Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 3
2020-10-22 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 3:
Please join the principal winds of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra for a fabulous program of quintet music, all by American composers. We are so excited about this concert! We will travel through a couple of standards, the gorgeous Summer Music by Samuel Barber, the perfectly danceable Partita by Irving Fine, and also visit a couple of pieces that may be less familiar. Umoja, meaning unity, written by one of our top young American composers, Valerie Coleman, and is more timely than ever. We go back in time a bit with an arrangement of Summerland by the formidable and under performed William Grant Still, originally written for solo piano in 1936. And we couldn’t resist throwing in a nod to Paris with some Gershwin just for fun, because who doesn’t need some fun these days? We hope you’ll enjoy the journey as much as we will.

BARBER Summer Music, Op. 31
FINE Partita
Valerie COLEMAN Umoja
STILL Summerland
GERSHWIN An American in Paris

MUSICIANS
Ann Bobo, flute
Nancy Dimock, oboe
Ian Greitzer, clarinet
Ron Haroutunian, bassoon
Robert Marlatt, horn

Newton Free Library: Early Voting
2020-10-23 08:30 - 17:00, 2020-10-24 10:00 - 16:00, 2020-10-25 10:00 - 16:00, 2020-10-26 08:30 - 17:00, 2020-10-27 08:30 - 17:00, 2020-10-28 08:30 - 17:00, 2020-10-29 08:30 - 17:00, 2020-10-30 08:30 - 17:00 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Vote Early In Person
If you are a registered voter in Newton, you can vote early in person at the Newton Free Library’s Druker Auditorium, every day starting on Saturday, October 17 until Friday, October 30, 2020. Voting will be open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm; and Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Click here to check if you’re registered to vote, or view a sample ballot.

Newton Free Library presents: ELL Twentieth Century Women - Bridging Cultures/Breaking Barriers
2020-10-23 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-10-30 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-11-06 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-11-13 13:00 - 14:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
ELL Twentieth Century Women: Bridging Cultures/Breaking Barriers is a free conversation group on Zoom for high intermediate to advanced adult English learners. In this class, we will examine and discuss the lives of 20th (and 21st) century women who challenged societal barriers in their pursuit of careers in fields as varied as athletics, business, government and law, humanities, medicine, and the sciences.
The group meets on 8 Friday afternoons, beginning on October 2, 2020.
Limited to 8 students. Online registration (required) begins September 10 at 9:00 am.
When you register, you sign up for all 8 Friday afternoon sessions.
Click here to register.

New Art Center online: Contemporary Explorations
2020-10-27 09:30 - 12:30, 2020-11-03 09:30 - 12:30, 2020-11-10 09:30 - 12:30
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
This course for advanced painters offers the chance to develop individual work within a group context. Individual painting and drawing development is facilitated through one-on-one discussions with the instructor and group critiques. No oil paint or oil paint products are allowed for this class. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Venue: Live Online Learning (Zoom)

New Art Center online: Painting Believable Light - "Glow"
2020-10-27 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-03 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-10 13:00 - 17:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
What makes a painting “glow?” What is the glowing quality that appears in the work of many master painters? How does an artist make this happen? To communicate a feeling of believable light in a painting, and to make a painting glow, artists must make certain decisions early in the painting process. This class includes a comprehensive exploration of the “glow factor.” Topics will include texture, transparency, color, and discussions about the creative process challenges. For intermediate and advanced painters. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 1:00PM – 5:00PM
Venue: Washington Park

Newton Free Library online: Raising Anti-Racist Kids
2020-10-27 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for the first in a multi-part educational series on being an anti-racist. Cosponsored by the FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice), Harmony Foundation and Newton Human Rights Commission.
This program is part of Overdue: Confronting Race and Racism in Newton, a city-wide read and series of events and conversations on race and racism. Join the community by reading either How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi or So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and watch the library’s homepage for details on upcoming events.
If you have previously registered (when the session was to be held in August) your signup is stil valid. Please do not register twice.
All others, please register (required) here. An email with a link for the webinar will be sent out prior to the event.

Newton Free Library online: "New Kid" Author Jerry Craft
2020-10-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Newbery Award and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author/illustrator Jerry Craft takes us behind the scenes of his bestselling graphic novels New Kid and the upcoming Class Act. Join us on Zoom as Jerry gives tweens and their families a look into his writing and drawing process. This event will be moderated by Morgan Harper, a Library Teacher at Peirce and Williams Elementary Schools. For 5th to 8th-graders and their families.
Please use this google form to register for this event. We will send participants the Zoom link on the day of the event. Also, look for related events during the month of October.
This program is part of Overdue: Confronting Race and Racism in Newton, a city-wide read and series of events and conversations on race and racism.

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 4
2020-11-05 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 4:
Cellist Aron Zelkowicz is joined by pianist Christina Wright-Ivanova for a unique chamber music program that celebrates the American spirit. Twentieth and twenty-first century music for cello and piano showcase a variety of styles via tiny snapshots or “vignettes” from the American vernacular including jazz, blues, and folksong. Zelkowicz, a cellist with the ProArte Chamber Orchestra and many other local ensembles, and Wright-Ivanova, a professor at Keene State College, offer their interpretations of music by Carter Pann, Gabriela Lena Frank, Stacey Garrop, Kevin Puts and Stephen Paulus.

MUSICIANS
Aaron Zelkowicz, cello
Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano

SCC Virtual Screening: Pelle the Conqueror
2020-11-13, 2020-11-14, 2020-11-15, 2020-11-16, 2020-11-17 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for a 30th anniversary remastered version screening of Pelle the Conqueror. The film won the Palme d’Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival The film also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1988; it was submitted to the Academy by the Danish government, giving Denmark its second consecutive win after Babette’s Feast.
Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark’s Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship which sustains them through a difficult year.
The film is 150 minutes, and will be available to watch online from Friday, November 13th until Friday, December 11th. Click here to watch the film’s trailer and learn more about how to watch.

SCC Virtual Screening: When the Raven Flies
2020-11-15, 2020-11-16, 2020-11-17 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson‘s first Viking film, where he presents a new concept of the Viking era, destroying the stereotype Hollywood image. Set in the middle Ages, the film tells the story of the revenge of Gestur, an Irishman who as a child witnessed the murder of his parents by two Norwegian Vikings, the foster-brothers Thór and Erik, and the taking of his sister as a slave. Gest follows their trail to Iceland and incites their mutual distrust and hatred. His sister stands between two men: the one who once ravished her, the father of her beloved son, and her brother, whom she has also learned to love, and who now wants to rescue her and to avenge their parents’ death.
Film followed by a Q & A with writer and director Hrafn Gunnlaugsson. Interviewed by author of Norse Mythology for Bostonians: A Transcription of the Impudent Edda, Rowdy Geirsson and author illustrator of Barbarian Lord, Matt Smith.
The film is 109 minutes with English subtitles, and will be available to watch online from Sunday, November 15th until Tuesday, November 15th. Cost is $15 ; $7 for SCC Members. Click here to watch trailer and learn more.
