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SUMMARY:NAA presents Rhythm of Color at The Allen Center
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBITION & AWARD CEREMONY: The Allen Center\, The Rhythm of Color\nWelcome to the RHYTHM of COLOR!\n\n\n\n\nEnd the year with a splash of color! Join the NAA for this annual Allen Center Expo! Let your creative side go wild. Explore your inner color any way you like.\nExhibition: January 14 – March 26\nAward Presentation: Rescheduled to Wednesday\, March 19 7-9 pm\, weather dependent \nABOUT THE JUROR\nSantiago Hernandez is a Cuban-born visual artist and musician based in Boston\, MA. Although trained in traditional techniques of working from observation\, his work has evolved to reflect graphic design\, architectural rendering\, geometric abstraction\, and music.  Santiago currently teaches Fine Arts at Lesley University College of Art & Design and at Mass College of Art & Design. In addition\, he performs as a jazz drummer and percussionist throughout the Boston area with his trio Detour Ahead.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/naa-presents-rhythm-of-color-at-the-allen-center/
LOCATION:The Allen Center\, 35 Webster St\, WEST NEWTON\, MA\, 02465\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newton Art Association":MAILTO:info@newtonartassociation.com
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SUMMARY:Amherst Early Music Classes
DESCRIPTION:Amherst Early Music Classes \nThe Secret of Sound with Saskia Coolen\n1:00 – 2:30 pm\, 7 February 2026\nSaskia Coolen Recorder\nEverything you always wanted to know about sound but were too afraid to ask! \nWith the help of a glass of water\, a straw\, and two different recorders from your own collection\, we are going to explore how to improve our sound production. \nWhat is a good sound? As early as 1535\, Sylvestro Ganassi tells us the recorder should imitate the human voice. The recorder was considered the instrument closest to the voice and the breath. In this set of exercises\, our recorder makes the breath audible while the water makes the breath visible! Open to: all recorder players\, all levels. Pitch: A=440\, 415 \n30.00 USD\nQuantity\n1\nMattheson Trios with Héloïse Degrugillier\n3:00 – 4:30 pm\, 7 February 2026\nHéloïse Degrugillier ** Recorder\nJohann Mattheson believed music should speak. Through gesture\, affect\, and rhetorical figures\, we will shape phrasing and dialogue so the music persuades\, questions\, and sings. The recorder trio becomes a conversation—eloquent\, expressive\, and alive. \nOpen to: recorder players\, upper intermediate to advanced. Pitch: A=440 \n30.00 USD\nQuantity\n1\nBe My (Robert) Valentine – Music for Flutes & Recorders with Na’ama Lion\n1:00 – 2:30 pm\, 8 February 2026\nNa’ama Lion Flute\nLittle known duets arranged by a great master: Hotteterre’s arrangements of (violin?) duets by Robert Valentine for 2 flutes. Some of these duets work well on recorders too! Beautiful music\, and also an opportunity to review Hotteterre’s French ornaments\, as these duets are less heavily ornamented than Hotteterre’s own music\, and provide a great opportunity to ease into the language of French ornaments. Open to: flutes and recorders. Pitch: A=415 \n30.00 USD\nQuantity\n1\nMusic of Van Eyck with Rainer Beckmann\n3:00 – 4:30 pm\, 8 February 2026\nRainer Beckmann * Recorder\nOn pleasant summer evenings in mid-17th-century Utrecht\, visitors strolling through the Janskerkhof (St. John’s Churchyard) could often enjoy Jacob van Eyck’s remarkable recorder playing. He performed elaborate sets of variations on popular tunes and psalm melodies of his time. Nearly 150 of these solo pieces survive in the two volumes of Der Fluyten Lust-hof (“The Flute’s Garden of Delight”)\, printed in Amsterdam between 1644 and 1649. \nThis class focuses on the English tunes included in Der Fluyten Lust-hof. We will explore consort settings of songs and dances by William Lawes\, John Dowland\, Robert Jones\, and others that bear witness to the popularity of these melodies. Selected variations by van Eyck on the same tunes will further offer insight into his art of variation and compositional process. Open to: recorder players (and all instrumentalists/singers reading treble clef)\, intermediate and up. Pitch: A= 440Hz
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/amherst-early-music-classes-8/
LOCATION:MA
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ORGANIZER;CN="Amherst Early Music":MAILTO:info@amherstearlymusic.org
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SUMMARY:West Newton Cinema presents Night Fight
DESCRIPTION:Night Fight is a hybrid documentary\, nonfiction framed with creative\, cinematic storytelling directed and edited by Khary Saeed Jones. The film emerges from a harrowing incident in 2017 when Jones was followed by a racist vigilante along back roads in rural Canada. Over time\, that encounter cast a long shadow over his life\, prompting a deep\, introspective journey to understand not just what happened\, but how it shaped him. \nRather than a conventional documentary\, Night Fight weaves together Jones’s personal reflections\, self-portrait video fragments\, and interviews with academics\, artists\, and writers about racial violence\, memory\, and psychological impact. The narrative oscillates between the literal journey back to the site of the incident and an emotional\, internal journey toward meaning and healing. \nDescribed as a candid\, nuanced\, and deeply personal film\, Night Fight confronts systemic and interpersonal racial violence and discrimination. It engages with the challenge of sharing an internal reality that is both singular and emblematic of broader collective experiences. \nJoin us for a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Khary Jones. \nKhary Saeed Jones is an award-winning filmmaker\, editor\, and Professor of the Practice in Drama\, Film\, and Performance Studies at Tufts University\, where he teaches screen storytelling and mentors students in both documentary and scripted projects. Jones holds an MFA in Film Directing and an MA in English from Columbia University\, as well as a BA in English from Morehouse College.\nHis work as a writer-director explores the tensions between fiction\, memory\, and lived experience\, and has screened at major festivals and cultural venues including Sundance\, SXSW\, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York\, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival\, and ICA Boston.
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/west-newton-cinema-presents-night-fight/
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film and Media
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ORGANIZER;CN="West Newton Cinema Foundation":MAILTO:kbrown@mit.edu
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SUMMARY:Lydian String Quartet: An Open Rehearsal
DESCRIPTION:The Naumburg Award-winning Lydian String Quartet\, recently named Ensemble in Residence at The Allen Center\, will deliver the third of four interactive open rehearsals taking place throughout the year. Currently rehearsing music from Beethoven String Quartets Opus 59 #3 and Opus 95 (program subject to change)\, expect the musicians to start and stop\, discuss phrase shaping and dynamics\, and talk between each other. Enjoy the freedom to move around and get up close to the players for this “behind the scenes” look into their rehearsal process. Presented by Cherry Street Music. Click here to purchase tickets. 
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/lydian-string-quartet-at-the-allen-center-2/
LOCATION:The Allen Center\, 35 Webster St\, WEST NEWTON\, MA\, 02465\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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