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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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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…
1 event,
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…
1 event,
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…
1 event,
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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6th Annual Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts
Celebrate Newton’s talented musicians, singers, bands, poets, story tellers & more! Free and accessible to all Outdoors at The Hyde Bandstand, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands Outdoors at Suzuki School of Newton, 1615 Beacon Street, Waban Inside at The Allen House Center for the Arts, 35 Webster Street, West Newton Performance Schedule SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021 Suzuki…
Festival of the Arts: Newton Nomadic Theatre’s Story Slam
Festival of the Arts: Newton Nomadic Theatre’s Story Slam
As part of the 6th Annual Newton Festival of the Arts, the Newton Nomadic Theatre presents their next Story Slam. NNT Story Slams have become legendary in Newton featuring everyone from celebrities, politicians, to next door neighbors. They provide the light, you provide the face and the story. The idea is simple - 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…
3 events,
6th Annual Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts
Celebrate Newton’s talented musicians, singers, bands, poets, story tellers & more! Free and accessible to all Outdoors at The Hyde Bandstand, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands Outdoors at Suzuki School of Newton, 1615 Beacon Street, Waban Inside at The Allen House Center for the Arts, 35 Webster Street, West Newton Performance Schedule SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021 Suzuki…
Festival of the Arts: Pro Arte Quartet
Festival of the Arts: Pro Arte Quartet
As part of the 6th Annual Newton Festival of the Arts, enjoy a concert from Pro Arte's Quartet. Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States. The quartet will share three works by African American composers, each of which has moments of dance and reflection. Wynton Marsalis' At the Octoroon Balls…
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: Exploring the Universe Part 1 – Pluto Strikes Back
Newton Free Library presents: Exploring the Universe Part 1 – Pluto Strikes Back
Join Scott Kenyon for a visit to Pluto - the outcast - and only binary planet in the Solar System. Dr. Kenyon will guide a tour of the moons of Pluto and show how this system formed early in the history of the Solar System. This is part one of a two-part series which will continue…
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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 Art Center presents: Japanese Hand-Building Pottery Workshop
New Art Center presents: Japanese Hand-Building Pottery Workshop
Are you interested in making a beautiful pottery bowl without the struggle of mastering wheel-throwing techniques? This workshop is for all levels from complete beginners to experienced potters who wish to explore Japanese pottery making.“Tebineri” is a traditional Japanese hand-building pottery technique. In this 2 day workshop, students will learn the “Tebineri” technique to make…
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Newton Free Library presents: Prohibition Wine
Newton Free Library presents: Prohibition Wine
Join us for an author talk with TAB columnist and community activist, Marian Leah Knapp. Her new book, Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman’s Daring in Twentieth-Century America, tells the story of how Marian's grandmother, Rebecca Goldberg—a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Massachusetts―lost her husband to a railroad accident. The tragedy…
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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…
Newton Free Library presents: Poetry by the Pooh Statues
Newton Free Library presents: Poetry by the Pooh Statues
Do you love poetry and want to write some with other children? Meet us by the Pooh Statues behind the library to participate in this fun budding writer's workshop! We will have paper and pencils. Just bring yourselves and your creativity. For ages 6-9 and their caregivers. If the ground is wet or in case…
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New Art Center presents: Japanese Hand-Building Pottery Workshop
New Art Center presents: Japanese Hand-Building Pottery Workshop
Are you interested in making a beautiful pottery bowl without the struggle of mastering wheel-throwing techniques? This workshop is for all levels from complete beginners to experienced potters who wish to explore Japanese pottery making.“Tebineri” is a traditional Japanese hand-building pottery technique. In this 2 day workshop, students will learn the “Tebineri” technique to make…
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Boston Ballet’s Back-to-School Open Houses
Children ages 16 months-7 years old are invited to experience a free sample class led by expert Boston Ballet School faculty, learn more about school year programming, and take a tour of the studios. Register here. Saturday, July 24 Newton Studio – 153 Needham Street 10 am: 16 months-age 2 11 am: Ages 3-4 12…
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Newton Free Library presents: Exploring the Universe Part 2 – Caught in the Cosmic Web
Newton Free Library presents: Exploring the Universe Part 2 – Caught in the Cosmic Web
Join Margaret Geller for a journey through the universe - part two of our Exploring the Universe series. Throughout her career, she has been caught in the cosmic web, the largest pattern we know in nature. She will describe her role in discovering these patterns in the nearby universe and her ongoing work to map…
New Arts Center presents: Outdoor Landscape Painting
New Arts Center presents: Outdoor Landscape Painting
This class for acrylic and/or oil painters will explore the unique challenges of landscape painting and provide students with the skills to render space two-dimensionally. We will be working outdoors, or if the weather is bad, working indoors using photographs and books. Students will learn composition, light, and shading, and the effects of light on…
Historic Newton presents: Virtual Paddle Tour of the Charles River
Historic Newton presents: Virtual Paddle Tour of the Charles River
From the 1880s through the 1920s, summer weekends brought thousands of boats to the “Lakes District” of the Charles River between Newton Lower Falls and Waltham. Follow along as we paddle past sites of historic interest in this area, including the former Norumbega Park, now the subject of Historic Newton’s new book. Also step into…
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Newton Free Library presents: Make a Pollinator Hotel
Newton Free Library presents: Make a Pollinator Hotel
Join us at the library for our first in-person MakerSpace program! We’ll use materials like paper, branches, and other natural objects to create unique pollinator hotels. These hotels will hopefully attract local solitary bees and other helpful critters to your yard! We’ll have tools and supplies at the library, but we encourage you to bring…
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