Category: Community Photos

Walking Good Harbor on a windy clear day

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

On Sunday was windy but such a pretty day to go and take a walk.  Good Harbor as usual was very pretty.  Loved how the sand blows.

Spring is in the air

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

With spring and Easter are just around the corner.  Come on down to Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA, shop local thank you

Concert to benefit Ukrainian Relief

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PRESS RELEASE:
MEETINGHOUSE BACH BIRTHDAY CONCERT TO BENEFIT UKRAINIAN RELIEF

The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation will present a live concert to celebrate the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach
on Sunday, March 20th, 2022 at 4:30p.m. in the historic Meetinghouse at the corner of Church and Middle Streets.
The event will be simulcast on the Foundation’s YouTube channel and will be available afterwards for those unable to attend.
The event is free and open to the public but a collection will be taken to benefit Ukrainian relief efforts through
the International Rescue Committee.

The Meetinghouse Foundation’s president, Charles Nazarian, will describe how the harpsichord works on his Flemish Double
harpsichord made by David Jacques Way. He will play a few pieces pieces to demonstrate the varied sounds of the instrument.
Mary Jodice on the harpsichord and Emily Hale on the baroque violin will follow with the Bach Violin Sonata in C-minor,
after which Ms. Hale will perform a Bach violin solo. Soprano Caroline Teague will sing Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
and Counter-tenor Cameron Dobson will sing selections from the great Mass in B-Minor accompanied by Mary Jodice.
She will complete the concert with one of the monumental Bach organ compositions, the Passacaglia and Fugue in C-minor,
on the Meetinghouse’s 1893 Hutchings/Fisk pipe organ.  The event will close with the ensemble leading the audience in
singing the Ukrainian National Anthem followed by a reception with a Bach birthday cake.

The mission of the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation is to restore this 1806 architectural masterpiece that is listed
on the National Register of Historic Places as a concert venue, civic hub and community gathering center.

More information about this and future events is available at: www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org

I Am More Project

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

Gloucester’s very talented artist Amy Kerr sent me the next couple of events for the I Am More Project.

Dear I Am More subjects,

I’m starting to prep for the next exhibit at South Shore Plaza in Braintree (flyer attached). We’re going to be taking down Holyoke and putting up SSP in one day, so the dates to see the exhibit are March 14-April 9.

Because there are now 40 of you, and an exhibit with the display panels can only include 20, I’m going to be mixing you up at each location. This will be based on people who live closest to the exhibit, and as much diversity as possible in the subject matter. You have all been included in one of the last two exhibits at Northshore and Holyoke, so the South Shore Plaza exhibit will include:

  1. Jessica and Mila
  2. Carol
  3. Jerri
  4.  Josh
  5. Jonathan
  6. Patrick
  7. Arielle
  8. Chris V
  9. Danny
  10. David
  11. Eliana
  12. Margot
  13. Ryan
  14. James
  15. Chris C
  16. Joe
  17. Áine
  18. Ryan M
  19. Seth
  20. Erin (welcome!)

We are able to hang portraits simultaneously in locations that do not require the panels, so if you know of schools, libraries, non-profits, businesses, healthcare facilities who might host a display of 1-20 portraits that you could help facilitate, let me know.

Upcoming press includes the April issue of Northshore Magazine, and it sounds like Fox 25 might be doing a piece from the South Shore Plaza exhibit.

Enjoy these last cold days of winter!

Thank you Amy Kerr

I Am More Founder/Artist

amykerrdraws.org