Culture and Education
New Art Center Online: *Kids*
ZoomSign up for Week 8! Each week will be packed with possibilities, imagination, and fun as students explore 2 exciting activities each day: 2D Art (drawing, painting, collage) and Drama Fun (theater games, short scenes, movement, improvisation). Each week focuses on a different theme. WEEK 8 THEME: Above and Beyond - Skies, Stars, Planets and…
New Art Center Online: Painting Foundations
ZoomNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Set your inner artist free in a studio painting class! Working from observation, beginners will complete exercises in value, color, and chroma. Advanced beginners begin to generate their own projects while…
New Art Center Online: Radical Drawing
ZoomNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. This is an exciting and challenging drawing studio class where students work from life and investigate the abstraction and deconstruction of what they see, from an art historical and painterly view…
Newton Free Library presents: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi
ZoomJoin the Newton Free Library for a virtual conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, followed by a discussion about race and racism in Newton. Professor Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, professor of history and international studies, and the Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. This event will be…
An online series on the history & nature of Jewish choral music
ONLINE United KingdomThese audio and video podcasts, presented by Zamir Chorale of Boston, can serve as an introduction to the field of Jewish Choral Music. But caveat lector, these are not comprehensive; they provide only an introduction to the field. Readers may follow up with the many texts and websites that are listed elsewhere in this website:…
SCC Virtual Screening – The Best Intentions
ONLINE United KingdomJoin the Scandinavian Cultural Center for a virtual screening of Ingmar Bergman's 1992 film The Best Intentions, available throughout the month of August. Swedish master Ingmar Bergman penned this loving tribute to his parent’s epic romance. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a…
New Art Center Online: *Kids*
ZoomSign up for Week 8! Each week will be packed with possibilities, imagination, and fun as students explore 2 exciting activities each day: 2D Art (drawing, painting, collage) and Drama Fun (theater games, short scenes, movement, improvisation). Each week focuses on a different theme. WEEK 8 THEME: Above and Beyond - Skies, Stars, Planets and…
New Art Center: Origami Art for K-2
ZoomNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Origami, the art of paper folding, is a fun and easy art that can be done at all levels. It is simple to do at home and needs no special paper.…
Historic Newton: Exploring ‘The Great Curve’ Painting
ZOOMHow does art tell a story? What can “The Great Curve of the Boston and Worcester Railroad at Newton,” a landscape painting by Samuel Adams Hudson, teach us about Newton and America in the mid-1800s and our lives today? Join Historic Newton as they explore history, the works and writings of the Hudson River School…
Historic Newton: Exploring “The Great Curve” Painting
ZoomHow does art tell a story? What can “The Great Curve of the Boston and Worcester Railroad at Newton,” a landscape painting by Samuel Adams Hudson, teach us about Newton and America in the mid-1800s and our lives today? We will explore history, the works and writings of the Hudson River School painters, photographs and…