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| seARTS Member News - Veronica Morgan |
SHELTER Book Art Exhibit.....................................................Curated by: Veronica Morgan
My attraction to the subject of shelter- home, housing, personal space, safe haven- originates with a life-long involvement in the built environment; first, as an institutional planner in Boston architectural firms, and later as a developer working in historic restoration. Each time I have renovated another home for myself (and there have been many), I have realized anew how fortunate I am to enjoy the privilege and pleasure of “homemaking”. At the same time, the building experience is a poignant reminder of the vast segment of humanity who survives day to day without housing. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, “Every year 600,000 families with 1.35 million children experience homelessness in the US.”
One of my favorite books is Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space. “The house shelters dreaming” is perhaps his most oft-quoted observation. How do you dream if you have no shelter? In conceiving this exhibit, I hoped to call attention to the subject of homelessness and, through the sale of book works, support a housing charity chosen by the director at each exhibiting venue.
Lasell College web site: http://www.lasell.edu
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| seARTS Member News - Rockport Chamber Music Festival - Pencil in your calendar now. |
CONCERT
Alcyon Chamber Ensemble
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
Thursday, May 8 ~ 7:00 PM
Rockport Art Association
12 Main Street
Rockport MA 01966
Admission: FREE
Rockport Chamber Music Festival endeavors to enrich the concert-going experience of its audience, with lectures and other educational programs throughout the year, with special emphasis on Twentieth and 21st Century music. Having begun in the primary school, RCMF develops and presents educational programs across the grade levels in schools on Cape Ann. Master classes and coachings allow pre-professional and amateur players to benefit from superb teachers who perform at the Festival.
Vist our web site for season line up: www.rcmf.org
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| seARTS Member News -MBFP and Gloucester Stage Company '08 Film Series |
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This series of independent films serves to promote the 2008 Boston North Shore Film Festival and to bring the kinds of alternative programming (and sometimes the actual filmmakers) that filmgoers on the North Shore do not have easy access to.
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Gloucester Stage Company
267 East Main Street
Gloucester * (978) 281-4433
*Contact: Robert Newton @ (508) 344-6508
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The Boston North Shore Film Festival's 2008 Earth Day Film Series
Film: THE UNFORESEEN
Thursday, April 17 @ 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00, $6.00 seniors (60+) and students, available at theatre box office
- An ambitious west Texas farm boy with grandiose plans tires of living at the mercy of nature and sets out to find a life with more control. He heads to Austin where he becomes a real estate developer and skillfully capitalizes on the growth of this 1970s boomtown. At the peak of his powers, he transforms 4,000 acres of pristine Hill Country into one of the state’s largest and fastest selling subdivisions. When the development threatens a local treasure, a fragile limestone aquifer and a naturally spring-fed swimming hole, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see in miniature a struggle that today plays out in communities across the country. Featuring interviews with Robert Redford, Willie Nelson, the iconic Texas Governor Ann Richards, environmentalist Wendell Berry and many others, The Unforeseen is a powerful meditation on the American Dream – on the destruction of the natural world as it falls victim to the cannibalizing forces of unchecked development. It is an intricate tale of personal hopes, victories and failures; and of debates over land, water and the public good.
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The Boston North Shore Film Festival's
2008 Earth Day Film Series
Film: SHARKWATER
Friday, April 18 @ 7:30pm
Cost: FREE! (as a sort of "Welcome April Vacation" event)
- For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
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Film: KING CORN
Saturday, April 19 @ 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00, $6.00 seniors (60+) and students, available at theatre box office
- Almost everything Americans eat contains corn: high fructose corn syrup, corn-fed meat, and corn-based processed foods are the staples of the modern diet. Ready for an adventure and alarmed by signs of their generation’s bulging waistlines, college friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis know where to go to investigate. Eighty years ago, Ian and Curt’s great-grandfathers lived just a few miles apart, in the same rural county in northern Iowa. Now their great-grandsons are returning with a mission: they will plant an acre of corn, follow their harvest into the world, and attempt to understand what they — and all of us — are really made of.
[MOVIE WEBSITE] http://www.kingcorn.net/
[Documentary, 88 minutes]
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Film: RADIANT CITY
Sunday, April 20 @ 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00, $6.00 seniors (60+) and students, available at theatre box office
- Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Welcome to Radiant City, an entertaining and startling new film on 21st century suburbanites.
[MOVIE WEBSITE] http://www.radiantcitymovie.com/
[Documentary/Comedy, 93 minutes]
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| seARTS Member News - Greg Gibson |
 April 17, 2008 7 p.m.
Discussion and signing at the Harvard Coop
1400 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA
617 499 2000
Reviews
How Diane Arbus Got Her Freak On.
By Malcolm Jones. Newsweek Web Exclusive. March 27, 2008
HUBERT'S FREAKS and it's the story of Bob Langmuir, a gifted but troubled antiquarian book dealer whose headlong pursuit of the archive of a Times Square freak show leads him to the discovery of a trove of hitherto unknown photographs by the great American photographer Diane Arbus. Also in the archive are the notes and dream journals of Charlie Lucas, an African-American performance artist who ran the freak show (it was call ed Hubert's Museum) in the 1950s and 60s. The discovery so excites Bob that he commences an affair with Arbus, and a soul-communion with Lucas, even though both had been dead for decades. When he is released from the Behavioral Health Evaluation Unit he resolves to redeem himself and his discovery by taking it into New York's high-end art world. What follows is both a spiritual journey and a fresh look at the business of art.
HUBERT'S FREAKS, published by Harcourt at $24, is available in book stores and online - from Amazon, and all the usual internet outlets. Signed or inscribed copies can be purchased for $30 postpaid from me at tenpound@shore.net
Our website - hubertsfreaks.com - features video, interviews, photographs of freaks and other characters not seen in the book, reviews, events, my "freakspeak" blog, and a streaming audio of Charlie Lucas 1965 "Grind Tape" a real Times Square pitchman's spiel, as he tries to drawn customers into Hubert's Museum.
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| seARTS Member News - Eagle & Dove Ministries at Pleasant Street Tea Company |
Judah’s Roar Band
will be performing live at
the Pleasant Street Tea Co.
on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 6:30 pm.
Come and join us, enjoy our music while you enjoy
your favorite drink.
Location: Pleasant Street Tea Co.,
7 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA.
For more information contact:
Donna Milham – Sandoli or Carmela Real at
978-283-9111
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| seARTS Member News - Michael O'Leary |
 Celtic Music Session with Michael O'Leary & Friends - Sundays, April 20, May 4 & 18, 5-8pm
Come join Michael O'Leary and friends for their traditional Celtic music session upstairs at The Landing at 7 Central in Manchester. In the style of an Irish house or pub 'seissiun', this is an acoustic session of mostly traditional songs and tunes from the Celtic countries and Cape Breton. The Landing Restaurant, 7 Central St., Manchester, 978.526.7494, www.thelandingrestaurant.com/atsevencentral27.html
SoulSong
Explore another side of your creative self at SoulSong, a relaxing yet energizing class led by singer and song-leader Michael O'Leary. Rediscover how singing can be about play, spontaneous creation and self-discovery. No prior singing experience required--If you can talk you can sing! New 7-week sessions start Thursday, May 1, 7-9pm and Friday, May 2, 9-11am, 222 Arts & Wellness Center. 978.283.0495 or michael.222center@verizon.net.
Spaces to sublet/share and rent at the 222 Arts & Wellness Center. To sublet/share: 250 sq. ft. room suitable for private sessions, small classes and workshops. To rent: 400 sq. ft. room suitable for larger classes and workshops. Contact Michael at 978.283.0495 or michael.222center@verizon.net.
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| seARTS Member News - Gloucester Stage Company |
Gloucester Stage Company!
Join us at the Elks Club (101 Atlantic Road, Gloucester)
Hors d'oeuvres by Duckworth Beach Gourmet
Silent & Live Auctions
Raffle
$50 per person
Cash bar
Please come support this Gloucester institution as we kick-off the new year which will include:
Plays for the 2008 Summer Season
New Works Reading Series
Youth Acting Workshops
Student Holiday performance for the community
http://www.gloucesterstage.org
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| seARTS Member News - WELCOME HOME - Barbara and Al Boudreau! |
JAZZ CONCERT at the
PRESSROOM in PORTSMOUTH NH
April 20 at 6 pm
Barbara and Al Boudreau
Gloucester, MA 01930
TEL: 978-283-8797
Email: boudreaujazz@verizon.net
www.boudreaujazz.com
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| seARTS Member News - North Shore Health Project -Call to Photographers |
Calling All Photographers
 The North Shore Health Project is looking for photographers to contribute to its 2009 calendar, featuring photographs of Cape Ann, as part of its 20th anniversary. We are interested in photographs of the following locations/images—Man at the Wheel, City Hall in Gloucester, Rocky Neck, Paint Factory, Motif No. 1 in Rockport, fishing boats, house on the marsh in Essex, Good Harbor Beach, Gazebo at Tuck’s Point in Manchester, Manchester Harbor, Fisherman’s Wife Memorial, Beauport, Ellery House, Eastern Point Light, Hammond Castle, Hog Island and marsh in Essex, and scenes from Rockport, Gloucester, Manchester, and Essex. If you are interested in contributing your work, send a print to Susan Oleksiw, NSHP, 67 Middle Street, Gloucester, MA 01930. Or, you may email (one attachment per email, please) to larcomrevu@earthlink.net Photographs should be received by April 25, 2008. For more information on preferred images and acknowledgments, call Susan (978-283-0101).
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| seARTS Member News - Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco |
Wenham Museum Spring Artisan Showcase
Cape Ann Designs to present the Spring Collection at:
Friday - April 25 Preview Party,3-8
Saturday-Sunday, April 25-27, 10-4
From upscale to trendy to casual and fun, gift choices from more than 30 artisans for upcoming weddings, showers, graduations, Mother's and Father's Day. The best artisans on Boston's North Shore!
www.capeanndesigns.com
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| seARTS Member News - Karen Ristuben |
A special night of jazz at
Franklin Cape Ann in Gloucester
Join us in for our CD Release Party (!!) upstairs at Franklin Cape Ann, Sunday April 27, from 6-9 pm.
www.karenristubenmusic.com
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| seARTS Member News - Sawyer Free Library |
Gloucester Lyceum & Saywer Free Library
Global Justice for a Local Impact
The International JUDGE
Speaker: LEIGH SWIGART, Director of Programs in International Justice and Society at Brandeis University.
Thursday May 8th at 7pm ~ Main Floor of the library
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| seARTS Member News - Paul Cary Goldberg |
Recent Reflections: New Photographs by Paul Cary Goldberg
Pucker Gallery • 171 Newbury Street • Boston, MA
617-267-9473
Exhibition Dates:
10 May to 8 June 2008
Opening Reception 10 May 2008, 3:00 to 6:00 pm
http://puckergallery.com/GoldberCatalogue2.pdf
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| seARTS Member News - Pleasant Street Tea Company and Ann O'Donnell |
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| seARTS Member News - Kathleen Valentine |
Novelist, book promoter and intrepid blogger Kathleen Valentine will be featured
at the April Know Your Neighbor at the Sawyer Free Library
in Gloucester on April 28, 2008.
Her novel The Old Mermaid's Tale has received praise both for its
literary quality and its preservation of a unique time in American history,
the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway to international commerce in 1959.
Read reviews and purchase the book on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Mermaids-Tale-Kathleen-Valentine/dp/product-description/0978594061
or visit the book's web site www.oldmermaidinn.com .
More recently her blog, Parlez-Moi Blog http://www.parlezmoiblog.com was instrumental
in the exposé of the Misha Defonseca literary hoax, widely acknowledged
as the biggest literary Holocaust hoax in history.
Valentine will talk about the writing of her novel and short stories and how she is
using the internet to promote them including the online video
http://www.valentine-design.com/MermaidInn/ . She will also read from
her forthcoming novel, Each Angel Burns and talk about how she and two other bloggers
uncovered the Misha Defonseca hoax.
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| seARTS Member News - North Shore Art Associations |
The North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester
announces their 2008 Workshop Schedule is now online.
 Located on beautiful Smith's Cove in Gloucester Harbor, the association offers workshops throughout the season. Paint indoors in the newly created downstairs studio, easily accessible from the parking lot. Or paint outside on the water's edge with views of the skyline, the working waterfront, Rocky Neck Art Colony, and Gloucester Marine Railways.
Visit www.NorthShoreArtsAssoc.org and click on the Workshops button.
Sixteen workshops are currently scheduled. Reserve your space now.
Also check the Calendar for the list of workshops for children and teens.
North Shore Arts Association
11 Pirate's Lane • Gloucester, Massachusetts
arts@nsarts.org • arts@northshoreartsassoc.org
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| seARTS Member News - Rockport Art Association |
Rockport Art Association presents: Cape Ann Photo Safari with Instructor and Fine Art Photographer: JUDITH MONTEFERRANTE. www.jmonteferrante.com . May 30 - June 1, 2008
This 3 Day Workshop will include orientation to Cape Ann and photo tips encompassing workflow, lighting and visual design elements. We will be shooting in the delicate early morning light through the late morning, and again in the afternoon until the last afterglow following sunset has faded. We will shoot the rugged, craggy coastline with its multiple covers and inlets, picturesque fishing boats, lobster shacks, lighthouses, historic building and granite piers.
For further information: www.rockportartassn.org rockportart@verizon.net (978) 546-6604
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| seARTS Member News - Rocky Neck Art Colony |
 Galleries still available for the season on Madfish Wharf; short term rentals available at the Avery-Mann Gallery. Send an e-mail to John Mullen, mullenjd@gmail.com if you want to have a look at any of the spaces. A few are pictured on www.rockyneckartcolony.org
The Bryan Gallery is accepting new members. Please contact Susan Hershey, pigeonhill@gmail.com, for more information.
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Cultural Economic Development supporting Cape Ann's Creative Economy.
available at the Avery-Mann Gallery. Send an e-mail to John Mullen,
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