Good Morning Gloucester

The Harbor Shuttle Has Seen Exponential Rider Growth In The Past Three Years.  Absolutely a great take for tourists and locals alike.

More info on getting season passes here-http://www.capeannharbortours.com/shuttle.html

Cape Ann TV (www.capeanntv.org), a non-profit community access cable station serving Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Essex, invites you to our upcoming Annual Meeting event, taking place at Cape Ann Television (38 Blackburn Center, Gloucester, MA 01930) on Thursday, June 25th at 7pm. 

This year’s keynote speaker is Mary Alice Crim, Field Director at Free Press. Free Press is a fantastic organization that advocates for individual’s rights to connect and communicate. 

Mary Alice led the campaign to stop the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger and participates in ongoing campaign and policy initiatives through outreach, organizing and public education activities. She develops, plans and runs Free Press events like the National Conference for Media Reform and leads the organization’s member-engagement work. She also serves on the board of Northampton Community Television.

She will be covering the future of the Internet, how broadcast and broadband will merge, and the importance of people power in media.

Also at this year’s event, Senator Bruce Tarr will be receiving the Legislator of the Year award for his continued support of Cape Ann Television and the values of community access television. 

Delicious food will be provided by Wally’s Blackburn Bistro. 

It’s sure to be a fun, informative event. Seating is limited so please RSVP to rtober@capeanntv.org

Thank you and we hope to see you there!

On June 10th, over 600 students and staff of the O’Maley Innovation Middle School in Gloucester, MA came together to create a lip dub to celebrate the S.A.I.L.S. initiative that is underway at the school.

S.A.I.L.S. stands for Service, Acceptance, Integrity, Leadership and Success, and this is the second year the students have chosen a theme song to represent SAILS for the year and put together a lip dub to help promote and foster the SAILS values and to build a positive community.

This year’s song choice was “Hall of Fame” by The Script featuring will.i.am.

How did I get myself into this?

Start         End         Name
1:00pm 1:40pm    Kate Foley/ Joey Ciaramitaro
1:40pm 2:20pm    John McElhenny
2:20pm 3:00pm    City Councilor Greg Verga
3:00pm 3:40pm    City Councilor Melissa Cox
3:40pm 4:20pm    Donna Ardizzoni
4:20pm 5:00pm    Reverend Cindy Antonuk
5:00pm 5:40pm    Gloucester Police Officer Anthony Giacalone
5:40pm 6:20pm    City Councilor Paul McGeary
6:20pm 7:00pm    City Councilor Steve LeBlanc, Jr
7:00pm 7:40pm    Mike Feener
7:40pm 8:20pm    Sean Nolan
8:20pm 9:00pm    Brittany Nielsen

Awesome

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Boating, Exploring, Paddle boarding, Surfing, Acting, Biking, Writing, Baking, Drawing, Sculpting, Singing, “Jamming”, Performing, Learning, Laughing, Playing….

So many options at Harborlight-Stoneridge Montessori School this summer….

Head HERE to read more.

Rocky Neck is gearing up for the
summer season and we need you! 

Many helping hands are needed to
keep this vital part of the community
evolving and moving forward.

We invite folks who are interested in participating and helping with the following areas to contact Brenda Malloy at 978-282-1346 or BrendaMalloy@hotmail.com for further information on: Music programming, gallery sitting at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, marketing, exhibitions committee, special events and social media.

If you have 2 to 8 hours a month to give, are interested in one time events or being involved on an ongoing basis, we have many different ways to be involved.  We are a lively, friendly, open group and welcome new comers.

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Summer Gallery hours, Thurs-Sun, 12:00-6:00 PM

The Rocky Neck Art Colony, a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization nurtures excellence in the arts through exhibitions, workshops, residencies and vibrant cultural events for its members and the public. Long renowned for its luminous light, this harbor and coastal location has been a magnet for some of the most revered realist paintings in American art and a catalyst for the progressive ideas of artists from Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Milton Avery, and Nell Blaine, among many others. Today Rocky Neck continues to attract artists and art lovers to a thriving creative community. For up to date information visit rockyneckartcolony.org.

CHINESE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Thursday, June 18, 2015, 6 – 7:30pm

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

The Rocky Neck Art Colony will engage in a cultural exchange with China by hosting two Resident Artists; traditional cut paper artist Du Jun and classical brush painter and muralist Juntao Fang at the Goetemann Residency Studio from June 16 – 27, 2015.

Their engagement will begin with a lecture/demonstration at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on Thursday, June 18 at 6pm. The couple will be available at the Goetemann Artist in Residency Studio, 51A Rocky Neck Ave, regular studio hours will be scheduled and posted so visitors may visit them working and view artwork on display.

Mandarin speakers are encouraged to attend the event and visit the couple while in residence.

THE ARTISTS

Du Jun is currently the Director of the Paper Cutting Museum in the village of Shanjai Gou, a privilege she shares with her grandmother, Pingying Zhou, they have been nationally recognized for the preservation of this traditional art form.

Du Jun’s husband, Juntao Fang, is a Professor of Art at Janing University. He is trained in the Classical methods of Chinese brush painting, but his teaching focus and national reputation have been established for his contemporary expressionistic adaptations of the Classical style. He specializes in large mural sized paintings that often have social content.