Events
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Valentine's Day Ball
Presented by Boston String Quartet February 10-February 14, 2012 This Valentine's Day Boston String Quartet Invites You to Celebrate At the 2nd Annual Valentine’s Day Ball with Beautiful Music, a Romantic Dinner, and Latin Ballroom Dancing
Cambridge Performing Arts Center
535 Cambridge St.
on February 10th AND 14th, 2012 at 6:30pm
Enjoy an exciting evening starting at 6:30pm. When you arrive, get your picture taken at our professional photo booth, and enjoy a lovely set of hors d’oeuvres by S&S...
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Boston String Quartet |
02/10/12 -
02/14/12 |
Cambridge Performing Arts Center, Cambridge |
First Annual Boston Student Film Fest Submissions!
Presented by Boston Student Arts Network January 31-February 24, 2012 The Boston Student Arts Network (BSAN) is excited to announce the launch of their First Annual Boston Student Film Fest. The month long online film festival will feature works of all genres and subjects completed within the past year by undergraduate and graduate students attending schools all over New England. The new venture fills a void in the local film industry, recognizing film students in a public space in front of people all over the country. Films will be chosen by the Directors of...
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Boston Student Arts Network |
01/31/12 -
02/24/12 |
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BSO Chamber Music Series: Mendelssohn and Mozart
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra February 24, 2012 BSO Community Chamber Music Series at Northeastern’s Fenway Center
Hosted by the Music Department
Now in its fifteenth season, the series was previously held in a function room at Symphony Hall. The move to Northeastern allows a larger audience to attend the concerts, and takes advantage of the Fenway Center’s outstanding acoustics. Students and faculty in the Music Department at Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design will take an active role in the...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra |
02/24/12 |
Northeastern’s Fenway Center, Boston |
All-Beethoven Program
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall February 23-February 25, 2012 Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is one of the most significant works by one of the greatest of all composers. This monolithic late work stands with the Ninth Symphony, the late string quartets, and the late piano sonatas as the culmination of Beethoven's transformation of music. Beethoven intended the Missa Solemnis celebration of the election of his patron Archduke Rudolph as Archbishop of Olmütz in 1820, but didn't complete it until 1822. German maestro Kurt Masur conducts, with the...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra |
02/23/12 -
02/25/12 |
Symphony Hall, 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 |
Execution of Justice
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Virginia Wimberly Theatre February 17-February 24, 2012 Emily Mann, playwright; Elaine Vaan Hogue, director. A brilliant portrayal of the Dan White trial after the 1978 assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and gay city supervisor Harvey Milk of San Francisco. Mann tells the story in a provocative and multilayered way, offering as many questions as answers about a tragic chapter in the city's transition to its current political and social climate. Execution of Justice runs February 17-24. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts....
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
02/17/12 -
02/24/12 |
Virginia Wimberly Theatre, Boston |
Il Matrimonio Segreto
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Boston University Theatre, Mainstage February 23-February 26, 2012 Music by Domenico Cimarosa; Libretto by Giovanni Bertati; after The Clandestine Marriage (1766) by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick; William Lumpkin, conductor. This farcical domestic comedy features arranged marriages, dowries, feuding sisters, tangled circumstances, banishment to convents, and misdirected romantic aspirations. Inspired in part by Hogarth's painting series "Marriage-a-la-Mode," it lives as a musical bridge between Mozart and Rossini, with lyrical melodies...
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
02/23/12 -
02/26/12 |
Boston University Theatre, Mainstage, Boston |
100 Years (version #4 Boston, 2012)
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts January 19-March 25, 2012 Organized by MoMA PS1 in collaboration with Performa, this exhibition is an essential introduction to performance art. With over 200 works including film and audio, 100 Years is intended as an archive of a largely unknown history for students, scholars, and enthusiasts. The timeline begins with 1909’s Futurist Manifesto and continues to the present, with the addition of programming that highlights Boston’s own contribution to performance. Free and open to the public. Call...
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
01/19/12 -
03/25/12 |
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston |
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Shira Avidor & Cathy Lees: Interior Reflections
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
01/24/12 -
03/09/12 |
Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Boston |
American Music for Viola and Piano
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Tsai Performance Center February 13, 2012 Featuring works by Amlin, Carter, Cornell, and Rochberg. Michelle LaCourse, viola; Martin Amlin, piano Martin Amlin. Sonata for viola and piano and premiere of new composition. Elliott Carter, Elegy for viola and piano; Richard Cornell, Duets for two violas; George Rochberg, Sonata for viola and piano. Free and open to the public. Call 617-353-8724 for details. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts.
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
02/13/12 |
Tsai Performance Center, Boston |
Boston's Best Cruise
Presented by Boston's Best Cruises at MBTA Harbor Express Ferry November 1, 2009 - Ongoing 90 min. round trip ferry ride from Boston's Long Wharf and back. Scenic, historical, inexpensive family fun. Best views of Boston and the Harbor Islands.big fun on a budget.
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Boston's Best Cruises |
11/01/09 -
Ongoing |
MBTA Harbor Express Ferry, Boston |
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Big Gigantic with Adventure Club
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Bowery Presents |
02/16/12 |
Royale, Boston |
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William Fitzsimmons
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Bowery Presents |
02/17/12 |
Royale, Boston |
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Emilie Autumn
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Bowery Presents |
02/19/12 |
Royale, Boston |
Introduction to Raja Yoga Meditation
Presented by Brahma Kumaris Center for Peace February 4-February 15, 2012 The “Introduction to Raja Yoga Meditation” course will be held in February at the B.K. Learning Center for Peace in Watertown, MA. ***************** The Brahma Kumaris Learning Center for Peace sponsors this course, a method of meditation that provides a practical way to bring peace to your everyday life. The first weeknight session will start on Monday, Feb 6, 2012 from 7:30 – 9:00 pm. The first weekend session is scheduled on Saturday, Feb 4, 2012 from 10:00-...
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Brahma Kumaris Center for Peace |
02/04/12 -
02/15/12 |
Brahma Kumaris Learning Center for Peace , Boston |
The Addams Family
Presented by Broadway in Boston at Citi Shubert Theatre February 7-February 19, 2012 The national tour of the new musical comedy THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its Boston premiere February 7-19, 2012 at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre as part of the LEXUS 2011-12 Broadway Across America – Boston Series.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story. It's every parent's nightmare. Your little girl has suddenly become a young woman, and what's...
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Broadway in Boston |
02/07/12 -
02/19/12 |
Citi Shubert Theatre, Boston |
Spring 2012 Programs at Brookline Music School
Presented by Brookline Music School at Brookline Music School January 31-June 17, 2012 Brookline Music School’s Term II (Spring) programs run January 31-June 17, 2012, offering a variety of classes and private instruction for all ages and abilities. Programs offered include early childhood music and movement and dance classes, Suzuki instruction, group classes including Beginning Piano, Group Voice, Music Technology, Garage Band, iPad Band, Theory, and Jazz/Rock/Pop, Chamber and Flute Choir ensembles for kids, teens and adults. For detailed information visit...
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Brookline Music School |
01/31/12 -
06/17/12 |
Brookline Music School, Brookline |
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 |
SPUN – Artist-Designed Bike Racks
Presented by Cambridge Arts Council January 17-March 9, 2012 The Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) hosts the first city bike rack design competition for Main Street in Kendall Square. Five artists were selected from the CAC Artist Registry by an independent jury and subsequently invited to submit proposals for unique bike rack designs that would bring playfulness and functionality to a ubiquitous and important sidewalk object. The artists are Vivian Beer, Carrie Bodle, Matthew Hincman, Case Randall, and Aaron Stephan.
As the City of...
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Cambridge Arts Council |
01/17/12 -
03/09/12 |
CAC Gallery, Cambridge |
SPUN – Artist-Designed Bike Racks
Presented by Cambridge Arts Council February 1-March 9, 2012 The Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) hosts the first city bike rack design competition for Main Street in Kendall Square. Five artists were selected from the CAC Artist Registry by an independent jury and subsequently invited to submit proposals for unique bike rack designs that would bring playfulness and functionality to a ubiquitous and important sidewalk object.
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Cambridge Arts Council |
02/01/12 -
03/09/12 |
CAC Gallery, Cambridge |
Immersion: Artefacting Into Dharavi – The Engine That Runs Mumbai
Presented by Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center at Multicultural Arts Center January 4-March 23, 2012 The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting a new exhibition in the Upper Gallery beginning Wednesday, January 4, 2012 and running through Friday, March 23, 2012. Immersion: Artefacting into Dharavi – The Engine That Runs Mumbai is a multimedia project organized
by artist Alex White.
In November of 2010, artist & urbanist Alex White Mazzarella led a team of artists and documentarians into Dharavi, Mumbai, known widely as Asia’s largest slum for a...
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Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center |
01/04/12 -
03/23/12 |
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge |
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 |
Advanced Photoshop: Projects and Techniques
Presented by Camera Eye Photography Workshops at Camera Eye Photography Workshops February 4-March 24, 2012 In the ever evolving world of creative imagery, Photoshop techniques have never been so complex yet equally as exciting.
This class is intended for advanced photoshop users and will delve into techniques used by industry leading photographers. The class will focus on modern commercial methods, techniques and processes such as the RAW workflow, blended imagery and more. Advanced Photoshop: Projects and Techniques will be a combination of on location and real world shooting, as well as...
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Camera Eye Photography Workshops |
02/04/12 -
03/24/12 |
Camera Eye Photography Workshops, Somerville |
Photoshop for Beginners
Presented by Camera Eye Photography Workshops at Camera Eye Photography Workshops February 7-March 27, 2012 In the vast world of photographic images one of today’s most prominent tools is the computer. The majority of photographers today rely on Photoshop for their digital darkroom. In this class students will be introduced to the most powerful and popular image-editing program available. Camera Eye’s Photoshop I will assist students in harnessing the countless tools in the program and streamline a working process for photographers and artists. The course will survey the digital...
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Camera Eye Photography Workshops |
02/07/12 -
03/27/12 |
Camera Eye Photography Workshops, Somerville |
Camera Eye Photography Seminar I
Presented by Camera Eye Photography Workshops at Camera Eye Photography Workshops January 18-March 7, 2012 An intensive workshop where students will explore photographic seeing and visual thinking. In a small class setting we will discuss photographs in technical, formal, and conceptual terms. The class is a critique based workshop and will focus on the development of each individual’s unique way of seeing and development of a consistent photographic style. We will look at photographers who masterfully used the elements of light and creative use of the frame. Guest artists and critics from...
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Camera Eye Photography Workshops |
01/18/12 -
03/07/12 |
Camera Eye Photography Workshops, Somerville |
earthly & divine: sacred and secular love
Presented by Canzonare at Brookline Public Library February 14, 2012 Music of J.S. Bach, Delalande, Händel, and Rameau
Sarah Bellott~soprano
Kateri Chambers~traverso
Dylan Sauerwald~harpsichord and portatif
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Canzonare |
02/14/12 |
Brookline Public Library, Brookline |
Cape Cod Chorale Rehearsal
Presented by Cape Cod Chorale February 13, 2012 The Cape Cod Chorale is starting to rehearse for its next performances. (This will be the second rehearsal.) Under the direction of Chris Roberts, the group will be presenting a selection of “patriotic pops” in concerts on May 19th and 20th. Chris has a knack for combining popular Broadway tunes, familiar spirituals and stirring songs which celebrate America. It’s a mix which has been tremendously popular in recent years. New members are always welcome to “try...
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Cape Cod Chorale |
02/13/12 |
First Church of Christ, Sandwich |
Introduction to Lofting
Presented by Cape Cod Maritime Museum at Cape Cod Maritime Museum February 15-February 18, 2012 The very basics of lofting for beginners. The course teaches how designers' lines are laid down in three dimensions in order for hull shapes to be lifted in full scale patterns. We will loft a 9' flat bottom skiff, learn to pick up bevels and develop transom bevels, all done with the simple drawing to scale.
Instructor: Tony Davis, Arey's Pond Boat Yard
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Cape Cod Maritime Museum |
02/15/12 -
02/18/12 |
Cape Cod Maritime Museum, Barnstable |
CapePops 3 A Night at the Movies
Presented by Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra at Barnstable Performing Arts Center February 11-February 12, 2012 The Music That Makes Movies Magical
Kurt Bestor, Guest Conductor & Host - Jennifer Schaffer, Vocalist
Travel through nine decades of filmmaking as guest conductor Kurt Bestor highlights scores from the most memorable music and film clips of all times, including Psycho, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Titanic.
Soar through the universe with Star Wars, relive the nail-biting shower scene from Psycho and feel the wind cross the bow of the Titanic as Guest...
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Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra |
02/11/12 -
02/12/12 |
Barnstable Performing Arts Center, Barnstable |
Artist Talk & Opening Celebration: ANNETTE LEMIEUX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts February 16, 2012 An Artist Talk by Annette Lemieux will open the exhibition ANNETTE LEMIEUX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS, on view at at the Carpenter Center through April 1, 2012.
The talk will be followed by a conversation with Annette Lemieux, exhibition curator Lelia Amalfitano, and Susan Stoops,curator of contemporary art at the Worcester Art Museum. A reception will follow.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS presents a combination of new work with work revisited to reveal the relationship between...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
02/16/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |