Events

2021 Nov 07

Handel's Italy

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Harvard Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

A selection of works celebrating Handel's time in Italy! We’re thrilled to return to the Memorial Church Sanctuary with this joyful program on the other side of the pandemic year. Featuring Benjamin P. Wenzelberg and Phoebe Carrai.

Handel: Selections from Rodrigo
Handel: Selected arias
Porpora: Cello concerto
Dall' Abaco: Concerto Grosso in D Major
Porpora: Selected arias

Free and open to the public. All attendees must be masked and will be asked to present either their Harvard ID at the door, or to show proof of vaccination, or to show a proof of...

Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Commemoration (at the Peabody Museum)

5:15pm to 7:15pm

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Stop by the Peabody Museum for a short moment of personal reflection on the past year which brought losses to so many. The front steps of the museum will be set up as a simple outdoor altar and staff will distribute lighted candles to visitors in observance of those we have lost. Pause and remember as you place your candle in our community display. Post a Message of Love to our online Virtual Altar before attending. And join us next year when our annual fiesta returns to the Peabody galleries! Rain or...

2022 Jan 21

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Portrait

Repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Apr 17 2022 .

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, Modern and Contemporary Art, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Explore the state of democracy today through a commissioned artwork by internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, presented at the Harvard Art Museums in partnership with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Pre-recorded video interviews capturing voices and opinions from across the political spectrum will activate the Harvard Art Museums’ iconic portrait of George Washington (c. 1795) by Gilbert Stuart, fostering an exchange of views and responses at this time of heightened political division.

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2021 Oct 08

Bach Society Orchestra Presents: 2021-2022 Season Premiere

8:00pm to 9:30pm

Location:

Paine Hall (Harvard Music Building), 3 Oxford St., Cambridge

The Bach Society Orchestra, Harvard's premiere undergraduate chamber orchestra, kicks off its 2021-2022 Season with our first concert of the fall on Friday, October 8th, 2021. Reserve your free tickets now for this wonderful musical celebration!

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major
Manuel de Falla's El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite 1
Gabriel Faure's Pélleas et Mélisande Suite.

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2021 Oct 02

Give Veterans a Smile

9:00am to 12:00pm

Location:

Harvard Dental Center, 188 Longwood Ave., Boston

Harvard School of Dental Medicine proudly presents our first annual Give Veterans a Smile Day. On October 2, we will offer free dental exams, oral cancer screenings and prosthodontic consults for veterans. In person, or virtual appointments are available.

Learn more about and register for this event.

States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte

Repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Jan 02 2022 .

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, University Research Gallery, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Immerse yourself in the world of printmaking, tracing how artists move step by step to painstakingly rework and refine their images. Spanning more than three centuries, the works in this exhibition—by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Lee Krasner, Jacques Philippe Le Bas, and Louis Delsarte—unveil the layers of creative revision, correction, and adjustment behind finished prints.

Important: Advance...

2021 Sep 28

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970

Repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Jan 16 2022 .

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, Special Exhibitions Gallery, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Explore the impacts of military activity on the American landscape—and the ways in which photography supports activism in response to these effects.

Important: Advance tickets are required to visit the exhibition in-person.

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2021 Sep 13

Science and Cooking Lecture Series 2021

Repeats every week every Monday until Mon Nov 15 2021 .

7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This year’s Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series celebrates culinary techniques to unlock flavors, ranging from Noma’s edge-cutting fermentation to Bryan Furman’s BBQ to Amanda Cohen’s way of making plant-based charcuterie.

The 2021 series marks the return to the in-person format and brings to Harvard’s Science Center chefs, Harvard professors, and Science and Cooking enthusiasts. All talks will take place in the Harvard Science Center (1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Mass., Hall C). Masks are required, hand sanitizer will be available, and physically distanced seating is...

2021 Sep 04

Reopening Day at the Harvard Art Museums

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Join us for the public reopening of the Harvard Art Museums on Saturday, September 4!

Begin in our Calderwood Courtyard before venturing into the galleries to enjoy three levels of art, spanning ancient to modern times. See the exhibitions “States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte” and “A Colloquium in the Visual Arts.” And don’t forget to stop by the museum shop, just off the courtyard, to round out your visit.

Our new ReFrame initiative, which reimagines the function, role, and future of the university art museum, introduces new artworks to many of our...

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...

2021 Jun 15

Farmers' Market at Harvard

Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Oct 26 2021 except Tue Aug 24 2021.

12:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

The Farmers' Market at Harvard is open for the season, operating on Tuesdays from 12:00pm–6:00pm on the Science Center Plaza! Join us every Tuesday through October 26 (no Market on August 24).

Help support the vital local farmers and food artisans who ensure we have fresh, healthy and safe food! The Market will continue to accept SNAP with a weekly maximum SNAP Match of $15. Participating vendors also accept HIP, as well as WIC and Senior FMNP Coupons.

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2020 Sep 23

Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History

12:00pm

Location:

Online—Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

As the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow, Leslie M. Harris is completing “Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History.” She uses memoir and family, urban, and environmental histories to explore the multiple meanings of New Orleans in the nation, from its founding through its uncertain future amid climate change.

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2020 Jun 16

Farmers' Market at Harvard

Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Oct 27 2020 except Tue Aug 25 2020.

12:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge

We are excited to announce that the Farmers' Market at Harvard will open this summer, beginning on TUESDAY, JUNE 16th, from 12-6 pm!

Join us at the market every Tuesday, and help support the vital local farmers and food artisans who ensure we have fresh, healthy, safe food!

The market will be modified to create a safe shopping environment for everyone: we will feature a limited number of vendors, and will have protocols in place in keeping with state requirements (including face coverings, gloves, handwashing stations, and layouts that allow for social...

2020 Jun 08

When “Stay at Home” Isn’t Safe: Domestic Violence During COVID-19

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Online Event

Although communities have been asked to stay home to stay safe, for many domestic violence victims, home can be a dangerous place. Spikes in intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse have been noted across the country and around the world since the onset of the COVID-19 stay-at-home directives as victims and witnesses of IPV and child abuse find themselves isolated within their homes and confronted with difficult decisions about when and how to seek care or shelter. In this Radcliffe webinar, scholars, public officials, community activists, and...

2020 May 30

Virtual Student Guide Tour: “The Art of the Everyday,” with Paul Tamburro

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Online Event

Paul Tamburro ’21 will explore distinctions between art and everyday objects and the relationship between art and mass production.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “The Art of the Everyday,” with Paul Tamburro

2020 May 28

Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek

12:00pm to 12:30pm

Location:

Online Event

Mei Tercek ’21 will consider how decay can be a destructive and revitalizing force in art, focusing on several works from the collections.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek

2020 May 26

Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Architecture as Art,” with Gavin Moulton

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Online Event

Gavin Moulton ’20 will explore the theme of architecture as art in a discussion focused on several works in the collections spanning a thousand years of art history.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Architecture as Art,” with Gavin Moulton

2020 May 25

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Celebrating the Class of 2020

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Online Event

Emilė Radytė, May Wan, Gavin Moulton, and Tommy Mahon, our Ho Family Student Guides from the Harvard Class of 2020, will share their favorite artworks from the Harvard Art Museums collections in this special, celebratory tour.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: Celebrating the Class of 2020

2020 Mar 17

Exhibition: Everyday Encounters

Tue Mar 17 (All day) to Thu May 7 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Harvard’s Mittal Institute 2020 Visiting Artist Fellows Shah Numair Ahmed Abbasi and Suhasini Kejriwal present their exhibition, Everyday Encounters. Reflecting on their personal accounts of documenting and engaging with rapidly changing South Asian cities and their people, the artists’ work explores the deeply personal issues of identity and culture in this region.

Learn more about Exhibition: Everyday Encounters.

2020 Mar 07

Weekend Matinee: The Place Promised in Our Early Days

4:00pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Makoto Shinkai's remarkable feature film debut is set in a futuristic Japan on the verge of war. Takuya, a physicist, is drawn into a complex world of dreams, revolutionary fronts, government conspiracies and multiple realities. After many years, he reunites with his high school pal in their shared grief over their missing friend Sayuri, upon whose mysterious fate the whole world may depend.

Admission: $5 Weekend Matinee Admission or Free with Cambridge Public Library Card or current Harvard Student ID

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