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Special
Primary Election
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Choose the candidates who will compete for
Senator Kennedy's seat in the
general election
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December 8
Polls Open:
7 am to 8 pm
Bedford votes at the
John Glenn
Middle School
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 December 2009
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Annual BCA Membership MailingSoon to arrive in a mailbox near you
BCA's annual Membership mailing should arrive in your mailbox within the next several days, and we're hopeful that you'll respond happily and you'll be pleased to join us for another year.
So that we can concentrate on activities rather than multiple renewal dates, all BCA memberships will be valid from January 1 through December 31.
BCA's coming year holds much promise: terrific music, the continued success of Crafternoons, a trip to Opera Boston, a play reading workshop and a few things that aren't quite ready to announce just yet.
Suffice it to say that you'll want to be part of the action!
If you don't get our postal mailing, it means we have only got your e-mail address. Please email us using this link and we'll send a membership packet right out to you.
Most of all: Thank you (in advance!) for your support and enthusiasm for what BCA is all about. We're looking forward to sending your BCA membership card in early January.
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BCA Flatbread FundraiserTuesday, December 8, from 5 to 9 pm
 The pizzas you enjoy at Flatbread on BCA night will also feed the BCA coffers. (BCA benefits from both take-out and eat-in pizzas, although you'll have the best fun hanging out with all of us in front of Flatbread's blazing oven fires.)
Click this link to see the outstanding banner designed by Cate Kristen Waung to mark our event. Let us know if you'd like to use the banner as an e-card to invite your friends and neighbors to join you at the party.
BCA has conjured up a silent auction as part of this year's Flatbread Fundraiser. There will be original art, pottery, at least one photographic print and other goodies, some of which were featured during Open Studios. Bid high, bid often and win great art!
Need directions to Flatbread? Click this link!
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BCA Classical Concert - Save the Date
Cellist Meghan Carye on the evening of January 16 at First Parish
Brilliant classical music will resound in Bedford on the evening of January 16 when Boston-area cellist and teacher Meghan Carye brings Beethoven's Second Cello Suite and Beethoven's Sonata in F Major to the sanctuary at First Parish.
Further details will follow, but don't book anything else for January 16th because you'll want to be in the audience for this exciting event.
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Third Friday Crafternoons
December 18, from 3 to 5 pm in the BCA Space at Old Town Hall
BCA's popular drop-in craft program returns with Solstice and holiday projects. Bring your kids, grandkids or the neighbors and join the fun. A world of craft materials will be available; there are experienced leaders if you'd like to make one of the featured projects; and it's all free, courtesy of Bedford Center for the Arts.
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Opera Boston in May: Order your tickets now
BCA's in Boston in May to meet La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
In order to be sure that you have your tickets for the May 2 matinee performance of Opera Boston's production of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, you'll need to reserve your ticket by January 15.
La Grand Duchesse is Offenbach's send-up of Napoelon's Second Empire. Its sparkling score and satirical libretto were thought to be spot-on in 1867, and parallels to current politics won't likely go unnoticed. To prepare you for all the fun, Opera Boston has prepared a terrific study guide to download and read at your leisure. We'll also arrive in town in time to hear the pre-performance lecture.
The performance will take place in the Cutler Majestic Theatre designed and built specifically for opera by Eben Dyer Jordan in 1903. Emerson College completed the theatre's restoration to its Beaux Arts classical perfection in 2003 and added modern technical support to its spectacular gilded interior. The theatre is listed on both the Massachusetts and National Registers of Historic Places as well as being a Boston Historic Landmark
Bedford resident and BCA member Carole Charnow Grainger is Opera Boston's General Director. Opera Boston's vision statement begins with To experience great opera is to enjoy one of life's greatest theatrical adventures. And you're invited to take part in this one!
BCA has reserved 25 mezzanine seats at $55 each. Carpools will
be arranged, leaving from the library parking lot at noon to allow time
for lunch in the Theatre District before the performance. Reserve your ticket now.
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Open Studios Follow-up
Several hundred visitors sampled handmade cards, pottery, prints, paintings, quilts, fused glass, quilts, turned wood, wearable art as well as poetry and writing on a gorgeous weekend in early November.
BCA's greatly appreciates the efforts and energies of co-ordinator Susan Grieb and her team of volunteers, our participating artists and the hundreds of visitors who helped assure Open Studios' success.
Click this link to get a sense of the 2009 Open Studios!
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In Collaboration with BCA
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Three Apples at the Holiday House Tour
Sunday, December 5; House Tour: 1 to 4 pm; Stories at 2:30, 3 & 3:30
Bedford storytellers Judith McConnell, John Dodge and Doris Smith will entertain visitors at First Church Christ Congregational (parking in the town lot off Mudge Way), the refreshments stop during the annual Bedford Chamber of Commerce Holiday House Tour on Sunday afternoon, December 6 from 1 to 4 pm.
The tour which features five festive, seasonally-decorated houses is a fundraiser for the Bedford Chamber of Commerce's Charles Hume Scholarship awarded annually to a graduating Bedford High School senior.
Advance pre-sale tickets are adults, $20; seniors, $15; and children 8-12, $10. Tickets will be $25 on the day of the event. Tickets are available at Great Road Galleries, 363 Great Road; New England Nurseries, 216 Concord Road; and
the Chamber office, 12 Mudge Way.
For more information, please
contact Maureen Sullivan, 781-275-8503.
Three Apples Storytelling Festival is supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Bedford Cultural Council and Progress
Software.
ALSO: Check out this short video of Tim Van Egmond's recent Three Apples event at Old Town Hall in Bedford, part of Bedford Unplugged.
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10th Anniversary Exhibit at the Library Gallery
During regular library hours until mid-January
Work by 28 Bedford artists is on display in the library's Atrium Gallery. This juried exhibit is the Art Steering Commitee's tenth open call for local work.
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Beginners' Poetry Workshop - Dianalee Velie
Saturday, December 12, 10 am to 4 pm - The Place for Words, Bedford
Come get in touch with the passion and
the power of poetry. In
Poetry: The Quill of the Soul we will try to bring our minds down into
our souls. By turning back to our core and exploring our interiors through poems,
we will articulate truths we may not have realized before. Come fall in love
with poetry by writing from your heart. Through a series of in-class writing
prompts, students will compose first drafts of poems to capture and encapsulate
emotions, experiences and imagery.
Dianalee Velie's award-winning poetry and short stories have been published in hundreds of
literary journals throughout the USA and Canada. She is extremely talented,
inspiring, compassionate...and fun.
We will break for lunch on your own, or with others at a local restaurant
(several nearby), from noon to 2 pm.
Fees: $55 for BCA members and Place
for Words students; $60 general public. Limited to 12 students.
Pre-registration
is required by December 8.
For more information, call 781-275-7301 or e-mail Mindy Pollack-Fusi. You can also check the The Place for Words & Workshops website or visit the Place for Words at 200 Great
Road (Suite 254A) in Bedford.
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A Request for Participation
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Halsey Burgund - Ocean Voices
Bedford's own composer reaches out to the environment
Do you know that you're invited to help
celebrate Jacques Cousteau's 100th birthday anniversary and World Ocean Day
2010 by becoming a part of Ocean Voices?
Bedford
musician, composer and sound artist Halsey Burgund and marine biologist Wallace J.
Nichols have joined forces to collect the voices of people around the world
as they recount their personal experiences with the ocean. Combined with music written by
Halsey, these voices will become raw material for a piece of music to be
performed next year at the California Academy of Sciences.
Listen to a recent podcast about Ocean Voices and join the project by recording your own voice right from your home computer!
Ocean Voices has both artistic and
conservation goals:
- To bring together
a global community to emphasize how ocean conservation is a
global issue;
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To focus on the
individual and the individual's thoughts about the ocean, making it very personal and therefore more impactful;
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To bring together
the creative/musical/artistic world with the environmental world,
thereby broadening the audience and increasing accessibility; and
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To actively
solicit grassroots participation from a wide variety of
geographic and demographic groups and encourage cross-pollination of
ideas. Return to Top
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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, presenters, supporters, collaborators, volunteers
and superb appreciators.
Located on the ground floor
of Old Town Hall, alongside Bedford Common, BCA offers artist studios and
programming space. BCA members and friends are involved in a wide range
of arts and cultural activities around town and in our region.
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