City seeking applicants for curbside composting task force

[fefie.livejournal.com]

Since inquiries about where one can deposit compost materials are raised here from time-to-time, I thought this initiative might be of interest to some:

CITY SEEKING APPLICANTS FOR CURBSIDE COMPOSTING TASK FORCE

Residents input sought for composting program in Somerville. Interested applicants asked to submit personal statement to Office of Sustainability by March 24.

More at:

http://www.somervillema.gov/news/city-seeking-applicants-curbside-composting-task-force

Local links and mailing lists

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

Today there was an interesting talk on the history of the Mystic River at the Somerville Museum. If I hadn't been on the Historic Somerville mailing list, I might not have heard of it. I found out about that once on a walking tour.

It reminded me of a conversation I had with someone at Blue Cloud Gallery recently. We were saying that it seemed like there were a whole bunch of mailing lists, and resources of local stuff to do, talks to hear, historic tours, studios, shows and openings, and possibly neighborhood lists or blogs, that you just don't know about except almost by accident.

I know there are links to some local sites on the DSLJ, but I'm wondering if we could create a discussion of good lists we are currently on, with locally relevant activity stuff, that might not be widely known. Good twitter accounts to know about. Facebook pages to know about. I feel like I'm missing stuff.

Feel free to flog your own blogs/lists/whatever. I'm not on Facebook, maybe everything happens there. Or if this kind of list exists somewhere else point me to it.

(I do wish some of the groups were better or more consistent at outreach via blogs/forums/twitter/etc too.)

Save the date for Snapshots: 15 Takes on an Exhibition

[twilighttremolo.livejournal.com]

Hi all, if you're not familiar with the Koppleman Gallery in Aidekman Arts Center, it is one of the nearest points of the Tufts campus to Powderhouse Square -- just past the field -- so it's a stone's throw from Davis. I am one of the co-curators for this particular exhibition, so it's shameless plug time, but any of you interested in art (or in this case, history and art) should keep this gallery on your radar.

Snapshots: 15 Takes on an Exhibition is to take place at the Tufts University Koppleman Gallery May 6-18, 2014. Opening reception Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 5:30-8pm.

Museum Studies students at Tufts were given a challenge: choose an image that inspires you from the photographs in Historic New England’s exhibition, “The Camera’s Coast,” and use it as a jumping-off point for a full-blown exhibition plan. In May, the Tufts University Art Gallery will host an exhibition that will offer a peek into their minds, with mini-exhibitions showing what each of them came up with.

The student-planned exhibitions range far and wide from the source collection, which depicts late 19th and early 20th century life in coastal New England. They focus on such diverse topics as fashion and food; labor and leisure; immigration, shipwrecks, maritime voyages and social mores of the past and present. These fifteen curators from a variety of disciplines demonstrate the many paths the imagination can take when challenged to design a dream exhibition around a single photograph.

See the Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/snapshots15takes

Futon/loveseat for sale near Powderhouse

[aliothsan.livejournal.com]

I'm selling a small futon that toggles between "approximately a loveseat" and "approximately a twin bed". Nothing wrong with it, I just want to use that space for something else. Photos, details, etc on Craigslist. The CL listing says $40, but that's negotiable.