Instrumental concert at L-S
The Lincoln-Sudbury Spring Instrumental Concert is Thursday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. There is no charge for admission and refreshments will be sold at intermission by the L-S Friends of Music. Band works include “Legends of the Yucatan” and “Goddess of Fire.” Orchestra will feature selections from “Peer Gynt.” The combined bands and orchestra will perform the Symphonic Suite from “The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring.”
Farrington Fairy Festival 2018
Farrington Nature Linc (291 Cambridge Turnpike, Lincoln) is hosting its annual Fairy Festival on Saturday, May 5 from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Join a guided hike through our enchanted woods to meet the Fairy Queen, write to the fairies and they’ll write back Fairy Post Office, make a fairy house in our pine forest, and create and take home. Preregistration is required; tickets are $20 for one child-adult pair and $10 for each additional person in your party. Children under 3 are free. All elves, fairies, and gnomes should be accompanied by an adult. Best suited for children ages 4-10, although younger and older children are welcome. For more information, contact Tina DuBois at tina@naturelinc.org or 781-888-0868.
Film and discussion on college relationship violence
The Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable will join with Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and Wayland High School to host on Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m. at Wayland High School (264 Cochituate Road, Wayland) in inviting members of the community, particularly parents of high school students, to a film-based workshop about relationship violence produced by the OneLove Foundation. The short film, “Escalation,” tells the story of two college students who fall in love but whose relationship ultimately turns violent. After a screening, a guided discussion about warning signs of relationship violence will be led by a trained facilitator. Student members of the Mentors in Violence Prevention Teams at the two high schools will also share information about their work and answer questions about “Escalation.”
L-S French students host movie night
See “Le Voyage de Fanny” (“Fanny’s Journey”) at the fifth annual French Movie Night on Friday, May 11 at 7 p.m. in Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Auditorium hosted by the 2018 “French Cinema” classes. Admission is free, but organizers we will be accepting donations for Save the Children. “Fanny’s Journey” (rated PG, in French with English subtitles) is the riveting true story of a young Jewish girl leading a group of Jewish children through Nazi territory to freedom in Switzerland. Directed by Lola Doillon. The students would like to thank the Early Language School of Sudbury, a bilingual French preschool in Sudbury, and EFGB (Éducation Française Greater Boston).
Garden Club plant sale coming up
It’s time for the Lincoln Garden Club’s biennial plant sale on Saturday, May 12 at Codman Barn from 9 a.m.–1 p.m. On sale will be perennials from members’ gardens including daisies, bloodroot, and phlox; container gardens designed by club members, and four species of native plant plugs: Aruncus dioicus, Liatris spicata, Veronicastrum virginicum, and Helenium flexuosum, as well as a table of garden bric-a-brac. The sale supports Garden Club activities such as arrangements for homebound, plantings for the watering trough at Five Corners and at Codman and Lincoln Road intersection, and presentations for the whole town such as our November 2017 lecture, “Gardening with Native Plants: Why it Matters.”
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