Events
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Messy Masterpiece: Paint Like Duchamp!
Presented by The Discovery Museums at The Discovery Museums February 16, 2012 Marcel Duchamp didn’t believe in conventional art. He used everyday objects to make his art works. He loved the idea that accidents could create great masterpieces. Try your hand at our happy accident string drop, and see how little string drop accidents can create beautiful art works.
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The Discovery Museums |
02/16/12 |
The Discovery Museums, Acton |
Metropolitan - FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 24, 2012 In a time “not so long ago,” the discreet charms of the self-described “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” imbue the debutante after-party scene of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Beguiled by the clique of collegiate preppies known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, Socialist-turned-socialite Tom Townsend finds their unpredictable banter and adherence to an old-fashioned sense of civility curiously admirable. With adult role models ineffectual or absent, this “doomed”...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/24/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Mexican Flag Day Discovery Room
Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology February 18-February 25, 2012 Family Event! February 24th is Mexican Flag Day. Come explore the history of the flag and the Aztec origin of the eagle and the cactus in the flag’s coat of arms. Enjoy the story of the founding of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and learn more about the Mexica people. And don’t miss the make-and-take-home project!
Recommended for ages 5 and up accompanied by an adult
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology |
02/18/12 -
02/25/12 |
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge |
MFA Book Group
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 9-May 10, 2012 Share recent fiction, non-fiction, and memoir to discover new perspectives on French artists and art lovers in the late nineteenth century. In addition to discussion of each month?s book, each session will include a gallery visit to consider related works in the MFA collection.
All books are available in the MFA Bookstore.
February 9?Susan Vreeland, Luncheon of the Boating Party
March 8?Ruth Butler, Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin
April...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/09/12 -
05/10/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA First Fridays
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston January 6-June 1, 2012 Occurs every month on the first Friday until June 1, 2012.
5:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Gallery 250
Begin each month in a unique and stylish atmosphere at MFA First Fridays. Join us in the Koch Gallery for fine art, live music, cash bars featuring signature cocktails, and delicious tapas available for purchase. Relax and unwind in a beautiful setting with friends both old and new.
MFA First Fridays Musical Lineup:
September 2—The David Eure Jazz Quartet
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
01/06/12 -
06/01/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
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: Studio Art Classes Teen Studio Intensives
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 21-February 24, 2012 Classes are offered for ages 12-14 and 15-18.
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 perspectives. The February Vacation Teen Studio Intensives is a four-day session in drawing and painting,
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/21/12 -
02/24/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Studio Art Classes Winter Session
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston January 3-March 16, 2012 The MFA offers a wide range of courses in drawing, acrylic painting, oil painting, watercolor, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, stone carving, and much more. Classes meet once a week for either 8 to 10 weeks, or as one- and two-day workshops.
The Museum’s collections provide an unparalleled opportunity to our studio art students to study the processes of artists past and present from a variety of cultural perspectives. The MFA’s classes and workshops are taught...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
01/03/12 -
03/16/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Studio Art Classes: Children Winter Class Session
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston January 7-March 17, 2012 Register for the children's MFA Studio Art Classes. The children's program is intended for ages 5-6, 7-8, and 9-11 and includes 10-week Saturday classes or Sunday classes. Students sketch and explore the Museum’s galleries, then respond to what they have seen through drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, printmaking projects, and more.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
01/07/12 -
03/17/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Studio Art Classes: Teen Winter Class Session
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston January 7-March 17, 2012 Register for MFA Studio Art Classes for teens. Classes are offered for ages 12-14 and 15-18. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers studio art classes and workshops taught by experienced educators who are also professional artists. The Museum’s collections provide an unparalleled opportunity to study the processes of artists past and present from a variety of cultural perspectives. Class sizes are limited to ensure that students of all levels benefit from these experiences.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
01/07/12 -
03/17/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
MFA: Weekly Journeys Through Art: February Vacation week classes for Children
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 21-February 24, 2012 Age groups: 6–8 and 9–11
Looking for an fun activity during school vacation week? The MFA is offering February Vacation Weekly Journeys through Art classes for kids starting February 21 through February 24. The morning and afternoon course focuses on a specific theme. Groups of up to 12 children (grouped by age) discover new places and cultures; visit our galleries; draw, paint, sculpt, and collage in the studio art classrooms. Students may register for...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/21/12 -
02/24/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
Michael Londra Beyond Celtic
Presented by CityStage & Symphony Hall at Symphony Hall - Springfield February 17, 2012 Led by Ireland's Michael Londra, "Beyond Celtic" offers a brilliant, live musical performance that recreates sounds from around the world with a unique Celtic twist. Different from any Irish musical performance released in the past, "Beyond Celtic" features Londra's 16-piece Orchestra, Irish Legend Frankie Gavin and his Celtic "supergroup" De Dannan, the musical sisters of Sephira and some of the top Irish Dancers in the world. Together, these talents perform...
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CityStage & Symphony Hall |
02/17/12 |
Symphony Hall - Springfield, Springfield |
Mike Hastings Band
Presented by Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club at Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club February 15, 2012 Come see the Mike Hastings Band at Johnny D's! Local folk rock fave, Mike Hastings, fronts the Mike Hastings Band. With all the street smarts that a truly traditional troubador should possess, Mike proudly wears the title. With a strong root in drumming Mike does do some work as a drummer for the West African rock band Samba Lolo, this strong footing in rhythm also guides his development of original songs into dynamic groove oriented music.
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Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club |
02/15/12 |
Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club, Boston |
Mind and Hand: The Making of MIT Scientists and Engineers
Presented by MIT Office of the Arts June 1, 2009 - Ongoing An exploration, from the student perspective, of the cultural curiosity that is an MIT education.
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MIT Office of the Arts |
06/01/09 -
Ongoing |
MIT Museum, Cambridge |
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Miss Geo - Valentine's Day
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Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub |
02/14/12 |
Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge |
Modern, Jazz, Blues Class
Presented by Springstep at Springstep January 11-February 15, 2012 Join us for an exciting blend of three innovative dance styles! This class, for both experienced and new dancers alike, will get you moving, strengthen your core muscles, increase flexibility, and connect mind and body. Harness the power of modern dance, the soul of jazz dance, and the spirituality of blues dance into a unique form of creative self-expression.
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Springstep |
01/11/12 -
02/15/12 |
Springstep, Medford |
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 |
Monday Night Film Series: Black and Beautiful: Celebrating African American Actresses
Presented by Boston Public Library at Boston Public Library February 6-February 27, 2012 Monday, February 13, 2012, 6pm
What’s Love Got To Do With It (1993, 118 minutes) Please note room change to Boston Room for this date only.
Directed by Brian Gibson.
A film about the singer Tina Turner, how she rose to stardom and broke free from her abusive husband. Starring Angela Bassett. This film series is part of the Boston Public Library celebration of Black History Month.
Monday, February 27, 2012, 6pm
Lackawanna Blues (2005, 95...
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Boston Public Library |
02/06/12 -
02/27/12 |
Boston Public Library, Boston |
Monster
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Boston University Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210 February 9-February 25, 2012 Neal Bell, playwright; Jim Petosa, director. A brilliant stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from Obie-award winning playwright Neal Bell, Monster provides a disturbing yet poignant look at one man's insatiable quest to defeat death by creating life, and the dreadful results of abandoning his creation. A provocative production from the Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP), the professional extension of the BU School of Theatre. Monster runs February 9-25. $20 general...
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
02/09/12 -
02/25/12 |
Boston University Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210, Boston |
Monsters: A Midlife Musical Meltdown!
Presented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre February 25-March 10, 2012 “Enormously Entertaining!” - Boston Globe
Samantha thinks turning 40 is the scariest thing to happen to her. See what happens when a mysterious package arrives in this hilarious look at a full- blown mid life crisis. After all…everybody’s got MONSTERS!... don’t they?
More information at www.monstersthemusical.com
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Regent Theatre |
02/25/12 -
03/10/12 |
Regent Theatre, Arlington |
Moonlight and Pretzels
Presented by ArtsEmerson at Paramount Theatre February 24-February 26, 2012 Universal’s charming 42ND STREET-inspired musical, in which a washed-up singer-songwriter and a small-town girl create a Broadway sensation. Shot on a shoestring in Astoria, Queens and helmed by canonical cinematographer Karl Freund. NOT ON DVD!
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ArtsEmerson |
02/24/12 -
02/26/12 |
Paramount Theatre, Boston |
Mortified
Presented by Oberon at Oberon February 14, 2012 Hailed as a "cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek and celebrated for years by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, Esquire, The Onion AV Club, Daily Candy, Entertainment Weekly, and E!, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness adults sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more. The largest and longest-running project of its kind, Mortified produces comedic content for...
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Oberon |
02/14/12 |
Oberon, Cambridge |
Mortified's Doomed Valentine's Day Show
Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 13, 2012 Don't miss this special love-themed event featuring ordinary adults sharing their most hilariously embarrassing diary entries, lyrics, poems, and artwork from their teenage years. One by one, brave men and women will take the stage to relive their tortured adolescence with cringe-worthy material about juvenile ardor gone wrong - from unrequited high-school crushes and tumultuous off-and-on romances to bad prom dates and awkward sexual firsts. Oh the pain!
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Coolidge Corner Theatre |
02/13/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Mozart's "Coronation" Mass Performed by Boston College University Chorale
Presented by Boston College February 25, 2012 Music from Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass, and American folk hymns and spirituals. John Finney, conductor.
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Boston College |
02/25/12 |
St. Ignatius Church, Chestnut Hill |
Multimedia Art Show
Presented by Cambridge Rindge and Latin School January 23-March 2, 2012 Jewelry, ceramics, photography, and drawings by talented students from the Visual and Performing Arts Dept. at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. On display 1/23-3/2, 10-5 weekdays, at the Fay Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts.
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Cambridge Rindge and Latin School |
01/23/12 -
03/02/12 |
Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge |
Music at the Meeting House
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House February 17-March 9, 2012 Music at the Meeting House: The New England Conservatory Concert Series
Fridays, February 17, 24 and March 2, 9, 12:15 PM
Enjoy the artistry and extraordinary talent of some of Boston’s most gifted young musicians in this annual concert series featuring soloists in the Artist Diploma degree program and spectacular ensembles representing varied musical styles. Please visit our website at www.osmh.org for the performance schedule. Free and Open to the Public
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Old South Meeting House |
02/17/12 -
03/09/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Music for Oboe, Trumpet, and Piano
Presented by Harvard-Epworth Concert Series February 12, 2012 On Sunday, Feb. 12, at 4:00 p.m., oboist Laura Shamu, trumpeter Jonah Kappraff and pianist Terry Halco will present a concert to include: Marcello - Oboe Concerto in D minor; Britten - Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; Copland - Quiet City; Brahms - Intermezzo in A Major, Op.118, No.2; Vaughan Williams - Six Studies in English Folksong; Madeleine Dring - Danza Gaya; and Edmund Rubbra - Oboe Sonata (1st movement)
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Harvard-Epworth Concert Series |
02/12/12 |
Harvard-Epworth Church, Cambridge |
Music Makers, a music class for ages 5-7; Musikgarten
Presented by New School of Music at New School of Music January 5-March 22, 2012 Music Makers, for ages 5-7, is a learning program which integrates singing, creative as well as structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening. This developmentally sound approach to music literacy builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self expression; children also start to work with written musical patterns too. This is a drop-off class (45 minutes).
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New School of Music |
01/05/12 -
03/22/12 |
New School of Music, Cambridge |
Music Together (Ages Newborn-5) Class
Presented by Springstep at Springstep January 9-February 13, 2012 Music Together® is a nationally renowned music program for children (newborn to age five) and their parents or caregivers. In this class, you will learn songs and chants, while playful movement activities and instrumental jam sessions will expand your child’s natural enthusiasm for music and rhythm. Tuition includes a materials fee for two CDs and an illustrated songbook. For more information, visit www.mysticvalleymusictogether.com or contact Margit at...
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Springstep |
01/09/12 -
02/13/12 |
Springstep, Medford |
Music Together (Ages Newborn-5) Class
Presented by Springstep at Springstep January 9-March 12, 2012 Music Together® is a nationally renowned music program for children (newborn to age five) and their parents or caregivers. In this class, you will learn songs and chants, while playful movement activities and instrumental jam sessions will expand your child’s natural enthusiasm for music and rhythm. Tuition includes a materials fee for two CDs and an illustrated songbook. For more information, visit www.mysticvalleymusictogether.com or contact Margit at...
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Springstep |
01/09/12 -
03/12/12 |
Springstep, Medford |