Students and faculty from Boston University‘s MFA program in Visual Narrative showcase their thinking and process for creating comics, graphic novels and picture books in the latest show at the Bedford Free Public Library gallery. A reception and artist talk will take place this Sunday. Artists include program chair, Joel Christian Gill, a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded
Tickets $14/adult & $12/student. The BHS Performing Arts Department will present “THE ADDAMS FAMILY – A NEW MUSICAL” on Wednesday-Saturday, in the Buckley Auditorium at BHS. About 80 students are participating as members of the cast, pit orchestra, and production crew under the direction of Katrina Faulstich. The show is considered appropriate for audiences of at least middle-school age. The show will run approximately two-and-a-half hours with one intermission at the following times: March 13 @ 4:30 pm March 14 @ 7:00 pm March 15 @ 7:00 pm March 16 @ 1:00 pm & 7:00 pm Tickets are available through
Acting Friends of Depot Park President William Deen will enlighten all who attend this program, using details from his recently published book, Minuteman Railroad: Boston and Maine’s Lexington Branch. His book contains 212 pages, 191 photographs, and 27 maps. It tells the colorful history of the Boston and Maine’s (B&M’s) Lexington Branch, which operated from 1846 to 1981. Passenger service was extremely popular and vital to the growth of these towns. In 1900, the B&M line ran 28 steam trains daily in Bedford, 44 in Lexington, and 60 in Arlington. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open
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
On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, the Bedford Garden Club presents an exciting meeting on Bees at the First Church of Christ, Congregational, 25 The Great Road, Bedford, MA 9:30 AM Social, 10:00 AM Program Amelie Behaeghel’s presentation depicts activities in and around a beehive from January to the honey harvest in the fall. The public is invited.
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.
On Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7 pm the Bedford Center for the Arts Photo Group will welcome back Paul Nguyen for a presentation on Time Lapse Photography. Add a brand-new dimension to your photographic passion by learning how to create time lapse movies. By capturing your subjects with time lapse photography, processes that normally appear subtle or unnoticeable to the human eye, such as the motion of the sun and stars, or the ordinary daily events of the city, become very pronounced. This type of photography uses still photos taken at regular intervals, which, when shown in sequence as a
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
Bedford Special Education Parent Advisory Council - SEPAC The mission of the Bedford Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SEPAC) is to establish better understanding of, respect for and support of special education to meet the needs of all Bedford students with disabilities. Activities include parent/guardian networking, communication with school officials, outreach to the community, state and national organizations, and sponsorship of educational forums. SEPAC meetings virtually each month over Zoom. Come and discuss special education programming in Bedford and how we can best support our children. Future Meetings Thurs, Feb 15, 2024 | 7:30 PM Thurs, Mar 14, 2024 |
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