2019 Jun 25
Gallery Talk: Introduction to the Dark Arts—Ancient Egyptian Magic
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Jen Thum, the Inga Maren Otto Curatorial Fellow in the Division of Academic and Public Programs, will give this gallery talk.
The Harvard Arts Museums galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.
Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15...
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2019 Jun 22
Film Screening: Sennan Asbestos Disaster
5:00pm
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Film Archive for a film screening of Sennan Asbestos Disaster (Nippon Asbest Village).
Director Kazuo Hara’s latest film is a slow-building and devastating epic exposé of the “silent time bomb” of widespread asbestos contamination discovered in the Sennan City area of Osaka in 2005. Made over a full decade working closely with an activist group racing against the clock to trace the devastating roots of the epidemic in the area’s traditional hub of asbestos production and connect with elderly survivors to build their case against the state, Sennan...
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2019 Jun 21
Film Screening: A Dedicated Life
7:00pm
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Film Archive for a film screening of "A Dedicated Life (Zenshin shosetsuka)." 
Director Kazuo Hara’s rarely screened fourth film is an extended intimate portrait of celebrated and outspoken novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, a project that took a radical new direction when the writer’s recently diagnosed cancer began to spread throughout his body. Responding to the urgent sense of time running out, Hara filmed extended sessions of Inoue’s writing workshops, lectures and visits to the doctor, while also interviewing the many women in the author’s life....
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2019 Jun 21
In the Groves: A Summer Solstice Journey
Repeats every week every Saturday until Sat Jun 22 2019 .
6:30pm to 8:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building and Arboretum Landscape, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join us for an enchanting evening of Tree Myths, Songs and Summer Solstice Legends. Attendees will hear tales of the human connection with trees and the deep meaning we have assigned to them through the ages. This unique performance, designed specifically for the Arnold Arboretum, travels through the Arboretum with story and music. Each story is told under a different tree or among a unique collection of Arboretum plants, culminating with the haunting Czech legend “The Wild Woman of the Birch Grove” told amid the birches at sunset. Appropriate for adults and for children twelve years and...
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2019 Jun 21
Summer Solstice Celebration 2019: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Celebrate the longest day of the year and mark the beginning of the summer season at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Enjoy free admission to four museums (the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and the Harvard Semitic Museum) and...
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2019 Jun 15
Visiting Artist Workshop: Miranda Thomas
Repeats every day until Sun Jun 16 2019 .
10:00am to 4:00pm
10:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Hone your surface skills and eye for design with world renowned potter Miranda Shackleton Thomas. Thomas will teach participants how to use rhythms, spaces, dividing up shapes and symbolism to help build up patterns.
The first day of this workshop will involve Thomas demonstrating her use of slips, inlay, freehand drawing, carving, brushwork, building, and dissecting patterns. Emphasis will be placed on brush work and exercises will be given to become familiar with all types of brushes and the stokes produced on paper, and later in the day, progressing onto pots. The second...
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2019 Jun 11
Berklee Summer in the City Series
Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Sep 17 2019 except Tue Aug 27 2019.
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Stop by the Farmers' Market at Harvard every Tuesday between 12:00pm-1:00pm to hear live musical performances from students of the Berklee College of Music. Presenting music across a broad range of styles and genres with different artists each week, this series is free and open to all!
Artist Lineup:
June 11 - Mar Fayos
June 18 - The Sun Sets in the East
June 25 - Georgia Parker
July 2 - Havins...
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2019 Jun 09
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra: Final Concert
3:00pm
Location: 
Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
Don't miss the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra's final concert of the season on Sunday, June 9. The program includes pieces such as "Overture to La gazza ladra," "Pelleas und Melisande," and more. 
The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' (BYSO) mission is to encourage artistic excellence in a nurturing environment by providing the highest quality orchestral training and performance opportunities to qualified musicians, grades K-12, while making its programs accessible to underrepresented youth through financial aid and outreach.
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2019 Jun 08
Moon Medley
3:00pm to 4:10pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
In collaboration with Houghton Library’s celebration of the moon landing’s 50th anniversary, the Harvard Film Archive presents films about humans’ exploration of that final frontier. This program features "A Trip to the Moon" with live musical accompaniment, "A Grand Day Out," "One Small Step," and more family-friendly short films!
Cost: $5 Weekend Matinee Admission or free with Cambridge Public Library Card.
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2019 Jun 08
Exhibition Tour: Small Steps, Giant Leaps
2:00pm to 2:45pm
Location: 
Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Join curator John Overholt for a guided tour of the exhibition to learn about the ways early modern science inspired and made possible the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
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2019 May 30
Free Admission Day for Harvard Commencement
10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard Art Museums will offer free admission to all visitors Thursday, May 30 in celebration of Harvard Commencement.
Explore the collections galleries and discover masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and more. Visit works by internationally recognized contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ai Weiwei, and Kerry James Marshall, and check out the Bauhaus and Harvard exhibition, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.
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2019 May 30
Creating Community: Harvard Law School and the Bauhaus
Thu May 30 (All day) to Wed Jul 31 (All day)
Location: 
Caspersen Room, Langdell Hall, 1545 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
2019 marks the centennial of the Bauhaus, and Harvard is celebrating! The Bauhaus, considered the twentieth century’s most influential school of art and design, has deep connections to Harvard, including the Harvard Law School (HLS).
Explore HLS’s connection to the Bauhaus and its role in shaping campus life in these excerpts from the full exhibit, on view daily 9am–5pm in Langdell Hall's ...
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2019 May 29
Free Admission Day for Harvard Class Day
10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard Art Museums will offer free admission to all visitors on Wednesday, May 29 in celebration of Harvard Class Day.
Explore the collections galleries and discover masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and more. Visit works by internationally recognized contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ai Weiwei, and Kerry James Marshall, and check out the Bauhaus and Harvard exhibition, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.
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2019 May 25
Exhibition: Prince Shōtoku: The Secrets Within
Sat - Sun, May 25 to Aug 11, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: 
University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
This exhibition gives visitors the rare chance to encounter a significant 13th-century Japanese icon, Prince Shōtoku at Age Two, from the inside out. Legendary prince Shōtoku Taishi (c. 574–622) is regarded as the founder of Buddhism in Japan. At two years old (one by the Western count), he was believed to have taken several steps forward, faced east, put his hands together, and praised the Buddha. A sacred relic, the eyeball of the Buddha, then appeared between his hands. The diminutive life-size sculpture—the oldest and finest of its kind—depicts that miraculous moment....
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2019 May 25
Exhibition: Japan on Paper
Sat - Sun, May 25 to Aug 11, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: 
University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Japanese woodblock prints, with their sophisticated designs and bold planes of color, have long attracted viewers and inspired Western artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Mary Cassatt. These technically refined and aesthetically exciting prints were among the earliest works of Asian art acquired by the Harvard Art Museums, first entering the collections in 1910. Today the museums house approximately 5,000 single-sheet Japanese woodblock prints, and this exhibition introduces a selection of superlative impressions from this lively medium. The exhibition also seeks to highlight the...
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2019 May 21
Preserving Zapotec Weaving Practices
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
The town of Teotitlán Del Valle in the Mexican state of Oaxaca is renowned for its weaving traditions and its importance as a Zapotec cultural center. Porfirio Gutiérrez will examine the rich history of Zapotec weaving from the perspective of its practitioners. He will also discuss his studio’s role in preserving and promoting the use of natural dyes in his community, and abroad, using pigments derived from plants and insects.
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2019 May 18
Opening Reception for Drawn to Paint: Paintings of Arboretum Trees
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Artist, Paul Olson, has been discovering the nuances of the Arnold Arboretum’s collections since he first passed through its gates in 2011. A landscape painter for decades, Olson explores the grounds with sketchbook in hand, typically in the early morning hours. His goal is to be unencumbered by any agenda and open to what the light of the day presents. In 2012, he had an exhibition at the Arboretum titled “Drawn to Woods.” The expressive ink drawings in that show were all completed en plein air—on-site in the open air.
In this new exhibition, Olson brings his on-site...
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2019 May 18
Exploring Zapotec Wool-Dyeing Techniques
10:00am to 3:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
In this one-day workshop, master dyer and textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez will discuss the history and uses of cochineal dye from the perspective of the Zapotecs from Oaxaca, Mexico, who have used the pigment since pre-Columbian times. Mr. Gutiérrez will demonstrate how to prepare cochineal dye and will guide workshop participants in dyeing their individual wool scarves with both cochineal and pericón, a wild marigold indigenous to Mexico, used to obtain a beautiful bright yellow dye.
This is an all-levels workshop; no previous experience is required. All supplies for...
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2019 May 18
Free Admission Day for Art Museum Day and International Museum Day
10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard Art Museums will offer free admission to all visitors on Saturday, May 18 in celebration of Art Museum Day and International Museum Day, organized by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
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2019 May 10
Club Passim Summer Concert Series
Repeats every 2 weeks every Friday until Fri Sep 27 2019 .
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Northwest Science Building, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge
Club Passim in partnership with Harvard University brings free live music to the Harvard Common Spaces every other Friday at 12:00pm-1:00pm from May 10 to September 27.
During your lunch hour, enjoy Harvard’s relaxing Common Space full of food trucks and summer fun!
Artist lineup:
Friday, June 7 - Lloyd Thayer
Friday, June 21 - Adam Brahami
Friday, July 5 - Alisa Amador
Friday, July 19 - Hayley Sabella
Friday, August 2 - Sheila Del Bosque & Nacho Gonzales
Friday, August 16 - Pretty Saro
Friday, August 30 - Liv...
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