Culture and Education
New Art Center presents: Classical and Contemporary Mexican Smalti Mosaics Workshop
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesLearn the materials and methods to create your own original beautiful Mexican smalti mosaic. Mexican smalti is a high-quality handmade glass mosaic in a square to rectangular module that offers a broad range of colors from subtle skin tones to vibrant primaries. Students will bring a design for your choice for a 9” square. In…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: International Shorts 2021 – Virtual Screening
ONLINE United KingdomThe SCC are pleased to be co-presenters for the International Shorts 2021 being presented as part of Wicked Queer, the 37th Annual LBGTQ+ Film Festival being shown virtually between April 1st through April 30th. Featuring international films by a selection of new talents, this year’s lineup includes lyrical works from Spain, a surreal Norwegian comedy, and a…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: International Shorts 2021 – Virtual Screening
ONLINE United KingdomThe SCC are pleased to be co-presenters for the International Shorts 2021 being presented as part of Wicked Queer, the 37th Annual LBGTQ+ Film Festival being shown virtually between April 1st through April 30th. Featuring international films by a selection of new talents, this year’s lineup includes lyrical works from Spain, a surreal Norwegian comedy, and a…
New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Chanel Thervil
ONLINE United KingdomJoin us on Zoom for our spring Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work explores community and public spaces. Many pieces make the whole and more often the not, artists are attentive to details that unify. Chanel Thervil is a Haitian American artist and educator that uses varying combinations of abstraction and portraiture to…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: International Shorts 2021 – Virtual Screening
ONLINE United KingdomThe SCC are pleased to be co-presenters for the International Shorts 2021 being presented as part of Wicked Queer, the 37th Annual LBGTQ+ Film Festival being shown virtually between April 1st through April 30th. Featuring international films by a selection of new talents, this year’s lineup includes lyrical works from Spain, a surreal Norwegian comedy, and a…
New Art Center presents: Classical and Contemporary Mexican Smalti Mosaics Workshop
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesLearn the materials and methods to create your own original beautiful Mexican smalti mosaic. Mexican smalti is a high-quality handmade glass mosaic in a square to rectangular module that offers a broad range of colors from subtle skin tones to vibrant primaries. Students will bring a design for your choice for a 9” square. In…
Newton Free Library presents: Virtual Author Visit with Jennifer De Leon
ONLINE United KingdomThe library invites everyone in the City of Newton community to join a youth-moderated discussion on Jennifer De Leon's teen debut, Don't Ask Me Where I'm From. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From tells the story of Liliana Cruz, a Boston teen from an immigrant family who is accepted into the METCO program—and the challenges she faces as she…
Zamir Chorale presents: Leonard Bernstein – The Jewish Side
ZoomJoin Zamir Chorale's Artistic Director, Josh Jacobson as he presents "Leonard Bernstein: The Jewish Side." Leonard Bernstein took the musical world by storm with his spectacular last-minute, a-star-is-born conducting turn with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Until his passing in 1990, he was astonishingly active as a conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher. Leonard Bernstein: The Jewish Side will explore Bernstein’s Judaism…
Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
ONLINE United KingdomDo 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…
New Art Center presents: Cubism Workshop
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesAt about the same time as the invention of Cubism, Einstein was publishing his early papers on relativity; masks, artifacts and ritual objects from Africa were first exhibited in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was new. Cubism was invented, in part, as a way of examining and painting stationary objects to incorporate what the object…