You’ve always been independent
and lived life on your own terms. If you didn’t like something, you changed it. Work hard, play hard—you’re not going to stop now. This is your time to engage in the life you so richly deserve! At Southgate, you’ll enjoy a host of extraordinary services, meet new people, make new friends, and pursue your passions.
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Southgate is a retirement community
designed to nurture your body, mind, and soul, rekindle your interest in what excites you, and so much more. We offer the best senior living facilities of any retirement community in Massachusetts, including a health club, swimming pool, bowling alley, movie theatre, library, dining room, cafe, and cocktail lounge. The activities are endless!

Wherever your inspiration guides you
either within the security and privacy of your own senior living apartment or just outside your door, Southgate is a place of vibrant possibilities. Bring them to life, all while living in premium surroundings with unsurpassed amenities and the security of knowing that the services you desire are available to you.
Best of all
Southgate is a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) offering independent living and assisted living accommodations, along with nursing and rehabilitation care on site, if ever needed.
At Southgate, you will live as richly on the outside as you feel on the inside!
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Art Matters
ANIMALS IN ART – OUR PETS Although we use art to communicate with one another as Human Beings, it is with other animals we are sometimes more connected to. Join us for a journey around the world and throughout history, with art, to see and appreciate how connected we are, and how well we understand our relationships with our pets.
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The Shrewsbury Sweethearts Community Pageant
Southgate hosts this annual Shrewsbury event this evening where girls from 5th to 12th grade will be participating to represent the Shrewsbury community as the Junior Miss Shrewsbury 2019. All residents are welcome to attend this public event.
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Vintage Vocals Quartet
It only takes 4 to put a nickel in a premodern jukebox of sweet vocal harmony. The Vintage Vocal Quartet brings the big band era to life by singing while swinging on piano, guitar, bass and trumpet. The group’s repertoire is inspired by groups like Glenn Miller’s Modernaires, the Nat King Cole Trio, and Tommy Dorsey’s Pied Pipers, as well as singers like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jo Stafford. The VVQ has been delighting concert audiences, lindy hoppers, and swanky private events all over New England. If you love vocal harmony and swing music, the Vintage Vocal Quartet has your number.
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Parkinson's Chorus Concert
Join us for a special concert in our theatre presented by the Parkinson’s Chorus of Central MA. Formed in 2015, the group is made up of about 15 enthusiastic participants from the greater Worcester area. They are accompanied by Curtis Smith who is the music director of the First Congregational Church and directed by Denis Coughlin who is also the music director from Prince of Peace Parish in Princeton. The “Parkies” as they call themselves, will perform selections from The Beatles songbook—please welcome them to Southgate!
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Sunday Cinema Documentary
“Jane”-2017; 1 hr. 30 min. The discovery of half-century old footage of celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall and her jungle menagerie of chimpanzees provides a new and engrossing look at her lifetime of work with humans’ closest evolutionary relatives.

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