Art and planning: save the dates creative Placemaking, Smart Cities, Sustainable cities, cultural districts, Smartgrowth

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small sample of arts and planning save the dates:

February 15th, 2017:

Massachusetts Commonwealth Awards at the State House hosted by the MCC

February 23, 2017:

Placemaking workshop hosted by MA Smartgrowth and A Better City

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Register for the February 23 Routes to Placemaking Workshop,  Boston

MA Smartgrowth is hiring

Join our #SmartGrowth team and apply to our open position, Director of Local Leadership! More info here: http://ow.ly/bvwh307LgRG  #mapoli

March 16, 2017:

Cultural districts regional convening (Beverly) MCC

March 21, 2017:

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Northeast meeting will be March 21st, location and agenda is not posted yet. MassMoves “Help bring 21st century transportation to Massachusetts, part of Commonwealth conversations” https://malegislature.gov/cc

March 25, 2017

Mass Land Conservation Conference Worcester
Scaling Up: Meeting New Challenges
Convened by the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition

May 3, 2017

worldwide conference comes to the US for the first time.

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Worldwide conference comes to the US for the first time

http://smartcitiesnyc.com/

May 5, 2017 – third annual National Consortium for Creative Placemaking Leadership summit

May 18, 2017

MA Smartgrowth annual conference Worcester, MA. I want it to come to Gloucester Beauport Hotel next year. See Smartgrowth Amercia Dangerous by Design 2016 report for MA state ranking

June 20, 2017

Have ideas for Boston Mobility Summit hosted by Microsoft with the support of the Barr Foundation apply to attend there’s only 120 international mobility leaders to be selected

August 1, 2017

Deadline! The Massachusetts Office on Disability is holding a call for art through August 1 for a juried art exhibition with the theme of “Breaking Barriers.”

FEBRUARY 2018

Hey Gloucester — let’s come up with a list of possible projects needed in Gloucester and pick one that art and culture can help be part of and apply together for next year’s application! MA connections in the video:  Javier was born and raised in Holliston. Art and Culture to strengthen social, economic fabric in communities. ArtPlace grants: For more information see the video NCPF Announcement 2017 from ArtPlace America on Vimeo.

Waiting and Watching the storm on it’s way

Posted on by David B. Cox

Had lunch with the family at the Beauport watching the approaching storm come in and the ride home.

Motif Monday: Gloucester Oxbow

Posted on by Catherine

Happily resigning myself in each season as it passes to the beauty and nature of Gloucester. At low tide, this vista has me at Oxbow.

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Thomas Cole (1801-1848),  The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm), 1836, oil on canvas, 52″ x 76″, highlight from the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art

There are Gloucester Traditions and then there are Gloucester Traditions.  George’s Coffee Shop IS Community. 

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

If you want to get a handle on the pulse of the city and be treated like a king- just go and feel what this City is all about.  Community.  Great Food.  Great Service.  Can never be duplicated.  Dean Salah deserves a key to the city.  Thanks Anthony Saputo for the reminder. 


 

This is why I can’t have nice things..

Posted on by Bridgette Mathews

You know that little black shovel that sits on top of the snow blower so if you iced up the auger, you can you IT instead of your hand?   Well…it apparently can fall off the flimsy clip they put on the machine and get caught in the auger.   That’ll teach hubs to go skiing during another snowstorm lol!   Anyway….it’s all better.   Nothing a little sawzall couldn’t fix!    Careful today…it’s slippery under that snow!

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Gloucester mentioned on Good Morning America

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

​Terry Weber submits-

Gloucester mentioned on Good Morning America, reporter on Pavilion Beach. Will let you know if i find anything else. 

 

Link to story, with some glimpses of Pavilion beach. the mention gloucester right at the start

http://abcnews.go.com/US/northeast-braces-major-snowstorm-season/story?id=45452671

this clip has a slightly different version at the end.

https://twitter.com/GMA/status/831112851204956167

A BONA FIDE IGLOO IN GLOUCESTER!!

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Look what our wonderful neighbors made! Lotus reports that they created the igloo in assembly line fashion from snow packed rectangular-shaped containers. Mandy shares that it was so much fun to make and they will be perfecting their technique for future igloos. I can’t wait to see what they come up with after this next doozy of a blizzard!16640908_10208492011198447_3897272401863748360_n

Igloo made by Geoff, Mandy, Pilar, Frieda, and Lotus

Photo by Geoff Deckebach

Birds on bergs

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Resting up on slow moving ice floats before the next winter storm

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Water high before blizzard 2

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Gloucester Announces Sunday Night Parking Ban; Schools Closed Monday

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Chris Sicuranza's avatarCape Ann Community

Issued by Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken at 2:20PM, Sunday, Feb 12th:

Effective at 6PM tonight, Sunday, February 12th, the city has declared a snow emergency and parking ban on all city streets due to expected heavy sleet, snowfall, and powerful wind gusts. Additionally, Gloucester schools will be closed tomorrow and trash collection will be delayed one day.

Again, starting at 6PM tonight, Sunday February 12th, until 9AM tomorrow, Monday, February 13th, all vehicles are banned from parking on city streets. 

Residents may park in all municipal and school parking lots but must remove their vehicles once the ban has expired at 9AM tomorrow or will be subject to ticketing and towing at the owner’s expense. 

All residents and businesses are reminded that they are responsible for clearing snow from sidewalks adjacent to their property. Please make every effort to shovel out hydrants…

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JOHN RONAN AT THE CAPE ANN MUSEUM!

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john-ronan-and-bookSaturday, February 25, 2017 at 2pm

Gloucester’s former poet laureate John Ronan will read from his most recent book, Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown (Backwaters Press, 2017) and discuss its connections to Gloucester, including “Good Harbor, Home,” which was written for and read at John Bell’s first inauguration as Mayor of Gloucester. Through Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown Ronan hopes to convey that love and language create community.

This program is free and open to the public. Reservations required. Free registration can be made by calling 978-283-0455 x10, emailinginfo@capeannmuseum.org, or online at Eventbrite. 

John Ronan is a poet, playwright, movie producer and journalist. He has received national honors for his poetry and is a former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Ucross Fellow, Bread Loaf Scholar and Poet Laureate of Gloucester, MA. In 2010, his volume of poetry,Marrowbone Lane, won Highly Recommended honors from the Boston Authors Club. As a playwright, Ronan’s works include The Yeats Gameand The Early Bird Special. John is also founder of the media production company American Storyboard, a teacher of film and host of Cape Ann Television’s The Writer’s Block with John J. Ronan which celebrates its 27th anniversary in the 2016–2017 seasons.