Around Town

40 Watertown Residents Join Walk for Peace, Double Fundraising Goal

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Watertown Walks for PeaceWatertown Walks for Peace joined the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace in Dorchester. Here, Bevin Croft, Jessica Middlebrook, and kids carried the WW4P banner, walking here with Councilor Tony Palomba. The following piece was provided by Watertown Walks for Peace:

For the eighth year in a row, Watertown Walks for Peace (WW4P) joined other teams from Dorchester, Boston, and surrounding Boston communities to participate in the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace. This annual fundraising event supports the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in its critical advocacy and support work for individuals and communities that are victims of gun violence.      

This year’s Mother’s Day Walk for Peace was the first in-person walk since 2019. And for the WW4P team it was the most successful effort to date.  

Donations. The WW4P organizers set a 2022 fundraising goal of $3,000, but 62 donors generously gave $6,582 – more than double the target amount and significantly more than we’ve ever raised before.

Entertainment

Small Saves Has a Present for Mom in This Week’s Cartoon

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal–then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

Entertainment

New Rep’s New Voices Theatre Festival Features 3 Original Plays

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The following information was provided by New Rep Theatre:

The first New Rep, New Voices Theatre Festival features three 20-minute plays that were selected out of over 150 plays during our March call for submissions. New Repertory Theatre presents the first New Rep, New Voices Theatre Festival, from May 21 through May 28 in the Black Box Theatre at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown. Tickets are $25 for Adults, $10 for Students and can be purchased at: https://secure.newrep.org/events

The Plays

AURORA by Ramón Esquivel

Featuring: Aliyah Harris & Lonnie Miller

The play takes place on an Autumn Night on the The Aurora Bridge in Seattle in 2010. Kai has come here to end their life, and Halen tries to stop the attempt. We learn that Halen committed suicide in the same spot two years earlier, and has reappeared to support Kai in this time of crisis. This play employs magical realism in an ultimately uplifting story about depression, grief, metaphysics, and the transcendent nature of love.

Around Town

First Parish Church of Watertown Dedicates New Progress Pride Flag

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First Parish ChurchWill Twombly raises the new Progress Pride Flag at First Parish Church of Watertown. The following piece was provided by First Parish Church of Watertown:

The flag mounted outside of First Parish on Church Street was frayed and torn. It was a “Progress Pride” flag, a colorful multi-colored banner symbolizing the church’s commitment to welcoming people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. But it had been worn out by the winds, rain, sun and snow of New England weather. It definitely needed to be replaced.

Entertainment

Survey Seeks Feedback from Watertown Artists About Workspace Needs

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The following information was provided by the City of Watertown:

If you are an artist, musician, or creative in any field that lives or works in Watertown — or would like to — Watertown Public Arts & Culture wants your feedback! The Community Development & Planning Office is collecting feedback from individual artists to understand their workspace needs. We would like to know what sort of workspace local artists need to be successful in their chosen fields. The “Artist Workspace Survey” is completely anonymous unless artists would like to be contacted for a follow-up conversation. Survey answers will help us develop artist workspace in the city. The survey takes an average of 7 minutes to complete. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to learn more.

Government

State Rep. Owens Hosting Office Hours Weekly in June

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State Rep. Steve Owens. The following announcement was provided by the office of State Rep. Steve Owens:

State Representative Steve Owens will be hosting office hours throughout the month of June for residents of the 29th Middlesex District. The Representative is looking forward to hearing from constituents on state-related legislative or personal matters. The sessions will be at the following times and locations:

Friday, June 3rd10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.La Saison Bakery407 Concord Avenue, Cambridge MA

Friday, June 10th10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Watertown Free Public Library123 Main Street, Watertown MA

Saturday, June 18th10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Intelligentsia Coffee810 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown MA

Friday, June 24th10:00 a.m.m – 12:00 p.m.Cambridge Public Library – Collins Branch64 Aberdeen Avenue, Cambridge MA

College

LETTER: Third Grader Writes Why College Should be More Affordable

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(The following letter was originally written as an assignment where students were asked to write about a subject that is important to them, according to Hosmer Elementary School teacher Christine Fletcher. It is the unedited version of the essay.)

Have you ever wanted to be an astronaut or a doctor or an architect? If you want to be one of these jobs when you’re grown up you have to go to college. 

College is a school you can go to after high school. Some people go there to learn more things. And how you can do a job and to learn skills.