Community Calendar
Ongoing
Sewing Class at the Brookfield YMCA. Free sewing class on Mondays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. Sewing machines, accessories, material all provided, along with teachers who will walk you through needed basics and/or get you started on a project. Call Fran Lambert 660-752-5084, Rosanne Riley 307-850-8885.
Coed Softball at Brookfield’s Graff Field every Sunday. Brookfield Parks & Recreation. Concessions available for spectators. For more information, call the Brookfield Parks & Recreation office, 660-412-2544.
Linn County Concert Band rehearsal. Linn County is gaining a Community Concert Band. Looking for all concert instruments to fill the band. Weekly rehearsals every Tuesday through July. For inquiries, email jwiggans@brookfieldr3.org.
The Perlman Music Program/Suncoast, which for 15 years has brought young musicians to Sarasota in December for a two-week residency for study and performances with superstar violinist Itzhak Perlman and other professionals, has received a $500,000 gift from the Daniel E. Offutt III Charitable Trust.
The money will be used to provide virtual classical music education programs for elementary, middle and high school music students in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
For the first time since it launched in 2003 as an extension of the original Perlman Music Program in Shelter Island, N.Y., the Suncoast residency was canceled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Perlman also runs a winter residency in Tel Aviv, Israel.