2021 Mar 12
The Conjurors' Club
Repeats every week on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Apr 04 2021 .
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American Repertory Theater—Online
Join the American Repertory Theater for an intimate and interactive multi-magician experience, performed live nightly.
For the first time in 100 years, the secretive magic society The Conjurors’ Club pulls back the curtain for an interactive experience that redefines the face of modern magic. Take a front-row seat and immerse yourself in the arcane and mysterious with three different magicians. Physical distance can’t keep the amazing mind-reading, reality-bending illusions, and extraordinary transformations from reaching through the screen and directly into your home. As...
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2021 Mar 01
Over Time: Through Art, the Impact of Change in the Arboretum Landscape
Mon Mar 1 (All day) to Fri Apr 30 (All day)
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Arnold Arboretum—Online
 
Five decades of weekly walks in the Arnold Arboretum find expression in Ginny Zanger’s art. “Ambling” gives her time to sketch and paint. Using the unique possibilities of her favorite medium—watercolor—and printmaking, Zanger explores, with articulate interpretations, the Arboretum’s rich botanical display. In this online show, most of her work is on Yupo, a silky, polypropylene paper that enhances the flow of the watercolor.
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2020 Dec 10
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson! A Celebration of Poetry and Cake
3:00pm to 4:30pm
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Houghton Library—Online
Every year the Houghton Library throws a birthday party for Emily Dickinson, featuring her famous 20lb black cake, the autograph recipe of which can be found in the collection. Sadly, we cannot gather in person this year to party and eat cake, so this fall we encouraged intrepid bakers and Dickinson fans from around the world to join us, together at home, in baking her black cake. Our collective efforts will culminate in a live Zoom birthday party on December 10. (You don’t have to bake the cake to attend, but you still have time to try it if you want!)
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2020 Nov 20
HMSC Connects! Celebrating Women
Fri Nov 20 (All day) to Thu Dec 31 (All day)
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Virtual experiences connect the collections of the four Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. In HMSC Connects! Celebrating Women, go behind the scenes with women in academia while listening to the HMSC Connects! Podcast, discovering women’s work, Story Time videos, and coloring pages.
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2020 Nov 13
Allston-Brighton Winter Market (Virtual)
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Harvard Ed Portal—Online
The fourth annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market is being held virtually this year. Celebrate local creative entrepreneurship by browsing fine art, artisanal goods, unique services, one-of-a-kind commissions, and handcrafted gifts. 100% of the proceeds from all sales go directly to the vendors.
All of our vendors offer shipping (note: turn-around time varies per artist). Some artists also offer local pickup, personalization, custom commissions, gift certificates, and/or gift wrapping. Many donate a portion of their sales to charity, too.
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2020 Oct 26
Science and Cooking Public Lecture: "The Science of Indian Culinary Traditions"
7:00pm to 8:00pm
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The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.
Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "The Science of Indian Culinary Traditions."
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2020 Oct 26
Science and Cooking Public Lecture: “Viscosity, Pastry, and Chocolate”
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The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content. Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "...
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2020 Oct 19
Science and Cooking Public Lecture: “Honorary Book Celebration Lecture”
7:00pm to 8:00pm
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The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.
Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "Honorary Book Celebration Lecture."
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2020 Oct 19
Science and Cooking Public Lecture: “Honorary Book Celebration Lecture”
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The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.
Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "Honorary Book Celebration Lecture."
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2020 Oct 03
Amazing Virtual Archaeology Fair at Harvard
1:00pm to 3:00pm
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Online—Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Celebrate the glamour, labor, humor, and discoveries of archaeology at Harvard. Join student archaeologists as they share their experience with an Irish castle, a shaft tomb in western Mexico, monuments on the Giza plateau in Egypt and drones used to study El-Kurru in ancient Nubia, among other locations. Place a friendly wager on an atlatl (spear throwing) demonstration, observe chew marks on bones from the Zooarchaeology Lab and experience a virtual-reality view of the Great Sphinx.
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2020 Sep 25
Portraits in Pajamas: Live Event for "Fresh Breaths: Portrait of Sabrina"
7:00pm to 8:00pm
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Online via Instagram Live
Join the Ed Portal online with two of Boston's most impactful artists, Chanel Thervil and Sabrina Dorsainvil, to celebrate the virtual unveiling of Fresh Breaths: Portrait of Sabrina.
In an intimate conversation and Q&A on Instagram Live, these artists will explore ways they and other creatives of color are navigating the nuances of self-care, survival, and the new normals as a result of COVID-19.
Get cozy and experience the newest piece in Thervil's Quarantine Self-Care Portrait series, a multi-media project that combines interviews, portrait...
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2020 Sep 17
Observatory Night: What Stars Are Made Of
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Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—Online
Join the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for a virtual Public Observatory Night with guest lecturer Donavan Moore, author of "What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin."
It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early twentieth-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what...
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2020 Sep 16
Lecture: Apprenticeship in Ancient Egypt
6:00pm to 7:00pm
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Online—Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Presenter: Willeke Wendrich, Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology; Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles
Archaeologists study stylistic and technological changes in excavated materials—especially pottery—to better understand developments in ancient Egyptian society. However, little attention has focused on using the archaeological record to understand the transfer of cultural knowledge. How did people learn the arts and crafts of potters, basket makers, metalworkers, and scribes?...
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2020 Jun 20
Summer Solstice 2020
10:00am to 3:00pm
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Online—Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Celebrate the longest day of the year and mark the beginning of the summer with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. While we can’t welcome you to our museums in person just yet, we invite you to join us online on June 20 starting at 10:00 am to learn about the scientific and cultural significance of the summer solstice, participate in virtual field trips to the Stonehenge World Heritage site in England and a Massachusetts oyster farm, enjoy musical performances, and explore activities to do at home.
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2020 May 02
Ho Family Student Guide Tour
Repeats every week every Saturday, 5 times .
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The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on select objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.
Details on the Zoom tours and links to participate can be found in the Events section of the Harvard Art Museums Facebook page. Audiences can also follow the student...
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2020 Apr 16
Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Online via Zoom
Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.
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2020 Apr 07
Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski
10:00am to 11:00am
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Online via Zoom
Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.
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2020 Apr 01
Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard
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The Office for the Arts offers a daily dose of artistic inspiration for anyone looking to find a moment of beauty, comfort and connection. Alumni, faculty, staff, and visiting artists are sending in short videos showcasing their music, poetry, dance, and more. New videos are posted every weekday around 1:00pm.
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2020 Feb 29
Harvard/Yale Battle of the Big Bands
8:00pm
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Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston
Join Scullers Jazz Club for the Third Annual "Battle of the Big Bands" with the Harvard and Yale Jazz Orchestras with Special Guests, Saxophonists Wayne Escoffery and Yosvani Terry!
Harvard's Jazz Band has performed worldwide, including 2017 performances in Cuba, and past concerts have included tributes to Herbie Hancock, Benny Golson, and many other important jazz artists. Performers in these concerts have included Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke, Harold Mabern, George Coleman, Don Braden, and more.
The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band...
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2020 Feb 29
Dig into Dinner
1:00pm to 4:00pm
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Explore the new Resetting the Table exhibition, starting at the dinner table set for a party. Family-friendly activities about what we eat will be set up throughout the gallery: drop in for smell stations, Play-Doh® desserts, games with prizes, and a raffle of dinner for two at a Harvard Square restaurant.
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