Cary’s Cupids
Want to warm up a February weekend? For its one and only fundraiser of 2012, The Cary Memorial Library Foundation (CMLF) invites you to Cary’s Cupids. This fun and festive evening, with delectable desserts, dancing, and a Silent Auction offering unique prizes from hot air balloon rides and Red Sox tickets to original works of art, will take place at the library.
“With Valentine’s Day just around the corner,” says committee member Anne Lee, “the event is a perfect way for people to show their love for the library.” The Silent Auction’s range of over 60 items, services and gift certificates, is “guaranteed to offer something special for everyone,” says Lee, “and you can get a sneak peek at these offerings online at www.carymemoriallibraryfoundation.org.” Also, everyone’s a winner at the Giving Heart, an exciting game with over 50 prizes.
Creative, generous Lexington residents have enriched the Silent Auction with gifts ranging from paintings to yoga sessions. After training as a print-maker, Boston-born painter Amantha Tsaros was inspired by her move to Lexington in 2006 to experiment with bold floral and landscape paintings, and she has given a fine example, “Red and White,” to the auction.
Lexington Arts and Crafts Society (LACS) Member Betty Taylor has contributed an intricately stenciled box, using techniques adapted from nineteenth-century decoration, and featuring early colonial motifs like native foliage, vegetables and vines. To inspire others to follow Tsaros’ and Taylor’s example, LACS has given a gift certificate for membership in the Waltham Street-based society, that offers people of all levels of skill and experience to meet and create with fellow artists and crafters.
Lexington-based yoga teacher Samantha Brookes understands that starting yoga or returning after a long gap can be intimidating. So she’s offering three ninety-minute sessions in the privacy of the home of the lucky top bidder, where she’ll work with the winner and a friend, if the winner chooses to help her or him develop strength, flexibility and balance while relieving tension in mind and body. Among the vendors providing the evening’s liquid refreshments at wholesale prices is Daniel Kramer, Lexington High School Class of 1982, co-founder of the Element Brewing Company in Millers Falls, Mass. Kramer got his start in the beer industry as a cellarman at the Commonwealth Brewery in Boston between graduating high school and a stint in the Philippines with the Peace Corps.
On his return to the US, he went back to the brewery and worked his way up to the position of head brewer, where he says he learned “a real respect for recipes and production.” That knowledge of traditional methods formed the starting point for his experimental approach at Element, founded with two friends in 2009.
“We don’t brew traditional styles,” he says. “We’ll fuse two different styles together, or we’ll go completely out on our own and make up new flavors and styles.” Cary’s Cupids guests can judge Kramer’s success for themselves as they try Element’s signature brews, Dark Element, Extra Special Oak and Red Giant, at the cash bar where wine and soft drinks will also be available.
Toe-tapping music from DJ John Mansfield to encourage everyone out on to the dance-floor in Cary’s Commons will make the evening a great time to catch up with neighbors and friends after the holidays. And all proceeds will benefit the library and its collections.
CMLF thanks generous event sponsors The Crafty Yankee, The Higgins Group Realtors and Lexington Toyota, and the many individual and corporate donors to the Silent Auction and the Giving Heart.
Cary Library Foundation Presents:
Cary’s Cupids Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm Cary Library; Main Floor
Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.
Tickets are available online at www. carymemoriallibraryfoundation.org
and from the Cary Library Administration Offices (3rd floor), 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday,
and at Wales Copy, 1810 Mass. Ave.
For more information, call the Foundation office at 781-862-6288 x322