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Let’s ring in the new year together! The Paul Lamoureux Trio will be on hand to welcome a prosperous, happy and healthy 2018 in style. Get out your dancing shoes and toast the Southgate community with warm wishes for all during our New Year’s Eve Gala! THEN join us 9:00-10:30 pm for “Champagne and Charades” in the lounge. Team registration for play was required. All are welcome to watch the fun!

Our speaker for the January 3rd Women’s Circle Breakfast is James Welu, Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum. His presentation is titled “Vermeer’s Mania for Maps.” No other painter from seventeenth century Holland expressed a greater interest in cartography than Jan Vermeer. His detailed depictions of maps and globes coincide with the great age of exploration and map making. As the leading authority on Vermeer’s use of cartographic material, Jim will demonstrate that all of the maps and globes in Vermeer’s paintings can be identified, though few originals still exist. These cartographic objects and the ways in which Vermeer used them not only add further meaning to his allegorical subjects and scenes of everyday life, they also shed light on Vermeer’s working method, including his possible use of the camera obscura. James Welu joined the staff of the Worcester Art Museum in 1974 as Assistant Curator and went on to serve six years as Chief Curator and 25 years as Director.

This harmonious quartet of bass, piano & saxophone with Nancy on vocals and light percussion is a crowd pleaser. This evening we take a musical journey with the “Composers of the Great American Songbook”.

The Impressionists were painters of light, painters of nature, and painters of human nature. Having little in common, except a common enemy, the Academy, artists like Monet, Renoir and Degas defied convention and changed the way the whole world looked at art. Like a stone dropped into a still pond, the ripples from this revolutionary style of painting spread out, influencing a whole new generation of artists.