Events
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Zumba Class
Presented by Springstep at Springstep January 9-February 13, 2012 Come join the dance party in this internationally renowned Latin-inspired fitness class that will provide you with a calorie-burning dance workout that is energizing and fun. You will learn to move your body rhythmically and aerobically to the spicy beat of Latin and other fun varieties of music. Pulling from the energetic movements of dances such as cumbia, merengue, salsa, hip hop, and reggaeton, this fitness form offers a fun, full-body dance workout that keeps students coming back for...
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Springstep |
01/09/12 -
02/13/12 |
Springstep, Medford |
Zumba Class
Presented by Springstep at Springstep January 14-March 10, 2012 This internationally renowned Latin-inspired fitness class will provide you with a calorie-burning fitness workout that is energizing and fun. You will learn to move your body rhythmically and aerobically to the spicy beat of Latin and other varieties of music. Pulling from the energetic movements of dances such as cumbia, merengue, salsa, hip hop, and rumba, this fitness form offers a fun, full-body workout that keeps students coming back for more!
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Springstep |
01/14/12 -
03/10/12 |
Springstep, Medford |
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 |
Zagnutt
Presented by Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club at Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club February 22, 2012 Come see Zagnutt at Johnny D's! Not a jam band, not a funk band, and not a rock band, Zagnutt holds a long-standing tradition of making you move, making you smile, and making you dig on what you’re hearing! Equal parts Phish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Black Crowes, Lincoln, MA’s favorite sons, Zagnutt is a loving family of close friends who wants to share their music with you. Hope to see you there!
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Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club |
02/22/12 |
Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club, Boston |
Youth Hip-Hop (Ages 8-13) Class
Presented by Springstep at Springstep January 21-March 10, 2012 In this exciting, high-energy class, students will learn fun hip hop routines while being introduced to a variety of styles such as steppin’, stompin’, poppin’, lockin’, wavin’, toprockin’, video, and some simple break dance floor work. Each class will begin with a safe warm-up that focuses the mind and prepares the body for dance. With a teaching style that is energetic, patient, and encouraging, experienced dance teacher Sharon Montella will help...
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Springstep |
01/21/12 -
03/10/12 |
Springstep, Medford |
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 |
Young Fashion Designers: Design & Sew
Presented by Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts at Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts January 14-March 24, 2012 Take an existing pattern or piece of clothing and revise it to express your personal style. Expect to complete a new pattern and a piece of clothing in this class. Basic sewing skills are required, but extensive experience is not necessary. Limit 8 students
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Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts |
01/14/12 -
03/24/12 |
Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston |
You and I: A Cabaret
Presented by Central Square Theater at Central Square Theater February 13, 2012 One way or another, every song is a love song. Either it's exultation and happiness or heartbreak and devastation. Are we miserable because we've listened to all these heartbreakingly romantic love songs or we heartbroken because we have idealized love from letting our emotions take us away? Share the joy and laugh away at the pain with us as we explore Valentine's Day and our own experiences through...
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Central Square Theater |
02/13/12 |
Central Square Theater, Cambridge |
Yoga Pilates Fusion Class
Presented by Springstep at Springstep January 11-February 15, 2012 Yoga and Pilates are natural soul mates. Both help balance the body from left to right, top to bottom, front to back, limb to limb, and muscle to muscle. Pilates exercises and yoga postures develop healthy breathing, flexibility and concentration, and also provide a mental focus and release that is challenging yet rejuvenating. This class is appropriate for people new to Pilates and/or Yoga, as well as those who would like to integrate their prior experience.
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Springstep |
01/11/12 -
02/15/12 |
Springstep, Medford |
Yasmin Levy
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Berklee Performance Center February 12, 2012 With a deep, spiritual and moving style, Yasmin Levy preserves and revives the most beautiful and romantic songs from the Ladino/Judeo-Spanish tradition. Her powerfully sensual voice, which combines flamenco’s fiery passion with the microtonal melisma of Middle Eastern music, ripples across sashaying grooves built from hand percussion; Turkish-Arabic instruments such as the oud, ney and qanun, and Western standbys, including acoustic guitar and bass.
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/12/12 |
Berklee Performance Center, Boston |
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X Dance 2012
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Emerson Stage at Emerson College |
02/09/12 -
02/12/12 |
Greene Theater, Boston |
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 |
Woodworking Open Shop
Presented by Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts at Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts January 16-March 19, 2012 In this open workshop class, students design and construct projects of their choice. Expert instructors provide individual guidance on design, joinery, construction and finishing, based on individual student needs. Students also draw upon each other’s expertise. Students often stay for multiple semesters, enjoying the camaraderie of the shop and progressing to more ambitious projects over time. Projects must be a manageable size; check first with instructors. Prerequisite: Basic...
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Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts |
01/16/12 -
03/19/12 |
Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston |
Woodworking Open Shop
Presented by Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts at Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts January 16-March 19, 2012 In this open workshop class, students design and construct projects of their choice. Expert instructors provide individual guidance on design, joinery, construction and finishing, based on individual student needs. Students also draw upon each other’s expertise. Students often stay for multiple semesters, enjoying the camaraderie of the shop and progressing to more ambitious projects over time. Projects must be a manageable size; check first with instructors. Prerequisite: Basic...
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Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts |
01/16/12 -
03/19/12 |
Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston |
Woodworking Open Shop
Presented by Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts at Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts January 20-March 23, 2012 In this open workshop class, students design and construct projects of their choice. Expert instructors provide individual guidance on design, joinery, construction and finishing, based on individual student needs. Students also draw upon each other’s expertise. Students often stay for multiple semesters, enjoying the camaraderie of the shop and progressing to more ambitious projects over time. Projects must be a manageable size; check first with instructors. Prerequisite: Basic...
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Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts |
01/20/12 -
03/23/12 |
Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston |
Woodworking Open Shop
Presented by Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts at Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts January 21-March 24, 2012 In this open workshop class, students design and construct projects of their choice. Expert instructors provide individual guidance on design, joinery, construction and finishing, based on individual student needs. Students also draw upon each other’s expertise. Students often stay for multiple semesters, enjoying the camaraderie of the shop and progressing to more ambitious projects over time. Projects must be a manageable size; check first with instructors. Prerequisite: Basic...
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Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts |
01/21/12 -
03/24/12 |
Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston |
Winter Members' Show
Presented by Copley Society of art at Copley Society of Art February 23-March 29, 2012 February 23 – March 29, 2012
The Copley Society of Art is pleased to present our annual Winter Members' Show. During the course of the calendar year, Co|So offers two or more seasonal juried exhibitions, open to more than 400 active artist members.
For each exhibition, guest jurors are invited to review submissions, determine the show's composition, and select the award-winning pieces. This winter, we were honored to have as jurors: David Brown, Associate...
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Copley Society of art |
02/23/12 -
03/29/12 |
Copley Society of Art, Boston |
Winter Classes and Workshops
Presented by Lexington Arts and Crafts Society at Lexington Arts and Crafts Society January 2-April 11, 2012 Tap into your artistic side!
Registration now open for the Winter Session of Classes and Workshops offered at the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society. There are many excellent opportunities to join with our local and nationally known, expert art instructors as they guide
everyone from the novice to the advanced in enhancing your skills and enriching your artistic experience. Detailed catalogues are available on our website. Select a class in Drawing, Painting, Decorative...
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Lexington Arts and Crafts Society |
01/02/12 -
04/11/12 |
Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington |
Wine Tastings at Diablo Glass School
Presented by Diablo Glass School at Diablo Glass School October 5, 2009 - Ongoing Come and enjoy wine and cheese along with a glass blowing demonstration by the skilled women, men and teenagers of Diablo Glass School. Wine, cheese, crackers and thinly sliced meats will be served in our lounge. You will taste a delicious selection of unique wines. Reservations are required as space is limited.
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Diablo Glass School |
10/05/09 -
Ongoing |
Diablo Glass School, Boston |
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William Fitzsimmons
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Bowery Presents |
02/17/12 |
Royale, Boston |
william cordova: this one’s 4U (pa’ nosotros)
Presented by Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at Mills Gallery at the BCA February 10-April 15, 2012 For his first solo exhibition in Boston, William Cordova (b. 1971, Lima, Peru) brings together new and recent works in sculpture, installation, video and works on paper by the Miami/New York-based artist, unmasking and remixing seemingly disparate and repressed histories through thoughtful and subtle juxtapositions of familiar detritus.
The Peruvian-born artist’s work imbues displaced historical narratives with new meaning, conflating previous events with contemporary context...
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Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) |
02/10/12 -
04/15/12 |
Mills Gallery at the BCA, Boston |
Wild Swans
Presented by American Repertory Theater at Loeb Drama Center February 11-March 11, 2012
China, at the heart of the 20th Century, became a nation transformed beyond recognition. Through the eyes of one fiercely courageous family, Wild Swans takes us on a journey from the early days of Communist hope and struggle, through the chaos and confusion of Mao's Cultural Revolution, to the birth of a superpower. An astonishing human story, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China has sold more than 13 million copies in 36 languages. This first ever stage version brings together author...
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American Repertory Theater |
02/11/12 -
03/11/12 |
Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge |
What Time is It Mr. Fox, Mali Sastri, Sarah Rabdau, and Mary Bichner
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 26, 2012 What time is It Mr. Fox like to pretend they live in a circus in the woods.
They enjoy fireplaces, dusty books, mystics, fiddles, soul music, carnivals, putting on make-up, taking off make-up, and making up stories.
http://www.whattimeisitmrfox.com/when_%26_where.html
“Torture chamber pop.” “Darkwave jazz.” “Siren rock.” These are a few of the many attempts to describe the sound of Jaggery, an art-rock collective which...
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Club Passim |
02/26/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
What Lies Within
Presented by The Arts at Wellesley at Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College January 24-February 20, 2012 The Jewett Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring art work by Wellesley College staff members. The exhibition displays artwork in a variety of medium, including: jewelry, photography, sculpture, and painting. Artists include Ellen Schneider, Cynthia Voorhees, Richard Vabulas, Joy Playter, Lynda Davis Jeha, Mary Holliday, Beth O'Neil, and Rebecca Darling.
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The Arts at Wellesley |
01/24/12 -
02/20/12 |
Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley |
What I Eat: Around the World in 25 Diets
Presented by Museum of Science. Boston at Museum of Science, Boston February 10-February 26, 2012 This thought-provoking collection of portraits shines light on the similarities and the differences in the ways we approach and consume food.
Each of the 25 photo essays in the exhibit includes a comprehensive list of every item that individual consumed during one particular — though not necessarily average — day, along with the total calorie count. Profiles are laid out in order of increasing caloric intake, from a low of 800 calories a day for a Maasai herder in Kenya,...
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Museum of Science. Boston |
02/10/12 -
02/26/12 |
Museum of Science, Boston, Boston |
Wednesday Night Kitting Group
Presented by Dover Town Library January 4-March 28, 2012 Grab your knitting and head to Dover Town Library. The Wednesday Night Knitting Group will meet at 6:30pm each Wednesday in the Reading Room upstairs. Come for the company and knit your way through the winter.
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Dover Town Library |
01/04/12 -
03/28/12 |
Dover Town Library, Dover |
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Wednesday Concert Series
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The Church of St. John the Evangelist |
02/15/12 |
St. John the Evangelist, Beacon Hill (Boston), Boston |
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Wednesday Concert Series
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The Church of St. John the Evangelist |
02/22/12 |
St. John the Evangelist, Beacon Hill (Boston), Boston |
Watercolors in Nature: Winter Series 1
Presented by Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary at Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary January 24-February 14, 2012 Let the beauty of nature inspire your painting! Watercolors are a great way to explore nature and brighten up a winter day. Explore the use of textures, lines, colors and more. Bring your own painting wish list! Small class size for individual attention. All levels welcome! Relax, enjoy and create! Pre-registration required.
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Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary |
01/24/12 -
02/14/12 |
Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Natick |
WAR & PEACE (novel by Leo Tolstoy): 15TH ANNUAL VALENTINE CONCERT
Presented by Andover Chamber Music at West Parish Church, Andover February 12, 2012 A Moving and intimate program of works about love and conflict.
Ya Fei Chuang, piano
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Julie Scolnik, flute
Thomas Kraines, cello
Messaien, Shostakovich, Liebermann, Kraines
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Andover Chamber Music |
02/12/12 |
West Parish Church, Andover, Andover |