The Lincoln Squirrel – News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.

L-S School Committee listening session
2025-02-24 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The Lincoln-Sudbury School Committee will hold a listening session for students, families, and community members on Monday, Feb. 24 from 7:00–8:00pm on Google Meet. The purpose of the listening session is to give individuals the opportunity to raise items with members of the Committee. In attendance will be committee members Lucy Maulsby and Ravi Simon.

Music Street concert
2025-02-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Bemis Hall, 15 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
Diane Katzenberg Braun
Five Music Street musicians led by Lincoln pianist Diane Katzenberg Braun will present “Spinning the Globe: A Rich Heritage” with selections from America to Italy, Hungary, Argentina, France, and Spain on Sunday, Feb. 23 at 7:30pm in Bemis Hall. This free concert is made possible in part by a grant from the Lincoln Cultural Council, which is supported by the Mass. Cultural Council, a state agency.

Film: "Tantura"
2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Lincoln Public Library, 3 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, United States
In the war of 1948, hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it The War of Independence; Palestinians call it the Nakba. The film examines one village and why discussion of the Nakba is taboo in Israeli schools and society. View trailer. Sponsored by GRALTA.

Concert: "The Inevitability of Love”
2025-02-21 20:00 - 22:00
Join the Henry Purcell Society of Boston and the Filigree Ensemble for “The Inevitability of Love” — a candlelit concert probing the multifaceted nature of desire and love through a series of dramatic cantatas and duets by Scarlatti, Purcell, Morley, and Henry Lawes — on Friday, Feb. 21 at 8:00pm at the First Parish in Lincoln’s stone church (14 Bedford Rd). Also featured: Cullen O’Neil on cello and Andrus Madsen on harpsichord. Tickets are $40; click here to purchase.

Film: "The Six Triple Eight"
2025-02-21 12:30 - 14:30 | Bemis Hall, 15 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
See the February COA&HS newsletter for details.

Inclusive and diverse book recs
2025-02-20 19:30 - 20:30 | Zoom
Click here for more information, and click here to register for the Zoom link (registrants will get the list of recommendations). Sign up for one session or for all.

Film: "Tantura"
2025-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Bemis Hall, 15 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States

Film: "Neruda"
2025-02-20 19:00 - 20:00
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. Hosted by the Lincoln Library Film Society.

GearTick robotics demonstration
2025-02-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Lincoln Public Library, 3 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, United States
Come see the Lincoln GearTick and the L-S High School Robotics Team demonstrate their robot creations. Best for ages 5+.

Pop-up art school: felted landscape
2025-02-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Lincoln Library Tarbell Room, 3 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, United States
For ages 11-19. Click here for details and required registration.

Fantastical Folklore of Flowers
2025-02-14 12:30 - 14:00

Author Talk: Rich Higgins on "Thoreau's God"
2025-02-13 19:00 | Lincoln Library Tarbell Room, 3 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, United States
Click here for details.

Thriller/Horror Book Recs with Bookstagrammer @redreadreviews
2025-02-11 19:30 | Zoom
Click here for details and registration.

Forests and Carbon Sequestration
2025-02-11 19:00 | Zoom
Learn how disturbances such as climate change, urbanization, and invasive insects impact forest ecosystems in the northeastern U.S. and their ability to grow and store carbon on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 7:00pm on Zoom. Ph.D. candidate Emerson Conrad-Rooney will share highlights from their research on how climate change throughout the year — both warmer summers and less snowpack in winter — affects forest ecosystems. Register here to receive the meeting link.

Help with Valentine’s Day gift bags
2025-02-11 13:30 - 14:30
Each February, the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable collects items for Valentine’s Day and fills gift bags for adults and children temporarily living in local domestic violence shelters and transitional housing programs. The bags are decorated by the children from Sudbury Extended Day. Help assemble bags on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 1:30pm at the Sudbury Grange (326 Concord Rd. next to Sudbury Town Hall). Useful donations include store gift cards, socks and underwear, cosmetics, toiletries, journals, and gloves/mittens. Items for children could include playing cards, educational materials, small toys, small stuffed animals, underwear, socks and candy (no books, crayons, pencils, markers, or Matchbox cars, please).

Donations may be left in the collection basket at Sudbury Wine and Spirits in the Rugged Bear Plaza Road (410 Boston Post Rd, Sudbury). The 2025 collection will end on February 10th. For details, see the DVRT website. Questions? Email info@dvrt.org.

Doug Hazard at LOMA
2025-02-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Bemis Hall, 15 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
Doug Hazard will be the headliner at the next Lincoln Open Mic Night on Monday, Feb. 10 from 7–10 p.m. in Bemis Hall. LOMA is a monthly open mike night event with mikes and instrumental pickups suitable for individuals or small groups playing acoustic-style. Perform (contact loma3re@gmail.com) or just come listen to acoustic music and spoken word. Free admission.

Film: "My Tree"
2025-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Lincoln Public Library, 3 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, United States
“My Tree” follows Jason Sherman’s journey to find the tree that was planted in his name in Israel many years earlier. When he discovers that it stands on the remains of a Palestinian village that was destroyed in 1967, he embarks on another journey — to determine his responsibility in helping to cover up the destruction. View trailer. Sponsored by GRALTA.

Valentine dance party
2025-02-08 18:00 - 22:00 | Bemis Hall, 15 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
Put on your dancing shoes and come to Insight Boston’s Valentine Dance Party on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 6:00–10:00pm in Bemis Hall. A DJ will play dance tunes from all eras. Appropriate for adults and older teens (no alcohol, please). Insight Boston sponsors personal growth and development seminars offering the opportunity to gain practical tools and create more of what people want in their lives. Questions? Contact Stephanie Kramp at 978-460-4891 or stephkramp@yahoo.com.

Classic Love Songs
2025-02-07 12:30 - 13:30 | Bemis Hall, 15 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
