Playing in the Garden...

 

Join the fun at the Annisquam Herb Farm, Sunday, June 29 noon to 4:00.

 

 

There will be forty plants in the gardens with one of these markers waiting for you to identify them. Walk the paths by the vegetable beds, the flower patch with cultivated and wild, the raspberries, the peaches and more. 

Hope to see you there :) Sign up at: https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/item/buynow.action?id=343690797

Annisquam Village Church Online Auction . . .

The Annisquam Village Church Online Auction 2025 is open 

and will run to June 29, 2025, 

with proceeds going to support the mission of the church including our outreach programs that support the Open Door, The Grace Center and Action Inc.

Auction items range from vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise.

To browse all the items, click here: https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/item/browse.action?auctionId=341801780

ANNISQUAM ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW 2013

October 12 and 13, 2013
10a - 5p
Annisquam Village Hall
34 Leonard Street
Gloucester MA 01930-1322
Admission FREE!

The Annisquam Arts and Crafts Show  - now in its 29th year - promises to be one of the most exciting yet.  It will feature a greatly expanded collection of arts and crafts - much of it created especially for this show.  Over 40 different artists will be represented – with work that ranges from landscapes, portraits and abstract watercolors to painted furniture, ceramics, jewelry, knitwear and printed silks.

One of the highlights will be an oil painting entitled Crane Beach by the distinguished artist Dorothy Arnold.  Generously donated by her family, it will be sold by silent auction during the course of the show.

Proceeds from the show will benefit the Annisquam Village Church.

Dixieland Jazz Worship Service

Sunday, July 21 at 10:00 a.m. 

Annisquam Village Church

820 Washington St. Gloucester MA 01930

for this spirit-filled, annual service featuring the "Clam Bake Five +1".

AVC Celebrates THE SWAMI WHO BROUGHT YOGA to the WEST

1893 Swami Vivekananda Brings Modern-Day Pilgrims to Annisquam

Saffron robes and languages ranging from French to Bengali make annual appearances at the Annisquam Village Church in Gloucester. Modern-day Hindu pilgrims visit the historic Village Church to pay homage and walk in the steps of Swami Vivekananda, the first Hindu monk in America. Vivekananda spoke from the Church's pulpit in 1893, just before he made history at the first meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago (an adjunct event to the Columbian Exposition) as representative of Hinduism.  It is said that on this sojourn, the 30-year-old monk brought Yoga to the West.

Eloquent and, at the time, exotic, Vivekananda mesmerized his audiences both here and in Chicago, winning new respect for and interest in the religions of the East. He established the Vedanta Societies in America to spread his message of harmony of religions and the inherent divinity of the soul. Vivekananda remained in Gloucester for several weeks, first as a guest of John Henry Wright, a Greek professor at Harvard who helped make the arrangements for his Parliament of Religions appearance. On a later visit, he stayed at the Annisquam residence of Alpheus Hyatt, whose marine biology station on Lobster Cove was the first iteration of the present-day Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Hyatt was the father of Gloucester's renowned sculptor, Anna Hyatt (later Huntington), who would have been 17 at the time of the Swami's visit.  More than 100 years later, devotees of this visionary Hindu man make annual pilgrimages to the Village Church, to touch the stone doorstep and to meditate in the serene space where their leader spoke.

For the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Vivekananda's birth, the Vedanta Societies of Boston and Providence will join with the Annisquam Village Church in an Interfaith Service July 28 at 4:30 pm.  The service will include brief addresses by Swami Yogatmananda of Providence (Hindu Chaplain at Brown University and UMass Dartmouth), and Swami Tyagananda of Boston (Hindu Chaplain at Harvard University and MIT), and the Rev. Deirdre Greenwood White, Pastor of the Annisquam Village Church. Music from both traditions will include preludes of sitar and tabla.  The children of the Village Church will perform a skit portraying the arrival of Swami Vivekananda in Annisquam. A simple Indian meal will follow the service and will include a partial screening of a new documentary about Vivekananda's sojourn in America.

The public is cordially invited to attend the service. Reservations are required for the supper.  To learn more about this historic event, please visit  www.annisquamvillagechurch.org.

WHAT:  Historic Interfaith Celebration: Vedanta Societies and the Annisquam Village Church
WHERE: Annisquam Village Church, 820 Washington Street, Gloucester 
WHEN:  July 28, 2013 4:30 PM
CONTACT: www.annisquamvillagechurch.org/ or
978.281-0376 or email avchurch820@gmail.com

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PORTUGUESE ‘FADISTA’ COMES TO ANNISQUAM

The historic Annisquam Village Church presents Fado singer Ana Vinagre and her ensemble in an evening of Portuguese Fado music, Saturday, July 23, at 7:30 A traditional folk ensemble accompanies Vinagre on these folk “Songs of Fate” full of passion, pathos, and humor. Viriato Ferriera plays viola, Jose Silva is on Portuguese guitarra, and Peter Pimental on bass.

Ana Vinagre was born in the small fishing village of Figueira Da Foz, Portugal. Following in the footsteps of her sister, mother, and grandmother, she began singing fado professionally at the age of 13 as a member of her local folk dance group, Cantarinhas de Buarcos. Vinagre toured extensively with this group throughout Europe, until immigrating to the United States with her husband and singing partner, Jose, in 1972. Today, she is one of the area's best known and most respected fadistas. Vinagre performs regularly in the Portuguese community for various community and private events, as well as at festivals and other events for a wider audience. She has appeared at the 2002 National Folk Festival, the Northwest Folklife Festival in 2003 and 2004, and a number of times in the Lowell Folk Festival. In 2005 she won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in the Traditional Arts, supporting her continuning efforts to promote Portuguese music and culture.

A tradition dating back hundreds of years, fado singing is "the soul of the Portuguese people", as described by Vinagre. The emotional core of the fado is saudade, an indefinable yearning or nostalgia for love, times past, or a lost home. Accompanied by a twelve string Portuguese guitar and a bass guitar, the voice of a true fadista embodies and expresses the soulfulness of this music tradition. The traditional fadista dresses in black and uses a shawl as a prop to accentuate the passion of her voice and words. The genre developed in the port city of Lisbon where it was performed at waterfront clubs and bars frequented by sailors and seamen.

The Annisquam Village Church stands at the head of Lobster Cove at 820 Washington Street in Gloucester. Known for its fine acoustics, the series is in its 24th year, and is dedicated this season to the memory of Houston/Annisquam artist, Colin Kennedy.

Donation $15. For information: www.annisquamvillagechurch.com or 978.283.6416

Another wonderful event . . .