Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: International Shorts 2021 - Virtual Screening
2021-04-18, 2021-04-19, 2021-04-20, 2021-04-21, 2021-04-22, 2021-04-23, 2021-04-24, 2021-04-25 and 5 more dates | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The 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 bittersweet story from Belgium. Curated by Giuseppe Di Caprio.
Included is The Corner (2021). Tired of waiting, Veronika tries to give her girlfriend direction over the phone, but Susan gets more and more confused with every word. The Corner is a 5-minute-long, one-shot-film, and it’s a story about communication and the sense (or non-sense) of direction.)
Directed by Ida Hansen Eldøen | 2020 | 5 min | Norway | in Norwegian with English subtitles
See the full list of shorts here.
Thursday, April 1st – Friday, April 30th | on xerb.tv | $10 | purchase tickets here

Newton Free Library presents: Save the Planet and Your Health with a Plant-based Diet
2021-04-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Learn about the environmental impacts of the meat, dairy, egg and fishing industries at a special Earth Day Green Newton series program with Sara Sezun, Chair of the Sierra Club Massachusetts Chapter Plant-based Planet Team. Find out how eating a plant-based diet can improve your health and help remedy environmental issues such as:

Climate change
Pollution
Deforestation
Habitat loss for endangered species
Zoonotic disease transfer

Registration for this program will end two hours before the start time. The Zoom login information will be sent just after registration closes. Please be sure to check your spam folder in case it lands there.

Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Nordic Brewing with Jereme Zimmerman
2021-04-24 13:00
Join Jereme Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking and Brew Beer Like a Yeti for a discussion on the history, tradition, and technique of brewing Nordic ales and meads. He will discuss his understanding of modern and ancient Nordic brewing, including his wide-ranging knowledge on history, techniques, and ingredients for brewing like a Viking.
Saturday, April 24th | 1pm EST | $5; FREE for SCC members | register here

New Art Center presents: Classical and Contemporary Mexican Smalti Mosaics Workshop
2021-04-27 10:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-04 10:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-11 10:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-18 10:00 - 14:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Learn 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 the studio, teacher and artist Joshua Winer will teach you to transfer the design onto a panel, cover the panel with webbing, cut and build the mosaic onto the webbing using Adamento flowing rhythms and Opus styles (including Vermiculatum, Musivum, and Regulatum), lift the mosaic with clear adhesive film, and cement the work into colored thin-set. Register here.

New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Chanel Thervil
2021-04-29 17:30 - 18:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join 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 convene communal dialogue around culture, social issues, and existential questions. At the core of her practice lies a desire to empower and inspire tenderness and healing among communities of color through the arts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Pace University and a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She’s been making a splash in Boston via her educational collaborations, public art, and residencies with institutions like The Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Children’s Museum, The DeCordova, and The Harvard Ed Portal, and The Cambridge Public Library. Her work has been featured by PBS Kids, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Bay State Banner, WBUR’s ARTery, WGBH, and Hyperallergic.
Click here for more info.

Newton Free Library presents: Virtual Author Visit with Jennifer De Leon
2021-05-04 14:30 - 16:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The 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 is forced to confront racism at her new white suburban school.
Register for the event here.
Books & audiobooks available on Sora, NNHS & NSHS libraries, and the public library! You can also purchase Jennifer’s books at Newtonville Books!

Zamir Chorale presents: Leonard Bernstein - The Jewish Side
2021-05-04 19:30 - 20:30 | Zoom
Join 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 and how it was manifest in his musical output. This virtual event will be co-hosted by Cantor David Tilman, former creative consultant for the Leonard Bernstein Centennial Exhibit. Register here to connect with Leonard Berstein’s Jewish Side.

Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
2021-05-05 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-05-12 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.

New Art Center presents: Cubism Workshop
2021-05-08 14:00 - 17:00, 2021-05-15 14:00 - 17:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
At 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 looks like as you move around it, i.e. from different perspectives. Cubism sought to incorporate time as the fourth dimension in the arts.
We’ll start with drawing still-lifes with charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, working from life rather than from Cubist drawings and paintings. Then we’ll begin the painting process using the earth tones of those early cubist paintings for the same reasons. First working out the structure with shapes and values, then bringing colors to it as we progress, much as the Cubists developed their plans. In the last session, we’ll work from a model, and we highlight painting in planes, breaking down curves into prism-like flat sides.
Click here to learn more and register.

New Art Center presents: Mother's Day Bouquet
2021-05-09 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Show the special maternal figure in your life how much you care with a gift of blossoms and art appreciation!
A beautiful spring bouquet from Centre Pieces Design Flower Shop in Newtonville will be delivered to the recipient’s door on Mother’s Day (May 9th), and a pre-recorded talk from art historian and educator Brendan Sullivan will be sent via e-mail. Brendan will explore depictions of motherhood and the maternal experience through a selection of artwork.
Register by May 3 and celebrate the ones you love!
A portion of the cost will help to support the New Art Center and you will receive a tax receipt for your donation.

Newton Free Library presents: Newton by Map
2021-05-10 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join the Leventhal Map and Education Center and the Newton Free Library for a deep dive into Newton historical geography!
What was Newton like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? What used to be on the sites of your favorite Newton landmarks? How has the city changed, and how has it stayed the same? Using Atlascope, the Leventhal Map & Education Center’s user-friendly portal for exploring urban atlases, we’ll dive into the historical geography of Newton. Come learn about how the community has changed over time, and discover how to research the history of your own house and neighborhood.
This program is cosponsored by Historic Newton.
Registration for this program will end two hours before the start time. The login information will be sent just after registration closes.

Historic Newton presents: Voting Rights - Where Do We Go From Here?
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author of “The Voting Rights War” for a session presented by Overdue in partnership with Historic Newton. Professor Browne-Marshall will examine laws posing challenges to American voters — especially African-Americans — from enslavement and woman’s suffrage through current controversies of voter suppression. She will also look ahead to challenges that future voters are likely to face, especially after the tumultuous 2020 election. A Q&A will follow. This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. To attend this program, please register here.

Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Katherine Miller
2021-05-16 14:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us on Zoom for our spring Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work explores community and public spaces.

For Katherine Miller, painting is the most intuitive and effective form of communication. She believes that beauty lies in minimal complexity. She creates freedom within structure. Everything about nature and the landscape inspires Miller’s imagery. In her work, she considers the honesty and purity of color and the use of visual metaphor. Her goal is to create paintings that capture visual and emotional moments. Using shapes derived from the landscape, Miller distills the visual essence of purity to capture feelings through abstraction.

Click here for Zoom link.
