COSMOS AUG 19 2026 | Gloucester’s Acropolis, Hot Sardines at Rockport Music, Boston Dance Theater @Windhover, and The School of Rock Musical!
Facebook
Website
Instagram
Email

Sandra Cardillo,Boundless Hierarchies 2. Silkscreen collage (8x8 in.)


Making an Impression
Traditional Techniques, Contemporary Vision

August 13 – September 20 , 2026

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street | Gloucester, Massachusetts

COVERING GREATER CAPE ANN'S WORLD OF
ART | SCIENCE | CULTURE

SUBSCRIBE


MUNKHOLM MEDIA LLC
20 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, Massachusetts

A full gallery for Ruth Mordecai's Artist Talk


August 19, 2026 | No. 157 | Cultural Outlook
 
Dear Avids and Avoidants,

Whether eagerly heading into the fall season or hanging onto your beach chair, the Cosmos Never Ceases…

GLOUCESTER’S ACROPOLIS September 11 -13
The imperial district of downtown Gloucester with its cluster of historic edifices, housing major institutions from the past and present such as City Hall and Cape Ann Museum, is the basis for Gloucester’s Acropolis, a program inspired by the centenary of Gloucester novelist Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009), with lectures, tours, and more. Acropolis Schedule

ART DATES
|| Jane Deering Gallery: Tapestry of Memories, opens August 22
|| Cove Gallery: Piece-by-Piece, The Art of Assemblage, opens August 27
|| North Shore Arts Association: Jeff Weaver Solo, closes August 30
|| COSMOS Gallery: Ruth Mordecai Blessings, closes August 30
|| COSMOS Gallery: Landings 3 Visions, opens September 4
|| Cultural Center, Rocky Neck: Making an Impression, through September 20

WINDHOVER GALA AUGUST 25
Windhover - where culture, nature, and Cape Ann cultural history merge - will host their annual Gala on Tuesday, August 25, with Paul Taylor dance solo, Stan Strickland, and the best of local food & drink purveyors. See you under the tent! Windhover Tickets

MUSIC MATES
August 27, Rocky Neck Culture Splash: FOLK ELECTRIC: WAYFARING STRANGER, A Multi-Media Storytelling Installation, with Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo. Two other cool acts to catch, Reese Fulmer & the Carriage House Band on Windhover Stage, August 23. Fulmer Tickets.  And The Hot Sardines, at Rockport Music, by way of Brooklyn roots and “simply phenomenal” press. Sardines Tickets 

Head to Newburyport's Firehouse Center for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock – The Musical, plays, opening August 21. A loving testimony to the transformative power of music. School of Rock Tickets

ON STAGE & ON SCREEN
Gloucester's home-grown story telling franchise Fish Tales will reveal The Mistake on September 15. Mistake Tickets. Boston Dance Theater will preview Four Seasons on the Great Marsh Autumn, on Windhover Stage. Great Marsh Tickets.

The formative history of celebrated chef, bestselling author, and acclaimed television host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, has been traced to a restaurant kitchen in Provincetown, when he was 19 and needed a job.  Rotten Tomatoes rating Tony, 94/95, most critics gushing. Tony Screening Room

SPONSOR THANKS
Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation continues their support of our cultural platform. We gladly feature their superb events, such as Friday’s Music on Meetinghouse Green, always coupled to voluntary charity donations. COSMOS Sponsorship

COSMOS Gallery News
Two more weekends the gallery is aglow with Ruth Mordecai’s Blessings – ancient mythology & modern artistry. Next show LANDINGS 3 VISIONS, and the contemporary paintings of Tom Glover, Vanessa Michalak, and Jan Roy – depicting land, sea, and urban places. 

Finally, we are pleased to learn that our little gallery corner of Gloucester exists within the Acropolis map… 

In a Grecian Mood,

…
Chris Munkholm
Editor
capeanncosmos@gmail.com

Cape Ann COSMOS publishes alternate Wednesdays at 6am.


ART  |  COMMUNITY  |  PERFORMANCE  |  MUSIC  |  FILM
HISTORY  |  LITERATURE  |  SCIENCE  |  REVELS  |  CULTURE SCENE
Astrid Reischwitz, Trapped (2018) at Jane Deering Gallery.
 

Art Exhibitions

 

ASTRID REISCHWITZ | TAPESTRY OF MEMORY

Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester
August 21 – September 20
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 22, 3-5pm
The exhibition Tapestry of Memory features award-winning photographer Astrid Reischwitz, and photos that preserve a fading way of life in the artist’s childhood home in Northern Germany. Most images recall the life and experiences of village women. From the artist — “These works pay homage to the kitchen traditions that have shaped my family’s story across generations. The compositions offer a visual journey through the tastes and textures of traditions inspired by Dutch still-life paintings and the family kitchen table.”  Astrid Reischwitz has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries and received multiple awards. Tapestry of Memory
 

MAKING AN IMPRESSION
Traditional Techniques, Contemporary Vision  

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
Through September 20
An exhibition of over 100 fine art prints by 19 artists from Cape Ann, the Boston area, Maine and New Hampshire whose practices encompass a range of printmaking techniques including woodcut and linoleum block printing, etching, aquatint, collograph, lithograph and screen printing. Through traditional and contemporary approaches, the exhibition explores the creative possibilities of the medium, offering a thoughtfully curated selection that reflects the diversity of printmaking today. Making an Impression.
 

PIECE-BY-PIECE: THE ART OF ASSEMBLAGE, WHERE 1 + 1 = 3

Cove Gallery, Rocky Neck
August 27 – September 20
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 27, 5-8pm
These works by five Rocky Neck members explore assemblage, in its broadest sense. Using materials ranging from wire, corrugated cardboard, reclaimed wood and hardware to toy figures, rocks, and recycled flameworked glass the pieces become, in the hands of the contributing artists, surprising and delightful 3-D works. The artists include David Covert, Brian Murphy, Marion Powers, Judy Robinson-Cox, and Beth Williams. Piece-by-Piece
 

CORITA KENT, HEROES & SHEROES

Heftler Gallery, Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott College
August 24 – November 20
Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
The exhibition, Heroes & Sheroes, is a powerful series of prints created by Corita Kent at a pivotal moment in her career. Produced between 1968 and 1969, following her departure from Immaculate Heart College and the Immaculate Heart of Mary order, the works reflect a shift toward more direct engagement with the social and political issues of the time. Drawing from mass media imagery and bold graphic language, Corita’s work addresses civil rights, nuclear disarmament, and political unrest. The series honors influential figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, and Robert F. Kennedy, capturing the urgency and spirit of a transformative era.
      Included during the exhibition will be a related lecture series and programming. The Center for Belonging will present Ten Rules for Students and Teachers, further highlighting Corita Kent’s enduring influence on art, education, and creative practice. Corita Kent  

Advertisement

Tom Glover, First Hurricane Edge, 2025.

 

Art Exhibitions

 

LANDINGS 3 VISIONS
Tom Glover, Vanessa Michalak & Jan Roy

COSMOS Gallery, Gloucester
September 4 – October 11
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4, 5-7pm
Artists Talk: Friday, September 11, 5pm
From the Renaissance through Impressionism and abstraction, artists have interpreted the landscape. In contemporary painting, the landscape may remain recognizable—or become only the point of departure. LANDINGS 3 VISIONS brings together three accomplished New England artists whose paintings explore the territory between observation and interpretation. Land, sea, forests, rocks, harbors, boats, and the built environment provide subjects, but the artists’ individual ways of seeing—and painting—transform them.
    Tom Glover has spent much of his adult life painting along the New Hampshire and Maine seacoast. Harbors, estuaries, docks, rocks, boats, water, and changing coastal light are the vocabulary he knows intimately. Vanessa Michalak, a Maine native and Gloucester-based artist, approaches the visible world with exuberant color and expressive mark-making. Jan Roy pushes the transformation of place still further. Beginning her artistic career as a silk-screen artist before turning primarily to oil painting, Roy brings a strong sense of graphic structure to landscapes, harbors, architecture, and other observed environments. LANDINGS
 

JEFF WEAVER: A SOLO EXHIBITION

North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester
Through August 30
Critically acclaimed Jeff Weaver's solo show continues at the North Shore Arts Association. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and moved to Gloucester in 1972, where he sketched and painted the waterfront daily. Weaver supported himself through waterfront jobs, boat portrait commissions, and murals. Since committing to fine art in the 1990s, he has focused on depicting Gloucester, operating from a studio/gallery on the waterfront. Jeff Weaver Solo Show See also: Jeff Weaver Gallery | Gloucester, MA, Jeff Weaver: Witness to Gloucester | Cape Ann Cosmos
  

BLESSINGS
Ruth Mordecai | Collages & Paintings

COSMOS Gallery, Gloucester
Through August 30
BLESSINGS Ruth Mordecai | Collages & Paintings reflects Mordecai’s lifelong exploration of spirituality, symbolism, and the human search for peace. She is known for her powerful abstract collages, paintings, and expressive visual language. In Blessings, she draws on Jewish symbols and traditions in a deeply personal response to the recent rise in antisemitism.  Mordecai has taught at Boston University, the deCordova Museum School, and the Harvard University Department of Ceramics. Her artwork is in major public and private collections BLESSINGS  

Advertisement
Amy Allen | Palate & Palette

Journalist Amy Allen interviewed local persona Bing McGilvray, covering his life of artistic adventures and otherwise, along with his lengthy and storied friendship with David Hockney, which has engendered the exhibition soon opening at Manship Artists Residency, Hockney Reproduction(s). To read the engaging interview: Bing McGilvray, writer, digital artist, and curator.

Image Credit: Toni LaSelle, Space Movements, Still Life, 1946, oil on canvas, vintage frame, 24 x 17 3/4 in (61 x 45.1 cm). Photo: Michael O’Brien, courtesy of Inman Gallery and the Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle Foundation.

 

Art & Discourse in the Community

 

Livestream CAM Talk
SUMMERS BY THE SEA: HELEN FRANKENTHALER AND TONI LASELLE

By Alison de Lima Greene
Saturday, August 22, 2026, 2 – 3pm
Summers by the Sea: Helen Frankenthaler and Toni LaSelle examines the paintings of two mid-century artists who first came to Massachusetts as students of Hans Hofmann, and who shared affinities with the work of Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko.  Alison de Lima Greene is the Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she has served on the curatorial staff since 1984. Her exhibitions include retrospectives devoted to Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, and Tamara de Lempicka. CAM Members Free, Non-Members $10. Register here  
 

HOW TEACHING OUTSIDE PRODUCES BETTER STUDENTS

By Author and educator, David Sobel, Professor Emeritus, Antioch University New England
Annisquam Village Hall, 34 Leonard St., Gloucester
August 27, 5:30 – 7pm
David Sobel, a national leader on child development and nature-based learning, will give a presentation on successful programs that use neighborhoods, landscapes, and community resources as living classrooms, with richer educational experiences for students of all ages. Sobel has written ten books and more than 90 articles on children, nature, and education, including Beyond Ecophobia, Place-based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities, and others. This program is part of the ongoing Tree Talks lecture series produced by 400 Trees, a Gloucester-based nonprofit created to engage youth and plant trees. Advance registration required: luma.com/wgn9jsv6 . 400treesma.org
 

FOLK ELECTRIC: WAYFARING STRANGER

A Multi-Media Storytelling Installation
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
August 27, 5 – 7pm
Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo invite you into their immersive world of Folk Electric, where music, film, and visual art converge in a dynamic pop-up installation. The centerpiece is an original art film that accompanies their soon-to-be-released album, Folk Electric: Wayfaring Stranger. The narrative arc of the album and film will be interspersed with live music, echoing the emotional landscape of the recorded media and exploring the fluid connections between past and present, historical and fantastical, timeless and contemporary. This event is a Culture Splash signature event and is free to the public. Folk Electric
Annual Windhover Gala - A Beautiful Evening of
Cape Ann Cultural Heritage
Tuesday, August 25


WINDHOVER SUMMER CELEBRATION GALA

Windhover Performing Arts Center
August 25, 5-9pm

Celebrate and support the magic of Windhover at their Annual Gala! The evening includes: Hors d’oeuvres and three-course meal prepared by Cape Ann chef Melissa Donati, a selection of wines thoughtfully curated and shared by local sommeliers Paige Farrell and Scott Lefler (Porto Vino Wine Imports), performances by jazz musician Stan Strickland and modern dance artist Amanda Stevenson, who danced with the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company from 2013-2019, She will perform Taylor classics, including a solo choreographed by former Paul Taylor Company principal dancer Laura Halzack.  Windhover Gala tickets
 
COSMOS Guild Membership $49/year, benefits include:
The Acropolis
COSMOS Gallery
Art & Collectibles
Membership Events
Art Purchase Discounts
COSMOS Gallery News
Membership Information

Advertisement

Performance

 

FOUR SEASONS ON THE GREAT MARSH: AUTUMN

Boston Dance Theater

Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport
Saturday, August 22, 7pm
The Boston Dance Theater company will present their first public preview of Four Seasons on the Great Marsh: Autumn. This new work explores the ecology, history, and seasonal rhythms of New England’s Great Marsh, narrated through contemporary dance, environmental research, original music, visual art, and community engagement. Conceived and directed by Boston Dance Theater Founder and Director Jessie Jeanne Stinnett, this multi-year interdisciplinary project reflects on harvest, migration, ecological interdependence, decay and transformation, and preparation for winter. The evening also features Delicate Blue, a repertory work by Brazilian choreographer Alessandro Sousa Pereira.
     This Great Marsh dance project is supported in part by the Great Marsh Artists Fellowship and with a creative residency at the Manship Artists Residency, where the artists developed and rehearsed this program. Boston Dance Theater
 

FISH TALES: THE MISTAKE

Gloucester Writers Center Event
Gloucester Stage Venue
September 15, 7:30pm, lobby opens at 6:30 pm
Since its first iteration in 2013, the Gloucester Writers Center’s “Moth”-like storytelling showcase has grown from a cozy evening among friends to one of the city’s most-loved events, featuring storytellers from Gloucester and beyond. Real Stories, Told Live: Eight talented storytellers will reveal their big mistake … and the consequences. Hosted by GWC storyteller-in-residence Kevin Perrin. Tickets will go fast! Get yours today. The Mistake  
 

SCHOOL OF ROCK – THE MUSICAL

The Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport
August 21 – September 6
A legendary musical, because - Rock got no reason, rock got no rhyme… You better get me to school on time!  Soon in Newburyport, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock is a two-hour, two-act show (plus intermission), based on the 2003 hit movie. 
     The story follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn an extra bit of cash by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight–A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. But can he get them to the Battle of the Bands without their parents and the school’s headmistress finding out?
     Lloyd Webber produced the stage musical on Broadway and in the West End, penning 14 new numbers for the show, alongside the original songs from the movie. The Broadway production garnered four Tony nominations, and the West End production won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music, awarded to the three children’s bands who played each night. The School of Rock is a loving testimony to the transformative power of music! School of Rock Tickets.

Advertisement

Hot Sardines

Music

 

THE HOT SARDINES

Rockport Music
August 29, 7:30
Emerging a decade ago from the underground parties of Brooklyn to touring worldwide and recording a string of albums that’s racked up more than 60 million streams, the Hot Sardines’ own “potent and assured” (The New York Times), “simply phenomenal” (The Times, London) brand of reinvigorated classic jazz, landing them at the center of a whirlwind. In 2024, cofounders Elizabeth Bougerol (vocals) and Evan Palazzo (piano) debuted the Sardines’ new project at Carnegie Hall, selling out within hours.  Hot Sardines

 

Music on Meetinghouse Green
WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. FOX?

Gloucester UU Church, Middle St.
August 21, 6pm
Singer/songwriter 3rian King and the musicians of What Time Is It Mr. Fox? deliver an electrifying performance with an evening of smoky cabaret, neo-soul, and acoustic noir. Well known in Boston’s underground cabaret scene, What Time Is It Mr. Fox? has earned a loyal following with frequent performances in New York City and tours across the United States. Their original songs feature rich lyrical imagery that explore love, spirituality, sexuality, and identity. Band members include: 3rian King, voice, piano, and acoustic guitar; Nathan Cohen, violin, trumpet, voice; Dennis Monagle, drums; Renee Dupuis, voice, keys, and melodica; and Joe Cardoza, upright bass. What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?
 

RHIANNON HURST QUARTET

The Bower, 248 Cabot Street, Beverly
Montserrat College of Art
August 26, 6:30pm
Experience a special jazz performance with Rhiannon Hurst performing at The Bower. Hurst is an award-winning jazz vocalist, North Shore native and a National Young Arts Winner. Rhiannon brings her acclaimed vocal talent and rich, soulful sound to the New Monthly Music Series at The Bower! Rhiannon Hurst

Advertisement

Gloucester Meetinghouse Green

Music

 

Music on Meetinghouse Green
JIM ‘N’ TONIC

Gloucester UU Church, Middle Street
August 29, 6pm
The loud and wildly eclectic five-piece band features Jim Coyle, Rikki Razdan, John Cameron, Ken Steiner, John Loud. They are a cool and beloved group on Cape Ann and beyond who love to have a great time interacting with their audience as they crank out some great tunes! Jim 'n' Tonic
 

REESE FULMER & THE CARRIAGE HOUSE BAND

Windhover Outdoor Stage
August 23, 5pm
Born and raised in Gloucester before cutting his teeth as the manager of the iconic Saratoga Springs listening room Caffe Lena, Reese Fulmer was named the 2023 and 2024 Americana Artist of the Year at the Thomas Edison Music Awards.  Reese and his band have become one of the fastest-rising groups in upstate NY.  With a rotating cast of talented players, a broad and dynamic body of work, their shows are always fresh, full of joy, and hard to describe. Think Wilco with hints of Prine and Zappa: “smart, emotionally tuned arrangements and a stage presence that balanced earnestness with unpredictability.
     Fresh off a sold-out performance at Old Sloop Coffeehouse in November, they return to Cape Ann for the first time with the entire ensemble. Fulmer has “ a poet’s sensibility rich with great storytelling and a healthy dose of irony.” (Viv Nesbitt, Art of the Song). Reese Fulmer

Advertisement
A Message from Hermes to COSMOS Readers

Your one-time contribution to this extraordinarily useful digital platform will help keep us all in orbit. I no longer carry clay tablets around, other than my small pocketsize zinc slab and its adapter.

COSMOS is entirely independent journalism, as it should be. Not even Zeus can sway the Editor...
Donation

Tony,  Newburyport Screening Room

 

Film

 

TONY

The Screening Room, Newburyport
See Showtimes
Before Anthony Bourdain became the celebrated chef, bestselling author, and acclaimed television host, he was Tony – an aimless, rebellious 19-year-old searching for direction after losing out on a writing fellowship. When he lands in Provincetown, hoping to chase down a pretty girl, he unexpectedly finds himself inside a restaurant kitchen. Far from the fully realized version of the man we know from his culinary adventures, the young Tony in the film is an angry punk with the confidence of a Michelin-starred chef but the instincts and skills of a toddler holding a knife. But what happens in Provincetown becomes a life-defining experience that shapes the course of his future. Portrayed with warmth and intensity by actor Dominic Sessa, young Tony is a character anyone can connect with, and director Matt Johnson’s film allows us to luxuriate in the people and places the beloved writer cherished best. Tony
 

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

25th Anniversary Screening – Extended Edition

The Cabot, Beverly
Three Parts: 
The Fellowship of the Ring, August 22
The Two Towers, August 29
The Return of the King, September 5
The iconic adaptations of The Lord of the Rings turn 25 this year, to be viewed in their Extended Edition on the big screen at The Cabot.  The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins, who inherits the Ring and steps into legend. A daunting task lies ahead for Frodo when he becomes the Ring-bearer. Lord of the Rings
MODERN ARCHITECTURE FOR JOYFUL LIVING
RUHL | JAHNES Architects loves being part of the Cape Ann arts community, and is so proud to sponsor Cape Ann Cosmos. William Ruhl lives and works in Rockport and he and Sandra Jahnes have been designing award-winning, warm modern houses throughout New England for decades. If you want to renovate or build a new house that not only fits artfully with its site and your unique needs and dreams, but also aspires to being as much art as craft, give us a call! ruhljahnes.com

Advertise in Cape Ann COSMOS

Arts • Science • Culture

Cape Ann COSMOS reaches many thousands of cultural enthusiasts, primarily north of Boston, all passionate about art, culture, ideas, and creativity. Published every other Wednesday, COSMOS connects cultural organizations, artists, and creative businesses with a highly engaged audience.
Place your message in a trusted editorial space—where culture comes first.
capeanncosmos.com
Note to Cultural Organizations and Regional Businesses:  Connect with the COSMOS community of many thousands with your message. For more information: media@capeanncosmos.com

 

 

History & Literature

 

GLOUCESTER’S ACROPOLIS:
DEFINING THE CITY THEN AND NOW

Jonathan Bayliss Society
September 11 – 13
Multiple activities and locations
This special program will explore the downtown neighborhood around Gloucester City Hall which has been the cultural, educational, and civic center of the city since the 1800s. The term “Acropolis” was used by Gloucester novelist Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009) to refer to the cluster of vital institutions above Gloucester Harbor which includes Gloucester City Hall, Sawyer Free Library, Post Office, the Dale Avenue school, and Cape Ann Museum.
     The conference, organized by the Jonathan Bayliss Society in partnership with Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester Writers Center, and Sawyer Free Library, will include diverse talks and tours such as:
  • "Architectural Evolution in Gloucester's Acropolis," an illustrated talk by Robert Booth, a Gloucester-based author, architectural consultant, and historian of maritime culture.
  • Guided Tour of New Deal Murals by art historian and painter Susan Erony
  • Cape Ann Museum: Then, Now, and Tomorrow with CAM’s Director Oliver Barker, Chief Curator Martha Oaks, and former Museum volunteer Deane Hancock French. 
Advance registration is required for all events: Acropolis Schedule
 

BAYLISS BIRTHDAY DINNER WITH SPECIAL GUEST KEN RIAF

Azorean Restaurant, advanced registration required.
Saturday, September 12, 5:30 pm
A celebratory dinner will honor the centenary birth of Gloucester writer Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009). During his 50 years in Gloucester, Bayliss wrote his massive four-volume fiction series Gloucesterman. He chose to live on Washington Street near the Gloucester train station because rail was his favorite form of travel. The dinner will be held at the Azorean Restaurant, just steps from the train platform. After dinner, Gloucester writer Ken Riaf will describe a 2002 meeting that he and filmmaker Henry Ferrini had with Bayliss, relating to poet Charles Olson. Open to all; advance registration required. Dinner Reservations


AN EVENING WITH PETER BALAKIAN

Rocky Neck Cultural Center
August 22, 7 pm
Enjoy an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian whose work “bears witness to the enduring wounds of history while speaking urgently to the world we inhabit today”. Balakian is the author of 9 books of poetry including Ozone Journal which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other acclaimed works include the memoir Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize; The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, a New York Times Notable Book, New York Times bestseller, and winner of the Raphael Lemkin Prize. Peter Balakian
 

LITERARY GLOUCESTER, A WALKING TOUR

Sponsored by The Gloucester Writers Center
2026 Dates: September 12, 19 & 26 | 10 – 12 Noon
The tour guide, noted raconteur Phil Storey, will provide an exploration of Gloucester’s vast literary landscape. Learn fascinating factoids such as howT.S. Eliot bought a composition notebook at Proctor Brothers downtown, in which he wrote his early poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."  Additional authors on the tour include H.P. Lovecraft, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Longfellow, Judith Sargent Murray, Kipling, Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini, and many others on this literary adventure  Free, gratuities appreciated. Literary Gloucester Walking Tour
COSMOS Guild Membership $49/year, benefits include:
The Acropolis
COSMOS Gallery
Art & Collectibles
Membership Events
Art Purchase Discounts
COSMOS Gallery News
Membership Information

The Great Elephant Migration

IN BOSTON THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13

The Great Elephant Migration is a global fundraising project and collaboration between artisans, artists, and institutions – to amplify knowledge and inspire humanity to share space. Migratory animals make spectacular journeys across land, rivers, skies, and oceans. This herd will be moving on after September 13.
To learn more:
 thegreatelephantmigration.org.
 

Science

 

ECOC Lecture
SAVING BIRDS TO SAVE THE PLANET

Presentation by Author & Researcher Scott Weidensaul
Morse Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum
September 4, 7:45 – 9pm
Surprisingly, from gnatcatchers and waterfowl to select groups of forest songbirds, some bird populations are soaring. In this talk based on his newest book The Return of the Oystercatcher: Saving Birds to Save the Planet, Scott Weidensaul will recount successful initiatives in some of the most unlikely places: a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific, the vast boreal forest that spans Canada, a hereditary estate in England, and a watery wilderness at the edge of a Ukrainian war zone. 
     A book signing for The Return of the Oystercatcher (April 2026) and Boreal Wilderland (August 2026) follows the lecture. He is the author of nearly 30 books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Living on the Wind and his New York Times bestseller A World on the Wing. Weidensaul is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and an active field researcher.
     This event is co-hosted by the Essex County Ornithological Club and made possible by a gift from Tim and Joanie Ingraham in memory of PEM Trustee Emeritus Dorothy (Dotty) Addams Brown. Saving Birds
COSMOS Donation
Windhover founder Ina Hahn (center), with two dancer friends, Windhover archives.


Revels

 

WINDHOVER SUMMER CELEBRATION GALA

Windhover Center for the Performing Arts
August 25, 5-9pm
Celebrate and support the magic of Windhover at their Annual Gala! The evening includes: Hors d’oeuvres and three-course meal prepared by Cape Ann chef Melissa Donati, A selection of wines thoughtfully curated and shared by local sommeliers Paige Farrell and Scott Lefler (Porto Vino Wine Imports), performances by jazz musician Stan Strickland and modern dance artist Amanda Stevenson, who danced with the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company from 2013-2019, She will perform Taylor classics, including a solo choreographed by former Paul Taylor Company principal dancer Laura Halzack.  Windhover Gala tickets
Thank you to the sponsors of Cape Ann COSMOS Art, Science & Entertainment Media.  And their indirect support of the Greater Cape Ann Cultural Community.
Become a COSMOS Sponsor and supporter of the Greater Cape Ann Cultural Community. Find out more.

Culture Scene & Seen...
Photos of recent events around the North Shore of Boston.
August 7, 2026, North Shore Artists Association, A large crowd converged on the waterside gallery to enjoy the artwork of Jeff Weaver, which seems to flow out of the immediate sea and landscape. Understandable, sine the 1990s Weaver has focused on depicting Gloucester and operates a studio/gallery on the waterfront Exhibition through August 30. Jeff Weaver Solo Show
See also: Jeff Weaver Gallery | Gloucester, MA, Jeff Weaver: Witness to Gloucester | Cape Ann Cosmos

Image: Artist Juni Van Dyke with Jeff.
Clockwise upper left: Robert, Emily, and Haley Wolfe enjoying the Weaver celebration; partial image of a drawing; Jeff had a good time, with many friends and collectors at the party; Catherine and Bruce Fieldman, photographer and collector, 
August 16, 2026 Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, opening reception for Making an Impression, showing the works of 19 artists working in various printmaking techniques. Attending: Mags Harries, unidentified participating artist, and Ann Ledy. Exhibition through September 20. Making an Impression
Sartorial prints included in this culture scene coverage as could not be ignored! Lower right: Christine Beneman's Urban Salvage (detail); and lower left, artist Constance Vallis stayed with the black T shirt, to not upstage her laser etched artwork. She is soon heading off to teach a workshop in Switzerland...
Clockwise upper left: Red cross strap nice accent against the black & white print; Greg Gibson (R) with a particularly striking print chats with guest; summer print possibly on voile; and Laura Tonelli and Anne Marie Crotty, Exhibition Committee and on theme.
Clockwise upper left: Artist Barbara Grad, of Wayland, www.barbaragrad.com; summer tropical print detail, see Tonelli; total print composition, wall to human, head to toe, front to back; and painterly like printing.  
COSMOS No. 157
Finis

COSMOS Membership

Media & Gallery Benefits

Enroll in a COSMOS Membership and enrich your cultural life, with events, COSMOS Gallery News subscription,  gallery purchase discounts for art and retail vintage catalogues & books. 
Membership plans start at $29 a year

To learn more: COSMOS Membership Plans
COSMOS Social Media 

For those culture enthusiasts who seek more COSMOS between the biweekly newsletter issues, follow us on Cape Ann COSMOS Facebook page, where we post frequently. While the content is tangential to the newsletter listings, it is often expansive and varied,  Cape Ann COSMOS Facebook. 

Image: Three Jeff Weaver fans, Jackie, Kristine and JoAnne, buttoned up  and enjoying  the NSAA opening night.

 
NOTE TO ORGANIZATIONS
 
To submit cultural events, news, openings or other related topics for COSMOS consideration: capeanncosmos@gmail.com. Newsletter content is selected for editorial criteria, COSMOS readers' interests, conformity to our select categories, and regional boundaries.
The Cape Ann COSMOS Vision celebrates and honors our regional community of artists, writers, scientists, dancers, filmmakers, aficionados, newcomers, theaters, galleries, museums, and patrons.  Their contribution to life on Cape Ann creates the second wonderful source of beauty in this spectacular region of the world. 

As a digital platform, the COSMOS website, newsletter, and social media publishes content  for the Nine Muses:  Art, Dance, Film, History, Literature, Music, Revels, Science, Theater
 
Contributors
Christiane Munkholm, Publisher & Editor in Chief
Meredith Anderson, Director of Design & Technology
Paul Erickson, Science Editor
Catherine M. King, Copy Editor
Bing McGilvray, Feature Writer & Illustrator 
Jerry Ackerman, Advisor
Joy Buell, Correspondent

Publisher
Munkholm Media LLC
Copyright © 2019-2026, Munkholm Media LLC.  
Cape Ann COSMOS is a Trademark of Munkholm Media LLC. 
All rights reserved.

Mailing address: PO Box 1447, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944
Office: 20 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
www.capeanncosmos.com

Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.
Instagram
Facebook
www.capeanncosmos.com
Email
NOTE TO READERS
WE DOUBLE CHECK OUR EVENT LISTING DETAILS
BUT HAVE MISSED DATES AND CHANGES.  TRUST, BUT PLEASE VERIFY.

To ensure COSMOS hits your inbox regularly, please follow these steps for a seamless, direct-to-inbox experience:

  • If you use Gmail, move COSMOS e-mails to your primary inbox.
  • If you use Apple Mail, add COSMOS to your V.I.P. list.
  • if you use Outlook, add COSMOS to your favorites.
  • Add  COSMOS to your address book:  office@capeanncosmos.com 
  • If you use another e-mail client, please use a combination of the above steps.