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Community Events ~ June, 2010
The Cambridge
Savings Bank Senior Prom Stroll co-sponsored by the Bedford Chamber of Commerce will take place at 4:30 pm on Thursday,g June 8 on the Common. In case of
inclement
weather the stroll will be held in the High School Gym.
The Bedford Farmers' Market returns on
June 14 from 2 to 6:30 pm every Monday through October 16. Click here to read the market's newsletter.
More than two dozen members of the First Parish Youth Choirs
ages 5 to 18 will bring Disney's Beauty and the Beast to life at the church
on Bedford Common on June 4 and 5. Performances will begin at 7 pm. Tickets are
available at the church office (781-275-7994) or at the door. Admission: $15 for adults; $10 for seniors, students, and children ages 6 and up.
Children ages 5 and under are welcome without charge.
PACEM
Summer Concert: Adult and youth piano, harpsichord, and recorder students from Bedford, Lexington, and surrounding
towns present their Summer Concert on Sunday, June 20, at 5 pm at the home
of Carroll Ann Bottino, 62 Sherburne Rd., Lexington. The program will
include works from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods. Free and open to the public. Guests are invited to stay for a reception, refreshments and an awards ceremony following the concert.
The Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum
2010 will feature acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns who will speak at 8 pm on Wednesday, June 16, at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Burns' award-winning
documentaries include Baseball, The Brooklyn Bridge, The Civil War, Jazz and most recently The National Parks: America¹s Best Idea. The Middlesex Celebrity Forum is annual event designed to bring well-known personalities to the area to help
enrich educational and cultural opportunities for local residents. Tickets are $39.50 and
$29.50; click to purchase tickets online or visit the Lowell Memorial Auditorium box office, 50 E. Merrimack Street, Lowell. For
additional information call 781.862.3337 or 781.275.3120.
The Pan Mass Challenge Bedford Kids
Ride will take place on Saturday, June 19 at the John Glenn Middle School. Over 400 kids from Bedford and surrounding towns are
expected to ride their bikes in support of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and
its Jimmy Fund. Choose a route that is right for you: Wally's Way,
an obstacle course for tykes on trikes; Yawkey Way, a ½ mile route on the
premises and perfect for kids on training wheels, Green Monster, a 3 mile ride
for young adventurous riders; Big Papi, a 6 mile ride for more experienced
riders; Big Papi Slam, a 10 mile ride for those who want a real challenge; and
Fenway, an off-road route just for teens. Click to register to ride or volunteer or email Amy Mason for more information.
If you haven't heard, there's a new
blog for Bedford news and information... Click to read Bedford Town Taxi; it's picking up news
and bringing it around Town...
From Mundane Foundations to Monsters: An
Homage to the Home Depot by Michael Miller is on display at Lowell's Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue
Studios on the second floor of the A-Mill, 122 Western Avenue, from June 2 through 27. There will be
a reception for the artist Friday, June 4, from 6 to 9 pm. The gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 am to 4:30 pm. Click here for information about the exhibit, or call Maxine Farkas at 978-349-8069.
Art in Whistler Park - Artist's Sale: Members of the Lowell Art
Association and the Whistler House Museum of Art will sell their work on Thursday, June 3, and Thursday, June 17, from 5 to 8 pm. The sale is open to
the public. Light refreshments will be served in
the Parker Gallery at Whistler House.
Open Mikes hosted by Jake Kensinger & Ellen
Schmidt of Two for the Show are now perfoming on the 1st, 2nd
and 4th Tuesdays of each month at Savoury Lane, 251 Arlington
Street, West Acton. . Featured performers
go on at 8 pm. Open Mike performers may click to sign up by email or telephone 978-369-8090 by noon
of the day of the Open Mike, or at the door
before 6:15 if they wish to be in the lottery for order. Admission: $5.
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