ArtWalk Community Art: Painted Posts

The ArtWalk Committee invited members of our community, artists and student creatives to participate in yet another community project to celebrate art in our town.   Participants were encouraged to pick up the provided 4 x 4’ wooden poles and create a piece of public art.

The bright, colored poles will be grouped together for an installation at the Visitors Center and other prominent places in Town.

We invite the Lexington community to visit the installations and take photos and post to social media #LexingtonArtWalk.”

For more information, email lexartwalk@gmail.com or call the Munroe Center for the Arts office at 781-862-6040.

Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc., (SNAP) has beautiful Mother’s Day cards for sale at Cambridge Trust, 1690 Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington. 

Let the people in your life know you care this Mother’s Day by reaching out with a beautiful card and thoughtful message. 

The images were created by local artists with developmental or intellectual disabilities who participate in the SNAP visual arts program.  

There are two different images and each box has five cards of the same image with envelopes. The cards are ready for your message and cost $15 per box. 

Cards can be purchased on our website, www.snapart.org, and locally picked-up at Cambridge Trust or mailed to you. 

All proceeds support programing in the arts and music for people with disabilities in the Lexington community and surrounding towns.

PEER SUPPORT GROUPS 

For Parents, Caregivers & Family of LGBTQ+ Youth

Greater Boston PFLAG offers 16 peer support groups for parents/caregivers & family of LGBTQ+ youth, including a group specifically for parents/caregivers of transgender and gender expansive youth ages 12 & under. Groups meet once or twice per month, are run by trained volunteers who are raising LGBTQ+ youth themselves, and are filled with people who can offer support, answer questions and link you to resources. 

All groups are meeting virtually during Covid and parents/caregivers are always welcome to attend any of the sessions, regardless of location.

Lexington Parent/Caregiver Support Group

2nd Thursday of each Month: 7:00-8:30pm
Contact LexingtonSupport@gbpflag.org for more information and to obtain the Zoom link.

Parents/Caregivers of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth Ages 12 & Under

4th Saturday of each Month: 9:00-10:30am

Contact 12andunder@gbpflag.org for more information and to obtain the Zoom link.

Greater Boston PFLAG also offers a 1 to 1 Program and telephone Helpline.

For more a schedule of all 16 Support Groups, and more information: GBPFLAG Support Groups

The Best of LexArt

Society-wide juried invitational exhibit on display in the newly renovated Molly Harding Nye Gallery

Juror: Nonie Gadsen Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts, MFA, Boston

Reservations encouraged: Reserve Now

Visit our website for additional information.

Open Wed-Fri 12-4  Sat/Sun 10-5

It is May 2, 1775 and Rachel Revere has only heard from her beloved husband Paul once since his legendary midnight ride on the 18th of April. Still isolated from one another due to the Siege of Boston, Rachel desperately tries to create a plan to safely take her children: six step-children from Paul’s first marriage and a newborn baby of their own, from the reach of the British Regular Army in Boston. In this program, you will help Rachel, as she carefully considers the dangers and demands of each plan. Find out if Rachel is successful in her perilous mission to unite her family, amidst the wake of an American Revolution.

Presented by Judith Kalaora of History At Play™, LLC, this special presentation, originally commissioned for the Paul Revere House, includes a first-person interactive performance followed by an educational Powerpoint, illustrating the geography and political climate of Revolutionary Boston. Founding Mothers also have exciting stories to tell; hear Rachel's for new insight into one of the forgotten players of April 19, 1775!

This event will be held via Zoom webinar. $15 members/$20 nonmembers. Purchase tickets here.

Munroe Saturday Nights presents Fostering Creativity: 4 Takes - An Online Roundtable Discussion

Join Munroe Saturday Nights for Fostering Creativity: 4 Takes– An Online Roundtable Discussion. Saturday, April 17th  at 7:30pm.
 
Our panelists will include people from all different walks of life including human centered design, technology, visual arts, culinary, and performing arts. We hope to provide you with a little inspiration, and a little storytelling as we peek behind the curtain to see where the magic happens. After some discussion, the conversation will open up to questions from the audience.

Come join us for this amazing evening! 

To register and find out more visit munroecenter.org

“Inextricably Linked” — some call these times “The Great Unraveling.” With our planetary climate crisis, global public health crisis, and escalating racial tensions competing for our attention, it can be easy to overlook their intertwining roots beneath the surface. How can grounding our responses in place and community help spawn an intersectional social movement of citizen activists for “The Great Turning?” Come and honor Earth Day with us as we share a message by Rev. Cindy Davidson, President of the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth. She credits First Parish in Lexington, her “home congregation” since 1988, with launching her call to ministry.

Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET Request ZOOM Link here!

Join via Facebook LIVE or watch on YouTube LIVE Streaming

Music: Our bass soloist David Meharry will sing Edvard Grieg’s passionate song “Sunset” (from Four Songs and Ballades, Op.9). Chelsea Cannon will sing Stephen Schwartz’s energetic “Spark of Creation” (from Children of Eden). And Liz Savir will sing Nickel Creek’s beautiful arrangement of Jonathan E. Spilman and Robert Burns’ Scottish song “Sweet Afton.” Rip Jackson will play Paul Sullivan’s ethereal “Rising Moon” (from Paul Winter’s Silver Solstice) and “Mighty Oaks,” which he composed in 2016 for First Parish Church.

First Parish UU is a liberal religious congregation on Lexington Green. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality. We're aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We welcome you: your whole self, with all of your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. For more info visit: www.FPLex.org.

Patriots' Day 2021 is on Monday April 19th and there are activities and events all that week! Celebrations will be mostly virtual, but the week will still be packed with live programming for the whole family.

This year, experience old favorites, like our annual First Shot! film screening or try something new! There are so many stories to learn, from revolutionary children, Black Lexington residents, and British soldiers.​ ​There's something for everyone​!

Join ArtSpan for our April Vacation Program! We are offering Art Classes for Ages 7-12. Monday - Friday from 8:45am to 11:45am.

Lost Underwater Cities! Explore the mysteries of the deep. We will dive into the bottomless ocean to discover history’s greatest shipwrecks, ancient lost cities, and so much more! Activities will include everything from hand-building underwater cities in ceramics to creating your own collages using actual materials found in the ocean. 

To register and find out more visit https://www.munroecenter.org

Teen April Vacation Program!Join us for your April Vacation!

ArtSpan is offering two exciting teen classes Monday through Friday, 1:00pm - 3:15pm.

Teen Painting

This class is for those who want to learn how to learn how to paint and draw. During the week, your child will create drawings and paintings on canvas. Brendan offers instruction on how to draw using value, color, and brushstrokes resulting in painting. Exercises will include still life to abstraction and each day will build on the previous lessons. More advanced students have the opportunity to explore and expand on personal development while painting and drawing with the guidance of a painting instructor.

Teen Ceramics

This week is for those who have always wanted to try making art in clay as well as for those who already have a love for ceramics class. Each afternoon, students will be guided in how to use foundational methods in clay to make artful or useful pieces. Suggestion projects are available for those who prefer traditional lessons. All levels welcome. This is a wonderful opportunity to spend the week in a ceramics studio.

To register and find out more visit https://www.munroecenter.org/a...

April Vacation Fiber Frolic with Penny Lacroix - Online Class

Calling all teens who want to create with fiber! Spend April vacation learning different fiber techniques! In this 4-part workshop, participants will learn a different fiber project each day: spin colorful fiber into art yarn, felt fiber into a flat sheet of fabric, weave their yarn into a small tapestry, and sew everything into a small bag.

A kit including a drop spindle, fiber, a small loom and other materials will be provided to participants. ($20 for the kit.) In addition to the kit, some household items will need to be collected prior to the start.

For students ages 12-18, no previous experience needed.  Class recordings are provided for reference.

Vist our website for additional information and to register

Where is the Parker boulder? Is there a weather-vane on the Belfry? What happened at the Harrington House? No matter how long you've lived in Lexington, there is still plenty for your kids to discover! Have them test their clue-solving and observation skills with a Revolutionary-themed scavenger hunt that takes them to sites around the Lexington Green.

• Start and end at the Depot Building in Lexington Center
• Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult (the hunt is self guided)
• Please practice proper social distancing during your hunt

Free!

Everyone dreamed of freedom during the Revolution, especially Black Americans. Realizing that the popular rhetoric of the revolution was not meant to include them, many paved their own way to a new life of liberty and happiness.

Join professional storyteller Valerie Tutson to hear the heroic tales of James Forten, who as a teenager fought against the British navy and later worked to abolish slavery, and Elizabeth Freeman, who in 1781 successfully sued for her freedom, citing the Massachusetts constitution which states that "All men are born free and equal." Bring the whole family to learn the exciting history of African American bravery in the time of the Revolution.

Admission by donation. 

Lexington Historical Society's museums hold many relics of the first day of the Revolution. Objects that witnessed bloody battle live in situ in our historic houses or rest in exhibit cases, and still more spend their time behind closed doors in our archives.

British soldiers are generally cast as the villains in the story of April 19th: a long line of killing machines, automatons with no sympathy or commonality with the Americans they fought. Historian Don Hagist has uncovered the truth: the British army was rather a surprisingly diverse group of men, many of whom never dreamed that they would be sent to another country to fight their fellow Englishmen.

Recruited from a variety of colonies, countries, professions, and walks of life, many left behind a surprising amount of information that allows us to learn about their personal stories. Who were these men, why were they here, and what did they think about this war? Tune in to find out!

Admission by donation (free to members of His Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot). Registration opens in early April.

Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET Request ZOOM Link here!

Join via Facebook LIVE or watch on YouTube LIVE Streaming

Dismantling racism, white supremacy, and other oppressions requires work at the personal and institutional levels. FPLex welcomes writer, editor, consultant and leader of the 8th Principle Project, Paula Cole Jones, as we renew our commitment to break the liberal habit of ignoring race and ethnicity.

Deep within us, we carry the lives of those who loved us into being. What is the story of which we are a part? What is the history that has shaped us – and can we choose what to pass along to the next generation? Led by our Minister, Rev. Anne Mason.

Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET Request ZOOM Link here!

Join via Facebook LIVE or watch on YouTube LIVE Streaming

First Parish UU is a liberal religious congregation on Lexington Green. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality. We're aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We welcome you: your whole self, with all of your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. For more info visit: www.FPLex.org.

Register at https://tinyurl.com/pekd6m5b

At this event, we will offer a short introduction to the topic, then True Story Theater will facilitate an interactive theater process. They will invite members of the audience to share stories about anti-Asian racism (in all forms, in all settings), and stories of what people have done that has been meaningful or helpful. Actors will transform the stories improvisationally; actors will include people of various races, including Asian American. We will have a couple of short breakouts to discuss stories and topics as well.

Free and open to all. Live captioning provided. Let us know if you need other accommodations in order to participate.

Sponsored by LexPride. Cosponsored by Cary Memorial Library, Lexington Human Services Department, and Lexington Interfaith Clergy Association (LICA).

First Parish children bless us with their presence as they share liturgy, story and music. Together, we celebrate the church family that we are, reminding ourselves that there is always room for more at the table. Worship will be led by our children and Minister, Rev. Anne Mason.

Sunday, May 9, 2021 at 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET Request ZOOM Link here!

Join via Facebook LIVE or watch on YouTube LIVE Streaming

First Parish in Lexington, Unitarian Universalist is a liberal religious congregation on Lexington Green. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality. We're aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We welcome you: your whole self, with all of your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. For more info visit: www.FPLex.org.

2 Part Series – Tuesdays: May 11th & 18th @ 4:00-5:30 PM ET REGISTER now!

Ben Soule has had a life-long interest in the Civil War and for anyone living in the United States of America, that piece of history is still present. Ben’s presentation, “My Civil War Stories,” is about the many moments in his life when the Civil War has reached out from the past and touched him. Travel with him to places as varied as a fort in Boston Harbor, an antiques store in Georgia, a cemetery in Denver, the Lincoln Memorial, and a historic house in Lexington Massachusetts. Meet a remarkable cast of characters from a Boston poet to a Chief of the Cheyenne Nation, from a boy sitting on a fence by a dusty road in Pennsylvania to the Great Emancipator himself. Please join him for the premiere presentation of “My Civil War Stories.”

The State of Clay 11th Biennial Show

An exhibit featuring clay artists connected to the state of Massachusetts

Juror:  Julia Galloway

On display in our newly renovated Molly Harding Nye Gallery

Reservations recommended,  visit our Website for additional information and show hours.

What would it look like for First Parish to truly embrace a diverse multicultural Beloved Community? Can our desire to learn about and value the many religious traditions in our town help us to examine our own limitations? Let us vision together ways that we can live into the beautiful diversity of Lexington. Worship service led by our Minister, Rev. Anne Mason.

Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET Request ZOOM Link here!

Join via Facebook LIVE or watch on YouTube LIVE Streaming

First Parish in Lexington, Unitarian Universalist is a liberal religious congregation on Lexington Green. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality. We're aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We welcome you: your whole self, with all of your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. For more info visit: www.FPLex.org.

2 Part Series – Tuesdays: May 11th & 18th @ 4:00-5:30 PM ET REGISTER now!

Ben Soule has had a life-long interest in the Civil War and for anyone living in the United States of America, that piece of history is still present. Ben’s presentation, “My Civil War Stories,” is about the many moments in his life when the Civil War has reached out from the past and touched him. Travel with him to places as varied as a fort in Boston Harbor, an antiques store in Georgia, a cemetery in Denver, the Lincoln Memorial, and a historic house in Lexington Massachusetts. Meet a remarkable cast of characters from a Boston poet to a Chief of the Cheyenne Nation, from a boy sitting on a fence by a dusty road in Pennsylvania to the Great Emancipator himself. Please join him for the premiere presentation of “My Civil War Stories.”

Presented by Chinese Americans of Lexington (CALex) 

“This land is your land and this land is my land … This land was made for you and me.” In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month 2021, seven members of the Asian American community in Mass. share their personal American stories. 

Register Here

For more Information: contact@calexma.org

Cosponsors: 

• Lexington Human Services Department
• Lexington Human Rights Committee
• Association of Black Citizens of Lexington (ABCL)
• Bangladeshi Americans of Lexington (BLex)
• Indian Americans of Lexington (IAL)
• Japanese Support Group of Lexington (JPLex)
• Korean American Organization of Lexington (KOLex)
• LexPride

Personal Storytelling by Panelists: 

• Betty King (Commissioner of Massachusetts Asian American Commission, author, rescuer of mistreated dogs and cats, advocate for better human-canine relationships) 
• Wilson Lee (Co-founder of Chinese American Heritage Foundation, 5th-generation Chinese American, great-great-grandson of Transcontinental Railroad worker)
• Susie Lee-Snell (Co-founder of Korean American Organization of Lexington, Allergy Release Technique practitioner)
• Linxi Lu (Boston College Ph.D. student, researcher of education, public speaker, freelance writer, online lecturer)
• Shigeru Miyagawa (Professor of linguistics and Senior Associate Dean at MIT, avid runner and fan of American football)
• Kaveesh Pathak (Sophomore at Lexington High School, community and electoral organizer)
• Deepika Sawhney (Lexington School Committee Member, former textile design and IT expert, passionate student of education)

“More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things – stories told and the memories they leave behind.” ― Vera Nazarian. Join us in the celebration of stories. Our service will be led by First Parish youth that will include personal reflections and music!

Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET Request ZOOM Link here!

Join via Facebook LIVE or watch on YouTube LIVE Streaming

First Parish in Lexington, Unitarian Universalist is a liberal religious congregation on Lexington Green. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality. We're aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We welcome you: your whole self, with all of your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. For more info visit: www.FPLex.org.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021 07:30 PM ET REGISTER now!

For a good year now, First Parish church services have come to you via Zoom, YouTube, or Facebook. The music—played by Rip Jackson and other instrumentalists, sung by the choir, the children’s choir, and various soloists—has continued to be a vital part of church. But have you ever wondered how everyone involved has managed to sing or play together when we’ve all been spread out—Rip’s in Florida, Amy’s in DC, Paul’s in South Carolina, Mary’s in Vermont—and basically stuck inside for months on end? Chris Hess, the audio and video wizard behind the music, will describe how this particular bit of sausage is made in the weeks before a piece is part of a service.

We lift our beloved community that has been affected by the cost of war. “We gather to remember – All of our losses: the people, the stories, the loved ones, and the futures that could have been.” – Nicole McKay. Worship service led by our Minister, Rev. Anne Mason.

Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET Request ZOOM Link here!

Join via Facebook LIVE or watch on YouTube LIVE Streaming

First Parish in Lexington, Unitarian Universalist is a liberal religious congregation on Lexington Green. We are diverse in faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality. We're aligned in our desire to make a difference for the good. We welcome you: your whole self, with all of your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Join us on this extraordinary adventure of faith. For more info visit: www.FPLex.org.

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Weekly Meeting

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
Wednesdays
7:00 – 8:30 PM

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