Newton Free Library presents: Earth Matters - Folk Concert with the Barbara Cassidy Band
2021-06-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join the Barbara Cassidy Band for a YouTube live concert of folk, pop and original songs about the earth, nature and natural resources.
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
2021-06-10 17:30, 2021-06-11 17:30, 2021-06-12 17:30, 2021-06-13 17:30, 2021-06-18 17:30, 2021-06-19 13:00, 2021-06-20 17:30, 2021-06-23 17:30 and 10 more dates | The Commander’s Mansion, 440 Talcott Avenue, Watertown, MA, 02472, United States
Listen to Sipu – A Watertown Historical Moving Play

By Morgan (Mwalim) J. Peters
Directed by Jaime Carrillo

Following the success of New Rep’s first Historical Moving Play, the Charles W. Experience, audiences were clamoring for more. Listen to Sipu answers the call with a captivating and powerful story that illuminates Watertown’s Indigenous history. Join in on a socially-distanced performance lead by a modern-day Tour Guide and meet Sipu, a quick-witted Indigenous woman who’s more than willing to correct misinformation when she hears it. Armed with facts, The Tour Guide begins describing Watertown’s local history only to find that the facts are missing a lot of truths. Sipu is ready to step in and set the record straight, as long as audiences are ready to listen. Click here to buy tickets.

Newton Free Library presents: The Cooking Gene with Michael Twitty
2021-06-10 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
This program is presented in partnership with the Groton Public Library. Please register here.
For African American culinary historian Michael W. Twitty there was a giant hole in the story of American cooking as big as the one in the story of most African American families. Putting the microscope on himself, Michael decided to fully trace out his family history through the story of Southern and American food. Using genetic research, historic interpretation, nature study, heirloom gardening and interviews with contemporary voices in food, his journey led him back to his family’s origins in West and Central Africa and a front ring seat in the debate over race and food in American life. Join Michael W. Twitty for an engaging evening moderated by Chef Bill, a Massachusetts-based chef and author. You can follow Michael Twitty on his popular blog, Afroculinara.
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Mary Stuart: A Collaboration of Song and Text
2021-06-11 20:00 - 21:30, 2021-06-12 20:00 - 21:30, 2021-06-13 15:00 - 16:30 | Hyde Bandshell, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton, MA, 02461, United States
Two queens; one throne. Two women pitted against each other in a man’s world. Find out who wins this renaissance-style game of thrones in a sharp new adaptation of Schiller’s drama.
Starring Linda Goetz as Queen Elizabeth, Sarah Brooke Vanaman as Mary, Queen of Scots, and Tatiana Ramos as Lord Burleigh.
Music by Lady Mary Dering and Miss Abrams performed by the musicians of Cappella Clausura.
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Newton Free Library presents: An American History of the Long Road to Freedom
2021-06-14 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join Dr. Matthew Delmont for a program that will explore the origins and importance of Juneteenth – a celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. – and of the generations of Black Americans who have fought for freedom and equality. Juneteenth was first celebrated in Texas to commemorate the date when U.S. Army troops and news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the state on June 19, 1865. Today, nearly every state observes this date, including Massachusetts, which will celebrate Juneteenth as a state holiday for the first time this year. Juneteenth is a time for joy, for building community and for talking honestly about our nation’s history.
Dr. Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. An expert on African-American History and the history of Civil Rights, he is the author four books, including most recently, Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers. His next book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, will be published by Viking Books in 2022. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholar Award to support this research. He regularly shares his research with media outlets, including the New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic and Washington Post. This program is cosponsored by the Newton Human Rights Commission.
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Pro Arte's Spring Series: Salon 3
2021-06-17 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Spring Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are 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.
Dance in Celebration and Reflection
Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States. We will come together in contemplation of the horrors of slavery and its lasting legacy, in celebration of emancipation, and in honor of the continuing work that must be done to eradicate white supremacy. We will share three works by African American composers, each of which has moments of dance and reflection. Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor weaves together her beautiful lyric writing and African American vernacular with daring chromaticism and vibrant movement. The third movement (of four) is a Juba, a dance developed by Africans brought to America against their will. Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Modes is a beautiful and compact three-movement work, which ends with an energetic, movement-inspiring finale. Wynton Marsalis’ At the Octoroon Balls is a set of scenes inspired by his early life in New Orleans. We will play three movements from this work – Creole Contradanzas, Blue Lights on the Bayou, and the Rampart Street Row House Rag.
Program:
PRICE String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
DOROTHY RUDD MOORE Modes
WYNTON MARSALIS At the Octoroon Balls
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Historic Newton presents: Juneteenth Celebration
2021-06-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Hyde Bandshell, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton, MA, 02461, United States
Celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, with Newton area speakers, musical performances, local artwork and a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Historic Newton will have a table with literature on the history Juneteenth. Masks and social distancing will be required.
Rain date, Saturday, June 26. Co-sponsored by the Newton Cultural Council, Newton Community Pride, FORJ, and the Harmony Foundation. Register here.

Newton Free Library presents: An Evening with author Nate Marshall
2021-06-28 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
This program is presented in partnership with the Chelmsford Public Library. Please register here.
Join Nate Marshall, writer, rapper and educator for a reading from his recent collection, Finna (2020).
Definition of finna, created by the author: fin·na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular English] (2) eye dialect spelling of “fixing to” (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow
These poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy, and the use of the Black vernacular in America’s vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets. Finna explores the erasure of peoples in the American narrative, asks how gendered language can provoke violence and finally, how the Black vernacular, expands our notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope:
nothing about our people is romantic
& it shouldn’t be. our people deserve
poetry without meter. we deserve our
own jagged rhythm & our own uneven
walk towards sun. you make happening happen.
we happen to love. this is our greatest
action.
Nate Marshall is the author and editor of numerous works including Finna, Wild Hundreds, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis Esq. He teaches creative writing and literature at Colorado College. Nate was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago.
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New Art Center presents: Painting Intensive
2021-07-02 09:30 - 13:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Intermediate and advanced students explore and develop personal themes while pushing their skills to the limit. Demos, group exercises, color theory, advanced painting techniques with regular critique and conversation support and extend creativity and competency. Click here for registration.

Historic Newton presents: Reading Frederick Douglass Together
2021-07-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Jackson Homestead and Museum, 527 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
Come and hear a public reading of the famous Frederick Douglass address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The museum will be open special hours that day from noon to 5 p.m. with free admission. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the back lawn of the Homestead. Funded by a grant from Mass Humanities.

New Philharmonia Orchestra Pops Concert
2021-07-05 18:30 | United Kingdom
An exciting program celebrating America, our freedoms, our culture, and our community! Outdoors at the Newton Centre Bowl – bring your lawn chairs and picnic and join the fun as we celebrate July 4th on July 5th at 6:30 PM. The program will feature a variety of celebratory American musical treats and Aaron Copland’s iconic “Lincoln Portrait,” with special guest Mayor Ruthanne Fuller narrating excerpts of Abraham Lincoln’s great documents
