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...
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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
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12:00pm to 6:00pm
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12:00pm to 6:00pm
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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2021 May 27
Pottery Chill Out
Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Jun 24 2021 .
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Remember Play Doh when you were a kid? What if we told you you're never too old to play with clay? Sign up for our 5-session Zoom clay class, where we will make and decorate mugs, phone holders, sculptures—whatever you want, really!—using our hands and objects you can find at home. No experience necessary!
We'll teach you everything you need to know, PLUS we'll mail you all the stuff you'll need! You'll get to keep your final product and, as an added bonus, we'll chat about how working with clay can help you relax and knead-out some of the stress you may be feeling.
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2021 May 26
Koru Mindfulness
Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Jun 16 2021 .
5:30pm to 7:00pm
5:30pm to 7:00pm
5:30pm to 7:00pm
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, or anxious? Come relax with us!
Mindfulness is simple and can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere—this Koru Mindfulness series can help you learn how! These 4 mindfulness classes can help you identify stress whenever you feel it and reduce its effects. We will do a range of guided activities so that you can pick what works best for you.
Practices include mindful walking, guided imagery, breathing exercises, and mindfulness of thoughts and feelings. There will also be space in each session for group reflection and...
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2021 May 22
Forest Bathing with Toadstool Walks
Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun May 30 2021 except Sun May 23 2021.
9:00am to 11:00am
9:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
Bussey Street Gate, Arnold Arboretum, Boston
Join Tam Willey of Toadstool Walks as you slow down and awaken your senses on a guided therapeutic experience in the Arnold Arboretum. Forest bathing is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, a restorative sensory exploration that supports health and healing for all beings. Each walk is limited to 8 participants. Meet at the Bussey Street Gate. Participants must follow COVID guidelines including wearing a mask and practicing social distancing, as well as sign a liability and release form.
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2021 May 18
¡A Bailar! Zumba con Abe—Let's Dance! Zumba with Abe
Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Jun 29 2021 except Tue Jun 01 2021.
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Si te intimida el gimnasio porque no sabes por donde empezar, pero la música Latina te pone a bailar, entonces prepárate para una fiesta inolvidable desde tu propia casa! Ven a reír y moverte al ritmo de Zumba con Abe, una clase energética, donde lo más importante es estar presente y olvidarse de lo demás!
Con más de 6 años de experiencia enseñando Zumba a personas de todas edades, Abe modifica cada clase para que todos puedan participar! No hay que ser bailarín profesional. Solo únete a la clase, sube el volumen, y deja que la música te mueva! Te esperamos!! La clase se da en...
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2021 May 13
A Perpetual Crisis: Reflections on Renewed Public Health Failures at the U.S./Mexico Border
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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The Harvard Global Health Institute & FXB Center for Health and Human Rights—Online
In March 2021, a record number of children arrived at the U.S./Mexico border, challenging capacity at US Customs and Border Protection facilities and placing newfound pressure on the Biden Administration to act promptly. However, this humanitarian crisis is not new, nor is it a direct result of a new U.S. government administration. For decades, the U.S. has failed to improve a system ill-equipped to handle the needs of vulnerable refugees and migrants. As children wait in overcrowded jail-like structures and COVID-19 remains a threat, concerns about who will continue to suffer at the...
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2021 May 11
Vaccine Equity and Efficacy in the United States and the World
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
As efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines intensify throughout the United States and across the globe, how can we ensure that equity and access are prioritized? This panel seeks to address the challenges and opportunities of equitable public health strategies around COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
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2021 May 05
Education Now: Cultivating the Power of Resilience
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
As we emerge from the COVID-10 pandemic, many experts believe that the aftereffects of isolation, stress, fear, and sadness will linger. Trauma from mental health challenges of the past year will not quickly fade. Today, 18–25-year olds are suffering especially severely from the loneliness epidemic. While this loneliness epidemic preceded the onset of COVID-19, pandemic times have further heightened the isolation and mental and emotional duress experienced by many. Furthermore, a parallel and related epidemic of stress and anxiety in women and girls—from elementary school through college...
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2021 May 01
Guided Tree Meditation
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Outside at the Arnold Arboretum
This guided tree meditation offers an opportunity to connect and ground the self with the environment around.
Surrounded by the beauty and life of the Arnold Arboretum, this meditation will be benefitted by the ancient awareness and alchemy of trees and the subtle healing capacities of nature. Join us if you’re ready to root yourself into the energy of spring! 
Attendance is limited to 10 people so please only register if you can attend. 
This event will be held outside at the Arnold Arboretum, socially distanced with masks required. ...
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2021 Apr 20
Racial Inequity and Housing Instability in Boston: Past, Present, and Future
4:00pm
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Millions of Americans have long struggled to pay for housing, with communities of color additionally burdened by housing discrimination and historical race-based policies, such as legalized segregation, redlining, and mortgage discrimination. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic crisis, the federal government instituted a moratorium on evictions that is currently set to expire on March 31, 2021. Despite this, the continuing public health emergency has exacerbated the national housing affordability crisis for people of color, who are more likely to have lost...
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2021 Apr 19
A Week-Long Celebration of Earth Day
Mon Apr 19 (All day) to Fri Apr 23 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Join the Harvard Museum of Natural History in celebrating Earth Day with engaging sustainability-themed virtual events and activities for all ages. Join the conversation as Harvard students and experts weigh in on our most pressing environmental challenges, on cutting-edge research, and on promising paths to a more sustainable future. Introduce young minds to environmental science with our live museum animals and HMSC Story Time. Find out how to reconnect with nature and record the biodiversity in your local area. Or, simply indulge in our staff recommendations for...
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2021 Apr 14
Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition
12:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Thea Riofrancos’s current project, “Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition,” explores the politics of the transition to renewable energy through the lens of one of its key technologies: lithium batteries. Based on multisited fieldwork following lithium’s global supply chains from the point of extraction in the Chilean desert, “Brine to Batteries” will be the first scholarly account of the rapidly moving processes shaping the contours of the next energy system—and those of our planetary future.
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2021 Apr 09
Small Business & Our Neighborhoods: Reflections on Community, Resilience, & Innovation
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online via Zoom
Running a business under the most ideal conditions is difficult and 2020 brought on a host of previously unthinkable challenges for business owners, their employees, and the communities that support them. While the coronavirus pandemic has tested the entire business community, restaurants, shops, and companies in Allston-Brighton and Cambridge have offered countless examples of how creativity, resilience, and coordination are helping to preserve the vibrant mosaic of businesses that characterize both communities.
Featuring leaders of small businesses and nonprofits, this panel...
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2021 Apr 07
Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Cool Food with Gerard Pozzi
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Location: 
Food Literacy Project—Online
Make a difference by eating plant-rich food. Did you know Harvard recently signed the Cool Food Pledge? Learn more about the Cool Food Pledge with speaker, Gerard Pozzi, as he breaks down the impacts of a plant-based diet.
A quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions come from food production. By simply changing what we eat, we can make a difference to our climate. Cool Food (coolfood.org) helps people and organizations reduce the climate impact of their food through shifting towards more plant-rich diets. Climate action has never been so delicious.
Cool Food is an...
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2021 Apr 01
AI and the Future of Health
1:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance scientists’ ability to make discoveries. Across the life sciences, AI algorithms are being developed and deployed to speed our path to better health. This special Radcliffe science event will focus on how AI can accelerate research and development in general and drug discovery in particular. The health AI experts Regina Barzilay and Casandra Mangroo will each speak about their innovative work and then join Radcliffe’s Alyssa Goodman in a conversation on AI’s promise—and potential pitfalls—as we look toward the future of human health.
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2021 Mar 29
Health Care Leadership During COVID-19
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health care delivery and economics. This webinar will provide the behind-the-scenes perspective of a senior hospital leader in a time of crisis. Dr. Kimball will discuss how she and her leadership team adapted to the immediate crisis as well as its prolonged evolution, from establishing a command structure to discovering hidden talents on their team. The session will explore leadership lessons and her insights for the path forward.
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2021 Mar 16
COVID-19 and the Law: The Health Care System in the Age of COVID-19
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
This seminar series will consider the ethical, legal, regulatory, and broader social and institutional impacts that COVID-19 has had, as well as the longer-lasting effects it may have on our society. This fifth seminar in the series will focus on how the health care system has reacted and evolved during the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of life in the United States and around the world, disrupting the global economy as well as countless institutions. The issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic present a critical juncture for the U.S. and other...
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2021 Mar 15
RISE: Get Up and Get Moving (for Allston-Brighton & Cambridge High Schoolers)
Repeats every week every Monday until Mon Apr 26 2021 .
4:00pm to 5:00pm
4:00pm to 5:00pm
4:00pm to 5:00pm
4:00pm to 5:00pm
4:00pm to 5:00pm
4:00pm to 5:00pm
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
*For high school students living or attending school in Allston-Brighton or Cambridge*
Zoom fatigue is REAL, and we don't know about you, but all this sitting and laying down has got us feeling down... so let's get up! Join us for six weeks of movement, stress relief, and relaxation that you can do wherever you are, whenever you want—especially when you're feeling cooped up inside or stressed about anything.
We'll do some stretches, cardio, and other fun exercises you can do at home, anytime. You can even do them while watching your...
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2021 Mar 11
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, "The Miasmist: George E. Waring, Jr. and Landscapes of Public Health"
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
In 1867, nineteenth-century sanitary engineer George E. Waring, Jr. (1833–1898) published an influential manual entitled “Draining for Profit, Draining for Health,” reflecting the obsessions of his gilded age—wealth, health, and miasma. Even as the germ theory emerged, Waring supported the anti-contagionist miasma theory, positing that disease spread through the air as a poisonous vapor, emerging from damp soil. He applied his knowledge of farm drainage to an urban theory of public health, with a drainage plan for Central Park; a sewerage system for Memphis; a transformation of New York...
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