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.
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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 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 05
Harvard Football vs. Howard
1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Stadium, 60 North Harvard St., Boston
Harvard Football will face off against Howard at Harvard Stadium. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.
Cost: Gameday tickets are $25 for adults; $10 for students and youth. Group (20+) tickets cost $15 for adults; $5 for students and youth.
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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 02
Seed Collection: Processing the Bounty
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Dana Greenhouse, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
When our staff returns from seed collecting in the wild, there is little time for rest. Arboretum staff Andrew Gapinski, Sean Halloran, and Jared Rubinstein will travel for three weeks this September in Appalachia in search of seed from taxa targeted as part of the ...
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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
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 27
Harvard Football vs. Brown
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Stadium, 60 North Harvard St., Boston
Harvard Football will face off in their home opener against Brown at Harvard Stadium. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.
Cost: 
$25 for Adults
$10 for Students and Youth
Group (20+) tickets cost $15 for adults, $5 for students and youth
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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
9:00am to 11:00am
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 Aug 31
Dark Waters: All-Night Movie Marathon
7:00pm to 1:00am
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
This year’s annual movie marathon at the Harvard Film Archive finds danger on the high seas, in the churning rapids and even on a seemingly placid lake, presenting a selection of taut and waterlogged films where boat voyages become suspended states of mind: obsessive, delusional, perilous and even disastrous.
From Huston’s classic adventure of improbable romance aboard the dilapidated African Queen to Polanski’s vision of sexualized power games on a cramped sailboat, to the solitary epic ocean adventure of the young Japanese sailor in Kon Ichikawa’s Alone on the...
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2019 Aug 25
Butterfly Discovery Walk
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Venture into the Arboretum landscape with caterpillar expert Sam Jaffe. Sam will wander the landscape highlighting host plants and the insects they support, focusing his attention on caterpillars, moths, and butterflies. Bring a camera to document your discoveries and a notebook to record identification tips and plant suggestions for expanding the array of butterflies your garden or park can support.
This event is suitable for adults and children ages 12 and older. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Cost: $10 for...
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2019 Aug 23
Moth Meet
9:00pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join the Arnold Arboretum for a late night learning adventure to discover the nocturnal invertebrates that are flitting about the Arboretum after hours. Naturalist Sam Jaffe will start the evening in the classroom with some introductory information about the life-cycles of moths and other night flyers. He’ll then lead the group outdoors for a moth lighting at which we will admire and study a variety of nocturnal insects. Back in the classroom, microscopes and other field guides will allow us to make clear identifications of these lesser-seen beauties.
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2019 Aug 22
Garden for Biodiversity
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Sam Jaffe, naturalist and educator, will present both the collaborative and deceitful nature of insects and plants as they’ve evolved to rely upon one another. This lecture, illustrated with Sam’s gorgeous photographs, will expand your invertebrate knowledge, appreciation, and desire to be the best garden host you can be.
Cost:
$10 for members; $15 for nonmembers.
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2019 Aug 02
Harvard Film Archive: Summer Film Series
Fri Aug 2 (All day) to Fri Aug 30 (All day)
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard Film Archive presents films Friday through Monday nights year-round. Open to the public, all screenings are held in the Archive's 200-seat theater featuring state-of-the-art film and digital projection located in the historic Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
Throughout August, The Harvard Film Archive will present screenings directed by Fritz Lang, Francesco Rosi, Howard Hawks, and Joan Tewkesbury.
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2019 Jul 24
Gardening for Butterflies and Moths
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Learn how to attract butterflies and moths to your garden and cater to their unique lifecycle requirements in this program focused exclusively on lepidopteran-friendly gardening techniques. Lepidopteran conservation in New England is more important than ever, as many formerly common species are now threatened with extirpation. Colin McCallum-Cook, Horticultural Technologist, will also show you how to use citizen science applications to monitor species in your garden and contribute valuable data to the cause of lepidopteran conservation.
Cost: $25 for...
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2019 Jul 20
A Lunar Soirée
7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 moon landing at this one-of-a-kind evening event exclusively for guests 21+. Enjoy cocktails, beer, light refreshments, and 60s music, as well as moon-inspired demonstrations and activities. More details on the full program coming soon!
Cost: $20 for members; $25 for nonmembers.
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2019 Jul 13
Art Workshop: Making Art in the Landscape
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join Paul Olson, the Arnold Arboretum's exhibiting artist of Drawn to Paint, for a sketching workshop "en plein air" (outside, in the landscape). Olson, an instructor at Mass College of Art and RISD, will focus on teaching you to sketch trees from direct observation outdoors. He will encourage you to think about simplifying your design with just the essential shapes to make a good composition in light pencil. Then, you can use ink and water for an expressive tonal image. Bring pencils and sketchbooks; some supplies will be available.
Cost: $10 for...
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2019 Jul 13
Exploring Science Together: Bugs!
10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Take a closer look and explore the world of minuscule bugs! Learn through hands-on activities designed to show you how to classify and identify these numerous and diverse creatures! Participate in activities in our incredible arthropods gallery. Observe and touch live invertebrates, and then go outside and collect some of your own. Dig in the dirt and learn how invertebrates help people compost food waste into soil. Create your own scientific equipment that will help you continue the study of entomology at home.
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