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New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Chanel Thervil
New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Chanel Thervil
Join us on Zoom for our spring Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work explores community and public spaces. Many pieces make the whole and more often the not, artists are attentive to details that unify. Chanel Thervil is a Haitian American artist and educator that uses varying combinations of abstraction and portraiture to…
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Newton Free Library presents: Virtual Author Visit with Jennifer De Leon
Newton Free Library presents: Virtual Author Visit with Jennifer De Leon
The library invites everyone in the City of Newton community to join a youth-moderated discussion on Jennifer De Leon's teen debut, Don't Ask Me Where I'm From. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From tells the story of Liliana Cruz, a Boston teen from an immigrant family who is accepted into the METCO program—and the challenges she faces as she…
Zamir Chorale presents: Leonard Bernstein – The Jewish Side
Zamir Chorale presents: Leonard Bernstein – The Jewish Side
Join Zamir Chorale's Artistic Director, Josh Jacobson as he presents "Leonard Bernstein: The Jewish Side." Leonard Bernstein took the musical world by storm with his spectacular last-minute, a-star-is-born conducting turn with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Until his passing in 1990, he was astonishingly active as a conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher. Leonard Bernstein: The Jewish Side will explore Bernstein’s Judaism…
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Newton Free Library presents: Newton by Map
Newton Free Library presents: Newton by Map
Join the Leventhal Map and Education Center and the Newton Free Library for a deep dive into Newton historical geography! What was Newton like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? What used to be on the sites of your favorite Newton landmarks? How has the city changed, and how has it stayed the…
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Historic Newton presents: Voting Rights – Where Do We Go From Here?
Historic Newton presents: Voting Rights – Where Do We Go From Here?
Join Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author of "The Voting Rights War" for a session presented by Overdue in partnership with Historic Newton. Professor Browne-Marshall will examine laws posing challenges to American voters -- especially African-Americans -- from enslavement and woman’s suffrage through current controversies of voter suppression. She will also look ahead to challenges that future…
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Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Katherine Miller
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Katherine Miller
Join us on Zoom for our spring Artist Talk Series featuring contemporary artists whose work explores community and public spaces. For Katherine Miller, painting is the most intuitive and effective form of communication. She believes that beauty lies in minimal complexity. She creates freedom within structure. Everything about nature and the landscape inspires Miller’s imagery.…
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New Art Center presents: Classical and Contemporary Mexican Smalti Mosaics Workshop
New Art Center presents: Classical and Contemporary Mexican Smalti Mosaics Workshop
Learn the materials and methods to create your own original beautiful Mexican smalti mosaic. Mexican smalti is a high-quality handmade glass mosaic in a square to rectangular module that offers a broad range of colors from subtle skin tones to vibrant primaries. Students will bring a design for your choice for a 9” square. In…
Newton Free Library: The Asian American Experience – Reflections of an Historian and an Artist
Newton Free Library: The Asian American Experience – Reflections of an Historian and an Artist
The session will deepen our understanding of the Asian American experience through an interactive dialogue Lisong Liu and Wen-ti Tsen. They will cover: The historical perspective of Asian immigrants The complexities of the Asian-American experience Asian cultural heritage, community activism against racism and the cross-racial solidarity through art Lisong Liu is professor of history at Massachusetts…
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New Art Center presents: Fabric Dyeing and Printing – A Mask Workshop
New Art Center presents: Fabric Dyeing and Printing – A Mask Workshop
We have all been wearing masks for a year now, but is your mask a beautiful handmade work of art? Design and create a fabric mask in this three-day workshop. In session one, students will explore dyeing techniques such as tie-dye and Japanese Shibori. Once students have chosen the colors for their fabrics, they will…
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New Art Center presents: Cubism Workshop
New Art Center presents: Cubism Workshop
At about the same time as the invention of Cubism, Einstein was publishing his early papers on relativity; masks, artifacts and ritual objects from Africa were first exhibited in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was new. Cubism was invented, in part, as a way of examining and painting stationary objects to incorporate what the object…
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Historic Newton presents: House Tour Enore Presentation & Panel
Historic Newton presents: House Tour Enore Presentation & Panel
Through talent, fearlessness, and marketing genius Maud Howard Brodrick built hundreds of homes in Newton and Wellesley in the 1920s and 1930s, when few women worked in the field. Due to popular demand, we are once again showing video tours that take you inside homes she designed. Tickets also include access to a Zoom panel…
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Zamir Chorale presents: Kolot Nashim – Jewish Music by Women Composers
Zamir Chorale presents: Kolot Nashim – Jewish Music by Women Composers
For many centuries, the world of professional music making had been an exclusively 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 – was…
Newton Free Library presents: COVID-19 and Structural Racism
Newton Free Library presents: COVID-19 and Structural Racism
The COVID19 pandemic has laid bare the deep racial and economic inequities that persist in U.S. society, providing a crucial opportunity for reflection, reckoning and repair. Structural racism continues to permeate all institutions, including the U.S. healthcare system, which has led to inequitable rates of COVID19 infection and death among low-income people and communities of…
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Newton Free Library presents: Cook Along with Chef Bill
Newton Free Library presents: Cook Along with Chef Bill
Cook along or watch as Chef Bill prepares a different dish live on Zoom each month! Formerly a chef at the original Ritz-Carlton/Boston, Chef Bill worked at Harbor Sweets, makers of handmade chocolates in Salem, MA. Now a personal chef, he has provided cooking demonstrations and lessons for Whole Foods, Stonewall Kitchen, Reader to Reader, Monitor Group, and numerous…
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Newton Free Library presents: Shipwrecks of Cape Cod – Stories of Tragedy & Triumph
Newton Free Library presents: Shipwrecks of Cape Cod – Stories of Tragedy & Triumph
Cape Cod’s outer beach has always been known for its shipwrecks. Between 1626 and the mid-20th century, this solitary 40-mile stretch of beach and sandbars saw the demise of over 3,000 vessels. It’s been said that if all the wrecks were raised, one could walk from Provincetown to Chatham without getting his or her feet…
Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
Newton Free Library presents: Create Your Own Comics
Do you like Dogman, Narwhal & Jelly or the Babysitters Club? Come learn about how to make your own comics! We will meet on the first two Wednesdays evenings: February through June. Learn about the ways you can make your comics go KA-POW! as we write, draw, and share. Join us for this beginner's creative writing workshop for children in third and fourth grade. A…
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New Art Center presents: Glass Mosaic Jewelry Workshop
New Art Center presents: Glass Mosaic Jewelry Workshop
Using a wide selection of precut colored glass pieces, beads, iridized and dichroic glass, create a mini mosaic inside a pendant/necklace. Once the glass pieces are glued to the metal, grout your pendants with one of the many colored grouts available and clean your pieces. Voila! You’ll be provided a black leather cord necklace for…
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