May Day, Star Wars Day, Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, and the Watch City Steampunk Festival! My selection of free and low-cost local events are sure to gear you up for spring!
1 Wednesday 6:30PM Waltham Public Library: Waltham's own award-winning mystery novelist Joanna Schaffhausen talks about why arsonists set fires and how they get caught
2 Thursday 7PM-8:45PM Newton Free Library: ELL - American politics and the media
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3 Friday 5PM Waltham High School Spring Musical
4 Saturday 10AM-2PM every Thursday, Friday and Saturday: The Telephone Museum at 289 Moody St. "Keep Calm and Take Stuff Apart." FREE for children, $5.50 for adults
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5 Sunday 2:00PM-4:30PM Waltham Public Library Lecture Hall: Susanna Fiore Piano Recital
6 Monday 10AM-11:30AM, 7PM-8:30PM Waltham Public Library: English Conversation Group
7 Tuesday 8:00AM-9:00PM Waltham Public Library: check out the Child Display Case display of the Watch City Steampunk Festival
8 Wednesday 7PM-9:30PM Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation: Mill Talk: The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell FREE admission
9 Thursday 5PM 119 School Street: Waltham Resource Night: Addiction Recovery Options
10 Friday 10AM-2PM The Telephone Museum at Lincoln Studios: exclusive pre-festival steampunk celebration! Come in today and tomorrow to experience telephony, 1800s style!
11 Saturday Waltham Common: Watch City Steampunk Festival!!!! Gear up with your goggles and gloves. Time travel in the most epic year yet! Visit the Waltham Public Library from 1:30-2:15 for a panel with Professor Cognome and Jessica Lucci: The Art of Steampunk Writing
12 Sunday Happy Mother's Day!
13 Monday 7:15-8:45 Waltham Public Library: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club Discusses "Boneshaker"
14 Tuesday 7PM Waltham Historical Society: Margaret Sullivan presents a talk on the 1919 police strike
15 Wednesday at Waltham High School - 6:30PM Art Show; 7:30PM Spring Concert
16 Thursday 7:15PM-8:45PM Waltham Public Library: Thursday Night Book Club discusses "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
17 Friday 6:45PM-10PM Our Lady's Church Waltham: BINGO
18 Saturday 11AM-3PM Waltham Common: Kaleidoscope Festival, hosted by Grace Christian Church (https://www.aboutgrace.org/kaleidoscope) and sponsored by the Waltham Cultural Council.
19 Sunday 2PM-3PM Newton Free Library: You Ju Lee performs Liszt
20 Monday 7:15PM-8:45PM Waltham Public Library: Initiating Inspiration Book Club discusses "Before Happiness" by Shawn Anchor
21 Tuesday 7PM-9PM Newton Free Library: Poetry book launch "Work a Day" by Grey Held
22 Wednesday 1PM-4PM The Waltham Museum, 25 Lexington Street: Open Wed-Fri. Adults - $4.00, Seniors - $2.00, Children - $2.00
23 Thursday 7PM Belmont Books 74 Leonard St. Belmont: Writer's Craft - Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Wendy Drexler
24 Friday 7PM Arts at the Armory, Somerville: Cervena Barva Press Reading Series Hosted by I Wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me $5.00 admission
25 Saturday 12PM-4PM Waltham Common: Mental Health Awareness Event. Sponsored by Beautifully Simple and Waltham Partnership for Youth. Jessica Lucci will read poetry from her book, "Code Words."
25 Saturday 2PM-4PM Attleboro Public Library: Steampunk Literature Panel featuring Jessica Lucci with her novel, "Watch City: Waltham Watch"
26 Sunday 3PM-5PM Porter Square Books 25 White St. Cambridge: Be the Change Community Action: Music, Mental Health, & Recovery
27 Monday- MFA Boston: free admission at MFA's annual Memorial Day Open House!
28 Tuesday 7PM Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road Newton Centre: Julie Orringer, author of "The Flight Portfolio: A Novel"
29 Wednesday 11AM-5PM every Wed-Sun: The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.
30 Thursday 7PM-8PM Newton Free Library: Hooked on Books Club
31 Friday 6PM-9PM Lincoln Studios 289 Moody Street: Closing Reception for Monsters in May: a group exhibition of monstrous work showing: May 10 – May 31 EXHIBITING ARTISTS:Dory Whynot, Joe Keinberger, Madison Fahey, Daniel Kern, Kathleen Volp, Dave Bowen,Bradley Peterson, Amelia Leonards, Disme Casilio, and Sarah Leon
Sneak peek at all-steampunk Lucci's List: May 2019:
Non-Fiction:
"The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World" by Edward Dolnick
Novels:
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne
"Boneshaker" by Cherie Priest
"Steampunk Carnival" by Cassandra Leuthold
"The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond" by David Erik Nelson
"Nimbus: A Steampunk Novel" by Austin King
"Assassins of the Steam Age" by Joseph Robert Lewis
Novellas:
"The Artificer's Apprentice" by DJ Edwardson
"The Clockwork Dungeon" by IH Laking
"Steampanic" by John Robert Mills
"The Lamplighter's Love" by Delphine Dryden
"Snappy and Dashing" by Adam Dreece
"The Short Adventure of Beatrix Welland" by Hector Manuel Elias Oliver
Short Stories:
"Phantasmical Contraptions and Other Errors" edited by Jessica Augustsson
"Steampunk Fairy Tales" edited by Leslie Anderson
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