2019 Oct 19
Peaceable, Friendly, and Fearless: The Benefits of Neuroplasticity
9:30am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard University Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
We need psychological resources like grit and gratitude for resilient well-being in a challenging world. How can we grow these inner strengths?
Positive neuroplasticity shows us how to turn passing experiences into lasting changes in the brain - hardwiring an unshakable calm, compassion, and courage into the marrow of our being.

In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore:
• Why personal growth experiences don’t have enduring value for many people
• The necessary two steps of lasting change in the nervous system
• Growing the key...
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2019 Oct 18
Aging in [a] Place: Planning, Design & Spatial Justice in Aging Societies
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins, Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Today, public discussion and policy focuses on “aging in place” as a way to improve quality of life and reduce costs. However, in part because of socioeconomic differences and structural inequalities, not all older adults can live in or move to age-supportive communities, neighborhoods, or homes that match their values and needs. Differences in access to places to age well can take the form of spatial inequalities, such as inadequate market rate housing for older adults on fixed incomes.
'Co-sponsored by the Harvard Joint Center for...
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2019 Oct 16
National Fossil Day
10:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Celebrate National Fossil Day with ancient trilobites, sea scorpions, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and more. Meet Harvard paleontologists and learn about the amazing prehistoric animals on exhibit. Bring your curiosity and questions to this event for all ages!
Note: Regular museum admission rates apply.
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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 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.
Cost:...
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2019 Oct 07
Screening of Vitalina Varela with Filmmaker Pedro Costa
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
A moving study of mourning and memory, Pedro Costa’s revelatory new film offers an indelible portrait of Vitalina Tavares Varela, a fragile yet indomitable woman who makes the long voyage from Cape Verde to Lisbon to attend her estranged husband’s funeral but misses the event itself because of cruel bureaucratic delays.
Cost: $12
Tickets are available to purchase 45 minutes before showtime at the cinematheque on the lower level of the Carpenter Center. Cash or check only.
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2019 Oct 06
Reptile Day
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Celebrate reptiles! Join Harvard students from the Harvard College Conservation Society for a variety of reptile themed activities including a scavenger hunt, storytime, and crafts. Come learn about the history and diversity of reptiles, and why they need to be conserved! All ages are welcome.
Please note: Regular museum admission rates apply.
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2019 Oct 05
Screening of Mama Colonel with Filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
DRC documentarian Dieudo Hamadi is being awarded the McMillan-Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking by Harvard’s Film Study Center. This film focuses on Colonel Honorine Munyole who selflessly leads a vigorous campaign against rape and the mistreatment of children in Bukavu, the capital of an eastern DRC province.
Cost: $12
Tickets are available to purchase 45 minutes before showtime at the cinematheque on the lower level of the Carpenter Center. Cash or check only.
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2019 Oct 05
Weekend Matinee: Good Bye, Lenin!
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
At the time one of the most successful German films ever made, Wolfgang Becker’s clever tragicomedy begins in East Germany in 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alex’s mother has slipped into a coma, missing the historic event and its aftermath. When she awakens in 1990, any excitement could be fatal for her, so her son—Daniel Brühl in his breakthrough role—sees only one way out: he must conceal the fall of the socialist regime she had so embraced and pretend East Germany still exists.
Cost: $5 Weekend Matinee Admission; free for all Harvard...
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2019 Oct 04
Screening of Kinshasa Makambo with Filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
DRC documentarian Dieudo Hamadi is being awarded the McMillan-Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking by Harvard’s Film Study Center. In this film, Hamadi follows three activists engaged in a dangerous fight against the country’s dictator, Joseph Kabila.
Cost: $12
Tickets are available to purchase 45 minutes before showtime at the cinematheque on the lower level of the Carpenter Center. Cash or check only. 
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2019 Oct 03
A Master Class with BD Wong
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Horner Room, Agassiz Theatre (Agassiz House), 5 James St., Cambridge
Tony Award-winning actor BD Wong, known for his portrayal of Special Agent George Huang, M.D. in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Dr. Henry Wu in Jurassic Park, will be in residence at Harvard to coach students on the creative team of M. Butterfly, produced by the Asian Student Arts Project. Wong will also offer a performance-based master class that is free and open to the public.
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2019 Sep 29
Collections Up Close: Fruits of the Bradley Rosaceous Collection
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Bradley Rosaceous Collection, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join the Arnold Arboretum for tours, family activities, and festivities inviting you to discover the diversity of the rose family (Rosaceae) which includes more than four thousand species. Many of the rose family taxa are of great importance to humans and the agricultural economy, and are vulnerable to extreme weather that is becoming the new norm. Come learn more about the many fruits of the rose family, a welcome buffet for our local wildlife.
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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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2019 Sep 28
Let's Talk About Food
10:30am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join Harvard University Dining Services and Let’s Talk About Food for a fun-filled and inspiring day of cooking, demonstrations, hands-on skills and tastings, innovations and explorations. Join the Greater Boston community of experts and eaters in an all-day exploration of how we can work together to ”Save the Planet One Bite at a Time!” Bring your culinarians, your kids, your scientists, your adventurers and hear, taste and experience the next generation of dining!
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2019 Sep 28
Creative Climate Commitment with Susan Israel
9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
In this workshop, participants will work in groups to creatively respond to climate change with discussion and prompting from Susan Israel, architect, artist, climate communicator, and social entrepreneur. Their efforts will result in a collaborative commitment to change, a talisman of sorts, represented in three dimensions.
Cost: $30 for members; $40 for nonmembers; $20 for students.
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2019 Sep 25
Sydney Conservatorium Composing Women
12:30pm to 2:15pm
Location: 
Harvard ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston
From an exploration of musical memories to a work that draws from the intricate patterns of stuttered speech, excerpts of four new works for solo flute will be presented in a lecture-performance format featuring four flute students of Professor Claire Chase: Jessica Shand, Mai Nguyen, Jennifer Wang and Taiga Ultan. Chase and guest composer Liza Lim will moderate a discussion with...
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2019 Sep 24
Thinking Like a Magician
4:15pm
Location: 
Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
In this performance-based lecture, the globe-trotting magician Joshua Jay will pull back the curtain on the way magicians think. He will explore how magicians achieve the seemingly impossible and how people can apply the same strategies to their own lives and work.
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2019 Sep 22
Fall Forest Bathing
Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun Nov 03 2019 except Sun Oct 06 2019, Sun Oct 13 2019.
9:00am to 11:00am
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9:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
Bussey St. Gate, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
This slow-paced guided therapeutic experience promotes wellness through a series of gentle sensory-opening invitations that welcome us to notice more of our natural surroundings. By deepening our connection with the natural world and each other, we open ourselves up to the healing medicine of the forest. Forest Bathing is part of a global effort to tend to the stressful conditions of living in modern industrialized civilization.
Cost: $25 for members; $35 for nonmembers
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2019 Sep 21
Tree Spotters Citizen Science Program: Basic Training
10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
With nearly 4,000 different kinds of plants represented in the Arboretum's living collections, every day presents rich opportunities to see something new. If you enjoy learning about plants and their unique characteristics, you can contribute to science as a participant in the Arnold Arboretum's Tree Spotters program. This citizen science project opens a window into the Arboretum's phenology: the timing of natural events, such as the leafing out and flowering of trees in the spring and changing foliage colors in the fall. Your observations will assist Arboretum scientists in their...
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2019 Sep 21
Kick-Off the ArtLab: Opening Celebration
10:00am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston
Join the Harvard ArtLab, Harvard’s new laboratory for art and research, for an opening celebration on September 21! Allston-based tap dance company Subject: Matter will kick off the celebration with a performance beginning promptly at 10:00am accompanied by a live jazz band. Visitors can have their portrait taken by Boston-based photographer OJ Slaughter and experience the ArtLab’s sound studio and A*, the multi-channel art installation by Harvard Film Study Center Fellow Andy Graydon.
This event is free and open to the public!
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