My weekend suggestions for this first week of April includes two exhibits to go see. The one at the Mosesian, Art and Healing is a mixed media show that will be there until May 1. Check out the mostly cardboard piece in the photo below. The library has a new exhibit of fiber art called Farm to Form, which is a collaboration between Gore Place and fibre artists. Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of America at the Mount Auburn Cemetery with a literary historian who will talk about how authors in the 1800s turned the American Revolution into our national legend. Enjoy some fine Persian cuisine at a new restaurant from the team behind a long-time Watertown favorite dining destination. Get your weekend started by singing your favorite tunes at Mighty Squirrel.
ART AND HEALING: MIXED MEDIA ART EXHIBIT
Friday 12-6 p.m. (Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday)
Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St.
Art and Healing explores the transformative and restorative potential of creative practice. While art is not medicine, it can foster healing through inspiration, reflection, and expression. The act of making can be calming and meditative, offering space to process emotion, navigate trauma or illness, mark upheaval, and celebrate joy and triumph. Art gives form to what can be difficult to articulate, communicating across boundaries of language and experience while harnessing the resilience within us all. Creativity encourages a positive outlook and provides a meaningful pause from daily routine.
Featuring works in painting, printmaking, drawing, illustration, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and more, the exhibition highlights a wide range of artistic approaches – from representational to conceptual – that engage with art as meditation and as a celebration of its enduring, restorative power.
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FARM TO FORM EXHIBIT
All library open hours
Watertown Free Public Library, 2nd Floor, 123 Main St.
During the month of April, the library be hosting a collaborative exhibition between local fiber artists and Gore Place. Curated by Alexandra Adamo-Cioffredi, Yasemin Isaacs, and Leah Kotok, Farm to Form will feature original fiber-based artworks created by local artists alongside information panels and historical wool working objects from Gore Place. The exhibition will be on view in the T. Ross Kelly Family Gallery. It is free to visitors.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a hands-on felting workshop led by the exhibition curators Professor Alexandra Adamo-Cioffredi and Yasemin Isaacs. Needle & Nosh – an evening of tasty food and needle felting – will be held at the Gore Place Mansion on Thursday, April 9.
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LEGENDS OF THE REVOLUTION: POETICAL MYTHMAKING IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Friday April 3, 5:30-7 p.m.
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn St.
Literary historian Rob Velella explores how 19th-century writers turned the American Revolution into an enduring national legend. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and National Poetry Month, literary historian Rob Velella examines how 19th-century writers looked back on the Revolution and interpreted it for future generations. Through poetry, essays, and popular literature, these authors reshaped revolutionary figures and events into moral symbols and cultural myths that still influence how we understand the nation’s founding today.
The tour will highlight writers buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery and situate their work within a broader literary movement that used imagination and memory to construct a usable past.
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CASPIAN PERSIAN CUISINE
12 Bigelow St.
Caspian Persian Cuisine (formerly Molana Restaurant) brings the authentic flavors of Persia to Watertown. They use only premium USDA Choice meats, world-class Indian Basmati rice, and hand-picked vegetables to ensure every dish is fresh, healthy, and delicious. On Friday and Sunday there is a lamb heart and liver kabob special from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
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TAPROOM KARAOKE at MIGHTY SQUIRREL
Friday, Saturday 8:30-11:30 p.m.
Mighty Squirrel, 102 Arsenal Yards Blvd.
Taproom Karaoke is officially taking the stage, and getting the party started! Whether you’re a shower singer or a seasoned pro, go grab a pint and show us all what you’ve got.
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