Events
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Boston Neighborhood History Series: Dorchester
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House February 9, 2012 Boston’s largest neighborhood, Dorchester, began as a small settlement established by a group of hardy English families in 1630. Earl Taylor, President of the Dorchester Historical Society, shares the story of a wonderful neighborhood that has appealed to immigrants throughout the world as a beacon of community and has developed into a compelling neighborhood of distinct communities.
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Old South Meeting House |
02/09/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
J Street Boston Book Group
Presented by J Street Boston at Brookline Public Library February 9, 2012 Please join Lynne Layton, Co-chair of the J Street Boston Programming Committee, for a group discussion of J Street founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami's recent book, A New Voice for Israel.
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J Street Boston |
02/09/12 |
Brookline Public Library, Brookline |
Travel & Taste: Magical Tucson: Hummingbirds & More
Presented by Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary at Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary February 9, 2012 Southern Arizona, only 60 miles from the Mexican border, appears at first glance to be only a mix of rugged mountains and barren desert. However, life teems in this area when you look closer. Tiny hummingbirds can be found calling for mates and nesting in shrubbery, while giant saguaro cactus provide homes and food for a variety of bird life including cactus wrens. Animals including venomous gila monsters, road runners and even mountain lions have adapted to survive in this challenging...
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Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary |
02/09/12 |
Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Natick |
Terrible and Charismatic Waste
Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology February 9, 2012 Lecture by Max Liboiron, ABD, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University; Regional Co-Director of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.
In 2001, plastic outweighed plankton in the Pacific Ocean by six to one. Today, that ratio is thirty-six to one. Ocean plastics are outpacing the knowledge and methods designed to investigate and manage them.
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology |
02/09/12 |
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge |
Beatleness!
Presented by Candy Leonard at Center for the Arts at The Armory February 9, 2012 The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9, 1964 - and everything changed. The Beatlemania of the 1960s has become Beatleness, and it's all around us. How did this happen and why are the Beatles still so important? Sociologist and lifelong Beatle fan Candy Leonard has interviewed hundreds of Beatle fans and offers a unique, multidisciplinary analysis of the Beatles' ongoing impact that will engage and delight Beatle fans of all ages. A splendid time is guaranteed for...
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Candy Leonard |
02/09/12 |
Center for the Arts at The Armory, Somerville |
Artist Talk: WANG GONGXIN
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts February 9, 2012 Artist Talk: Wang GongXin is one of China’s most respected and influential contemporary artists. His work Here? Or There? (created with Lin Tianmiao) is considered to be among the most important works in recent years. His piece The Sky of Brooklyn: Digging a Hole in Beijing was one of the first site-specific installations in China. His work on video includes The Old Bench, Baby Talk, Public Hallway, and Shepard. His work has been exhibited widely all over the world. In the UK he has...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
02/09/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Demonstration by watercolorist Michael Milburn
Presented by Newton Art Association at Newton Senior Center February 9, 2012 The Newton Art Association presents a watercolor demonstration by Michael Milburn at 7:15 pm on Thursday, February 9, 2012 at the Newton Senior Center, 345 Walnut Street in Newtonville. Michael Milburn teaches watercolor and Japanese calligraphy at the New Art Center in Newton, MA and is president and founder of the Newton Watercolor Society. He has been drawing and painting for over 30 years and studying Japanese calligraphy since 1999. This event is free and the public is invited.
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Newton Art Association |
02/09/12 |
Newton Senior Center, Newtonville |
Free Workshop for Parents and Teachers of Children with Special Needs
Presented by Foundation for Wellness Professionals February 9, 2012 Attention! Parents of children who struggle with ADD/ADHD, Oppositional Defiance, OCD, Anxiety, are on the Autistic Spectrum or have other special needs. New Treatment for Special Needs Produces Exciting Results The Foundation for Wellness Professionals offers a free community Workshop on Brain Mapping and Drug Free Approaches to ADD, Autism, and Other Special Needs. Thursday, February 9th, 7:00PM at the Wellesley Free Library. These workshops are presented by Dr. Ross, a Licensed...
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Foundation for Wellness Professionals |
02/09/12 |
Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley |
Landscape Lecture Series: Peter Walker, Principal, PWP Landscape Architecture
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum February 9, 2012 Organized by Consulting Curator of Landscape Charles Waldheim/Urban Agency, the inaugural Landscape Lectures will address how landscape design has changed the shape of American cities and open spaces in recent years, representing a shift in the way designers approach the challenges of urban life.
“The Landscape Lectures will focus on contemporary issues in urban landscape design and the renewal of our connection with the environment and with land...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
02/09/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Mark your calendar for a lively, courtship lecture, Sex at the Zoo
Presented by Franklin Park Zoo at Franklin Park Zoo February 10, 2012 Bring a date or come to find one while taking a voyeuristic peek into the private lives of animals during Franklin Park Zoo’s Sex at the Zoo lecture and Valentine’s Day themed event. Do animals find each other appealing or attractive? What are the similarities and differences between human and animal courtship? What can the techniques that animals use to attract mates teach us about friendship and romance? Join us for titillating tales from the animal kingdom because, when it...
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Franklin Park Zoo |
02/10/12 |
Franklin Park Zoo, Boston |
Boston CreativeMornings
Presented by Design Museum Boston February 10, 2012 Are you ready to quit your job and begin working for yourself?
Inspiration, tips, myths and advice from Mike Kivikoski: Designer and Web Developer who runs Atedrake, a boutique web studio based out of the Fringe collective in Somerville, MA.
Since starting his own business, he's had the chance to work with a wide range of clients, including AstraZeneca, BMC Software, Cuppow, NBA, Sprite, Island Creek Oysters, and the Democratic National Committee.
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Design Museum Boston |
02/10/12 |
Space With a Soul, Boston |
Wagner’s GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Presented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center February 11, 2012 Surround Sound and Reserved Seating!
Rockport Music’s live HD Broadcasts feature pre-opera lunches on the third floor reception hall; lunches must be purchased separately by calling the box office at 978-546-7391 (M-F, 10-4).
Pre-opera talks with musicologist Elizabeth Seitz take place on select dates throughout the season.
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah...
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Rockport Music |
02/11/12 |
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport |
The Art of Love, Lust, and Laughter: Poems and Stories from the Heart
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 12, 2012 We may not know what love is, but we sure know what love does! Join Regie Gibson, Simone Beaubien, and surprise musicians as they team up with professional and non-professional writers (one could be you!) for an hour of poetry, stories, and music celebrating the beauty, bawdiness, and betrayals of that most unpredictable of predicaments: love!
Send us your works of love!
For guidelines and selection process, visit The Fine Art of Love at Blogspot. Please send your original, insightful,...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/12/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
NEWTON’S REVOLUTIONARY ROOTS – THE 2012 NEWTON HISTORY SERIES
Presented by Historic Newton at Newton Free Library February 13, 2012 NEWTON’S REVOLUTIONARY ROOTS – THE 2012 NEWTON HISTORY SERIES
Boston, Newton, and the Revolution
This talk will explore the relationship between Boston and its rural neighbors, including Newton, during the American Revolution. The leaders of the resistance against Great Britain made a massive effort to mobilize throughout Massachusetts. The Durant family and their community offer an excellent opportunity to see this revolutionary process at work. Benjamin Carp,...
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Historic Newton |
02/13/12 |
Newton Free Library, Newton |
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 |
ACT Lecture| MIchael Corris: What Do Artists Know? Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) February 13, 2012 Some contemporary art is profoundly engaged with the world in ways that go beyond interpretation. We seem to be in the midst of a cultural moment where the instrumentalization of art has never been more widely accepted among artists. Whether such artistic practices seek to work across disciplines like science or sociology, or aim to intervene positively in the social and cultural life of communities, the artists involved may be said to hold in common the belief that there is a real advantage...
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
02/13/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Doris Salcedo
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 15, 2012 Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
Doris Salcedo’s chair, Untitled (2004–5), is a sculpture that at once plays with Duchamp’s concept of the “readymade” and stands as enduring witness to the violence that ravages many societies in the world today. This lecture will examine the evolution of Salcedo’s oeuvre since the 1980s, placing this piece...
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Harvard Art Museums |
02/15/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
A Look Inside SB 1070
Presented by Northeastern University School of Law February 15, 2012 The Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA) will sponsor a viewing of the documentary "A Look Inside SB 1070" and host speakers from the Center for New Community, the film's producer. The film follows a national student delegation as it toured Arizona in August of 2010 amidst the passage of the controversial state immigration law known as SB 1070. Nine students from Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, and Colorado comprised the delegation which set out to gain a...
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Northeastern University School of Law |
02/15/12 |
240 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University, Boston |
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 New York Times Magazine: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 15, 2012 Kathy Ryan, director of photography, The New York Times Magazine
While showing some of The New York Times Magazine?s most iconic images from the past 25 years, Kathy Ryan peppers her talk with intriguing insights and anecdotes about photography. The talk spotlights the various genres in the magazine?photojournalism, fine arts portraiture, style, and photo illustration?and photographers work such as Nan Goldin, Thomas Struth, Gregory Crewdson, Abelardo Morell, and Jeff Koons.
Book signing...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/15/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
The Biology and Evolution of Mollusks
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History February 16, 2012 From tiny barnacles to the giant clam (Tridacna gigas), mollusks are the most diverse and widely distributed family of marine invertebrates. Professor Gonzalo Giribet, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at Harvard’s MCZ, will discuss how scientists are decoding the Mollusca genetic family tree to learn how they’ve adapted, survived, and thrived since the pre-Cambrian era, and to explore the potential benefits of mollusks from medicine to human health, and other fields.
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
02/16/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Boston Neighborhood History Series: Roslindale
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House February 16, 2012 It is said that Roslindale shares its name with no other place! When the community applied for a Post Office, they needed a distinct name and came together to agree on the name “Roslindale.” Cathy Slade, President of the Roslindale Historical Society, will share stories of the thriving and accepting community that has developed over the years.
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Old South Meeting House |
02/16/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Artist Discussion: Ambiguous Affiliations
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum at BCA Cyclorama February 16, 2012 Caitlin Berrigan will be joined by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, curator LA GALERÍA, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, and James G. Ennis, Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University with an expertise in social movements to discuss subjects surrounding Spectrum of Inevitable Violence, such as the slippery affiliations of social class, the role culture plays in their dynamics, and how personal interrelations of class enter into larger political domains.
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
02/16/12 |
BCA Cyclorama, Boston |
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 |
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 |
The Mechanics and 21st Century Technology: Inside the Mighty Wurlitzer
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre February 18, 2012 The Hanover Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ is a wonderful blend of traditional building techniques and modern day technology. Join Curator Don Phipps and his team to learn about the mechanics that control the instrument’s 2,400 pipes. Find out how modern technology is used to create flexibility and control. Sample components of the organ will be on display and tours of the organ chamber will be available followed by a special mini concert by resident organist Len...
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The Hanover Theatre |
02/18/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
Primary Source Concert: Mozart and Beethoven
Presented by Primary Source Concerts February 18, 2012 Primary Source Concert: “Between House and Stage: Public and Private Music Making in the 18th Century” Mozart’s “ The Magic Flute” arranged for String Quartet [1797] Beethoven’s Septet for winds and strings, opus 20 Gabriela Diaz, Gabriel Boyers, Margaret Dyer, David Russell, Ben Seltzer, Anne Howarth, Adam Smith, David Goodchild On Display: First and Early editions of the Magic Flute, including the chamber music arrangements to be performed, together...
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Primary Source Concerts |
02/18/12 |
Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston |
Science on Screen: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 20, 2012 Woody Allen intertwines two storylines in this penetrating, acidly funny tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosms they represent. Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is a prominent ophthalmologist and family man who resorts to desperate measures when his mistress threatens to ruin his life. Meanwhile, married documentary filmmaker Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) woos an attractive production assistant (Mia Farrow) while directing a profile of his brother-in-law (a priceless...
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Coolidge Corner Theatre |
02/20/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Young Voices in Russian Literature
Presented by Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University February 22, 2012 A new generation of Russian writers visits Harvard: Young authors, all finalists for Russia’s Debut Prize, will read their work and discuss art and freedom in today’s Russia. This is a critical juncture in the history of Russia—the Perestroika and post-Soviet generations are being displaced by a new generation for which the USSR is mere history. Theirs is a complex new Russia, which they strive to represent in their literary works.
For over a...
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University |
02/22/12 |
Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, Cambridge |
Unmet: Opera for the 21st Century
Presented by Oberon at Oberon February 22, 2012 Leave your opera glasses at home and forget that stodgy tenor in 18th-century garb! Juventas New Music Ensemble invites you to experience opera in the future over an evening drink. Scenes from new operas by emerging composers will explore love, war, death and magic, placing you directly in the middle of the action. Escape the daily grind and allow yourself to be drawn in by the allure of unparalleled sights, sounds, and emotions. A conversation with composers will take place immediately...
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Oberon |
02/22/12 |
Oberon, Cambridge |