Events

    2023 Dec 12

    The 114th Annual Christmas Carol Service

    8:00pm to 10:00pm

    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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    2023 Dec 10

    The 114th Annual Christmas Carol Service

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    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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    2023 Nov 16

    Pop-Up Renaissance Concert

    2:00pm to 2:45pm

    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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    2023 Nov 12

    Hip-Hop Experience Workshop: The Art of 16 Bars

    1:00pm to 3:00pm

    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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    2023 Nov 09

    Midday Organ Recital: Scott Hyslop

    12:15pm to 12:45pm

    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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    2023 Nov 02

    Midday Organ Recital: Justin Brueggeman and Andy Chen

    12:15pm to 12:45pm

    Location: 

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

    Justin Brueggeman and Andy Chen, Ph.D. students at Harvard Medical School at Harvard University 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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    2023 Oct 28

    Fall Fest 2023

    9:00am to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Athletics Complex, 65 N Harvard Street, Boston

    Calling all Harvard students, alums, family, friends, and community members! Join us on Saturday, October 28, for Harvard Homecoming where Harvard and local community members and fans gather for an afternoon of fall festivities!

    Reconnect with old friends or make new ones at a tailgate and enjoy a great pregame atmosphere as well as a full schedule of Crimson sporting events around the athletic complex, then head into Harvard Stadium to watch Harvard Football battle their Ivy League foe, Dartmouth!

    • Pregame Live Musical Entertainment
    • Food...
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    2023 Oct 26

    Day of the Dead Celebration

    5:00pm to 9:00pm

    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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    2023 Oct 19

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

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    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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    2023 Oct 19

    Midday Organ Recital: Iain Quinn

    12:15pm to 12:45pm

    Location: 

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

    Iain Quinn, professor of organ and coordinator of Sacred Music at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, 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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    2023 Oct 18

    Skate & Slay: A Fabulous Drag Extravaganza

    6:00pm to 8:30pm

    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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    2023 Oct 12

    Midday Organ Recital: Carson Cooman

    12:15pm to 12:45pm

    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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    2023 Oct 01

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

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    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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    2023 Sep 28

    Exchanging Notes: Songs and Stories from Somerville and Tbilisi

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    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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    2023 Sep 21

    The Crossing: "Crickets in our Backyard"

    7:30pm

    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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    2023 Sep 17

    ¡Celebremos El Salvador!

    12:00pm to 3:00pm

    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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    2023 Sep 11

    Arcade Radio

    Repeats every week every Monday until Mon Sep 25 2023 .
    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    2:00pm to 4:00pm
    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    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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    2023 Aug 01

    Tunes @ Noon

    Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Aug 22 2023 .
    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    1:00pm to 2:00pm
    1:00pm to 2:00pm
    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    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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