Tag: Lobster Trap Tree

HERE WE GO! COMMUNITY-WIDE LOBSTER TRAP TREE BUOY PAINTING SCHEDULE

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THE BEST LOBSTER TRAP TREE YET! Art Haven’s David Brooks and Crew have created a masterpiece. Shout out to Three Lantern Marine and Fishing for contributing the gorgeous (in holiday co-ordinated colors of red and green) brand new lobster traps. The lobster traps will be auctioned off after the holidays.

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Buoy Painting and Tree Lighting Schedule

East Gloucester Elementary: Wednesday 11/29 – 3:30-5:00pm
Veterans Memorial: Wednesday 11/29 – 3:30-5:00pm
Plum Cove Elemenary: Thursday 11/30 – 3:30-5:00pm
Beeman Elementary: Thursday 11/30 – 3:30-5:00pm
West Parish Elementary: Friday – 12/1 – 3:30-5:00pm
Open Day for Everyone: Saturday – 12/2 – 10:0am – 1:00pm
Rockport Elemenary School: Monday 12/4 – 3:30-5:00pm
O’ Maley Middle School: Wednesday – 12/6 – 3:30-5:00pm
Open Day for Everyone: Wednesday – 12/6 – 3:30-5:00pm
Manchester/Essex Elementary: Wednesday – 12/6 – 3:30-5:00pm

Lobster Trap Tree LIghting and Party at Art Haven after
December 9th, 4:30 pm, Main St at Lobster Trap Tree
Buoy Auction
January 26, 5-8pm, Cruiseport

buoy painting dates announced for area schools #CapeAnnArtHaven

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Hundreds of buoys are primed every year.

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Schedule for the annual lobster trap tree buoy ornament painting sessions held 3:30-5pm (except Sat Dec 2nd). This year includes O’Maley middle school kids!

  • East Gloucester + Veterans Memorial Wed. November 29
  • Plum Cove + Beeman Thursday November 30 
  • West Parish Friday December  1
  • Rockport Monday December 4
  • O’Maley Middle School, Manchester Essex Elementary, & Everyone: Wednesday December 6th 
  • Open for all Saturday December 2nd, 10AM-1PM and Wed Dec 6th 3:30-5

Cape Ann Art Haven paint a b uoy dates announced

 

Gloucester’s Lobster Trap Tree Comes Down til Next Year

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20170218_132436Lisa Smith writes,
Hi Kim,
I took some pictures yesterday of the lobster trap Christmas tree being taken down, and thought you might want to post them on GMG and give a shout out to Art Haven.
A handful of volunteers helped Art Haven’s David Brooks retire the Lobster Trap Christmas Tree for the year. Passers-by commented on how sorry they were to see the beloved tree come down. One women thought that the tree should stay up all year and be decorated seasonally, with shamrocks on St. Patrick’s Day, and eggs for Easter. David said that would be nice, but the traps are borrowed and the fishermen need their lobster traps back.
Thanks,
Lisa

Gloucester Smiles-Lobster Trap Tree Buoys

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Art Haven Buoy Auction Tonight at Cruisport

Don’t Forget your tickets for the Buoy Auction

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Art Haven Buoy Auction  January 27th  at Cruiseport Gloucester Mass

A Lobster Trap tree mini buoy from Cape Ann Art Haven goes to the State House

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More public art and heart-

Thanks to Janice Lufkin-Shea, Pauline Bresnahan, Hannah Morris, David Brooks Cape Ann Art Haven, Senator Tarr and others,  Gloucester and its lobster trap tree and traditions  have a place in the Massachusetts Senate President’s Office. Here are photos of Senator Bruce Tarr with Stan Rosenberg, the 93rd President of the Massachusetts Senate, in the Senate President’s Office. First two photos from inside the State House were from Senator Tarr.

David Brooks writes that he hopes the buoy will be a permanent ornament, “but I’m not sure how long it will last. Its made of a small plastic net buoy and plaster. We made it as an Art Haven team and tried to make it look like a kid did it so it fit the character of the tree.” Perhaps a bronze version may be commissioned from Cape Ann Art Haven one day.

There were special ornaments to discover on the tree in City Hall, too, in the rotunda outside the Office of the Mayor.

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Now we wait: the 2016 giant Lobster Trap Menorah is up and readied @Temple Ahavat Achim

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Temple Ahavat Achim
86 Middle Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
Temple Ahavat Achim Lobster Trap Menorah Lighting 5:15 PM December 24, 2016

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From the Inside

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Inside of the Lobster Trap Tree.

Lobster Trap Tree – 2012 -2016

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Circa 2012
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2016
Entry to the inner sanctum
Cantilevered traps rising towards the dome
Light dots on the floor
All lit up
Artistic license….

The first one I saw in 2012 was amazing and it gets better every year! From the days of stacked traps and colored lights we now have a wider base with doorways opening the inside with cantilevered traps opening up the center of the tree for a great view from inside, a look at the dome and viewing a light show of Christmas Colors on the floor. (The lightshow with its colored moving dots of light brought back memories of college…but that’s another story!) The stack is tighter and now the traps are color coordinated Yellow and Green by level and the colored lights have given way to energy efficient white LEDs.  The yearly engineering advances allow for more and more hand painted buoys from the kids at Art Haven. Hard to imagine anything more spirit lifting than just walking past the tree, not to mention spending some time in it and around! I met two photographers who were waiting for the light to go down and then were going from Gloucester to Rockport, ME and Portland to capture some other trap trees. Their take? Others might be a little taller but none are better than Gloucester’s tree!

BEAUTIFUL EARNESTNESS

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Buoy painting today, up to the very last moment before the tree was lit.

LIVE FROM GLOUCESTER’S LOBSTER POT TREE LIGHTING!

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Four, three, two, one…Merry Christmas!

 

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SHOUT OUT TO ART HAVEN’S DAVID BROOKS AND CREW

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david-brooks-cape-ann-art-haven-lobster-pot-tree-gloucester-december-10-2016-copyright-kim-smithThank you to David Brooks, the Art Haven crew, the lobstermen who donated their traps, and all the buoy painters for their phenomenal creation of Gloucester’s 2016 lobster pot tree. The most magical to date (if that is possible) and as always, the “World’s Best Lobster Pot Tree!” Thank you for this beautiful gift, and for all that you do for our community throughout the year.

David placing the star with the firemen, crew adding finishing touches, and Tim Bushfield and band from the East Gloucester Community Church leading carolsimg_1616-2

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Three festive Thursdays in December: you can’t beat Gloucester’s Main Street for the holidays

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Scenes from Ladies Night — which kicked off big at Topside Grill!

Their wrap-around bar and surrounding tables at capacity with gals gathered round and special appetizers and drinks.

 

If you missed Ladies Night, still to come:

  • Friends and Family Night this Thursday Dec 8, 5-10pm

  • Middle Street Walk Saturday Dec 10 capped off by Cape Ann Art Haven buoy Lobster Trap tree ceremony 4pm

  • Men’s Night Thursday Dec 15

 

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photos from Ladies Night

Continue reading “Three festive Thursdays in December: you can’t beat Gloucester’s Main Street for the holidays” →

Caught In The Trap

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A young couple who just moved to Gloucester with relatives from New York.

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Photo of someone taking a Group Selfie in the tree

NEW VIDEO: Gloucester’s Giant Lobster Trap Christmas Tree and Menorah

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Wonderful new video from Lisa Smith and Becky Tober, Gloucester’s Giant Lobster Trap Christmas Tree and Menorah ~ Celebrating the Holidays Gloucester Style featuring David Brooks, Jim Dowd, Avery McNiff, Jill Wach, our Joey, and many more!!

Madeline Beannie and I Admire the #GloucesterMA 2015 Lobster Trap tree In This desi Smith Photo

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Thanks for capturing this moment for the girls and I Desi

this is the view inside the Lobster Trap Tree- AMAZING!

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Check out the Lobster Trap Tree On The Gloucester Daily Times Website Here

LIVE FROM LOBSTER TRAP TREE LIGHTING! 

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COUNTDOWN!

IMG_5031A new feat in lobster pot tree engineering–we can walk inside the tree!

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Lotus caroling at the tree lighting

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Another view from inside the tree

Lobster trap buoy tree KIDS BUOY painting all week

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Cat Ryan submits-

Hi Joey-
Cool interactive gateway this year on Cape Ann Art Haven lobster trap design! Great photo op for everybody.

If we ever have buoy overflow –or enough requests and funding– wouldn’t it be great to hang the buoys with the wreaths downtown?  We used to have gold buoys with the wreaths.

The wreaths at the train station and along Railroad Avenue look wonderful this year with the new sidewalk.

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