Events
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Evening Tour of the Governor Gore Mansion
Presented by Gore Place at Gore Place February 24, 2012 Enjoy an evening tour of the beautiful 1806 governor Gore Mansion. With its spiral staircase, marble floors and oval rooms, the elegantly furnished mansion has been called “the Monticello of the North” and architectural historians consider it to be the most significant Federal period mansion in New England.
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Gore Place |
02/24/12 |
Gore Place, Waltham |
Kids Explore Folk Art at Gore Place
Presented by Gore Place at Gore Place February 18, 2012 A sampler made in 1732 by Christopher Gore’s mother when she was just 14 years old, a weather vane that once stood atop the 1793 carriage house, the trade sign that hung outside the family shop; these are just a few of the rare objects children will learn about during Kids Explore Folk Art at Gore Place, a special tour of the mansion at Gore Place in Waltham. For ages 8 to 12. Admission is $8. Reservation are required by February 17 as space is limited. To reserve,...
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Gore Place |
02/18/12 |
Gore Place, Waltham |
Six Things to Do On Snowshoes at Gore Place
Presented by Gore Place at Gore Place February 21-February 25, 2012 Kids and accompanying adults rent snowshoes, investigate 3 trails, and participate in six easy, fun things to do on 45 acre estate. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a Family Membership to Gore Place.
$5 rental per person. www.goreplace.org. 781 894-2798.
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Gore Place |
02/21/12 -
02/25/12 |
Gore Place, Waltham |
"Closer" Encaustic Photography Exhibition
Presented by Gorse Mill Studios February 2-February 15, 2012 In her debut solo exhibit titled "Closer", Gorse Mill Studios encaustic artist, Amalia Tagaris, takes an introspective approach by re-examining the artist's studio as the subject for her new paintings. The photographic images she presents are various objects in her own creative space which serve as the foundation of her work, some of which are used during the painting process and some which are simply aesthetic props like a decorative pillow or the leaves from a lucky bamboo...
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Gorse Mill Studios |
02/02/12 -
02/15/12 |
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Beethoven: "Eroica"
Presented by Handel and Haydn Society at Symphony Hall February 17-February 19, 2012 “[Zeitouni is] quite accomplished at communicating via an athletic, sometimes flamboyant style at the front of the ensemble.” –The Columbus Dispatch
Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts Beethoven’s groundbreaking Eroica symphony. The program also features Haydn’s Symphony No. 48, composed for a visit by the Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresia.
Program:
* Beethoven: Egmont Overture
* Haydn: Symphony No. 48, Maria Theresia
* Beethoven:...
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Handel and Haydn Society |
02/17/12 -
02/19/12 |
Symphony Hall, Boston |
Persian Blue at the Hard Rock Cafe
Presented by Hard Rock Cafe at Hard Rock Cafe February 25, 2012 Warm up a cold Saturday night with Persian Blue as they return to the Hard Rock Cafe. This time, they will be playing primal, rhythmic, fusion jazz and rock. A powerful beat stays the course, but you will also catch glimpses of subtle delights; the kind you wish you could recapture from dreams. This music grabs you so you cannot help but surrender to the ably guided journey. It will wake you up and also leave you feeling well satisfied.
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Hard Rock Cafe |
02/25/12 |
Hard Rock Cafe, Boston |
Re-View
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum September 13, 2008 - Ongoing This survey features a selection of over 600 objects drawn from the collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums that reflects the diversity and richness of the Harvard Art Museums' holdings. Well-known objects are included alongside rarely displayed works in thematic gallery spaces: European and American art since 1900 is on the first floor, Islamic and Asian art is on the second floor, and the fourth floor features Western art from antiquity to the turn of the...
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Harvard Art Museums |
09/13/08 -
Ongoing |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 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 |
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 25, 2012 Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
This gallery talk will highlight a selection of recent acquisitions that illustrates the breadth of approaches to contemporary photographic practice. In addition to work by major...
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Harvard Art Museums |
02/25/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten (b.1971) has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
A Man Escaped
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
An Evening with Michael Almereyda
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Michael Almereyda first emerged as a prominent name with his very contemporary vampire film Nadja (1994), which found a counterpart with his updating of Hamlet (2000). After that, Almereyda spent several years making non-fiction films – though his most recent work marks a return to fictional narrative – on a fascinating array of topics: Sam Shepherd, New Orleans, William Eggleston. The culmination of this spate of documentaries is the celebrated Paradise (2009), his most recent...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/13/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. The films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography and poetry...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
A Man Escaped
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/12/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Paradise - DIRECTOR IN PERSON
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Paradise has been compared to a notebook, a diary and a sketchbook. It is a collection of discrete moments, unscripted and unstaged, shot digitally over several years, none lasting longer than four minutes. There is no voiceover or onscreen text to link or explain the fragments. These moments have little in common other than that they are all instants of beauty or happiness. While there is footage from nine different countries, the final section is centered on the US. There is little direct...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/13/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
A Single Spark - FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 17, 2012 A Single Spark tells the story behind a crucial event in modern South Korean history: the self-immolation of factory worker Jeon Tae-il in 1971 to draw attention to the appalling workplace conditions faced by many Koreans. Jeon’s suicide is widely credited as key to the unionization of South Korean workers. Rather than a straightforward biopic, the film elaborates on Jeon’s life by supplying a parallel story: a young activist five years later is researching a biography of Jeon...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/17/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Chilsu and Mansu - FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 18, 2012 Park’s debut film offered a startling realist intervention by focusing its story on the difficult lives of two struggling artists – billboard sign painters whose dangerous occupation clearly emblematizes the struggles of the working class in post-boom Korea. Made during a time of still heavily imposed censorship and adapted (uncredited) from a story by Taiwanese writer Huang Chunming, whose work was banned at the time in Korea, Chilsu and Mansu is an underappreciated example of...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/18/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
The Devil Probably
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 Once banned in France as an incitement to teenage suicide, Le diable probablement offers a haunting portrait of a truly lost generation. Within a group of young environmentalists looking to address the crisis of world hunger, one strangely charismatic member leaves, rejecting political activism as insufficient to cope with the sickness of contemporary society and resolving to kill himself as the ultimate gesture of refusal. Describing the film as “voluptuous,” Truffaut explains:...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/19/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
The Uprising - FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 After two acclaimed films exploring the relationship between the recent past and the present, Park goes back to 1901 to tell the true story of a revolt against local Catholics, French missionaries and a corrupt government. When peasants balk at increased taxation by a local government that includes a number of Christian converts, the insurrection quickly becomes a religious war. Yi Chae-su is an uneducated young man who finds himself at the head of the insurrection. The film presents an...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/19/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Black Republic
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 20, 2012 Park followed up Chilsu and Mansu with a sweeping drama about a student protester whose life takes a dramatic turn when he hides out in a remote mining town in order to hide from the police. An intensification of Chilsu and Mansu‘s working-class theme, Black Republic boldly pushed the censorship limits with its depiction of exploited labor, mine strikes and police brutality. Co-written by Park, the film subtly uses melodrama to give human dimensions to its vision of a South Korea torn...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/20/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
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 |
Damsels in Distress - FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 25, 2012 A sneak preview pre-theatrical release screening of Whit Stillman's long-awaited new feature!
An off-beat, giddy and Laura Ashley colored send-up of smug liberal college Americana, Stillman’s latest filmworks within a bolder mode of satiric caricature than his earlier trilogy. Starring mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig as the overzealous leader of an all-girl suicide prevention club, Damsels in Distress gleefully skewers dominant college stereotypes, from jock machismo and...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/25/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Barcelona
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Two actors from Metropolitan reprise similar roles as Americans abroad fumbling through the languages of love and politics during the “last decade of the Cold War.” Running his company’s foreign sales office, Ted agrees to host his cousin Fred, a young officer in the Navy who quickly confronts Leftist Spain with an ardent, ostentatious patriotism. Between Ted’s pragmatic intellectualism and Fred’s lies and obfuscation, they both appear anxious and insecure...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/26/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
The Last Days of Disco
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Directed by Whit Stillman, Appearing in Person. With Chloë Sevigny,
Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman
US 1997, 35mm, color, 114 min
With his characteristically wry dispassion and clever attention to detail, Stillman introduces characters and actors from his established clique into the ultra-exclusive Manhattan disco club scene. As they struggle to maintain their inherited social status, the recent Ivy League grads pursue careers and relationships amid the remains...
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Harvard Film Archive |
02/26/12 |
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 |
New Glass Sculpture Exhibit: Siobhan Healy presents ‘Ghost Orchids’
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History December 2, 2011-March 4, 2012 In this sculpture display in the museum's Glass Flowers gallery, Scottish artist Siobhan Healy has created a subtle and thought provoking artwork that is inspired by the rare British wild flower- the Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum). The Orchid is depicted in transient and ethereal clear glass with the intention to encourage the viewer to reflect on the potential loss of this fragile species.
Healy is an artist who specializes in glasswork relating to rare species of wild...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
12/02/11 -
03/04/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |