Events - May 1 21

The American Lung Association’s 2021 Trek Across Maine has been reimagined into a virtual Cycle Your Way format now through June 30th! Cycling is a great way to improve both your physical and mental health, while giving an extra boost to your immune system. We encourage you to participate in the virtual event as this allows you to get outside while still practicing social distancing!

Money raised will support public health efforts related to lung disease, including COVID-19 research. Over the next three years, the American Lung Association has pledged $25 million to:

• Provide free lung health education and masks to those in need.
• Protect public health by advocating for COVID and flu vaccines in underserved communities of color.
• Prevent future outbreaks by investing in respiratory virus research.

What: If you choose to participate in the cycling portion of the virtual event, complete 60, 120 or 180 miles on an indoor or outdoor bike (or mix of both) at your own pace and in segments if preferred. All virtual participants that raise the minimum $250 by June 30th will receive an accomplishment medal and event t-shirt. You can earn incentives the more you raise!

When: Now through June 30^th, 2021.

Where: Anywhere you’d like, just make sure to always practice social distancing. Sample routes throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts will be provided as well.

How: Visit the event website (TrekAcrossMaine.org) and register as a virtual participant for $25. You will receive everything you need to successfully complete the virtual event from there!

Extras: Join our  Trek Across Maine Group on Strava. You can connect your tracking devices to the Strava app so others can see your progress. We also encourage you to join our Trek Across Maine group to stay in touch with other participants and post photos of your ride/screenshots of your progress.

COVID restrictions may keep us from singing together, but we can still listen, learn, and grow together through music! Oratorio Chorale’s Virtual Music Workshops are designed specifically for you – music lovers, amateur instrumentalists, piano players, choral singers, culture geeks – to improve your understanding of how music works and why.

Music in Non-Western Traditions

Mondays, April 5–May 3 (no meeting April 19) • 7:00pm • $30

Instructor: Patia Maule, Visiting Instructor

This four-week online class will explore unifying themes such as where and when music is played, how music is taught, and what instrument families are found around the world. In the final week, we will examine African and European throughlines in the Americas across a wide range of genres.

Register today at www.eventbrite.com/o/oratorio-chorale-31248741647

COURSES

Sight-Reading Boot Camp – Three Levels

Instructor: Scott Wheatley

Get your choral skills in shape with this sight-reading workout program.

• Beginner – Tuesdays, May 11–June 1 • Noon • $50: For musicians with little to no experience. Learn how to sight-read. In this class no question is too silly.
• Intermediate – Tuesdays, May 11–June 1 • 1pm • $50: This course will teach sight-singing using the major and minor scales, arpeggios, and the most commonly used intervals.
• Advanced – Wednesdays, May 12–June 2 • Noon • $50: This course will include complex rhythmic patterns, all intervals, modes (scales other than major and minor) and strategies for performing leap-driven melodic lines.

Register today at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/oratorio-chorale-31248741647

UPDATE: The Market has moved back to Crystal Spring Farm for the remainder of the season!

Find more information and a map to the market, visit www.btlt.org/farmers-market/

We are asking all customers to: 

• Follow all CDC guidelines
• Stay home if you feel ill or have been around someone who is sick
• Wear a mask at all times
• Bring hand sanitizer
• Stay at least six feet away from others
• Send only one person per family to shop 
• Keep your visit as brief as possible to assure everyone has an opportunity to shop.

There’s a Mac’n’cheese Supper on Saturday May 1^st, from 4:30 to 5:30pm.  It’s take-out style, and the $10 price includes homemade mac’n’cheese, ham slices, carrots cooked with a touch of maple syrup, and a brownie for dessert.

This is a monthly fundraiser for the American Legion Post 20 in Brunswick, located at 1 Columbus Drive, right off the Mason Street entrance to Route 1 north. 

If possible, please RSVP to Post20.suppers@gmail.com  or leave a phone message at 721-1172.  Include your name, the number of suppers wanted, and a phone number.

More info can be found on their Facebook page –  just search for “American Legion Brunswick” (www.facebook.com/Brunswick-American-Legion-Post-20-162580933845425 ).  You can also leave your questions as a voicemail on our phone at 721-1172.

Beat the winter blues, get live stream cooking tips from Maine’s top chefs and support Oasis Free Clinics along the way!

Isabella Mastroianni comes to us from Sanctuary Baking where fresh high quality baked goods and food are made daily for donation to homeless individuals, displaced families, at-risk-elderly and shut-ins.

Isabella will be coming to you live on May 1st at 6 pm. Book your spot now at cookingwithoasis.org

Menu:

• Chestnut Gnocchi with gorgonzola cream, crispy pancetta and toasted walnuts