Events
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This Side of Resurrection
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 25, 2012 Directed by Joaquim Sapinho. With Pedro Sousa, Joana Barata, Sofia Grillo
Portugal 2011, digital video, color, 116 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
A meditative study of loneliness and longing, the latest film by Joaquim Sapinho (b. 1964) tells the story of a brother and sister coming to terms with the dissolution of their family. A former champion surfer who spends his days in pursuit of the most dangerous waves, the young man is torn between the Estoril beaches and the...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/25/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Blood (O Sangue)
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 25, 2012 Directed by Pedro Costa. With Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira,
Inês de Medeiros
Portugal 1989, 35mm, b/w, 95 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
A lushly stylized romantic fable, Costa's auspicious debut demonstrates his love and knowledge of classical Hollywood and European art cinema. With poignant echoes of Nicholas Ray, Robert Bresson and F.W. Murnau, Costa explores the plight of two brothers and a young kindergarten teacher being pursued by some unseemly...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/25/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Glória
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 26, 2012 Directed by Manuela Viegas. With Jean Christophe Bouvet, Francisco Relvas, Raquel Marques
Portugal/France/Spain 1999, 35mm, color, 110 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
The first and only feature film to date by influential editor Manuela Viegas (Costa's O Sangue, João Cesar Monteiro's Silvestre) is a stylish coming of age tale and a moving portrait of the slow death of a rural Portuguese town. Co-written by Viegas and Joaquim Saphino, Glória is a nuanced...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/26/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
A Girl in Summer
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 26, 2012 Directed by Vítor Gonçalves. With Isabel Galhardo, Diogo Dória,
José Manuel Mendes
Portugal 1986, 16mm, color, 80 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
One of the great Portuguese films of the 1980s, A Girl in Summer immediately announced Vítor Gonçalves (b. 1951) as the foremost director of his generation. A moody and atmospheric portrait of a young woman unable to make the crucial decisions needed to move forward with her life,...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/26/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Ivan the Terrible, Part One
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 27, 2012 During World War II, Eisenstein was granted permission to make a trilogy of films on the life of Ivan the Terrible who ruled Russia from 1533 to 1584. Soviet ideology of the period saw Ivan as a predecessor of Stalin, as a ruler who strengthened and expanded the Russian state. Accordingly, Part One depicts the young tsar as a heroic and progressive figure but one surrounded by enemies, both within Russia and abroad. Part Two illustrates Ivan’s ruthless campaign to eliminate his...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/27/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 27, 2012 During World War II, Eisenstein was granted permission to make a trilogy of films on the life of Ivan the Terrible who ruled Russia from 1533 to 1584. Soviet ideology of the period saw Ivan as a predecessor of Stalin, as a ruler who strengthened and expanded the Russian state. Accordingly, Part One depicts the young tsar as a heroic and progressive figure but one surrounded by enemies, both within Russia and abroad. Part Two illustrates Ivan’s ruthless campaign to eliminate his...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/27/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Alexander Nevsky
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 28, 2012 Eisenstein created this rousing nationalist epic of medieval Slavs driving out Teutonic invaders. Despite the screen time devoted to a belabored comic subplot concerning a love triangle, Alexander Nevsky remains one of his most popular and influential films. The film provides endless examples of Eisenstein’s genius not just at combining shots but at composing them as well, while the battle scenes demonstrate his continued mastery at choreographing electrifying action. The use of an...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/28/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Free Sunday Mornings at Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History June 27, 2010-June 30, 2012 Don’t miss the world famous exhibit of 3,000 ‘Glass Flowers’, amazingly realistic models of plants, fruits and flowers created by father-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka from 1886-1936. Explore 12,000 specimens drawn from Harvard’s vast research collections at the University's most visited museum -- dinosaurs, meteorites, gemstones, and hundreds of prehistoric and current-day animals from around the globe. Get close to the world’s only mounted...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
06/27/10 -
06/30/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Nature Storytime: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History March 12, 2011 - Ongoing Children 6 and under are invited to join Harvard Museum of Natural History staff for Nature Storytime every Saturday & Sunday at 11 am & 2pm. Enjoy stories and poems designed to engage the next generation of explorers with themes related to the museum's galleries.
For children 6 and under. Free with museum admission.
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
03/12/11 -
Ongoing |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
New England Forests, New Exhibition
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History May 24, 2011-May 31, 2014 New England Forests, a permanent multi-media exhibition explores the natural history our regional forests. Explore the world of woodland caribou, beaver, otter and dozens of other wildlife of New England; learn about lichen cities that cling to rocks; and the circle of life within and around a forest pond from tiny tadpoles to giant moose. A must-see before you head to the outdoors for summer camping or fall foliage.
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
05/24/11 -
05/31/14 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
New Photographic Exhibit: Life in the Extreme Deep - Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History October 12, 2011-June 30, 2012 Harvard Museum of Natural History announces a new photographic exhibit opening in the museum lobby on October 12, showcasing the research of Harvard’s Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences Peter R. Girguis and stunning deep-sea photographs by scientists who work in the field with Professor Girguis. Life in the Extreme Deep will remain on display through June 2012.
In conjunction with the photographic exhibit, the museum will offer a lecture by Harvard biologist...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
10/12/11 -
06/30/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
New Photographic Exhibit - Relics: Travels in Nature’s Time Machine
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History October 12, 2011-June 30, 2012 Opening in the museum lobby on October 12, will be a selection of photographs by renowned zoologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki, from his new book, Relics: Travels in Nature’s Time Machine. The exhibit presents a time-lapse photographic tour of life that has persisted nearly untouched for hundreds of millions of years. This photographic exhibit will remain on display through June 2012.
To compliment this photographic exhibit on Wednesday November 30 at 6:00pm,...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
10/12/11 -
06/30/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Spiders!
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History October 29, 2011-June 30, 2012 See the new exhibit Spiders! within Arthropods: Creatures that Rule, and learn about these amazingly versatile, and venomous, air-breathing creatures which live on every continent except Antarctica, and in every terrestrial habitat. Check out the live tarantula! Spiders! will remain on display through June 2012.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is located at 26 Oxford Street, a 7-8 minute walk through historic Harvard Yard from the Harvard Square T station.
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
10/29/11 -
06/30/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History February 18, 2012-February 28, 2013 Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm, a new exhibition opening February 18, 2012 at Harvard Museum of Natural History, will explore mollusks' amazing diversity and feature recent discoveries about their evolutionary history. Mollusks are amazingly varied in both size and anatomical structure, as well as in their behaviors and habitats. First appearing in the fossil record in the Cambrian period more than 500 million years ago, mollusks include the brainy cephalopods such as...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
02/18/12 -
02/28/13 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Watch Out for Vulture Vomit and Other Adventures in Bird Watching
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History May 26, 2012 Family Program with Bill Thompson III
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2:00 PM
Bird watching isn’t just for adults anymore. Kids and teens are getting hooked on nature through birds, and birders of all ages will enjoy this humorous and engaging presentation by Bill Thompson III, author of the new Peterson Field Guide, The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin). While other field guides might overwhelm kids who are new to birding, The Young...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
05/26/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Highfield Hall: Lasting Impressions: The Art of Printmaking
Presented by Highfield Hall at Highfield Hall May 2-June 3, 2012 The world of printmaking is wonderfully, surprisingly varied. It embraces both abstract and representational works and many different techniques including linotype, wood block, monoprints, and lithography. Each print, more correctly known as an impression, is considered to be an original piece of art. Printmakers of Cape Cod (www.printmakersofcapecod.org) was organized in 1976 to encourage, assist, and promote printmaking on Cape Cod and beyond, and to provide educational opportunities to...
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Highfield Hall |
05/02/12 -
06/03/12 |
Highfield Hall, Falmouth |
Highfield Hall: Senioritis, Senior Artists: Artwork from the Falmouth High School Senior Class
Presented by Highfield Hall at Highfield Hall May 2-May 23, 2012 An energetic display of art works completed by Falmouth High School seniors during this academic year. Pieces include self-portraits, watercolors, prints, graphic design, sculpture and other media … a remarkable display of young talent and creativity, and an annual tradition at Highfield Hall! Highfield Hall is fully handicap accessible.
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Highfield Hall |
05/02/12 -
05/23/12 |
Highfield Hall, Falmouth |
Highfield Hall: Kevin King: Retrospective
Presented by Highfield Hall at Highfield Hall May 27-June 24, 2012 The body of work produced by Cape Cod artist Kevin King is so prolific and diverse as to defy description. It includes two- and three dimensional pieces in both the representational and abstract styles. One of his series, the Ash Series, incorporates ashes from Ground Zero into his art. www.kevinkingart.com . “Art is energy shaped by intelligence, experience, and will.”
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Highfield Hall |
05/27/12 -
06/24/12 |
Highfield Hall, Falmouth |
History Book Club Meeting
Presented by Historic Newton at Historic Newton May 24, 2012 Thursday, May 24, 7:30 PM, this month’s book selection, The Great Influenza by award-winning historian John M. Barry (author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which the Book Club previously read and enjoyed) is a powerful story with multiple narrative strands that combine to describe the history of science and disease in America leading up to the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918. It describes how the disease revolutionized American science and public health,...
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Historic Newton |
05/24/12 |
Historic Newton, Newton |
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Rancid with Madball, Ducky Boys
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Live Nation |
05/21/12 |
House of Blues, Boston |
A Natural Curiosity: A Retrospective of Images by Gordon Morrison
Presented by Arnold Arboretum at Hunnewell Building May 5-July 1, 2012 Reception: Sat, May 5, 1:00–3:00pm
Artist Talk: Wed, June 27 7:00–8:30pm Register
From Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide to The Curious Naturalist magazine, from the Garden in the Woods in Framingham to the Missouri Botanical Gardens tropical rainforest exhibit, Gordon Morrison has been reflecting and illuminating the natural world for over four decades. This retrospective focuses largely on his botanical work, highlighting the best of the thousands of...
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Arnold Arboretum |
05/05/12 -
07/01/12 |
Hunnewell Building, Boston |
Improv Asylum: Vanity Project
Presented by Improv Asylum at Improv Asylum Theater April 13, 2011 - Ongoing Improv Asylum founders/original cast members Chet Harding and Norm Laviolette join main stage actors Jeremy Brothers and Matt Catanzano, as well as alums and special guests to perform two extended sets of anything-goes, hilarious longform improvisation. Vanity Project . . . egos will be stroked.
Wednesdays at 8 PM just $15.
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Improv Asylum |
04/13/11 -
Ongoing |
Improv Asylum Theater, Boston |
The Comedy Lab
Presented by Improv Boston at ImprovBoston Theatre February 18, 2009 - Ongoing Each month, ImprovBoston presents two original comedy shows from the New England's best sketch and improv artists. From the silliness of sorority life to ludicrousness of local politicians, the 2010-2011 season of the The Comedy Lab promises edgy original comedy at a price anyone can afford!
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Improv Boston |
02/18/09 -
Ongoing |
ImprovBoston Theatre, Cambridge |
Friday Night Face Off
Presented by Improv Boston at ImprovBoston Theatre February 20, 2009 - Ongoing It's Friday night, and two teams of improvisers will fight for comedic supremacy in a knockdown, no-holds-barred, artistic throwdown. Witness the humiliating sting of defeat and the rush of victory as they compete for your support with hilarious games, scenes, and characters. A staple of the Boston comedy scene, Friday Night Face Off has been running on the same night and time for over 10 years! Come and see what the fuss is all about!
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Improv Boston |
02/20/09 -
Ongoing |
ImprovBoston Theatre, Cambridge |
The Family Show
Presented by Improv Boston at ImprovBoston Theatre February 21, 2009 - Ongoing Start your Saturday night off with an evening full of improvised music, scenes, stories and games that is fun for the whole family! This interactive evening, performed by the ImprovBoston Family Show Cast, is sure to bring out the child in everyone!
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Improv Boston |
02/21/09 -
Ongoing |
ImprovBoston Theatre, Cambridge |
Mainstage
Presented by Improv Boston at ImprovBoston Theatre February 19, 2009 - Ongoing ImprovBoston Mainstage is the ever-evolving show that is the cornerstone of ImprovBoston. Blending skillful storytelling, memorable music, audience participation, and joyful chaos, an elite cast of Boston's best improvisers creates a show that redefines itself with every performance. No rules. No boundaries. Just spectacular comedy and incredible improvisation.
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Improv Boston |
02/19/09 -
Ongoing |
ImprovBoston Theatre, Cambridge |
NightCap
Presented by Improv Boston at ImprovBoston Theatre February 20, 2009 - Ongoing NightCap is a late-night fringe comedy show that showcases up and coming talent in Boston. Featuring everything from stand-up, improv, sketch, video, and cabaret to conceptual comedy, NightCap is a venue where comedians from Boston and beyond can come and perform experimental and established acts alike in an alternative comedy environment, offering our audiences great late night comedy for a great price.
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Improv Boston |
02/20/09 -
Ongoing |
ImprovBoston Theatre, Cambridge |
The Open Comedy Jam
Presented by Improv Boston at ImprovBoston Theatre February 22, 2009 - Ongoing The Open Jam is where audience members can get out of their seats and jump on stage to perform alongside with visiting troupes and ImprovBoston cast members. The first Sunday of every month is The Jam's College Night. Comedy troupes from across New England's colleges and universities showcase their exciting brands of improv and sketch, and put their school rivalries aside and perform together during the Open Jam. Tickets for College Night are only $5 with a valid student ID!
The Open...
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Improv Boston |
02/22/09 -
Ongoing |
ImprovBoston Theatre, Cambridge |
Charline von Heyl
Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) March 21-July 15, 2012 This March, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens the first U.S. museum survey of Charline von Heyl, a compelling and important artist whose work offers new ideas and possibilities for painting, and demonstrates the medium’s continued relevance in contemporary art. Von Heyl’s canvases are not abstractions of objects or figures; instead, she is interested in inventing a new image that has not yet been seen and that “stands for itself as a fact.” With...
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Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) |
03/21/12 -
07/15/12 |
Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA), Boston |
Infinity: Works from the 2012 Senior Concentration Seminar
Presented by Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery. College of the Holy Cross at Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross April 26-May 25, 2012 Each spring semester the Cantor Art Gallery mounts an exhibition of work by graduating seniors enrolled in the “Senior Concentration Seminar” offered by the visual arts department and studio art faculty. Infinity senior student artists include Jennifer Bautista, Taylor Blackwell, Kate Cassidy, Marcy Kenney, Kelsey Long, Craig Martin, Rachel McMahon, and Moniqua Williams. The two-semester course is designed to provide students with the unique opportunity to work for extended...
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Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery. College of the Holy Cross |
04/26/12 -
05/25/12 |
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester |