The Bedford Town Calendar

https://www.bedfordma.gov/284/Voter-Registration

An evening in Big Cherry – a small town in anywhere, USA – and the city council meeting unfolds in real time, unmasking undercurrents that threaten to undo life as they know it … and driving the question, “How far would you go?”   Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts’s (August: Osage County) new play was called one of the most thrilling on Broadway in recent years. Nominated as Best New Play by the Tony Awards and Outer Critics Circle in 2022, and for the Pulitzer Prize in drama, The Minutes is part biting comedy, part Hitchockian mystery, and at its dark

Auxiliary Book Review Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:00 - 1:00 PM  Concord Free Public Library - Trustees Room 129 Main St, Concord, MA 01742 Are you looking for some new books to read? The Auxiliary of Emerson Health invites you to a book review. Bring your literary recommendations and a friend! We will build a reading list to share. This event is during the lunch hour, so please feel free to bring your lunch or drink. Tickets are limited. Registration is required for this free event. To register, visit http://bit.ly/AuxBooks2024

Shawsheen Tech will host its annual 7th grade Project Explore program for Bedford Residents starting on February 27, 2024. This free quality education program is an opportunity for students to visit Shawsheen and explore 6 of the 20 vocational-technical programs over a three-week period.  Bus transportation will be provided from the middle school, and bus rides home will be provided to various stops in town.

  Interested in taking your ideas from the page to the publisher? Join us to learn how these three writers formed a group that produced three debut authors in 2023! Learn about their stories and how the writing group - meeting for six years and counting - became an invaluable resource through the phases of writing, editing, publishing, and now book promotion! They will share how they structured their group and how it has evolved. The event will end with a question-and-answer discussion period. Mindy Pollack-Fusi, Bedford resident, writing coach, Minuteman columnist and Boston Globe correspondent, and book publisher and

The MMIP Painting Project began not as a project at all but with the intent of it being just one painting to show support for the Missing & Murdered indigenous peoples crisis. Artist Nayana laFond created the first painting on May 5, 2020, the day of remembrance for MMIP. She shared it online and the response was so overwhelming she did one more, yet again intending that to be the end. The response to the second was even more and so Nayana opened her inbox to anyone wanting to be painted not expecting the 25+ the received the first day.Stories

The Coalition to Stop Private Jet Expansion, which includes Bedford Mothers Out Front and seven other local groups and organizations, is hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, March 6th, from 7-8:30 pm. This event will include up-to-date information about the current plans for the proposed North Airfield Hangar Expansion, the climate impact of this expansion, the state’s environmental impact review process, and suggested responses that concerned citizens can take.  Guest panelists include Naomi Oreskes, Chuck Collins, Neil Rasmussen, and Alex Chatfield. It will be moderated by Diane Proctor, from the Concord-Carlisle League of Women Voters. Registration for Zoom link and

Shawsheen Tech will host its annual 7th grade Project Explore program for Bedford Residents starting on February 27, 2024. This free quality education program is an opportunity for students to visit Shawsheen and explore 6 of the 20 vocational-technical programs over a three-week period.  Bus transportation will be provided from the middle school, and bus rides home will be provided to various stops in town.

Registered and pre-registered Democrats in Bedford will be holding a caucus on Thursday March 7th at 7:30PM to elect 9 delegates and 4 alternates to the 2024 Massachusetts Democratic State Convention. The caucus will take place virtually. Democrats who wish to participate may register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscOiuqjMpGdZVkl0GflbnjMbY_kEKpUjp This year’s state convention will be held on Saturday June 1st at the DCU Center in Worcester where delegates will gather to voice their support for our nominee for United States Senate and to set forth a winning agenda for the Commonwealth and the nation. The caucus is open to all registered and pre-registered

Deadline is at noon. https://www.bedfordma.gov/284/Voter-Registration

Bedford’s First Church of Christ, 25 Great Road, will host its eighth annual benefit West Virginia Music Festival from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9. Live Appalachian folk music will be performed by duo Tim & Maggie. A pulled-pork buffet dinner and bake sale will also be featured. Admission is $20 per person or $40 per family (including dinner). All proceeds support roofing projects at the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. Call 781-275-7951 or visit: firstchurchbedforducc.org This program is supported in part by a grant from the Bedford Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by

Little Hands, Big Hearts - Patient Greeting Cards Crafting Party March 9, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Acton Memorial Library -  Meeting Room 486 Main Street, Acton, MA 01720 Please join the Auxiliary of Emerson Health in spreading some cheer!We’ll provide supplies for you to create greeting cards with well-wishes for our patients of all ages. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Can't make it to the event? Learn more about making cards at home for our patients: http://bit.ly/EmersonCards Registration is required for this free event. Register at http://bit.ly/LHBHMar2024

Bedford’s First Church of Christ, 25 Great Road, will host its eighth annual benefit West Virginia Music Festival from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9. Live Appalachian folk music will be performed by duo Tim & Maggie. A pulled-pork buffet dinner and bake sale will also be featured. Admission is $20 per person or $40 per family (including dinner). All proceeds support roofing projects at the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. Call 781-275-7951 or visit: firstchurchbedforducc.org This program is supported in part by a grant from the Bedford Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by