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The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation
Gloucester Meetinghouse Concert and Lecture Series

Our Concert & Lecture Series.

Each year our Autumn-Winter-Spring Series features monthly events not found anywhere else, including concerts, movies and civic events for the whole community.

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An Evening of Silent Movies

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U.S. Democracy in Crisis.

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A night of Silent Movies, November 2, 2024

Our Winter Concert and Lecture series is coming together!

2024/2025 Concert and Lecture Series

We will update this page as soon as we have more information to share. If you are interested in sponsoring this program, see below.



Interested in Becoming a 2024/25 Series Sponsor?

An unparalleled annual series of civic, cultural and community events, hosted by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.

FULL-SEASON SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS

Bronze

Sponsorship Level

$250/ season

Silver

Sponsorship Level

$500/ season

Gold

Sponsorship Level

$1,000/ season

Platinum

Sponsorship Level

$2,000/ season

NAMED EVENT SPONSORSHIP

If you are interested in sponsoring an event in your name, contactCharles Nazarian at c.nazarian@gloucestermeetinghouse.org. Named Sponsorships include an honorary program and 12 tickets.

We will update this page as soon as we have more information to share. If you are interested in sponsoring this program, see below.

THE RESTORATION OF THE GREEN HAS STARTED AND WE HAVE $25K YET TO RAISE!

WOULD YOU LIKE TO DONATE ONE OF THE SIX PRINCETON ELMS THAT WILL LINE THE CENTER WALKWAY IN HONOR OF OR IN MEMORY OF SOMEONE? THE DONATION IS $3K PER TREE AND FOUR ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

OTHER TREES, PLANTINGS AND FEATURES, SUCH AS THE REPRODUCTION WROUGHT IRON GATES AND LIGHTINGFOR THE ELM TREES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AS GIFTS. PLEASE ENQUIRE AT: INFO@GLOUCESTERMEETINGHOUSE.ORG

THERE WILL BE A BRONZE PLAQUE HONORING YOUR DONATIONS.

Past events available to watch on Youtube

Silent Voices Remembered
Navigating Health Care on Cape Ann
MLK Day Celebration at GMF
New Orleans Jazz New Year's
The Musicians of the Old Post Road: A Heavenly Baroque Christmas
Refusing to Pay: Gloucester's role in building religious freedom in America

Welcome to the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation.

Our mission is to fully restore this treasured building, an architectural masterpiece built for the first Universalist Church in America in 1806, to the highest preservation and clean-energy standards so that it may continue to serve our community for centuries to come.

The Meetinghouse is a civic hub hosting symposiums with experts on contemporary concerns for open discussion, offers an unparalleled, large entertainment venue with over 300 seats in world-class acoustics, and provides a delightful outdoor gathering place for unique programs like Music on Meetinghouse Green, which supports local non-profits, musicians and food vendors.

Membership donations at any level help us to preserve this magnificent, Federal-style building, recognized on the National Register of Historic Places, and to offer outstanding programming on Cape Ann throughout the year.

This year, the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation celebrates its seventh anniversary. Please support our work through the annual appeal as a new or renewing member today.

The Gloucester Meetinghouse is an architectural treasure in the heart of Gloucester’s Historic District with a great story to tell. The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation was created as a secular non-profit organization in 2015, separate from the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, and modeled after the Old North Foundation in relation to Boston’s famous Old North Church. The GMF manages large-scale preservation projects for the landmark building now entering its third century of service to residents and visitors to Cape Ann. The GMF presents an annual selection of concerts, events, and symposia designed to engage and inspire. Seeking to combine the best of preservation and “green” building practices, the Meetinghouse is proud to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places and, in collaboration with its clean-energy initiative TownGreen2025 and Reforest the Tropics, is one of the first historic buildings in New England to be carbon-neutral.

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Make a contribution to the GMF to help in the restoration of the Green, the Tower, and the Meetinghouse!

Note: Gifts may be made in memory or in honor of someone. You will have the option to add a note to the transaction on the next page.