Events
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An Evening with Robert Downey Sr.
Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre May 16, 2012 In conjunction with the release of the Criterion Collection’s new box set, Up All Night With Robert Downey Sr., the Brattle is pleased to welcome this legendary subversive filmmaker to our stage for an evening of film and conversation. Beginning with a screening of NO MORE EXCUSES, Downey’s look at Manhattan’s singles scene of the late sixties, and ending with an onstage conversation with Downey himself in person, this is sure to be a fascinating and revealing evening with...
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The Brattle Theatre |
05/16/12 |
The Brattle Theatre, Cambridge |
Mystery Times Three
Presented by New England Mobile Book Fair May 17, 2012 Local mystery authors, Sheila Connolly ("Fire Engine Dead"), Clea Simon ("Mew is for Murder"), and Leslie Wheeler ("Murder at Spouters Point"), will read from their new books and discuss the craft of mystery writing and the challenges of writing multiple series. Refreshments will be served.
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New England Mobile Book Fair |
05/17/12 |
New England Mobile Book Fair, Newton Highlands |
Sarah Zell Young: Occupy Sanhedrin
Presented by Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center March 29-May 18, 2012 The fourth annual Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) Artist-in-Residence, Sarah Zell Young, works in photograph, sculpture, installation and film to explore issues of justice, Judaism and the body.
Her exhibition for the HBI/WSRC, Occupy Sanhedrin, will examine roles - both religious and secular - for Jewish women from the period of the Second Temple to the present and will explore how bodies can become hazarded in the pursuit of justice. The exhibition will feature a...
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Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center |
03/29/12 -
05/18/12 |
Kniznick Gallery, Women Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Waltham |
A Celebration of Pressed Wafer Books: Nate Klug reads from "Consent"
Presented by Back Pages Books May 18, 2012 At twenty-five, Nate Klug is already an accomplished literary trailblazer. As a poet and a candidate for ordained ministry he strives to make his two trades interdependent. In his chapbook "Consent", his poems represent and explore the "tension between writing and faith" in lyrical precision. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Threepenny Review, and Zoland Poetry.
Join us as we welcome poet and...
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Back Pages Books |
05/18/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |
What Color Are Your Work Boots? A Performance by Laura Lapointe
Presented by Lexington Community Education at Follen Community Church May 18, 2012 All she wants to do is find some meaningful work and pay the bills. After years of endless interviews, failed attempts at “real” jobs, and absurd experiences in short-lived unexpected employment situations, she’s still searching but just may have discovered something more valuable than a steady paycheck. Join Laura Lapointe on a poignant, earnest, playful artistic exploration of how there may be a lot more to finding good work than finding a good job. Anyone who has ever...
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Lexington Community Education |
05/18/12 |
Follen Community Church, Lexington |
Lyonel Feininger: Photographs
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 19, 2012 Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
Best-known as a painter and printmaker, the American-born modernist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) also produced a little-known body of photographic work that makes innovative use of reflections, transparency, and light and shadow. This gallery talk will consider the origins of Feininger’s photography at the Bauhaus and its development over...
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/19/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Walking Tour of Sumner Hill
Presented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society at Loring-Greenough House May 19, 2012 Join the JP Historical Society to view a sumptuous sampling of 19th-century Victorian houses — one of the finest collections of “painted ladies” outside of San Francisco. The tour includes the ancestral home of the founder of the Dole Pineapple Company, as well as the homes of several early feminists and an anti-racism activist. Sumner Hill was designated a National Historic District in 1987. Tours are cancelled for heavy rain.
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Jamaica Plain Historical Society |
05/19/12 |
Loring-Greenough House, Boston |
August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm
Presented by Cape Ann Museum at Cape Ann Museum May 19, 2012 A presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Walsh, including a book reading and signing, dory-fishing schooner artifact display, sea chanteys and a special look at Gloucester's own Schooner Adventure. This program is offered in collaboration with Schooner Adventure and is included with admission. Reservations required.
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Cape Ann Museum |
05/19/12 |
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester |
In Character: Artists’ Role Play in Photography and Video
Presented by Addison Gallery of American Art May 20, 2012 Exhibition curators Allison Kemmerer,Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson, Family Assistant Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, present their insights on "In Character: Artists’ Role Play in Photography and Video." In concert with the F. Holland Day exhibition, that similarly examines the artistic use of props and costume, In Character provides an invaluable context in which to examine the rich tradition of theatrical masquerade and...
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Addison Gallery of American Art |
05/20/12 |
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover |
Jewish Involvement in the Civil War - A lecture by Leon Aronson
Presented by Vilna Shul. Boston's Center for Jewish Culture. Inc May 20, 2012 A lecture on Jewish involvement in the Civil Warby Leon Aronson.
Mr. Aronson was educated in the Boston School system and majored in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. A graduate of the Law School at Boston College and contributor to the Boston College Law Review, Mr. Aronson is an ardent historian and a life long philatelist. He is also attempting to produce a Documentary on Admiral Bird who lived on Brimmer Street around the corner from the shul.
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Vilna Shul. Boston's Center for Jewish Culture. Inc |
05/20/12 |
Vilna Shul. Boston's Center for Jewish Culture. Inc, Boston |
Brookline Poetry Series
Presented by Brookline Poetry Series at 1st Parish Unitarian Church May 20, 2012 The Brookline Poetry series takes place in the main branch of the Brookline Public Library, Brookline Village. It goes from 2 - 4PM and is free and open to the public. Kevin Goodman and Susan Becker are the featured poets on Sunday, May 20. Their reading is followed by an open mic.
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Brookline Poetry Series |
05/20/12 |
1st Parish Unitarian Church, Cambridge |
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Jasper Johns / In Press: Student Voices
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/22/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
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Jasper Johns / In Press: Student Voices
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/22/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Women in Dance
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre May 23, 2012 Explore the many accomplishments of women in the art of dance during the twentieth century. Who are the women who will be at the forefront of dance in the twenty-first century? Learn about prominent female choreographers, dancers and supporters of this expressive and dramatic art form. Conducted by choreographer and Boston University professor Judith Chaffee.
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The Hanover Theatre |
05/23/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
Opening Lecture and Reception: Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 23, 2012 Jennifer L. Roberts, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, will present the lecture The Printerly Art of Jasper Johns at 6pm.
Jasper Johns is best known as a painter, but his work has always been closely tied to print. From his earliest use of newspaper collage and stencils in the 1950s, Johns incorporated print media and print processes into his paintings. He began making prints himself in 1960, and quickly developed a reputation as a...
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/23/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Art in the Garden Cemetery
Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery May 23, 2012 Join Mount Auburn’s Curator of Historical Collections, Meg L. Winslow, for a walking tour of funerary sculpture set within the horticultural beauty of Mount Auburn’s landscaped setting. We will look at works of fine art by the first generation of American sculptors as well as several examples of vernacular art by unknown carvers.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery |
05/23/12 |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge |
We Worked: A Celebration of America’s Workers and the Nation They Built
Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society May 23, 2012 Jack Larkin, Professor of History at Clark University and Chief Historian Emeritus at Old Sturbridge Village, recounts the stories of stories of America's workers from the 1830s to the 1930s. Learn more about the wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farm wives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers who made America.
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Massachusetts Historical Society |
05/23/12 |
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston |
Waterworks Wednesday: John Briscoe, "Water In A Changing World"
Presented by Waterworks Museum May 23, 2012 John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Health at Harvard, will lecture on "Water in a Changing World." Professor Briscoe has devoted his career to issues relating to water, other natural resources, and economic development. Briscoe has launched the Harvard Water Security Initiative, which focuses on major challenges facing countries around the world, including the obstacles in providing people with safe drinking water.
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Waterworks Museum |
05/23/12 |
Waterworks Museum, Boston |
The Young and Restless: Where are Young American Jews?
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC May 24, 2012 The young, restless and indifferent, committed, alienated and autonomous: where are young American Jews? How do they think about Israel, about the organized Jewish community, about their own identities as Jews? How, if at all, do we successfully transmit to new generations the passion for Jewish life and for Israel that characterized their parents and grandparents—or has too much already changed?
Peter Beinart (pictured) is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Political...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
05/24/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Masterpiece Lecture Series: Robert D. Mowry, Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard Art Museums
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum May 24, 2012 Isabella Gardner’s collection was surprisingly diverse and largely influenced by her travels across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. These precious objects were painstakingly installed – and often in ways that might surprise 21st century visitors to the museum – with masterworks tucked into intimate nooks waiting to be discovered. Such is the surprising encounter we might have today with the magnificent Chinese Buddhist stele placed in the narrow Chinese Loggia, a poetic...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
05/24/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
History Book Club Meeting
Presented by Historic Newton at Historic Newton May 24, 2012 Thursday, May 24, 7:30 PM, this month’s book selection, The Great Influenza by award-winning historian John M. Barry (author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which the Book Club previously read and enjoyed) is a powerful story with multiple narrative strands that combine to describe the history of science and disease in America leading up to the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918. It describes how the disease revolutionized American science and public health,...
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Historic Newton |
05/24/12 |
Historic Newton, Newton |
Where are Young American Jews?
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC May 24, 2012 How young American Jews think about Israel, the organized Jewish community and their own Jewish identities will be the topic of a forum with five notable Jewish experts on Thursday, May 24 at 7:30pm at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton.
The Young and Restless: Where are Young American Jews? will tackle how the passion for Jewish life and for Israel that characterized prior generations gets transmitted to this new generation or has too much already changed....
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
05/24/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Francine Miller discusses Cashing in on Culture and the Rose Art Museum
Presented by Back Pages Books May 24, 2012 When the Rose Art Museum proposed its plan to close and sell its invaluable 8,000-piece collection to close university budget gaps, Francine Miller became an outspoken critic in favor of its preservation.
As both a respected Boston-area art critic and a Brandeis alumnus, Miller's attempt to save the Rose, one of the country's most visited university art museums, was a cause very dear to her. The results of her efforts have kept the museum intact for its fiftieth year, and have...
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Back Pages Books |
05/24/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |
Shakespeare and Leadership
Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at Cutler Majestic Theatre May 24, 2012 What: Shakespeare and Leadership: A script in hand reading of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus followed by a panel discussion on corporate leadership skills in the 21st Century.
Who: Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company,
The Boston Chapter of the Federalist Society, & McCarter and English, LLP.
When: Thursday, May 24, 6:00 pm
Where: Cutler Majestic Theater,
219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Venue Website
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company |
05/24/12 |
Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston |
Modern Architecture Walking Tour of Cambridge
Presented by Historic New England May 26-May 27, 2012 Tour twenty distinctive Modern structures on the Harvard and MIT main campuses as well as “Architects Corner” on Brattle Street in Cambridge. Explore mid-century Modernism from 1947 to 1976 in the work of Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, I.M. Pei, Josep Lluís Sert, and others. Includes a one-hour intermission to allow for participants to break for lunch. Tour begins at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Historic New England |
05/26/12 -
05/27/12 |
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge |
The North Slope of Beacon Hill
Presented by Boston By Foot at Massachusetts Statehouse May 27, 2012 The story of Beacon Hill's North Slope has long been eclipsed by the famous architects and well- known history of the South Slope. Come discover the story unique to the Hill's "other" side—one of an integrated working-class community, a 19th-century free black community, resident activists and reformers, the 20th-century arrival of other immigrant populations and bohemian artists, eclectic architecture, and finally, 21st-century development.
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Boston By Foot |
05/27/12 |
Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston |
Living with Your Old House: National Preservation Month Lecture Series
Presented by Historic New England May 8-May 29, 2012 Celebrate National Preservation Month this May by learning how to take care of your old house. Historic New England and the Waltham Historical Society present a lecture series designed to help homeowners enhance their knowledge and understanding of houses built before 1950. For detailed descriptions of the individual lectures, please visit http://www.HistoricNewEngland.org. May 8, 7–8:30 PM – Architectural Styles in Waltham’s History May 15, 7–8:30 PM –...
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Historic New England |
05/08/12 -
05/29/12 |
Lyman Estate, Waltham |
Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens
Presented by Arnold Arboretum May 30, 2012 In the 1760s the world’s scientific community was electrified because the transit of Venus would allow them for the first time to calculate the distance between the planets in our solar system. On June 6, 1761 and June 3, 1769, the planet Venus passed between Earth and Sun–each time visible as a small black dot against the face of the Sun for six hours. Transits of Venus always arrive in pairs –eight years apart–but then it takes more than a century before they are...
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Arnold Arboretum |
05/30/12 |
Weld Hill Research Building, Arnold Arboretum, Roslindale |
Dive in to Art!
Presented by Swampscott Public Library May 30, 2012 Have you wanted to learn more about looking at art? Join Meg Winikates from the Peabody Essex Museum’s Art & Nature Center on Wednesday, May 30th at 6:00pm to take a close look at artists and their watery inspirations with works from Ripple Effect, the Art of H2O. Find out how to get comfortable looking at art, then get hands-on and create your own Ripple Effect inspired work. Ripple Effect is on view at PEM until July 8, 2012. Admission is free. Please call the Swampscott Public...
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Swampscott Public Library |
05/30/12 |
swampscott public library, Swampscott |
A Night of Fiction with Jessica Keener and Jennifer Haigh
Presented by Back Pages Books May 31, 2012 In Night Swim, an incredible debut that has been called "deeply moving and devastatingly beautiful", Jessica Keener explores the coming-of-age of sixteen year-old Sara Kunitz under the oppressive regime of her emotionally absent parents. In this and Jennifer Haigh's Faith, both women explore the dynamics, beliefs, and disappointments of two strikingly different Boston families--one, a clan of wealthy 1970s Jewish suburbanites attempting to maintain a charmed facade after a...
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Back Pages Books |
05/31/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |