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Soprano Jane Shivick is among this region’s most accomplished and versatile musicians and has garnered high praise for her extraordinary vocal abilities. As well as performing, Jane has been teaching privately and coaching voices for over 25 years in Central Massachusetts. Her students with varying levels of skill perform at Southgate today.

Portrait In Jazz is a dynamic, original jazz band featuring Gary Bohan: trumpet/flugelhorn, Chris Hildebrand: saxophone, Bob Abruzese: bass, Grant Smith: drums and Brad Ellenberg: guitar. This band is committed to creating exciting and meaningful original jazz music with over fifty originals in their book and literally hundreds of jazz standards in their repertoire.

Hairspray Live! 1 hr. 53 min. 2016

NBC assembles a star-studded team of award-winning talent for the live production of the beloved Tony Award®- winning Broadway show, ‘Hairspray.’ It tells the inspiring story of Tracy Turnblad, a teen in 1962 Baltimore who wins a spot on a local TV dance pro-gram and ignites a campaign to integrate the show.

Our guest speaker for the Women’s Circle Breakfast is Southgate resident John McClymer. His topic is “Hoops: The Woman’s Sphere and Some Mid-Victorian Fashion Puzzles.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, states-man, theater director, and critic, born 1749, died 1832 stated: “Women often complain that men are unjust towards their sex, in withholding from them higher mental culture, and in not allow-ing them full access to the sciences, thus keeping them down to mere household duties, and to the government of the domestic circle.” Goethe nicely summarized women’s com-plaints against the so-called “Woman’s Sphere.” And nothing would seem an apter embodiment of its constraints than the hoop skirt. Yet women, as we shall see, championed hoops as liberating. We will explore the surprising in-sights we can gain from the cultural wars over hoops. Join us!

The Worcester Bravehearts and Jake the Lion are heading to schools and senior centers all over Central MA to launch the Pen Pal Club! This special club pairs up senior citizens with middle school students who write letters to each other in old-fashioned journals each month before finally meeting at the Bravehearts game at 10:30 am against the Norwich Sea Unicorns. The Southgate residents who signed up for this community outreach project will be treated to a meet and greet, game and barbeque!