Franklin Matters

Monday, July 20, 2015

Franklin Library: Jesse Liam Band - 6:00 PM

The Jesse Liam Band will perform an outdoor concert on Tuesday, July 21 beginning at 6:00 PM at the Franklin Public Library.

Franklin Library: Jesse Liam Band

This was shared from the Franklin Library page
http://franklinpl.blogspot.com/2015/07/outdoor-concert-with-jesse-liam-band.html

For more about Jesse Liam visit his website http://jesseliam.com/

Franklin Cultural Festival - Schedule - Saturday, August 1

Saturday, August 1

Performances

on The Town Common

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM - Kevin T. Wolfe Band

Kevin T Wolfe Band

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM - Dean College and The Star Players MA, preview The Wiz

The Franklin Library

1:00 PM - All Hands Drumming

all hands drumming

The Sculpture Park

1:00 PM - Dean College Palladino School of Dance and Franklin Art Center
2:00 PM - Dean College Palladino School of Dance and Franklin Art Center

Franklin Sculpture park - hands

THE BLACK BOX

4:00 PM - School House Rock (ticket purchase required)

7:30 PM - FPAC: One Acts

Events

on The Town Common

12:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Watercolor Painting and Mural Painting for adults and children, FAA

12:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Fashion design with newspaper and dance for children and adults. FAA and Dean College

Franklin Methodist Church

-- FAA Art and Photography and Robots and Magical Machines

Franklin Cultural Festival - Arts Happen Here

The full schedule of performances and events for the first annual Franklin Cultural Festival can be found here http://www.franklinsculturalfestival.org/

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Franklin Cultural Festival schedule --> Wed-Thu-Fri, July 29-31

The Franklin Cultural District Committee is working hard to present the First Annual Franklin Cultural Festival. The Festival will showcase many of Franklin's talents and be held at locations in and around downtown Franklin.

The schedule for opening day, Wednesday, July 29, Thursday, July 30 and Friday, July 31 are shown below. The full schedule for Saturday and Sunday will be shared here shortly.

Wednesday, July 29

1:00 PM - Pumpernickel Puppets, Franklin Library
6:00 PM - Zentangle at Jane’s Frames (pre-registration req'd but a no cost event)
6:00 PM - OPENING CEREMONY, Town Common
6:15 PM - Electric Youth, Town Common
8:30 PM - FPAC: One Acts, THE BLACK BOX

Thursday, July 30

7:00 PM - Ben Gardner’s Boat Band, THE BLACK BOX
8:00 PM - Shakespeare on the Common

Friday, July 31

1:00 PM - Davey the Clown, Franklin Library
2:00 PM - Student art and music performances, Franklin High School
4:00 – 8:00 PM - Music and art, Jane’s Frames
6:45 - 7:45 PM - Laughter Yoga, Town Common
8:00 – 9:30 PM - Shakespeare on The Common

Arts Happen Here - Franklin Cultural Festival

Note: the schedule is subject to change. For additional info please visit the Franklin Cultural Festival on the web here www.franklinsculturalfestival.org or on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/FranklinCulturalFestival?

"addiction is not what we think it is" (video)

In this TED Talk, Johann Hari spends 15 minutes getting to the heart of addiction. He says we are approaching the problem wrong.

"And what I've tried to do now, and I can't tell you I do it consistently and I can't tell you it's easy, is to say to the addicts in my life that I want to deepen the connection with them, to say to them, I love you whether you're using or you're not. I love you, whatever state you're in, and if you need me, I'll come and sit with you because I love you and I don't want you to be alone or to feel alone.

And I think the core of that message -- you're not alone, we love you -- has to be at every level of how we respond to addicts, socially, politically and individually. For 100 years now, we've been singing war songs about addicts. I think all along we should have been singing love songs to them, because the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection."

Watch and see how Johann got to this point:

GBFB presented the Franklin Food Pantry with a $10,000 capacity grant

Shopping local has its rewards. The Franklin Food Pantry buys fresh produce from two local farms (Akin-Bak Farm and Hoffman Farm). As a reward the Greater Boston Food Bank has awarded the Food Pantry a $10,000 grant.

Franklin Food Pantry, located in the Rockland Trust
parking lot in downtown Franklin

GBFB presented the Franklin Food Pantry with a $10,000 capacity grant that will help them increase families' access to the most nutritional foods!

Specifically, the grant will fund equipment needs for their mobile pantry, food transportation, and their Healthy Futures Market, which offers fresh produce weekly from June to October from nearby Hoffmann Farm and Akin Bak Farm, LLC.

GBFB presenting the check to Erin Lynch

You can contribute to the Greater Boston Food Bank via their webpage
http://www.gbfb.org/

You can contribute and find more about the Franklin Food Pantry via their webpage http://www.franklinfoodpantry.org/