Pizza, Puppets, Stories and Sea-Shanties With the Gloucester Meetinghouse
Sat, Feb 19
|https://gloucestermeetinghouse.org/event/20
MG is proud to collaborate on another great event with the Gloucester Meetinghouse


Time & Location
Feb 19, 2022, 12:30 PM
https://gloucestermeetinghouse.org/event/20
About the event
Kicking off February school vacation, another FREE Children’s Program of entertainment is on tap for Saturday, Feb. 19 – right in your home, via virtual internet Zoom broadcast – presented by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation to start Cape Ann public schools’ 2022 Winter Vacation.
From 12:30 to 2 p.m., the lineup includes story time with book readings by popular Cape Ann authors and performers Stan & Daisy Nell, Alice Gardner, Peter Berkrot, and Pat Johnson; a puppet show by Through Me to You Puppeteers, and a sea-shanties singalong led by Rockport musician Corey Wrinn.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Sign up by 5 p.m. February 18 and you’ll get an email with a link for connecting to Zoom AND an option for a $10 discount (one per family, February 19 only, limit 40 so sign up soon!) on a large pizza at Sebastian’s, 56 Washington Street, downtown Gloucester. You will also get an option to download a free printable PDF of Daisy Nell’s new coloring book Moxie and the Whale; the printed version is for sale now at Maritime Gloucester.
Registration and more info at www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org/events
Program:
1. Daisy Nell & Stan Collinson – reading, singing, from her coloring book Moxie and the Whale.
2. Alice Gardner – Gloucester author reading her book St. Peter's Fiesta, Gloucester, Ma
3. Peter Berkrot – acclaimed audio-book narrator reading Gloucester Sea Serpent by M.T. Anderson
4. Leigh Baltzer - puppeteer from Through Me To You Puppetry
5. Pat Johnson - reading longtime favorite Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
6. Corey Wrinn – Rockport musician/artist singing original sea-shanties with guitar.