| "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." -Laurence J. Peter
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Welcome to our NEW Eblast! We thank you for your patience as we update our Eblast provider and layout. For items to be considered please send a description of your event of no more than two lines of text, a jpeg image and include full contact information and URL if applicable.
Best Wishes, COOL |
| | | Save the Date: Winterfest 2012, February 9-11
|  Save the Date for the new and expanded WinterFest 2012! Food, music and fun for the whole family! Plus don't miss out on the Looks of Lowell Fashion Show, Lowell Gallery Walk, the Soup Bowl Competition and National Human Dogsled Competition! -Feb. 9-11
More information: http://www.lowell.org/Pages/Winterfest.aspx/
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| Now on View: Loading Dock Gallery Exhibit | 
Loading Dock Gallery
50 under 50: 50 items by 50 artists under $50
Come check out this fantastic exhibit at the Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios. Exhibit on view until January 29.
More information: http://www.theloadingdockgallery.com
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| Tuesday, January 17 TODAY | |  Lowell Women's Week Public Art Project
Learn how to guide your group of girls or women in making simple books that express the 2012 Lowell Women's Week theme: "All Our Voices." Free drop-in workshop, refreshments and supplies included, with book artist Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord -Tues., Jan. 17, 5:30-7:30pm More information: www.lowellwomensweek.org |
| Friday, January 20 |  ODE TO FAT, Lowell Folklife Series
Fat has gotten a bad name, no question. But it is the one essential
ingredient that brings out food's flavor. In our next Lowell Folkllife
Series event, we explore four forms of fat with deep cultural associations:
schmaltz, salt pork, olive, oil and ghee. -Fri., Jan. 20, 7 pm at the Lowell National
Historical Park visitor center theatre.
More information: http://www.nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/lowell-folklife-series.htm
Jen Kearney and Josh Beetler at The Space
For an intimate solo performance/also featuring Josh Beetler In the 2nd show of our new concert series, we are bringing you some pro's that know their way around Lowell! In case you don't know about Jen and Josh, check out the links below. -Fri, Jan 20, 7pm
More information: Click here or www.jenkearney.com/
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| Saturday, January 21
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 "Sustenance," January 11 to February 24
Artwork by Michael E. Jones & Poetry by Christine M. Jones
Artist Reception January 21, 2 to 4 pm Showcasing collaborative works of oil paintings by UMass Lowell Professor Michael E. Jones and poetry by his wife Christine M. Jones, the exhibit features many forms and means of sustaining us physically, emotionally, and spiritually as gathered from observations throughout the Merrimack Valley. Farms, farmers, nature and their interpretations are the main themes. More information: http://www.whistlerhouse.org/ |
| Opportunities
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COOL is Seeking Part-time Bookkeeper COOL is seeking an experienced bookkeeper to work part-time in our office during business hours. If interested, please send resume and letter of interest to LZ Nunn, Director at lznunn@lowellma.gov Open call for " After Hours Passions" photography project Do you have an "after hours passion" or hobby that you pursue in addition to your "day job?" Does this pass ion or hobby contrast what you do for a living? If so, Adrien Bisson and Suzzanne Cromwell would like to know more ... read on for details!More information: www.adrienbisson.com/open-call  Seeking Submissions for Femnoire: The Women's Playwriting Festival
Image Theater of Lowell is seeking original ten minute plays and/or monologues written by women for their second annual Femnoire festival to be held at The Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA on March 30 & 31. -Deadline is Jan. 21 More information: Anngarvin4@aol.com or Jbisantz@comcast.net |
Ongoing Exhibits and Shows
| | Brush Gallery- Annual Brush Members' Art Exhibition on view until January 21, http://www.thebrush.org Loading Dock Gallery- 50 under 50, on view until January 29, http://www.theloadingdockgallery.com/ American Textile History Museum- Aloft: The Wonder of Kites until May 27, http://www.athm.org Merrimack Repertory Theatre- The Voice of the Turtle, on view until January 29, http://www.merrimackrep.org/home/ The Ayer Lofts Art Gallery- debuts the photo art of Eddie DiCroce, on view through February 5 steve@vangoghsgear.com 119 Gallery- Gravity: Stop, A Collaborative Installation, January 17-February 11, www.119gallery.org |
| | January 26- Concerts on the Corner: Johannah Zacharer, www.atheniancorner.com
January 28- Small Publishers Book Fair at the Old Court, 2-5pm upstairs
January 28- Gravity Stop at 119 Gallery Exhibit Reception, www.119gallery.org February 4- Super Bowl Saturday Matinee at the Pollard: The Blind Side, www.pollardml.org February 9-11- Winterfest 2012! http://www.lowell.org/Pages/Winterfest.aspx/ February 11- Winterfest Matinee at the Pollard Library: The Smurfs, www.pollardml.org |
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