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Sep
21
This exhibit features art focused on the marsh and the impacts of our changing climate.
Created by students at the River Valley Charter School and by Susan Quateman and Les Barlett’s artist collaboration, with science advisory provided by the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).
Price: FREE
Student Explorations: The Great Marsh and Climate Change A Trails & Sails event! Open House Reception, Thursday, Sept. 21, 4:00-6:00 pm Exhibit: Sept. 21-26 Allyn Cox Reservation 82 Eastern Ave. Essex, MA Art, science and the Great Marsh all come together in a collaborative exhibit hosted by Greenbelt at Cox Reservation in Essex. The exhibit, on display at the studio barn, right on the Essex Marsh, features art focused on the marsh and the impacts of our changing climate that has been created by students at the River Valley Charter School and by Susan Quateman and Les Barlett’s artist collaboration, with science advisory provided by the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). Join us for an open house reception on Thursday, September 21 with light refreshments where a few people from the project team will speak including Kate Bowditch, Greenbelt President, and Anne Giblin from the MBL’s Ecosystems Center.
Sep
27
Enjoy a fun romp around Cox Reservation with your toddler! We'll take a hands-on look at the signs of fall.
Price: FREE
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 27 10:00-10:45 am WHERE: Cox Reservation 82 Eastern Ave. Essex, MA Email Cathy Lanois to RSVP!
Oct
07
Join award-winning local poets January Gill O'Neil and Dawn Paul for a morning of poetry-making in the great outdoors.
Price: FREE
WHEN: Sat., Oct. 7 10:30am-12:30 pm WHERE: Private residence on Greenbelt-conserved land in Rowley, MA.* (Address will be provided to registered participants before the workshop. Please note: while there is a home on this property, the workshop will meet outdoors. Portable restrooms provided.) *Train Accessible! Let inspiration flow! Join us for a nature poetry workshop led by two renowned local poets. During the workshop, we will write from a few prompts with guidance from our instructors. There will be time for free writing, sharing and helpful feedback from teachers and peers. The workshop will be conducted outside where you can draw inspiration from the views of the Great Marsh and Parker River. Please bring a notebook and your favorite writing utensil. About Our Workshop Leaders: January Gill O’Neil is the author of Rewilding (fall 2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), published by CavanKerry Press. She is an assistant professor of English at Salem State University, and boards of trustees member with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and Montserrat College of Art. From 2012-2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. A Cave Canem fellow, January’s poems and articles have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and Ecotone, among others. In 2018, January was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and was named the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence for 2019-2020 at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She lives with her two children in Beverly, Massachusetts. Dawn Paul is working on a series of poems about North Shore’s Great Salt Marsh. She is the author of the novels The Country of Loneliness and Still River. Her poetry chapbook What We Still Don’t Know examines the contradictions in the life of scientist Carl Linnaeus, originator of the Linnaean biological naming system used worldwide today. Paul has been a recipient of residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, the Spring Creek Project, Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories and Isles of Shoals Marine Labs. Her poetry has been published in anthologies, journals and most recently, Orion Magazine. Also look for it engraved in the sidewalk on Cabot Street in downtown Beverly!
