Meet an Alpaca!
2024-04-06 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Bacon Free Library – 58 Eliot Street Natick, MA 01760 United States
Meet an alpaca at the Bacon Free Library! Harvard Alpaca Ranch will bring one of their alpacas to the library for a visit. After listening to a presentation all about alpacas, you’ll have the chance to meet the alpaca up close. All ages are welcome. The program will be held outdoors on the library lawn, weather permitting.
Registration is required to ensure that everyone gets a chance to visit with the alpaca. Please register for each child attending.
Registration will open one month before the program.

Crankie Music Program
2024-04-16 11:00 - 12:30
The Magid Ensemble presents Shterna and the Lost Voice, a musical crankie Yiddish folktale. This new folktale by A.C. Weaver is inspired by mythical stories of Elyahu Hanovi and traditional Yiddish folklore. Shterna and the Lost Voice follows a young woman’s quest from the realms of the dead to the celestial gardens of the immortal – all to restore her friend’s lost voice. Shterna’s epic adventure is accompanied by live original klezmer music while the narrative unfolds through a papercut crankie. This dynamic performance is geared towards audiences of all ages!

What is a crankie? A crankie is a long scroll wound onto two spools that illustrates a story as it unwinds. Kiah Raymond’s original crankie incorporates shadow puppetry inspired by Jewish papercut art.

Shterna and the Lost Voice is presented by The Magid Ensemble (magid, meaning “storyteller” in Yiddish) –
a new collaboration featuring award-winning klezmer musicians and composers Mattias Kaufmann, Raffi
Boden, and Rachel Leader, Yiddishist storyteller A. C. Weaver, and visual artist Kiah Raymond.

Production by member of Mamaliga Klezmer Band. (Mamaligaband.com)
This event is generously sponsored by Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and the Natick Local Cultural, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Ecosystem Explorers with the MHS Plantmobile
2024-04-16 14:00 - 15:00
Join us at the Bacon Free Library for a hands-on, science-based program courtesy of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Plantmobile. Dive into the intricate web of ecosystems and learn how plants play a vital role in our environment.
This program will be outdoors, weather permitting.
The Plantmobile program is geared toward kids in grades pre-K to 5. Registration is required.

Sustainable Gardening - Virtual
2024-04-18 18:00 - 19:00
The Blackstone Valley Veggie Gardens presents a virtual program on Sustainable Gardening. Become a more efficient gardener by learning how to elongate your growing season and maximize your output, all while preserving resources. This program is hosted by the Bacon Free Library.

This program will be held over Zoom. Please register to receive the program link.

Drop-In Craft: Storybook Flowers
2024-04-19 10:30 - 11:30
Stop by the Bacon Free Library to make a colorful flower with recycled book pages!
All ages are welcome.

Celebrate the Earth – Seedling Swap and Ask a Master Gardener Table
2024-04-27 10:00 - 13:00
To celebrate all things gardening, stop by the Bacon Free Library on Saturday, April 27th.
Bring your homegrown (or store bought) seedlings to swap with others: have 6 tomato plant seedlings but only need 2? Swap them for others that you need. The maximum seedlings to trade is 4.
Our Seed Library will also be available all day if you’d like to pick up some seeds to sow in your garden.

And be sure to stop by our Ask a Master Gardener table to ask the experts all of your gardening questions.

This program will be held on the library lawn.

Meet the Artist - Rebecca McGee Tuck
2024-04-30 17:00 - 18:30
Drop in at the Bacon Free Library to meet sculptor and social activist, Rebecca McGee Tuck, and enjoy a viewing of her display “Along the Wrack Line.”
Rebecca is a sculptor and an ocean activist. Her current display, “Along the Wrack Line,” deals with the overwhelming amount of debris and plastic trash that contaminate our local New England beaches. Rebecca’s unique, thought-provoking work will be on display at the Bacon Free Library from March 28th to May 15th.
