5 Things To Do This Week – 10/30-11/5

The Newton Cultural Alliance highlights our member events happening around Newton this week. Happy Halloween!

*Newton Free Library presents After Suffrage: A 20/20 Perspective on Women’s Rights on Wednesday, October 30, at 7:00 p.m. in their Druker Auditorium, 330 Homer Street, Newton. Join author Barbara Berenson for a talk that will explore how women have fared politically and legally over the past century. Consider how women activists have built alliances, review some of the key developments over the past century, including a discussion of the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment, and discuss the historical connections between women who opposed suffrage and those who oppose women’s rights today. This program is co-sponsored by Historic Newton, Newton Human Rights Commission, and the League of Women Voters/Newton. FREE and open to the public. More info at newtonfreelibrary.net.

*NewTV presents the class Mock Multi-Camera Field Shoot on Wednesday, October 31, at 6:30 p.m. at the NewTV studio, 23 Needham Street, Newton. Getting ready to film an event or want to improve your documentary work? From setup to completion, this class at NewTV will teach you everything you need to know to create a professional multi-camera field shoot. Free with NewTV membership; membership starts at $25. Registration required. More info at newtv.org.

*Theatre Ink presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap on Thursday, October 31, through Saturday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Newton North High School, 457 Walnut Street, Newtonville. Enjoy this superbly intriguing tale by the foremost mystery writer of her time. Directed by Noah Leikind and Lonnie Miller. Tickets are $8. More info and tickets at http://www.theatreink.net/index.html.

*Newton Nomadic Theater presents The Revolutionists on Friday, November 1, and Saturday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Gregorian Rugs, 2284 Washington Street, Newton Lower Falls. Four women lose their heads in this hilarious and poignant comedy set during the French Revolution. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to build a barricade! Tickets are $25. More info and tickets at https://sites.google.com/site/newtonnomadictheater/the-revolutionists.

*New Art Center presents a Personal Geometry Weekend Workshop – Textile Collage on Friday, November 1 through Sunday, November 3, from 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. at their location at 61 Washington Park, Newton. In this three-day workshop, explore dyeing lengths of silk organza for textile collage and silk thread for hand stitching. You will focus on designing with a confined palette of solid colors in cotton, linen, and silk (out of your stash). Through repetition and layering of simple geometric forms (circles, squares, triangles), you will develop a graphic poem in fabrics. Workshop includes machine and hand stitching. Cost is $290. More info at newartcenter.org.