Newton Cultural Alliance

New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Freedom Baird
2021-01-21 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our winter Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work examines climate and the environment.
There were blackberries on a hilltop, a skinny doe and her two fawns, a glossy ibis, and an octopus. There were also teens with a shotgun, bootleg baseball, missiles on a launch pad, and a children’s hospital on fire. These are among the memories, experiences and impressions gathered from more than seventy participants in the Shore Line Recall art project during the summer of 2018 on the Boston Harbor Islands. Interdisciplinary artist Freedom Baird brought a vintage field desk to nine islands and a boat, and placed it in the most vulnerable spot she could reach, at high tide. In those windswept places she talked with visitors, staff, and volunteers, gathering their stories and drawings to preserve and share in a book of the same name — Shore Line Recall: Boston Harbor Islands. She also documented the islands in photographs, a collection of which she curated into the book’s pages. As we continue to transform the planet, one way we can adapt is with a kind of future nostalgia–looking forward to a moment when we will look back and remember places that will someday be long gone.
In this presentation and discussion Baird will share her experience of the Shore Line Recall residency, project, and book.
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An online series on the history & nature of Jewish choral music
2021-01-22, 2021-01-23, 2021-01-24, 2021-01-25, 2021-01-26, 2021-01-27, 2021-01-28, 2021-01-29 and 5 more dates | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
These 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: https://www.jewishchoralmusic.com/podcasts

Boston Ballet presents: Look Back, Focus Forward
2021-01-22, 2021-01-23, 2021-01-24, 2021-01-25, 2021-01-26, 2021-01-27, 2021-01-28, 2021-01-29 and 2 more dates | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
From new choreographic voices to narratives you know by heart, enjoy live dance like you have never seen it before. Dance where you are with Boston Ballet’s first-ever virtual season BB@YourHome; six programs that feature fresh creations, signature works, and classical ballet favorites captured live in-studio and streamed directly to you. A digital subscription allows you to enjoy each production with your entire household. With each subscription, you support our dancers, fuel new art-making, and invest in Boston Ballet’s future. Subscribe today, or click here to learn more about virtual performances.
Look Back, Focus Forward
January 21 – 31, 2021
Take a virtual voyage of Boston Ballet’s history and artistic achievements, including outstanding international tours, the special relationship with Jiří Kylián’s repertoire, the intimate ballets from Leonid Yakobson, and many more. This reflective collage celebrates our journey together and explores the exciting future ahead as we enter a new year.

Suzuki School's January Solo Recitals
2021-01-23 15:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Join us on Zoom for the virtual Solo Recitals! They will be in two sessions on both Saturday and Sunday — one at 3:15 and another at 4:15. The Zoom link will be given out in our Friday Upbeats, or by sending an email to email@suzukinewton.org. We hope to see you there to support our students and their accomplishments!

New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Isabel Beavers
2021-01-28 17:30 - 18:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our winter Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work examines climate and the environment.
Isabel Beavers will lead an interactive artist presentation, as she presents recent works that explore climate change as a moment of origin, and invites participants to co-create an artistic experiment over virtual space. Please bring a sketchbook or paper, and a writing or drawing utensil to the presentation.
Beavers practice includes many forms: multimedia installation, new media and virtual forms of creation and presentation, curatorial projects, as well as social practice experiments in the form of mini-hackathons and worldwide collaborations. In each case her work attempts to combat systems of oppression as they relate to ecology, bodies and environments, instead imagining new climate futures. Through site-responsive research and artistic projects she interrogates cultural responses to climate change, speculates about climate futures, and questions the ethics of emergent technologies. Recent projects have explored the unraveling of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem, embedded power structures in Icelandic origin stories and Norse Mythology, mega-fires in California as a case study for the operation of compassion fatigue, and curatorial projects addressing extraction, artificial intelligence, and artificial ecologies.
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Historic Newton presents: A Town Called 'Rejoycing'
2021-01-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
A Town Called ‘Rejoycing’
Reconsidering John Eliot’s 1646 Mission to the ‘Indians’

Date:01/28/2021 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location:Virtual
Virtual Meeting
Newton, Massachusetts 02459
Introduction: Drew Lopenzina, an eminent scholar of of Early American and Native American literatures and author of “Red Ink” lectures with the Newton Free Library

History tells us that John Eliot, the “Apostle to the Indians,” came to the area of present-day Newton in 1646 to preach to the local indigenous communities of Massachusetts and Nipmucs in their own language. His mission was part of an overall endeavor by the Puritans to convert the Natives of the land to Christianity. Both history and tradition tend to place Eliot speaking down to the “children of the forest” gathered at his feet. As we mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s first landing at Plymouth, however, it is an opportune time to re-situate this encounter in Native space. What did Native people have to gain by welcoming Eliot into their community and what were they ultimately prepared to sacrifice under increased colonial pressure to adopt a foreign religious belief structure? Register through the Newton Free Library to receive the Zoom link.

New Art Center presents: A Taste of Europe – Irresistible Italy
2021-01-29 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join art historian Brendan M. Sullivan and Flora’s Wine Bar for a tasting tour of Italy from the comfort of your home! The full tour includes two bottles of wine, cheese, and accompaniments delivered to your door, a live online tasting with Flora’s wine educator, and an art history presentation from the wine’s region. Let us transport you to Italy without stress, jet lag, or COVID-restrictions! Full tour with wine and cheese (available inside the 128 loop): $175 per evening; begins at 6:00 pm. Art lecture only: $25 per evening; begins at 6:30 pm.
Full tour with wine and cheese (available inside the 128 loop): $175 per evening; begins at 6:00 pm. Ticket sales end 2 weeks before lecture.
Art lecture only: $25 per evening; begins at 6:30 pm.
January 29, 2021 Irresistible Italy: Sample wine from Veneto and Piedmont paired with complementary cheese and a selection of art. Learn about the Sacro Monte of Varallo. Brendan M. Sullivan completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts in 2014. He specializes in Northern European Art of the 14th and 15th centuries, in particular illuminated manuscripts.

Newton Free Library presents: Kamala's Way - An American Life
2021-02-02 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join Dan Morain, author of the new biography, Kamala’s Way: An American Life, for a discussion of America’s new Vice President, Kamala Harris. During his time as a reporter with the Los Angeles Times and editorial editor with the Sacramento Bee, Morain covered Kamala Harris’s rise to power as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County to District Attorney to California Attorney General to U.S. Senator to the first Black, South Asian and female Vice President in our country’s history. Learn how the daughter of two immigrants of color in segregated California became one of America’s most effective power players. Morain will be joined in conversation by Liz Goodwin, deputy bureau chief for The Boston Globe in Washington, DC.
If you’d like to borrow the book from the library you can reserve it here.
Autographed copies of Kamala’s Way will be available for sale before and during the event from our bookstore partner Wellesley Books. Contact them here. 10% of the proceeds from your sale will be donated to the host library of your choice.
Registration will end two hours before the event start time. Zoom login information will be sent the evening of the program.

Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
2021-02-03 18:30 - 19:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
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 reminder email and zoom link will be sent out prior to the first session.
Online registration is required and begins Wednesday, January 20 at 6:30pm.
When you register, you register for ALL 10 sessions: 2/3, 2/10, 3/3, 3/10, 4/7, 4/14, 5/5, 5/12, 6/2, and 6/9.
