Along with other festivities the UU Church, will be serving lunch.
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Socktober at the UU Church.. only 1 week left
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Music on Meetinghouse Green
MUSIC ON MEETINGHOUSE GREEN PRESENTS JIM ‘N’ TONIC ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 29th
Our non-profit receiving free-will donations for the evening will be HAWC, Healing Abuse/Working for Change, which provides an essential lifeline of safety and support to women and children at risk from domestic abuse, related injustice and economic peril. Please consider giving generously when the donation box goes around! Meat & Sweet will be the food service for the evening serving up delicious and savory smoked meats and baked goods for all to enjoy!
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Willie “Loco” Alexander
Please join us on Friday, August 8th in front of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church 50 Middle Street for Gloucester’s Willie ‘Loco’ Alexander as he shares his legendary talent as a singer, songwriter and keyboardist. With his roots in Boston’s punk rock scene of the 70’s and 80’s, Willie’s musical career has flourished for more than 50 years. Whether as a band member with the Lost, Bagatelle, Grass Menagerie and the post-Lou Reed Velvet Underground, or as front man for his own series of bands, Willie’s enduring popularity is a reflection of his unique musical voice and artistic vision. A true artist, Willie has expanded his work to other mediums including soundtracks for local filmmaker Henry Ferrini, collage and painting.
The non-profit for this event is The Open Door, who works directly in the Cape Ann community and who alleviates the impact of hunger in our community by connecting people to good food, advocating on behalf of those in need, and engaging others in the work of building food security. Our food vendor for the night will be the Lobster Roller, serving up delicious lobster rolls and seafood for all to enjoy.
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A Perfect Summer Evening with The Goddesses!
Friday, August 1st at 6:00pm marks the return of our fantastic local band, Goddesses in front of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church 50 Middle Street! Tony and Samantha Goddess, with their great band, always rock the Meetinghouse outdoor stage with popular favorites. Goddesses repertoire spans the roots of rock to its pinnacle and beyond to deliver a non-stop performance that will have you on your feet, singing along, and wanting more. Headlined by powerhouse couple Tony and Samantha Goddess on vocals and electric guitar, the Goddesses features Dave Sag on bass, Steve Chaggaris on drums, and John Cameron on keys.
This will be a perfect evening for you to enjoy Goddesses delivering a non-stop performance that will have you on your feet, singing along, and wanting more.
Tonight your free-will donations will go to support The Gloucester Education Foundation. GEF drives innovation, encourages creativity, expands student opportunities and empowers educators to strengthen teaching and learning in the Gloucester Public School District.
Meat & Sweet returns with delicious treats for your picnicking delight so bring a folding chair, blanket and some extra cash for when the buckets go around to raise money for GEF.
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Middle Street Walk at the UU Church
Another fun event. Hope to see you all.
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Share the Poster Save the date! Silent Movies ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1915) — filmed on Cape Ann– and TOLL OF THE SEA (1922) Go Big at the UU Church
Cool event info shared by Cape Ann Community Cinema and the Gloucester Meetinghouse/UU Church:
Coming November 2, 2024 at 7:30 PM
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1915) — filmed on Cape Ann– and TOLL OF THE SEA (1922) featuring live organ accompaniment with acclaimed musician Peter Krasinski
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Bluegrass And Beyond! LIVE October 26 at the UU Church
Sounds fantastic!
News from Cape Ann Symphony
Cape Ann Symphony proudly announces the opening of the 2024/25 Musicians Unleashed Concert Series with Bluegrass And Beyond, on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM at The Unitarian Universalist Church, 10 Church Street, Gloucester. The ticket price for Bluegrass And Beyond is $40 for Adults. Call CAS at 978-281-0543 or go to http://www.capeannsymphony.org to purchase tickets. Premiering in 2019, the Cape Ann Symphony’s Musicians Unleashed programs are small intimate chamber concerts performed by members of the Cape Ann Symphony at unique performance venues on Cape Ann. Musicians Unleashed concerts have become a wonderfully popular series with an overwhelmingly enthusiastic audience response.
“The Musicians Unleashed Series gives our musicians and our audience members an opportunity to connect in a more relaxed intimate setting, ” points out CAS Board President John Todd, “ Bluegrass And Beyond is a terrific start to the concert series! The lively afternoon features a wide range of music and showcases not only instrumental skills but vocals. The musicians will all be singing and playing fiddle, bass and guitar!”
Bluegrass And Beyond is an intriguing blend of American and international Bluegrass, country and folk music played and sung using violin, guitar and bass instruments. This afternoon of fiddle, guitar and bass as well as vocals features CAS Concert Master Scott Moore, fiddle, vocals; Erica Pisaturo, fiddle, vocals; George Clements, guitar, vocals; Charles Clements, bass, vocals playing a program of creative and varied compositions.
“Bluegrass And Beyond explores folk music, rooted here in America and across the Atlantic,” according to CAS violinist Erica Pisaturo, “Audiences experience our take on traditional American songs and instrumental music, then journey overseas with us to Hungary, Finland, Sweden, and the UK. Folk-inspired original tunes by members of the group round out the program. As performers and musicians, we love blurring the boundaries of genre and experimenting with different ingredients and flavors to make the old and timeless into something new and vibrant. This music is full of energy, simple and tenderhearted at times, but always ripe with passion. Audiences will be engaged and immersed, and leave feeling inspired and invigorated by this age-old music.”
program includes: Long Time Traveler, Jack of Diamonds, Shady Grove, Chinquapin Hunting, and Fall on My Knees; Bartok’s 44 Duets for Two Violins; Vasen’s The Dragonship and Gudda; Ost’s Fantomen; plus Wayfaring Star of the Strawstack Medley; Return from Helsinki; Citi Na Gcumman; Calum Sgaire; Boatin’Up Sandy; Hartford’s On The Road, and two pieces written by our performers : George Clements’ As The Crow Flies and Scott Moore’s Mando Jam.
About the Musicians
Scott Moore was born and came of age in rural Kentucky. He began his career as a violinist and composer as a four-year-old in New York. He’s been a soloist with a number of orchestras, played Mozart for the Archduke of Austria, and has given an impromptu recital in Carnegie Hall for an audience of ghosts. In 2018, he began performing, from memory, the complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by J. S. Bach. A composer as well, he has composed six adventurous new scores for the Louisville Ballet, including As You Like It in August 2022. This native Kentuckian is now a resident of Gloucester. He and his wife violinist Erica Pisaturo, also a member of CAS and playing and singing in Bluegrass And Beyond, moved to New England in the fall of 2019.
Violinist Erica Pisaturo is a native of New England, where she began her violin studies at the age of four. After earning a BA in Music and Art History from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, she went on to earn an MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. While in the South, Ms. Pisaturo played violin in a number of professional symphony orchestras, including the Hilton Head Symphony and Savannah Philharmonic, both of which she also served as Orchestra Librarian. She has toured and traveled the world extensively including studying architecture in Italy and making music on tour in China and Japan. She and her husband, CAS violinist Scott Moore moved to Gloucester in 2019 and Ms. Pisaturo now plays with the Cape Ann Symphony and Symphony By The Sea.
Bassist, teacher and twin brother of fellow Bluegrass And Beyond performer George Clements, Charles Clements began playing music at an early age. A 10 year voyage through piano, viola, trumpet and electric bass led Mr. Clements to the double bass in high school which he began to study privately with Nancy Kidd and play in jazz ensembles and youth orchestras. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music, earning his Bachelor’s Degree studying with Boston Symphony bassist Todd Seeber. Mr. Clements went on to receive his Master’s Degree at Manhattan School of Music in New York, studying with New York Philharmonic bassist and jazz talent David Grossman. He was a New World Symphony fellow from 2011-2014 and now is a substitute in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Clements now resides in the Boston area playing with a variety of different ensembles and collaborating on a wide range of projects ranging from folk to baroque.
Musician, songwriter and teacher George Clements is a New England based guitarist and singer/songwriter steeped in American folk music traditions. In the fall of 2019 Mr. Clements became involved with an off-Broadway show called, The Simon & Garfunkel Story, playing Paul Simon.
The Clements brothers played together in the modern acoustic group, The Lonely Heartstring Band, releasing two albums on Rounder Records, Deep Waters (2014) and Smoke & Ashes (2017). The group traveled and performed all over the US and Canada as well as Scotland, New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland. They were the recipient of the 2014 IBMA momentum award and played the stages of Grey Fox Festival, Rockygrass, Red Wing Roots and many others. George and Charles Clements are currently working on a new project together called The Clements Brothers. Their debut album, Dandelion Breeze, will be released by the end of the year.
Bluegrass And Beyond is Saturday, October 26 at 3:00 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 10 Church Street, Gloucester. Ticket prices for Bluegrass And Beyond are $40 for Adults. Call Cape Ann Symphony at 978-281-0543 or go to http://www.capeannsymphony.org for tickets.
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Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Event
The Essex Piano Trio will perform a concert called ‘Silent Voices Remembered’ at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on Thursday evening, May 2nd. The concert will be the third in a biennial series to be jointly hosted by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation and Temple Ahavat Achim around the international Holocaust memorial day, Yom Hashoah. The Poster is below and attached with the Press Release.
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Grateful Dead, Dvorak, and more | selection of American classical Music by Cape Ann Symphony Musicians unleashed at the UU Church #GloucesterMA
NEXT WEEKEND! October 29, 2022
including local artists that are residents, too
And announcing…a new concertmaster!
Cape Ann Symphony Musicians Unleashed Concert Series
AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Featuring works by The Grateful Dead, Florence Price, William Grant Still, Rachel Grimes, Dvorak & Cape Ann Symphony Concertmaster Scott Moore
at Gloucester’s Unitarian Universalist Church
The Cape Ann Symphony’s Musicians Unleashed programs were launched in 2019 and have become a wonderfully popular series with overwhelmingly enthusiastic audience response. Ticket prices for American Classical Music are $40 for Adults and $15 for Youth. Call Cape Ann Symphony at 978-281-0543 or go to www.capeannsymphony.org for tickets.
Read all about it from the Cape Ann Symphony press release:
Cape Ann Symphony proudly announces the return of the popular Musicians Unleashed Concert Series with American Classical Music at 3:00 pm on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at The Unitarian Universalist Church, 10 Church Street in Gloucester, MA. The ticket price for American Classical Music is $40 for Adults and $15 for Youth. Call CAS at 978-281-0543 or go to www.capeannsymphony.org to purchase tickets.
The first Musicians Unleashed Concert of the 2022-2023 season, American Classical Music features music made in America.
“We wanted to put together a program of great music that reflects the vast and wide diversity of peoples and cultures that have made up and continue to make up our great country of America” says Cape Ann Symphony Music Director and Conductor Yoichi Udagawa.
The American Classical Music concert program includes a wide range of musical styles and composers from Dvorak to the Grateful Dead. The music from an eclectic slate of composers featuring Florence Price, Cape Ann Symphony’s recently appointed Concertmaster Scott Moore, William Grant Still, The Grateful Dead, Rachel Grimes, and Dvorak will be performed by four CAS musicians: violinist Scott Moore; violinist Erica Pisaturo; cellist Seth MacLeod; and violist Brandon White.
“How exciting to hear such a unique mix of composers performed by these talented musicians …all musicians who are relatively new to our CAS audiences,” points out Maestro Udagawa, “This is a great opportunity for audiences to get to to know some of the newest members of the orchestra.”
The concert program includes: Florence Price’s Juba from String Quartet No. 2: Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo, violins; Brandon White, viola; Seth MacLeod, cello; Scott Moore’s Duo selections: Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo, violins; William Grant Still’s Danzas de Panama: Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo, violins; Brandon White, viola; Seth MacLeod, cello; Grateful Dead’s Truckin’, arranged by Minsky: Seth MacLeod, cello; Rachel Grimes’ Egon and Gertie – Violin/Cello Version: Scott Moore, violin; Seth MacLeod, cello; Scott Moore’s Fiddle Tunes (solo): Scott Moore, violin; and Dvorak’s American Quartet, 1st Movement: Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo, violins; Brandon White, viola; Seth MacLeod, cello.
Cape Ann Symphony’s new Concertmaster Scott Moore makes his MU debut as a violinist and a composer in American Classical Music.
“Scott Moore is a fabulous violinist who plays at an incredibly high level in all kinds of styles from classical music to Kentucky Bluegrass. He’s also an unbelievable composer, arranger and all-around musician, say Udagawa, “We are thrilled that he is the new concertmaster of the Cape Ann Symphony, and I’m looking forward to our audiences getting to know him and his music making!”
Scott Moore was born and came of age in rural Kentucky. He began his career as a violinist and composer as a four-year-old in New York. He’s been a soloist with a number of orchestras, played Mozart for the Archduke of Austria, and given an impromptu recital in Carnegie Hall for an audience of ghosts. In 2018, he began performing, from memory, the complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by J. S. Bach.
Mr. Moore has been an organic farmer and a professional driver, learned fiddle tunes from old-timers in the hills of eastern Kentucky, drunk bourbon with rock stars on a steam-powered riverboat, and played music on four continents. An enthusiastic collaborator on stage and in the recording studio, he has forged a reputation as a skillful and inventive musician unbound by genre equally at home as a soloist with the Louisville Orchestra, with bands at festivals, or in the recording studio with Jim James, Tyler Ramsey, Houndmouth, Dawn Landes, Rachel Grimes, and many more.
A composer as well, he has composed six adventurous new scores for the Louisville Ballet, including As You Like It in August 2022. Recent seasons trace an exciting arc, with appearances running the gamut from contemporary classical to rock, jazz, bluegrass, and beyond. These include solo engagements with the Louisville Orchestra and extensive collaboration with LO music director Teddy Abrams. Ongoing work with pianist-composer Rachel Grimes includes several albums and performances like WNYC’s Soundcheck, NPR’s Performance Today, and two stints at Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival. As a longtime member of the 23 String Band, he has performed across the country as a crowd favorite at festivals like Rockygrass, Grey Fox, Forecastle, ROMP, Festival of the Bluegrass, and many more. He has also recorded two as-yet-unreleased albums with his own band, blurring the lines between acoustic and electric back porch folk and vintage rock-n-roll.
This native Kentuckian is now a resident of Gloucester. He and his wife violinist Erica Pisaturo, also a member of CAS, moved to New England in the fall of 2019. Moore is the 2022 Artist-in-Residence at the Annisquam Village Church, where he recently performed the complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by J. S. Bach.
photo credit: June Stratton
Violinist Erica Pisaturo is a native of New England, where she began her violin studies at the age of four. After earning a BA in Music and Art History from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, she escaped the harsh winters to earn an MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.
While in the South, Ms. Pisaturo played violin in a number of professional symphony orchestras, including the Hilton Head Symphony and Savannah Philharmonic, both of which she also served as Orchestra Librarian. She has has toured and traveled the world extensively including studying architecture in Italy, making music on tour in China and Japan, and serendipitously meeting her husband, Scott Moore, CAS’s new Concertmaster. She and her husband moved to Gloucester in 2019 and Ms. Pisaturo now plays with the Cape Ann Symphony and Symphony By The Sea. Though she has left the South, she continues to perform in Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky when life allows. She recorded with Rachel Grimes and performed in the world premiere of The Way Forth (2019) with the Louisville Orchestra. Other recent performances include the Forecastle Festival and the Big Ears Festival.
Cellist Seth MacLeod earned his Bachelor of Music in cello performance from Boston University, where he studied with George Neikrug who dedicated to Seth a cadenza he composed for the Dvořák Cello Concerto. In September Mr. MacLeod joined the Cape Ann Symphony as Principal Cellist. He has performed as a soloist with the Wellesley Symphony, Lincoln-Sudbury Civic and the Metrowest Symphony Orchestras. Mr. MacLeod is also the principal cellist of the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, and he is a member of Symphony By The Sea. He is a versatile chamber musician and string instructor at area schools. .
Violist Brandon White made his CAS debut in March 2022’s Musicians Unleashed Concert, the Virtual Clarinet Quintet Concert. Originally from New York and now residing in the Boston area, Brandon White has enjoyed a varied career as a violist. A classically trained violist, Mr. White has been recognized as an analytical, and forward-thinking musician with a love of all viola music and new compositions. He holds degrees from The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam where he studied under Shelly Tramposh and earned his BM in Viola Performance, as well as The Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he studied under Lila Brown and earned his MM in String Performance. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Jordan Hall, and Sanders Theater and played with the Orchestra of Northern New York, Hamptons Festival Orchestra and the Choral Society of the Hamptons. Mr. White currently performs in the Rivers Symphony Orchestra and is also a member of the contemporary viola duo Waterhouse Row alongside Emilie Catlett. He performs on a Hungarian Viola from 1968 made by Otto Erdesz.
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so this is happening oct 3 at 3pm – classical music classic place CAPE ANN SYMPHONY AT UU CHURCH #GLOUCESTERMA
Check out the progress underway on the tower
10/3 at 3PM TODAY – beautiful program lined up. Buy tickets online or at the door
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Attached is a press release summarizing the strong support given the April “Socks and Undies” community drive conducted by the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church. We thank you for the support YOU gave by helping publicize this successful event.
From: Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church
10 Church Street, Gloucester MA 01930
Telephone: (978) 283-3410; Email: info@GloucesterUU.org
Date: April 30, 2021
MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UU CHURCH’S ‘SOCKS AND UNDERWEAR’ DRIVE
NETS AN OUTPOUIRING OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT
A drive by the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church to provide new socks and underwear to Cape Ann families and individuals far exceeded expectations, collecting 424 pairs of socks and 345 pieces of underwear and more than $550 in donations to buy additional undergarments.
The beneficiaries of the April campaign are children who attend Pathways for Children preschool or after-school programs, and adults who are guests at the Grace Center, a day shelter and counseling program that the downtown Gloucester church hosts.
“We had socks with kittens, socks with camouflage, athletic socks, fuzzy socks and baby socks,” Patricia Cronin, a drive volunteer, said, “I won’t mention unmentionables other than to briefly say that boxers and hipsters ruled the day.”
The church took on the challenge to meet a reality, cited by Pathways and Grace Center, that underwear and socks are often forgotten in clothing gifts to people in need. “It must be an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ thing,” Jerry Ackerman, another volunteer, said. “The result is that while outer clothing may be new, what’s underneath may be literally on its last legs.”
“We were all gratified and thrilled by this outpouring of care,” Rev. Janet Parsons, the church’s minister, said.
Significant contributors included the “We’re All In This Together” Cape Ann movement created to build community spirit during the coronavirus pandemic, and two local businesses, Nelson’s of Gloucester and The John Tarr Store in Rockport. The two shops acted as collection points for donors and offered discounts on purchases made for the drive. Dozens and dozens more children’s socks also were given by Carol Lee’s Cottage, on Bearskin Neck in Rockport.
Cash donations came from as far as Lowell, Lexington, Bedford, Cambridge and Worcester, some apparently made in response to publicity in the Boston Globe as well as Cape Ann’s 1623 Studios, the Good Morning Gloucester blog, and print media.
“Also, a resident of the Gloucester ARC group home on Washington Street donated,” Holly Tanguay, co-president of the Gloucester UU Church board of directors, said.
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UU Church Gloucester, MA
It’s Spring! It’s Time for Fresh
Underwear and Socks !!!
STEPPING FRESH INTO SPRING BEGINS WITH THE BASICS –
FRESH NEW UNDERWEAR AND NEW SOCKS!
WHEN MONEY IS TIGHT IN PANDEMIC TIMES, THESE ESSENTIALS SADLY CAN FALL TO
THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
JOIN WITH THE GLOUCESTER UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH TO HELP PATHWAYS
FOR CHILDREN AND THE GRACE CENTER MAKE SURE EVERYONE CAN FEEL FRESH!
WAYS TO GIVE
SHOP AT TWO LOCAL CLOTHING STORES—NELSON’S, 248 MAIN ST., GLOUCESTER, AND THE
JOHN TARR STORE, 49 MAIN ST., ROCKPORT. BOTH ARE OFFERING SPECIAL PRICES ON
UNDERWEAR AND SOCKS—BUY ONE ITEM, GET A SECOND FOR HALF PRICE! BOTH WILL HAVE
DROP BOXES FOR PACKAGED PURCHASES IN THEIR STORES.
A THIRD DROP BOX WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR OTHER PURCHASES, WEEKDAYS BETWEEN 9 AM
AND NOON, AT THE GLOUCESTER UU CHURCH OFFICE, 10 CHURCH ST., GLOUCESTER, NEAR
THE CORNER OF PINE AND CHURCH STREETS. (RING THE DOORBELL WHEN YOU VISIT)
MAIL A CHECK TO GUUC (GLOUCESTER UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH), 10 CHURCH ST.,
GLOUCESTER MA 01930. WRITE ‘UNDIES AND SOCKS” ON THE MEMO LINE. EVERY CENT WILL
GO TO PATHWAYS AND GRACE CENTER TO GIVE HELP AS NEEDS DEMAND.
OR GIVE BY CREDIT CARD, DIRECTLY TO PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN AT HTTPS://PW4C.ORG,
OR TO THER GRACE CENTER AT HTTPS://LIFERBRIDGENORTHSHORE.ORG/GRACECENTER/.
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after winter storm- white snow bright homes #GloucesterMA
Thank you to all the road crews and good eggs shoveling public ways!
Digging out photos: A few after the winter storm scenes of downtown Gloucester by 9:30AM 12/18/2020. Any surface brick or stone is slick as can be. Evergreen pine trees & wreaths were randomly frosted like the Kancamagus Highway. Yet snow was already gone from the marsh.
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FOR OUR FATHERS collaboration | soprano Ute Gfrerer & mixed media artist Lisa Rosowsky at Gloucester Meetinghouse April 28 co-sponsored by Temple Ahavat Achim
press release for upcoming program:
FOR OUR FATHERS, Sunday, April 28, 2019 7:30pm, at the Gloucester Meetinghouse: acclaimed Austrian soprano Ute Gfrerer, accompanied by pianist William Merrill, and renowned Boston artist Lisa Rosowsky present a deeply moving evening of song and art, based on the legacy of silence of their two fathers during World War II, one an Austrian member of the Nazi Youth Party, and one a French Jew. In a unique collaboration, the two artists present a Holocaust-themed program of music and mixed media artworks, based on memories of their fathers. The event is co-hosted with Temple Ahavat Achim. The Meetinghouse (home of the Unitarian Universalist Church) is located on the green at the corner of Middle and Church Streets (accessible side entrance at 10 Church Street with an elevator). Tickets ($45 preferred, $30 general, $10 students with ID, under 12 free) are available at the door and in-advance with more information at gloucestermeetinghouse.org
About the program from the artist, Lisa Rosowsky:
When we met in 2017, Ute had already developed a repertoire of musical performances incorporating music that had been set to poems by writers caught up in the Holocaust, and for more than a decade I had been creating mixed media works of art around being the daughter of a survivor. We knew we wanted to find a way to weave together our work into an audio-visual program, and it became my task to craft the presentation. We were amazed by how many of her songs matched up thematically with my pieces! Our goal was to move the audience seamlessly between each song and each work of art, setting both into historical context while offering insight into our individual experiences with our fathers. Over the course of a few months, we developed this performance, which we are pleased to share with you.
Benefit event: This event is co-sponsored by Temple Ahavat Achim with support from the Paulson Fund, by the Series Sponsors of the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation, and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Proceeds will be used to benefit the ongoing preservation of the historic (1806) Meetinghouse as well as to support Temple Ahavat Achim’s Rabbi Myron and Eileen Geller Endowment Campaign for the Sylvia Cohen Religious School and Family Learning
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MLK Celebration underway
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TODAY: GMF’s Martin Luther King Day Celebration 2019 is ON and here’s the program!
Update from the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation:
2PM It’s on but use caution!
We regret that Meetinghouse Green is now frozen over solid and is not safe for parking or walking, so allow time to find on-street parking or use one of the lots in the Historic District. The front steps will be clear and sanded but please exercise extra caution when coming up from Church Street. You are also welcome to use the side entrance instead, close to the intersection of Church and Pine Streets, where there is an interior staircase and an elevator.
The 2019 GMF Martin Luther King Day Celebration event is in four segments separated by breaks with refreshments. You are welcome to attend part or all of the Program:
SCHEDULE
- 2:00-2:15 Introduction: ‘Why Are We Here? Sandra Ronan
- 2:15-2:45 ‘Shadowed Lives,’ Effects of Slavery on Cape Ann Stephanie Buck
- 2:45-3:00 Break with Refreshments
- 3:05-3:50 The Honorable Seth Moulton United States Representative, Massachusetts 6th Congressional District
- 3:05-3:50 Alvin Foster and his band Soul Eclectic, music that underpinned Black people’s courage to be happy and celebrate life, love, spirituality and growth in the face of racism
- 3:50-4:00 Break with Refreshments
- 4:00-5:00 Keynote Speaker: Clennon L. King, ‘MLK’S Boston Years’ The award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist Clennon L. King will present a slideshow, focusing on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s movements in Boston and New England, from the fall of 1951 to the spring of 1954, to be followed by Q&A with the audience
- 5:00-5:15 Break with Refreshments
- 5:15-6:00 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech accompanied by a slide show of period and present-day images
- Conclusion Audience invited to join in ringing the Paul Revere Bell for freedom
This free annual civic event is hosted by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation. GMF mugs, caps, totes, shirts, and memberships are available along with refreshments all through the afternoon and your support is greatly appreciated.
Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation
Front stairs open but approach is icy. Approach from side entrance. Many have suggested a temporary winter ice skating rink on this glorious spot but not in this way.
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Organist Peter Krasinski returns for silent horror movie “Waxworks” at the Gloucester Meetinghouse October 21st
from Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation press release:
Sunday matinee, Silent Horror Movie with Organ Accompaniment – Sunday, October 21st, 2018, 3:30pm in the historic 1806 Gloucester Meetinghouse
MAESTRO OF THE PIPE-ORGAN RETURNS
As Halloween approaches, maestro of the pipe-organ and sonic artist Peter Krasinski returns to the Meetinghouse to accompany the scary silent movie ‘Waxworks.’ As in past years, Peter will perform on the sonorous 1893 Hutchings-Fisk organ to the delight of the audience, young and old. A short film, featuring Douglas Fairbanks, called the ‘Electric House’ will open the show.
HIGHLIGHTS
‘Waxworks’ is a 1924 German horror-fantasy film (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) directed by Paul Leni. The plot is about a poet hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other. Its a thrilling horror movie for the whole family to enjoy.
TICKETS
General Admission $20; Students with ID $10, Under 12 Free (no one turned away for lack of funds; limited free tickets) Tickets at the door (cash, check or credit card) and online with more information at www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org
LOCATION
The Meetinghouse, home of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, is located on the green at the corner of Middle & Church Street. Accessible side entrance is at 10 Church Street with an elevator to the Sanctuary level. Parking on the green is allowed.
Good Morning Gloucester 