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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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    2019 May 10

    Exhibition: Drawn to Paint: Paintings of Arboretum Trees

    Fri May 10 (All day) to Sun Jul 21 (All day)

    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 05

    The Covenant of Love: The Poetry, Music and Spirituality of South Asian Muslim Cultures

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Harvard Professor Ali Asani ’77; Pakistani pop star and author Ali Sethi ’06; and Grammy-winning producer Noah Georgeson will share the poetic consciousness of legendary South Asian mystic poets through music and conversation. Central to the performance are the transformative powers of love, the primordial link that connects the divine to all of creation.

    Join these thought leaders and artists as they invite audiences to understand the human and the divine through the all-encompassing lens of love.

    Cost: Free tickets will be available...

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    2019 May 04

    Ice Cream Social and Sing-Along

    3:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard i-lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave., Allston

    Join the Harvard i-lab for ice cream and entertainment. The i-lab will be serving up scoops from Ben & Jerry's while pianist Phil Greenwald plays favorite family-friendly sing-along rock tunes.

    No RSVPs needed, just come on by for afternoon fun, rain or shine!

    2019 May 04

    Landscape Plant Selection, Planting, and Establishment

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Ensuring the long-term health of your landscape starts with healthy plants from the nursery, proper site selection and preparation, and sound planting and establishment. Andrew Gapinski will discuss professional standards and techniques, along with common issues and solutions for both balled-and-burlapped and containerized specimens. He will focus on landscape trees, shrubs, and perennials—ornamental annuals and vegetables will not be covered in this offering. Class will start indoors and then move outdoors to the Dana Greenhouse Nursery.

    Cost: $30 members, $...

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    2019 May 03

    ARTS FIRST 2019: Jazz on the Plaza

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center Plaza Tent, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Harvard Jazz Bands will take the stage with Grammy Award-nominated saxophonist Yosvany Terry, Senior Lecturer on Music and director of Harvard Jazz Bands, and Mark Olson, director of the Harvard Wind Ensemble and Harvard University Band. Saxophonist and composer Don Braden '85, lauded by the New York Times as “brilliant and assured,” is the guest artist.

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    2019 May 03

    On Pointe: Transforming the Boston Ballet in Modern Times

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston

    How has the Boston Ballet transformed itself from a regional company into one of the world’s leading ballet companies recognized for its global reach, ability to adapt in digital times, and breadth of genres from classical to contemporary?

    Join us for a panel discussion to peek behind the curtain with the masterminds behind stage to gain insights into what it takes to lead an arts organization in a rapidly changing world.

    Panelists include:

    • Boston Ballet, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen
    • Executive Director Meredith “Max” Hodges (MBA...
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    2019 May 02

    The Human Swarm: How Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Join us for a free lecture and book signing by Mark W. Moffett. Based on his new book, The Human Swarm: How Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall (Basic Books, April 2019), Moffett will discuss the social adaptations that bind societies and distinguish humans from other animal species. Drawing on findings in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, he explores how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into sprawling civilizations of unrivaled complexity–and will address what is required to sustain them.

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    2019 May 02

    Why Brain Science Needs an Edit: Non-human Primate Studies in Neuroscience and Biomedicine

    4:15pm

    Location: 

    Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    This lecture will feature Dr. Mu-ming Poo, the founding director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences. In his talk, Dr. Poo will discuss the use of gene-editing tools such as CRISPR in efforts to develop a macaque monkey behavioral model for studying self-consciousness. He will also address the relevant ethical issues associated with gene editing and the use of non-human primates in biomedical research.

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    2019 May 02

    Harvard Arts Medal Ceremony: Tracy K. Smith '94

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Agassiz Theatre, 5 James St., Cambridge

    Join a celebration of poet and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94, the 2019 Harvard Arts Medal recipient, which will be awarded by Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow. 

    The ceremony will include a short presentation by poet and Harvard professor Jorie Graham, and a conversation between Smith and Boston-based journalist and speaker Callie Crossley—as well as poetry students at Harvard.

    Free...

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    2019 May 02

    ARTS FIRST 2019

    Thu May 2 (All day) to Sun May 5 (All day)

    Location: 

    Harvard University

    Each ARTS FIRST festival is unique, but every year combines the exuberance of Harvard students, faculty and affiliates who are passionate about the many art forms presented in four rousing days of performances, exhibitions and community.

    Enjoy free, family-friendly performances, dance styles from around the world, public art walks, hands-on artmaking, and much more! We look forward to celebrating the artists of Harvard community with you during ARTS FIRST on May 2–5, 2019.

    Events include:

    • May 2,...
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    2019 Apr 30

    Angela Hewitt, piano: Bach Odyssey

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge

    World renowned pianist Angela Hewitt presents a program of her acclaimed Bach Odyssey, including:

    • English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806;
    • English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807;
    • Suite in F minor, BWV 823;
    • English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808;
    • Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894.

    The concert is free, but tickets required, available on April 16 at the Harvard Box Office. Tickets...

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    2019 Apr 30

    Exhibition: Small Steps, Giant Leaps

    Tue Apr 30 (All day) to Sat Aug 3 (All day)

    Location: 

    Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    This exhibition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of that remarkable achievement as the last step in a long series that stretches back through the centuries to the beginnings of the modern scientific understanding of our place in the universe.

    On display are landmarks in the history of science from Houghton Library’s collections—such as first editions of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton—together with rarely exhibited highlights from a private spaceflight collection, including artifacts used during the Apollo 11 mission and on the moon itself by astronauts Neil Armstrong and...

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    2019 Apr 27

    CrimsonPALOOZA 2: Harvard Women’s Lacrosse vs. Pennsylvania

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Stadium, 65 North Harvard St., Allston

    Harvard Athletics will be hosting CrimsonPALOOZA 2 on Saturday, April 21 where Harvard's Womens Lacrosse team will face off with Pennsylvania. The Harvard and surrounding communities are invited to join us at Harvard Stadium to support the Crimson student-athletes and partake in a variety of activities. The day will feature food trucks, a beer garden, kids activities, music and much more!

    Note: Call 617-495-2211 to redeem free tickets for all Allston, Brighton, and Cambridge residents!

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    2019 Apr 27

    Exhibition: Caspian: The Elements

    Sat Apr 27 (All day) to Mon Feb 17 (All day)

    Location: 

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

    Caspian: The Elements is a new exhibit featuring the evocative imagery of Chloe Dewe Mathews, the 2014 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. The exhibit documents her extraordinary five-year journey through the contested borderlands of the Caspian Sea, and reveals the essential role played by elemental materials like oil, rock, and uranium in the practical, artistic, spiritual, and therapeutic aspects of daily life. Caspian: The Elements is a powerful photographic narrative that explores the deep links between the peoples of the...

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    2019 Apr 25

    Seminal Voices

    Repeats every day until Sat Apr 27 2019 .
    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    7:00pm to 8:00pm
    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St., Cambridge

    Join the Harvard Dance Center for an evening of new experiments with the methods of three visionary artists who have expanded the meaning of choreographic practice—and still do. See Harvard students perform and engage with work that spans 90 years of dance history. Evocative, idiosyncratic, distinctive, and infinitely expressive, each of the these works provides dancers and audiences alike the opportunity to encounter dance history and participate in it.

    Cost: $5 for students; $10 for general public.

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    2019 Apr 25

    Caspian: The Elements Preview and Lecture

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    For five years British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews traveled through the countries surrounding the Caspian Sea: Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Russia, and Iran. In images that range from stark and elemental to lush and mysterious, she recorded the vastly diverse peoples, politics, and geography of Central Asia, centering always on the great inland sea.

    In this conversation with Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Dewe Mathews will discuss her project and new book, Caspian: The Elements (2018, Aperture and...

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