Saturday, August 10
5:00 - 8:00 pm
The Second Annual Prometheus Gathering will take place around the Stone Circle in the garden of Starfield.
Join us for a magical evening as we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Paul Manship’s purchase of a “certain estate situated in Lanesville.”
This will be a festive Paris Salon with French-inspired fare and libations.
An inspirational trip to the MFA. Minori Ishikawa will perform at the Prometheus Gathering as Monet's La Japonaise. Photo credit: Rosali Silva.
Come experience a Paris Salon with Tableaux Vivants by
Gloucester Stage Company Ensemble as a Commedia dell'arte troupe
Minori Ishikawa as Monet's La Japonaise
Brian King + Nathan Cohen in a musical dialogue with Manship's work
Sarah Slifer Swift + MAGMA performers recreating Matisse's The Dance
AND
the first glimpse of Manship Resident Artist Will Pappenheimer’s site-specific Augmented Reality (AR) piece. Link to four-minute video about Will and AR.
Individual tickets are $125.* Checks can be left at the entrance when you arrive or you can mail your check to MARS, PO Box 7071, Lanesville, MA 01930. There is also the option of purchasing tickets online via PayPal: www.paypal.me/ManshipArtists.
Please let us know who is coming so we can have your nametag ready!
There is no PARKING on site. PARKING has been arranged at St. Paul's Lutheran Church and the Orthodox Congregational Church on Washington Street. A shuttle will take you from the church parking lots to the property or you may walk.
Email info@ManshipArtists.org or call (978) 290-8438 to learn more.
The Prometheus Circle is a donors' circle consisting of those who are ongoing supporters of MARS and who contribute a minimum of $1000.
Please RSVP by AUGUST 2.
Tickets can be purchased until August 6 or until capacity is reached.
*MARS is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Contributions made to MARS are tax deductible within the guidelines of the IRS code. $90 of the purchase of a Prometheus Circle event ticket is valid as a tax deductible contribution.
Digital Sketch for“Star Clouds” by Will Pappenheimer. Image courtesy of the artist.
New resident artist Will Pappenheimer has begun work on his Manship project under the umbrella title of “StarCloud.”
Visitors will be able to view his works through a mobile app on phones and tablets in the new medium known as augmented reality (AR). Will begins with drone scans of the property, as well as other smaller objects, which are then converted into virtual scenes coexistent with the physical world around us.
“StarCloud” is a reference to Paul Manship’s name for the property - "Starfield." Though in this case, "Cloud" refers to the way information is gathered and accessed in our contemporary technological age.
Will's works here, as in general, explore notions of art and the edge of what we assume are separate worlds of the physical, the virtual, and the imagined.
Special thanks to Stewart Copeland for conducting the first data capture of the site.