Newton Cultural Alliance

New Art Center presents: Media Musing
2021-07-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-07-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-06-30 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

New Art Center presents: Art Education as Self Care
2021-07-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2021-07-07 12:00 - 13:00, 2021-06-30 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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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 Rep Theatre presents: Listen to Sipu
2021-07-11 17:30, 2021-07-10 17:30, 2021-07-09 17:30, 2021-07-06 17:30, 2021-07-05 17:30, 2021-07-03 17:30, 2021-07-02 17:30, 2021-07-01 17:30 and 4 more dates | 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.

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.

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.

6th Annual Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts
2021-07-11, 2021-07-10
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.

Newton Free Library presents: From Dragons to Unicorns - A Fantasy Animal Writing Workshop
2021-07-07 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.

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

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 Art Center presents: Painting Intensive
2021-07-02 09:30 - 13:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Intermediate and advanced students explore and develop personal themes while pushing their skills to the limit. Demos, group exercises, color theory, advanced painting techniques with regular critique and conversation support and extend creativity and competency. Click here for registration.

Newton Free Library presents: An Evening with author Nate Marshall
2021-06-28 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
This program is presented in partnership with the Chelmsford Public Library. Please register here.
Join Nate Marshall, writer, rapper and educator for a reading from his recent collection, Finna (2020).
Definition of finna, created by the author: fin·na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular English] (2) eye dialect spelling of “fixing to” (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow
These poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy, and the use of the Black vernacular in America’s vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets. Finna explores the erasure of peoples in the American narrative, asks how gendered language can provoke violence and finally, how the Black vernacular, expands our notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope:
nothing about our people is romantic
& it shouldn’t be. our people deserve
poetry without meter. we deserve our
own jagged rhythm & our own uneven
walk towards sun. you make happening happen.
we happen to love. this is our greatest
action.
Nate Marshall is the author and editor of numerous works including Finna, Wild Hundreds, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis Esq. He teaches creative writing and literature at Colorado College. Nate was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago.
Registration will remain open until the program start time. Login information will be emailed upon registration.

Newton Open Studios
2021-06-26 11:00 - 17:00
Newton Open Studios is back with 75 Newton artists and artisans for an all-outdoor event this year. Newton Open Studios 2021 will have locations throughout the city with artists displaying their works for sale from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 26th, Rain date, June 27th. Artist registration is still open to participate through June 18th by signing up here. Come explore, browse and buy at as many artist sites as you like. Set your own tour map by visiting the Newton Open Studios website which allows you to save a “favorites list” on your own device. Map out your route to Newton Open Studios here.
