Harvard Square Events RSS Harvard Square Events RSS Feed <![CDATA[New Voices: Emerging Writers at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education]]> Monday, March 5 at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education
8:00 pm
$3

As part of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education is proud to host readings by Kirsten Andersen, Kerrin McCadden, and Hyejung Kook, three emerging voices in the world of poetry.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
617-547-6789 x333]]> <![CDATA[Air Traffic Controller & Sarah Blacker at Passim]]> Friday, March 9, 2012, 7:00 PM at Club Passim

$15.00/13.00 (members)

Air Traffic Controller
Serving in the US Navy as a real-life air traffic controller, singer/songwriter Dave Munro sent home 4-track demo tapes of songs written during his deployment. With his enlistment up, Munro returned to hometown Boston and discovered an impressive number of fans, prompting the genesis of the aptly-named rock band Air Traffic Controller. Accolades and award nominations soon followed; as did airplay on tastemaker radio stations such as WFNX and WERS, and coverage in publications such as Business Week, Boston Herald, Performer Magazine, Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix.

The One is the debut album release for both ATC and Sugarpop Records and was produced by power pop/rock maestro BLEU.

Sarah Blacker

Sarah Blacker's music is a unique blend of acoustic rock, folk, and jazz with stand-out vocals and quirky yet catchy songwriting, that set her apart from other female singer/songwriters in her genre.





]]> <![CDATA[Ana Sortun Eastern Mediterranean Dinner at Summer Shack]]>
Ana Sortun
James Beard Award Winner

Eastern Mediterranean Dinner

Chef/Proprietor - Oleana and Sofra Bakery

Author - Spice - Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean
Signed books available for purchase

$90 per person includes food, wine, tax and service]]> <![CDATA[Float Your Boat Discovery Room]]> Float Your Boat Discovery Room

Saturday June 16, 2012  Noon-4 pm

Free with Peabody Museum admission
Recommended for ages 5 and up accompanied by an adult

Throughout time and around the world, people have built and decorated boats and watercraft to help them get food, trade, and travel long distances. Come explore some of the amazing boats and boat models here at the Peabody Museum. Then make and decorate your own boat to take home!

]]> <![CDATA[Song of Songs / Songs of Love: Blue Heron Renaissance Choir]]> Song of Songs / Songs of Love: Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

A revival of our tremendously popular program of 16th-century Spanish love songs & motets on texts from the Song of Songs.

When: Saturday, June 9th at 8 p.m.

Where: First Church in Cambridge

The vocal ensemble Blue Heron combines a commitment to vivid live performance with the study of original source materials and historical performance practice.

For more information, please visit www.blueheronchoir.org/ ]]> <![CDATA[Transforming Trash to Treasure: Cleaning Artifacts from Harvard Yard]]> Transforming Trash to Treasure: Cleaning Artifacts from Harvard Yard

Saturday May 19, 2012  Noon-4 pm

Free with Peabody Museum admission
Recommended for ages 8 and up accompanied by an adult

Do you enjoy mysteries of the past? Ever wonder what lies beneath Harvard Yard? Join Archaeology of Harvard Yard Instructors and Students as they process their finds from this year’s dig in Harvard Yard. Learn what “trash” can tell us about the past. This is your chance to get your hands dirty - who knows what you’ll find!

]]> <![CDATA[New School of Music 2nd Wednesday Concert Series]]>
When: 2nd Wednesday of every month October 2011 - May 2012

May 9th Concert: Heaven & Hell: The Spiritual Works of Franz Liszt with NSM piano faculty Brett Klaus

The concert series is a showcase for the talents of New School's performing artists and other local musicians, presenting works that span a variety of musical genres.

Event Information:

Date: 2nd Wednesdays, October - May

Time: 7:00pm

Location: New School of Music, 25 Lowell Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Admission: $12/Adults, $6/seniors & children, Free to enrolled NSM students

For more information, please visit www.newschoolofmusic.org/

]]> <![CDATA[Stanley Plumly and Jane Shore at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education]]> Monday, May 7 at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education
8:00 pm
$3

As part of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Stanley Plumly will read from his new poetry collection, Orphan Hours, with Jane Shore, author of That Said.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
617-547-6789 x333]]> <![CDATA[Carpenter Center Open Studios]]> Carpenter Center Open Studios

Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Location: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

For more information: http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/ccva.html ]]> <![CDATA[ABSURDUS at The Sanctuary Theatre]]>
April 20 - May 6, 2012



The culminating event of the season offers a Mateo favorite and a spring premiere finale, ballets that will transport audiences to a world that is neither real nor purely abstract; one that borders on the wildly illogical but is hauntingly familiar and compellingly dynamic.


House of Ballet (1993, Schnittke)


Premiere


PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES
Fri. Apr. 20 at 8:00 pm
Sat. Apr. 21 at 8:00 pm
Sun. Apr. 22 at 4:00 pm


Fri. Apr. 27 at 8:00 pm
Sat. Apr. 28 at 8:00 pm
Sun. Apr. 29 at 4:00 pm


Thu. May. 3 at 8:00 pm
Fri. May. 4 at 8:00 pm
Sat. May. 5 at 8:00 pm
Sun. May. 6 at 4:00 pm


Season Subscriptions and Single tickets ($38) are on sale (https://www.ballettheatre.org/tix_shows) to order or call 617-354-7467.

]]> <![CDATA[Franz Wright and Geoffre Brock at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education]]> Monday, April 30 at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education
8:00 pm
$3

As part of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Franz Wright, whose recent books include Kindertotenwald and Wheeling Motel, reads with Geoffrey Brock, author of the poetry collection Weighing Light and editor of The FSG Book of 20th-century Italian Poetry.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
617-547-6789 x333]]> <![CDATA[Special Cooking class on Viennese Pastries at Kitchen at 56 Brattle St.]]> Saturday, April 28
11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Kitchen at 56 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA

Cost $94


The bakers at The Window Shop introduced Viennese pastries to Cambridge in the late 1940s. Learn to make Linzer tortes and other treats from the original Window Shop recipes, with chef Edgar Ievins.

Class code: VPAS.

Class size limited to 9.]]> <![CDATA[VES Thesis 2012 at Carpenter Center]]>

Reception: 5:30 - 6:30, Screenings 7:00 PM
 

Location: Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Exhibition Dates: April 27 - May 24, 2012

]]> <![CDATA[ABSURDUS at The Sanctuary Theatre]]>
April 20 - May 6, 2012



The culminating event of the season offers a Mateo favorite and a spring premiere finale, ballets that will transport audiences to a world that is neither real nor purely abstract; one that borders on the wildly illogical but is hauntingly familiar and compellingly dynamic.


House of Ballet (1993, Schnittke)


Premiere


PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES
Fri. Apr. 20 at 8:00 pm
Sat. Apr. 21 at 8:00 pm
Sun. Apr. 22 at 4:00 pm


Fri. Apr. 27 at 8:00 pm
Sat. Apr. 28 at 8:00 pm
Sun. Apr. 29 at 4:00 pm


Thu. May. 3 at 8:00 pm
Fri. May. 4 at 8:00 pm
Sat. May. 5 at 8:00 pm
Sun. May. 6 at 4:00 pm


Season Subscriptions and Single tickets ($38) are on sale (https://www.ballettheatre.org/tix_shows) to order or call 617-354-7467.

]]> <![CDATA[VES ANIMATION, VIDEO & FILM SCREENINGS at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts]]>
Wednesday, April 25 - Saturday, April 28
7:00 pm
Lecture Hall


VES ANIMATION, VIDEO & FILM SCREENINGS



Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.3251
http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/ccva.html

 

]]> <![CDATA["Welcometo Spring" with Gordon Hamersley at Summer Shack]]>
"Welcome to Spring" Dinner with Gordon Hamersley

James Beard Award Winner
Chef/Proprietor - Hamersley's Bistro
Author -Bistro Cooking at Home

$90 per person includes food, wine, tax and service]]> <![CDATA[Trash Tales Discovery Room]]> Trash Tales Discovery Room

Tuesday April 24 - Saturday, April 28, 2012  Noon-4 pm

Free with Peabody Museum admission
Recommended for ages 5 and up accompanied by an adult

People around the world make fun toys and useful items from what might be considered trash. Celebrate Earth Day by exploring real artifacts and the stories behind shoes made with tires, toys shaped from scrap wire, and more. Make your own toy or other creation from “trash” to take home, while supplies last.

]]> <![CDATA[Elizabeth Bradfield and Peter Richards at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education]]> Elizabeth Bradfield and Peter Richards
Monday, April 23 at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education
8:00 pm
$3

As part of the the Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Elizabeth Bradfield will read from her poetry collection, Approaching Ice, with Peter Richards, whose new poetry collection is Helsinki.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
617-547-6789

]]> <![CDATA[Earth Day Recylcing Fun at the Harvard Recylcing and Surplus Center]]> Earth Day Recyling Fun
Saturday April 21, 2012  1-4 pm

Free, space is limited and advance reservation is required
Recommended for ages 8 and up accompanied by an adult

Join us at the Harvard Recycling and Surplus Center, 224 Western Avenue in Allston, for a special Earth Day recycling program. Tour the warehouse (often compared to the one in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”) where used computers get refurbished; clothing is bagged; books are boxed; and items of all kinds are stored for donation to charities. Join Rob Gogan, Manager of Harvard Recycling Services, to make and take home your own recycled paper!

For more information: pmae-ed@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-3216

]]> <![CDATA[Trash Tales Discovery Room]]> Trash Tales Discovery Room

Saturday April 21, 2012  Noon-4 pm

Free with Peabody Museum admission
Recommended for ages 5 and up accompanied by an adult

People around the world make fun toys and useful items from what might be considered trash. Celebrate Earth Day by exploring real artifacts and the stories behind shoes made with tires, toys shaped from scrap wire, and more. Make your own toy or other creation from “trash” to take home, while supplies last.

]]> <![CDATA[ABSURDUS at The Sanctuary Theatre]]>
April 20 - May 6, 2012


The culminating event of the season offers a Mateo favorite and a spring premiere finale, ballets that will transport audiences to a world that is neither real nor purely abstract; one that borders on the wildly illogical but is hauntingly familiar and compellingly dynamic.

House of Ballet (1993, Schnittke)

Premiere

PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES
Fri. Apr. 20 at 8:00 pm
Sat. Apr. 21 at 8:00 pm
Sun. Apr. 22 at 4:00 pm

Fri. Apr. 27 at 8:00 pm
Sat. Apr. 28 at 8:00 pm
Sun. Apr. 29 at 4:00 pm

Thu. May. 3 at 8:00 pm
Fri. May. 4 at 8:00 pm
Sat. May. 5 at 8:00 pm
Sun. May. 6 at 4:00 pm

Season Subscriptions and Single tickets ($38) are on sale (https://www.ballettheatre.org/tix_shows) to order or call 617-354-7467.

]]> <![CDATA["Tornadoes, Twin Towers, and Hurricanes: 20 Years of Urban Disaster Clean-up]]> "Tornadoes, Twin Towers, and Hurricanes: 20 Years of Urban Disaster Clean-up"
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 6:00 pm
Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge MA

Come see Ben R. Turner (President, Phillips and Jordan, inc.) and Patrick McMullen's (Executive Vice-President, CFO, and Treasurer, Phillips and Jordan, inc.) presentation on "Tornadoes, Twin Towers, and Hurricanes: 20 Years of Urban Disaster Clean-up."

]]> <![CDATA[The Window Shop at Spiegel Auditorium]]> Thursday, April 19
7 p.m.

Spiegel Auditorium, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA

Suggested donation: $10


Safe Harbor for Refugees. For fifteen years in the mid-20th century the Blacksmith House was the location of a bakery and consignment store called The Window Shop, a business founded to give employment to European refugees. Ilse Heyman, one of the authors of the book The Window Shop, a former assistant manager at the shop, and a Holocaust survivor, talks about her experiences there. Introduced by the Cambridge Historical Commission's Oral Historian, Sarah Boyer.

Event code: WSHP.


If These Walls Could Talk...

This series of lectures, presentations and classes celebrates the unique and colorful history of the Blacksmith House, built in 1808 and still an active home for education. Unless otherwise indicated, all events take place at the Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle Street in the heart of Harvard Square.

This series is sponsored by the Cambridge African American Heritage Alliance, the Cambridge Historical Commission, The Cambridge Historical Society, the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University, and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Buy a ticket to all four talks for a discounted price of $30.
]]> <![CDATA[ALEX RIVERA: SCREENING & LECTURE at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts]]>
Thursday, April 19

2:00 pm
Screening: SLEEP DEALER, by Alex Rivera
 

5:00 pm
“Engineering the Border, Imagining America”
Lecture by director Alex Rivera
2012 Robert and Maurine Rothschild Lecturer in the History of Science
Reception to follow


Rivera is a filmmaker and media artist. His work, which tells transnational stories through a highly stylized cinematic language, has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, the Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 where it won multiple awards. Rivera is a Sundance Fellow, USA Artist Fellow, Creative Capital Grantee and a Rockefeller Fellow.  


SLEEP DEALER
2008, 90 min.
In the near future a soldier, a worker, and a writer struggle to find hope in a bizarre world marked by militarized borders, rampant drone warfare, and a global digital network that ties bodies and minds together.


A.O. Scott of the New York Times writes: “Exuberantly entertaining -- a dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure!”

]]> <![CDATA[Cooking Classes with Chef Jody Adams at Rialto]]>
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 11:30am - 2:00pm

$125

Sicily & Tuscany Throw Down

Classes include coffee and scones to begin the day, instruction, demonstration, recipes and a multi-course lunch with expertly paired wines. $125, inclusive of tax & gratuity. Classes are from 11am-2:30pm.

Call 617.661.5050 to reserve your space in one of our classes.

Rialto Restaurant + Bar
1 Bennett Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge MA, 02138
617.661.5050

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