Culture and Education
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with YoAhn Han
ZoomPaper cutting (YUPO) with a concept of “Negative and Positive” space and paper collages with diaphanous patterns YoAhn Han is a Korean painter based in Boston whose work is a visual dialogue between suppression and desire, a duality which speaks to both his experience of cerebral arteriovenous malformation and to his bifurcated cultural identity. He…
Historic Newton presents: Half American – The Epic Story of Black Americans Fighting WWII
ONLINE United KingdomFor Black Americans World War II was about not only America’s standing in the world but also about how much actual freedom would exist in the United States. Black troops fought bravely in combat and they formed the backbone of the U.S. military’s supply effort, all while fighting in a segregated military. Black veterans returned…
Pro Arte’s Salon Series – Salon 3
Allen Center for the Arts 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, United StatesPro Arte's unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works. For Salon 3, one of Pro Arte's…
Newton Art Association presents: Legal Issues for Artists
ZoomWhat are your rights and legal obligations as an artist? What do you need to know about copyrights, contracts, commissions, and consignments with galleries? What are your precise legal liabilities? These and other artists’ rights issues will be discussed by Nicholas M. O’Donnell at our second professional workshop. Zoom link for the event is found…
The Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: The Pact
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesSCREENING: THE PACT (2021) presented in conjunction with the Scandinavian Library It’s 1948 and sixty-three-year-old OUT OF AFRICA author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) is a lonely literary sensation devastated by syphilis and mourning her lost love until she meets talented thirty-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She offers him a Faustian bargain and promises him…
Newton Free Library presents: Jellyfish: How to Pastel Paint with Greg Maichack
Newton Free Library 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, United StatesJoin Gregory Maichack, award-winning artist, and two times Mass. Cultural Council Gold Star Award Program nominee, for a hands-on zoom session. Materials will be provided for this fun, two-hour “Take and Make” workshop. Greg will guide everyone in producing their very own original pastel of a stunning jellyfish as he teaches us how to create the special…
Pro Arte’s Salon Series – Salon 4
Allen Center for the Arts 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, United StatesPro Arte's unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works. Salon 4's program will feature members of…
Canceled-Commonwealth Chorale presents: Country Sounds
Church of the Holy Name 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury, MA, United StatesClassical or bluegrass? In our second concert of the season, no need to choose. Composer Carol Barnett has combined the two styles in her bluegrass Mass, The World Beloved. In her unusual approach Barnett has written what she calls “cheery sacred music,” blending the usual solemnity of a Mass with down-home energy and rhythms of…
Zamir Chorale of Boston presents: A Choral Rainbow Part 3
Part III - Monday, April 4,7:30 pm EST, REGISTER HERE. This season, in response to the alarming rise in racism, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice, we are even more committed to using our resources to expose our audiences (and ourselves) to music representing different cultures, ethnicities, and ways of thinking. With that in mind,…
Amherst Early Music Classes
Join us for new AEM ONLINE CLASSES in April! April 9, 10, 30, and May 1st! Class times here are Eastern Time Saturday, April 9 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Lully: Chaconnes and Dances with Frances Blaker, recorder Sunday, April 10 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Tips and Tricks: Solutions for the Traverso Player with Immanuel Davis, flute…