5 Things You Need To Know Today: March 13

1. Let's Laugh Today Yoga class at the Callahan Senior Center at 10 a.m. Cost $3. The class combines laughter exercises with yoga breathing. This brings more oxygen to the body and the brain which makes one feel more energetic and healthy.

Class is led by Linda Hamaker, a certified Laughter Yoga instructor and and co-founder of www.letslaughtoday.com. All yoga levels welcome. No mat needed. Please bring water.

2. Sixth grade scholars from the Christa McAuliffe Regional Charter Public School will show off their Spanish and French in a World Language Concert at the school's gym at 6 p.m.

3. Framingham Downtown Renaissance will hold its bi-monthly board meeting this morning at 8 in the Ablondi Room in the Memorial Building. On the agenda is plans for the 2014 Boston Marathon, the Front Door Framingham Mural Project and the Election of Board of Directors.

4. Framingham Community Theater will hold auditions tonight for its new murder mystery comedy dinner theater titled Atwitter of Terror. Performances will be on April 25-26 and May 2-4.

Framingham Community Theater plans to cast 5-9 actors/actresses, between the ages of 18-80-plus, for a broad range of zany characters. Some doubling may be required.

Open auditions are tonight, March 13 at  7  and Saturday, March 15 at 3 p.m. at at The Performing Art Center of MetroWest at 140 Pearl St., Third Floor inside the Danforth Museum. Click here for more information.

5. Framingham State University English Professor Gary Hylander will present The Assault, a free lecture at the main Framingham Library tonight at 7. 

Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks strode into the Senate and began beating Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a gold-topped walking cane, an act of retaliation that destroyed any pretense of civility between the North and South. This Assault will be the focus of tonight's free lecture in the Costin Room at the Lexington Street library.


BONUS EVENT: The Danforth Art School Gallery will hold an artists' reception tonight from 6 to 8 for the work of six Danforth Art students who are each exhibiting a series of three to eight works created in response to the class, Painting a Series.

Under the direction of artist and instructor Nan Hass Feldman, students were directed to choose a theme, a medium or mediums, and a technique to focus on to develop a cohesive body of work—one where each idea could evolve and inform the works that followed. 

Exhibiting artists are: Sandra Simoes, Lucille Nava, Marjorie Anderson, Shannon Astolfi, Judy Schneider, and Tom Sullivan.