莱镇活动早知道 - Lexington Happenings I 2022 年 5 月

Lexington Community Center

Bike Walk N' Bus Day

Friends of Lexington Bikeways

Cary Memorial Library 

Cary Memorial Library

Spring Walk

May 14

Lexington Council for the Art & Cary Library

LexArt 

CAAL

May 20

Self-Care for those Who Walk & Bike

Lex Recreation

 Lexi Recreation

Monroe Center for the Arts 

No Mow May 

Gardeners around the country are accepting the challenge of NOT MOWING all or a portion of their lawns for the month of May. The movement began in the United Kingdom, but is being embraced by gardeners in the United States and around the world.

What happens when you let your lawn grow? Non-grass plants in your lawn such as clover, violet, and dandelion have a chance to flower, providing early season food for bees and other pollinators emerging from winter hibernation. Researchers in Appleton Wisconsin, which embraced No Mow May as a city, found three times the number of bee species and five times the number of bees in participating yards as in regularly mown nearby parks. Read a NY Times article about it here.

For more Details, please visit https://www.lexingtonlivinglandscapes.org/events/upcoming-events/no-mow-may.

And if you do, tell us about your participation by filling out our Google form. We will add your yard to a map showing yards in Lexington that are participating.

TRAINING YOUR 1ST 5K

Find joy and community, and make running a part of overall health and happiness. 

Time: Tue, 5/3 7 pm 

Many people try running but don’t stick with it. In this discussion you will hear from three Lexington residents who started running later in life and now have run over 100 marathons combined. These runners will share their secrets of how to find joy and community in running and how to make running a part of overall health and happiness.

As part of the event, we will share a zero to 5K training plan and give you an opportunity to sign up for a local 5K and training sessions.

Honourable panel speakers are Warren Kerper, Frank Gens and Jessie Chen. Moderator Josh Brand. 

11th Annual National Walk, Bike & Roll to School Day!

Time: Wed, 5/4 

Location: all schools are encouraged to participate 

Warmer weather is here, leave the car at home and join friends and family on a joyful walk or ride to and from school! Interested in joining or creating a Walking School Bus or Bike Train? Fill out our interest form to be connected with others and to get help getting started. You can also reach out to your School's PTO Safe Routes to School Coordinator or contact our transportation office for assistance! 

BONUS: Walking to school will also benefit Lexington seniors if you are signed up for the Walk Massachusetts Challenge.

Cycling With Confidence (for ages 60+)

Time: Sat, 5/7 & 6/4 10:00 am 

1875 Massachusetts Avenue

Led by a Certified Cycling Instructor & Friends of Lexington Bikeways, join other older adults for a recreational bike ride to increase your joy and confidence in cycling! Rides will be no longer than 4 miles and will have a short break midway. Sessions start with a short safety review and Q&A as needed, and most of the time will be spent cycling together.  Bring your helmet, bike, and closed-toe shoes. You may also like to pack water and snack. Sponsored by Friends of Lexington Bikeways.There will be two sessions: May 7 & June 4. Sign up for one or both!

Major Tank Battles of World War II with Hunter Chaney 

Time: Mon, 5/9 1:15 pm 

Presented by Hunter Chaney, Director, American Heritage Museum. Once Germany launched Operation Barbarossa on June 22nd, 1941, to invade Russia, the role of the tank forever changed the dynamic of the battle scape during WWII. Allied forces moved quickly through the North African campaign into Italy and down from the north during the Normandy landings with hundreds of thousands of tanks leading the way. Hunter Chaney will discuss the major tank battles of WWII while highlighting the design and implementation of the most popular tank models used by the Allied and Axis forces.

Put a SPRING in your step with one or more of these SPRING walks! 

No car necessary to reach these incredible natural areas within and around Lexington.

Lexpress Bus-to-Nature Walk for age 55 and up! 

Time: Wed, 5/11 or Wed, 5/18 

May 11- Turning Mill/Willards Woods/Chiesa Farm/Parker Meadow: This 3+ mile walk will traverse four Town Conservation areas ending at Depot Square via the Minuteman Bikeway. 

May 18: Arlington Res/Arlington’s Great Meadows/Tower Park: This 2.5 mile walk will wend its way past a wide variety of habitats including the Arlington Reservoir, LexFarm’s agricultural fields, along with views over Lexington’s only peat bog in Arlington’s Great Meadows. 

Haiku For You! A hands-on workshop for all ages

Neighborhood Haiku Comes to Lexington 

Time: Sat, 5/14 10:30 – 12:00 noon 

"Short, sharp, witty — the words in haiku are like candy,” says writer Jessie Brown. Come join this fun, interactive workshop designed for people of all ages. Bring a grandparent, child, sibling or friend! Make your own haiku or work together. Create a poem inspired by nature, a neighborhood, a favorite food or animal and give it to someone you love. And look for this summer's call for "Neighborhood Haiku" — your poem may be painted in a storefront in Lexington Center as part of a public art project organized by the Lexington Cultural Council.

Thirty haiku will be selected to be hand-painted in storefront windows to show our local small businesses some love and showcase local creativity. All haiku will be published on the Council for the Arts web page and all authors will be invited to read at a July celebration.   To find out a series of workshop about the Haiku in May, please check at 

SAORI weaving Class

Mihoko Wakabayashi

Session 1

Time & Location

May 15, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

LexArt

130 Waltham St

Lexington, MA 02421, USA

SAORI weaving is a contemporary freestyle weaving started in Japan 50 years ago. It focuses on individual inner creativity. In this workshop, participants will learn how to weave on a pre-set warp on a SAORI loom. You will leave the workshop with a piece or work of your own, some people craft a scarf size piece, others make a small wall hanging. Come play with colors and textures, and learn basic weaving techniques too if you are a beginner. There is no experience necessary.

Highlight of AAPI food at the 3rd week of May 

Time: Sat, 5/14- Fri, 5/20 

The Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Heritage Month Celebration is a month-long series of events that intend to promote AAPI culture through spotlighting history, art, and food during the month of May in Lexington, MA. 

The third week will highlight AAPI food. We are currently working on a cookbook that features culturally significant recipes submitted by the families of the Lexington community. 

Submit your own recipe @ http://aapimonth.caal-ma.org/food_week.html

For more information about this event, please visit website: http://aapimonth.caal-ma.org/

Self-Care for those Who Walk & Bike

Time: Fri, 5/20 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

13 Depot Square

The repetitive motions of cycling and walking can sometimes lead to muscle tightness and strain. Combine sore body parts with the mental stresses of these uncertain times and you have a recipe for injury and disease. What can you do to nurture yourself? In this hour-long mindful yoga and meditation class, practice yogic tools to find calm, release tension, and manage energy & focus. Program will include prone, standing, and seated poses as well as time on hands/knees, ending with a 10-minute seated meditation. Class led by certified yoga teacher and naturalist Barbara Tarrh. Yoga experience helpful but not required. Dress for comfortable movement. (Bring a yoga mat, water bottle, and blocks if you have them.) Registration Required (FREE) 

Bike Smart Youth 

Time: Sat, 5/21 

Youth receive in-depth training on bike handling skills, basic safety and maintenance of bikes, proper helmet fit, and an escorted on-road ride. Certified bike instructors lead these classes. Registration required. $25 Resident/$35 Non-Resident

Family Friendly Group Bike Rides

Join with other local families on a bike ride led by a Certified Cycling Instructor and local cycling experts. See how fun it can be to ride as a family and in a group, and feel comfortable knowing you will have skilled cycling experts joining you! All children and adults must wear helmets, even if riding in a trailer. Join us for as many or few rides as you'd like! Registration required for each ride. $5/person/ride

Fairy Homes & Gardens

Time: Sat, 5/28 9:00 am 

Fairy houses are small creations, typically made outdoors of natural materials built to whimsically entice fairies. Community members who are interested in creating a fairy house to be part of the tour are encouraged to sign up, and anyone interested in taking a walking tour or join the scavenger hunt to see these creations are encouraged to visit our website to view the tour map (finalized on May 27).