Walk in the Glow of Each Other's Majestic Presence

Arlington's Farmer's Market started today. It's a cool, grey day with intermittent, misty rain, but we bundled Alice up and set out to see what we would find. It's not a huge market, but it includes a reasonable variety of stalls and products.

( Our Haul )

We also stopped at the Little Red Barn, a new produce market here in town. They didn't have much that looked exciting, but we got a tiny little watermelon that I'm excited for--I haven't had any watermelon yet this year.

Now I'm very excited for dinner!

This evening I had the privilege of attending the opening of the Fenway House Arts and Creative Writing Group's Spring 2006 Show in the Wiesner Gallery on the 2nd floor of the MIT Student Center. This show contains selected work by eleven artists, mainly current residents. It includes an entertaining mix of media and subject, from photography of Wyoming and Taiwan to collage and handmade paper-based works, as well as sculpture and painting. The breadth of the artists' talent and skill is quite impressive and I was very excited to have the chance to meet some of the artists and discuss their work and our experiences of the house.

The show continues until April 5th. If you have a chance, please stop by.

As requested, I've posted a bunch of T@F people's user names over in theatreatfirst.

Yesterday morning I went down to First Church for a meeting with the Somerville Open Studios artists who are exhibiting in our chapel space this year. Halway through that meeting, the contact person for the Arlington Players, who are renting the hall that same weekend for a public reading came in, so I transitioned from one meeting to another. Meanwhile, Phil, the shakuhachi player who rents space for lessons stuck his head in to ask if the choir, who were rehearsing the gospel cantata for Palm Sunday in the Sanctuary, would be done before he started. After he left, I explained who he was and one of the artists said "You sure have a lot of cool stuff happening here," and I had to agree. By the time I had finished up with the Arlington Players guy, the choir had wrapped up and started drifting downstairs, so I got to touch base with a few of them about various details and dates. At the same time, the Charlie Brown folks were drifting in to get started on their set-building work day. I did the bulletin while they got to work and shared some pizza with them before heading home. Visual arts, music vocal and instrumental, two different theatre groups...how did I suddenly stumble into being at the hub of this vital arts community?