Events
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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 |
Framingham High School Poetry Slam Finals
Presented by Amazing Things Arts Center at Amazing Things Art Center April 25, 2012 Framingham High School will hold the final round of its eighth annual poetry slam. A "slam:" is a competition between teams of poets who perform their own original work, bringing poetry off the page and onto the stage in a gloves-off, no-holds-barred verbal boxing match with judges chosen randomly from the audience. This FHS slam began as a class project in 2004, and turned into a school-wide, and now community-wide event.
Seven preliminary rounds consisting of 50 teams...
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Amazing Things Arts Center |
04/25/12 |
Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham |
Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
Presented by Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine April 16-April 18, 2012 Nutrition & Health: State of the Science and Clinical Applications is the premier nutrition conference for health professionals in the U.S. Presented by Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, the conference assembles internationally-recognized researchers, clinicians, educators, and chefs, all of whose work focuses on the interface between nutrition and healthful living. You will leave understanding the links between nutrition, disease...
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Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine |
04/16/12 -
04/18/12 |
Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston |
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 |
ZIP Code Stories Live
Presented by Boston Book Festival at Think Tank Bistrotheque February 16, 2012 Inspired by the popular Radio Boston series, we're bringing together Boston-area authors Holly LeCraw, Steve Macone, and Dawn Tripp to read very short stories inspired by Boston-area ZIP codes. Attendees can also sign up at the door for a chance to represent their neighborhood and read their own 500-word ZIP code stories during our open mic. Hosted by Henriette Lazaridis Power, editor of The Drum, and Anthony Brooks, co-host of Radio Boston.
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Boston Book Festival |
02/16/12 |
Think Tank Bistrotheque, Cambridge |
Readings with a Twist
Presented by Boston Book Festival at Think Tank Bistrotheque April 19, 2012 If you're tired of the same old literary reading scene, imagine how the authors must feel! We're going to shake things up by inviting some up-and-coming literary talent (including Busy Monsters author William Giraldi) and mixing them with some professional readers (including Radio Boston's Adam Ragusea). You'll never hear dialogue the same way again! Dramatic, funny, confrontational, unexpected--no matter what, it's sure to be fantastic.
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Boston Book Festival |
04/19/12 |
Think Tank Bistrotheque, Cambridge |
Lecture Series and Guide Training
Presented by Boston By Foot April 7-May 12, 2012 Boston By Foot seeks volunteer guides! As one of over 200 trained and enthusiastic walking tour guides, you will be certified to lead walking tours through Boston's North End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Freedom Trail and more.
New guides complete Boston By Foot's annual training program, scheduled for six Saturdays from April 7 through May 12, 2012. Led by distinguished professionals, this course traces Boston's topography and architecture from 1630 to the present, and will provide...
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Boston By Foot |
04/07/12 -
05/12/12 |
Atlantic Wharf, 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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14th Annual Boston College Arts Festival
Presented by Boston College April 26-April 28, 2012 Every year, the Boston College Arts Festival brings the Boston College and surrounding communities together to celebrate the arts. Music, theater, dance, film screenings, art exhibitions and demonstrations, literary readings, children's activities, special events, and much more!
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Boston College |
04/26/12 -
04/28/12 |
Boston College, O'Neill Plaza Event Center, Chestnut Hill |
Is the Pen or Collective Song More Powerful than the Sword?
Presented by Boston College March 20, 2012 Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan from Shaw University Divinity School presents an overview of African American spirituals, their connections with Scripture, and how these “chants of collective exorcism” inspired African Americans and bolstered their courage and faith during the antebellum and 1960s Civil Rights eras. Parallels will also be drawn between the spirituals and selected pieces of hip hop music.
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Boston College |
03/20/12 |
Boston College, Corcoran Commons, Heights Room, Chestnut Hill |
Christopher Willcock, S.J.: “The Harrowing of Hell: A Performance of Anastasis”
Presented by Boston College at Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100 April 1, 2012 Christopher Willcock, S.J., speaks at the Spring 2012 Gasson Lecture. His lecture is titled, "The Harrowing of Hell: A Performance of Anastasis." "Anastasis" performed La Bande Sonore, Choir and Soloists. John Finney, conductor.
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Boston College |
04/01/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |
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 |
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 |
Contemporary Perspectives Lecture: April Greiman
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at CFA Concert Hall March 20, 2012 An award-winning designer who revolutionized digital communications design, April Greiman studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and Switzerland's Basel School of Design. Evolving a design style that links American Postmodernism with the rational clarity of the Swiss school, she continues her innovative work in digital media and hybrid processes from Made in Space, her multidisciplinary design studio in Los Angeles. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Free and open to...
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
03/20/12 |
CFA Concert Hall, Boston |
"AMERICAN GRACE: HOW RELIGION DIVIDES AND UNITES US
Presented by Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion March 1, 2012 Robert Putnam, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Thursday, March 1, 6 pm Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall 765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor Moderator: Robert Hefner (Director, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University) Respondent: Peter Berger (Director Emeritus, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University) This event co-sponsored by Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs and...
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Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion |
03/01/12 |
Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall, Boston |
Writers & Readers Series: Jodi Picoult "Lone Wolf"
Presented by Brookline Booksmith at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 29, 2012 The best-selling author of eighteen novels, including Sing You Home, Nineteen Minutes and My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult returns to the Coolidge for her newest tale. When prodigal son Edward Warren gets a call telling him that his father is comatose after an accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara, he returns home. But while Edward wants to terminate life-support, Cara holds out hope, and the two engage in a vicious battle over what it means to love and protect...
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Brookline Booksmith |
02/29/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Spring 2012 Programs at Brookline Music School
Presented by Brookline Music School at Brookline Music School January 31-June 17, 2012 Brookline Music School’s Term II (Spring) programs run January 31-June 17, 2012, offering a variety of classes and private instruction for all ages and abilities. Programs offered include early childhood music and movement and dance classes, Suzuki instruction, group classes including Beginning Piano, Group Voice, Music Technology, Garage Band, iPad Band, Theory, and Jazz/Rock/Pop, Chamber and Flute Choir ensembles for kids, teens and adults. For detailed information visit...
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Brookline Music School |
01/31/12 -
06/17/12 |
Brookline Music School, Brookline |
Writing is Live presented by Brown University TAPS-- Festival of new works by Brown playwrights
Presented by Brown University Theatre Arts and Performance Studies February 3-February 13, 2012 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University proudly announces the third annual Writing is Live festival, a presentation of new works featuring six plays by writers in Brown’s graduate and undergraduate theatre programs. Writing is Live celebrates the diversity and strength of new theatrical voices while simultaneously exploring the meaning of text in performance. Performance writing may take forms complete and incomplete,...
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Brown University Theatre Arts and Performance Studies |
02/03/12 -
02/13/12 |
Brown University, Providence |
Artist Talk: SUE JOHNSON
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts April 5, 2012 Artist Talk: Sue Johnson’s work straddles the fields of journalism, photography, and technology. In 1995, she co-founded Picture Projects to pioneer investigations in online documentary practices. Her collaborations while there include 360degrees.org—Perspectives on the US Criminal Justice System and SonicMemorial.org, an online repository for stories about the World Trade Center. After leaving Picture Projects in 2003, Johnson moved to South Africa where she co-produced Mandela:...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
04/05/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Artist Talk: AMBER DAVIS TOURLENTES
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts February 23, 2012 Tourlentes grew up in the 70s–80s in the gay community with her father. For thirteen years she has photographed the same-sex parented family movement, including her own extended family. The photographic projects investigates the reworking of not only gender but also ethnic, religious and cultural/class roles for family life, lobbyist groups, coalitions and (corporate sponsorship and the portrayal of shifting LGBT community in the media). Unexpectedly, so far in this body of work, it is...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
02/23/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Artist Talk & Opening Celebration: ANNETTE LEMIEUX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts February 16, 2012 An Artist Talk by Annette Lemieux will open the exhibition ANNETTE LEMIEUX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS, on view at at the Carpenter Center through April 1, 2012.
The talk will be followed by a conversation with Annette Lemieux, exhibition curator Lelia Amalfitano, and Susan Stoops,curator of contemporary art at the Worcester Art Museum. A reception will follow.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS presents a combination of new work with work revisited to reveal the relationship between...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
02/16/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
WALID RAAD: AN EVENING WITH THE ARTIST - Carpenter Center Lecture
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts March 1, 2012 Artist Walid Raad will speak on his work, followed by a reception.
Raad is an artist and an associate professor of art in The Cooper Union (New York, USA. Raad’s works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and the ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include The Truth Will Be Known When The Last...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
03/01/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Artist Talk: TERAH MAHER
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts March 8, 2012 Film animator Terah Maher speaks on her work: Maher received a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2006 and her BA in Architecture from Yale University in 1999. Her design work investigates the potentials of constructing narrative experience within physical spaces. She recently designed and co-curated (with Ruth Lingford) the exhibition Frame by Frame, Animated at Harvard at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (2010). She has worked as production...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
03/08/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
What Makes it Great? The Music of Richard Rodgers
Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston at NEC's Jordan Hall April 1, 2012 Songwriting legend Richard Rodgers composed over 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals, including Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. He is also one of only two people to receive an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award plus the Pulitzer Prize. His partnerships with lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II are the source of his most famous work, and in this edition of What Makes It Great? the inimitable Rob Kapilow explores the best from Rodgers'...
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Celebrity Series of Boston |
04/01/12 |
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston |
David Sedaris
Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston at Symphony Hall May 6, 2012 Best-selling author, humorist, and National Public Radio contributor David Sedaris takes the writer's art of observation to new heights. His wit skewers the mannerisms and cultural euphemisms of our time so effortlessly that one hardly notices the social critique. He has been compared to Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, and Voltaire; perhaps he is our era's contribution to that illustrious list.
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Celebrity Series of Boston |
05/06/12 |
Symphony Hall, Boston |