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 |
Dancin' at the Mansion w/ Greg Caputo Quartet
Presented by Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum March 10-June 9, 2012 The Greg Caputo Quartet featuring vocalist Vivian Caputo, will perform well-loved standards at “Dancin’ at the Mansion” get-togethers at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum every second Saturday 7:30pm to 10:30pm.
Ventfort Hall, where the elegant ambiance of the past is re-created, is offering one evening a month dances at which attendees can indulge in one of the pleasures of the past, couples dancing to great music.
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Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum |
03/10/12 -
06/09/12 |
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, Lenox |
1st Annual Spring Antiques Fair
Presented by Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum June 2-June 3, 2012 Ventfort Hall, in cooperation with Rhinebeck Antiques Fair and hosted by Alice Nathan and Irving Marks, will present the First Annual Spring Antiques Fair.
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Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum |
06/02/12 -
06/03/12 |
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, Lenox |
Acton Bluegrass Fesitval
Presented by Town of Acton June 16, 2012 Event held at beautiful NARA Park located at 25 Ledge Rock Way in Acton.
Multiple performers including Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, Dawn Kenney, Blackstone Valley Bluegrass, The Bag Boys, and Hot Mustard.
Food and beverage will be available for purchase.
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Town of Acton |
06/16/12 |
NARA Park, Acton |
Boston Local Food Festival (BLFF)
Presented by The Williams Agency October 7, 2012 The festival provides opportunities for local food-related businesses, initiatives and nonprofits to share their products, services and programs. Over 100 vendors and exhibitors and at least 20 stakeholder groups participate in the festival each year. Boston Local Food Festival attracts 30,000 people
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The Williams Agency |
10/07/12 |
Kedall Square, Cambridge |
Hyper-Local Brew Tasting Event
Presented by The Williams Agency June 16, 2012 Following the success of The Local Craft Brew Tasting component of the Boston Local Food Festival, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston (SBN) realized the growing interest and importance of local craft brews. SBN's Hyper-Local Craft Brew Tasting plans to reach aspiring and established brewers as well lovers of craft brew. The brewfest will feature local craft brewers and highlight, promote and celebrate brews that are made with as many local crops and local ingredients as...
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The Williams Agency |
06/16/12 |
The Armory, Somerville |
Let's Celebrate Childhood: Then and Now at the Wenham Museum
Presented by The Wenham Museum June 8-September 2, 2012 Explore how children lived, worked, dressed and played from the 17th century to the present with a fun and interactive look at how kids’ lives have changed – and stayed the same – through the centuries. Visitors will see how the toys and games, clothing, furnishings, books, chores, and other aspects of family life have evolved over time; on display June 8-September 2, 2012.
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The Wenham Museum |
06/08/12 -
09/02/12 |
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MappariumĀ®
Presented by The Mary Baker Eddy Library January 3, 2012-January 4, 2022 Visit the Mapparium and venture to the This popular Boston landmark is a world-famous, three-story, stained-glass globe that has been visited by over 10 million people since it was constructed in 1935.
Step inside this three-dimensional globe for a 20 minute tour. Learn about its construction, history, and the significance of this magnificent architectural and artistic achievement. From the bridge of the giant sphere, visitors explore the Earth at its center, surrounded by...
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The Mary Baker Eddy Library |
01/03/12 -
01/04/22 |
The Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston |
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 |
Stone Carving Classes/Workshops
Presented by Scott's Stone Carving Classes SSCC January 10, 2012-March 17, 2013 Come learn how to carve stone(alabaster) and learn all parts of this fascinating ancient medium. Beginning/intermediate/advanced students are all welcomed. You will learn the whole process of stone carving from the beginning chisels, to the files and finishing process. Students are encouraged and helped to produce the type of work that interests them! More advanced students are helped to pursue new creative directions or to revisit current ones. Class discussion and demonstration accompany...
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Scott's Stone Carving Classes SSCC |
01/10/12 -
03/17/13 |
International Center for Integrative Systems, Cambridge |
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 |
Color-blind
Presented by RevDc at Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre July 21-July 28, 2012 Color-blind tells the story of a young multiracial couple. Sakwaya, an American-born African, has just received a marriage proposal and intends to introduce her white fiancé Jake to her family. With hopes of a bright future, Jake meets Sakwaya’s family only to find that they harbor deeply rooted racial ideals forced upon them by experience. Jake needs to charm Sakwaya's crazy old cougar of a grandma and, more importantly, her stern father, whom Sakwaya esteems. Will love...
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RevDc |
07/21/12 -
07/28/12 |
Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, Cambridge |
Stoneham Family Day
Presented by Rebuilding Rounds Playground June 23, 2012 Stoneham Family Day is a fun day out for the whole family. There will be rides for children, crafts, artists, an electronics fundraiser, and lots of fun activities.
Why Stoneham Family Day
Stoneham Family Day is organised by the Rebuilding Rounds Committee. Rebuilding Rounds is a partnership of enthusiastic neighbors and the Town of Stoneham, working together to rebuild AP Rounds Playground on Broadway and MacArthur St. AP Rounds Playground is one of...
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Rebuilding Rounds Playground |
06/23/12 |
Stoneham Town Common, Stoneham |
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 |
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
Presented by Poetry Jam February 13, 2011-June 29, 2014 Every Sunday with a Poetry Slam co-hosted by Joyce Cunha and Jeff Robinson starting at 7:30pm and a Featured Poet and Open Mic accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio starting at 9:00pm – there’s a $5 cover and you must be 21 to enter the venue – Sultry red lights, intimate tables, and wooden church pews give this small room one of the best ambiances in town.
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Poetry Jam |
02/13/11 -
06/29/14 |
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge |
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 |
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 |
Newport Folk Festival
Presented by Newport Festivals Foundation at Fort Adams State Park July 28-July 29, 2012 Saturday July 28
MY MORNING JACKET
IRON & WINE
PATTY GRIFFIN
GUTHRIE FAMILY REUNION
DAWES
DEER TICK
CITY AND COLOUR
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
ALABAMA SHAKES
SHARON VAN ETTEN
BLIND PILOT
FIRST AID KIT
BROWN BIRD
JONNY CORNDAWG
SPIRIT FAMILY REUNION
ROBERT ELLIS
FRANK FAIRFIELD
THE APACHE RELAY
HONEYHONEY
SLEEPY MAN BANJO BOYS
ELIZABETH MITCHELL & YOU ARE MY...
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Newport Festivals Foundation |
07/28/12 -
07/29/12 |
Fort Adams State Park, Newport |
1st Annual Party for N.P.G.N.O.
Presented by New Phenomenon Girls Night Out June 30, 2012 Get your mind of work, kids, and the daily stresses in your life. Please join us in a FUN filled evening of laughter and friendship in celebration of all WOMEN. An evening to let loose and have some time for just you and the Girls.
There will be vendors, a silent auction, hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, DJ, Award for Best Host and Goody Bags. This is a night you don't want to miss!
Attire: Anything from casual chic to cocktail Attire.
SPONSORS:
We will...
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New Phenomenon Girls Night Out |
06/30/12 |
Best Western Adams Inn, Quincy |
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 |
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 |