Opening Day! Open Mic in Harvard Square
In honor of OPENING DAY in Red Sox Nation, we invite all Baseball Fans representing all teams and all ages to our
OPENING DAY – OPEN MIC Celebration in Harvard Square.
Date: Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Time: From 4:00 p.m – 7:00 p.m
Location: Corner of Brattle Street and Palmer Street
The Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE) have teamed up to celebrate one of America’s Favorite Pastimes in one of America’s oldest gathering spots! Please join us next to Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe – the home of the illustrious “Chair Club” where fans from across the world gather share their love of Baseball.
Last year, with gracious sponsorship from Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe and many other Harvard Square Businesses, we hosted an “Opening Day Wedding” when the Chair of the Chair Club married the First Lady and they shared their wedding vows and celebration with the public. This year we celebrate Dennis and Kelly’s first anniversary, Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe 60th Anniversary, and the HSBA 100th Anniversary of “Caring for the Square!” In addition to all these anniversaries, we welcome an exciting new series to town entitled “A Home Run in Harvard Square” a baseball-centric series of lectures at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. And if that weren’t enough, Harvard Square is also the proud host of the American Repertory Theater’s World Premiere of Johnny Baseball, a new musical about the Red Sox and an exhilarating blend of fact, fiction, and the mystical power of the game (opening on May 14th, 2010).
In fitting style for the “Most Opinionated Zip Code in America” we are celebrating “Opening Day” with an “Open Mic” and an open invitation to step up to the plate and speak one’s mind about baseball, opening day, the season ahead and those that have come before. We welcome opinions, well wishers, trivia questions, stories, poems, facts, prayers, readings, and clean knock-knock jokes etc., We will be joined by a few Celebrity Guests and will make announcements as we get closer to the date!
We will have all the usual ball park treats – some to sample, some to purchase and a few other surprises in store!
In honor of their anniversary Cardullo’s will tune their world-famous Window TV to the game and will turn back the clock to the decade when they first opened! They will feature music from that period, offering special “remember when” pricing on select items and a staff “dress code” that will rock your bobby-sox! From April 1-7the enjoy Special 1950 style prices for a Coke, Hot Dog and Crackerjacks!
The Cambridge Center for Adult Education’s HOME RUN IN HARVARD SQUARE is a unique series of seminars exploring the art, science and business of baseball, every Thursday evening at 6pm, March 25th through May 20th.
An expert group of panelists - including architect Janet Marie Smith, Red Sox Infielder Jed Lowrie, Only A Game's Bill Littlefield, father of four talented athletes, Tom Brady, Sr. and many more. (See complete list below.)
COMPLETE SCHEDULE: All events begin at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at www.ccae.org/homerun
March 25: "Satchell: The Strikeout King Who Struck Down Jim Crowe"
Larry Tye, journalist/author of Satchel, a biography of Satchel Paige
April 1: "The Business End of Major League Baseball"
Sam Kennedy, Executive VP/Chief Operating Office, Boston Red Sox
April 8: "Reporting from the Dugout"
Amalie Benjamin, sport reporter; The Boston Globe; Steve Buckley, Boston Herald columnist/author of Wicked Good Year; and Bill Littlefield; host of WBUR and National Public Radio's Only a Game
April 15: "Life in the Minor Leagues" Guests TBA.
April 22: "Raising the Gifted Athlete"
Thomas E. Brady, Sr., businessman/father of four talented athletes; Nancy Brady, daughter extraordinaire/triathlete; Todd Carey, former Pawtucket 3rd baseman/VP JP Morgan; and his mother Pamela Carey, author of Minor League Mom
April 29: "The Minor and Major League Experience"
Jed Lowrie, Boston Red Sox Infielder
May 6: "How to Be, and Not Be, an Owner of a Major League Ball Club"
Tom DiBenedetto, Partner, Boston Red Sox and Larry Silverstein, lawyer and advisor to the L.A. Dodgers
May 13: "How to Build a Winning Major League Team"
Ben Cherington, Senior VP for Player Development/Assistant General Manager, Boston Red Sox, and Tom Tippett, Director of Baseball Information Services, Boston Red Sox
May 20: "Designing the Great Ballparks"
Janet Marie Smith, architect for Fenway Park renovations and Camden Yards/Exec. VP of Planning + Development, Baltimore Orioles
All proceeds support the Center's scholarship and public programs. For more detailed information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.ccae.org/homerun
CCAE is readily accessible by via several bus lines and the Red Line subway. If you plan to drive on Monday through Friday after 3:30 pm you may park for just $5 in the Charles Square Garage, underneath the Charles Hotel and purchase a $5.00 parking sticker when you check in for each seminar.
Photos are available upon request!
For more info about:
Opening Day – Open Mic! Please contact Robin Lapidus rlapidus@harvardsquare.com 617-491-3434
A Home Run in Harvard Square, please contact Will McMillan , will@ccae.org 617-547-6789 x333
For more info about:
Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe Anniversary Celebrations, please contact Donez Cardullo, President & CEO, Donez@Cardullos.com 617-491-8888
For more info about: Johnny Baseball, please contact
Katalin Mitchell, Director of Press and Public Relations
American Repertory Theater 617-496-2000x8841
kati_mitchell@harvard.edu
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