Events
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First Saturday Open Studios
Presented by Western Avenue Studios at Western Avenue Artist Studios January 7-September 3, 2012 Join the over 200 artists of the Western Avenue Studios for First Saturday Open Studios from 12-5PM. We open our doors on the first Saturday of every month. Visit a variety of artists in their workspaces: painters, photographers, mixed media artists, jewelers, sculptors, fiber artists, potters, glassworkers, and more! Talk to artists about their process and take home art for yourself or a loved one. Parking is free and plentiful! The Western Avenue Studios is at 122 Western Ave in...
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Western Avenue Studios |
01/07/12 -
09/03/12 |
Western Avenue Artist Studios, Lowell |
Madonna
Presented by TD Garden at TD Garden September 4, 2012 Madonna's previous tour, the phenomenally successful "Sticky & Sweet" Tour reaffirmed her status as one of the most successful touring artists of all time.
In the course of her phenomenal career, Madonna has a record breaking 37 Top 10 hits on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart along with a record breaking 40 Number 1's on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Song Charts. No other act has more Top 10's on the Hot 100 or Number 1's on the Club Chart. Madonna has sold over 300...
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TD Garden |
09/04/12 |
TD Garden, Boston |
Boo in the Zoo at Stone Zoo
Presented by Stone Zoo at Stone Zoo October 22, 2011-September 23, 2012 Children throughout New England are invited to trick-or-treat among the animals. Thrills, chills, and animals lurk around every corner on the Trick-or-Treat Trail. Other haunted happenings offered throughout the day include: creepy crafts, ghoulish games, howling costume contests, and a haunted maze!
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Stone Zoo |
10/22/11 -
09/23/12 |
Stone Zoo, Stoneham |
Fiber Revival
Presented by Historic New England at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm August 11, 2012 Join the Newburyport Spinners Guild and Historic New England for a day-long exploration of fiber arts, featuring demonstrations of needle felting, hand-spinning, weaving, and alpaca and sheep husbandry, colonial rug making, and knitting. Try your hand with a vintage sock-making machine. Wash, comb, spin, and weave wool from our resident sheep. Vendors offer a variety of natural fibers, yarn, and equipment. To register for specific specialist-led workshops on weaving, felting, dyeing, and...
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Historic New England |
08/11/12 |
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, Newbury |
Family Harvest Festival
Presented by Historic New England at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm September 29, 2012 See tractors and other farm equipment spanning the last eighty years. Try your hand at corn husking and win prizes at the pie-eating contest. Learn how simple machines help farmers with pumping water, pressing cider, and preparing food. Find your way through a hay bale maze. Enjoy a wagon ride through brightly colored autumn fields, build scarecrows, go on a pumpkin treasure hunt, and make fall crafts. Listen (and dance!) to folk music or watch a puppet show. The circa 1690 stone and brick...
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Historic New England |
09/29/12 |
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, Newbury |
Walking Tour of Green Street
Presented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society at Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center June 9, 2012 Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society on a trip along Green Street. Laid out in 1836, the street played a key role in Jamaica Plain’s development, functioning as a residential, commercial, and transportation conduit in the lives of the district’s residents. Although Green Street was subdivided as early as 1851 for stores, factories and houses, it was not extensively developed until the late 1870s with construction continuing until the early 1900s. The Bowditch School was...
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Jamaica Plain Historical Society |
06/09/12 |
Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center, Boston |
The Next Generation, Youth Composers
Presented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center June 12, 2012 The Next Generation
Featuring the Composer-Performer-Repertory Ensemble
Hear the music and words of four prolific, prize-winning, teenaged composers -- Nicholas Davies, Lev Mamuya, Christopher Staknys, and Matthew Woodard. Each will perform their own composition and will discuss their work and the creative process with composer Howard Frazin. Rockport Music Executive Director Tony Beadle moderates. Open to the public, no reservations required.
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Rockport Music |
06/12/12 |
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport |
Sequentia, with Benjamin Bagby
Presented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center July 13, 2012 Program Title: Rheingold’s Curse
DETAILS:
A Germanic Saga of Greed and Vengeance from the Medieval Icelandic Edda (on which Wagner based his Ring des Nibelungen)
Benjamin Bagby, voice, lyre
Agnethe Christensen, voice (Brynhild), drum
Lena Susanne Norin, voice (Gudrun)
Elizabeth Gaver, fiddle
Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes, lyre
“…imaginative and harrowing…Bagby has created vocal numbers of...
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Rockport Music |
07/13/12 |
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport |
Monster Makers: Puppet Building and Design Camp
Presented by Puppet Showplace Theatre at Puppet Showplace Theatre June 25-June 29, 2012 Instructor: Brad Shur, PST Artist in Residence
Date: 6/25 through 6/29, 8:30am to 4:00pm
Age: 7-12
Location: Puppet Showplace Theatre
To Register: Call the Brookline Rec Department at 617-730-2069. Only 15 spots available...apply today!
Can you imagine the world’s craziest monster? Do you like making stuff by hand? Then Puppet Showplace Theatre wants YOU for Monster Makers! In this new one-week summer camp kids will experience the process of puppet...
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Puppet Showplace Theatre |
06/25/12 -
06/29/12 |
Puppet Showplace Theatre, Brookline |
Talk to the Hand! Puppetry and Performance Skills Camp
Presented by Puppet Showplace Theatre at Puppet Showplace Theatre August 20-August 24, 2012 Instructor: Jacek Zuzanski of Dream Tale Puppets
Date: 8/20 through 8/24, 8:30am to 4:00pm
Age: 7-12
To Register: Call the Brookline Rec Department at 617-730-2069. Only 15 spots available...apply today!
Puppeteers can bring entire worlds to life using just the tips of their fingers. Want to know their secrets? Now is your chance! In this new one-week summer camp students will explore the manipulation techniques used to bring different styles of puppets to...
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Puppet Showplace Theatre |
08/20/12 -
08/24/12 |
Puppet Showplace Theatre, Brookline |
Exhibition: Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West
Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology May 12, 2009-December 30, 2013 Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West explores the meanings of a recently discovered nineteenth-century "artist's book," in the collection of Houghton Library, that had been recovered from the Little Big Horn battlefield after Custer's defeat in 1876. The exhibit presents colored drawings by Plains Indian warriors from the book with historic Lakota objects from the Peabody's collections.
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology |
05/12/09 -
12/30/13 |
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge |
Ripple Effect, The Art of H20
Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum June 18, 2011-July 8, 2012 Ripple Effect, in PEM's interactive Art & Nature Center, highlights water as a medium for artistic expression and hands-on exploration. Visitors encounter water in its different states - solid, liquid and gas - as they investigate artworks inspired by rivers, geysers, snowflakes, fog and more. Water's allure to contemporary artists as a creative medium is compelling, especially in relation to the unique, life-giving properties of this substance we so often take for granted.
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Peabody Essex Museum |
06/18/11 -
07/08/12 |
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem |
Natural Histories: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth
Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum April 14, 2012-May 27, 2013 This exhibition features photographs made over the last 20 years by renowned Boston artist Barbara Bosworth around her childhood home in Novelty, Ohio, and other locations significant to her family. Featuring the oldest and youngest members of the family, these touching images explore the joy of youth and the wistfulness of aging, the nature of memory and the passage of time. Also included are a selection of natural history specimens handed down in the artist's family. This is Bosworth's...
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Peabody Essex Museum |
04/14/12 -
05/27/13 |
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem |
Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge
Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum June 9-October 8, 2012 Wherever he photographed, Ansel Adams' appreciation for water was never far from the surface. He was drawn to the subject in all its forms, from rain, fog, mist and clouds to ice and snow. He also photographed water's effects in tide pools, weathered buildings and erosion patterns. His fascination with surf and crashing waves fed his interest in waterfalls and rapids in the High Sierra. In Yellowstone, it fueled his photographs of Old Faithful.
As in the famous Surf Sequence...
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Peabody Essex Museum |
06/09/12 -
10/08/12 |
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem |
Beacon Hill Walking Tour
Presented by Historic New England at Otis House Museum May 5-October 27, 2012 Go beyond the brick sidewalks and charming gardens and learn about Beacon Hill’s development in the Federal era. The fortunes, ambitions, and struggles of Beacon Hill’s early residents, both wealthy and working class, shaped the streets, architecture, and character of the hill. The program starts with a tour of the Otis House, the earliest intact mansion in the neighborhood, and continues on Beacon Hill’s historic streets. Private group tours available by appointment.
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Historic New England |
05/05/12 -
10/27/12 |
Otis House Museum, Boston |
Muster Day: June 9, 2012
Presented by Old Sturbridge Village at Old Sturbridge Village June 9, 2012 Witness the sights and sounds of a re-created early 19th-century muster day, as Village militia members fire their muskets and drill and practice battle techniques on the Common. Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 with special events. Youngsters of all ages are invited to learn to march, make a militia hat, and try on a knapsack and cartridge box.
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Old Sturbridge Village |
06/09/12 |
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge |
Music & Art Weekend: June 16-17, 2012
Presented by Old Sturbridge Village at Old Sturbridge Village June 16-June 17, 2012 The Village comes alive with the lost sounds and sights of 19th-century popular music and art with more than 50 singers, dancers, musicians, and artists. Singers will present solo a cappella vocal performances of 19th-century songs and ballads, and a concert by the OSV Singers. Visitors can enjoy fife and drum music and a performance on the museum’s antique pipe organ. Artists will demonstrate early 1800s-style sketching, silhouette cutting, watercolor and painting. Visitors can...
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Old Sturbridge Village |
06/16/12 -
06/17/12 |
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge |
Independence Day: July 4, 2012
Presented by Old Sturbridge Village at Old Sturbridge Village July 4, 2012 Old Sturbridge Village celebrates Independence Day each year, with a spectacular fireworks display over the Village Countryside in addition to OSV’s regular daytime activities. Visitors can sign a giant Declaration of Independence and play 1830s-style “Base-ball.” The evening celebration includes music, magic, family games and activities followed by a 30-minute fireworks display at dusk. Beer, wine, soft drinks, sandwiches and snacks, are offered for sale, or visitors can...
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Old Sturbridge Village |
07/04/12 |
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge |
BCE presents CHICHESTER
Presented by Boston Choral Ensemble at Old South Church, Boston June 3, 2012 This concert features works commissioned by Dean Walter Hussey for Chichester Cathedral in England, including Leonard Bernstein’s sensational Chichester Psalms, the stunning Chichester Mass by American composer William Albright, a setting of Psalm 23 by Lennox Berkeley, and canticle settings by Bryan Kelly and William Walton. In the spirit of Hussey’s adventurous commissioning, these concerts will feature the world premiere of a piece composed for BCE by Stephen Feigenbaum, the...
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Boston Choral Ensemble |
06/03/12 |
Old South Church, Boston, Boston |
Longwood Symphony Orchestra - Brahms & Tchaikovsky
Presented by Longwood Symphony Orchestra at NEC's Jordan Hall June 9, 2012 The mission of Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of Boston's medical community, is to perform concerts of musical diversity and excellence, while supporting health-related nonprofit organizations. This concert benefits the Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation, which funds pediatric cancer research and assists families coping with childhood cancer.
Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan won the Gold medal at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition with his performance of...
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Longwood Symphony Orchestra |
06/09/12 |
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston |
MFA Playdates
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 6-June 18, 2012 On the first and third Monday of each month, bring your toddler to enjoy story time and looking activities in the galleries, followed by art making. Each month focuses on a specific theme—on December 5 and December 19 join us to explore our "favorite things" in the Museum. Recommended for children ages 4 and younger with adults. Meet at the Sharf Visitor Center. No registration required.
Stay after the program to explore the Museum on your own or with new...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/06/12 -
06/18/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Summer Teen Studio Art Intensives
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston June 18-August 17, 2012 Create art this summer! The MFA offers summer weekly studio art intensives for teens starting June 25 through August 13 (last class August 17). The classes are taught by experienced educators who are also professional artists. Students are invited to question, explore, experiment, and solve problems as they create and interact with art. The Museum’s collections provide an unparalleled opportunity to study the processes of artists past and present from a variety of cultural...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
06/18/12 -
08/17/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Studio Art Classes: Teen Spring Classes Session
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston March 24-June 9, 2012 Register for MFA Studio Art Classes for teens. Classes are offered for ages 12-14 and 15-18. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers studio art classes and workshops taught by experienced educators who are also professional artists. The Museum’s collections provide an unparalleled opportunity to study the processes of artists past and present from a variety of cultural perspectives. Class sizes are limited to ensure that students of all levels benefit from these experiences.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
03/24/12 -
06/09/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Studio Art Classes Spring Session
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston March 18-June 17, 2012 The MFA offers a wide range of courses in drawing, acrylic painting, oil painting, watercolor, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, stone carving, and much more. Classes meet once a week for either 8 to 10 weeks, or as one- and two-day workshops.
The Museum’s collections provide an unparalleled opportunity to our studio art students to study the processes of artists past and present from a variety of cultural perspectives. The MFA’s classes and workshops are taught...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
03/18/12 -
06/17/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Studio Art Classes: Children Spring Session
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston March 24-June 16, 2012 Register for the children's MFA Studio Art Classes. The children's program is intended for ages 5-6, 7-8, and 9-11 and includes 10-week Saturday classes or Sunday classes. Students sketch and explore the Museum’s galleries, then respond to what they have seen through drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, printmaking projects, and more.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
03/24/12 -
06/16/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
A Pride Week Walk through Mount Auburn
Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery June 3, 2012 Meet some of the celebrated figures from Boston’s past whom today we would call “gay” and “lesbian,” on a walk led by Robin Hazard Ray. Poet Amy Lowell, actress Charlotte Cushman, collector and curator William Sturgis Bigelow, sculptor Anne Whitney, and American Field Service founder Henry B. Sleep are just a few of the remarkable individuals we will visit in recognition of Boston Pride Week 2012.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery |
06/03/12 |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge |
Mount Auburn: A Photographer's Paradise
Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery July 15, 2012 If you are interested in nature and landscape photography, join Helen Abrams on a walk to discover some of the beautiful locations for taking photographs at the Cemetery. Whether you use a “point and shoot” or a digital SLR, bring your camera and enjoy the beauty of this amazing landscape. Along the way we’ll share some of the significant photographs taken at Mount Auburn over the years, including 19th-century daguerreotypes and 20th-century aerial shots.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery |
07/15/12 |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge |
Designing Mount Auburn
Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery August 8, 2012 Join Meg Winslow to learn about the Bostonians who contributed to the design of Mount Auburn’s picturesque landscape, the country’s first designed landscape open to the public. We will visit significant landscape features within the Cemetery, as well as designs by the Olmsted Firm and Fletcher Steele among others.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery |
08/08/12 |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge |
Shoe-making and shining workshop and Open Studio with Stacy Scibelli
Presented by Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at Mills Gallery at the BCA June 9, 2012 Drop-In Shoe-making/Shoe-shining Workshop and Open Studio | Saturday, June 9 1-4pm | Artist Studios Building
BCA artist resident Stacy Scibelli will open her studio and share her work! Also, drop-in to create a simple slipper shoe out of paper and leather or learn some simple shoe-shining techniques.
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Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) |
06/09/12 |
Mills Gallery at the BCA, Boston |
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana - Worcester Chorus
Presented by Music Worcester, Inc. at Mechanics Hall June 3, 2012 152nd Worcester Music Festival closing concert features The Worcester Chorus, Chris Shepard, Artistic Director, with guest soloists and the Worcester Childrens Chorus, Two Pianos, and assorted percussion.
Sometimes called a "dramatic cantata", the Carmina Burana is based upon a group of 13th century poems that were discovered in the Benedictine monastery of Beuren in Bavaria. Written in medieval Latin and middle high German, yet this is one of the most recognizable of...
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Music Worcester, Inc. |
06/03/12 |
Mechanics Hall, Worcester |