Osler ”Pete” Peterson
Medfield Select Board member
I started this blog to share the interesting and useful information that I saw while doing my job as a Medfield select board member. I thought that my fellow Medfield residents would also find that information interesting and useful as well. This blog is my effort to assist in creating a system to push the information out from the Town House to residents. Let me know if you have any thoughts on how it can be done better.
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Category Archives: Cultural
the Medfield Anthology, at Medfield State Hospital
I apologize, as I forgot that my emailed posts no longer post my emailed photos, as they used to do.
Below are the photos that I was trying to post from the actual performance of the Medfield Anthology, a new play by Hortense Gerardo, Artist-in-Residence, MAPC, presented at the Medfield State Hospital this afternoon.
2018 Holiday Stroll Medfield
From Diane Borrelli of the MedfieldCulture.org –
2018 Holiday Stroll Medfield
(Medfield MA): The Cultural Alliance of Medfield (CAM) announces its fourth annual Holiday Stroll on Dec. 7, 2018 from 4 – 9 pm. This is a festive family event that takes place at seventeen venues along Main Street (Route 109), North Meadows Road (Route 27), North Street and the Dwight Derby House on Frairy Street. Included are 40 juried artisans at three main locations, an outdoor ice sculpture demonstration, food vendors, carolers, photos with Santa and M.E.M.O.’s outdoor tree lighting ceremony. All events are within walking distance, FREE admission and parking nearby. For more information visit https://medfieldculture.org/holiday-stroll-2018/
Medfield awarded state cultural planning grant
The town received a notice this week that it had been awarded a state planning grant for developing a cultural arts facility at the former Medfield State Hospital site. A rendering of one possibility is shown below.
This from Jean Mineo –
Medfield has been awarded a $30,000 planning grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund, a state program that fosters the growth of the creative economy by supporting building projects in the nonprofit arts, humanities and sciences. Medfield received one of 35 planning grants across the state. The grants require a 1:1 match. There were also 63 capital grants for a total of $9.3 million in awards that will generate at least another $9.3 million in private investment in cultural facilities.
The Town approved $25,000 toward the required grant match at the Annual Town Meeting last week. The Cultural Alliance of Medfield has committed to raising the balance for the $115,000 project to complete schematics and apply for historic tax credits. If you’d like to help, you can make a donation at their website www.MedfieldCulture.org or read more about their exciting plans on their link to the Medfield State Hospital. Contact Jean Mineo at 617-877-5158 or JeanMineo@aol.com with any questions.
To see the grants:
http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/facilities/facilities_fundinglist.htm#Boston
Holiday Stroll this Friday, 4-9 PM
Medfield’s Third Annual Holiday Art and Craft Stroll: Friday, December 1, 2017
(Medfield, MA): The Cultural Alliance of Medfield (CAM) announces its third annual Holiday Stroll on Dec. 1, 2017 from 4:00–9:00 pm. This is a festive family event that takes place at 14 venues along Main Street (Route 109) and the Dwight Derby House on Frairy Street. The Holiday Stroll includes cookie decorating, an outdoor ice sculpture, 40 juried artisans, carolers and M.E.M.O.’s outdoor tree lighting ceremony. All events are within walking distance, free parking nearby and FREE admission. For complete details and a list of artisans, visit www.MedfieldCulture.org
ARTIST’S SITES
United Church of Christ: 496 Main Street
- 4:00–9:00 pm. Artisan’s work for sale
- 7:30 pm. Community carol sing
- 4:00–9:00. Kids craft station
Medfield Library: 468 Main Street
- 4:00–9:00 pm. Artisan’s work for sale
- 4:30 pm, Children’s performer Sarah Gardner; Warm Winter Sing-a-longs
- 4:00–9:00 pm. Kids craft station hosted by MAP (Medfield Afterschool Program)
- Visit the new Friends Bookstore for books, CDs, DVDs and audiobooks
Zullo Gallery: 456 Main Street
- 4:00–9:00 pm. Artisan’s work for sale
FOOD AND DRINK:
The Hot Dog Wagon: 478 Main Street (Bank of America Lot)
- 5:00–9:00 pm. Nathan’s All Beef Hot Dogs with condiments; chips and drinks also available
Blazing Hearth Pizza: 503 Main Street. (Just Ervin’s Barber Salon Lot)
- 5:00–9:00 pm fresh gourmet pizza from their wood-fired oven
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Baxter Park: Corner of Main and Spring Street
- 6:30–8:00 pm. MEMO Holiday Tree Lighting and Joy to the World Singing
Dwight Derby House: 7 Frairy Street
- 6:30–9:30 pm. FREE PHOTOSwith Santa by photographers Theresa Knapp
- 6:30–9:30 pm. Hand-crafted items and paintings available for purchase.
In the Gazebo next to the library: 468 Main Street
- 7:15 pm. Ice sculpture carving demonstration outside the Town Hall by Eyes4Ice
Brothers Marketplace: 446 Main Street
- 4:00–5:30 pm. Caroling by Middle and High School chorus members
4:00–9:00 Holiday cookie decorating
LOCAL TALENT
Be Charmed: 70 North Street
- 4:00–9:00 pm. Locally-made jewelry, custom-sewn “ditty bags” using specialty fabrics.
Butterfly Tree Boutique: 505 Main Street
- 4:00–9:00 pm. FREE holiday-themed temporary tattoos.
Capsule Lifestyles, Inc: 70 North Street
- 4:00–9:00 pm. Pearl jewelry and designer purses, organizers and accessories.
Juice on Main: 479 Main Street
- 4:00–9:00 pm. FREE tastings of organic, raw, cold-pressed juices and special holiday drink.
Larkin’s Wine & Spirits: 20 North Street
- 6:00–8:00 pm. Sample beer from Medfield’s own 7th Wave Brewing and sip award-winning concoctions from Medfield’s AstraLuna Brands
FREE PARKING behind the Medfield Town Hall at 459 Main Street and at the Montrose School lot at 29 North Street (enter on Brook Street).
This program is supported in part by a grant from the MEDFIELD CULTURAL COUNCIL, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Thank you to our sponsors: 7TH WAVE BREWING; A & D APPLIANCE; ACMEWARE INC.; ASTRALUNA BRANDS; ALISON BROWN/COLDWELL BANKER; DOHERTY, CIECHANOWSKI, DUGAN & CANNON; LARKIN’S WINE & SPIRITS; MASS CULTURAL COUNCIL; MEDFIELD ORTHOPEDIC & SPORTS THERAPY, LLC; NEEDHAM BANK; NOSH & GROG PROVISIONS; MAP (Medfield Afterschool Program); M.E.M.O. (Medfield Employers & Merchants Organization); PARK STREET BOOKS; and STIRLING TECHNOLOGIES.
The Cultural Alliance of Medfield is a 501-c-3 organization established in 2015 to nurture, support and promote culture in Medfield.
Posted in Cultural, Cultural Alliance of Medfield, Downtown, Events
Culture and the arts are economic drivers
Jean Mineo both arranged for the town to participate in a study of the economics of arts in our community, attended a conference on the topic, and presented the results to the Select Board at our last meeting. The economic data was generated by seventeen Town of Medfield arts organizations separately inputting their data into the study.
In sum, the arts and cultural industry (defined as the organizations and their audiences combined) spend $3.1m per year in town, and support 125 jobs in town.
Per the study –
The Town of Medfield’s Participating Nonprofit Arts and Cultural Organizations
This study could not have been completed without the cooperation of the 17 nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in the Town of Medfield, listed below, that provided detailed financial and event attendance information about their organization.
Cultural Alliance Of Medfield; First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church; Friends of the Dwight-Derby House; Gazebo Players of Medfield; Lowell Mason House Inc; Medfield Community Cable Access Corp; Medfield Cultural Council; Medfield Employers and Merchants Organization; Medfield Garden Club; Medfield High School Theater Society; Medfield Historical Society; Medfield Music Association; Medfield Public Library; Norfolk Hunt Club; United Church Of Christ; Vine Lake Preservation Trust; and Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts.
Posted in Art, Business, Cultural, Uncategorized
Vote daily to 5/12
VOTE DAILY ONLINE FOR CULTURAL ALLIANCE GRANT
The Cultural Alliance has submitted a video grant application. If the video gets enough votes (i.e. lands in the top 10 of the category “arts and culture”), it advances to the next round of evaluation which will award one application in each category $100k and two applications $50k each. A lot of money!
PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR VIDEO GRANT today and everyday thru May 12
http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60445715
Leave a browser tab open, refresh the page each day, and click “VOTE.”
Posted in Cultural, Medfield State Hospital
Votes needed for MSH
From Jean Mineo – her latest thing that helps us all.
Hello Medfield Friends,
The Cultural Alliance has submitted a video grant application and we need your vote.
If the video gets enough votes (i.e. lands in the top 10 of the category “arts and culture”), it advances to the next round of evaluation which will award one application in each category $100k and two applications $50k each. A lot of money!
The link to the 2:45 minute video is here:
http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60445715
Click on the green vote button next to the video to cast your vote! You may vote once a day, every day through May 12. There are no forms to fill out. Then please share on Facebook or Twitter using the buttons under the video and help spread the word.
The grant addresses the renovation of key historic buildings at the former Medfield State Hospital into an arts and cultural center. The money would go toward hiring an expert to secure historic tax credits worth about $2 million – applicable to any project renovating the Chapel within historic guidelines, even if it doesn’t become a cultural center. This is a valuable asset to our town that does not commit us to a specific use!
Thanks for your help! Like us on Facebook for progress reports:
https://www.facebook.com/CulturalAllianceofMedfield/
Jean
C 617-877-5158
Posted in Art, Cultural, Medfield State Hospital
DIF & TIF for MSH
The cultural arts center analysis recommends the use of district improvement financing (DIF) and tax increment financing (TIF) as mechanisms for financing the cultural arts center and the needed infrastructure. A DIF allows one to raise monies by issuing bonds that are paid back only out of property tax monies derived from the lands within the DIF boundaries, so the DIF could be the former Medfield State Hospital campus, and the rest of the town would not have to pay in. A TIF sounds like a straight tax break given to stimulate a particular result.
Interestingly, the DLS newsletter this month had the following article on those –
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Posted in Art, Cultural, Financial, Medfield State Hospital, Uncategorized