2021 Nov 13
Harvard Dance Center Showing: Initiation – In Love Solidarity
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Dance Center—Online or in-person
Initiation – In Love Solidarity is a choreographic narrative exploring the embodiment of the Middle Passage, and the resilience and evolving identities of women in the African diaspora. A film component of the work was created at historic sites in New England related to the transatlantic slave trade and emancipation. The imagery of the cowrie shell is present throughout, chosen as an emblem of the transformative identity of the Black female body.
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2021 Nov 10
Biogeography across Broken Continents and Sunken Islands
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
The major continents of the Southern Hemisphere—Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica—as well as India and islands in the Pacific, were once part of Gondwana, an ancient supercontinent that began to break up about 180 million years ago. How did this breakup influence the evolution of ecosystems and organisms found on modern continents and islands? This is one of the questions that biogeography, the study of how organisms are distributed across space and time, seeks to answer. Gonzalo Giribet will discuss how he uses biogeography and tiny invertebrate species to understand the...
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2021 Nov 09
After-School Animal Encounters: Teeming Tidepools
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Tidepools exist where the land meets the ocean and the amazingly resilient creatures that live there manage the challenges of both environments. From swimming and climbing to burrowing, animals in tidepools have adapted many behaviors to live in an ever-changing world. Join human museum staffers Javier and Ryan as they lead you in a 45-minute program with live ocean invertebrates. This event will be fun for the whole family so bring your questions and sense of wonder.
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2021 Oct 23
The Art and Science of Frogs
10:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Explore the rich diversity of frogs by observing and sketching 3D models printed from Harvard’s research collections. Artist and educator, Erica Beade, will introduce techniques for achieving accurate shapes and capturing volume in your drawings, while herpetologist and researcher, Dr. Mara Laslo, will explain how evolution has generated their amazing diversity. Groups will be limited to twelve, allowing ample time for questions and discussion.
Cost: $40 for members, $45 for nonmembers.
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2021 Oct 13
National Fossil Day
9:30am to 10:30am
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a paleontologist? Celebrate National Fossil Day—an event organized by the National Park Service—with Harvard paleontologists! Take a close look at museum fossils and learn how they are used to help solve mysteries about ancient life. What amazing creatures lived together in ancient oceans? How do fossil tracks, traces, and burrows help us understand how extinct animals lived? How can we reconstruct an animal from just its bones? How did dinosaurs get so big? Bring your curiosity and questions to this online event for kids and families!
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2021 Oct 05
After-School Animal Encounters: Radical Reptiles
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
What might your life be like if you spent half your day on land and the other half in the ocean? How would you hunt for food if you were only a few inches long? Is one type of snake really all that different from another? Get the answers to these questions and more as human museum staffers Javier and Ryan introduce you to several live animals. Each month we will discuss a different theme while feeding and interacting with some of the museum’s incredible animals!
Reptiles have lived on Earth for millions of years and over that time have evolved some amazing characteristics and...
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2021 Sep 30
Saving Seahorses to Save Seas
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Amanda Vincent, the 2021 Indianapolis Prize winner, has dedicated her career to understanding and advocating for seahorses, which serve as a flagship species for a wide range of marine conservation issues. She is credited with bringing the world’s attention to the 44 known species of seahorses and with developing a collaborative approach to marine conservation that is also improving the status of many other marine fishes, such as sharks, rays, groupers, and eels. Hear how her determination and optimism is saving not only these iconic sea creatures but also our world’s oceans.
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2021 Sep 23
Inspired by the Harvard Museum of Natural History
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
The Harvard Museum of Natural History inspires college students and life-long learners to explore a myriad of scientific and creative pursuits. In this program, a group of professionals discuss how their experiences in the museum inspired their careers in science communication and storytelling, while they share images and videos of their favorite museum specimens and stories.
Presented in collaboration with the Harvard University Chapter of Storywish, a student-run organization that empowers chronically ill children to read, write, and share their own...
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2021 Sep 22
Drawing Plants & Flowers
9:30am to 11:30am
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Explore the beauty and variety of plant forms with pencil and paper. Taught by a scientific illustrator, the emphasis in this online workshop will be on close observation and realistic representation. We will explore a range of techniques for achieving more accurate drawings and will delve into contour, gesture, foreshortening, and shading to create volume and depth. Groups will be limited to twelve, allowing ample time for individual feedback. All skill levels are welcome.
Cost: $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers.
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2021 Sep 19
The Fossils Are Talking!
11:00am to 11:45am
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Are you curious about what fossils tell us about life on Earth—and how dinosaurs and other ancient animals, in turn, awaken our imaginations to create true and imagined tales? Come along on a journey to find out! The adventure will kick off with children’s book author Elizabeth Shreeve, reading and sharing surprising secrets from her newest book, Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas (Candlewick Press, 2021). Elizabeth will make connections between the story of life on Earth and fossils that can be seen in the museum. Harvard College student and...
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2021 Sep 16
Testosterone: The Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
While most people agree that sex differences in human behavior exist, they disagree about the reasons. But the science is clear: testosterone is a potent force in human society, driving the bodies and behavior of the sexes apart. As Carole Hooven shows in her book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us (Henry Holt & Company, 2021), it does so in concert with genes and culture to produce a vast variety of male and female behavior. And, crucially, the fact that many sex...
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2021 Sep 15
Drawing Birds
9:30am to 11:30am
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Capture the beauty of birds with pencil and paper in this online workshop. We will explore avian anatomy, step-by-step methods for developing bird drawings, and techniques for drawing feather textures. Groups will be limited to twelve, allowing ample time for individual feedback. All skill levels are welcome.
Cost: $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers.
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2021 Sep 14
Afterschool Animal Encounters: Pint-Sized Predators
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
What might your life be like if you spent half your day on land and the other half in the ocean? How would you hunt for food if you were only a few inches long? Is one type of snake really all that different from another? Get the answers to these questions and more as human museum staffers Javier and Ryan introduce you to several live animals. Each month we will discuss a different theme while feeding and interacting with some of the museum’s incredible animals!
Predators come in all sizes. Imagine that you are only a few inches long. How would you get around, hunt for food,...
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2021 Sep 14
Inspiration, Empathy and Education: How Cultural Entities Are Helping People Think about Climate in New Ways
8:30am to 10:00am
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
As the world has sought to understand the causes and impacts of climate change, the topic has long been situated within the domain of science. In the 21st century, data, studies, reports, and academic/technical discourses have been the central mechanisms by which we learn about and process climate change: its consequences, our roles, and possible solutions. In recent years, however, artists and cultural institutions have developed a powerful interest in the topic and begun to employ myriad strategies by which to explore, draw attention to, and process it. There is an evolving...
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2021 Sep 01
The Arboretum Experience
Wed Sep 1 (All day) to Thu Sep 30 (All day)
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum (125 Arborway, Boston) & American Repertory Theater
Visitors are invited to experience the natural beauty of the Arnold Arboretum on an outdoor, self-guided journey that centers resilience, healing, wellness, and joy. This collaboration between the American Repertory Theater and the Arboretum features multi-genre audio plays for various ages, interactive movement maps, and pop-up performances, all set against the 281-acre backdrop of one of the jewels of Boston’s Emerald Necklace.
The Arboretum is open daily, sunrise to sunset. Visitors entering via the Arborway, Bussey Street, Forest Hills, Centre Street, Walter Street, Peters...
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2021 Aug 07
Arnold Arboretum: Guided Tour
10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join us for a free, 90-minute walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent. The walk is geared toward adults, and starts from the kiosk in front of the Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway.
This tour is limited to 15 participants.
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2021 Aug 07
Arnold Arboretum: Guided Tour
10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join us for a free, 90-minute walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent. The walk is geared toward adults, and starts from the kiosk in front of the Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway.
This tour is limited to 15 participants.
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2021 Aug 02
Virtual Summer Science Week: Spineless Wonders (Session 2)
Repeats every day until Fri Aug 06 2021 .
9:30am
9:30am
9:30am
9:30am
9:30am
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Dates: August 2–6
Children entering grades 1–4
• Grades 1–2 meet 9:30–10:30 am
• Grades 3–4 meet 11:00 am–12:00 pm
Fees: $63 members/$70 nonmembers
Instructor: Javier Marin
Come explore—virtually—the amazing world of insects, spiders, and other invertebrates at the museum! During live Zoom sessions, see a tarantula up close, help find millipedes, and listen to the hiss of a giant...
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2021 Aug 02
Sharks: Streamlined Swimmers (Virtual Exhibit)
Mon Aug 2 (All day) to Fri Dec 31 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Sharks are some of the oldest and, from an evolutionary perspective, some of the most successful marine vertebrates ever to have lived. They have spent their entire evolutionary history in the aquatic environment, and the body design in many species has been honed over hundreds of millions of years to increase swimming performance. Learn how body form, fins and even the skin, work in concert, enabling sharks to slice through water and execute complex maneuvers with startling speed and precision.
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2021 Jul 26
Virtual Summer Science Week: Earth Explorers (Session 2)
Repeats every day until Fri Jul 30 2021 .
9:30am
9:30am
9:30am
9:30am
9:30am
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Dates: July 26–30, 2021
Children entering grades 1-4
• Grades 1-2 meet 9:30am–10:30am
• Grades 3-4 meet 11:00am–12:00pm
Fees: $72 members/$80 nonmembers (includes a small packet of special materials mailed to your home).
Instructor: Arielle Moon
Dig into earth science with this virtual museum experience. Explore volcanoes, crystals, and fossils! During the live, small-group Zoom sessions, experiment with “lava,” solve a sandy mystery, and...
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