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Fish Tales: Moms

Gloucester Stage Company 267 E Main St, Gloucester, MA, United States

Join us for the mother of all Fish Tales: MOMS! Tickets now on sale!   Celebrate, remember, laugh, and more at our storytelling showcase, where local voices fill Gloucester Stage with true Mom stories, told live. Fish Tales. True stories, told live. Since its first iteration in 2013 to today, the Gloucester Writers Center’s “Moth”-like… Continue reading Fish Tales: Moms

Cape Ann Symphony Presents: The Colors of Music Concert

The Cape Ann Symphony Presents: The Colors of Music Concert Presenting the joyous, fun filled music of Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Haydn's delightful "Clock" Symphony. We conclude with Brahms' incredibly powerful, yet lyrical Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring the incredible pianist Michael Lewin. If this doesn't bring everyone out of their… Continue reading Cape Ann Symphony Presents: The Colors of Music Concert

Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Leslie Bartlett

Hammond Castle Museum 80 Hesperus Ave, Gloucester, MA, United States

Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Leslie Bartlett   Mr. Barlett will present artifacts unearthed from cellars in the historic Dogtown region of Gloucester and Rockport revealing much of what colonial life was like on Cape Ann. The Dogtown artifact collection spans from the 1920s through to 2023.… Continue reading Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Leslie Bartlett

$10

Colonel Samuel Tappan and the Navajo Treaty 155th Commemoration

Cape Ann Museum - Both Locations

Colonel Samuel Tappan and the Navajo Treaty 155th Commemoration CAMTalks, Community Programs, Music and Performance with the Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers  Buy Tickets 11:00 am presentation in the CAM Auditorium, 27 Pleasant St, Gloucester MA  1:30 pm performance at CAM Green, 13 Poplar St, Gloucester MA  Registration required for all attendees. Free for members, $20 for non-members  This May, the… Continue reading Colonel Samuel Tappan and the Navajo Treaty 155th Commemoration

Ribbon Cutting & Open House

Gloucester 400+ Headquarters 123 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

Please join us for an Open House and Ribbon Cutting on Friday, May 19, from 5 - 7pm at 123 Main Street. See our newly redecorated Visitor's Center and meet the Gloucester 400+ team. Special thanks to the generosity of Cape Ann Savings Bank, for donating our office space. Stop by to say hello and… Continue reading Ribbon Cutting & Open House

Dogtown Common Theatre Production

Windhover Performing Arts 257R Granite Street, Rockport, MA, United States

BUY YOUR TICKET HERE! Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye, adapted and directed by Peter Littlefield at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport, Ma Percy MacKaye’s 1922 poem, Dogtown Common, is a beloved document of Gloucester lore. It tells the story of two legendary figures, Tammy Younger and her niece Judy Rhines, shunned for… Continue reading Dogtown Common Theatre Production

Dogtown Common Theatre Production

Windhover Performing Arts 257R Granite Street, Rockport, MA, United States

BUY YOUR TICKET HERE!     Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye, adapted and directed by Peter Littlefield at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport, Ma Percy MacKaye’s 1922 poem, Dogtown Common, is a beloved document of Gloucester lore. It tells the story of two legendary figures, Tammy Younger and her niece Judy Rhines,… Continue reading Dogtown Common Theatre Production

Souls of the Sea

Maritime Gloucester 23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester, MA, United States

NOW ON SUNDAY, MAY 21!!   UPDATE: DUE TO WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY ONE DAY from the original date AND WILL TAKE PLACE SAME TIME, SAME LOCATION ON SUNDAY MAY 21   Join us for this FREE concert on the wharf of Maritime Gloucester featuring band members: Allan Estes, Sal Baglio, Matt Levinworth,… Continue reading Souls of the Sea

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Images from the James Webb Telescope

Gloucester Meetinghouse 10 Church Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

Dana Hersey Narrating Images from the James Webb Telescope with Organ Improvisations by Peter Krasinski. More information coming soon!

Gloucester and the War of 1898

Cape Ann Museum - Downtown Campus 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

Library Discussion GLOUCESTER AND THE WAR OF 1898 Mrs. Brooks's Monument Explained with Wayne Soini   In honor of Gloucester’s 400+ Anniversary, local historian Wayne Soini will present Gloucester's Company G Volunteers and the U.S.S. Gloucester in the War of 1898 at the Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives on Tuesday, May 23 at 11:00 am. Significantly, 2023 also… Continue reading Gloucester and the War of 1898

From Fitz Henry Lane to the Future: a Brief History of the Fine Arts in Gloucester – James A. Craig

Hammond Castle Museum 80 Hesperus Ave, Gloucester, MA, United States

Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum From Fitz Henry Lane to the Future: a Brief History of the Fine Arts in Gloucester – James A. Craig   Back when he was serving as the Associate Curator for the Permanent Collection at the Cape Ann Historical Association (today’s Cape Ann Museum) award-winning curator and author… Continue reading From Fitz Henry Lane to the Future: a Brief History of the Fine Arts in Gloucester – James A. Craig

$10

Literary Gloucester; A Walking Tour

Sawyer Free Library - Temporary Location 21 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

      RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   Sponsored by the 400th+ Literary Committee Gloucester has been home to great writers since at least the early nineteenth century when Judith Sargent Murray penned her feminist poems. T.S. Eliot, Nobel Prize winner, spent nearly every summer of his boyhood in Gloucester and themes of the sea… Continue reading Literary Gloucester; A Walking Tour

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