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September 2009
BCA EVENTS

Puppets on Parade: Bedford Day   Return

Bedford Center for the Arts will be amply represented on Bedford Day:
  • Our giant (and smaller!) puppets will march in the parade, and
  • We'll have a craft area at our booth on the midway.
You're invited to march with us. Click here to e-mail us that you'd like to march, or contact Parade Marshall Sing Hanson by phone.

Several BCA members and friends have been working hard to make the life-sized puppets that will lead our merry band of marchers. Click to see a slide show of their work!

There will one more workshop to prep the large puppets on Sunday afternoon, September 20. Click to let us know you'd like to help!

If your taste runs to smaller puppet projects, or to noisemakers to carry in the parade, September's Third Friday craft workshop is just your speed! Leaders Lin and Charlotte Christen will gather the faithful between 3 and 5 pm on Friday, September 18 in the BCA Space at Old Town Hall (16 South Road) to make shakers, rattles and impromptu kazoos. Snacks will be served, and you'll be home before sundown.
Open Studios

Open Studios - Save the Date

Open Studios are a wonderful opportunity to visit local artists for an insider's view of their work. The Open Studios tour offers a terrific opportunity to see how artists use their tools and a chance to discuss their techniques, media and ideas in a relaxed setting.

You'll be pleased and surprised to see how many artists are working in Bedford. The work of nearly two dozen painters, ceramicists, glass artists, photographers, sculptors, jewelry designers, and others will be on display (and for sale - think holiday shopping for terrific gifts!) in studios and homes around town as well as in the BCA Space at Old Town Hall on South Road.
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3rd Fridays: Monthly Art & Craft Adventures
 
BCA's "crafter-noons" are complimentary arts and crafts workshops held on the 3rd Friday of every month from 3 to 6 pm in the BCA Space on the ground floor of Old Town Hall, 16 South Road. No preregistration required; come as you are.

Upcoming 3rd Friday activities
  • September 18, Sound & Motion Day: We'll make soda can shakers and dancing ribbons, then learn to play the kazoo.
  • October 16th, Trashimals Day
REMINDER: You're invited to bring your creations and march with BCA in the Bedford Day Parade on September 26.
Mindy's Writing Classes

 BCA is offering new sessions of its popular writing classes taught by Mindy Pollack-Fusi, freelance writer.
 
Just Write!! For anyone who has always wanted to write fiction or nonfiction and has put it off way too long! Before you know it, you'll be on your way to tackling writing projects you've always wanted to complete, or just writing for fun - your choice!
4 Tuesdays: September 22, 29, October 6 and 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
BCA members $72; non-members $80
  
Improve Your College Application Essay. Are you a high school senior who needs to write your essay(s) for college applications? In these one-session workshops Mindy will teach you tips to break through your fear or frustration and complete your essay with passion. Bring a laptop or pen and paper. Limited to 6.
Monday, September 21, from 6:30-8:30 pm, or
Wednesday, October 7, from 6:30-8:30 pm
BCA members $20; non-members $25 
 
All BCA-sponsored classes will be held in the BCA Space on the ground floor at Old Town Hall, 16 South Road.

Sign up for classes, then mail your payment to Mindy Pollack-Fusi at The Place for Words, 200 The Great Road, Bedford, MA 01730.
At the Bedford Library

Summer Puppet Workshops: Children's librarian Sharon McDonald invited members of the 2009 summer reading club to attend a series of workshops where they learned how to make puppets with their families. During the reading club's end-of-season picnic, each of the puppet troupes performed an original skit using a built-for-the-occasion puppet stage that was a gift from its builder and the Friends of the Library. Click to watch a slideshow of the puppets' performance.

In the Gallery: The Gallery's show of Chinese brush paintings continues through early September. On September 18 a new show "Childrens' Book Illustrations" opens.

The Friends of the Library's Bedford Day Book Sale supports the museum passes that make visits to the MFA, the Peabody Essex museum, the Institute for Contemporary Art and a host of other venues affordable. Click for Sale Hours and Details.
Not-to-be-Missed Events
  • Three Apples Storytellers at the Bedford Farmers' Market: Join Three Apples storytellers at the Bedford Farmer's Market on Monday, September 7 (Labor Day) to hear tales told by Jim LaChapelle and Doria Hughes between 3 and 5 pm.
  • BACK TO BASICS: The Bastey Boys Bar-B-Que & the Blues The Bastey Boys, a brigade of champion barbecue pit-meisters with a Bedford background, will slow-cook barbecue all day, and Joe Bargar's band, The Soul Providers, will blow the blues all night at First Parish on the Common on September 12.  Come for dinner (early, or later) then dance in the aisles, or just groove to the music! Click to watch a video about the party or click here to reserve your tickets on line.
  • Visit colonial craftspeople demonstrating their skills as well as modern day artisans at the Job Lane Craft Faire on September 12 from 10 to 3 pm!!  Free admission, with a $2 donation for a tour of the Job Lane Museum House. 295 North Road, Bedford (additional parking on Sweetwater and Wildwood Avenues).
  • Who Does She Think She Is? In this powerful film, Academy Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll introduces five fierce women who refuse to choose between mothering or working; their children's well-being or their own; responsibility or self-expression. Click here to watch the trailer!   Camille Saunders Musser, one of the artists featured in the film, will be present for the screening. Shown on Wednesday, September 9, at 7 pm in the Fine Arts' Theatre to benefit Maynard's Cultural Council. Tickets: $10 each are on sale now! Click to pre-order tickets through the Maynard Cultural Council.
  • More than 60 Emerson Umbrella fall classes are available for online registration. Or you can visit Emerson Umbrella on Stow Street in Concord and pick up a brochure.
  • And while we're thinking of Concord, remember the Concord Art Association. Their classes and free Wednesday morning demos offer a broad range of instruction and exposure to new ideas. Also, look for the reopening of their newly-renovated space on Lexington Road later this fall.
  • Mary Taylor presents a Mixed Media Digital Printmaking Workshop on September 25 and 26 from 9 am to 5 pm at her studio in Marshfield. Participants will explore and experiment with many fine-art digital printmaking processes. Click to e-mail Mary for additional information.
And from our early September newsletter:
  • An evening of sophisticated song with Bedford's David Getty, appearing with the award-winning a cappella group Fretless, at Cornerstone Books, a cozy independent bookstore in Salem, on Saturday, September 19, at 7:00 pm.
  • In celebration of its tenth season of bringing exceptional music to our area, the Concord Chamber Music Society presents a new work by the Boston-area composer Michael Gandolfi for violin, clarinet and piano at their season-opening performance on September 20th at 3 pm in the Concord Academy auditorium.
  • On September 23 the Bedford Historical Society presents Theresa Byington Carmichael, a Bedford resident who specializes in fine painting conservation. Theresa will describe treatments for damaged paintings and provide advice on the storage and display of art work.
Nick Neveux
The Bedford Center for the Arts is your local non-profit organization specializing in community building through the arts. Arts for All and All the Arts. Collectively we are artists, performers, supporters, presenters, collaborators, volunteers and superb appreciators.
 
Located on the ground floor of Old Town Hall, alongside Bedford Common, BCA offers artist studios and program­ming space. Our members and friends are broadly involved in a wide range of arts and cultural activities around town and in our region.