Events
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Bright Lights Winter Nights at Rose Kennedy Greenway
at Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway December 22, 2011-March 20, 2012 The Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy invites all to view “Bright Lights for Winter Nights” on the Greenway every evening through the spring equinox. “Bright Lights for Winter Nights” includes five new lighting elements and sculptures that highlight the Greenway’s four distinctive park designs.
“Bright Lights on Winter Nights” reminds Bostonians that the Greenway is a park for all the seasons, and is another reason to bundle up and enjoy...
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12/22/11 -
03/20/12 |
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Boston |
Writers & Readers Series: Chris Faraone "99 Nights with the 99 Percent"
at Brookline Booksmith February 27, 2012 Boston Phoenix reporter Chris Faraone has a unique understanding of the Occupy movement, having traveled around the country to visit the various camps. In his new book, he shares his insights, photographs, and new writings from his 99 Nights with the 99 Percent.
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02/27/12 |
Brookline Booksmith, Brookline |
AHA! Night (art, history and architecture)
Presented by AHA! (art. history and architecture) May 14, 2009 - Ongoing AHA! takes place every 2nd Thursday and is a FREE art and culture event that features exhibits, performances, live music, talks and tours in downtown New Bedford.
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AHA! (art. history and architecture) |
05/14/09 -
Ongoing |
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Exhibit: The Art Institute of Boston presents Joel Janowitz and Anne Lilly
Presented by AIB: The Art Institute of Boston at The Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery January 26-March 4, 2012 Painter and printmaker Joel Janowitz and kinetic sculptor Anne Lilly are featured in a new exhibition in the Main Gallery at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, presented by the Department of Fine Arts Artists-in-Residence for 2012.
Anne Lilly is an acclaimed kinetic sculptor who uses carefully engineered motion to shift and manipulate our perception of time and space. Her interactive sculptures move in strikingly organic, fluid and mesmerizing ways....
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AIB: The Art Institute of Boston |
01/26/12 -
03/04/12 |
The Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery, Boston |
Air Force Band of Liberty's Liberty Jazz Band
Presented by Air Force Band of Liberty February 16, 2012 The Liberty Jazz Band will appear as guest performers at the Salem State University Jazz Festival. The festival performance begins at 7 pm with the Liberty Jazz Band taking the stage at 8:00. From the swingin’ sounds of Glenn Miller to the best of contemporary big band jazz, the United States Air Force Liberty Jazz Band plays it all with style and sophistication. Part of the United States Air Force Band of Liberty from Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston, this stellar ensemble has...
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Air Force Band of Liberty |
02/16/12 |
Salem State University, Central Campus Recital Hall, Salem |
MANS AND OTHER: Paintings by George Herman
Presented by Albright Art Gallery + Supply January 10-March 11, 2012 Albright Art 32 Main St., Concord, MA 01742 (978) 369 – 7300 www.albrightartgallery.com Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5 Jan 10 – March 11 Albright Art Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by George Herman. His recent paintings of heads, faces, portraits, range from the very specific and naturalistic to the highly expressionistic. Herman uses his usual method of layering, scraping, sanding and repainting to create a powerful and moving body of work. Opening...
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Albright Art Gallery + Supply |
01/10/12 -
03/11/12 |
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Art Opening -
Presented by Amazing Things Arts Center at Amazing Things Art Center March 1, 2012 "Wisdom begins in wonder" - Socrates
Many great thinkers say that the best ideas come from mistakes or from just playing around. In our goal oriented society we often lose contact with the paths of play, creativity and self-led imagination. Three artists and colleagues, Virginia Fitzgerald, David A. Lang and Carl Staley come together with an unusual and stimulating collaboration of their work, each flowing from the importance of Play. Sometimes serious, sometimes...
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Amazing Things Arts Center |
03/01/12 |
Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham |
Our Art Ourselves: Muslim Women Artists Explore their Hybrid Identities
Presented by American Islamic Congress February 21, 2012 Art offers a unique prism for understanding the social forces currently transforming Middle Eastern societies.
The latest installment of AIC-WorldBoston’s Muslim Women Series spotlights three female artists whose work grapples with their hybrid selves.
With her youth divided between the US and Saudi Arabia, ground breaking painter Nada Farhat explores her bisected roots through award-winning work that has been displayed at both Aramco Hospital in Dhahran,...
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American Islamic Congress |
02/21/12 |
American Islamic Congress, Boston |
Beckett Shorts
Presented by American Repertory Theater at First Parish Church March 30-April 7, 2012 In the silences and sounds of Samuel Beckett, worlds are revealed.
Through such classic shorts as "Not I," "Act Without Words," and "Rough for Radio I," director Marcus Stern (Endgame, Donnie Darko, The Onion Cellar) finds the beautiful in the stark, the freedom in the confines, and the human in the absurd.
Please note: Tickets for this production are complimentary; however, an advanced ticketed reservation is required.
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American Repertory Theater |
03/30/12 -
04/07/12 |
First Parish Church, Newbury |
Measure for Measure
Presented by Anarchist Society of Shakespeareans at Democracy Center February 10-February 18, 2012 Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Anarchist Society of Shakespeareans presents William Shakespeare's timeless story of love, manipulation, and a severed head. The show is FREE and open to the public. At the Democracy Center (45 Mt Auburn Street), Harvard Square, Cambridge. Showtimes: Feb 10, 11, 17, 18 at 8pm; Feb 12 at 3pm.
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Anarchist Society of Shakespeareans |
02/10/12 -
02/18/12 |
Democracy Center, Cambridge |
Art as Source of Information on Horticultural Technology
Presented by Arnold Arboretum at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University March 5, 2012 Jules Janick, James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture, Purdue University
Monday, March 5, 7:00–8:30pm
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Works of art from antiquity to the present constitute an alternate source of information on horticultural technology and science, providing significant information on subjects such as the history of technology, crop evolution, lost traits, and crop dispersal. Using examples of Paleolithic,...
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Arnold Arboretum |
03/05/12 |
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston |
Valentine Cookie Reception
Presented by Artbeat at Artbeat The Creativity Store February 12, 2012 Satisfy your sweet tooth this Valentines Day at Artbeat! To show you how special you are to us we will be hosting a cookie reception Come in to Artbeat and enjoy delicious treats while making a delightful free V-Day project: create a lovely votive candle holder with fun heart shapes to celebrate the season. Happy Valentines Day to you from Artbeat!
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Artbeat |
02/12/12 |
Artbeat The Creativity Store, Arlington |
Mardi Gras Special Treat
Presented by Artbeat at Artbeat The Creativity Store February 21, 2012 Come into Artbeat anytime on Mardi Gras, February 21st and receive a free mask making project to take home. Celebrate the Fat Tuesday Carnival with this free festive mask from us to you!
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Artbeat |
02/21/12 |
Artbeat The Creativity Store, Arlington |
control.release.transform.
Presented by Atlantic Works Gallery at Atlantic Works Gallery February 2-February 25, 2012 A new member show featuring installation, prints and drawings by Matt Keller, mixed media abstracts and oils by Kelly Slater, and kinetic sculptures by John Wilkinson.
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Atlantic Works Gallery |
02/02/12 -
02/25/12 |
Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston |
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Aura Ever Art opening
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Aura Ever Light |
02/08/12 -
03/20/12 |
Christopher's Restaurant, Cambridge |
Visual Essays: Drawings and Installations by Sandy Smith-Garces
Presented by Boston Arts Academy Gordon Gallery September 24, 2011-October 19, 2012 The exhibition features three of Ms. Smith-Garces’ graphite and white charcoal essays explores the safety of women around the world.
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Boston Arts Academy Gordon Gallery |
09/24/11 -
10/19/12 |
Boston Arts Academy, Boston |
To The Nines
Presented by Boston Center for Adult Education at Boston Center for Adult Education March 30, 2012 Come dressed To The Nines and help us celebrate the work of Fashion Photographer and Blogger Martini Severin on Friday, March 30 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. As creator and voice of the blog Beyond Boston Chic, Severin documents the rich sartorial spirit of our city. Her photographs capture well-appointed Bostonians on their way to work and play - from Newbury Street to Harvard Square. This spring, over 50 of her images will be on display at the BCAE. The exhibition opens on Monday, March 5 and...
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Boston Center for Adult Education |
03/30/12 |
Boston Center for Adult Education, Boston |
william cordova: this one’s 4U (pa’ nosotros)
Presented by Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at Mills Gallery at the BCA February 10-April 15, 2012 For his first solo exhibition in Boston, William Cordova (b. 1971, Lima, Peru) brings together new and recent works in sculpture, installation, video and works on paper by the Miami/New York-based artist, unmasking and remixing seemingly disparate and repressed histories through thoughtful and subtle juxtapositions of familiar detritus.
The Peruvian-born artist’s work imbues displaced historical narratives with new meaning, conflating previous events with contemporary context...
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Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) |
02/10/12 -
04/15/12 |
Mills Gallery at the BCA, Boston |
The Lowell Humanities Series presents Claudia Kinmonth: Rural Ireland – The Inside Story
Presented by Boston College at Devlin Hall March 21, 2012 In 2012, in collaboration with the University’s Irish Programs, Boston College’s McMullen Museum will present an exhibition, "Rural Ireland: the Inside Story," inspired by Claudia Kinmonth’s groundbreaking scholarship in Irish Rural Interiors in Art (2006). Her work reveals that, contrary to earlier assumptions, artists working in Ireland did turn to the lives of the country’s rural poor for subject matter.
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Boston College |
03/21/12 |
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill |
The Lowell Humanities Series and Fiction Days Present Junot Diaz
Presented by Boston College February 15, 2012 Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
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Boston College |
02/15/12 |
Murray Function Room, Yawkey Athletic Center, Chestnut Hill |
The Lowell Humanities Series and Poetry Days Present Billy Collins
Presented by Boston College at Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100 March 1, 2012 Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar; he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” In June 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate for 2001-2003.
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Boston College |
03/01/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |
The Lowell Humanities Series presents Téa Obreht: The Tiger’s Wife
Presented by Boston College at Devlin Hall March 28, 2012 Téa Obreht is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Tiger's Wife. She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt. She was the youngest writer named to The New Yorker's "Best 20 Writers Under 40" and was also named a "Best 5 Writers Under 35" by the National Book Foundation.
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Boston College |
03/28/12 |
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill |
Brenda Wineapple: On the Brink of War – Literary Boston in 1860
Presented by Boston College at Devlin Hall April 11, 2012 Brenda Wineapple’s most recent book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2008), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, a winner of the Washington Arts Club National Award for arts writing, and a New York Times "Notable Book.”
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Boston College |
04/11/12 |
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill |
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Presented by Boston College April 25, 2012 Award-winning science writer Rebecca Skloot has made a career of probing the intersections between hard science and human experience; the resulting stories have been as varied as cellular research and cancer, medical care for pet goldfish, and the science behind personal motivation. In her bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), Skloot tells the story of a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951 and left behind an inexplicably immortal line of cells...
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Boston College |
04/25/12 |
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Gaelic Roots: Irish Dance and Ceili
Presented by Boston College March 29, 2012 With live music by Séamus Connolly and friends.
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Boston College |
03/29/12 |
Boston College, Gasson Hall, Irish Room, Chestnut Hill |
Gaelic Roots: Irish Songs with Cathie Ryan
Presented by Boston College April 12, 2012 Concert by Cathie Ryan. The Boston Globe describes her as "a thrilling traditional vocalist whose honey-pure soprano is equally at home on probing original ballads about a woman's place in the modern world…. Her singing is simply sublime... "
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Boston College |
04/12/12 |
Walsh Hall Function Room, Chestnut Hill |
Gaelic Roots: Irish Accordion, Fiddle, and Song
Presented by Boston College May 2, 2012 Concert by Séamus Begley and Oisin Mac Diarmada.
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Boston College |
05/02/12 |
Walsh Hall Function Room, Chestnut Hill |
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Between Two Worlds: An Ottoman Musical Tapestry
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Boston College |
02/23/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |
Hans Christian Anderson's "The Nightingale"
Presented by Boston College February 12, 2012 Bring your family and enjoy "The Nightingale" adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen tale. Performed with audience participation.
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Boston College |
02/12/12 |
Boston College, Lyons Hall 423, Chestnut Hill |
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QX String Quartet
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Boston College |
02/15/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |