Events

    The 114th Annual Christmas Carol Service

    Location: 

    Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    The Annual Christmas Carol Service, sung by the Harvard University Choir, is America’s oldest carol service. It is free and open to the public. Doors will open an hour before the event. Tickets are not being issued for the services this year.

    The Sunday afternoon service (December 10) will also be broadcast live on WHRB 95.3 FM. The Tuesday evening service (December 12) will be...

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    The 114th Annual Christmas Carol Service

    Location: 

    Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    The Annual Christmas Carol Service, sung by the Harvard University Choir, is America’s oldest carol service. It is free and open to the public. Doors will open an hour before the event. Tickets are not being issued for the services this year.

    The Sunday afternoon service (December 10) will also be broadcast live on WHRB 95.3 FM. The Tuesday evening service (December 12) will be...

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    Pop-Up Renaissance Concert

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The Harvard Viol Consort, a group of students from Harvard’s hands-on history course Performance and Culture: Renaissance Music (Music 181R), will put on a pop-up concert in the Calderwood Courtyard. The course is taught by Professor Kate van Orden and assisted by Laura Jeppesen.

    The performers will play compositions for viol by William Byrd, John Dowland, Diego Ortiz, Leonora Duarte, and other Renaissance composers.

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    Hip-Hop Experience Workshop: The Art of 16 Bars

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    To celebrate National Hip-Hop History Month in November and the 50th anniversary of this world-changing cultural and artistic movement, we are offering the Hip-Hop Experience Workshop, facilitated by artist and singer Jazzmyn RED.

    This session will highlight elements of hip-hop and take a closer look at the art of being an MC. Jazzmyn will discuss MC writing techniques, instrumental visualization, and how to find your flow. Participants will write their own 16 bars (16 counts of 4) to perform for the group.

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    Midday Organ Recital: Scott Hyslop

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St., Cambridge

    Scott Hyslop, director of parish music at St. Lorenz Lutheran Church in Frankenmuth, Michigan, will perform. Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ.

    Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.

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    Day of the Dead Celebration

    Location: 

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

    Learn more about this joyful holiday, a national symbol of Mexico. Enjoy craft activities for the young and young at heart. Personalize a sugar skull (extra fee), learn about the natural history of Mexico, watch live folk dance and mariachi performances, purchase traditional pan de muerto, hot chocolate or specialty cocktails. Contribute your message of love to honor and celebrate the lives of the departed at the museum’s altars.

    Activities are free except where noted. RSVP by October 25 at 12:00pm and check in on arrival.

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    WAX POETIC: Audre Lorde LP Launch Party with Tongo Eisen-Martin

    Location: 

    Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, 11 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The Woodberry Poetry Room invites you to a launch party for Audre Lorde at Fassett Studio, 1970, our latest collaborative release with Fonograf Editions: Here to help us celebrate is current Poet Laureate of San Francisco and Lorde LP contributor Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of Blood on the Fog (City Lights, 2021) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017).

    Eisen-Martin will get the event rolling with a brief reading of his own poems (and a selection of Lorde's works) and then we will cue up the record for its premiere on the Aalto turntables. Come one, come all to this evening of...

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    Skate & Slay: A Fabulous Drag Extravaganza

    Location: 

    Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    In celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month, join us for Skate & Slay: A Fabulous Drag Extravaganza! We are bringing you a night of drag show performances, FREE roller skating and a whole lot of fun!

    • Enjoy performances by Briar Blush, Candace Persuasian, Lilly Rose Valore, and Rusty Hammer.

    • Lace up some free skates for a glowing time with our glow in the dark roller rink.

    • Skate, Slay, Repeat

    Whether you identify with the LGBTQIA2S+ community, an ally, or just want to have fun, you...

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    Midday Organ Recital: Carson Cooman

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St., Cambridge

    Carson Cooman, composer-in-residence at Memorial Church at Harvard University and organ and choral editor for Lorenz Publishing and Sacred Music Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will perform.

    Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.

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    La Belle Epoque: Debussy and Ravel at the Harvard Art Museums

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Please join us for an afternoon in the light-filled Calderwood Courtyard to experience chamber music performances inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century paintings in the museums’ collections. Cellist Guy Fishman, violinist Renée Hemsing, and pianist Renana Gutman will perform sonatas by Claude Debussy and a piano trio by Maurice Ravel.

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    Exchanging Notes: Songs and Stories from Somerville and Tbilisi

    Location: 

    Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The Program on Georgian Studies at Harvard University's Davis Center and the Somerville Arts Council present "Exchanging Notes," a cross-cultural exchange between Georgian and U.S. artists. In June, the project took Owen Thomas, a Somerville resident and writer, and Max Evard, the music director at Somerville High School, to the country of Georgia, where they collaborated with their Georgian counterparts, musician Aleksandre Kharanauli and writer and poet Nana Abuladze.

    Each duo spent the summer working remotely on their artistic projects and, this September, the Georgians are...

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    The Crossing: "Crickets in our Backyard"

    Location: 

    Paine Hall (Harvard Music Department Building), 3 Oxford St., Cambridge

    U.S. Poet Laureate and 1987 Pulitzer winner Rita Dove has been describing our world in language that pulls back the curtain on how we love and gives breathtaking testimony to violence. Her words are set to music by 2021 Pulitzer winner Tania León in a new work for MacArthur Fellow Claire Chase and The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally. The work promises relevance, virtuosity, and a lasting life as a significant addition to the canon of new music commissioned by The Crossing.

    Also on the program is a substantial new work from Ayanna Woods, the culminating project of her year-...

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    ¡Celebremos El Salvador!

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Celebrate the vibrant culture and natural history of El Salvador. Enjoy captivating folk dances by Grupo Torogoz and try hands-on activities including corn grinding and painting with cochineal insects. Go on a scavenger hunt and discover the rich heritage of animals, minerals, and artifacts from the region. Join an archaeologist for a live-streamed tour of Joya de Cerén, the Pompeii of Latin America. Take a break with Spanish Story Time, enjoy traditional Salvadoran cuisine (available for purchase), and enter a raffle to win a museum gift basket.

    All are welcome to explore,...

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    Arcade Radio

    Location: 

    Smith Campus Center Arcade, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

    Arcade Radio, hit music program from the Summer Staycation series, has been renewed for Fall Semester! Light refreshments and live acoustic performances light up the Smith Center Arcade. Sprinkling music into every Monday! No registration required.

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    Tunes @ Noon

    Location: 

    Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Enjoy a live performance every Tuesday at 1pm at the Science Center Plaza during Harvard's Farmers' Market from June 20 - October 31.

    Performance schedule:

    • August 1: TBD
    • August 8: ...
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    Tunes @ Noon: Naomi Westwater Trio

    Location: 

    Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Enjoy a live performance every Tuesday at 1:00pm at the Science Center Plaza during Harvard's Farmers' Market from June 20–October 31. On July 25, Naomi Westwater Trio will perform.

    Common Spaces engages with talented artists to perform for the Harvard and Cambridge community. Our definition of performance is broad and inclusive from theatre, spoken word, poetry slams or readings, to music, and dance and programming. The goal is to reflect and showcase the rich cultural diversity of our community.

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