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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…

  • 1972

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

    When a pregnant Hannah flees an abusive relationship, she finds unexpected camaraderie with three outcasts riding the rails of America, outrunning ghosts of their own. After barely escaping an illegal abortion, she meets the Janes, an underground network of courageous women who risk everything to provide a choice to women with nowhere to turn. Inspired by true stories of these hidden heroes, this world-premiere rock opera fuels the ongoing fight for personal freedom. 1972 is written by musician-activist Chadwick Stokes of…

  • Alice Hoffman 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 Alice Hoffman—bestselling author of thirty works of fiction, including Practical Magic—for a discussion of her highly anticipated new novel, The Witches of Cambridge. Ticketing RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a signed copy of The Witches of Cambridge and pick it up at the event. For this event, books will be pre-signed by the author. Signed copies of Hoffman's new book, as well…

    Free

  • APCA presents: Getting Gigs at Colleges (and Lots More Places…) Free Comedy Seminar

    The Comedy Studio 5 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Free Public Event. All Comics Encouraged to Attend. Doors at 530pm. Looking for more ways to make money doing comedy? Join Eric Lambert, Executive Director of APCA, for a practical seminar on how working comedians can break into the college market and find more opportunities beyond traditional comedy clubs. Colleges can be some of the most profitable gigs in comedy, and there’s a straightforward process for getting in front of the people who book them. Eric will walk you through…

    Free

  • David Weinberger at Harvard Book Store

    Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, United States

    Harvard Book Store welcomes David Weinberger—researcher at Harvard metaLAB, long-time affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center, and bestselling author of Everyday Chaos—for a discussion of his new book, Beautiful Particulars: How AI's Attention to the Smallest of Differences Is Reshaping Our Biggest Ideas. About Beautiful Particulars A fresh and eye-opening new explanation of AI—and how its focus on specifics is changing our ideas about ourselves and our world. From a Harvard researcher, philosopher, entrepreneur, former comedy writer, and bestselling author.  Amid the clamor…

    Free

  • Wood You Be Mine Release Day Celebration with Daphne Elliot

    Lovestruck Books

    Celebrate Wood You Be Mine release day with romance author Daphne Elliot!  In conversation with fellow romance author Brittanée Nicole, Daphne will unpack the steamy small-town romance filled with flirty banter, sexy flannel, and plenty of heart. When a determined elementary school principal moves in next door to grumpy lumberjack Henri Gagnon, things get off to a slightly disastrous start, involving a near-burned-down cabin, an argument with a moose, and eventually, one very memorable naked encounter. With one year to…

    $6.24 – $27.24

  • Boston Comedy Festival Contest Round 1 w/ host Rob Crean

    The Comedy Studio 5 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    18+ w/ 2-Item Suggested Minimum. 96 comedians. One week. $7,000 in prize money. And your chance to see the next big name in comedy before everyone else does.The Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Competition brings 96 comedians from across the country (sometimes Canada) to Boston for one of New England's biggest stand-up competitions. Over eight preliminary rounds, 12 comedians take the stage at each show, all hoping to impress the judges and earn one of just 32 spots in the semifinals. Hosted by…

    $30

  • Kelsey Waldon at Club Passim

    Passim 47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    In the six years since she signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records, Kelsey Waldon has earned wide praise for her “self-penned compositions the patina of authenticity” (Rolling Stone). On her new album, Every Ghost, she confronts addiction, grief, generational trauma, and even herself — and comes through it stronger and at peace.

    $35

  • the olllam at The Sinclair

    The Sinclair 52 Church St, Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States

    With a name aptly deriving from the old Irish for a grand master of a skill, the olllam is a Transatlantic collective of formidable talent, marrying stunning instrumental virtuosity, Irish tradition, and Detroit’s post-rock psych-sensibility. Their genre-defying compositions are lush with cyclical trance-like melodies, co-written by Belfast uilleann piper/whistle player John McSherry, his US protégé Tyler Duncan, and master-drummer Michael Shimmin, whose intricate, often complex, rhythms are then underpinned in recording by the phenomenal bass-playing genius of Joe Dart (Vulfpeck,…

    $27.00