Newton Cultural Alliance

Amherst Early Music Classes
2022-05-01 13:00 - 16:30, 2022-04-30 13:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | MA
Saturday, April 30
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. De-Mystifying the Prelude with Alissa Duryee, keyboard
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Locke Unlocked! with Martha Bishop, viol
Sunday, May 1
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. 4×4 Bach with Rachel Begley, recorder
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. The Singer’s Toolbox: Sing We Enchanted: A Vocal Technique Session, with Historical Inspirations for the 21st-Century Singer with Emily Eagen, voice

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Music for Food presents Fantastic Duos
2022-04-30 15:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Fantastic Duos for the Newton Food Pantry – Pianist Solon Gordon and violinist Lily Tsai play Brahms and Schubert.

About this event

A wonderful concert of violin-piano duos—including Schubert’s transcendent Fantasy in C major and Brahms’ loving A major sonata—performed by Solon Gordon and Lily Tsai, to benefit the Newton Food Pantry and Newton Community Freedge.

*Masks and proof of vaccination are required for attendance.
To donate to the concert, please visit our donate page.

New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Rébecca Bourgault
2022-04-29 18:00 - 19:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Details: Friday, 1 Session
Times: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Rébecca Bourgault is a visual artist, art educator, community artist, and scholar. An assistant professor of Art Education at Boston University, Bourgault grew up in rural Québec surrounded by artists and artisans. Humorously self-identified as a late bloomer, Bourgault traveled around the world in her youth, studying visual arts, and completing an MFA later, in her thirties. She exhibited and taught sculpture and drawing at art colleges in Canada, before moving to New York City for doctoral studies in Art Education at Columbia University. Bourgault’s artistic and scholarly research has been presented in the US and internationally. She published in edited volumes such as the Wiley Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Art and Design (2019) and Art as an agent of Social Change (2020). Recent articles appeared in the International Journal of Education & the Arts, the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and the International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education.
Her research interests include community arts as it overlaps with social justice issues, socially engaged art practices, quiet activism, and arts-based research pedagogies. Bourgault maintains a multimodal artistic practice that blends visual, aural and written art forms.

Newton Free Library presents Women in World Jazz: Women Activists for Peace and Social Justice
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join Women in World Jazz (WIWJ) for a virtual concert that will feature composers who use their music to promote social justice and peace. Learn about women who left their impact on history including Joan Baez and Nina Simone, as well as contemporary composers and activists such as Beyoncé, Annie Lenox, and Angélique Kidjo. The event will feature live presentations and pre-recorded performances/virtual collaborations.

WIWJ’s international ensemble of all-female performers presents a variety of educational programs for the whole family that showcase music from around the world.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Newton local cultural council, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Highland Glee Club presents Spring Concert
2022-04-23 15:00 - 16:30 | Newton City Hall Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
The Highland Glee Club is presenting our annual spring concert. The theme is All’s Fair: Songs of Love and War for Men’s Voices. Music of Elgar, Schubert, Mendelssohn and others.

Newton Free Library presents Climate Change Solutions with Congressman Jake Auchincloss & Newton's Youth Leaders
2022-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join Congressman Jake Auchincloss for an update on climate change legislation and what his priorities are in that regard. Newton’s youth leaders will also share their concerns about climate change, what we can do locally, and provide more information on what is being done on the national level.
This program is part of the Green Newton series. Visit their website here.

Newton Free Library presents Prince of Pirates & the Witch of Wellfleet
2022-04-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Prince of Pirates & the Witch of Wellfleet (for ages 16+)

Join storyteller Rona Leventhal for an enthralling, pre-recorded rendition of her one-woman show, The Prince of Pirates and the Witch of Wellfleet. Rona will present her version of a classic Cape Cod tale that is a mixture of history and legend, set in the early 1700s. Playing fifteen characters, Rona offers an engaging, powerful look at life in Puritan New England through the lens of the story. The show addresses the history of the era, universal themes, “gang mentality” of the masses, hypocrisy, and resilience. A Q and A will follow.
This program is for ages 16+ only.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Newton local cultural council, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Betsy Silverman | Collage
2022-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
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.

New Art Center presents Artist Talk: Marlon Forrester
2022-04-14 18:00 - 19:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Dates: 4/14
Details: Thursday, 1 Session
Times: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The rise of NFTs has radically changed how we see the future of art. Painting, drawing, and sculpture must find ways to push into a space in which both spectacle and society embrace a new digital currency. Join Marlon Forrester for a conversation based on his reflections on stepping through the looking glass of traditional artmaking into a new reality of NFTs and the Metaverse, reflections on his process and sale of his 1st NFT.
About the artist:
Marlon Forrester, born 1976 in Guyana, South America, is an artist and educator raised in Boston, MA. He is a recipient of the 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize and his work is in the collection of the ICA/Boston. Forrester is a graduate of School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, B.A 2008 and Yale School of Art, M.F.A. 2010. He is a resident artist at African American Masters Artist Residency Program (AAMARP) adjunct to the Department of African-American Studies in association with Northeastern University. He worked previously as a painting lecturer at SMFA (2017-2019) and has shown both internationally and nationally. His current body of work explores how through media, Pop Culture, and advertisement the black male body is commodified through the sport of basketball. Utilizing his concept of “disequilibrium” he works to deconstruct the rites and rituals found within the game and life through his drawings, paintings, performance and large-scale installation.

Historic Newton presents Exploring 'Defective Delinquency' Laws
2022-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
Between 1911 and 1971 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – and dozens of states like it – passed a series of laws that empowered officials to indefinitely imprison people with intellectual disabilities who the state believed were “likely to commit crimes.” These people were designated as “defective delinquents,” and, in Massachusetts, most were sent to the Bridgewater State Prison. At our Zoom program, students from Gann Academy share what they learned about the law and the personal stories of many of those imprisoned under this law. They will also discuss a museum exhibit and website that they designed to teach about this little-known but vitally important chapter of American history. Register here.

The Newton Free Library Presents: How Art Reflects Adversity
2022-04-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Michael Frank, Curator-in-Chief of the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), will examine key works from their collection to discern how art reflects adversity. The Museum is the only institution in the world that is dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and celebration of bad art in all its forms.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Newton local cultural council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
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Image: Greenscape by Anonymous

Pro Arte's Salon Series - Salon 5
2022-04-10 15:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Pro 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.
Pro Arte’s principal winds and principal horn come together for Salon 5 to present a colorful concert for wind quintet. Purchase tickets here.

Amherst Early Music Classes
2022-04-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-09 08:00 - 17:00 | MA
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
Saturday, April 30
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. De-Mystifying the Prelude with Alissa Duryee, keyboard
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Locke Unlocked! with Martha Bishop, viol
Sunday, May 1
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. 4×4 Bach with Rachel Begley, recorder
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. The Singer’s Toolbox: Sing We Enchanted: A Vocal Technique Session, with Historical Inspirations for the 21st-Century Singer with Emily Eagen, voice
Full class descriptions coming soon!
AEM Online

Zamir Chorale of Boston presents: A Choral Rainbow Part 3
2022-04-04 19:30 - 21:00 | MA
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 Theatre Company presents: Our Tears Are the Same Color: Parallel Narratives of Palestinian and Israeli Women
2022-04-03 16:00 - 17:30, 2022-04-02 20:00 - 21:30, 2022-04-01 20:00 - 21:30, 2022-03-27 16:00 - 17:30, 2022-03-26 20:00 - 21:30, 2022-03-25 20:00 - 21:30 | St John’s Episcopal Church, Newton, MA, 297 Lowell Avenue, Newtonville, MA, 02460
Our newest production came about because of a unique partnership between Newton Theatre Company and the Parents Circle-Families Forum.
Our Tears Are the Same Color:
Parallel Narratives of Bereaved
Palestinian and Israeli Women
March 25 – April 3, 2022
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Presented in partnership with the Parents Circle-Families Forum
Four women, two Palestinian and two Israeli, share stories from their childhoods, memories of their families, and the moments they learned of their loved ones’ deaths. Their stories, woven together, call for deeper understanding of shared pain and suffering as a way forward. Two Newton Theatre Company performers act as storytellers, sharing these deeply personal accounts of the precariousness of life during the ongoing conflict.

Historic Newton presents: George Wein: Newton's Jazz Master
2022-03-31 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
George Wein: Newton’s Jazz Master
Date:
03/31/2022 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Virtual Meeting
Newton, Massachusetts 02459
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Explore the life and achievements of Newton native George Wein (1925-2021), founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, pianist, bandleader, educator, nightclub proprietor and producer of concerts and festivals worldwide, in this talk by jazz critic Bob Blumenthal. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment of the Arts in 2005, Wein is best known for pioneering the contemporary music festival. In a career that spanned three quarters of a century, he presented every major figure in the jazz world and worked tirelessly to expand the music’s national and international audience. Part of the Newton History Series presented by Historic Newton and the Newton Free Library. Register here.

The Newton Free Library presents: Mario Lanza at 101: A Tribute to the great American Tenor
2022-03-29 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Join Erika Reitshamer for a lecture that examines the extraordinary rise, fall – and posthumous rehabilitation – of the most controversial tenor of the 20th century – Mario Lanza. The name Mario Lanza did not belong in the hallowed halls of great opera singers. He owed his popularity to second-rate Hollywood movies and sang classical arias and pop songs to the masses that adored him. He also inspired the biggest names in opera to turn to the craft with his film The Great Caruso. It is time to reassess Mario Lanza at the centennial of his birth!
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Newton Art Association presents The Art of Healing at the Allen Center
2022-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
A Collaborative Exhibit with Newton Cultural Alliance at The Allen Center beginning March 28, 2022.
Opening reception: April 3, 2022, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Masks and proof of vaccination are required for admission.
Show closes: May 1, 2022 – A Closing Reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m.

New Philharmonia Orchestra presents: Classics III
2022-03-27 15:00 | MA
The New Philharmonia Orchestra continues its exciting 27th season filled with celebratory spirit, incredible music, and exciting guest performances. Join them for their Classics III program featuring works by Mozart and Brahms. Tickets are $10-$50. For more information visit newphil.org.

Historic Newton Presents At Home Dinners
2022-03-26 18:30 - 20:30 | MA
Enjoy an intimate gathering of neighbors at a historic Newton home for dinner and some history. Proceeds will support Historic Newton. Owners of some of Newton’s historic houses are inviting you into their homes for home-cooked dinners for groups of 10-12 guests. At each home, enjoy an intimate gathering of Newton neighbors while a local expert takes you on a journey through the history of the house where you’re dining and its neighborhood. Another dinner is offered on March 26.
Tickets, are $150 per person or $250 per person for a sponsor ticket. Purchase tickets here.

Newton Art Association presents: Learning to Look / Looking to Learn – Critique and the Creative Process
2022-03-24 19:30 - 21:00 | MA
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.

New Art Center presents Art As Salve
2022-03-23 08:00 - 17:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Rooted in the concept of Healing Justice, Art as Salve showcases responses and interventions to generational trauma and violence with the hope of impactful change to mend our bodies, hearts and minds. The exhibit, Art as Salve, asks the question – how might art function as a holistic intervention for survivors of oppression and violence? What would happen if art was used as a symbol for healing? Visit the New Art Corridor to see these introspective works and share in this healing process with New Art Center, the artists, and the community around us.
This exhibition is a part of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Curatorial Program. As a community arts education space, the New Art Center believes that art creates change. With a 44+ year history of building community through art, we recognize it is crucial to use our platform to fight systemic racism and social injustices.
The BIPOC Curatorial Program enables curators who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color to develop and share exhibitions that spark dialogue, share personal vision, and personal experiences through curation. We hope this opportunity will create much needed dialogue to counter systemic racism.
https://newartcenter.org/class/art-as-salve-a-close-looking-tour/

Newton Free Library presents Souvenirs of Italy: 19th Century Sculpture in the Library's Permanent Collection of Art
2022-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
The 19th-century grand tour of Italy is present at the library in three marbles by Zocchi, Adams, and Benzoni – unfamiliar names that will come to life with a discussion of sculptures of Michelangelo as a boy, a south Italian shepherd boy, and Diana, presented by Amy Golahny.
This is the final session of this two-part series about the library’s permanent collection of art. All are welcome, including those who did not attend Part I.
Amy Golahny, Ph.D. Columbia University, is Richmond Professor Emerita of Lycoming College, Williamsport PA. She has lectured internationally, authored and edited books and articles on Rembrandt and other topics, and served as president of the Historians of Netherlandish Art.
