Newton Cultural Alliance

Weekly Winter Farmer's Market
2024-01-24 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-31 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-07 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-14 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-21 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-28 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-05 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-19 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Winter Farmers Market
The Good Food Farm will be again hosting an organic food market at The Allen Center. The Winter Market’s new hours are Tuesdays, 12:00- 2:00 pm, weather permitting. Purchase fresh fruits and vegetables such as beets, carrots, kohlrabi, potatoes, red and green cabbage, turnips, microgreens, apples, and multiple types of squash. There will also be(e) honey, pickled beets, pickled carrots, applesauce, pasture-raised eggs, and organic popcorn! Click here to learn more about The Good Food Farm’s organic practices and weekly offerings.

Cherry Street Music presents Nuevo Tango
2024-02-04 15:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Cherry Street Music: Nuuvo Tango
Sunday, February 4, 3:00 pm
Next up in Cherry Street Music’s Classical with Twist concert series is a Latin-inspired program Nuevo Tango, curated by Artistic Director Allison Eldredge. The Allen Center will host an intimate afternoon program featuring Carlos Gabel’s “Por una Cabeza” arr. John Williams, and Piazzolla’s “L’Histoire du Tango” features the Philadelphia Orchestra principal bassoon, Daniel Matsukawa. The “twist” for this program is back by popular demand students from Boston String Academy, along with violinists Markus Placci, Tony Morales, and BSA co-founders Mariesther and Marielisa Alvarez in works by Vivaldi and tangos from south of the border.

Newton Baroque presents Concerts Royaux: Chamber Music at the Court of the young Louis XV
2024-04-12 08:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Concerts Royaux: Chamber Music at the Court of the young Louis XV
Featuring the noble Concerts Royaux by François Couperin and other chamber music written for performance at the Versailles court by Joseph Bodin de Boismotier.
Julia Glenn – Violin, Alison Gangler – Oboe, Mary Oleskiewicz – flute, Laura Jeppesen – Viola da gamba, Sarah Freiberg Ellison – cello, Andrus Madsen – Harpsichord

Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts at The Allen Center
2024-05-18 18:00 - 21:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
The 9th Annual Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts is back. The Festival will be a three-day event with The Allen Center hosting the 2nd day on May 18th. The Festival held from May 17-19th will have tons music styles with something for everyone to enjoy! All festival performances are free, accessible and open to all.

May 18th
The Allen Center for the Arts, 35 Webster St, West Newton
4:00 p.m. Amanda Shea & Grey Held – Spoken Word
5:00 p.m. Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
6:30 p.m. Hankus Netsky & Eden MacAdam-Somer – Klezmer
7:30 p.m. Dominique Eade & George Russell Jr. – Duke Ellington Tribute

NCA presents The Strawberry Festival
2024-06-08 18:30 - 21:30 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Save the date!
NCA’s annual Strawberry Festival returns in June! As a lover of programming and good-time gathering at The Allen Center you’re invited! This NCA fun-filled social event of the year, rich with camaraderie, live performances, fine food & drink, a chance to support the NCA, and most importantly, mouth-watering strawberries is not to be missed!
Check out The Strawberry Festival website for more information.

Sheffield Chamber Players presents "Event Horizon"
2024-06-15 15:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Sheffield Chamber Players will present an intimate public performance on Saturday, June 15th at 3pm at The Allen Center. This concert will close out their 10th season. Event Horizon will feature Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté’s rustic and catchy Tegere Tulon, Valentyn Silvestrov’s mesmerizing String Quartet No.1, and Dvořák’s monumental “American” String Quintet. Tickets are available here.

Newton Baroque presents: Jewels from the South: Harpsichord Music by Pachelbel, Froberger, Kerll, and Muffat
2025-09-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Nathaniel Topliff Allen House, 35 Webster St., Newton, M, 02465, United States
Join us for a program of music for harpsichord from South Germany. Like the green hills of Lower Bavaria, this music is warm, friendly, and inviting. Andrus will play toccatas, suites, and variation sets by Johann Jakob Froberger, Johann Kaspar Kerll, Johann Pachelbel, and Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer.

Harvest and the Hunt
2025-10-18 15:00 - 16:30 | the allen center, 35 Webster Street, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Fall is in the air! Prepare to celebrate the extraordinary beauty of autumn with The Highland Glee Club Men’s Chorus. Warm tones of the season for mannercor, followed by an Oktoberfest-style reception complete with beer and pretzels! Gorgeous part-songs of Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and more, along with festive Czech folksongs celebrating the harvest. All in the wooded, intimate space of Newton’s Allen House. Don’t miss it. Info and tickets at www.highlandgleeclub.com

40th Anniversary Boston Jazz Voices Concert
2025-11-02 15:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Join Boston Jazz Voices as we celebrate 40 years of making beautiful music together.
The group was founded in 1985 by a bunch of barbershoppers looking to expand their musicianship by singing the great arrangements of Gene Puerling, The Singers Unlimited, and The Hi-Los. This concert will include songs from each decade of our history.
Reception to follow.

Newton Baroque presents Bringing it Home with Brescianello
2026-02-27 19:30 - 21:30 | Nathaniel Topliff Allen House, 35 Webster St., Newton, M, 02465, United States
Newton Baroque presents music of the Stuttgart Court.
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (ca. 1690 to 1758) grew up in Bologna and spent much of his career at the courts of Munich and Stuttgart. His Concerti a tre are richly imaginative trio sonatas that combine the intimacy of chamber music with the brilliance of concerto-style violin writing. Each work functions like a concerto for two violins, unfolding without the support of a full orchestra.
Like many Italian musicians who were recruited to German courts in the eighteenth century, Brescianello is not widely known today. In his own time, however, he was highly respected, particularly for his violin concertos. These works offer a vivid glimpse into the cosmopolitan musical life of the German courts and showcase a distinctive voice at the crossroads of Italian virtuosity and German refinement.
More information available at https://www.newtonbaroque.org/

New Art Center presents Art and Healing: Art Therapists on Creating Connections
2026-03-12 18:30 - 19:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
An illuminating talk with practicing studio artists and art therapists, Erin Palazzolo Loparo, M.S.-ATR and Tova Speter, M.A., LMHC, as they explore the intersection of personal creative practice and community-based healing.
This event is free and open to the public, light refreshments will be served.
View the work of Erin Loparo, Tova Speter, and other artists on view March 20th –May 1st in the Art and Healing exhibition at the Mosesian Center for the Arts.
