2020 Feb 13
Opening Celebration: Painting Edo
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Art Museums to celebrate the opening of Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, on view from February 14–July 26, 2020.
Be among the first to see over 120 works included in the Harvard Art Museums' latest show, which celebrates the rich visual culture of Japan's early modern era. The galleries are open late, and admission is free for...
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2020 Feb 12
Lev Rubinstein: Readings, Conversations about Russia Today
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Davis Center, Knafel Building, Room K262, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Moscow writer Lev Rubinstein will read from his work and engage in a wide-ranging conversation in a special Davis Center seminar.
Rubinstein exemplifies a striking aesthetic response to life in repressive times, one that emphasizes the artist’s freedom of expression and the power of humor in the face of lies. He has won multiple prizes at home and abroad and has a readiness to push at the boundaries of literary norms. Author of more than a dozen books in Russian, Rubinstein has been more active as an essayist since the start of the 2000s. He has also emerged as a public figure...
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2020 Feb 12
Lecture: no noise disturbed the quiet of the morning
4:00pm
Location: 
Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
As a Radcliffe fellow, Anthony Romero (RI '20) is working on a multimedia research and visual art project that includes a collection of related but discrete works which attempt to articulate how indigenous populations, under European colonial rule in Australia, South Asia, and the United States, were controlled through the criminalization and legislating of native sound and music practices. Taken together, these histories reveal how carceral and criminalizing strategies sowed the seeds for the ongoing over-policing of black and brown communities.
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2020 Feb 11
Lecture: Diary of a Tap Dancer
4:15pm
Location: 
Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
During her fellowship, Ayodele Casel (RI '20) is working on Diary of a Tap Dancer, a theatrical work positioning tap dance as the driving force of the narrative. This project aims to create a fuller and more accurate picture of the legacy of the art form by centering the voices of its unnamed women within a broader historical context. Diary explores shared themes of hoofers past and present with stories illuminating the struggle and joy of expression, communication, the evolution of jazz music, gender inequality, and the personal and culturally devastating implications for women...
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2020 Feb 08
Harvard Film Archive: Weekend Matinee
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The HFA continues its specially priced screenings of films for children and accompanying adults, plus a special selection for teenagers. Drawing from the Harvard Film Archive collection and beyond, this series of classic and contemporary films are screened in their original formats and languages.
All Weekend Matinee screenings are admission-free for holders of a valid Cambridge Public Library card!
Schedule
December 15: Three Wishes for Cinderella
January 25: Tito and the Birds
February 8: Whisper of the Heart
...
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2020 Feb 08
Opening Reception for The Path Taken: Photography by Lawrence Mullings
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join the Arnold Arboretum for an opening reception for their newest exhibition, The Path Taken: Photography by Lawrence Mullings.
On any given day, Lawrence Mullings can be found exploring the paths and hidden corners of the Arboretum. While walking in the landscape to regain his health, his joy in photography was rekindled. He saw how the Arboretum was many different things to him, and to the many different people who come here from around the neighborhood and around the world. To Mullings, the Arboretum is its trees, as well as the myriad ways visitors enjoy them...
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2020 Feb 07
Tour: Reading the Fine Print
2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join student guide May Wang on this special hour-long tour to rediscover the artistic, material, and musical influences behind Taddeo di Bartolo’s Virgin and Child with Angels. Following an investigation of the painting’s iconography, May and her colleagues from the Harvard University Choir will bring the painting to life by performing the hymn featured within it.
Free with museum admission. This tour is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the tour, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
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2020 Feb 06
Lecture: The Imprint of the Landscape
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Please join us for the Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture delivered by landscape architect Günther Vogt. Vogt's lecture will also mark the opening of the exhibition Günther Vogt: First the Forests, which is on view in the Druker Design Gallery from January 21–March 8, 2020. A reception in the gallery will take place immediately following the lecture.
What is the relevant scale for operating with the landscape of the city?
Since the Industrial Revolution at the latest, humans have become the determining factor for global ecosystems. This fact becomes...
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2020 Feb 05
Uncharted Exclaves — Modernism and Other -Isms in the Practices of Taiwanese Architecture
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Throughout its history, Taiwan has been the laboratory for architectural experiments, or more precisely, the exclaves of all architectural movements and the -isms. It was the last frontier for southern style Chinese architecture, the experimental field for Japanese young architects' endeavors, the perpetual battle ground for “Contemporary Chinese” versus “Traditional Taiwanese”, the restless landscape for postmodernism and its two non-formal counterparts, critical regionalism (Tzonis, Alexander & Liane Lefaivre / Kenneth Frampton) and dirty realism (Lefaivre, L. / Jameson, F.), and...
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2020 Feb 04
Harvard in Allston: Perspective and Next Steps
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 8 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a conversation between Marika E. Reuling and Thomas Glynn, who will be joined by joined by Martin Zogran, Courtney Sharpe, and Rustom Cowasjee moderated by Stephen Gray, Assistant Professor of Urban Design.
Reuling is the Managing Director for Allston Initiatives at Harvard University, where she oversees the team focused on planning, development and placemaking strategy in Allston.
Glynn is the Chief Executive Officer of the Harvard Allston Land Company, overseeing Harvard University’s...
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2020 Jan 25
Harvard Film Archive: Weekend Matinee
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The HFA continues its specially priced screenings of films for children and accompanying adults, plus a special selection for teenagers. Drawing from the Harvard Film Archive collection and beyond, this series of classic and contemporary films are screened in their original formats and languages.
All Weekend Matinee screenings are admission-free for holders of a valid Cambridge Public Library card!
Schedule
December 15: Three Wishes for Cinderella
January 25: Tito and the Birds
February 8: Whisper of the Heart
...
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2020 Jan 23
Gallery Talk: Walk Like an Egyptian
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Fellow Jen Thum explores the basics of ancient Egyptian representation, including why their bodies seem to "walk like an Egyptian."
Free with museum admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
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2020 Jan 02
Animal Talk: A Dr. Dolittle Scavenger Hunt
Thu Jan 2 (All day) to Fri Jan 31 (All day)
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
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...
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2019 Dec 29
Animal Talk: A Dr. Dolittle Scavenger Hunt
Sun Dec 29 (All day) to Tue Dec 31 (All day)
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
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...
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2019 Dec 15
Harvard Film Archive: Weekend Matinee
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The HFA continues its specially priced screenings of films for children and accompanying adults, plus a special selection for teenagers. Drawing from the Harvard Film Archive collection and beyond, this series of classic and contemporary films are screened in their original formats and languages.
All Weekend Matinee screenings are admission-free for holders of a valid Cambridge Public Library card!
Schedule
December 15:...
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2019 Dec 14
Allston-Brighton Winter Market
Repeats every day until Sun Dec 15 2019 .
10:00am to 7:00pm
10:00am to 7:00pm
Location: 
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...
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2019 Dec 13
Allston-Brighton Winter Market
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
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...
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2019 Dec 12
Allston-Brighton Winter Market
4:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
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...
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2019 Dec 11
The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer who has covered the Middle East, 9/11, and the United Nations for such outlets as AFP, the Atlantic, GQ, and the New Yorker. In this lecture, Tigay will talk about his first book, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible, which tells the story of the oldest Bible in the world, how its outing as a fraud led to a scandalous death, and why archaeologists now believe it was real—if only they could find it. In addition to the story of this controversial Bible, Tigay will speak about his own hunt for the...
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2019 Dec 04
Lunchtime Organ Recital: Carson Cooman
12:15pm to 12:45pm
Location: 
The Memorial Church Sanctuary, Cambridge
Thirty minutes of organ music will be performed on the Fisk and Skinner organs of The Memorial Church of Harvard University. Free and open to the public.
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