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Ho Family Student Guide Tour

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Online Event

The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on select objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.

Details on the Zoom tours and links to participate can be found in the Events section of the Harvard Art Museums Facebook page. Audiences can also follow the student...

Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski

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Online via Zoom

Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.

Learn more about and connect to a virtual session for Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of...

Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski

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Online via Zoom

Learn more about and connect to a virtual session for Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy...

2020 May 01

Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard

Repeats every weekday until Thu May 28 2020 .

1:00pm to 1:30pm

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Online event

The Office for the Arts offers a daily dose of artistic inspiration for anyone looking to find a moment of beauty, comfort and connection. Alumni, faculty, staff, and visiting artists are sending in short videos showcasing their music, poetry, dance, and more. New videos are posted every weekday around 1:00pm.

Learn more about Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard.

Harvard/Yale Battle of the Big Bands

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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...

Dig into Dinner

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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.

Learn more about Dig into Dinner.

Parker Quartet: Spectrum

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Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet returns to the Harvard Ed Portal February 26 as part of their 2019-2020 season. Join us for an evening of classical music that explores 300 years of the string quartet genre, and its history of inspiring great composers to create their most personal and dynamic works. Covering a wide spectrum of artistic thought and expression, from humor and mysticism to a holy song of thanksgiving, the program will highlight select works from this exciting and unique medium. All are welcome!

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Animal Talk: A Dr. Dolittle Scavenger Hunt

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Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Scavenger Hunt Dates:
December 21–December 23
December 26–December 31
January 2–January 31

Have you ever wished that you could talk with other animals? Doctor Dolittle, the imaginary character in the Hugh Lofting book The Story of Doctor Dolittle, could do just that! Doctor Dolittle learned animal languages and made animal friends all over the world. Use the clues to find six of his animal friends in the museum and learn how that animal really communicates. Then, like Doctor Dolittle, tell us what you think that animal is saying by drawing or writing...

Animal Talk: A Dr. Dolittle Scavenger Hunt

Location:

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge

Scavenger Hunt Dates:
December 21–December 23
December 26–December 31
January 2–January 31

Animal Talk: A Dr. Dolittle Scavenger Hunt

Location:

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge

Scavenger Hunt Dates:
December 21–December 23
December 26–December 31
January 2–January 31

Allston-Brighton Winter Market

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Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

The third annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market returns to the Harvard Ed Portal from December 12–15, 2019! As a hyper-local neighborhood holiday market, the Winter Market celebrates Allston-Brighton with a four-day event featuring vendors of crafts, artisanal goods, gifts, and fine art, as well as live music, food and drinks for purchase, a beer garden, and special interactive art programs.

Offered annually, the market is a festive...

Allston-Brighton Winter Market

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Offered annually, the market is a festive...

Allston-Brighton Winter Market

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Offered annually, the market is a festive...

Ceramics Program Holiday Show and Sale

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Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard 224 Western Ave, Allston

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December 12, 4pm - 8 pm

December 13–15, 10am - 7pm

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard will present its annual Ceramics Program Holiday Show and Sale December 12-15, 2019 in its state-of-the art facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts.

More than 60 artists from the Ceramics Program present an extraordinary selection of ceramic work in this sale, from functional...

Dreaming the Sphinx in Augmented Reality

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Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Between the paws of the great Sphinx is the Dream Stela, a monument which describes how a young prince fell asleep in the shadow of the Sphinx by the Giza Pyramids. Visitors to the Harvard Semitic Museum galleries will be able to experience the iconic Sphinx and its Dream Stela in 3D augmented reality.

A gallery facilitator will use a tablet to allow the Sphinx to loom above and around a real life-size cast of the monumental stela. With a tap, the ancient hieroglyphs will be highlighted and translated into English. Another tap to adjust the timeline later, and a pyramid will...

Day of the Dead Celebración Nocturna/Evening Celebration 2019

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Remember and celebrate your departed loved ones at this year’s Día de los Muertos altar, savor traditional Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto, and enjoy live music.

Learn more about and RSVP for Day of the Dead Celebración Nocturna/Evening Celebration 2019.

Zapotec-Style Painting Family Workshop

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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...

Augmented Reality: Maya Chocolate Plate

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

"Shrink" yourself down to "walk" into an ancient Maya vessel using augmented reality! Maya women were often essential for uniting kingdoms. When a marriage was arranged between Maya royal families, kings would exchange gifts like this ceramic three-legged plate for serving chocolate. Use the museum’s iPad as a "magic window" to discover fine details on one such plate that cannot be seen on the actual artifact. A gallery facilitator will guide you through the experience and will share more about the Maya.

Note: Regular museum admission rates...

Virtual Reality Expedition to Ancient Israel

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Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

"Travel" in fifteen minutes to an archaeological site in Ashkelon, Israel to explore the first-ever excavation of a Philistine burial ground. For years archaeologists have searched for evidence of these Biblical people. Transport yourself to the center of 360° scenes of an archaeological expedition while your gallery facilitator explains what you are seeing. Borrow a device from the museum or download the virtual reality app on your smart phone and bring it to place in a 3D viewer at the museum for an immersive experience.

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Tunes at Noon: Club Passim Edition

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Harvard Commons, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

Enjoy lunch or a study break in the Smith Campus Center! Stop by Harvard Commons every Wednesday to hear live music from Club Passim, a local folk music organization based in Harvard Square.

Learn more about Tunes at Noon: Club Passim Edition.

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