2020 Feb 29
Harvard/Yale Battle of the Big Bands
8:00pm
Location: 
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
Location: 
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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2020 Feb 22
Harvard Film Archive: Weekend Matinee
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The HFA continues its specially priced screenings of films for children and accompanying adults, plus a special selection for teenagers. Drawing from the Harvard Film Archive collection and beyond, this series of classic and contemporary films are screened in their original formats and languages.
All Weekend Matinee screenings are admission-free for holders of a valid Cambridge Public Library card!
Schedule
December 15: Three Wishes for Cinderella
January 25: Tito and the Birds
February 8: Whisper of the Heart
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2020 Feb 21
Film: Destruction Babies with Director in Person
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Wildly popular in Japan, Tetsuya Mariko’s breakthrough feature tells the story of a young man drawn mysteriously into a spiral of unrelenting violence. A purposefully problematic film, Destruction Babies seems at one level to embrace the unreal ultra-violence of manga, video games and commercial cinema while also bending it into a kind of parodic self-criticism.
Cost: $12 special event tickets.
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2020 Feb 17
Film: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project with Director in Person
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Matt Wolf’s engaging documentary tells two stories: one, the life story of a remarkably prescient and stubbornly individualistic radical librarian who refused to fit neatly into the role of wife or mother, and a second that traces the emergence and arguably disastrous effects of the twenty-four-hour American news cycle that she secretly recorded in her Philadelphia home from 1979-2012.
Cost: $12 special event tickets.
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2020 Feb 13
Opening Celebration: Painting Edo
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Art Museums to celebrate the opening of Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, on view from February 14–July 26, 2020.
Be among the first to see over 120 works included in the Harvard Art Museums' latest show, which celebrates the rich visual culture of Japan's early modern era. The galleries are open late, and admission is free for...
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2020 Feb 10
Film: I Was at Home, But with Director in Person
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
German director Angela Schanelec will appear with her latest, much lauded film, I Was at Home, But—an elliptical, dreamlike film about a boy who suddenly reappears after an extended absence.
Cost: $12 special event tickets.
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2020 Feb 08
Harvard Film Archive: Weekend Matinee
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The HFA continues its specially priced screenings of films for children and accompanying adults, plus a special selection for teenagers. Drawing from the Harvard Film Archive collection and beyond, this series of classic and contemporary films are screened in their original formats and languages.
All Weekend Matinee screenings are admission-free for holders of a valid Cambridge Public Library card!
Schedule
December 15: Three Wishes for Cinderella
January 25: Tito and the Birds
February 8: Whisper of the Heart
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2020 Feb 06
A Rose is a Rose: The Art of Botanical Prose
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Attention gardeners, readers, and writers! Come in from the cold for an afternoon as delightful as a spring garden. Jonathan Damery, the associate editor for Arnoldia, will provide an enlivening and breathtaking tour of the artistry found in horticultural and botanical reference books. Bask in the profound eloquence of even the most exhaustive of botanical descriptions. Often cloaked in scholarly tomes, these compositions boast opinion, passion, simply gorgeous wordsmithing, and even intrigue, in some cases.
Cost
Members: $5
Nonmembers: $10
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2020 Feb 01
Film Screening: Blackmail
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Released to accommodate unconverted theaters, the silent Blackmail is leaner than the sound version and all the more disquieting for its subtle shifts in perspective. A documentary-style prologue establishes the rule of law in swift, precise strokes, but culpability ultimately proves elusive after a young woman grabs for a kitchen knife to defend herself from a darkly intimated rape. No sooner has the woman’s policeman boyfriend determined to cover up her crime than a supremely confident blackmailer materializes at the family shop. Hitchcock...
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2020 Jan 25
Harvard Film Archive: Weekend Matinee
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The HFA continues its specially priced screenings of films for children and accompanying adults, plus a special selection for teenagers. Drawing from the Harvard Film Archive collection and beyond, this series of classic and contemporary films are screened in their original formats and languages.
All Weekend Matinee screenings are admission-free for holders of a valid Cambridge Public Library card!
Schedule
December 15: Three Wishes for Cinderella
January 25: Tito and the Birds
February 8: Whisper of the Heart
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2019 Dec 15
Harvard Film Archive: Weekend Matinee
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The HFA continues its specially priced screenings of films for children and accompanying adults, plus a special selection for teenagers. Drawing from the Harvard Film Archive collection and beyond, this series of classic and contemporary films are screened in their original formats and languages.
All Weekend Matinee screenings are admission-free for holders of a valid Cambridge Public Library card!
Schedule
December 15:...
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2019 Nov 30
Harvard Film Archive Screening: Back to the Future
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Film Archive for a screening of the cult-classic American film Back to the Future (1985)!

Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
US, 1985, 35mm, color, 116 min.
Please note: Tickets for all regular screenings are available 45 minutes before show time at the cinematheque on the lower level of the Carpenter Center.
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2019 Nov 02
Photography with Chris Morgan
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Chris Morgan is fascinated by the patterns and textures in nature, the shapes of trees, and the movements of birds. He captures these beautifully in his photographs, which were on display at the Arnold Arboretum in the winter of 2019.
In this program, Chris will discuss his photographic interests and methods in the classroom and then move outdoors to demonstrate his techniques. Class participants will be able to learn alongside Chris, evaluating views, debating camera angles, and considering focal points in order to shoot better images. Participants should bring their...
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2019 Oct 26
Zapotec-Style Painting Family Workshop
10:00am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Learn to paint Zapotec design motifs with visiting artists from Oaxaca, Mexico. The father-son team of Ventura and Norberto Fabian continues the tradition of creating hand-carved and painted wooden figures known as alebrijes. This folk art is rooted in traditional aspects of rural village daily life and is now one of Mexico’s largest-selling craft industries. After learning about techniques and styles, participants will select an original, small figure to paint and take home. Workshops will be taught in Spanish with translation to English.
This workshop is most...
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2019 Oct 25
Zapotec-Style Painting Adult Workshop
4:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Learn to paint Zapotec design motifs with visiting artists from Oaxaca, Mexico. The father-son team of Ventura and Norberto Fabian continues the tradition of creating hand-carved and painted wooden figures known as alebrijes. This folk art is rooted in traditional aspects of rural village daily life and is now one of Mexico’s largest-selling craft industries. After learning about techniques and styles, participants will select an original, small figure to paint and take home. Workshops will be taught in Spanish with translation to English.
This workshop is suitable...
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2019 Oct 12
Native American Poets Playlist: Poems in the Gallery
Sat Oct 12 (All day) to Mon Oct 14 (All day)
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Enrich your museum visit by listening to an evocative playlist of contemporary poems by Native American authors. Wander freely across the first-floor galleries to see where the poems take you and expand your understanding of Native arts and cultures. The poems, drawn from a powerful recent anthology, New Poets of Native Nations (edited by Heid E. Erdrich; Graywolf Press) celebrate Native poets first published in the twenty-first century. Hear the exhibits “come into voice” and experience the museum in a new way. Borrow a free audio player with regular museum admission.
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2019 Oct 11
2019 Montage Concert: Celebrating the Harvard Band’s 100th Anniversary
8:00pm
Location: 
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
Harvard University Bands presents 2019 Montage Concert: Celebrating the Harvard Band’s 100th Anniversary. This concert will feature Harvard Monday Jazz Band, Harvard Wind Ensemble, and the Harvard Band. Guest Soloist, Boston Symphony Tubist, Mike Roylance.
Cost: $10; free with Harvard ID
Purchase tickets through the Harvard Box Office.
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2019 Oct 10
Molinillos and Chocolate in Contemporary Mexico
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum Education Room, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
In this special event, Juan Alonso Rodriguez will explain how to make a molinillo, the whisk-like wooden tool that is traditionally used in Mexico to make froth in chocolate beverages. Together with Ana Rita García-Lascuráin, he will discuss the history of chocolate production in Mexico and its current renaissance. Using molinillos, members of the Cambridge-based Fine Cacao and Chocolate Institute will make three different chocolate beverages that participants can taste during the program.
Participants must be aged 18 and over.
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2019 Sep 28
Art Workshop: Revealing the Wild Print
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join the Arboretum's exhibiting artist, Steffanie Schwam, in this hands-on workshop. You will make your own unique monoprint on paper or fabric, using leaves from the Arboretum's collections, paint, printmaking tools, recycled materials, and the inspiration of the surrounding landscape.
Note: This workshop is appropriate for ages 8 and up. An adult must accompany anyone between ages 8–12.
Cost: $15 for members; $25 for nonmembers.
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