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  • The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection (Harvard Art Museum)

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    How did photography construct cultural memories of postwar America? Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.…

  • On Location: Drawing the Outdoors (Harvard Art Museum)

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Discover how an intimate and reflective relationship with nature can shape artistic vision. Meander through visions of the outdoors to discover how landscapes offered 19th-century European artists freedom, renewal, and rediscovery beyond the pressures of society. Placing the natural world at the center of artistic expression and featuring drawings by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent van Gogh, among many others, On Location: Drawing the Outdoors includes approximately 140 sketches, watercolors, and…

  • YOGA AWAKENING: BEYOND ASANAS

    Breathe 30 JFK Street, Cambridge

    Mysuru, India Led by Shelley Cates + Ashish Shah Yoga is much more than the postures practiced on the mat. This retreat explores yoga as a complete life practice, blending movement, philosophy, culture, and spiritual tradition in one of yoga’s most historic regions. Together we will practice, study, and explore the deeper layers of yoga while experiencing the rich culture of southern India. Expect: 2 daily yoga/asana classes Daily philosophy and cultural lectures Workshops exploring deeper aspects of yoga practice…

    $2500 – $3600

  • Cut to David

    The GlobeDocs Film Festival
    The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    David’s story is beautifully layered from the start: An adopted, Chinese-American, transgender teen, raised in a Jewish home in Boston with a filmmaker for a mom, with a camera always close by. As David journeys from high school to college to adulthood, Sandy Jaffe’s camera documents her family’s evolving relationship as each participant has a turn steering the narrative. Blending vérité footage, home videos, and candid conversations, the film begins as an effort to understand David’s gender transition and expands…

    $17

  • Harvard Square French Fry & Pairings Food Tour

    Harvard Square French Fry & Pairings Food Tour
    Off The Beaten Path Food Tours

    Harvard Square is famous for so much — Harvard University, eclectic bookshops, buskers, and a food scene that punches well above its weight. But here’s what most visitors don’t know: it’s also home to some of the best french fries in all of Massachusetts. Together with our guide Larom, a Harvard alum, we built an entire tour around that fact, and it’s become one of the most unique food experiences in Cambridge. On this 90-minute walking adventure, you’ll sample distinctly…

    $55

  • The Oldest Person in the World

    The GlobeDocs Film Festival
    The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Supercentenarians seize the spotlight in Academy Award-nominated documentarian Sam Green’s decade-long global odyssey to chronicle the ever-changing title holders of “oldest person alive.” As the distinction inevitably cedes from one titleholder to the next, Green keeps pace with each pass of the torch, while his personal fascination in the topic entangles with significant milestones and challenging life events of his own. What starts as a portrait of longevity unfolds into a poignant meditation on the passage of time, the happenstance…

    $17

  • October Harvard Square Book Circle

    Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, United States

    Join us for our October Harvard Square Book Circle meeting! This month we're discussing Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey. Don't forget each book we discuss is part of our featured Select 70 for frequent buyer members. The Book Circle is Harvard Book Store's monthly book club open for members of the community to meet and discuss a thoughtfully selected book. We’ll meet in the third room of the store from 6–7:30 PM. Registration is not required and no commitment is…

    Free

  • Playing POTUS

    The GlobeDocs Film Festival
    The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Hail to the comedians in chief! With a laugh-inducing lineup that includes Will Ferrell, Dana Carvey, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Keegan-Michael Key, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers, PLAYING POTUS dives headfirst into the hilarious and high-stakes world of presidential satire. Based on Peter Funt’s book, this entertaining film probes into the ways master impressionists and political humorists shape public perception, challenge executive power, and reflect the state of our democracy. From legendary late-night TV sketches to modern digital commentary, satire…

    $17

  • Rufus Müller and Kayo Iwama | Schwanengesang

    Longy School of Music of Bard College 27 Garden St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Rufus Müller, tenor, and Kayo Iwama, piano, celebrate twenty years of musical partnership with Schubert’s Swan Song. Written at a single sitting a couple of months before his death in 1828, the work is a synthesis of many styles and much passion, culminating in the famously searing Der Doppelgänger. Longy is pleased to welcome Bard College professors Rufus Müller and Kayo Iwama for this special performance.

    Free

  • Thomas Frank at Harvard Book Store

    Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, United States

    Harvard Book Store welcomes Thomas Frank—a founding editor of The Baffler, a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and the bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal—for a discussion of his new book The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket. About The Creativity Con A bold indictment of America’s chronic obsession with creativity and innovation, tracing how these beloved ideas came to dominate our political and economic conversation while serving to mask inequality and protect elite interests.  “Innovation” and “creativity” have been the defining…

    Free