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                                                        First Thursdays: Brown Bag Lecture Series,12:30-1:30PM

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                                                        The museum's Brown Bag lecture series brings a wide range of cultural, arts, health,
                                                        and community information to museum-goers through convenient lunchtime lectures
                                                        on everything from breast cancer awareness to organizational management -- and, of
                                                        course, quilting techniques and the personal journies of some of New England's
                                                        more interesting working quilt artists.

                                                        Drop by with your lunch on the first Thursday of every month (check dates below for occasional variations)
                                                        and learn something new!

                                                        2012 Lecture Series

                                                        _First Thursdays: Brown Bag Lecture, 12:30 to 1:30 PM

                                                            January 5 - MUSEUM CLOSED
                                                            February 2 - Ann Lee: Not your Grandmother's Scrap Quilt, www.friendsfabricart.com
                                                            March 1 - Linda Pearl: If You Give a Quilter a Challenge, www.thepatchworkpearl.com
                                                            April 5 - Willow Bascom, Author of Paisley Pig and Friends, www.willowdraws.com
                                                            May 3 - Sonja Hakala, Author of American Patchwork: True Stories from Quilters, www.sonjahakala.com
                                                            June 7 - Nancy Graham, Innovative Surface Design, www.fiberbird.blogspot.com
                                                            July 5 - Three Cheers for the Volunteers!
                                                            August 2 - Brown Bag rescheduled to August 9
                                                            August 9 - Visit Lowell Quilt Festival and the IIMAGES Quilt Show, www.lowellquiltfestival.org
                                                            September 6 - Susan Stowe, 150 Years Retrospective with Fifty Quilts
                                                            October 4 - Think Pink: Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Linda Warren, The Learning Curve, www.lindawarrendesigns.com
                                                            November 1 - Visit the NEQM table at A Quilters Gathering, Manchester, NH. www.aquiltersgathering.com
                                                            December 1 - Three Cheers for the Volunteers!

                                                        For additional information about any of these events, please contact Rhonda Galpern, Outreach Program Manager. 
                                                        email: outreach@nequiltmuseum.org
                                                        or call 978-452-4207, ext. 17
                                                        New England Quilt Museum
                                                        18 Shattuck Street
                                                        Lowell Massachusetts 01852
                                                        978-452-4207