Community center feedback opportunity
The Community Center Building Committee will host an “open mic night” on Tuesday, April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Hartwell multipurpose room and via Zoom. ICON Architecture is ICON is now working on parallel tracks to help confirm essential and desired program needs and synergies, and to undertake necessary site-related assessments and open-space planning. Click here to join the Zoom meeting and type the passcode of 579905. Browse Lincoln Squirrel stories on this topic here.
Lincoln Climate Action Plan workshop #2
The town of Lincoln is gathering input for a Climate Action Plan that will guide efforts to reduce carbon emissions and increase the community’s resilience to climate change impacts. The second community workshop will take place twice — on Wednesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. and Friday, April 14 at 8:30 a.m. (both via Zoom). The information shared will be the same, so you only need to attend one. Click here to register for the April 12 event, or click here to register for the April 14 event. Questions or comments? Email Jennifer Curtin at curtinj@lincolntown.org.
Weaving at deCordova
The deCordova is offering weaving workshops and a guided tour of the park in early April. On Sunday, April 2 from 10-12:30 p.m. and also 1:30-4 p.m., join artist Mihoko Wakabayashi in exploring the practice of saori weaving. This freestyle contemporary weaving technique emphasizes the individuality of the maker through spontaneity and freedom of expression. Come for a half-day from session to produce a nature-inspired wall hanging or register for two half-day sessions (five hours total) to create a larger wall hanging, scarf, or placemat. Click on one or both times above to register.
Learn about Ukrainian egg-dyeing
Codman Community Farms will be getting crafty in its farm kitchen with two pysansky classes. On Wednesday, April 5 from 3–4 p.m. and Saturday, April 8 from 11 a.m.–noon (click here to register), kids age 5-10 can create natural dyes with plant materials to decorate one-of-a kind eggs from the Codman flock. Each participant will get a dozen hard-boiled farm eggs to decorate and dye in the class… and to snack on later in the week if they choose. Cost is $25; all materials included.
Using beeswax, traditional kistka tools, colorful dyes, and Codman-raised eggs, guest instructor and artist Gretjen Helene will teach “Pyansky Egg Happy Hour” for adults and teens, making both simple and complicated designs with an old wax-resist dyeing technique on Saturday, April 8 from 3–5 p.m. Farm snacks provided. Cost is $80; all materials included. Drop-off and pickup in the farm kitchen. Parents are welcome to pop in and watch as long as there is space for us to move around.
Click here to register for any of these classes.
Learn about No Mo May
On Tuesday, April 11 at 7 p.m., the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust and Lincoln Common Ground will host a town-wide Zoom event to raise awareness about the No Mow May campaign and answer questions. Leaving lawns unmowed, even for a month, allows flowers to bloom, which provides sustenance for bees and other early pollinating insects. Delaying the start of mowing season for just a month can make a positive difference in our local ecology and reduce the town’s carbon footprint by diminishing the use of gas and electric mower. Visit lincolncommonground.com to register. Questions? Email Robin Wilkerson at outsideinformation@gmail.com.