Newton Cultural Alliance

Amherst Early Music Classes
2022-10-30 13:00 - 16:30, 2022-10-29 15:00 - 16:30, 2022-10-16 13:00 - 16:30, 2022-10-15 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | MA
Weekend Classes: October 15 & 16
Playing Music from the iPad with Tish Berlin
3:00 – 4:30 pm, 15 October 2022
Letitia Berlin recorder
Exploring the GAMUT with Tabea Schwartz
1:00 – 2:30 pm, 16 October 2022
Vincenzo Ruffo’s Capricci in musica with Rainer Beckmann
3:00 – 4:30 pm, 16 October 2022
Rainer Beckmann ** recorder
Weekend Classes October 29 & 30
Time for trio sonatas! with Na’ama Lion and Sarah Freiberg
3:00 – 4:30 pm, 29 October 2022
Music for Halloween and All Souls Day with Shira Kammen
1:00 – 2:30 pm, 30 October 2022
Shira Kammen vielle
MONOPHONY – chants, songs, and dances with Daphna Mor
3:00 – 4:30 pm, 30 October 2022
Daphna Mor recorder
Online Class
1:00 – 2:30 pm, 31 December 2023

Newton Theatre Company Presents The Monologue Project: Renters' Edition
2022-10-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 96 Otis Street, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
This October, Newton Theatre Company’s beloved Monologue Project is back and shining a spotlight on renters in Newton. Join your neighbors for an afternoon of stories about the reality of renting a home in Newton– the good, the bad, and the bemusing. Stick around after the show for a productive conversation about how we can make our city accessible for all members of our community.
The Monologue Project: Renters’ Edition
Saturday, October 29th at 4 PM
Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Newton (96 Otis Street)
Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-monologue-project-renters-edition-tickets-431361141787

Amherst Early Music Classes
2022-10-26 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-10-19 17:30 - 18:45 | MA
Four Wednesday Sessions starting October 19
October 19, 26 & November 2, 9.
5:30-6:45 p.m. EST
Open to all instrumentalists and singers. Pitch: A=440
Early Notation with Annette Bauer
Machaut & the Ars Nova – II
5:30 – 6:45 pm, 19 October 2022
Annette Bauer recorder early notation
ONLINE NOTATION SESSION 14

Amherst Early Music presents Early Notation Classes with Annette Bauer!
2022-10-26 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-10-19 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-10-05 17:30 - 18:45 | MA
Early Notation with Annette Bauer
Pitch: 440, Open to all instrumentalists and singers
“Machaut and the Ars Nova – I”
Wednesdays 5:30-6:45pm EST: September 14, 21, 28 & October 5
The music of Guillaume Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) offers a wonderful opportunity to study the style, forms, and musical notation used in the ars nova in France. In particular, the manuscripts containing Machaut’s compositions are true works of art, carefully compiled – some possibly under direct supervision of the composer himself – and beautifully illuminated. The first of two sessions on Machaut will focus on secular compositions in one, two, and three parts.
“Machaut and the Ars Nova – II”
Wednesdays 5:30-6:45pm EST: October 19, 26 & November 2, 9
The music of Guillaume Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) offers a wonderful opportunity to study the style, forms, and musical notation used in the ars nova in France. In particular, the manuscripts containing Machaut’s compositions are true works of art, carefully compiled – some possibly under direct supervision of the composer himself – and beautifully illuminated. The second of two sessions on Machaut will feature movements from the Messe de Nostre Dame, which is the first complete polyphonic mass cycle composed in the history of European music, alongside a selection of his secular compositions.
The upcoming online notation sessions in 2022/2023 focus on music of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, including an exploration of ars nova mensural notation, an introduction to the notation of the Italian trecento, and a look at the merging of these two distinct practices and musical styles at the turn of the fifteenth century. Prerequisite is the introductory class to mensural notation, or equivalent experience. (If you are not sure, please contact Annette).
Sign up here!
Image: Douce Dame Jolie Machaut A f.482v

All Newton Music School presents Brahms Clarinet Quintet: Special Event
2022-10-23 14:00 - 15:30 | All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut St, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
The All Newton Music School presents a special event of Brahms Clarinet Quintet Join ANMS Director Paulette Bowes on clarinet and her musical colleagues Miguel Perez-Espejo, violin, Hsin-Lin Tsai, violin, Scott Woolweaver, viola, and Joel Moerschel, cello.

Newton Baroque presents Abandoned and Alone: A Fanny von Arnstein Viennese Salon 1790
2022-10-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Attend an evening in honor of the remarkable Jewish woman, Fanny von Arnstein, who hosted brilliant salons in Vienna starting in the 1780s. This program features works that were likely performed at her salon, including Josef Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos, Nicola Porpora’s Abandonata e Sola, and Lieder by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Get your tickets for the Newton Baroque debut of Audrey Luna’s performance with Andrus Madsen on fortepiano.

WYMCA presents Fall Festival
2022-10-22 14:00 - 16:00 | WSYMCA, 276 Church St, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
*On Saturday, October 22nd at 2:00 pm the West Suburban YMCA celebrates fall at the annual free family festival. Wear your Halloween costume and join in for a jam- packed afternoon of autumn-themed activities, games, crafts, and entertainment. Check out this free family fun fest while you repeat that 5 times fast.

Pro Arte presents a Benefit for Ukraine
2022-10-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Pro Arte musicians come together to give a concert in benefit of those suffering in Ukraine. Multiple different groups of performers donate their services to perform a moving evening of music. This event is presented for a suggested donation of $50. All proceeds will be donated by Pro Arte to the Relief Fund for Ukrainian Musicians. Through this relief fund, the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation will administer grants directly to Ukrainian musicians, many of whom are affiliated with Ukraine’s top orchestras, ensembles and conservatories. The program will reach musicians who have escaped Ukraine’s borders as well as those who remain in their war-ravaged homeland. Beneficiaries are identified through musician networks and personnel info from musical organizations in Ukraine. Initiated by Ukrainian-American violist Alexander Vavilov in collaboration with the King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS), the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation is collecting contributions in the U.S. to support humanitarian assistance for Ukrainian musicians and their families. For more information about the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, visit https://www.lisabatiashvili-foundation.org/

SCC presents Gunnar Widforss
2022-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | MA
GUNNAR WIDFORSS–PAINTER OF THE NATIONAL PARKS

Through the Roaring Twenties and the first half of the Great Depression, the Swedish-born landscape painter Gunnar Widforss (1879-1934) focused his discerning eye and passionate energy on the national parks of the American West. Because of Widforss’ untimely death at only age 55, and
because the rise of modernism in the early-twentieth century consigned many highly skilled realistic painters to obscurity, Widforss’ legacy is largely unknown today. The amiable Swede led a bohemian life in search of beautiful landscapes to paint. Widforss dressed formally as he worked and always attracted wonder-struck onlookers when he painted in Yosemite Valley, on the rim of Grand Canyon and the other locations he favored in the national parks. Park Service friends such as Ansel Hall and Stephen Mather as well as tourists marveled at the accuracy of his painting and the way in which he was able to capture the dramatic landscapes. Widforss never resorted to sentimental or romanticized depictions, so prevalent in depictions of western subjects. He very well may be viewed as one of the greatest artists to paint the West and his obscurity is a paradox. The story of Widforss’ life and work is one of great triumph in realistic painting, and the tragedy of his anonymity and death is a compelling story of a Swedish expatriate who fell in love with the landscapes of the American West.
Today, Widforss’ work is known only to a small number of dedicated collectors, the descendants of his family and friends, and those who discover his gem-like paintings when they visit the national parks he depicted.
Curator and author Alan Petersen has published a catalogue raisonné of Widforss’ works and is nearing completion of a monograph on the artist’s fascinating life and work.
Sunday, October 16th | 1pm | $8 suggested donation | register here
ABOUT ALAN: Alan recently published a catalogue raisonné of works by Swedish-American artist Gunnar Widforss that currently lists nearly 1,300 paintings. He is continuing work on a monograph on Widforss’ fascinating life and art. Alan has also published a number of articles on the artist and in 2018 co-curated an exhibition of the artist’s work in Ljungby, Sweden.
Alan recently retired from a faculty position at Coconino Community College in Flagstaff where he taught art history, drawing, painting, and courses pertaining to the Colorado Plateau for thirty years. His own paintings have their source in the light, space and landforms of the Colorado Plateau, and explore the formal relationships between color and pictorial space. He is also engaged in a major project that involves mapping and drawing the geological sources of uranium within Grand Canyon.

Songs of the Highlands
2022-10-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Newton City Hall Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
The Highland Glee Club, established in 1908, will be singing classical part songs, drinking songs, and a few kilty pleasures.
Saturday, October 15, 3:00 pm at the Newton War Memorial Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Ave., Newton, MA,
$20 adults; under 18 free.

Highland Glee Club
2022-10-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Newton City Hall Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Saturday, October 15, 2022, 3 PM: War Memorial Auditorium, Newton

Part-songs and drinking songs by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, and Elgar, along with a selection of Scottish folk songs

New Art Center presents Stage Fright: Performance Workshop
2022-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
or the past three years you’ve been hard at work in your homes making music, writing poems, dancing in your kitchens, and so much more. Making by yourself can be therapeutic but maybe you miss the community, the adrenaline, and the conversation that happens around a performance. This is a space where you can workshop, showcase, experiment, and provide/receive feedback with other performers in the area. From lo-fi beats to spoken word poetry and more; whatever your personal output is we’d love to have you! In an open mic format, sign up for a 20 minute (or more) spot providing what you might need for tech/set up, and let us know if you would like feedback or just to perform. Adults and students ages 16+ are welcome to participate.

Stage Fright is for performers who want more experience performing for an audience with the opportunity to talk to other performers about how they prepare before a show/performance.
Milo has been facilitating open mic style events for many years and he is excited to bring it to the New Art Center.

NAA presents Garland of Hours, Gage Opdenbrouw, oil
2022-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
“For many years now, I have found old family photos, from my family, as well as found photos, to be poignant and moving source material for a body of paintings I call ‘Garland of Hours’” says Gage Opdenbrouw. “The paintings are often torn apart and rebuilt, destroyed, and reconstructed again and again, in the course, of their development—a process analogous to both the passing of time and our experience of memory.”
Ultimately the paintings are intended as meditations on themes like time, remembrance, forgetting, love, loss, impermanence, attachment, and letting go—a reflection on mortality and the passing of days, distilled into paint.
This demo will provide an overview of the work and an opportunity to look over the artist’s shoulder as he works on a canvas or two from this body of work.
About Gage Opdenbrouw
Born and raised in Northern California, Gage Opdenbrouw is an award-winning painter, who, until recent times, traveled frequently to paint and teach. He now teaches online courses at Washington Studio School, in Washington DC, and Winslow Art Center, near Seattle.
He has an upcoming show at Sue Greenwood Gallery in Laguna Beach, with Ryan Reynolds and Sandy Ostrau, and another with San Francisco painter and longtime friend Heidi McDowell, at SHOH Gallery in Berkeley in this fall. Other recent exhibitions include Black Spring, at Horse and Plow Taproom in Sonoma County, California, a solo show at B Sakata Garo Gallery in Sacramento, Midsummer Sun in an Empty Room at SHOH Gallery in Berkeley, and Silent Music at Washington Studio School.
His work was included in John Seed’s recent book Disrupted Realism. Opdenbrouw was the recipient of the Avigdor Arikha Fellowship for a residency in Civita Castellana Italy with the Jerusalem Studio School.
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Newton Free Library presents Author Talk with Gish Jen on Thank You Mr. Nixon (Zoom)
2022-10-06 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
This program is sponsored by the Wayland Free Public Library. Check back for registration information.

Join the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters, Gish Jen, for a talk on her collection of short stories, Thank You Mr. Nixon. The book takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. With their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these eleven linked stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history, capturing an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way.

Gish Jen is the author of one previous book of stories, five novels and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University.

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New Art Center presents Festival of Lights
2022-10-03 08:00 - 17:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Join New Art Center as we light up the winter with celebrations of Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa, and La Posadas! Art educators will lead participants through different make-and-take activities that highlight the themes, rituals, and traditions of different holidays. This event is FREE and open to all ages!

NewRep Theatre presents Sunday Celebration
2022-10-02 16:00 - 18:00 | The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, Mosesian The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts info@mosesianarts.org 617-923-0100 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA, 02472
New Rep presents its Sunday Celebration featuring:
The GroovaLottos with “Bronx Jazz”
and a performance by
Abilities Dance Boston
Sunday, October 2
4-6pm
“Bronx Jazz” is a musical conversation between father and son about hip hop, jazz and oral tradition from the souls of Black folks. Join us for this Sunday celebration with The GroovaLottos and Abilities Dance Boston.
This show will take place in the Main Stage Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown.
Tickets are $25, or purchase a ticket to both this and the Saturday, October 1st show for $50. Save $5 on each ticket. Discount automatically applied at check out.
Learn more about The GroovaLottos
Learn more about Abilities Dance Boston

Purchase Tickets Here

SCC presents Eeppi Ursin in concert
2022-10-02 15:00 - 17:00 | MA
Join us in welcoming Finlandia Foundation National Performer of the year, Eeppi Ursin, for a special concert presented by Finlandia Foundation of Boston.
Eeppi Ursin is a New York -based platinum-selling, award-winning singer, songwriter and pianist originally from Finland. Ursin is known for her angelic-strong voice and exceptional skill set ranging from top-class performance to writing music for various groups.
Eeppi has performed all over the world, with acclaimed artists such as American trumpeter Leroy Jones and Spirit of New Orleans, and has taken the stage at the Shanghai Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Pori Jazz Festival and more.
She was invited in 2018 by the New York Songwriter’s circle as the first Finnish artist.
Sunday, October 2nd | 3pm | $20 suggested donation per person

Historic Newton presents Hayfest
2022-10-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Jackson Homestead and Museum, 527 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
Join us for our annual fall festival of old-fashioned family fun. Enjoy 19th century activities that include apple cider pressing, butter making, weaving, and more. Admission is free.

Location: Jackson Homestead and Museum
527 Washington St
Newton, Massachusetts 02458

Pro Arte presents Serenades and Illuminations
2022-10-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
The first concert of Season 45 featuring the music of Strauss, Britten, and Brahms.
David Angus, conductor
Omar Najmi, tenor
STRAUSS Wind Serenade
BRITTEN Les Illuminations
BRAHMS Serenade No. 1 in A Major

NewRep Theatre presents Saturday Stories series
2022-10-01 19:00 | The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, Mosesian The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts info@mosesianarts.org 617-923-0100 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA, 02472
The GroovaLottos’
Straight Outta Mama’s Hamper
With 8 Grammy nominations between them, Straight Outta Mama’s Hamper recreates the best of a summer Saturday in the life of a 1970’s Black American family.
The GroovaLottos take us from morning cartoons to Soul Train afternoons and family cookouts that go till dawn.
This show will take place in the Main Stage Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown.
Tickets are $35, or purchase a ticket to both this and the Sunday, October 2nd show for $50. Save $5 on each ticket. Discount automatically applied at check out.
Learn more about The GroovaLottos

NewRep Theatre presents RootsUprising “Reconsidering”
2022-10-01 15:00 - 16:30, 2022-09-30 19:30 - 21:00 | The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, Mosesian The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts info@mosesianarts.org 617-923-0100 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA, 02472
SEPTEMBER 30- OCTOBER 1
THE BLACK BOX THEATER AT THE MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
90-minutes including a 30-minute talk-back

Reconsidering, presented in partnership with RootsUprising and Theatre for the People, is an embodied discussion of the intersectional experience of women of color through both their spatial and temporal circumstances. The evening of sharing includes six dancing texts from RootsUprising’s repertoire, including the premier of three new works, Entangled Gaze, So Noted and Rooted We Are. RootsUprising’s Artistic Director Nailah Randall-Bellinger describes her work as “text in Motion”. She says: “Reconsidering is the process of dismantling fed beliefs, truths and distorted images of who we really are as women of color in an oppressive social construct.”

Alberto Profeta At The Allen Center
2022-09-30 19:30 - 21:30 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Internationally acclaimed tenor, Alberto Profeta appears at The Allen Center in a program of famous arias and Italian songs with well known to Newton audiences, pianist Maxim Lubarsky, Tino D’Agostino, bass, and Sergio Bellotti, drums.
Check them out on Youtube. And purchase your tickets here!

New Art Center presents Night Out @ New Art – Calligraphy Workshop
2022-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Night Out @ New Art – Calligraphy Workshop – AEF22802

September 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
|$55.00

Dates: 9/30
Details: Friday, 1 Session
Times: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
This two-hour workshop introduces expressive marker lettering. Begin with some basic letter strokes and then construct and practice the basic alphabet. Then the fun begins, with letter variations and writing words. This is just a jumping-off point to learning lettering with brush-style markers. These letters are useful for anyone who likes to create cards or does art journaling.
Handouts provided will include a road map to this study, with letter strokes, letters with directional arrows, practice space, and then variations. There will also be an assortment of different brands of brush markers for students to try and information on where to purchase the various items.
Nights Out At New Art are fun, informal, and open to people of all artistic abilities. New Art provides the materials and tickets for two glasses of wine. Open to students ages 21+.
