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Gloucester Writers Center Fish Tales is looking for storytellers for the upcoming show on Friday, May 13^th, 7:30 PM at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center.

This is an All Women Line Up. The only requirement is that you have to be female.

Fish Tales Storyteller Guidelines

• Stories should be true and from the personal experience of the storyteller.
• Stories must be stories, not personal narratives about a subject/theme.
• Stories are most effective if told without reading a script. If this seems difficult, make an outline and tell the story to the mirror a few times, then try it without the outline. Experience tells us that a story that is told and not read has greater lasting power.
• Stories must be five minutes. Keep an eye on the time keeper who will signal when you are approaching the end of your time. In some venues we only have 1 hour for the show so your help is appreciated in keeping to the 5 minute limit.
• Storytellers who are far over the 5 minute timeline will not be included in the final cut of our film that appears on Cape Ann TV and posted on the GWC website.
• Arrive at the venue ten minutes before the start time to find out where you are in the line-up and to get comfortable.
• See also http://themoth.org/tell-a-story/storytelling-tips
• To see a sample show: http://gloucesterwriters.org/fish-tales-rockn-roll/

Please get in touch with Maureen Aylward (maureenaylward@comcast.net) if you have a story to tell.

Hey Joey,

The Open Door Empty Bowl Dinner is right around the corner on Thursday, May 12, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester. Can you let GMG readers know that they are invited to join us for an evening of food and hospitality?

The meal is simple—soup, bread and a cookie. Guests can choose and keep a soup bowl handcrafted for this community event. The bowl goes home as an unspoken reminder that somewhere someone’s bowl is empty.

Extra parking is available at Harbor Beach with complimentary trolley service to and from the event site. Tickets available at the door. $15 for adults and $10 for children under ten.

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 Meals and Mobile Market programs.

Cheers!

Julie

Sneak Peek at some Silent Auction Bowls:

Platter painted by Cape Ann artist, Ken Knowles; available in the Silent Auction.

Bowl painted by painted by Cape Ann artist, Kevin Ellis; available in the Silent Auction

Bowl painted by painted by Cape Ann artist, Joy Buell; available in the Silent Auction

Neil and I stopped down to meet the author and pick up our copy of When The Fish Came First by Nubar Alexanian.  Tonight is the last night you can get the pre-sale price so come down for some wine, cheese and hear Nubar’s stories on creating the book.  He will be at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center until 9pm.

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JON SARKIN THE UNCHAINED BRAIN
A one-person show presented at the Open Door Gallery

Special Boston ARTweek event:
May 5, 5:30 PM to 8 PM with an artist’s talk at 6 PM

VSA Massachusetts ~ In collaboration with Law and Water Gallery,
89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111
Show Dates: April 29 to July 28, 2016
M – F 10:00 to 5:00 and by appointment
Contact: Charles Washburn, VP / COO 617-350-7713 x 102

Jon Sarkin is a prolific, even compulsive artist who creates elaborate drawings and paintings cluttered with words and images. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, ABC Primetime, This American Life, GQ, ArtNews, The American Visionary Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

After a brain hemorrhage and a stroke that nearly killed him, the once-shy ambitious chiropractor awoke with an effusive, unfocused need to create.  He was a different man in body-deaf in one ear, his vision splintered, his balance permanently skewed-and in mind.

Jon’s work lacks complete inhibitions as he creates vigorously almost to the point of obsession/compulsive. His brain constantly tries to make sense of the world, and he constantly tries to make sense of his brain’s failure-through colors and images and words.  He cannot stop; he does not want to stop.  In fact, he is afraid to stop.  Jon has been referred to as the, “Accidental Artist.”  He needs to create, put it all down on paper; it’s his engine, his purpose in life.

Jon is unable to see the world as a whole and unable to ignore it in its infinite detail.  His brain constantly tries to make sense of the world, and he constantly tries to make sense of his brain’s failure- through colors and images and words.  He cannot stop; he does not want to stop.  In fact, he is afraid to stop.  He is an accidental artist, but he needs to draw, to put it all down on paper, is his engine, his purpose for living.

GLOUCESTER: WHEN THE FISH CAME FIRST

a book of photographs by Nubar Alexanian

The public is invited to a celebratory “Meet The Author” and book launch party at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson St. Gloucester, on Thursday, May 5, at 7:30 PM.

Retail Price: $295, Pre-publication price: $125. (Orders before May 6.)

Walker Creek Media and the Rocky Neck Art Colony announce the release of GLOUCESTER: WHEN THE FISH CAME FIRST, a limited edition beautifully reproduced large format book (14”x11.5”) of 67 photographs by celebrated photographer Nubar Alexanian from his Gloucester collection.

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A New England native and Gloucester resident, Alexanian accompanied the Brancaleone family of Gloucester and their crew aboard the Joseph and Lucia II on four ten-day fishing trips to Georges Bank in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s, just prior to the collapse of the fishing industry.  His photos from these trips form the heart of this book and reflect his deep connection to these Gloucester fishermen.  They record the last glory days of commercial fishing out of Gloucester harbor, and also life as it was lived in Gloucester over a forty year period. In his introduction Sandy Tolan writes: “This book is a love poem to Gloucester; it is, as Nubar says, a ‘historical document describing a way of life that will never ‘be’ again.’ “

Copies of GLOUCESTER: WHEN THE FISH CAME FIRST are available to individuals at a pre-publication price of $125 from March 25, 2016 through May 5, 2016.  See the book’s official website, walkercreekmedia.com/gloucester.

GLOUCESTER: WHEN THE FISH CAME FIRST is distributed exclusively through the Rocky Neck Art Colony.

Resellers interested in carrying this limited edition title may order through the Rocky Neck Art Colony, 978-515-7004 or by emailing info@rockyneckartcolony.org.

A portion of the proceeds from the sales of GLOUCESTER: WHEN THE FISH CAME FIRST will be donated to the Northeast Seafood Coalition.