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  • Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland (Harvard Art Museum)

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

    Reflect on memory, labor, and belonging in this first major U.S. exhibition by Pınar Öğrenci. Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience. The exhibition includes Öğrenci’s 2024 film Glück auf in Deutschland (Good Luck…

  • Rhinoceros

    A.R.T 65 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Featuring Emmy Award Winners Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany, and John Turturro Everything seems normal one Sunday morning…until it’s not. One by one, friends and colleagues transform into rhinoceroses, and Berenger is forced to decide: will he follow the crowd or stand his ground? As resonant as when it premiered in the wake of the Second World War, Rhinoceros reminds us of the importance of holding on to our humanity amidst mounting pressures to conform. Eugène Ionesco’s landmark play is staged in a…

    $75 – $300

  • 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.…

  • Mount Auburn Book Club: The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography

    Mount Auburn Cemetary

    Many local residents will remember the Polaroid Company based in Cambridge and the genius founder of the company, Edwin Land. Join us for our discussion of “The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography” by Peter Buse (2016). Land is buried on Aronia Path.   This event will be held in Story Chapel. We will break into small groups for a discussion of the book, followed by a walk out to Edwin H. Land’s grave. For any questions, please contact…

  • Spirited Away (dubbed 4K)

    The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 2001 Starring: Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette Special 25th Anniversary Engagement! A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. Please Note: These screenings are presented DUBBED into English See here for screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

    $13.50

  • Spirited Away (subtitled 35mm)

    The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 2001 Language: Japanese with English subtitles Starring: Mari Natsuki, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi Special 25th Anniversary Engagement! A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. Please Note: These screenings are presented IN JAPANESE with English Subtitles See here for screenings dubbed in English

    $13.50 – $15.50

  • Francis Fukuyama at the Cambridge Public Library

    Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

    RSVP is required for this event. Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Francis Fukuyama—Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the author of The End of History and the Last Man—for a discussion of his new memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man. Ticketing RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a copy of In the Realm of the Last Man and pick it up at the event.…

    Free

  • Live Blues & Roots Music Returns to Harvard Square: Wednesday Nights @ The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar

    Live Blues & Roots Music Returns to Harvard Square: Wednesday Nights @ The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar

    The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar and The Barrett Anderson Band are excited to announce a new weekly series, Blues & Roots Wednesdays, bringing live music back home to historic Harvard Square. “Cambridge, our fair city, and I share deep roots, and I’m thrilled to find a new musical home at The Sea Hag,” says Massachusetts-based singer/guitarist, Barrett Anderson.  “Good music and good food are two of our most basic, fundamental needs,” he continues, “What great joy they give us.  I…