New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
2021-11-23 15:30 - 16:30, 2021-11-30 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Children will explore theater games, stories and shorter character pieces, using imagination and creative skills, in this exciting class. Have fun as you develop self confidence and showmanship while working with award winning actor and sought-after Boston drama teacher Danny Bolton. Many of you know Danny as New Art Center’s summer performance instructor since 2004. Click here to register.

Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes - Charlotte's Web
2021-11-24 16:00 - 17:30, 2021-11-25 16:00 - 17:30, 2021-11-29 16:00 - 17:30, 2021-12-01 16:00 - 17:30, 2021-12-02 16:00 - 17:30, 2021-12-06 16:00 - 17:30, 2021-12-08 16:00 - 17:30, 2021-12-09 16:00 - 17:30 | First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton, 1326 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Join lovable pig Wilbur and his best friend, Charlotte the spider, in this fun, heartwarming re-telling of E.B. White’s classic story, Charlotte’s Web. We’ve got dancing, acting, scenery-making, and parts for everybody! ​Tuition: $385. Open to Students in Grades K-5
Location for all classes: FUUSN – First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton
1326 Washington St, Newton, MA 02465
We follow closings for all Newton Public school holidays and snow days.
We want theatre to be accessible to everyone.
If you are interested in learning more about Newton Theatre Kids scholarships, please email Melissa.

New Art Center presents: Teen Zine - GR 9-12
2021-11-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
In this 6-week course students will print and produce their own zine – a small circulation of self-published work using a combination of both text and imagery. Students will develop their own short stories and/or poems and use these pieces to create visual imagery to support their writing. By the end the of the course students will print a limited-edition zine using a variety of print methods both by hand and using a press. Click here to register.
Notes: no class 11/24

Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes - Devising Ensemble
2021-11-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-12-02 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-12-09 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-12-16 18:30 - 20:00 | First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton, 1326 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Join NTK’s all new Devising Ensemble! Our first program for middle schoolers gives participants the opportunity to explore new forms of performance and hone their artistic skills, all while creating an original piece of theatre as an ensemble. Specifically tailored to the interests of the students, this class is an excellent opportunity for young performers to expand their artistic horizons and learn more about their craft. ​Open to Students in Grades 6-8. ​Tuition: $385
Thursdays from 6:30-8 pm
September 9th through December 16th
​Taught by Abby Lass
Location for all classes: FUUSN – First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton
1326 Washington St, Newton, MA 02465
We follow closings for all Newton Public school holidays and snow days.
We want theatre to be accessible to everyone.
If you are interested in learning more about Newton Theatre Kids scholarships, please email Melissa.

Newton Free Library presents: The Breaking of Baseball's Color Barrier with Ted Reinstein
2021-11-30 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
This program is presented in partnership with Tewksbury Public Library, the program sponsor. Please register here.
Join author and longtime Chronicle reporter Ted Reinstein for a presentation on his latest book, Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier. The book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. Readers will learn that in 1884 Moses Fleetwood Walker was actually the first black player in professional baseball and, for a time, integrated teams were not that unusual. Then, as segregation In the U.S. hardened and exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, the battle for integration began anew.
Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for Chronicle, WCVB-TV/Boston’s award-winning nightly news magazine since 1997. His other books include New England Notebook and Wicked Pissed.
Sponsored by the Corning Foundation and pesented in collaboration with Libraries Working Towards Social Justice.
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New Art Center Artist Talk: Anthony Romero & Çaca Yvaire
2021-12-03 18:00 - 19:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Anthony Romero is a Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting artists and communities of color. His collaborative practice engages intercultural contact and historical narratives in order to generate reparative counter-images and social transformation. Recent projects and performances have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston) and the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada).

Çaca Yvaire is an Afro-Indigenous territorial scholar-practitioner and student of planetary science, political geoecology, and the arts. He brings a unique lens to conservation work. He is primarily invested in stimulating and uplifting an infrastructure that supports a rich and imaginative solidarity between lifeways, and honoring the varied traditions of relating sustainably to the world around us through non-industrial agroecology, agriculture, silviculture, aquaculture, etc. that have been historically side-lined by imperialist design.
Register here.

New Art Center presents: Luminaria Workshop for Parents and Kids
2021-12-05 10:00 - 11:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Make a festive luminaria candle-holder to adorn your home this winter! Parents and kids will add their creative twist to a lovely luminaria decoration for themselves or as a gift for friends and family. Children younger than 2nd grade must be accompanied by an adult. All houses will be made from red air dry clay and can hold a battery-operated tea light. Click here to register.

Highland Glee Club presents: A Holiday Songfest
2021-12-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Christ Episcopal Church, 1132 Highland Ave., Needham Heights, MA, 02494, United States
Featuring traditional favorites from Gregorian Chant to Jazz, Franz Schubert to Irving Berlin, selections for Christmas and Chanukah, and a singalong – holiday fun for the whole family!

Ample free parking across the street. Reception to follow.

Historic Holidays in Newton
2021-12-07 17:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
How did residents of Newton celebrate the winter holidays in previous centuries? Our short videos explain family traditions at the Jackson Homestead and the Durant-Kenrick House in the 18th through 20th centuries, including baking gingerbread, donating clothing and toys to Newtonians in need — and avoiding festivities altogether. Gain a perspective on the holidays and receive a recipe to try in this program that takes place Tuesday, December 7 at 5:00 p.m. on Zoom. Register here.

Theatre Ink presents: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2021-12-08 19:30, 2021-12-09 19:30, 2021-12-10 19:30, 2021-12-11 19:30 | Newton North High School, 457 Walnut St, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.
Purchase in-person tickets HERE. For virtual tickets, click HERE.

Newton Free Library presents: Paul-André Bempéchat Performs Beethoven Sonatas
2021-12-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Paul-André Bempéchat will return to the Facebook Live stage to perform a selection of Beethoven’s sonatas!
(You do not need to have a Facebook account to attend.)
Paul-André Bempéchat is Music Fellow at Harvard’s Cabot House. A Juilliard and Sorbonne graduate, he has enjoyed a forty-year performing and teaching career on both sides of the Atlantic, having performed at venues as prestigious as Berlin’s Konzerthaus, the Vienna Festival, Jordan Hall and Alice Tully Hall.
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Zamir Chorale of Boston presents: Hanukkah Happens
2021-12-23 19:30 | Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Mark your calendars for our Hanukkah Happens concert featuring a full orchestra. Gala concert with Zamir orchestra, Josh Jacobson and Cantor Elias Rosemberg joining us for many old and recent favorites. The program will include Machtenberg’s “Shehecheyonu,” Bloch’s “Kedushah” (from the Sacred Service ), Jagoda’s “Ocho Kandelikas,” and a medley of melodies by Debbie Friedman arranged by Jeremiah Klarman.

Newton Free Library presents: A Night in the Amazon with Erica Ferencik
2022-01-11 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join Erica Ferencik for a night in the Amazon! Thirty-foot anacondas; puppy-sized spiders; SUV-length electric eels that can kill you with a glancing blow – these are some of the creatures that Erica encountered on her month-long journey of survival in the Peruvian rainforest while researching her book, Into the Jungle. Her incredible story is sure to thrill all!
There is nowhere on earth Erica Ferencik won’t go to take you out of your head and into the great wild world. An award-winning novelist, Ferencik writes adventure stories featuring women who brave not only internal struggles, but face extreme challenges in their environment: remote forests, steaming jungles and desolated icescapes.
If you wish to own a copy of Into the Jungle, it is available at Newtonville Books here.
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Newton Free Library presents: Creating Public TV Shows with Roberto Mighty
2022-01-18 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join filmmaker, Roberto Mighty, for a session in which he will talk about the process of creating and producing his three new TV shows that are airing nationwide on public television. Learn why World’s Greatest Cemeteries, getting dot OLDER and Legacy of Love are all labors of love for this former college professor who is a former Newton resident!
Roberto Mighty, MFA, is America’s first Artist-in-Residence at a National Historic Landmark cemetery, where he produced 29 short films about diverse historical figures, horticulture, landscape and funerary iconography. Roberto is also Host/Producer of getting dot OLDER, his new 13 episode, half hour public television series about baby boomers across America — slated for release by APT in January, 2022 . Roberto’s historical documentary about Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, Legacy of Love, was broadcast on WGBH in 2020. He is Founder and Principal of Celestial Media LLC, a new Film/TV/Multimedia studio specializing in creative, inclusive content for today’s audiences. Visit Roberto’s website. Image ©2021_Roberto Mighty. Credit: Shawn Read
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Historic Newton presents: Boston's Great Innovations
2022-01-27 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
What makes Boston one of the world’s top innovation centers? Join Robert Krim and Alan Earls, co-authors of Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics-Innovations that Changed the World, as they reinterpret Boston history through the lens of innovation. Trace four centuries of this history to learn about scientific discoveries, groundbreaking social policies, and other innovations – some with Newton ties – that made a lasting impact. Part of the Newton History Series co-sponsored by Historic Newton and the Newton Free Library. Register here for this Zoom program.
