Events
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Music at the Meeting House
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House February 17-March 9, 2012 Music at the Meeting House: The New England Conservatory Concert Series
Fridays, February 17, 24 and March 2, 9, 12:15 PM
Enjoy the artistry and extraordinary talent of some of Boston’s most gifted young musicians in this annual concert series featuring soloists in the Artist Diploma degree program and spectacular ensembles representing varied musical styles. Please visit our website at www.osmh.org for the performance schedule. Free and Open to the Public
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Old South Meeting House |
02/17/12 -
03/09/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Audrey Ryan & Will Dailey
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 8-March 9, 2012 Audrey Ryan is a one-man-band multi-instrumentalist whose music is quirky and genre-bending. She tours regionally, nationally, and internationally supported by Folkwit Records (UK) . She has opened for Suzanne Vega, They Might be Giants, Josh Ritter, Ra Ra Riot, Grace Potter among many others
http://www.audreyryan.org/
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Club Passim |
03/08/12 -
03/09/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
Air Traffic Controller & Sarah Blacker
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 9, 2012 Serving in the US Navy as a real-life air traffic controller, singer/songwriter Dave Munro sent home 4-track demos he had written and recorded during his deployment. With his enlistment up, Munro returned to hometown Boston and discovered an impressive number of fans, prompting the genesis of the aptly-named rock band Air Traffic Controller. WERS Radio calls Air Traffic Controller “One of Boston's finest independent bands” and during the height of its radio campaign the...
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Club Passim |
03/09/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
The Turin Horse
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 9, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos
Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA 2011, 35mm, b/w, 146 min. Hungarian with English subtitles
Boldly proclaimed by Tarr to be his last film, The Turin Horse offers a masterful and melancholy summary of his unique visionary cinema. Embracing an extraordinary minimalism of story, setting and cast, The Turin Horse is structured around one week in the back-breaking lives of an...
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Harvard Film Archive |
03/09/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
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Capturing Insects with Pencil & Paper (Ages 9–13)
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
03/10/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Monsters: A Midlife Musical Meltdown!
Presented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre February 25-March 10, 2012 “Enormously Entertaining!” - Boston Globe
Samantha thinks turning 40 is the scariest thing to happen to her. See what happens when a mysterious package arrives in this hilarious look at a full- blown mid life crisis. After all…everybody’s got MONSTERS!... don’t they?
More information at www.monstersthemusical.com
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Regent Theatre |
02/25/12 -
03/10/12 |
Regent Theatre, Arlington |
Justin Townes Earle
Presented by MASS MoCA at MASS MoCA March 10, 2012 Justin Townes Earle is an anomaly. He’s tall as the day is long, all angles and elbows and a hard stare, both welcoming and deadly serious. He’s Nashville North, all set up in lower Manhattan now, just like his hero Woody Guthrie, with twang and charm intact. That hard working earnestness has paid off, to say the least. Justin won the Best New and Emerging Artist at the 2009 Americana Music Awards. His record, Midnight at the Movies, was named one of the best records of last...
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MASS MoCA |
03/10/12 |
MASS MoCA, North Adams |
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company: Story/Time
Presented by FirstWorks March 10, 2012 “[Jones’s] gifts: …compelling storytelling and pure-dance interludes of slippery and often deeply romantic choreography.” —The Washington Post
FirstWorks presents Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones, who commands center stage for an exhilarating full company performance of 70 stories in 70 minutes. Inspired by Merce Cunningham and John Cage’s “Indeterminancy” (1959), the piece changes each time it is staged, operating on the...
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FirstWorks |
03/10/12 |
The Vets, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence |
Boston Sea Rovers Saturday Evening Film Festival
Presented by Boston Sea Rovers March 10, 2012 The 2012 world renowned Boston Sea Rovers Saturday Evening film festival will be hosted by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry. Featured filmmakers include Rick Rosenthal (Life, Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Disney’s Earth), Michael Pitts (Life, Blue Planet, Oceans) and noted underwater explorer and filmmaker Jill Heinerth.
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Boston Sea Rovers |
03/10/12 |
The CoCo Key Hotel & Water Resort, Danvers |
Boston Massacre Reenactment
Presented by The Bostonian Society March 10, 2012 Join us and become a part of this infamous event as it is reenacted in front of the Old State House, in the very place where it took place in 1770. Decide for yourself if the soldiers fired into the crowd in self-defense or cold-blooded murder. Before the action unfolds, hear from patriots, loyalists, and moderates who will talk about the events and attitudes that led to that fateful night. Free; in front of the Old State House.
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The Bostonian Society |
03/10/12 |
Old State House, Boston |
Ashley Jordan
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 10, 2012 In October of 2011, Ashley released her second CD titled Liquid Words with her new unique mix of country/pop folk-rock music at a CD release concert held at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. Her newest album met once again with rave reviews and Ashley’s music has been getting radio play on stations such as WATD FM (“Almost Famous Show” and "Twilight Showcase") and on WMBR Radio in Cambridge, MA. Ashley continues to play her guitar and give powerful vocal...
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Club Passim |
03/10/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
Mary Fahl
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 10, 2012 Blessed with a magnificent range, Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s cult band October Project, an East Coast folk-rock/adult alternative outfit that recorded two poetic albums for Epic: its self-titled debut album of 1993; and its 1995 encore effort, “Falling Farther In“. In a review of October Project’s first release, Allmusic.com dubbed Fahl the “lovechild“ of Stevie...
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Club Passim |
03/10/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
Spring Forward
Presented by Watertown Children's Theatre at The Arsenal Center For The Arts March 10, 2012 Watertown Children’s Theatre is excited to announce our 2012 Fun-Raiser, “Spring Forward”! Please join us on Saturday, March 10 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts for a special evening, featuring singer-songwriter Rose Polenzani, with an opening act of show tunes by WCT’s own stellar staff members.
The evening begins with a silent auction and reception at 7 pm. Performances begin at 8 pm, followed by a dessert reception, where guest artist, Rose...
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Watertown Children's Theatre |
03/10/12 |
The Arsenal Center For The Arts, Watertown |
2009 NY’s Funniest Standup Winner MYQ KAPLAN @ Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault
Presented by Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault @ Remingtons at Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault @ Remingtons March 9-March 10, 2012 Myq Kaplan is a comedian named Myq Kaplan (pronounced “Mike Kaplan” when done correctly or however you like, he’s not picky). The Comedians magazine calls him “a comedy machine, in the best possible way. The way that some machines vend soda or prevent other machines from killing future revolutionaries – that’s how Myq Kaplan does comedy: relentlessly, methodically, unblinkingly.” Myq just made his debut on “The Tonight Show with Conan...
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Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault @ Remingtons |
03/09/12 -
03/10/12 |
Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault @ Remingtons, Boston |
Damnation
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 10, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With Gábor Balogh, János Balogh, Péter Breznyik
Hungary 1988, 35mm, b/w, 116 min. Hungarian with English subtitles
Tarr made a dramatic stylistic and critical breakthrough with this brooding and visually striking study of desolation and betrayal set in small town Hungary and tracing the cruel love triangle that emerges between a taciturn loner, a nightclub singer and her smuggler husband. The first of five films to date...
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Harvard Film Archive |
03/10/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
The Outsider
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 10, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With András Szabó, Jolan Fodor, Imre Donko
Hungary 1979, 35mm, color, 122 min. Hungarian with English subtitles
Assuming the freeform structure of naturalistic, independent American cinema of the same period, The Outsider imparts a mutual theme: the hard barter of individual – usually male – freedom for a “normal” life of work and family. Played by a musician of the same name, easy-going András...
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Harvard Film Archive |
03/10/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
WSO Family Concert - Tell Me A Story!
Presented by The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra at Mass Bay Community College, Wellesley March 11, 2012 Introduce your family to the orchestra, starting with actually playing the instruments (2:15) and seeing them in action at the concert with students from the Wellesley Middle School. Leslie Holmes narrates The Little Engine that Could. Director of Performing Arts Elizabeth Perry hosts. And presenting the winner of the WSO Young Soloist Competition.
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The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra |
03/11/12 |
Mass Bay Community College, Wellesley, Wellesley |
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2012 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films
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Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) |
02/20/12 -
03/11/12 |
Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA), Boston |
Reflections of a Rock Lobster
Presented by Boston Children's Theatre March 3-March 11, 2012 The true story of a 17 year-old gay student from Cumberland, Rhode Island who sued his high school in 1980 for the right to escort his boyfriend to his high school prom, is the basis for this groundbreaking World Premiere of the play REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER. Adapted by Burgess Clark from the autobiographical book by Aaron Fricke, the play makes a powerful statement about bullying, intolerance and hope. “BCT is extremely proud to be the first children’s theatre to address...
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Boston Children's Theatre |
03/03/12 -
03/11/12 |
The Wimberly Theatre at the BCA, Boston |
BCE presents Butterfly Dreams
Presented by Boston Choral Ensemble at Old South Church, Boston March 11, 2012 The Boston Choral Ensemble will explore the dream state with evocative music by Eric Whitacre (including Sleep and Leonardo dreams of his flying machine), Butterfly Dreams by John Tavener, Judith Weir’s a blue true dream of sky, and madrigals by Dowland and others.
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Boston Choral Ensemble |
03/11/12 |
Old South Church, Boston, Boston |
Rainbow Tribe, Inc. presents 20iN2012
Presented by Rainbow Tribe. Inc. at Boston University Dance Theater March 9-March 11, 2012 A 20-year alumni celebration concert looking back on the founding, the bright present, and forward towards the exciting future of this ever-growing, ever-evolving Boston-based non-profit organization. Join Tribe, The Dance Company, Bside, Embrace, and organization alumni in celebrating this tremendous milestone by bringing your dancing shoes, and party attitude. You will laugh, you will cry, you will sing, and you will dance - most of all in your heart. This is one dance concert and...
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Rainbow Tribe. Inc. |
03/09/12 -
03/11/12 |
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston |
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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StoneTones/Colin Stack and Novelty Act
Presented by StoneTones at Lily Pad March 11, 2012 Colin Stack and Rick Stone pair up to present an afternoon of instant ear-candy at the Lily Pad! Novelty Act was created by Singer/Songwriter/Composer Colin Stack in January of 05' and has played monthly shows in and around the northeast. The active line-up of the band consists of a rotating group of musicians from Boston and New York. The music can best be described as an eclectic mix of rock, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, jazz, folk, and vaudeville. Colin Stack has recently been featured in...
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StoneTones |
03/11/12 |
Lily Pad, Cambridge |
Seussical,at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC in Newton
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC March 11, 2012 Designed for children ages4+ years, with adult
TheatreworksUSA presentation
"Oh, the thinks you can think" when Dr. Seuss' beloved characters collide and cavort in this whimsical musical caper. Adapted from the Broadway musical for young audiences, Seussical is TheatreworksUSA's biggest and most elaborately staged show ever. Tag along with The Cat in the Hat - host, emcee, and all-around mischief-maker - in an exhilarating romp through the Dr. Seuss classics. A program...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
03/11/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Boston Sea Rovers Underwater Show
Presented by Boston Sea Rovers March 10-March 11, 2012 Over 40 Saturday and Sunday Daytime Seminars, featuring still photography and video shows from around the underwater world. World renowned Saturday Evening Film Festival, featuring world famous filmmakers and explorers. Not a diver but want to try it? Check out Discover Scuba offered at the on-site pool. Exhibit hall with various dive gear/shop and travel industry booths. Special Sunday kids programs. Free parking!
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Boston Sea Rovers |
03/10/12 -
03/11/12 |
The CoCo Key Hotel & Water Resort, Danvers |
The General: Silent film accompanied by Clark Wilson on the Mighty Wurlitzer
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre March 11, 2012 See this original silent film from 1926, directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack and Glen Cavender.
Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive. What follows is one of the most cleverly choreographed comedies ever recorded on celluloid. Johnnie wages war against...
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The Hanover Theatre |
03/11/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
Kim Bernard and Liz Shepherd Exhibition
Presented by Boston Sculptors Gallery at Boston Sculptors Gallery February 8-March 11, 2012 February 8 – March 11, 2012 “Up and Out” by sculptor and printmaker Liz Shepherd lifts the viewer above the fray, with life-sized staircases and images of towering ladders reaching from the floor to the 12’ high ceiling. Shepherd’s work makes a statement about faith and the human spirit. “Stuff Moves” by Kim Bernard features recent kinetic sculptures. Fascinated with movement, kinesthetics and the basic laws of motion, Bernard’s kinetic...
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Boston Sculptors Gallery |
02/08/12 -
03/11/12 |
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston |
Exhibit Opening-Bob Grignaffini & Michelle Lougee
Presented by Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery February 10-March 11, 2012 Fountain Street Fine Art presents Bob Grignaffini – Michelle Lougee painting – sculpture February 10 – March 11, 2012 Reception: February 11, 2012, 5-7pm; FREE and open to the public Additional hours by appointment. Please call 508.879.4200
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Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery |
02/10/12 -
03/11/12 |
Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery, Boylston |
Boston Opera Collaborative presents La Boheme
Presented by Boston Opera Collaborative at Mass College of Art Tower Auditorium March 2-March 11, 2012 Set in the mid-nineteenth century, Puccini's masterpiece endures and resonates with contemporary audiences because of its breathtaking music and its timeless story of love, loss, and the sacrifices we make for our art. Although the romanticized world of the artist contrasts with the harsh realities of life, these are recognizable characters that feel deeply, think profoundly, and love with every fiber of their being. La Bohème will be presented at Tower Auditorium at Mass Art,...
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Boston Opera Collaborative |
03/02/12 -
03/11/12 |
Mass College of Art Tower Auditorium, Boston |
The Prefab People
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 11, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With Róbert Koltai, Judit Pógany, Gábor Koltai
Hungary 1982, 35mm, b/w, 82 min. Hungarian with English subtitles
In his first film using professional actors, Tarr perfects his documentary-style social dramas in this study of a marriage in permanent decomposition. A middle-class couple’s daily clashes range from the uncomfortable comedy of their ninth anniversary celebration – with his gifts of hairspray, a mug and a...
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Harvard Film Archive |
03/11/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |