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April 2024
Let’s Create
The Medford Recreation Department is offering a five-week Saturday morning session of its Let's Create arts and craft program for children in kindergarten through grade 3. Children will use their creativity each week to complete a new art project. Projects include ceramics, painting, sketching and jewelry making. The class will meet from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. on Saturdays from April 27 through June 1 (no class on May 25, Memorial Day weekend). Cost is $60 for residents and $72 for…
Find out more »Maker Space Badging: General Safety
The Medford Public Library is offering the training you need to "check out" the library's Maker Space just like a study room. With this session on general safety, you can earn a "badge" and gain more exclusive access to the Maker Space and its contents. Once a course is complete, your library card will note you have more access to the Maker Space so you can "borrow" the room when it is available. For ages 16 and over. Register through…
Find out more »Cheryl Arena and Friends at The Porch
Cheryl Arena, one of only 30 artists featured in the book “Masters of the Harmonica,” returns to The Porch with some friends to provide free afternoon blues. Arena has been bringing the sound of authentic American blues music to audiences around the U.S. and Europe for over 30 years. She plays everything from the urban electric blues of Chicago to the soulful Delta sounds of the Deep South, and everything in between. Reservations recommended if you plan to dine.
Find out more »Maker Space Badging: Laser Cutter
The Medford Public Library is offering you the training you need to "check out" the library's Maker Space just like a study room. With this session on using a Glowforge laser cutter, you can earn a "badge" and gain more exclusive access to the Maker Space and its contents. Once a course is complete, your library card will note you have more access to the Maker Space so you can "borrow" the room when it is available. For ages 16…
Find out more »Spotlight Productions: Finding Nemo Jr.
Medford youth theater company Spotlight Productions presents the third of four performances of "Finding Nemo Jr.," a 60-minute musical adaptation of the beloved 2003 Pixar movie "Finding Nemo." Featuring memorable songs such as “Just Keep Swimming,” “Fish Are Friends Not Food,” and “Go With the Flow,” "Finding Nemo Jr." brings a vibrant underwater world to life on stage in a story full of family, friendship, and adventure. Tickets are $20 through Eventbrite. The final performance will be at 7:15 p.m.…
Find out more »Arab American Heritage Month Traditional Dress Night and Contest
The City of Medford Community Connectors concludes its series of events celebrating Arab American Heritage Month with a Traditional Dress Night and Contest at the Andrews Middle School. The program will include face painting, pictures with the fez, and light refreshments.
Find out more »Dwayne Haggins at The Porch
Dwayne Haggins, who has been called "the love child of Hank Williams and Sam Cooke" and “The John Legend of rockabilly," returns to The Porch for his Fourth Saturday Country Soul residency. Think Marvin Gaye with a hint of Dolly Parton. Admission is free for the music; table reservations recommended if you plan to have dinner.
Find out more »Student Spring Chess Scrim
The Massachusetts Student-Led Chess Association, run by high school students, is holding a Spring Chess Scrim at Colleen's of Medford Square. Bring a friend, play chess, and win free prizes. Sign up through the event registration page.
Find out more »Spotlight Productions: Finding Nemo Jr.
Medford youth theater company Spotlight Productions presents the fourth and final performance of "Finding Nemo Jr.," a 60-minute musical adaptation of the beloved 2003 Pixar movie "Finding Nemo." Featuring memorable songs such as “Just Keep Swimming,” “Fish Are Friends Not Food,” and “Go With the Flow,” "Finding Nemo Jr." brings a vibrant underwater world to life on stage in a story full of family, friendship, and adventure. Tickets are $20 through Eventbrite.
Find out more »Tufts Jazz Orchestra: Speak Low!
The Tufts University Jazz Orchestra presents its spring concert, "Speak Low!, an exciting, rhythm-filled and harmonically rich selection of music by Ella Fitzgerald; Stevie Wonder; Earth, Wind & Fire; the Beatles, and Cole Porter. Joel LaRue Smith, director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
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