New Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
2021-07-02 17:30, 2021-07-03 17:30, 2021-07-05 17:30, 2021-07-06 17:30, 2021-07-09 17:30, 2021-07-10 17:30, 2021-07-11 17:30 (America/New_York) | The Commander’s Mansion, 440 Talcott Avenue, Watertown, MA, 02472, United States
Listen to Sipu – A Watertown Historical Moving Play

By Morgan (Mwalim) J. Peters
Directed by Jaime Carrillo

Following the success of New Rep’s first Historical Moving Play, the Charles W. Experience, audiences were clamoring for more. Listen to Sipu answers the call with a captivating and powerful story that illuminates Watertown’s Indigenous history. Join in on a socially-distanced performance lead by a modern-day Tour Guide and meet Sipu, a quick-witted Indigenous woman who’s more than willing to correct misinformation when she hears it. Armed with facts, The Tour Guide begins describing Watertown’s local history only to find that the facts are missing a lot of truths. Sipu is ready to step in and set the record straight, as long as audiences are ready to listen. Click here to buy tickets.

Historic Newton presents: Reading Frederick Douglass Together
2021-07-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Jackson Homestead and Museum, 527 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
Come and hear a public reading of the famous Frederick Douglass address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The museum will be open special hours that day from noon to 5 p.m. with free admission. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the back lawn of the Homestead. Funded by a grant from Mass Humanities.

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

New Art Center presents: Art Education as Self Care
2021-07-07 12:00 - 13:00, 2021-07-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2021-07-21 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Art education + creativity exercises + stress relief + group discussions = this workshop series! If you’re looking for intellectual stimulation that doesn’t feel hard, if you’re hoping for a burst of creativity in the middle of your workday, if you’re looking for the soothing effects of art — look no further. Join a small group of fellow art enthusiasts and/or new art lovers for a 2 month exploration into how a little bit of art education combined with reflection provides YOU with a refreshing and inspiring experience … all in one hour per week! Each session will consist of a facilitated discussion about a piece of art using Visual Thinking Strategies, after which the conversation segues into writing/reflective exercises, creativity prompts, and group investigations into self-analysis. Furthermore, you’ll improve your listening and communication skills as well as your ability to talk about art, its expression and interpretation. Give yourself the self-care you need in a creative way.
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New Art Center presents: Media Musing
2021-07-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-07-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-07-21 16:00 - 18:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for a 6-week come as you are mixed media mashup inspired by our Women in Abstraction exhibition! Students will use mixed media to explore collage and other forms of making. Perfect for making friends with the inner critic, connecting with inspiration, or connecting family and friends. We will center on playful discovery to create a series of work through mark-making, layering, materials, and prompts (music and readings). Students will be given a weekly (optional) assignment as well as a demonstration on how to approach the materials and surfaces suggested. Register here.

Newton Free Library presents: From Dragons to Unicorns - A Fantasy Animal Writing Workshop
2021-07-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-07-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
Are you a fan of animal fiction? What about fantasy? Join us as we learn to combine the best of both worlds as we get our imaginations flowing in this animal fiction writing program for rising 4th and 5th graders. Create a new world for fantasy animals to inhabit or a makeup a new animal altogether! Space is limited.
Registration is required. A zoom link will be sent out two days before the first session. When you sign up, you register for July 7 and 14.

6th Annual Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts
2021-07-10, 2021-07-11
Celebrate Newton’s talented musicians, singers, bands, poets, story tellers & more!
Free and accessible to all
Outdoors at The Hyde Bandstand, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands
Outdoors at Suzuki School of Newton, 1615 Beacon Street, Waban
Inside at The Allen House Center for the Arts, 35 Webster Street, West Newton

Performance Schedule

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021
Suzuki School of Newton, Waban
11:30am Rob Siegel, Folk Music
1pm Isabel Stover, Jazz Vocalist
2:30pm Nate Aronow, Nextet
4pm Tal Shalom-Kobi, World Music
5:30pm Albino Mbie, Afro Pop

Hyde Bandstand, Newton Highlands
11am Nikola Stajic, Jazz, Blues Guitar
12:30pm Barracudas, Jazz Ensemble
2pm The Eli Cash Band, Rock Band
3:30pm Zaira Meneses, Classical Guitar
5pm Newton Nomadic Theater Story Slam

SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021

Hyde Bandstand, Newton Highlands
11am Maxim Lubrarsky, Jazz Piano
12:30pm Olga Lisovskaya, Opera
2pm Cross Street, Rock, Blues and More
3:30pm Nat Seelen, Klezmer
5pm Debo Ray, Global Soul

The Allen Center for the Arts, West Newton
1pm Andrus Madsen, Baroque Harpsichord
2:30pm Newton Baroque
4pm Pro Arte Quartet
5:30pm Maitreyee & Taposh,Bengali Pop Music & Dance
7pm Sandeep Das with Suhail Yusuf Khan, Journey in Rhythm

Festival of the Arts: Newton Nomadic Theatre's Story Slam
2021-07-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Hyde Bandshell, 90 Lincoln Street, Newton, MA, 02461, United States
As part of the 6th Annual Newton Festival of the Arts, the Newton Nomadic Theatre presents their next Story Slam.
NNT Story Slams have become legendary in Newton featuring everyone from celebrities, politicians, to next door neighbors. They provide the light, you provide the face and the story. The idea is simple – a community storytelling night, based loosely on NPR’s very popular Moth Radio Hour. Come to hear the stories, or if you’re game, throw your name in the hat to tell a story. They should be related to the night’s theme. They should be approximately 5 minutes long, and have happened to you. Beyond that, it’s up to you – funny, moving, poignant, insane, ridiculous whatever you like.

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.

Festival of the Arts: Pro Arte Quartet
2021-07-11 16:00 - 16:45 | 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 Pro Arte’s Quartet.
Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States. The quartet will share three works by African American composers, each of which has moments of dance and reflection. Wynton Marsalis’ At the Octoroon Balls is a set of scenes inspired by his early life in New Orleans. We will play three movements from this work – Creole Contradanzas, Blue Lights on the Bayou, and the Rampart Street Row House Rag. Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor weaves together her beautiful lyric writing and African American vernacular with daring chromaticism and vibrant movement. The third movement (of four) is a Juba, a dance developed by Africans brought to America against their will. Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Modes is a beautiful and compact three-movement work, which ends with an energetic, movement-inspiring finale. Lisa Goddard & Colin Davis, violins, Anne Black, viola, and Steve Laven, cello.

Newton Free Library presents: Exploring the Universe Part 1 - Pluto Strikes Back
2021-07-13 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join Scott Kenyon for a visit to Pluto – the outcast – and only binary planet in the Solar System. Dr. Kenyon will guide a tour of the moons of Pluto and show how this system formed early in the history of the Solar System. This is part one of a two-part series which will continue on Tuesday, July 27 with a talk by Margaret Geller titled Caught in the Cosmic Web.
Scott J. Kenyon is an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge. He builds numerical simulations to study the way stars and planetary systems form and evolve. Dr. Kenyon is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.
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New Art Center presents: Japanese Hand-Building Pottery Workshop
2021-07-15 17:30 - 20:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Are you interested in making a beautiful pottery bowl without the struggle of mastering wheel-throwing techniques? This workshop is for all levels from complete beginners to experienced potters who wish to explore Japanese pottery making.“Tebineri” is a traditional Japanese hand-building pottery technique. In this 2 day workshop, students will learn the “Tebineri” technique to make a pottery piece such as a bowl or a cup using a tabletop manual turning wheel. Students will also learn how to trim, refine and design the clay form to create a special pottery piece.The New Art Center will fire and glaze all work.
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Amherst Early Music Online Festival
2021-07-17, 2021-07-18, 2021-07-19, 2021-07-20, 2021-07-21 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The AEM ONLINE FESTIVAL will feature over 40 classes taught by an international faculty, a Concert Series, masterclasses, a lecture, Music and Instrument Exhibition, Auction, and more! Classes are $25 each, Concerts are $20. Special Events are free for everyone. Click here for a list of classes, special events, and more.

Newton Free Library presents: Prohibition Wine
2021-07-20 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for an author talk with TAB columnist and community activist, Marian Leah Knapp. Her new book, Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman’s Daring in Twentieth-Century America, tells the story of how Marian’s grandmother, Rebecca Goldberg—a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Massachusetts―lost her husband to a railroad accident. The tragedy left her alone with six children to raise. The book follows Rebecca through the 1920s as she transforms her egg delivery service into a more lucrative endeavor: bootlegging.
For five years, Rebecca successfully provided for her customers in secret as a means to support her family until she was caught. Knapp’s story chronicles how the lower class experienced the Prohibition, a side not always represented in popular media from the era. Rebecca’s life as a poor Jewish immigrant in Massachusetts holds a mirror to struggles still relevant today including disparities in access to education and healthcare and ongoing discrimination. This program is cosponsored by the City of Newton Department of Senior Services.
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