Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Twice a year in May and December, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard hosts an exhibition and sale featuring thousands of pieces of original ceramic artwork by participants in Ceramics Program classes. From functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces, this popular exhibition has something for everyone!
More than 95 artists will be showing their work from December 8–11. Admission is free and open to the public.
The sixth annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market is now open! Explore our virtual market to celebrate local entrepreneurship from Allston-Brighton and Cambridge creatives, plus discover handcrafted gifts and one-of-a-kind services.
Listen to a curated playlist from local musicians while you shop, download a color-in-art activity, and feel good about supporting small businesses! 100% of the proceeds from all sales go directly to the vendors. All of our vendors offer shipping (note: turn-...
Nourish your body and spirit under the afterglow of the full moon! As the days get shorter, join yoga teacher and artist, Deborah Johnson, with herbalist and poet, Julissa Emile, to reflect and release during the final week of Bhākti: A Practice Of The Heart.
Learn to tap into inner wisdom and regulate your nervous system with a restorative yoga flow led by Deborah. Then reflect on this past year while you craft a custom tea blend with Julissa. Head home feeling more grounded,...
With its emphasis on pure geometric forms, the 18th-century neoclassical artistic style inspired the design of the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment. In this tour, exhibition designer Elie Glyn will share why artworks are displayed in a particular manner and why the galleries have been modified to look the way they do. Visitors are invited to consider the effect of these choices on their experience of the...
During one of the most oppressive decades of South Korean politics and cinema, Kaidu Club—and its founder Han Okhi—pursued a radically feminist intervention through their spectacular experimental filmmaking.
Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for Non-Harvard Students & Seniors; Free for Harvard ID holders
Filmmaker Michael Roemer will present and discuss Carl Theodor Dreyer’s extraordinary film about a witch hunt that can be interpreted as a stark allegory for life in Denmark under Nazi occupation.
Day of Wrath is the first in the trilogy of extraordinary films about women martyred by rigid patriarchy that marked the final chapter of Carl Dreyer’s legendary career. Although set during the 17th century, the film’s story of a young woman uneasily married to a widowed older parson and shadowed by suspicions of witchcraft has been read by many as a stark allegory of life...
Filmmaker Michael Roemer will be on hand to discuss his impossible-to-see drama about death made for American Playhouse in the early 80s.
Pilgrim, Farewell revisits themes of Dying, but inverts the drama. Whereas it was the dying man’s wife who was angry in the earlier film, for this narrative of a young woman dying, it is she who is furious at her family and the world. Staged minimally, in one setting with a small cast, Pilgrim, Farewell could be called a four-hander or chamber piece, but more elegantly described as a small symphony. It remains...
Actress Brooke Adams will be in-person to discuss Terrence Malick's legendary film, Days of Heaven, that launched her acting career.
Terrence Malick’s second film is set in the Texas Panhandle in 1916, with a plot out of the operas and stage melodramas of that era: lovers on the run pose as brother and sister to find work on a farm, only to have the ailing farmer fall in love with the young woman—Brooke Adams in a role that would beguile audiences as well.
Cost: $15 for general public; Free for Harvard students
Vengeance is Mine is not a lost film, and not necessarily even a forgotten one, as so few saw it to begin with. The film opens with Jo (Brooke Adams), in an unbroken take of over a minute, smiling, thinking, closing her eyes, as she flies into her New England hometown. Jo finds herself witness to a family coming apart under the stress of mental illness, and instead of backing away, is compelled to become more involved in their lives.
Cost: $15 for general public; Free for Harvard students
Roemer was asked by WGBH if he would be interested in making a film about the rites and customs of death. Roemer was interested in exploring the topic, but only from the point of view of those in the process of dying. Three and a half months of interviews with forty people lead to a two-year project. Dying is unlike any other film in its attempt to address the still most taboo of all subjects, saying on camera what few would under any circumstances.
Cost: $15 for general public; Free for Harvard students
Paine Hall (Harvard Music Building), 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join us for the 2023 annual Doft Lecture: Louise Gluck, 2020 Nobel Prize winner in conversation with Professor David Stern.
Louise Glück is the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the 2014 National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night and many more.
Within Cronenberg’s beautifully composed horror film, Adams once again provides a kind of grounding security, light and love—even if it is not to be fully realized—for Christopher Walken’s Johnny, who is unmoored by the psychic powers he acquires after a car accident. Here, as elsewhere in this program, Adams and her onscreen paramour enjoy a sweet chemistry, exposing his vulnerability and longing to be without the burden of his "gift."
Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for Non-Harvard Students & Seniors; Free for Harvard students
Two rare short, frank documentaries by Michael Roemer, one banned and the negative burned, the other a film never shown, or even intended to be shown, save for a few screenings.
Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for Non-Harvard Students & Seniors; Free for Harvard students
