Events
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Muir String Quartet
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Tsai Performance Center September 21, 2010 The Muir String Quartet, in Residence at Boston University, will perform a concert featuring Franz Joseph Haydn "Quartet in G minor, op. 74, No. 3," Leoš Janá?ek "Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'," and Antonín Dvo?ák "Quartet in C major, op. 61."
Call 617-353-8790 for details. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
09/21/10 |
Tsai Performance Center, Boston |
The Art Scene in China
Presented by Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College September 22, 2010 Panel participants will discuss their work and varied experiences in China in light of recent developments in the China’s artistic communities and the global art market. Wellesley College faculty artists on the panel will include Shanghai native, Qing-Min Meng who recently spent a sabbatical year in Beijing creating a new body of work that will be on view in the Davis Museum, Carlos Dorrien, Phyllis McGibbon and David Teng Olsen, all of whom have recent experience in China. Heping Liu...
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Davis Museum and Cultural Center |
09/22/10 |
Collins Cinema, Wellesley College, Wellesley |
Alice in Chains
Presented by Agganis Arena at Boston University at Agganis Arena September 22, 2010 with Special Guests Deftones and Mastodon. Multi-platinum-selling headliners ALICE IN CHAINS are touring in support of Black Gives Way To Blue (Virgin/EMI), which was named "Album of the Year" at the recent Revolver Golden Gods Award show. Fueled by the Grammy nominated smash "Check My Brain," which rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Rock Songs Chart, Black Gives Way To Blue entered Billboard’s Top 200 at No. 5. They maintained momentum with follow-up hit...
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Agganis Arena at Boston University |
09/22/10 |
Agganis Arena, Boston |
NEWTON ARCHAEOLOGY ROADSHOW
Presented by Historic Newton at Historic Newton September 22, 2010 Wednesday, September 22, 7 pm NEWTON ARCHAEOLOGY ROADSHOW Interested in archaeology? The City of Newton has hired archaeologists to help locate areas in the City where archaeological sites may be present. They will discuss this archaeological survey and its goals, and request your help! Come to this archaeological roadshow; see artifacts already found, share your information, and bring items for archaeologists to identify. We would love to hear from you and have the public’s help in...
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Historic Newton |
09/22/10 |
Historic Newton, Newton |
Breaking Walls: A Lecture by Carlo Ratti, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Presented by Wellesley College at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College September 22, 2010 Carlo Ratti is an associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and director of the SENSEable City Laboratory, as well as a practicing architect. One of his designs is a pavilion featuring walls of “digital water"” (selected by Time magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2007). Another is a proposed project called “The Cloud.” Made up of 400-foot towers holding a series of interconnected plastic bubbles displaying images and data,...
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Wellesley College |
09/22/10 |
Collins Cinema, Wellesley College, Wellesley |
A Friend of Paul Revere: The Mystery of Who Hung the Lanterns in Old North Steeple
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House September 22, 2010 On April 18, 1875, in front of a packed house at Boston’s Old North Church, Samuel Haskell Newman presented his family’s account of the night of April 18, 1775. Specifically, he identified his father, Robert Newman, as the man who hung the lanterns in Old North steeple on that historic night. One year later, in July, 1876, Reverend John Lee Watson of Orange, New Jersey, argued in a letter to the Boston Daily Advertiser that it was his relative, Captain John Pulling, not Robert...
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Old South Meeting House |
09/22/10 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Opening Reception, Artists in the Arboretum
Presented by Arnold Arboretum at Hunnewell Building September 22, 2010 Join us as we unveil the selected pieces for our annual juried art exhibit in conjunction with Jamaica Plain Open Studios. The free public reception will feature light refreshments and diverse art inspired by the collections and landscapes of the Arnold Arboretum.
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Arnold Arboretum |
09/22/10 |
Hunnewell Building, Boston |
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Wednesday Concert Series
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The Church of St. John the Evangelist |
09/22/10 |
Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston |
Rob Flynn & Alexander Humez: Short Cuts
Presented by Back Pages Books September 22, 2010 From graffiti to the obituaries, and from tattoos to billboards, compact speech is a form of expression that has yet to be acknowledged as relevant, while conventional forms of the English language reign triumphant. In "Short Cuts," Alexander Humez and Rob Flynn provide a well-researched appraisal of the ever-growing genre of minimalist communication, and show us that brevity really is the soul of wit, and of language itself.
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Back Pages Books |
09/22/10 |
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Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival: Elan Trotman
Presented by Berklee College of Music at Scullers Jazz Club September 22, 2010 Although during the day Berklee alumnus/music teacher Elan Trotman is found cultivating the minds of children to love music, at night he is a well-known member of the Boston, Providence, and New England music scenes. Trotman has performed, recorded, and toured with an elite group of artists—among them are Grammy Award-winning r&b vocalists, Roberta Flack and Brian McKnight, multi Grammy-nominated saxophonist Kirk Whalum. He serves as the musical director, saxophonist/keyboardist,...
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Berklee College of Music |
09/22/10 |
Scullers Jazz Club, Boston |
Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival: The ABCs of Jazz Orchestra/Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra
Presented by Berklee College of Music at Berklee Performance Center September 22, 2010 The ABCs of Jazz Orchestra, directed by Berklee professor/trumpeter Brian Lewis, will present the Jazz-Rock Fusion Era: a program of jazz/fusion classics of the mid-to-late '70s and early '80s by artists such as the Brecker Brothers, Weather Report, Yellowjackets, and others. In the second half of the show, the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra presents What's Yours Is Mine, featuring a new aspect of the group: arrangements by Inserto of the band members' original compositions. There will also be...
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Berklee College of Music |
09/22/10 |
Berklee Performance Center, Boston |
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Leedz Edutainment presents Stalley, Cam Meekins
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Middle East Restaurant & Nightclub |
09/22/10 |
Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge |
Broken Lizard Live
Presented by Comedy Connection at Wilbur Theatre September 22, 2010 Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske, comprise the five-member filmmaking comedy group Broken Lizard. Broken Lizard formed at Colgate University as a student sketch comedy group. Following graduation, they relocated to New York City, where they performed live shows in exchange for sexual favors. Currently Broken Lizard is returning to their sketch comedy roots, embarking on a nationwide tour. Join all five members as they present stand-up, live...
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Comedy Connection |
09/22/10 |
Wilbur Theatre, Boston |
Nichols House Museum Lecture: Contemporary Japanese Sculptural Ceramics: An Explosion of Creativity
Presented by Nichols House Museum at Church of the Advent, Boston September 22, 2010 Our image of Japanese ceramics is likely functional ware. Less commonly known is the explosion of creativity in ceramic sculpture that has energized Japan’s ceramic world over the last 60 years. The seeds of this creative revolution were planted by young ceramic artists in Kyoto who started making abstract, sculptural ceramics and, in 1948, organized themselves in a group they named S?deisha, which literally means “crawling through mud.” Halsey and Alice North will bring...
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Nichols House Museum |
09/22/10 |
Church of the Advent, Boston, Boston |
Alfred Stieglitz - In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum September 22, 2010 Deborah Martin Kao, Chief Curator, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, and Acting Head, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
In 1969 the Fogg Museum received a selection of photogravures by the legendary impresario of American modernism, Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946). Drawn from the artist’s first portfolio of his own work, Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies (1897), the images signaled a critical sea change in...
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Harvard Art Museums |
09/22/10 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Contemporary Perspectives Lecture: Alison Saar
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Morse Auditorium September 22, 2010 Born in Los Angeles in 1958, Alison Saar is a sculptor and assemblage artist whose work explores religious and historical themes, focusing on African-American and African cultures. Although Saar employs a variety of media and styles, she is well known for her large figurative sculptures, often carved of wood and incorporating found materials such as tin, which reflect her interest in folk art traditions. Saar has exhibited her work internationally, and is a recipient of a fellowship from the...
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
09/22/10 |
Morse Auditorium, Boston |
A Summer Dream: Dance the Night Away to the Music of Bo and Bill Winiker Orchestra
Presented by UpStairs on the Square at Upstairs on the Square Restaurant September 23, 2010 The summer is just the time for a dinner dance. As always, we’ll clear away the tables in the Monday Club Bar, strike up the band, and dance until we drop. The night will showcase the old-fashioned glamour of a dinner dance with all your favorite tunes—from swing to the fox trot. Come with friends, come single, or bring Prince or Princess Charming. Just come and twirl with us in this most romantic of evenings.
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UpStairs on the Square |
09/23/10 |
Upstairs on the Square Restaurant, Cambridge |
Newton Book Club
Presented by Historic Newton at Historic Newton September 23, 2010 Thursday, September 23, 7:30 pm For its next meeting, the Historic Newton Book Club has selected "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" by Daniel Okent. In this authoritative history of America’s most puzzling era, Okent describes how the odd bedfellows of the anti-liquor forces, suffragettes, Klu Klux Klansmen, Boston puritans and rural sharecroppers, among others, succeeded in making Prohibiton the law of the land by a lopsided legislative majority representing a...
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Historic Newton |
09/23/10 |
Historic Newton, Newton |
!!!
Presented by Bowery Presents at Royale September 23, 2010 The curiously named !!!, whose moniker can be pronounced by repeating any one-syllable percussive sound three times (e.g., "chk chk chk"), formed in 1996. While on tour, members of the Yah Mos, including !!! singer Nic Offer, envisioned forming a band oriented more toward danceable music, and once they returned to Sacramento, CA, their hometown, they decided to turn their working concept into an actual group. The band quickly grew into an eight-member ensemble, including Mario...
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Bowery Presents |
09/23/10 |
Royale, Boston |
K. George and Carolann S. Najarian, MD Inaugural Lecture on Human Rights
Presented by Armenian Heritage Foundation at Faneuil Hall September 23, 2010 The purpose of the annual endowed lecture series is to advance understanding of human rights issues and societal abuses worldwide, and to increase awareness of the work of individuals and organizations so that we are all more actively engaged. Keynote Speaker for the Inaugural Lecture on Human Rights is Kerry Kennedy Human Rights Activist; Founder and President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Washington, DC, and Author of Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights...
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Armenian Heritage Foundation |
09/23/10 |
Faneuil Hall, Boston |
VinoVoyage III
Presented by Gordon's Fine Wines at Seaport World Trade Center September 23, 2010 Gordon’s Fine Wines & Liquors is back and at it again. On September 23rd, 2010, bid farewell to summer at VinoVoyageIII, the wining and dining event of the season! As summer winds down, it’s time to say goodbye to those balmy nights, warm summer breezes and sun kissed skin. Fortunately, Gordon’s Fine Wines & Liquors is setting sail and holding an end of summer soiree before the season fades to fall. Mix and mingle aboard the luxurious Spirit of Boston (via the...
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Gordon's Fine Wines |
09/23/10 |
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston |
An Accident of History: Human and Machine Responsibility in Catastrophic Events
Presented by Wellesley College at Clapp Library Lecture Room, Wellesley College September 23, 2010 As recent events have made so painfully clear, massive technical systems can—and do—fail catastrophically. When they do, we as a society struggle to understand why—what combination of the “human” and the “machine” is responsible? Professor Galison’s Elizabeth Turner Jordan '59 Humanities Lecture will explore the powerful technical, sociological, moral, and philosophical questions at stake as we strive to determine who or what is to blame for...
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Wellesley College |
09/23/10 |
Clapp Library Lecture Room, Wellesley College, Wellesley |
Mice Parade | Les Shelleys
Presented by Great Scott at Great Scott September 23, 2010 Mice Parade was originally the solo project of New Yorker Adam Pierce, who has also played in Swirlies, The Dylan Group, HiM, múm, and Philistines Jr. From its outset, Mice Parade showed a boldly inventive, highly individual take on post-rock / electronica. Following 1998's Bubble Core album, 'The True Meaning Of BoddleyBaye', their first FatCat album, 'Ramda' (‘99), forged a distinctive, immersive audio space of piled-up percussion and atmospheric, hook-laden melodics. Les...
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Great Scott |
09/23/10 |
Great Scott, Boston |
Rush: The Making of 2112 and Moving Pictures
Presented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre September 23, 2010 Fully authorized and approved by the band & filmed in High Definition. Features cuts from "Tom Sawyer", "A Passage To Bangkok", "Red Barchetta", "2112", "YYZ", "Limelight" and more. Synopsis The latest addition to the acclaimed & award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the making of two legendary albums from Rush. "2112" was the album that saw Rush break through to major chart success, going to...
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Regent Theatre |
09/23/10 |
Regent Theatre, Arlington |
Made in West | East Germany: Divided Germany II
Presented by Goethe-Institut Boston at Goethe-Institut Boston September 23, 2010 Script writers and directors from West and East Germany, although divided after World War II, were inspired by similar subjects: the war and the division of their country and its former capital, Berlin. Germany's continuing separation in the 1950s before the Wall and in the Sixites after the Wall inspired many films. How these topics are reflected on film, however, varies greatly. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of German unification, the Goethe-Institut contrasts West and East German...
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Goethe-Institut Boston |
09/23/10 |
Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston |
Artist Talk: Kerry Tribe
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts September 23, 2010 Kerry Tribe speaks on her work. Tribe's rigorously crafted, large-scale projects in film, video and installation form an ongoing investigation into memory, subjectivity and doubt. She regularly invites actors, crew members and technical specialists to participate in her work, producing ludic philosophical inquiries through structurally rigorous forms. Tribe's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Hirshhorn...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
09/23/10 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival: Robert Glasper
Presented by Berklee College of Music at Regattabar September 23, 2010 One artist, two distinct but interwoven concepts: This is the captivating logic behind Double-Booked, pianist Robert Glasper's third album for Blue Note, following up Canvas (2005) and In My Element (2007). An artist who "unfailingly gets the feeling right" (New York Magazine), Glasper has made waves throughout the music world as leader of both the acoustic Robert Glasper Trio and the electric, hip-hop-oriented Robert Glasper Experiment. With Double-Booked, the 32-year-old Houston...
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Berklee College of Music |
09/23/10 |
Regattabar, Cambridge |
Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival: Danilo Perez Trio and Guests
Presented by Berklee College of Music at Scullers Jazz Club September 23, 2010 The extraordinary Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Pérez is among the most influential and dynamic musicians of our time. In just over a decade, his distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz (covering the music of the Americas, folkloric, and world music) has attracted critical acclaim and loyal audiences. The New York Times describes Danilo Pérez as "one of the best things that happened to jazz around the turn of the millennium." August 31 marks the release of his...
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Berklee College of Music |
09/23/10 |
Scullers Jazz Club, Boston |
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Electric Six (Metropolic Records), The Constellations (Virging Records), Mighty Tiny
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Middle East Restaurant & Nightclub |
09/23/10 |
Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge |
Boston University presents “Poets of New England”
Presented by Boston University at Tsai Performance Center September 23, 2010 The Boston University Creative Writing Program is celebrating The Poets Society of America’s Centennial anniversary by featuring writers Frank Bidart, Major Jackson, X.J. Kennedy, Mary Oliver, James Tate, Rosanna Warren and Franz Wright. The poets will read their own poetry and the work of canonical New Englanders from the past century. Admission to the reading is free and open to the public with a private ticketed reception to follow.
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Boston University |
09/23/10 |
Tsai Performance Center, Boston |