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 Dec 04

    The Oath of the Sword

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Considered lost until its discovery in 2016, the silent film The Oath of the Sword was produced in 1914 by the "first company in America to be owned, controlled and operated by Japanese." With live musical accompaniment and a discussion by scholar and the film's discoverer Denise Khor.

    Cost: $10 / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / Harvard students admitted free

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    2023 Nov 29

    Gallery Reception: A Journey in Images: The Photography of Yun Thwaits

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

    Celebrate Allston photographer Yun Thwaits' new exhibit, A Journey in Images: The Photography of Yun Thwaits. Come meet the artist, network with neighbors, and enjoy the art. Join us for live music, drinks, and dumplings, featuring Chinese instrumentalists Dr. Qingen Ke and Dehua Zhen.

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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 06

    Soldier's Fantasy and The Holy Night (live musical accompaniment)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    These programs of Elvira Notari’s extant works will highlight two feature films from 1922—È piccerella and ‘A santanotte—rooted in the Neapolitan melodramatic artistic form of sceneggiata that fuses popular songs and elements of the variety show.

    This film screening features live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville.

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

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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

    ArtsThursdays: Wókiksuye with Frank Waln: Honoring Our Ancestors and Relatives Through Music

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Boston

    As part of a year-long residency at ArtLab, Sicangu Lakota Hip Hop artist and music producer Frank Waln will present an intimate Works-In-Progress performance about songwriting, storytelling, and how music can lead to healing and unity.

    Doors will open at 6:30pm.

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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

    ArtsThursdays: Boston Dance Theater "Carol Kaye Project", work-in-progress performance

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Boston

    “The Carol Kaye Project” is Boston Dance Theater’s (BDT) newest program that celebrates seminal bassist Carol Kaye. Since the early 1960s, Kaye recorded an estimated 10,000 sessions with everyone from The Beach Boys to Marvin Gaye. Yet, she remains relatively unknown.

    This event is in conjunction with an ArtLab residency organized by LROD, the interim Head of Dance and Lecturer in Theater, Dance & Media (TDM) at Harvard University and the Artistic Director of Harvard Dance Project with support from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).

    This work-in-...

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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 11

    Concerts in the Common: Sweet Petunia

    4:30pm

    Location: 

    Brighton Common, 30 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton

    Sing and dance outdoors at a wide range of family-friendly performances held during the Brighton Farmer's Market! Performers include local and regional artists playing R&B, Jazz, Pop-Urban, Rock, Indie Folk, and more! All events are free, weather permitting, and open to the public.

    October 11: Sweet Petunia
    When listening to folk duo Sweet Petunia for the first time, many are blown away by the interchanging vocal lines of Madison Simpson & Mairead Guy. Unbelievably, the two are not related, though their voices are almost indistinguishable from each...

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