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    Visit an Artist: Janice Jakielski and Joshua Persky

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    Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.

    This visit takes place in Sutton, Massachusetts where you might find Janice Jakielski, and her husband Joshua Persky, outside tending their beehives. Recently...

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    Gutman Library Book Talk: The 60 Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy

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    The 60-Year Curriculum explores models and strategies for lifelong learning in an era of profound economic disruption and reinvention. Over the next half-century, globalization, regional threats to sustainability, climate change, and technologies such as artificial intelligence and data mining will transform our education and workforce sectors. Speakers will include:


    • Jim Honan, Ph.D.'89, Senior Lecturer on Education, HGSE
    • Chris Dede - Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Technology, Innovation, and Education Program, HGSE
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    Visit an Artist: Suze Lindsay

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    Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.

    We travel to the beautiful mountains of North Carolina to visit the one and only Suze Lindsay for a special 2-hour edition of our series! Suze (scheduled to be a...

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    Visit an Artist Series: Mark Errol

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    Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.

    This week we will be traveling to Tifton, Georgia to visit with Mark Errol and hear about he is juggling a life as a studio potter, educator and co-owner of ...

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    When “Stay at Home” Isn’t Safe: Domestic Violence During COVID-19

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    Although communities have been asked to stay home to stay safe, for many domestic violence victims, home can be a dangerous place. Spikes in intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse have been noted across the country and around the world since the onset of the COVID-19 stay-at-home directives as victims and witnesses of IPV and child abuse find themselves isolated within their homes and confronted with difficult decisions about when and how to seek care or shelter. In this Radcliffe webinar, scholars, public officials, community activists, and...

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    6th–8th Grade Virtual Field Trip Program

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    Allston-Brighton students in grades 6-8 are invited to join virtual field trips to locations across the globe. Students will be encouraged to explore, think creatively, and expand their understanding of the world we live in.

    The program will be led by Harvard undergraduates who will lead students on a guided virtual experience designed to grow a greater curiosity for learning.

    Please note: To join this program your student must have access to a device that can support video streaming.

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    3rd–5th Grade Virtual Field Trip Program

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    Allston-Brighton students in grades 3-5 are invited to join virtual field trips to locations across the globe. Students will be encouraged to explore, think creatively, and expand their understanding of the world we live in.

    The program will be led by Harvard undergraduates who will lead students on a guided virtual experience designed to grow a greater curiosity for learning.

    Please note: To join this program your student must have access to a device that can support video streaming.

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    Pop Up! Portal Art Market

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    The livelihood of local artists, musicians, makers, and teachers is in jeopardy due to widespread event cancellations and lost gigs. In response, the Ed Portal is hosting an online market to help connect our amazing network of creatives—many from the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods—to you. Check out the featured artists on our webpage and shop for something special for you or your loved ones. Your purchases will support our treasured local artists so they can continue to inspire, challenge, and entertain us all, and 100% of the proceeds go directly to the artists through their...

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    Exhibition: Everyday Encounters

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    Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

    Harvard’s Mittal Institute 2020 Visiting Artist Fellows Shah Numair Ahmed Abbasi and Suhasini Kejriwal present their exhibition, Everyday Encounters. Reflecting on their personal accounts of documenting and engaging with rapidly changing South Asian cities and their people, the artists’ work explores the deeply personal issues of identity and culture in this region.

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    Harvard Men’s Hockey vs. St. Lawrence ECAC Playoffs: First Round

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    Bright-Landry Hockey Center, 65 N. Harvard St., Allston

    Harvard Men's Hockey competes against St. Lawrence for a weekend at Bright-Landry Hockey Center in a best of 3 series.

    Game 1 and 2 will be played at 7:00pm, and Game 3 will be played Sunday, March 8 at 4pm if necessary.

    Cost: $12

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    Women, Contemporary Art, and Business Panel Discussion

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    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Batten Way, Boston

    Organized in conjunction with the 2019–2020 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, the panel discussion "Women, Contemporary Art, and Business" will feature:

    • Bharti Kher, Artist
    • Ina Johannesen Dibley, CEO Ekebergparken/C. Ludens Ringnes Foundation, Oslo, Norway
    • Nora Lawrence, Senior Curator Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY

    The panel discussion will explore a range of topics including public art and sculpture; the role of women artists, curators, and directors...

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    The Pursuit of Happiness

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    Harvard Business School, Klarman Hall, Batten Way, Boston

    Join this thought-provoking talk by Arthur Brooks who distills 40 years and hundreds of social science research studies on happiness, into a surprising set of answers to questions like: What percentage of the population is happy? What brings us happiness? Who is happier, men or women? How much of happiness is genetically determine?

    How can we pursue the surest path to happiness? Arthur has the answers.

    The event will have a show opener featuring a performance by the Faculty band: Indie Folk rock, including:
    Mike Norton: vocals, guitar, bass
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    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...

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    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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