Newton Cultural Alliance

New Art Center presents: Cubism Workshop
2021-05-08 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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.
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Theatre Ink presents: The Wolves
2021-05-07 19:30, 2021-05-06 19:30 | United Kingdom
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
Seating will be extremely limited to no more than 75-100 patrons who will be assigned seats, spread out, in our 600 seat theatre. We will also live stream for people who are unable to attend. Seating: Only families or people living in the same household will be allowed to sit together. All other patrons will be seated individually.
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Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
2021-05-05 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.

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: 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!

New Art Center presents: Classical and Contemporary Mexican Smalti Mosaics Workshop
2021-05-04 10:00 - 14:00, 2021-04-27 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.

First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton presents: Annual Musicians Concert
2021-05-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Annual FUUSN Musicians Concert Featuring Catie Curtis and Musicians From First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton
Proceeds to Benefit the UU Urban Ministry
Come and hear the wonderful musicians of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton and our featured artist, the amazing singer-songwriter Catie Curtis. Catie will be joined by renowned pianist Lois Shapiro, professional saxophonist and composer Geoff Wadsworth, guitarist Bob MacWilliams, vocalist Naomi Wolfe, our intrepid FUUSN Band, and others. There will be a fantastic array of musical styles and moods: classical works, traditional songs, original jazz compositions, and more.
The concert is free and open to the public. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the UU Urban Ministry. For more information, email music@fusn.org.
Click here to join via Zoom

Suzuki School of Newton presents: Great Art by Little Artists
2021-05-02 12:00 - 15:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Suzuki Preschool of Newton presents our 5th annual: Great Art by Little Artists!
The event will take place on Sunday May 2, 2021 from 12pm-3pm (Rain date May 16th 2021). There will be an open house, children’s art exhibit and silent auction. We hope to see you there!

Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: International Shorts 2021 - Virtual Screening
2021-04-30, 2021-04-29, 2021-04-28, 2021-04-27, 2021-04-26, 2021-04-25, 2021-04-24, 2021-04-23 and 7 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

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.
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Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Nordic Brewing with Jereme Zimmerman
2021-04-24 13:00 | United Kingdom
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

Newton Free Library presents: Save the Planet and Your Health with a Plant-based Diet
2021-04-22 19:00 - 20:00 | 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.

Newton Free Library presents: A Father's Kaddish - Film Discussion
2021-04-15 18:30 - 19:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
A Father’s Kaddish tells the story of how Steven Branfman used the art of pottery to help him work through his grief after the death of his 23-year-old son. The film is a potent and moving journey through the universal experience of loss, mourning and rebuilding a life. Join us for a live Q & A with film director, Jen Kaplan, film subject, Steven Branfman and a clinical social worker from Good Shepherd Community Care, the program cosponsor. This program is supported by a grant from the Newton Cultural Council.
In preparation for this event we will release a one-time use link to watch the film in advance of this session. The link will be emailed to all registrants on Tuesday, April 13 after 4pm and will also be posted here. All registrants are encouraged to watch the film in order to fully participate in the discussion and Q and A. The link will expire at 6:30pm on Thursday, April 15.
Learn more about A Father’s Kaddish here.
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.

Historic Newton presents: Written by the Victors - Remembering the American Revolution Part II
2021-04-15 17:00 - 18:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
In Part I of our two-part program, we explored the socioeconomic conditions leading up to the American Revolution. Join us for Part II to discuss how political ideals like patriotism and unity impacted the battlefield in the War for Independence. Consider how these ideals continue today through our lasting romanticization of the Minutemen and guerilla warfare, and even in the differing ways in which the Revolution is remembered in different regions of the country. Register in advance for this program on Zoom.
