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Newton Free Library online: Raising Anti-Racist Kids
Newton Free Library online: Raising Anti-Racist Kids
Join us for the first in a multi-part educational series on being an anti-racist. Cosponsored by the FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice), Harmony Foundation and Newton Human Rights Commission. This program is part of Overdue: Confronting Race and Racism in Newton, a city-wide read and series of events and conversations on race and racism. Join the community by reading either How to Be…
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Suzuki School of Newton Parent Information Session
Suzuki School of Newton Parent Information Session
The Suzuki School of Newton is holding a free parent information session on Wednesday October 28th at 7:00 PM for the music school to learn more about the programs offered for the 2020-21 school year. The mission of the Suzuki School of Newton is to instill a love and respect for music that will enrich…
Newton Free Library online: “New Kid” Author Jerry Craft
Newton Free Library online: “New Kid” Author Jerry Craft
Newbery Award and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author/illustrator Jerry Craft takes us behind the scenes of his bestselling graphic novels New Kid and the upcoming Class Act. Join us on Zoom as Jerry gives tweens and their families a look into his writing and drawing process. This event will be moderated by Morgan Harper, a Library Teacher at Peirce and…
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Newton Art Association: Price versus Value
Newton Art Association: Price versus Value
Join Beacon Gallery owner and International Society of Appraisers member Christine O’Donnell for this first of four workshops. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to delve into one of the most difficult questions regarding art (beyond making it, of course!) - how to price one’s work. Christine will present various strategies an artist…
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Delhi to Damascus-Transcending Borders One Note At A Time
Delhi to Damascus-Transcending Borders One Note At A Time
Experience the magic of Delhi to Damascus- an album inspired by the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam-the world is one family! The concert celebrates the shared history and culture between two ancient trading cities of the Silk Road-Delhi and Damascus. The transformative power of arts is needed more than ever to catalyze positive social change and…
Newton Free Library: Early Voting
Newton Free Library: Early Voting
Vote Early In Person If you are a registered voter in Newton, you can vote early in person at the Newton Free Library’s Druker Auditorium, every day starting on Saturday, October 17 until Friday, October 30, 2020. Voting will be open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm; and Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 am…
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New Art Center online: Parent/Child Clay Workshop (ages 3-5)
New Art Center online: Parent/Child Clay Workshop (ages 3-5)
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Parents or Grandparents: Roll up your sleeves, sink your fingers into some soft clay, and spend a delightful hour by your child’s side making a whimsical keepsake! Air-dry clay will be…
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New Art Center: The Figure and Beyond
New Art Center: The Figure and Beyond
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Work from a live model and discover new ways to approach art making. Experiment with drawing and/or painting to expand your range. Use the figure as the focus or a point…
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New Art Center online: Veterans’ Day Art Program (grades 2-5)
New Art Center online: Veterans’ Day Art Program (grades 2-5)
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Spend a morning packed with possibilities, imagination and fun, doing exciting activities with 2 experienced New Art teachers. Create a beautiful piece of 2D art, and also play cool theater games!…
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New Art Center: Painting Workshop – From Nature to Abstraction
New Art Center: Painting Workshop – From Nature to Abstraction
Bring nature inside to inspire drawing and abstract painting! Students will begin with a loose drawing of an object found in nature to use as a base for an abstract painting. They will focus on using limited color, and also learn about abstract acrylic artists who explore the relationship of drawing and painting. See website…
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Suzuki School of Newton: Faculty Concert
Suzuki School of Newton: Faculty Concert
Our faculty playing an exciting selection of music in concert for students, families, and the wider community is a treasured part of our academic calendar, and it's coming back this year on Facebook Live. Save the date for Sunday, November 15. We'll see you (virtually) there!
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New Art Center online: Watercolor Explorations
New Art Center online: Watercolor Explorations
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. This course for experienced watercolor students will focus on composition, values, and wash techniques in rendering landscape, botanicals, and still life. Students may work on suggested projects or those of their…
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Newton Free Library online: “The Color of Law” Author Richard Rothstein
Newton Free Library online: “The Color of Law” Author Richard Rothstein
In, The Color of Law, A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, author Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state and federal levels. Join us for a virtual session with Mr. Rothstein. The talk will be followed by a panel…
Kolot Nashim: Jewish Music by Women Composers
Kolot Nashim: Jewish Music by Women Composers
For many centuries the world of professional music-making had been an exclusive male bastion in Western civilization. Female composers and public performers were a rarity in Europe and America and it was nearly impossible for them to have their works published or heard on concert stages. kol ishah – the voice of a woman –…
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Newton Art Association: Don’t negate your own creativity!
Newton Art Association: Don’t negate your own creativity!
Join Beacon Gallery owner and International Society of Appraisers member Christine O’Donnell for this second of four workshops. Come and learn from Christine O’Donnell, through her knowledge as a gallery owner and appraiser, in how to ensure that your creative enterprises do not go to (physical or digital) waste. From disorganized spaces on and offline,…
Historic Newton: History Book Club
Historic Newton: History Book Club
Historic Newton's History Book Club meets regularly to discuss books about history. Meetings are free and open to all. Simply read the designated book in advance and come prepared to discuss it at the meeting. Click here to learn more about the club. The History Book Club of Historic Newton meets to discuss The Sleepwalkers: How…
Pro Arte’s Fall Salon Series: Salon 5
Pro Arte’s Fall Salon Series: Salon 5
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20…
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Newton Free Library presents: ELL Twentieth Century Women – Bridging Cultures/Breaking Barriers
Newton Free Library presents: ELL Twentieth Century Women – Bridging Cultures/Breaking Barriers
ELL Twentieth Century Women: Bridging Cultures/Breaking Barriers is a free conversation group on Zoom for high intermediate to advanced adult English learners. In this class, we will examine and discuss the lives of 20th (and 21st) century women who challenged societal barriers in their pursuit of careers in fields as varied as athletics, business, government…
New Art Center: Glass Fusing – Sushi Set
New Art Center: Glass Fusing – Sushi Set
Learn the basics of glass fusing techniques and play with colored glass pieces, glass powders and frits, stringers and glass beads. After a series of fun exercises, you’ll design and create two 4” x 4” plates and one 4″ x 13″ channel plate. All materials provided. Safety note: wear closed toe shoes; safety glasses provided.…
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Newton Theatre Company online: Antigone
Newton Theatre Company online: Antigone
The Newton Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the first three virtual productions of their eighth season: Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, Sophocles' Antigone, and It's a Wonderful Life. These productions will take us from the palace of ancient Thebes, through 20th-century New York, and into the streets of Los Angles in 1992. With a…
New Art Center online: The Collaged Landscape Workshop
New Art Center online: The Collaged Landscape Workshop
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Using collage can really improve your design and understanding of the landscape. It is also a wonderful way of creating a beautiful work of art using unconventional materials. Working online live…
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New Art Center Online: Painting with Color
New Art Center Online: Painting with Color
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Discover the magic of color! This class is designed to develop or strengthen your skills for all aspects of color mixing: value, warm/cool, and opposites/complementary. Students will create their own value…
New Art Center online: Acrylic and Oil Painting – Intermediate/Advanced
New Art Center online: Acrylic and Oil Painting – Intermediate/Advanced
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Explore the emotive, expressive and representative qualities of paint in an exciting studio environment. Focus on the painting process, how marks and color can be generated from spontaneous reactions to a…
New Art Center online: Post-Modern Assemblage Painting
New Art Center online: Post-Modern Assemblage Painting
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Paint, block print, or push the envelope with a postmodern approach to assemblage. Grow your practice through thoughtful critiques with attention to individual strengths. Combine your favorite forms in this creative…
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New Art Center online: Contemporary Explorations
New Art Center online: Contemporary Explorations
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. This course for advanced painters offers the chance to develop individual work within a group context. Individual painting and drawing development is facilitated through one-on-one discussions with the instructor and group…
New Art Center online: Painting Beyond Foundations
New Art Center online: Painting Beyond Foundations
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. 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…
New Art Center online: Ceramics – Intermediate/Advanced
New Art Center online: Ceramics – Intermediate/Advanced
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Students of all levels explore the creative possibilities of ceramics. Demonstrations and hands-on instruction cover wheel throwing, handbuilding, and surface treatment including glazing. Each semester includes one group project or technique…
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Newton Free Library online: Todd Brunel performs Classical and Jazz
Newton Free Library online: Todd Brunel performs Classical and Jazz
Join clarinetist Todd Brunel for the YouTube Premiere of a classical and jazz performance. Check back for details and the program link. Please note, you do not need to register for this event.
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New Art Center: Gesture, Color, Painting
New Art Center: Gesture, Color, Painting
This exciting class will bridge the methods of gesture drawing with abstract painting. Students will investigate intuitive mark-making as the base for an abstract painting, and explore ways that color heightens the work. They will explore the relationship between line, shape and color, and look at art from the present and past to better understand…
Pro Arte’s Fall Salon Series: Salon 6
Pro Arte’s Fall Salon Series: Salon 6
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20…
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New Art Center: Textured Glass Workshop
New Art Center: Textured Glass Workshop
Create a low relief tile out of ceramic fiber (a soft material easily cut or torn) on top of which 3 layers of glass (8” x 11”) will be kiln fired at 1500 degrees. The glass sheets will become one solid piece with the imprint of your relief. You will have the option to add…
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SCC Author Series: “The Viking Woman of Birka” with David K. Mullaly
SCC Author Series: “The Viking Woman of Birka” with David K. Mullaly
Asa was a young woman who avenged a personal assault, was forced to become a warrior and leader during her family’s travels, and ultimately became responsible for defending Birka, one of the great Viking trade centers. This actual Norse woman made her mark during a violent time. A Viking burial found on the Swedish island…
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Pastel Demo for Art Enthusiasts
Pastel Demo for Art Enthusiasts
Janet Schwartz, a Master Pastelist and Instructor, is hosting an online pastel demo as part of the Newton Art Association’s community outreach. As a practicing artist and art instructor, Janet uses pastels, oils and charcoal to explore the variations of light in nature and architecture. To register, contact www.Newton art association.com. This is a free…
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