Events
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A Night of Fiction with Jessica Keener and Jennifer Haigh
Presented by Back Pages Books May 31, 2012 In Night Swim, an incredible debut that has been called "deeply moving and devastatingly beautiful", Jessica Keener explores the coming-of-age of sixteen year-old Sara Kunitz under the oppressive regime of her emotionally absent parents. In this and Jennifer Haigh's Faith, both women explore the dynamics, beliefs, and disappointments of two strikingly different Boston families--one, a clan of wealthy 1970s Jewish suburbanites attempting to maintain a charmed facade after a...
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Back Pages Books |
05/31/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |
Art in the Garden Cemetery
Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery May 23, 2012 Join Mount Auburn’s Curator of Historical Collections, Meg L. Winslow, for a walking tour of funerary sculpture set within the horticultural beauty of Mount Auburn’s landscaped setting. We will look at works of fine art by the first generation of American sculptors as well as several examples of vernacular art by unknown carvers.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery |
05/23/12 |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge |
Boston Chocolate Walking Tours - Back Bay
Presented by Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops May 12-September 29, 2012 Our exclusive 2 ½-hour walking tour highlights The Back Bay – affluent Boston at its best, boasting landmarks like Copley Square, the Prudential Center, and the Public Library. This historic area is rich in culture, architecture – and of course, fine chocolate. Learn the history and life of chocolate, how luxury chocolates are created, and much more. We can think of no more fun way to spend a Saturday morning among friends than to peruse boutiques on Newbury Street, stroll...
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Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops |
05/12/12 -
09/29/12 |
Nespresso Boutique, Boston |
Boston Chocolate Walking Tours - Beacon Hill
Presented by Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops May 13-September 30, 2012 Our exclusive 2.5 hour chocolate walking tour highlights Beacon Hill, one of Boston’s smallest and most historic neighborhoods, featuring a mix of grand townhouses and fashionable shops. Stroll down Charles Street to spy pricey antique shops and of course, fine chocolate. Stroll through the Boston Public Gardens and end with a double finale in Park Square. Learn the history and life of chocolate, how luxury chocolates are created, and much more. We can think of no more fun way to spend...
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Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops |
05/13/12 -
09/30/12 |
boYo, Boston |
Boston Chocolate Walking Tours - South End
Presented by Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops May 12-September 29, 2012 Our exclusive 2 ½-hour walking tour highlights the historic South End neighborhood. This area is home to elegant Victorian brick row houses, many dating from the 1800s, and one of the most diverse populations in Boston. The South End blends many of the best elements of the city and of course, fine chocolate. Learn the history and life of chocolate, how luxury chocolates are created, and much more. We can think of no more fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon among friends.
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Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops |
05/12/12 -
09/29/12 |
Code 10, Boston |
Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens
Presented by Arnold Arboretum May 30, 2012 In the 1760s the world’s scientific community was electrified because the transit of Venus would allow them for the first time to calculate the distance between the planets in our solar system. On June 6, 1761 and June 3, 1769, the planet Venus passed between Earth and Sun–each time visible as a small black dot against the face of the Sun for six hours. Transits of Venus always arrive in pairs –eight years apart–but then it takes more than a century before they are...
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Arnold Arboretum |
05/30/12 |
Weld Hill Research Building, Arnold Arboretum, Roslindale |
Dive in to Art!
Presented by Swampscott Public Library May 30, 2012 Have you wanted to learn more about looking at art? Join Meg Winikates from the Peabody Essex Museum’s Art & Nature Center on Wednesday, May 30th at 6:00pm to take a close look at artists and their watery inspirations with works from Ripple Effect, the Art of H2O. Find out how to get comfortable looking at art, then get hands-on and create your own Ripple Effect inspired work. Ripple Effect is on view at PEM until July 8, 2012. Admission is free. Please call the Swampscott Public...
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Swampscott Public Library |
05/30/12 |
swampscott public library, Swampscott |
Francine Miller discusses Cashing in on Culture and the Rose Art Museum
Presented by Back Pages Books May 24, 2012 When the Rose Art Museum proposed its plan to close and sell its invaluable 8,000-piece collection to close university budget gaps, Francine Miller became an outspoken critic in favor of its preservation.
As both a respected Boston-area art critic and a Brandeis alumnus, Miller's attempt to save the Rose, one of the country's most visited university art museums, was a cause very dear to her. The results of her efforts have kept the museum intact for its fiftieth year, and have...
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Back Pages Books |
05/24/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |
Free WGBH Studio Tours
Presented by WGBH at WGBH February 9, 2010 - Ongoing Go behind the scenes for a free 45-minute tour of WGBH's all-digital studios at One Guest Street in Boston's Brighton neighborhood.
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WGBH |
02/09/10 -
Ongoing |
WGBH, Boston |
History Book Club Meeting
Presented by Historic Newton at Historic Newton May 24, 2012 Thursday, May 24, 7:30 PM, this month’s book selection, The Great Influenza by award-winning historian John M. Barry (author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which the Book Club previously read and enjoyed) is a powerful story with multiple narrative strands that combine to describe the history of science and disease in America leading up to the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918. It describes how the disease revolutionized American science and public health,...
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Historic Newton |
05/24/12 |
Historic Newton, Newton |
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Jasper Johns / In Press: Student Voices
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/22/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
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Jasper Johns / In Press: Student Voices
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/22/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
JFK Election Victory 1960: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary
Presented by John F. Kennedy Presidental Library at John F. Kennedy Presidental Library October 29, 2010 - Ongoing Tour the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and relive the powerful story of the Kennedy years. In our three theaters, period settings, and 25 dramatic multimedia exhibits, you will enter the recreated world of the Kennedy Presidency for a “first-hand” experience of John F. Kennedy’s life, legacy, and leadership.
See events of the 1960s through President Kennedy’s eyes and narrated in his voice. Experience his optimism and wit and be...
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John F. Kennedy Presidental Library |
10/29/10 -
Ongoing |
John F. Kennedy Presidental Library, Boston |
Living with Your Old House: National Preservation Month Lecture Series
Presented by Historic New England May 8-May 29, 2012 Celebrate National Preservation Month this May by learning how to take care of your old house. Historic New England and the Waltham Historical Society present a lecture series designed to help homeowners enhance their knowledge and understanding of houses built before 1950. For detailed descriptions of the individual lectures, please visit http://www.HistoricNewEngland.org. May 8, 7–8:30 PM – Architectural Styles in Waltham’s History May 15, 7–8:30 PM –...
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Historic New England |
05/08/12 -
05/29/12 |
Lyman Estate, Waltham |
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
Presented by Poetry Jam February 13, 2011-June 29, 2014 Every Sunday with a Poetry Slam co-hosted by Joyce Cunha and Jeff Robinson starting at 7:30pm and a Featured Poet and Open Mic accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio starting at 9:00pm – there’s a $5 cover and you must be 21 to enter the venue – Sultry red lights, intimate tables, and wooden church pews give this small room one of the best ambiances in town.
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Poetry Jam |
02/13/11 -
06/29/14 |
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge |
Masterpiece Lecture Series: Robert D. Mowry, Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard Art Museums
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum May 24, 2012 Isabella Gardner’s collection was surprisingly diverse and largely influenced by her travels across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. These precious objects were painstakingly installed – and often in ways that might surprise 21st century visitors to the museum – with masterworks tucked into intimate nooks waiting to be discovered. Such is the surprising encounter we might have today with the magnificent Chinese Buddhist stele placed in the narrow Chinese Loggia, a poetic...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
05/24/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Modern Architecture Walking Tour of Cambridge
Presented by Historic New England May 26-May 27, 2012 Tour twenty distinctive Modern structures on the Harvard and MIT main campuses as well as “Architects Corner” on Brattle Street in Cambridge. Explore mid-century Modernism from 1947 to 1976 in the work of Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, I.M. Pei, Josep Lluís Sert, and others. Includes a one-hour intermission to allow for participants to break for lunch. Tour begins at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Historic New England |
05/26/12 -
05/27/12 |
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge |
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 |
New England Sculptors Association Exhibition at the State Transportation Building
Presented by New England Sculptors Association May 21-June 15, 2012 Works from 31 nationally and regionally renowned sculptors are being featured at the New England Sculptors Association (NESA) exhibition at the State Transportation Building in Boston that opens on Monday, May 21, and runs through Friday, June 15. A panel discussion will be held on Thursday, May 24, from 5 pm – 7 pm. The panel discussion entitled Sculpture NOW! will include distinguished artists and writers: Cate McQuaid, critic/reviewer of visual art exhibitions, The Boston Globe;...
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New England Sculptors Association |
05/21/12 -
06/15/12 |
State Transportation Building, Boston |
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 |
Opening Lecture and Reception: Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 23, 2012 Jennifer L. Roberts, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, will present the lecture The Printerly Art of Jasper Johns at 6pm.
Jasper Johns is best known as a painter, but his work has always been closely tied to print. From his earliest use of newspaper collage and stencils in the 1950s, Johns incorporated print media and print processes into his paintings. He began making prints himself in 1960, and quickly developed a reputation as a...
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/23/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Shakespeare and Leadership
Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at Cutler Majestic Theatre May 24, 2012 What: Shakespeare and Leadership: A script in hand reading of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus followed by a panel discussion on corporate leadership skills in the 21st Century.
Who: Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company,
The Boston Chapter of the Federalist Society, & McCarter and English, LLP.
When: Thursday, May 24, 6:00 pm
Where: Cutler Majestic Theater,
219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Venue Website
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company |
05/24/12 |
Cutler Majestic 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 |
Summer Workshops at Fuller Craft Museum Starting June 2
Presented by Fuller Craft Museum at Fuller Craft Museum June 2-August 25, 2012 Almost every Saturday a new workshop, demo, lecture—and a chance to learn something new about contemporary craft. Fuller Craft brings together some of the leading craftspeople in the field of studio craft to breathe life into the process of making art from raw materials. Offerings for children and adults, beginners and advanced students. Learn origami, bookmaking, quilting, paper bowls, sculpture, jewelry making. Featured artists include: furnituremaker Mark Del Guidice, fiber artist...
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Fuller Craft Museum |
06/02/12 -
08/25/12 |
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton |
The Grand Diversity of Fishes: Form, Function, and Evolution
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History May 31, 2012 Exhibition re-opening lecture by George V. Lauder, Prof. of Biology and Curator of Ichthyology in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 6:00 PM
Fishes display a remarkable diversity in their behavior, ecology, and physical form. Constituting half of all known vertebrate species, fishes have adapted to almost every habitat on earth—from the deepest ocean trenches to highest mountain streams, and from sub-freezing to near-boiling...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
05/31/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
The Great Boston Cupcake Crawl
Presented by Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops May 20-September 29, 2012 The cupcake craze that all started with Carrie and Miranda chatting outside of Magnolia Bakery in New York on the very popular Sex and the City television show has arrived in full force in Boston. Join our friendly expert guide who will bring you to Boston’s premiere cupcake bakeries where you will indulge in the traditional and exotic sweet treats that they have to offer. Our destinations have been carefully selected from the very finest cupcake bakeries that Boston has to offer.
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Taste of Chocolate Tours & Workshops |
05/20/12 -
09/29/12 |
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The North Slope of Beacon Hill
Presented by Boston By Foot at Massachusetts Statehouse May 27, 2012 The story of Beacon Hill's North Slope has long been eclipsed by the famous architects and well- known history of the South Slope. Come discover the story unique to the Hill's "other" side—one of an integrated working-class community, a 19th-century free black community, resident activists and reformers, the 20th-century arrival of other immigrant populations and bohemian artists, eclectic architecture, and finally, 21st-century development.
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Boston By Foot |
05/27/12 |
Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston |
The Young and Restless: Where are Young American Jews?
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC May 24, 2012 The young, restless and indifferent, committed, alienated and autonomous: where are young American Jews? How do they think about Israel, about the organized Jewish community, about their own identities as Jews? How, if at all, do we successfully transmit to new generations the passion for Jewish life and for Israel that characterized their parents and grandparents—or has too much already changed?
Peter Beinart (pictured) is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Political...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
05/24/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Thursday Evenings at the Gardner Museum
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum March 15-August 16, 2012 Experience the Gardner Museum in the evening or right after work. We're now open every Thursday until 9pm. Depending on the night, you might catch a lecture or a concert—or simply enjoy the Museum's galleries at night. Thursday evenings also offer dining at Café G and shopping in the new Museum store, Gift at the Gardner. Gardner After Hours happens every third Thursday with cocktails, games, artist talks, and art-making.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
03/15/12 -
08/16/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Walking Tour of Hyde Square
Presented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society June 2, 2012 Join the JP Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New...
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Jamaica Plain Historical Society |
06/02/12 |
Sorella's , Boston |