultural District partners will celebrate their Massachusetts Cultural Council recognition as one of the first five districts to be designated statewide.  Tax deductible proceeds will benefit The Cultural Center of Rocky Neck, future community center and headquarters of Gloucester’s Rocky Neck Cultural District.  Tickets ranging from $30 – $300 are available at the door and at Imagine Gallery, Khan Studio, and the Rocky Neck Gallery, all on Rocky Neck. 

photos by Diane Giardi

Art Colony members got together recently to create fun, one-of-a-kind hats that will be auctioned off at the event this Friday. Pictured above are Brenda Malloy, Yhanna Coffin, Karen Ristuben, Kathy Archer and Ruth Mordecai modeling their hats. These hats and many others are currently on display at The Center.

All are welcome for food, music, and dancing with cultural partners: Rocky Neck Art Colony, City of Gloucester, Gloucester Stage Co., Gloucester Writers Center, Gloucester Marine Railways, Schooner Adventure, and Ocean Alliance, and the many other individuals and businesses on the Rocky Neck area.

For more information call 978-282-1346.

Sunday, August 19, 2-4pm : Helen Ann Lind Reception at Khan Studio

Through August 28 : Paul George, Recent Paintings at the Rocky Neck Gallery

Group Show at the Cultural Center: AUGUST 9-27

Featuring work by Yhanna Coffin, Loren Doucette, Eileen Mueller, Sinikka Nogelo, Barry Shuchter, and Ed Touchette

From the Docks, painting by Loren Doucette

Exhibition by Rocky Neck Art Colony artists at The Cultural Center, 6 Wonson St. in Rocky Neck.
Open Thursday to Sunday, 12 noon to 4pm.

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Hi Joey,

It’s Curtis Sarkin from Maritime Gloucester, writing to tell you about the opening party for Camilla MacFadyen’s Stock the Tank fish print aquarium.  Opening party is Saturday, August 18, from 1:00-6:00.      

Thanks!

—
Curtis Sarkin

Marine Science Educator

Maritime Gloucester

THURSDAY, August 8, Opening Reception for Lully Schwartz, 6:30 to 9:30pm

Lully Schwartz
info@lullyschwartz.com
www.lullyschwartz.com
studio: 978-388-3007

SUNDAY, August 12 : Summer Artist Reception with Paul George, 2-4pm

C U L T U R A L  C E N T E R   H A P P E N I N G S

Group Show at the Cultural Center: AUGUST 9-27

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 12, 4-6pm

Featuring work by Yhanna Coffin, Loren Doucette, Eileen Mueller, Sinikka Nogelo, Barry Shuchter, and Ed Touchette

From the Docks, painting by Loren Doucette

Exhibition by Rocky Neck Art Colony artists at The Cultural Center, 6 Wonson St. in Rocky Neck.
Open Thursday to Sunday, 12 noon to 4pm.

Every Friday, 7am: BNI at the Cultural Center

With over 100 chapters in the greater Boston area, Patti Salvucci, Executive Director of BNI in MA, is opening a local chapter that has started to meet at the Cultural Center, 6 Wonson St. on Rocky Neck. Our next meeting will be Friday, Aug 10. 7:00am-8:30am and each Friday thereafter.

BNI is a business and professional referral organization that allows only one person from each profession to join a chapter. It’s like having 40 “salespeople” that are looking for the ideal referral for you!

If referrals are important in growing your business, please contact Patti at patti@bnimass.com, if you are interested in finding out more information or would like to attend.

MON, August 13,7-9pm, Richard Rosenfeld : A Democracy or A Republic?
Lost Lessons from The Early American Republic

Richard Rosenfeld will present a lecture based in part on his widely acclaimed book, American Aurora. Awarded "Best History, 1997" by the Los Angeles Times, the book was described by Doris Kearns Goodwin as "a magnificent achievement…The early days of the Republic will be much better understood by the publication of this remarkable book." And the Dallas Morning News called it a "riveting narrative of an epochal political struggle…A tale of high drama that leaves the stately mythology of our Founding Fathers’ wisdom and omniscience shattered."

Monday, August 13, 7-9pm at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street

TUE, August 14, 6:30pm : RNAC General Meeting

A general meeting of the Rocky Neck Art Colony will take place on Tuesday, August 14, 6:30pm at The Cultural Center in Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street. An Agenda and minutes of the last meeting will be emailed to members prior to the meeting. All are welcome to attend.

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Hi Friends, 
I am proudly involved in a four week show at the new Cultural Center at Rocky Neck. I will have three pieces on display and for sale from August 8 to September 4. The show is open Thursday through Sunday for visitors from 12-4pm. All are welcome to come to the Opening Reception this Sunday August 12 from 4 to 6pm. The Cultural Center, 6 Wonson Street in Gloucester, is a lovely carpenter/Gothic style church that has been newly transformed. Please come check it out if you can. I will be working the show this Sat, from 2 to 4 and Sunday from 12 to 6.
hope you all are well!

Warmly,
~Loren

To view recent artwork: http://lorendoucette.blogspot.com/

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Flatrocks Gallery Opening

PAINT ESSEX WET PAINT DAY AND AUCTION

The Essex Merchants Group and Eventide Gallery of Essex, Massachusetts will be sponsoring their First Annual Paint Essex Day and Wet Paint Auction, on Saturday, August 18, 2012 (Rain date August 19th). On that day scores of artists from near and far will be arriving in Essex to artistically capture the Town’s limitless variety of local scenes and its magnificent landscape.

The event is two-fold: Registered painters will Paint Essex from

9 AM – 3 PM followed by a Wet Paint Auction and Reception from

5 PM – 9 PM at the Essex County Greenbelt’s Cox Reservation, 82 Eastern Avenue (Rte 133) in Essex. A wine reception, hors d’oeuvres and live music will accompany a silent and live auction of the days’ paintings.

Painters of all levels are welcome to paint at various outdoor locations including the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Cogswell’s Grant, the Cox Reservation and along Main Street, as well as the interiors of participating local antique shops and other businesses (one painter per interior, must sign-up in advance). The split for paintings sold will be 50/50.

Bob Coviello, Chair of the Essex Merchants Group, says Essex is a perfect fit for this event. There are innumerable natural views, historical settings and enough quirky locations and artifacts to fill a thousand canvases. The Merchants Group is excited to add this unique event to its repertoire of town activities.

Advance registration is suggested. Registration the morning of the event will be at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum on Main Street beginning at

8 AM. Cost is $5 per painter.  Tickets for the Wet Paint Auction and Reception are $25 per person (ticket includes one beverage) – $10 for registered painters.  Tickets to the Auction and Reception will be available for purchase August 1st from various merchants throughout Essex including Eventide Gallery, Main Street Antiques, Bider’s Antiques and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

Proceeds from this event will be utilized by the Essex Merchants Group to promote the Town as a destination for shopping, dining, recreation, historic sightseeing and the enjoyment of open space.

For information and advance registration, please contact Teri Canelle Eramo of Eventide Gallery, 63 Main Street, Essex, MA at 978-890-7198, or email Teri.eventide@gmail.com or Kimberly Brennan at kimberlyabrennan@aol.com . In addition, visit the Essex Merchant Group website at www.VisitEssexMA.com to learn more about what to see and do in Essex.