Newton Cultural Alliance

Newton Open Studios
2021-06-26 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Newton Open Studios is back with 75 Newton artists and artisans for an all-outdoor event this year. Newton Open Studios 2021 will have locations throughout the city with artists displaying their works for sale from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 26th, Rain date, June 27th. Artist registration is still open to participate through June 18th by signing up here. Come explore, browse and buy at as many artist sites as you like. Set your own tour map by visiting the Newton Open Studios website which allows you to save a “favorites list” on your own device. Map out your route to Newton Open Studios here.

New Philharmonia Orchestra Pops Concert
2021-07-05 18:30
An exciting program celebrating America, our freedoms, our culture, and our community! Outdoors at the Newton Centre Bowl – bring your lawn chairs and picnic and join the fun as we celebrate July 4th on July 5th at 6:30 PM. The program will feature a variety of celebratory American musical treats and Aaron Copland’s iconic “Lincoln Portrait,” with special guest Mayor Ruthanne Fuller narrating excerpts of Abraham Lincoln’s great documents

Festival of the Arts: Newton Baroque
2021-07-11 14:30 - 15:45 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
As part of the 6th Annual Newton Festival of the Arts, enjoy a concert from Newton Baroque.
Newton Baroque took a spectacular leap onto the national stage in May 2014 when they performed three exciting innovative programs as a featured ensemble at the American Bach Society annual convention at Kenyon College in Ohio, garnering an overwhelming response from some of the most knowledgeable Bach scholars in the world.
Depending on the requirements of the chosen repertoire, Newton Baroque draws on its roster of musicians who work frequently with the group, comprising some of the leading Baroque specialists both nationally and internationally. They have also appeared numerous times on Boston’s SoHIP concert series, on WGBH Radio, Boston, and on various concert series in New York City. Newton Baroque is a recipient of NCC grants.

Newton Free Library presents: Ed Popielarczyk - Magic Show
2021-08-16 16:30 - 17:00 | Hyde Bandshell, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton, MA, 02461, United States
Bring the whole family together for an afternoon filled with magic and wonder! Ed Popielarczyk is a professional magician, balloon sculptor, and storyteller who has been entertaining children and family audiences for over 35 years. His magic show uses a lot of audience participation so don’t miss out on this opportunity to join in the fun! Rain Date is Tuesday, August 17 at 4:30pm.
This concert will take place at the Hyde Bandstand and Playground. This event is taking place on public grounds and does not require registration. Your Friends’ membership made this program possible. Join us!
A big thank you to the Hyde Community Center for helping organize this event and working with us to use the space. Additional thanks to The Newton Parks, Recreation and Culture Department.

Newton Free Library's End of Summer Celebration - Minute to Win It!
2021-08-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Celebrate the end of our Tails & Tails summer with space themed Minute To Win It games and ice cream! The idea is to complete challenges in under a minute using simple, everyday items. Meet us in the Teen Area to head outside for fun and ice cream! For tweens and teens entering grades 6-12.

NewTV's Summer Photo Contest
2021-08-19, 2021-08-20, 2021-08-21, 2021-08-22, 2021-08-23, 2021-08-24, 2021-08-25, 2021-08-26 and 8 more dates | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join in on the fun by voting in NewTV’s Summer Photo Contest. Amazing entries from all over Newton have been submitted and are waiting for your verdict. Voting ends Friday, September 3, and winners will be announced on Tuesday, September 7. Choose the best overall image and the “in and around Newton” favorite by casting your ballot here.

Outdoor Lawn Games at the Newton Free Library
2021-09-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Put on your game face for an afternoon of lawn games! We have cornhole, giant jenga, throw throw burrito, and croquet. Meet us in the Teen Area to venture outside. For rising 6th to 12th graders.

Suzuki School of Newton presents: Back to School Block Party
2021-09-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Suzuki School of Newton, 1615 Beacon St, Waban, MA, 02468, United States
Dust off your instrument and get ready for the new school year with a celebration! The Back To School Block Party will consist of a play-in and a picnic on September 12th from 4:00-6:00pm at our school’s parking lot. We hope to see you then! (Rain date is Sep. 19th from 4:00-6:00).

Historic Newton's Homestead Hayfest
2021-10-03 12:00 - 16:00 | Jackson Homestead and Museum, 527 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
Step back into the 19th century to try activities, such as apple cider pressing and butter churning, that were once part of life at the Jackson Homestead. Everyone is welcome at our free, family-friendly festival in the back yard of the Jackson Homestead.

Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Marjorie Kaye | Sculptural Painting
2022-03-10 19:00 - 21:00
Marjorie Kaye has lived in the Boston area for most of her life, with stops along the way in Syracuse, NY to earn her BFA in Painting, as well as New York City in the 80s.
She is a painter and sculptor. Her work has been an exploration of opposites: form and color; organic and geometric; precision and chaos. Colorful and bold, her gouache paintings and sculptures are kinetic and energetic. Her work has been reviewed in many publications including the Boston Globe and ArtScope Magazine and has been shown extensively both locally and nationally, including galleries such as Galatea Fine Art in Boston, Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston, and the Walter Wickiser Gallery in NYC. She was a 2016 winner of the Lillian Orlowsky/William Freed Foundation Grant from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and was included in a group exhibition in their galleries. Also, Ms. Kaye was named a finalist in the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Awards in Painting.
Kaye is the founder of Galatea Fine Art in Boston, MA, a large artist-run gallery featuring over 39 artists from Boston and beyond. She was the director of that space from 2009 – 2017, as well as the owner. The gallery has transitioned into a non-profit and Ms. Kaye is remaining as Director. Some past projects also include the web-based Caladan Gallery, which ran for 10 years and exhibited hundreds of artists from all over the world, and the Lawrence, MA Gallery 181, which enhanced the community with the exhibition of local, national, and international artists.
The Zoom link is found here.

Newton Art Association presents: Learning to Look / Looking to Learn – Critique and the Creative Process
2022-03-24 19:30 - 21:00
Based on years of teaching college art students, Ellen Schön’s passion for teaching critique as an essential part of the creative process has only grown. Join Schön as she guides us through her philosophy and essential practices of looking, describing, and responding to what a piece evokes. Schön characterizes the goal of critique as “learning to look and looking to learn.”
Ellen Schön is Adjunct Faculty in Fine Arts and former Ceramics Studio Supervisor Lesley University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA since 2002. She received a BA from Marlboro College (Ceramics and Perceptual Psychology) and MFA in Ceramics from Boston University’s Program in Artisanry.
Schön has organized and co-curated interdisciplinary group exhibitions in non-profit venues in Boston and internationally. She has fostered international artist collaboration and exchange through participation in artist symposia and residencies in eight countries.
Schön was a recipient of The Artist Foundation Fellowship from MA Council on Art and Humanities and past Artist Fellow at the St. Botolph Club in Boston. She is a member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery. Schön has exhibited widely in the US. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
The zoom link will be found here.

Zamir Chorale of Boston presents: A Choral Rainbow Part 3
2022-04-04 19:30 - 21:00
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, we are presenting an online series called “A Choral Rainbow,” featuring video performances and conversations with the conductors of choruses from diverse and under-represented communities.
We were thrilled with the global turnout for parts I and II. Part III will spotlight three choruses:
The Chorosynthesis Singers, which is committed to fostering innovation, sustainability, collaboration, and excellence in and among the choral arts and its communities through both a bottom-up and top-down approach; Wendy Moy, conductor.
Nashirah, a community-based chorale in the Greater Philadelphia whose musical programming embodies the broadest possible range of Jewish repertoire; bringing together choral music of many lands, languages, and cultures; Julia Zavadsky, conductor.
Voices 21C, an artists’ collective that is devoted to exercising the choral art in pursuit of human rights and justice and dedicated to a mission of global understanding through music; André DeQuadros, conductor.

Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Betsy Silverman | Collage
2022-04-14 19:00 - 21:00
Working in a collage style that she calls “fragmented realism,” Betsy Silverman trains her eye upon discarded magazines – which she selects, cuts, and glues to a canvas, in order to transform the old images and text into unique, multidimensional portraits, still lifes, cityscapes, and representations of New England – especially the Boston area.
A graduate of Cornell University and the Rhode Island School of Design, Betsy holds a Master of Architecture degree, and her work is infused with architectural sensibility – employing perspective, light and shadow, reflections, or the scale of various elements, so as to create a sense of depth and perspective.
The zoom link will be found here.

Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Stephanie Stigliano | Artists Books
2022-05-14 19:00 - 21:00
Stephanie Stigliano has experience leading online art groups in book arts, drawing, and printmaking to students of all ages. This method develops community and creativity in a new and exciting way. Her artwork is in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Houghton Library of Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, and the Book Art Museum of Łodz, Poland. She has taught Printmaking and Books as Art at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA since 2007. She taught Between the Covers, Books as Art at Art New England for several years. She curated Legacy: Passing the Torch, an exhibition of mentors and their students, at the Hess Gallery of Chestnut Hill, MA. Locally, Stigliano’s artist’s books were included in On Books: Sculpture at the Portland Public Library, Portland, ME. Her print from The Charles River Alphabet Prints portfolio was included in New England on Paper: Contemporary Art in the Boston Athenaeum’s Prints and Photographs Collections. Internationally, Stigliano initiated a print project between students of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and The Technical College of Reykjavik, and exhibited her prints at Íslensk Grafík, Reykjavik, Iceland. She taught a workshop to the women’s artist collective of Hurumzi Henna Art Gallery in Stonetown, Zanzibar. In Krakow, Poland, she contributed to a print portfolio at The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. Her artist’s books were included in Correspondence: The 9th International Book Art Festival, which traveled throughout Poland.
https://newtonartassociation.com/event/demo-with-stephanie-stigliano-artists-books/

Cones 'n Cars 2022
2022-08-24 17:30 - 19:30 | NewTV, 23 Needham St, Newton, MA, 02461, United States
It’s baaa-aaack! We’re so excited to announce the return of NewTV’s Cones ‘n Cars: the one ‘n only classic car show combined with an ice cream social. Enjoy sweets ‘n treats from Cabot’s, Bakers’ Best, Pizzi Farm, Volante Farms, JP Licks, and the Astound ice cream truck while you check out the sleek ‘n unique classic cars!
Admission is free, and all are welcome to join us!
