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Registration Deadline: Marketing Essentials for Small Businesses (4-part series)

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Harvard Ed Portal—Online

No matter how good your product or service is, the way you communicate with your customers can determine its success. Discover the forces that influence the purchasing habits of your customers and learn how to win them over with an effective marketing strategy.

The Harvard Ed Portal is pleased to offer Allston-Brighton and Cambridge residents, business owners, and entrepreneurs this valuable four-part virtual workshop that meets once a week. You will learn how to:

Foster a marketing orientation within your team

The Climate of Community

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Harvard Divinity School—Online

This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker for this community tea ceremony is Brian Kirbis of Theasophie.

Tea Master Brian Kirbis, who will open each of our sessions with a tea pouring to set a tone of well-being and attention, will take us through a formal tea ceremony. As a global community online, we will be able to sit and sip in collective silence to contemplate all we have heard and taken into our minds during these sessions....

College Apps 101: The Possible Pathways

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Online via Zoom

What's the 411, the down and dirty, the need-to-know about college applications? What kinds of schools are even out there? How do we pick where to apply? Can I just copy-and-paste the same essay over and over? Get the deets from our college application pros!

This college preparation workshop is for Allston, Brighton, Cambridge, and Boston high school students.

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The Climate of the Future

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Harvard Divinity School—Online

This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker is novelist Kim Stanley Robinson.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s thriller The Ministry for the Future (2020) is science fiction that reads as hard-edged journalism. With short chapters and a myriad of characters, Robinson creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives on a global climate collapse coming in 2025. Bill McKibben writes “In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel, climate change...

Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic: Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Part 3)

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

The new genre of interior painting enjoyed great popularity among 17th-century Dutch citizens. Its indoor scenes featuring people involved in mundane activities resemble the domestic settings in which they were hung. Other art forms such as perspective boxes and dollhouses further reinforce the link connecting physical, pictorial, and mental space by relating home to the interiority of the individual.

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Film Screening: The Airstrip

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Harvard Film Archive—Online

In collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums' current exhibit Devour the Land, the Harvard Film Archive presents a program of films that critically engage landscape as a site where deeper political, socio-cultural and historical forces are powerfully legible.

The Airstrip is a profound study of the heavy legacy of modernist architecture that traces its deep roots in the fascist ideologies and militarist imperatives that rose to strength in the WWII era and continue to gain strength to this day.

Cost: $10 / Free for Harvard affiliates....

Reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto’s Musical Instruments

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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Double reed pipes, known as auloi, were popular musical instruments in the ancient Mediterranean. In 1921, archaeologists exploring the necropolis of Meroë (northern Sudan)—as part of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition—found a large collection of auloi in the pyramid of Nubian Queen Amanishakheto. Susanne Gänsicke will discuss the discovery’s importance and what it reveals about the connections between Nubia and the Mediterranean world as well as the significance of far-reaching musical traditions. She will also share recent efforts to conserve...

Jacqueline Woodson – Saving Our Stories: On Writing to Remember

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Houghton Library—Online

As the pushback against stories that center on nonwhite characters continues to threaten the fabric of the American narrative, this lecture will serve as a reminder of why our stories truly matter.

Jacqueline Woodson is an internationally-acclaimed children's and young adult author with over eight million books in print. She has received more than 300 awards, including the National Book Award, four Newbery Honors, three Coretta Scott King medals, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Useful Objects: Nineteenth-Century Museums and American Culture

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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

What can the history of museums tell us about their role in American culture today? What kinds of objects were considered worth collecting, and who decided their value? Join Reed Gochberg, author of Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, September 2021) to learn about the early history of American museums, including Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. In conversation with HMSC...

Indian Collectibles: Appropriations and Resistance in the Haudenosaunee Homelands

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Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

Scott Manning Stevens is an associate professor and director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. In this lecture, he will discuss his new project, which focuses on ways Indigenous communities can confront cultural alienation and appropriation in museums, galleries, and archives.

Learn more about and RSVP for this virtual event....

Rebuild Cash Flow Post-Pandemic for Small Businesses

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Harvard Ed Portal—Online

This virtual workshop is designed for business owners who need a better understanding of the cash demands required to successfully manage a business before, during, and after critical interruptions. Having a good system in place to manage cash flow will contribute to your organization's success now and in the future. We'll discuss simple solutions that can be implemented immediately.

Please note: Anyone is welcome to register, however priority will be given to Allston-Brighton and Cambridge business owners and residents. Women and Minority Owned Businesses are...

College Apps 101: The Essay

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal—Online

This college preparation workshop is for Allston, Brighton, Cambridge, and Boston high school students.

Learn more about and...

The Climate of Attention

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Harvard Divinity School—Online

This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker is Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker staff writer.

Few have covered the climate crisis as deeply and as thoughtfully as Elizabeth Kolbert. Her work includes Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2007), the Pulitzer-prize winning The Sixth Extinction (2016), and her latest Under a White Sky (2021), “a book about people trying to solve problems caused by people...

Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story

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Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

Join us for a one-hour webinar exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of The Music of Black Americans: A History and founder and editor of The Black Perspective in Music. In 1976, Eileen Southern became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Southern played an important institutional role at Harvard. She was central in developing the Department of Afro-American Studies (now African and African American Studies), serving as an early chair, and was on the faculty of the Department of Music, where she taught...

ArtsBites: Actor & Playwright John Cariani

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Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online

ArtsBites is the OFA round-table discussion series with undergraduate students and visiting artists. Discover and explore how you can create an expressive career and a performative life. Join us for a conversation with John Cariani, Tony-nominated actor and playwright for Almost, Maine, featured this fall in Caroline, or Change on Broadway. This event is in partnership with Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club.

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Aude-Line Dulière, "The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Stories on Dismantling and Reuse"

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Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

Dulière, winner of Harvard Graduate School of Design's 2018 Wheelwright Prize, presents the conclusion of her research proposal, offering a collection of stories on the use and reuse of materials across building sites, demolition sites, salvage yards, quarries, film sets, and other out-of-the-way locations.

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Harvard Dance Center Showing: Initiation – In Love Solidarity

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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.

Saturday, November 13, 4pm & 7pm: ...

Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic: Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Part 2)

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

Arts and sciences flourished in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century. Women such as Anna Maria van Schurman, Margareta van Godewick, and Anna Roemer Visscher excelled in scholarly pursuits and art practice. They were greatly admired, but they were nonetheless categorized as exceptional cases and never possessed the freedom to voice ideas enjoyed by their male counterparts. Working in a variety of art forms, including miniature painting, drawing, embroidery, and paper cutting, these women often meant to address no other audience than the artist herself.

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Interrogative Designs: Conversations with Krzysztof Wodiczko

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Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

Heralding the exhibition "Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko," the artist joins architectural historian and GSD professor Erika Naginski for an exploration of architecture's role in the construction and performance of memory (12pm) and art historian Rosalyn Deutsche to discuss the role of trauma, healing, and survival in his work over the last five decades (2:30pm).

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Film Screening: Corporate Accountability

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Harvard Film Archive—Online

In collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums' current exhibit Devour the Land, the Harvard Film Archive presents a program of films that critically engage landscape as a site where deeper political, socio-cultural and historical forces are powerfully legible.

Jonathan Perel’s latest work is a systematic and forensic study of Argentina’s brutal dictatorship that dissects the insidious support given to the repressive regime by a wide range of still operating national and multi-national companies.

Cost: $10 / Free for Harvard affiliates.

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