HSBA Raffle Winner Announced!
The Great Things Come in Harvard Square Raffle Winners Drawn on 12/9/08:
Please contact us if you are the winning ticket holder by the end of day 12/11/08 at which time we will pick another winning ticket for unclaimed prizes.
Harvard Square Gives Thanks
Harvard Square’s finest restaurants offer warmth and charm, grace and ease, and an abundance of fresh & delicious dining options for gathering friends and family around the table! Please let us know if we can assist you in making your Thanksgiving plans in Harvard Square.
Magners Irish Film Festival
Come join the festivities as the Magners Irish Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, November 13-24. This year’s festival will feature an expanded program of events, celebrity guests and choice samplings of the very best of Ireland and the Irish on screen with 40+ contemporary features, documentaries and shorts.
Oktoberfest 2008
The 29th Annual Oktoberfest and Honk! Festival Parade to Harvard Square.
The World’s Longest Sofa in America & the Biggest Band Photo ever!
In order to accommodate the 30 Marching Bands from the “Honk! Festival” parading along Mass. Avenue to Oktoberfest (and all the walkers, bikers, rollers, strollers, dancers, puppeteers, and folks who came to people watch, eat and shop,) we have pulled out the world’s LONGEST sofa from Boconcept.
“GIVING TREES” UNVEILED IN HARVARD SQUARE
On December 2nd 2007, the Harvard Square Business Association initiated the installation of three holiday trees in Winthrop Park. A trio of trees – bearing gifts of Helmets, Hearts and […]
Harvard Square Business Association Calendar of Events – 2008!
As the days grow shorter, The Harvard Square Business Association’s 2008 Calendar of Events grows shorter too. Although there are only a few short weeks left until the new year….there is still plenty of time to enjoy spectacular Harvard Square events!
LE:60 Film Festival
Watch as skilled Auteurs go eye-to-eye with cleaver amateurs for 100 minutes of One Minute Films the FIRST EVER, only festival of its kind!
Welcome Weekend in Harvard Square
Welcome Weekend in Harvard Square –September 19th – September 21st. Welcome weekend in Harvard Square is a fun-filled weekend celebrating a legendary film star, a long-standing football rivalry, two world renowned museum collections, a welcome kiosk with free goodies, a host of stores with their doors open, and a community that sings together down by the River!
Welcome Class of 2012
The Harvard Square Business Association welcomes the Harvard University Class of 2012!
Restaurant Week in Harvard Square
This Summer 13 restaurants in Harvard Square are participating in Greater Boston’s Restaurant Week. They will offer 3 course lunches and/or dinners at 2 low prices!
Dog Day Afternoon in Harvard Square
An outdoor event in Winthrop Park featuring a presentation by Jenna Ringelheim, author of the recently released “Best Hikes with Dogs: Boston and Beyond.” All dogs are invited to the presentation and the hike around Harvard Square to our famously pooch friendly establishments. Co-sponsored by the always dog friendly Globe Corner Bookstore and the Harvard Square Business Association.
Shakespeare in the Square Festival
Actors Shakespeare Project, American Repertory Theatre, and Revels bring exceptional, out of the box, profoundly original Outdoor Elizabethan Theatre to Harvard Square. Bring a blanket to sit on and enjoy the performances in Winthrop Park!
Harvard Square captured by the spell of a moonless midnight book release
Harvard Square captured by the spell of a moonless midnight book release…
On Friday, August 1st, 2008 join us on Palmer Street for a BREAKING DAWN Party. The event will take place on Palmer Street starting at 10:00 p.m. and the Harvard Coop will release the books for sale at midnight!
Think PINK, Drink PINK, Shop PINK!
Join us for our third annual “Think Pink, Drink Pink, Shop Pink” Breast Cancer Awareness Fund Raising Event. During the past three years, Harvard Square businesses have come together to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research through the sale of Pink Drinks and pink products!
Bastille Day in Harvard Square
Bastille Day in Harvard Square, Sunday, July 13th 2008. Day-to-Night Block Party on Holyoke Street, thousands of Revelers Expected
Make Music Harvard Square Program Announced!
Make Music Harvard Square Program
Dr. Dog plays in Harvard Square
UPDATE: DR.DOG SHOW IS GOING TO BE INSIDE JOHN HARVARD’S BREW HOUSE ON DUNSTER STREET! The Dr. Dog Free Show (Finally!) – Saturday, May 31st!
Harvardsquare.com announces Flyerboard
Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) is proud to announce its new partnership with PaperG, Inc., a local company started by Harvard and Yale undergraduates, to enable Harvard Square businesses to easily and affordably publicize upcoming events online in their local community. PaperG’s new advertising format, called Flyerboard, will go live on the front page of the HSBA’s website, HarvardSquare.com, on Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
Cambridge Clean Cab Program
Cambridge, Mass. The Cambridge License Commission (CLC) announced today that six new hybrid taxicabs are in service due to its Clean Air Cab Program. The environmental initiative is the CLC’s program to reduce the city’s taxicab environmental impact by bringing more hybrid vehicles to the road.
MayFair 2008
The 25th Annual MayFair Entertainment Schedule Announced! MayFair features six stages of LIVE entertainment, 30+ Restaurant Vendors, hundreds of Street Vendors selling artwork, jewelry, vintage clothing, neighborhood sidewalk sales.
Cinco de Mayo in Harvard Square!
Harvard Square Celebrates Cinco de Mayo 2008! Monday, May 5th!
Independent Film Festival of Boston Comes to Harvard Square!
INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OF BOSTON COMES TO HARVARD SQUARE APRIL 25-27.
Arts First in Harvard Square
Harvard University’s 16th Annual ARTS FIRST Festival Takes Center Stage in Harvard Square! One of the nation’s largest university arts festivals showcases more than 200 works from May 1-4, 2008
The 25th Annual MayFair Vendor Application now online!
The 25th Annual Mayfair attended by over 100,000 people features Six Stages of live entertainment, 30 plus Restaurant Vendors, hundreds of Street Vendors selling artwork, jewelry, vintage clothing, neighborhood sidewalk sales, AND Chalk on the Walk (Produced by our friends at the Rotary Club of Cambridge)!
The Bookish Ball
The Bookish Ball: A Community Celebration of the Bookstores of Harvard Square.
Cambridge Named Best Walking City in U.S.
Cambridge Named Best Walking City in U.S. Cambridge is the best walking city in America, with more residents walking to work and more parks per square mile than any other city evaluated, according to a just-released study by Prevention magazine in its April issue and the American Podiatric Medical Association.
Everyscape comes to Harvard Square
The Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA), in partnership with EveryScape, a local company that has its roots in Cambridge, is proud to announce the debut of Cambridge in “The Real World Online.” For the first time ever, Harvard Square “lives” in the digital world in EveryScape’s online interactive 3D replica that offers eye-level exploration of the Square’s landmarks, streets and businesses in a visual tour.
The Tenth Annual Boston Underground Film Festival
The Tenth Annual Boston Underground Film Festival hits the ground running in Harvard Square this Easter weekend (March 20-23rd) with screenings at the historic Brattle Theatre and the AMC Harvard Square as well as numerous before, during, and after-parties in several Harvard Square locations.
Harvard-Go-Bragh in Harvard Square
Monday, March 17, 2008 – All day throughout Harvard Square.
Join us in Harvard Square as we celebrate our Irish Cultural Heritage in as many lucky places as possible!