Events

    2023 Nov 08

    Materials Lab Workshop: Making a Journal

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    In this workshop, conservation technician Yi Bin Liang, from the museums’ Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, will teach you how to create your own journal with a link stitch binding, involving only needle and thread. This type of simple binding allows the book to lay flat when open, making it perfect for sketching or writing. It’s also a great way for beginners to learn fundamental bookbinding concepts and techniques.

    The technique is derived from the Coptic multi-section binding technique used in Egypt as early as the second century CE. Using this method,...

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    2023 Nov 04

    Materials Lab Workshop: A Brush with Nature—Chinese Painting (English)

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a hands-on workshop on traditional Chinese brush painting with master brush painter Qingxiong Ma. Enjoy this opportunity to slow down, try your hand at re-creating elements of the natural world, and ponder your connection to the natural environment.

    To inspire you before the workshop, visit the Asian art galleries on Level 2 to view the installations The Living Earth in Gallery 2740 and Human vs. Nature in Gallery 2600, both of which feature paintings focused on nature.

    Cost: $15

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    2023 Nov 03

    Out of the Ashes: The US-ROK Security Alliance and the Emergence of South Korean Cinema

    Fri Nov 3 (All day) to Sun Dec 3 (All day)

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Critically reflecting on the ROK-US Alliance signed following the Korean Armistice Agreement, this program features select films of the Korean War and immediate postwar period. Though the alliance imposed a strict ideological corset on Korean filmmakers, the very promotion of "freedom" as an American value provoked Korean filmmakers and audiences to question the ongoing gender hierarchies, colonialism and ideological divides in the Korean peninsula.

    Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors and non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students

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    2023 Sep 02

    Any Number Can Win. All-Night Movie Marathon

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The Harvard Film Archive annual movie marathon returns with a series of fascinating films from around the globe that unfold in the lonely and fittingly nocturnal world of high-stakes gambling. From the seedy Reno of Robert Altman’s California Split to the decadent Monte Carlo of Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels, from underworld Tokyo (where gambling is illegal) in Shinoda Masahiro’s Pale Flower to the glittering Cannes of Henri Verneuil’s Any Number Can Win, together these films vividly conjure up the strange floating world of the gambling den and the dark...

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    2023 Jul 01

    Film Screening: Walk Cheerfully

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Director Ozu Yasujiro's noir and gangster films reveal his own creative way of bending the rules, usually with an act of penance added to the final act. Based on an original story by Shimizu Hiroshi, Walk Cheerfully follows Takada Minoru’s gangster Kenji (a.k.a. Ken the Knife), whose feelings for office typist Yasue (Kawasaki Hiroko) inspire him to go straight. As Kenji tries to find another line of work and win over Yasue, his girlfriend Chieko (Date Satoko) retaliates with a scheme involving Yasue’s boss (Sakamoto Takeshi).

    This screening will include a live musical...

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    2023 Jun 23

    Film Screening: The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice

    7:00pm to 8:55pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Ozu’s supple and comically inflected character study is also a remarkably frank yet nuanced portrait of marriage. Screening on new 35mm print!

    Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students

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    2023 Jun 19

    Film Screening: Days of Youth

    7:00pm to 8:40pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Ozu’s earliest surviving film exhibits the young filmmaker’s dexterous integration of Hollywood influences into contemporary popular genres. Live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville!

    Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students

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    2023 Jun 11

    Film Screening: I Was Born, But...

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Director Ozu Yasujiro's film drew significant praise and went on to win Kinema Junpo’s prestigious first prize. It is because of the film’s harsh lesson about humor as a necessary means of survival that its jokes are so profound. Featuring live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville!

    Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students

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    2023 Jun 10

    Film Screening: Tokyo Story

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Director Ozu Yasujiro's canonized film is also one of his most profoundly moving and mystical: a meditation on the distance between generations and the loss of intimacy amongst a family pulled apart by selfish habit. Showing on a new 35mm print!

    Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students

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    2023 Apr 16

    Materials Lab Workshop: Art by the Book—Chinese Brush Painting Instruction (English)

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    In this workshop, offered in English on April 16 and in Chinese on April 23, join us first for a tour of the installation of painting manuals led by its curator, Yuhua Ding, the Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, and former Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Then we’ll move to the Materials Lab, where master brush painter Qingxiong Ma will guide you in making your own brush painting, inspired by 17th- and 18th-century manuals.

    The hands-on session will...

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    2023 Mar 31

    Father's Day

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Kivu Ruhorahoza, the 2022-23 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking, takes us on an exploration of masculinity through one of its most institutionalized forms: fatherhood. In the film, he figures Rwandan societal debates around the interrogation of fatherhood in a post-genocidal context, one in which the hands that held the machetes and struck, the voices that aided and abetted, the gestures that betrayed and denounced were primarily those of men.

    Cost: $15

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    2023 Feb 17

    Film Screening: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (co-director Nancy D. Kates in person)

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Co-director Nancy D. Kates and Associate University Librarian for Antiracism Jerome Offord will discuss the life of civil rights trailblazer who was excluded from history based on his decision to live as an openly gay man.

    Cost: $10 for general admission; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; Free for Harvard ID holders

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    2022 Oct 16

    Materials Lab Workshop: Making Faces

    Repeats every week every Wednesday until Thu Oct 20 2022 .
    10:00am to 1:00pm

    10:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    In this two-part workshop, join us first in the exhibition galleries with curator Susanne Ebbinghaus and conservator Kate Smith for a close look at the portraits and learn what our curators, conservators, and scientists have discovered about them. Then take that experience to the Materials Lab, where you’ll make your own version of an ancient tempera painting using some of the same materials and techniques used by Roman-period artists. This workshop aims to honor and remember the woman in the ancient portrait we will copy, and to celebrate the relationship between artist and sitter that...

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    2022 Sep 14

    A Qawwali Celebration of South Asia: 75 Years of Azadi

    7:30pm to 10:30pm

    Location: 

    Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The Mittal Institute at Harvard University invites you to a concert celebrating 75 years of South Asian independence from British colonial rule. Qawwali is a uniquely South Asian musical tradition that is widely popular in the region and around the world – join us as we commemorate this historic event with one of the region’s most-celebrated Qawwali groups.

    Cost: Full Price: $20 / Harvard ID: $10 / All Valid Student IDs: $10

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    2022 Jun 04

    Take Your Place/Toma tu lugar

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

    Latino/a/x teens in the Hear Me Out/Escúchame project exhibit a group artwork that challenges stereotypes. What is important to know about Salvadoran or Honduran culture? What is overlooked in Mexican, Colombian, or Guatemalan culture? Drop in to see their response, and create “light-up” postcards or an art piece about your identity with simple art materials. Sketch and try other hands-on activities. Take your place with us and share how you want to be represented.

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