Newton Cultural Alliance

Newton Free Library presents Understanding Improv in Klezmer Music
2022-07-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Nathaniel Seelen of Ezekeils’ Wheels will give a lecture/demonstration about improv in Klezmer music. Details will follow.
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Registrations open at 7:00pm Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Amherst Early Music presents ONLINE Summer Festival!
2022-07-08 08:00 - 2022-07-10 17:00 | MA
July 8, 9, and 10, 2022.. save the dates!
We’ll warm-up for our in-person Festival (August 7-14, 14-21, in Bethlehem, PA) with a 3-day ONLINE Summer Festival!
Join us on July 8, 9, and 10 for any mix you like of three class sessions per day, with an international faculty, and a lecture by Yvonne Kendall on Spanish influences in 16th-century dance. Classes are $25 each, and the lecture is free. More info coming soon… save the dates! Registration will open by June 1st.
ONLINE FESTIVAL Faculty
Giula Genini
Annette Bauer
Gwyn Roberts
Nina Stern
Mary Springfels
Dorothy Olsson
Julie Iwasa
Yvonne Kendall
Karen Cook
Shira Kammen
Pamela Dellal

Newton Free Library presents The Impact of Local Authors Writing for the LGBTQ+ Community (Zoom)
2022-06-30 19:00 - 20:30 | MA
Please register here.
Local authors are the backbone of the writing community and those writing within and for the LGBTQ+ community are especially important. Join us for a conversation with Bren Bataclan, Anna Burke, Federico Erebia, Jane C. Esther, and Sarah Jean Horowitz as they discuss their books, their writing and the impact they have on readers of all ages!

Bren Bataclan (he/him) author of Fe: A Traumatized Son’s Graphic Memoir
Anna Burke (she/her) award-winning author of Compass Rose, Thorn, Nottingham and the Seal Cove Romance series
Federico Erebia (he/him) whose artisanry, woodwork, furniture design, and books have been featured in Boston Spirit Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine and The Boston Globe, among others.
Jane C. Esther (they/them) author of Universe Between Us and The Portal series, including Uninvited and Convergence
Sarah Jean Horowitz author of The Wingsnatchers, The Dark Lord Clementine and the forthcoming fantasy book for young readers, tentatively titled the Demon Sword Asperides.

This program is sponsored by the Ashland Public Library.

Newton Theatre Company presents The Monologue Project: Renters Edition
2022-06-30 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
The Monologue Project: Renters Edition
We are thrilled to be bringing back The Monologue Project for its fourth iteration. This project provides an opportunity for a specific subset of the population of Newton– this year, people who rent their homes in Newton– to come together and make their voices heard in a supportive and enjoyable environment.
Spend the summer bonding with fellow renters and exploring different story-sharing and performance techniques before sharing your story with a broader Newton audience in October. Newton Theatre Company is proud to offer an encouraging and meaningful experience to renters of all ages and backgrounds, whether you have any experience performing or not.
Find your voice, share your story, and become an integral part of the Newton Renter community!
Logistics
Rehearsals: 20 Hours, Spread Over 10 Weeks
Start Date: Week of August 22nd (Rehearsal times TBD)
Location: Casselman House (195 Sumner St)
Performances: October 29th & 30th
Stipends Available for All Performers • On-site Child Care Available
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Want to learn more? Register for one of our Zoom Open Houses to meet our facilitators!
Open houses will take place virtually on Tuesday, June 14th at 7 PM and Thursday, June 30th at 7 PM.
Please register below to receive the link.
Can’t make the open houses but still want to learn more? Reach out to one of the project facilitators, Abby Lass.
Register for Our June 30th Zoom Open House

Historic Newton presents Walking Tour of West Parish Burying Ground
2022-06-25 13:00 - 14:00 | MA
Established in 1781 as part of Newton’s Second Parish Church, West Burying Ground is the resting place for some of the city’s earliest residents. Learn about these residents as well as the shifting iconography and material culture of New England’s burying grounds throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Free but you must register in advance and registration will be capped at 40 people. Register here.
The tour is part of “West Newton Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” a weekend of events held in collaboration with the Newton Cultural Alliance at the Allen Center for Arts and Culture at the Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton. Information on all events: www.newtonculture.org.

Amherst Early Music presents Early Notation with Annette Bauer
2022-06-22 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-06-20 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-06-15 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-06-13 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-06-08 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-06-06 17:30 - 18:45, 2022-06-01 17:30 - 18:45 | MA
“Back to Basics / Review / New Intro” Wednesdays 5:30-6:45pm EST: June 1, 8, 15 & 22
Open to all instrumentalists and singers! Pitch: A=440.
After a year of focused work on 15th-century notation topics, we close our current season before the summer break with a 4-week online series featuring a “casual” selection of shorter pieces from late 15th and early 16th century sources. This series is designed for both ongoing students to review some of the basic concepts of mensural notation, to deepen and enjoy the fluency gained over the past few months of studies, and for new students to join in for a first practical experience with mensural notation… $100 for four sessions, recordings of each class are available during the week after class… See the complete description for these classes, and sign up here!
https://www.amherstearlymusic.org/online/early-notation-annette-bauer-back-basics-review-new-intro

Newton Free Library presents The Legacy of Juneteenth: Access to Education that Empowers Us All
2022-06-21 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Juneteenth is a celebration of the day enslaved Blacks in Galveston, TX learned that they had been granted freedom. Join us for this interactive discussion in which participants share their own educational experiences, thoughts about the current state of public education and perspectives on the potential of education to empower or disempower. The program will be led by Jesse Tauriac, Assistant Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer from Lasell University.
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Registrations open at 9:00am Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The Highland Glee Club presents Love-In!
2022-06-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-06-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Hyde Community Center, 90 Lincoln St, Newton Highlands, MA, 02461, United States
Announcing The Highland Glee Club Love-In! Two FREE OUTDOOR concerts on June 18 & 19, 7 PM, Hyde Center Pavilion at 90 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands. Joined by professional rock band Firefly, we will perform close covers (with amazing men’s harmony vocals) of the greatest rock hits of the 60s, from acoustic folk to electric psychedelic — songs of peace, love, understanding, and also surfing. Drop out of your everyday lives, if only for a few hours, and turn on with us! See you there!

Newton Free Library presents The Refugee Experience: Stories from Our Neighbors (Zoom)
2022-06-14 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
People facing humanitarian catastrophes in their native countries have sought refuge in the United States throughout history. Join us for a panel discussion with neighbors whose families were forced to leave Austria, Cambodia, and Haiti. These individuals will speak about their countries of origin, their families’ exodus, and their adjustment to the U.S. This program is co-sponsored by Historic Newton.
The panelists will be:

John Chrang
Danielle Georges
Hanni Myers
Clara Silverstein of Historic Newton will moderate

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Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra presents Ensemble 2
2022-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Newton City Hall Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Sunday, June 12, 2022
3:00 PM War Memorial Auditorium, Newton City Hall
ERROLLYN WALLEN Photography: Movement 1 (2007)
MOZART Violin Concerto No.5 in A Major, K. 219
HAYDN Symphony No. 49 in F minor, Hob. 1:49 (“La Passione”)
Kevin Rhodes, conductor
Julia Cash, violin
In June, Pro Arte celebrates its newly appointed Concertmaster, violinist Julia Cash, for a concert of contemporary and Classical works.
Belizean-British composer Errollyn Wallen wrote Photography in 2005 as a series of snapshots inspired by musical memories. Its first movement, based on what she calls “a simple motif,” opens the program with irrepressible vibrancy.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s enchanting Fifth Violin Concerto offers a number of delightful surprises. In the otherwise spirited opening movement, the soloist makes an unconventional entrance with a slow, songlike interlude. Another interruption occurs in the finale, in which a Turkish-style march is interjected into a fluid minuet.
It is unclear whether the nickname of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 49, “La passione”, refers to the character of its music, but it still perfectly describes this somber work. The symphony burns with intensity from beginning to end and brings the concert to an impassioned close.

Theatre Ink Proudly Presents The 15th Annual Playwrights Festival
2022-06-11 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-06-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-06-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Newton North High School, 457 Walnut St, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Performed Live in The Little Theatre at Newton North High School
or Live Streamed at home!
In-Person Tickets June 9,10, 11 at 7:30 PM
Tickets will also be sold at the door if available

The Scandinavian Cultural Center presents A Book Launch Event
2022-06-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Scandinavian Cultural Center, 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, 02465, United States
BOOK TALK – LAUNCH THING WITH AUTHOR ROWDY GEIRSSON AND FRIENDS

Join the Scandinavian Cultural Center on June 11th for the launch-thing of Rowdy Geirsson’s new book, The Scandinavian Aggressors. The event will feature a reading by Geirsson from the book, book signings by him along with Matt Smith and Corwin Ericson, hand-made natural Norse products for sale by Eir’s Garden, and a beer tasting (21+) by local craft brewery, Navigation Brewing Company.
Rowdy Geirsson is the editor of Norse Mythology for Bostonians and a regular contributor to Metal Sucks and McSweeney’s. His writing has also appeared in the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Scandinavian Review and the Sons of Norway’s Viking Magazine. His new book, The Scandinavian Aggressors, is an offbeat odyssey into the freezing heart of the modern Northlands that features delightful and illuminating episodes about enslaved leprechauns, beheaded mermaids, elite warrior sisterhoods, deranged Swedish fishermen, craft-beer-brewing zombies, and perverted trolls.
Matt Smith is the creator of Barbarian Lord and the illustrator of Hellboy: The Bones of Giants.
Corwin Ericson is the author of Swell and Checked Out OK.
Eir’s Garden is a local business that makes and sells Norse-inspired soaps, lotions, creams, and other natural products.
Saturday, June 11th; 1pm | FREE with registration

Historic Newton presents 2022 Annual Plant Swap
2022-06-11 10:00 - 12:00 | MA
Join Historic Newton for this annual event started by Mary Morganti that brings together garden enthusiasts to swap plants and other garden items. If you don’t have plants to trade, you can still attend. Crafts, activities, and a special Storytime about the many plants growing at our site will be offered for all school-age children in attendance. Admission is free. The event is supported in part by the Harmony Foundation. Visit this page for more details about the swap. Register here or simply come that day!

Newton Free Library presents Lesbian Life in Boston: 1910-1920
2022-06-09 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
What was it like to be a lesbian in a world that was not ready to deal with differences? How did lesbians deal with isolation and ostracism? And what was it like to live through the years when men fought to keep women from having the right to vote? Author, Ellen Levy, will speak to these experiences in an interactive program that is based on the extensive research she did for her historic novel series.

Ellen Levy’s books, Romance at Stonegate, Struggles in a Boston Marriage and Chosen Family reflect her passion as a Lesbian and a Jew in researching and writing about the struggles Lesbian women in the early 1900s faced. From the suffrage movement to immigration of Eastern European Jews and the creation of settlement houses, her novels bring to light this important and often overlooked part of the history of the women’s movement.

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Newton Theatre Company presents: Iphigenia Among the Taurians
2022-06-03 - 2022-06-05 | MA
​Euripides’ Greek tragedy/melodrama about the chance meeting of Iphigenia and her long lost brother, Orestes, and the siblings’ escape from the wild shores of Tauris.

New Rep presents New Voices Theatre Festival
2022-05-28 21:00 - 22:00, 2022-05-27 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-05-26 19:30 - 20:30 | 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’s first New Voices Theatre Festival will feature three twenty-minute plays directed by Jaime Carrillo, Inés De La Cruz, and Naomi Ibasitas. Each two-person cast will bring these stories to life in the intimate Black Box Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts.
Play summaries:
AURORA by Ramón Esquivel
The play takes place on an Autumn Night on the Aurora Bridge in Seattle in 2010. Kai has come here to end their life, and Halen tries to stop the attempt. We learn that Halen committed suicide in the same spot two years earlier, and has reappeared to support Kai in this time of crisis. This play employs magical realism in an ultimately uplifting story about depression, grief, metaphysics, and the transcendent nature of love.
ORGANIC by Jenna Jane
In a future where everyone is enhancing their bodies with the latest tech, 81-year-old Donna Goldman is an anomaly – she’s 100 percent organic. But now, there’s a problem: She’s dying. And a bionic body part is the only cure. Will cyborg Dr. Flores persuade her to abandon her sense of self to survive? This sci-fi drama explores the relationship between the body and the self.
BY ANY OTHER NAME by Erin Lerch
The play takes place in the age of space travel. In the aftermath of the disaster that destroyed her home, sole survivor Amaranth must decide who and how she needs to be in order to survive beneath the weight of others’ expectations.
Tickets are $25 for Adults, and $10 for students and can be purchased at Calendar | New Rep

New Rep presents New Voices Theatre Festival
2022-05-28 19:00 - 20:00 | 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’s first New Voices Theatre Festival will feature three twenty-minute plays directed by Jaime Carrillo, Inés De La Cruz, and Naomi Ibasitas. Each two-person cast will bring these stories to life in the intimate Black Box Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts.
Play summaries:
AURORA by Ramón Esquivel
The play takes place on an Autumn Night on the Aurora Bridge in Seattle in 2010. Kai has come here to end their life, and Halen tries to stop the attempt. We learn that Halen committed suicide in the same spot two years earlier, and has reappeared to support Kai in this time of crisis. This play employs magical realism in an ultimately uplifting story about depression, grief, metaphysics, and the transcendent nature of love.
ORGANIC by Jenna Jane
In a future where everyone is enhancing their bodies with the latest tech, 81-year-old Donna Goldman is an anomaly – she’s 100 percent organic. But now, there’s a problem: She’s dying. And a bionic body part is the only cure. Will cyborg Dr. Flores persuade her to abandon her sense of self to survive? This sci-fi drama explores the relationship between the body and the self.
BY ANY OTHER NAME by Erin Lerch
The play takes place in the age of space travel. In the aftermath of the disaster that destroyed her home, sole survivor Amaranth must decide who and how she needs to be in order to survive beneath the weight of others’ expectations.
Tickets are $25 for Adults, and $10 for students and can be purchased at Calendar | New Rep
Join New Rep for a reception in the Mbar at 8 pm after the 7 pm performance on May 28.

Zamir Chorale of Boston presents: A Better World: A concert honoring Larry and Jill Sandberg
2022-05-26 19:30 | Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Thursday, May 26, 2022 • 7:30 pm • Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA
A Better World: A concert honoring Larry and Jill SandbergMusic affords us a vision of a harmonious world even in times of conflict and uncertainty—a world filled with compassion, logic, beauty, and resolution. For our spring concert, in honor of longtime Zamir members Larry and Jill Sandberg, we present “A Better World,” featuring a wide-ranging program of uplifting music, including Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdom and the U.S. premiere of Yehezkel Braun’s “Vehayah Be’akharit Ha-yamim” (In Days to Come). Come dream with us!
Please note that there is no charge for online tributes (see link below); sponsorship opportunities are available by clicking on the “Be a Sponsor” button below; tickets will go on sale by the end of March.

Newton Art Association presents New Member Show
2022-05-26 00:00 - 2022-06-26 00:00 | Scandinavian Cultural Center, 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, 02465, United States
The Nordic Hall will once again host the Newton Art Association‘s New Member Show during the month of June. Contact Kerry for viewing hours!
The opening reception will be on Saturday, June 4th, 2022 | 2-4:30 Admission is free. Register here to let us know you’re coming.
About the Newton Art Association:
“The Newton Art Association seeks to encourage the appreciation and expression of fine arts to our membership and the Newton community. We are an organization of over 200 active artists and art enthusiasts, representing all branches of the visual arts, from drawing to sculpture. The majority of members live in Newton, nearby cities, and elsewhere in New England. The Newton Art Association was founded in 1949 by the late James King Bonnar and a small group of artists who felt that artists needed the support of each other to share ideas, techniques, and opportunities to paint together.”
