The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library (SRMML) reopens on July 19, 2021 and will present a new exhibition entitled “What’s in a Portrait?”  A portrait is someone’s likeness captured in paint, ink, or in a photograph, but it is also much more. Portraits serve many purposes: they function as personal and family mementos, document accomplishments, or show the owner’s admiration of a celebrated figure.

“What’s in a Portrait?” is a selection of works from the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library that help tell the story of the many people who participated and shaped Masonic and fraternal organizations in the United States for over two hundred years. The show is on view through July 21, 2022.

History and Art Exhibit--at the Lexington Community Center until August 1, 2022

"East Lexington Trees Tell Our History"

Art by Kathleen Dalton and Kelly Slater

Open June 1-August 1

M-F 8 a.m.-9 p.m.  Saturdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Check out our website: https://sites.google.com/d/1wycA_I-_tuH5oBI9vlfpf9TCBNcjLsG5/p/1hH8loeOecW1jWgHj5KpHtbqlp6iOFZpw/edit

Using polymer art and craft to explore optimism in all its forms: a personal positive outlook, community-wide response to challenging times, reflection on the past, joy in the moment, and hope for the future.

Registration is Open for

SNAP’s Summer Special Artists

SNAP Summer Special Artists is having a four week session in July beginning Saturday, July 9th.

The summer session runs for 4 consecutive Saturdays.

SNAP Art Director, Lidija Vukovic will lead these sessions.

There will be three classes: 10-11:15am (filled)

11:30-12:45pm (open slots)

1 -1:45pm class for children ages 5 - 12 (open slots)

     The cost is $70

Please reach out to info@snaparts.org if you are interested in enrolling a student.

Projects for the summer session will focus on building skills, expanding creativity and representing the natural world through artistic expression.

All three classes for this summer sessions are held at the Lexington Community Center,

39 Marrett Road, Lexington.

A parent or guardian will be required to stay for the children’s class and as needed for the adult classes.

 All participants and their parent/guardian attending with them must be vaccinated to participate.

A beautiful new exhibit called

Picasso Portraits

has been installed at Munroe Center for the Arts

Created by our Special Artists, they made a Picasso portrait of themselves.

Picasso was a great artist who lived in 20 century (1881- 1973). He presented his artwork through many styles and some are Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism. He used variety of colors to express his subjects. His colors are exciting and vibrant especially in Cubism style where he was focused on using geometrical shapes, shapes edges, to represent his amazing ideas. This portrait is reflection on Cubism period.

     Munroe Center for the Arts, 1403 Mass Ave, in Lexington.

Now through the end of August

Hours 9am - 4pm • 781-862-6040

Special Exhibits Within the Community are planned and exhibited to show the Achievements of our Artists.

For more information: www.snaparts.org

Join us July 6th, 7th, 13th & 14th for a Throwback to Bertucci’s original menu with prices from the 1980

The 80’s was such a delicious decade, so Bertucci’s is bringing it back! For four days in July, Bertucci's will be offering a special Throwback menu with items, but most importantly, prices, from their original menus in the 1980s. On July 6th, 7th, 13th & 14th, guests can enjoy up to a 75% discount on some of their menu favorites when dining in their local Bertucci's. Prices range from $3.25 to $6.00. Visit your local Bertucci’s and be transported back to when the restaurant first opened its doors in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1981!

Appetizer choices include: Insalata and Chopped Antipasti. Entrées include the following pastas, pizzas, and calzones: Rigatoni, Broccoli & Chicken, Cheese Ravioli, Rigatoni with Tomato Sauce, Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Cheese Pizza, Bertucci Pizza (Extra Pepperoni), Formaggio Pizza, Sporkie Pizza, Nolio Pizza, Ricotta Calzone, and dessert is a Chocolate Chip Cannoli.

The Throwback Pricing promotion will be available on July 6th and 7th, and July 13th and 14th, at all Bertucci’s locations from New Hampshire down to Virginia for dine-in only. For additional information and inquiries about Bertucci’s, or to find a location nearest you, visit www.bertuccis.com. To stay up to date and make sure you never miss a promotion, follow Bertucci’s on Instagram, @bertuccis, Facebook, www.facebook.com/Bertuccis, Twitter, @bertuccis, and TikTok, @officialbertuccis. Click here for all Bertucci’s locations: https://locations.bertuccis.com/us

There will be a celebration of the latest Lexington Council for the Arts project: Neighborhood Haiku, haiku poems submitted by community members painted on storefront windows in the Lexington Center and East Lexington.

Haiku poetry readings, live music, tours of storefront windows with painted poems.

July 12th (rain date July 14th) 6 pm - 8 pm. At the Lexington Depot.

The entire Lexington community is invited. Please come! It will be fun.

MetWinds to Present Three Free Outdoor Concerts at Hastings Park in Lexington, Massachusetts  

Lexington, MA – The MetWinds will perform three free outdoor concerts this summer on Thursday nights in July, beginning on the 14th, at Hastings Park, located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Worthen Road in Lexington, Massachusetts. These concerts will run, weather permitting, from 7:30 to 8:30 pm on July 14th, July 21st, and July 28th. Each performance will be guest conducted by talented MetWinds members including: Mark Olson, Bruce Houston, Meghan MacFadden, and Nicole Mlynczak. Each program will feature music including light classics, marches, selections from Broadway shows, and movie themes. 

July 14, 2022 at 7:30pm with Mark Olson and Bruce Houston, Guest Conductors

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), Sedona (Reinke), Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (Wagner, trans. Cailliet), Toccata (Frescobaldi), Concord (Grundman), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Havana Nights (Standridge), The Promise of Living (Copland), Star Wars - The Marches (Williams)

July 21, 2022 at 7:30pm with Meghan MacFadden, Guest Conductor

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), American Salute (Gould/Lang), Tinker to Evers to Chance (Bremer), Of Honor and Valor Eternal (Shabazz/Duthoit), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Duke Ellington! (arr. Custer), We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Miranda), Remember Me from Coco (Vinson), Music from The Incredibles (Giacchino/Bocook), The Melody Shop (King)

July 28, 2022 at 7:30pm with Nicole Mlynczak and Bruce Houston, Guest Conductors

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), Amparito Roca (Texidor), Benny Goodman: King of Swing (arr. Murtha), This Cruel Moon (Mackey), Il Burlone (Giroux), Quick Silver (Owens), Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (Gorb), Danny Boy (Hazo), Sondheim! (arr. Bulla), America the Beautiful (Ward, arr. Dragon), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Curtain Call (Wasson)

Each concert is free of charge and open to the public. The grounds at Hastings Park will open each evening for picnic at 6:00pm. Guests should bring their own food, lawn chairs, blankets, and so on. There is plenty of free parking and the concert location is handicapped-accessible. In the event of inclement weather, concert cancellations will be posted on our website and a message will be left  on our concert line.

Visit the MetWinds web page at http://www.metwinds.org or call the MetWinds Concert Line at (978) 419-1697 for more information. Email mws@mws-boston.org with any questions.

Founded by Jerry Gardner in 1971, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, a concert band, is currently celebrating its 51st anniversary. The MetWinds comprises over 70 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists who audition for membership and seating. It makes a significant contribution to the cultural life of the Greater Boston community by providing its audiences with high quality concerts and its members with opportunities for musical growth.

This and other concerts by the MetWinds are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Metropolitan Wind Symphony

62 Mossdale Road, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 

web: http://www.metwinds.org

The New England Sculptors Association was founded in 1948. NESA has over 150 professional sculptor members, emerging sculptors, and Friends of NESA from 7 states. Although the Association has no brick and mortar presence, they partner with local galleries, museums, historical sites, and communities to bring sculpture in all its amazing forms to the public, living up to its tagline of “bringing sculptures to communities”.  LexArt, under the leadership of new Executive Director Matthew Siegal, has reinvigorated and expanded its mission of community arts and so found a partnership with NESA a natural fit.  Siegal contacted Elisa Adams, the president of NESA, and invited  NESA to host a show. Summer Surprise will feature contemporary sculptures created exclusively by NESA members. The exhibition will be open from July 16th through August 8th. The exhibition was juried by fellow local sculptors and LexArt patrons, Alison Lauriat and Molly Nye, along with Matthew Siegel.  It includes 35 works by 23 artists, including Turkish Towel by Josie Dellenbaugh, evoking lazy summer days at the beach, and Leaves of Grass by Cassie Doyon, with the brilliant colors of the season.

Munroe Center for the Arts

July Theatre Intensive - July 18th - 22nd
Ages 10 - 14
3:30pm - 5:30pm
Monday - Friday 

Join us for a fun and dynamic look at the world of theatre! During this class we will work together on scenes to perform at the end of the week. We will use the the scripts to learn stage directions and theatre terms. Through improvisation games, character development and fun exercises with our work on the scenes, we'll be guaranteed a entertaining adventure of our own!

This class will take place on our outdoor stage (weather permitting) and the final performance will be at 6:00pm on the Friday.

MetWinds to Present Three Free Outdoor Concerts at Hastings Park in Lexington, Massachusetts  

Lexington, MA – The MetWinds will perform three free outdoor concerts this summer on Thursday nights in July, beginning on the 14th, at Hastings Park, located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Worthen Road in Lexington, Massachusetts. These concerts will run, weather permitting, from 7:30 to 8:30 pm on July 14th, July 21st, and July 28th. Each performance will be guest conducted by talented MetWinds members including: Mark Olson, Bruce Houston, Meghan MacFadden, and Nicole Mlynczak. Each program will feature music including light classics, marches, selections from Broadway shows, and movie themes. 

July 14, 2022 at 7:30pm with Mark Olson and Bruce Houston, Guest Conductors

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), Sedona (Reinke), Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (Wagner, trans. Cailliet), Toccata (Frescobaldi), Concord (Grundman), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Havana Nights (Standridge), The Promise of Living (Copland), Star Wars - The Marches (Williams)

July 21, 2022 at 7:30pm with Meghan MacFadden, Guest Conductor

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), American Salute (Gould/Lang), Tinker to Evers to Chance (Bremer), Of Honor and Valor Eternal (Shabazz/Duthoit), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Duke Ellington! (arr. Custer), We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Miranda), Remember Me from Coco (Vinson), Music from The Incredibles (Giacchino/Bocook), The Melody Shop (King)

July 28, 2022 at 7:30pm with Nicole Mlynczak and Bruce Houston, Guest Conductors

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), Amparito Roca (Texidor), Benny Goodman: King of Swing (arr. Murtha), This Cruel Moon (Mackey), Il Burlone (Giroux), Quick Silver (Owens), Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (Gorb), Danny Boy (Hazo), Sondheim! (arr. Bulla), America the Beautiful (Ward, arr. Dragon), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Curtain Call (Wasson)

Each concert is free of charge and open to the public. The grounds at Hastings Park will open each evening for picnic at 6:00pm. Guests should bring their own food, lawn chairs, blankets, and so on. There is plenty of free parking and the concert location is handicapped-accessible. In the event of inclement weather, concert cancellations will be posted on our website and a message will be left  on our concert line.

Visit the MetWinds web page at http://www.metwinds.org or call the MetWinds Concert Line at (978) 419-1697 for more information. Email mws@mws-boston.org with any questions.

Founded by Jerry Gardner in 1971, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, a concert band, is currently celebrating its 51st anniversary. The MetWinds comprises over 70 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists who audition for membership and seating. It makes a significant contribution to the cultural life of the Greater Boston community by providing its audiences with high quality concerts and its members with opportunities for musical growth.

This and other concerts by the MetWinds are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Metropolitan Wind Symphony

62 Mossdale Road, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 

web: http://www.metwinds.org

MetWinds to Present Three Free Outdoor Concerts at Hastings Park in Lexington, Massachusetts  

Lexington, MA – The MetWinds will perform three free outdoor concerts this summer on Thursday nights in July, beginning on the 14th, at Hastings Park, located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Worthen Road in Lexington, Massachusetts. These concerts will run, weather permitting, from 7:30 to 8:30 pm on July 14th, July 21st, and July 28th. Each performance will be guest conducted by talented MetWinds members including: Mark Olson, Bruce Houston, Meghan MacFadden, and Nicole Mlynczak. Each program will feature music including light classics, marches, selections from Broadway shows, and movie themes. 

July 14, 2022 at 7:30pm with Mark Olson and Bruce Houston, Guest Conductors

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), Sedona (Reinke), Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (Wagner, trans. Cailliet), Toccata (Frescobaldi), Concord (Grundman), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Havana Nights (Standridge), The Promise of Living (Copland), Star Wars - The Marches (Williams)

July 21, 2022 at 7:30pm with Meghan MacFadden, Guest Conductor

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), American Salute (Gould/Lang), Tinker to Evers to Chance (Bremer), Of Honor and Valor Eternal (Shabazz/Duthoit), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Duke Ellington! (arr. Custer), We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Miranda), Remember Me from Coco (Vinson), Music from The Incredibles (Giacchino/Bocook), The Melody Shop (King)

July 28, 2022 at 7:30pm with Nicole Mlynczak and Bruce Houston, Guest Conductors

Program includes: National Anthem (traditional), Amparito Roca (Texidor), Benny Goodman: King of Swing (arr. Murtha), This Cruel Moon (Mackey), Il Burlone (Giroux), Quick Silver (Owens), Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (Gorb), Danny Boy (Hazo), Sondheim! (arr. Bulla), America the Beautiful (Ward, arr. Dragon), Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa), Curtain Call (Wasson)

Each concert is free of charge and open to the public. The grounds at Hastings Park will open each evening for picnic at 6:00pm. Guests should bring their own food, lawn chairs, blankets, and so on. There is plenty of free parking and the concert location is handicapped-accessible. In the event of inclement weather, concert cancellations will be posted on our website and a message will be left  on our concert line.

Visit the MetWinds web page at http://www.metwinds.org or call the MetWinds Concert Line at (978) 419-1697 for more information. Email mws@mws-boston.org with any questions.

Founded by Jerry Gardner in 1971, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, a concert band, is currently celebrating its 51st anniversary. The MetWinds comprises over 70 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists who audition for membership and seating. It makes a significant contribution to the cultural life of the Greater Boston community by providing its audiences with high quality concerts and its members with opportunities for musical growth.

This and other concerts by the MetWinds are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Metropolitan Wind Symphony

62 Mossdale Road, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 

web: http://www.metwinds.org