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Newton Free Library presents: Shipwrecks of Cape Cod – Stories of Tragedy & Triumph
Newton Free Library presents: Shipwrecks of Cape Cod – Stories of Tragedy & Triumph
Cape Cod’s outer beach has always been known for its shipwrecks. Between 1626 and the mid-20th century, this solitary 40-mile stretch of beach and sandbars saw the demise of over 3,000 vessels. It’s been said that if all the wrecks were raised, one could walk from Provincetown to Chatham without getting his or her feet…
Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
Do you like Dogman, Narwhal & Jelly or the Babysitters Club? Come learn about how to make your own comics! We will meet on the first two Wednesdays evenings: February through June. Learn about the ways you can make your comics go KA-POW! as we write, draw, and share. Join us for this beginner's creative writing workshop for children in third and fourth grade. A…
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New Art Center presents: Glass Mosaic Jewelry Workshop
New Art Center presents: Glass Mosaic Jewelry Workshop
Using a wide selection of precut colored glass pieces, beads, iridized and dichroic glass, create a mini mosaic inside a pendant/necklace. Once the glass pieces are glued to the metal, grout your pendants with one of the many colored grouts available and clean your pieces. Voila! You’ll be provided a black leather cord necklace for…
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Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Live and In Person – Oskar Stenmark
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Live and In Person – Oskar Stenmark
Oskar Stenmark and Alex Pryrodny met in New York City 2014 and formed a strong bond over improvisation, jazz and folk music. Now, they are taking their artistic collaboration to a new level by performing live for the first time since 2019. Their focus is now on classical music, paying homage to Scandinavian composers such as Grieg, Stenhammar,…
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
Do you like Dogman, Narwhal & Jelly or the Babysitters Club? Come learn about how to make your own comics! We will meet on the first two Wednesdays evenings: February through June. Learn about the ways you can make your comics go KA-POW! as we write, draw, and share. Join us for this beginner's creative writing workshop for children in third and fourth grade. A…
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Newton Free Library presents: The Cooking Gene with Michael Twitty
Newton Free Library presents: The Cooking Gene with Michael Twitty
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…
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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Newton Free Library presents: An American History of the Long Road to Freedom
Newton Free Library presents: An American History of the Long Road to Freedom
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…
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New Art Center presents: Media Musing
New Art Center presents: Media Musing
Join us for a 6-week come as you are mixed media mashup inspired by our Women in Abstraction exhibition! Students will use mixed media to explore collage and other forms of making. Perfect for making friends with the inner critic, connecting with inspiration, or connecting family and friends. We will center on playful discovery to…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
Historic Newton presents: Juneteenth Celebration
Historic Newton presents: Juneteenth Celebration
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Art Center presents: Media Musing
New Art Center presents: Media Musing
Join us for a 6-week come as you are mixed media mashup inspired by our Women in Abstraction exhibition! Students will use mixed media to explore collage and other forms of making. Perfect for making friends with the inner critic, connecting with inspiration, or connecting family and friends. We will center on playful discovery to…
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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Newton Free Library presents: An Evening with author Nate Marshall
Newton Free Library presents: An Evening with author Nate Marshall
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 (2) eye dialect spelling of “fixing to” (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness…
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New Art Center presents: Media Musing
New Art Center presents: Media Musing
Join us for a 6-week come as you are mixed media mashup inspired by our Women in Abstraction exhibition! Students will use mixed media to explore collage and other forms of making. Perfect for making friends with the inner critic, connecting with inspiration, or connecting family and friends. We will center on playful discovery to…
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New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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New Art Center presents: Painting Intensive
New Art Center presents: Painting Intensive
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.
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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Historic Newton presents: Reading Frederick Douglass Together
Historic Newton presents: Reading Frederick Douglass Together
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…
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
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…
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