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Coming up at the deCordova

• Collaborate with Biennial artist Chanel Thervil to represent your superpower though vibrant color and bold, abstract shapes in “Towers of Power: Self Portrait Sculptures” on Sunday, May 5 from 1–3 p.m. (rain or shine). Add your unique element to a massive community installation punctuating deCordova’s landscape. This special ArtWeek program is great for all ages. Free with admission or membership; registration requested.
• Take a dynamic, indoor/outdoor tour of the history and art of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum on Saturday, May 18 from 11 a.m.–noon. Learn about the transformation of the de Cordova family’s summer cottage built in 1880 to the “castle” that became their year-round residence at the turn of the century to the contemporary art museum of today. Free with admission or membership; registration requested.
• Join Biennial artist Emilie Stark-Menneg with collaborators Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Desmond Bratton for a live performance of dancing, music, and poetry in deCordova’s galleries on Thursday, May 23 from 6–7 p.m. Their piece will be in dialogue with Stark-Menneg’s film “Confirmation” featured in the Biennial. Free; registration requested.

Help fight invasive garlic mustard

Help the Conservation Department fight invasive plant garlic mustard across town. Neighborhood pull season is April 30 through May 31. Join your neighbors and pull garlic mustard — you choose the time and place. Free paper leaf bags will be distributed to residents at the transfer station on Saturday, May 4 from 9 a.m.–noon. After that, bags will be available at the Conservation Department office in Town Hall and the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust office at the mall. Click here for a fact sheet with pictures of garlic mustard.

There will be a spot behind the DPW facility on Lewis Street for residents to drop off their filled bags (no wall lettuce or yard clippings, please). Hours are Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Though dropoffs are preferred, Conservation staff will pick up full bags of garlic mustard in neighborhoods through May 31, but only if you contact them at 781-259-2612 or stacyc@lincolntown.org (allow a few days for pickup).