Name: Needle Felting a Bunny Rabbit
Start: 2026-05-09T13:00:00-04:00

<h1>Needle Felting</h1>
<h2>Saturday, May 9 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.</h2>
Join us at Gore Place for a new season of traditional skills &amp; crafts workshops for adults and teens.*
We are excited to welcome back Rachel Benson of <a href="https://www.thefiberweb.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Fiber Web</a> to run a class on needle felting. Participants will be guided through the process of making a sweet, felted bunny. We have plenty of rabbits hopping around our grounds, so you may be able to work from a live model!
All supplies will be provided. Participants will take home their creations as well as have the option to purchase needle felting supplies to try new projects at home.
Space is limited, so make sure to reserve your spot!
*These workshop is intended for ages 13 and up.

Local Event: Needle Felting a Bunny Rabbit

Middlesex County

William Hall

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Needle Felting a Bunny Rabbit

Needle Felting
Saturday, May 9 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
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<h2>STEM Fest at Camp Cedar Hill</h2>
<h4>Don’t miss STEM Fest at Camp Cedar Hill on May 2, a hands-on STEM takeover where Girl Scouts can explore interactive challenges, meet real STEM professionals, and choose their own adventure across exciting science and technology experiences.&nbsp;</h4>It’s a STEM takeover at camp! Explore fun hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math challenges throughout Camp Cedar Hill from local program partners. Participants will use a map to choose their adventure and which topics to explore. Meet and chat with STEM professionals while digging deeper into topics you love or discovering new ones you may not have known about!
STEM Fest is the premier STEM event of the year at Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. This event is open to ALL Girl Scout levels with activities and experiments created for different ages.&nbsp;
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About Our CommunityFriends Beyond Boston – Waltham Social (20s–40s) is a local community built around genuine connection, small events, and welcoming spaces where people can actually get to know each other.We put a lot of care into creating a friendly, intentional environment, both at events and between them.We’re a community-led group, which means members are welcome (never required) to host or cohost simple events with support, it’s how we keep things fun, varied, and shaped by the people who make this community special.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━About this event:Join us on Saturday, May 2 at 3:00 PM for a screening of Join or Die, a documentary inspired by social scientist Robert Putnam’s research on social connection and the importance of civic engagement in our lives.Following the screening, we’ll gather in the lobby for a community Joining Fair from 4:30–5:30 PM, where local clubs and organizations will be present to connect with attendees and share ways to get involved.The Joining Fair will take place in a relaxed, social setting, with a bar available where guests can purchase snacks and beverages. There will also be some fun activities planned to learn more about the clubs.This event is co-hosted by The Boston Club and West Newton Cinema and is a great opportunity to learn about local communities, meet new people, and explore ways to get more connected.RSVP here:&nbsp;<a href="https://heylo.com/invite/YFnsicQ4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">heylo.com/invite/YFnsicQ4</a>Buy Tickets or find out more about the film at:
https://www.westnewtoncinema.com/movie/join-or-dieJoin us either for the film, the joining fair, or both!I’ll be there representing Friends Beyond Boston, Waltham Social at the fair, and would love to connect with you!Feel free to bring a guest to the movie, just make sure to add them to your RSVP.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏰ TimingJoin us on Saturday, May 2 at 3:00 PM for a screening of Join or Die, a documentary inspired by legendary social scientist Robert Putnam’s research on social connection and the vital role of civic engagement in our lives.Following the screening, we’ll host a community Joining Fair in the West Newton Cinema lobby from 4:30–5:30 PM.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🚗ParkingAsides from metered street parking there is:Cherry Street Public Parking Lot a 3 min walk to the cinema, Waltham Street Public Parking Lot, a 2 min walk.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ RSVP Policy (Please Read)This is an event for members of this Meetup/Heylo group who RSVP in advance.For safety and group flow, walk-ins and guests not on the RSVP list cannot join.We love meeting new people, just be sure to RSVP ahead of time so we know you’re coming!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━(ignore keywords)make new friends • new in town • fairs • waltham • newton • watertown • arlington • belmont • lexington • metrowest • theather • casual chat • film • weekend • welcoming • connections • community • friendships

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About Our Community:
Friends Beyond Boston – Waltham Social (20s–40s) is a local community built around genuine connection, small events, and welcoming spaces where people can actually get to know each other.
We put a lot of care into creating a friendly, intentional environment, both at events and between them.
This is a community-led group. Members are welcome (never required) to host or co-host simple events with support, or help out behind the scenes, it’s how we keep things fun, varied, and shaped by the people who make this community special.
Learn more on our website: https://walthamsocial.com
Our coffee socials are one of our core recurring events and a great way to meet friendly, welcoming members.
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About this event:
RSVP here: <a href="https://www.heylo.com/invite/gzmmaCkVK" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.heylo.com/invite/tOXTa8vtE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://heylo.com/invite/oDwGv7ES" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">heylo.com/invite/oDwGv7ES</a>
Looking to meet new people over a great cup of coffee?Join us at Café on the Common in Waltham for a relaxed, conversational Coffee Social!
The café’s cozy atmosphere makes it a perfect spot to connect with others, unwind, and start your morning with community.We’ll get together for friendly conversation and a laid-back morning together. 
This event is great for anyone looking to meet like-minded people, whether you’re new to the area or just looking to expand your circle. It's a great one if you're looking to get to know the group also with a low key event.
☕ Please support the café by making a purchase, as we are using their space and their staff is awesome.
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⏰ Timing
The event is listed for one hour because that’s the time I can usually commit to as the host, but we almost always stay longer, myself included.Feel free to join a little later if needed and stay as long as you'd like to chat and connect.
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🚗 Parking
The Central Square Parking Deck (a 2-minute walk) is free on Sundays.
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⚠️ RSVP Policy (Please Read)
This is a private event for members of this Meetup/Heylo group who RSVP in advance.For safety and group flow, walk-ins and guests not on the RSVP list cannot join.We love meeting new people, just be sure to RSVP ahead of time so we know you’re coming!
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make new friends • new in town • social coffee meetup • waltham • newton • watertown • arlington • belmont • lexington • metrowest • café on the common • casual chat • friendly faces • sunday morning • welcoming • connections • community • friendships

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