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New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
Capture the beauty of the seasons with the immediacy of dry pastel in this Zoom class. Working from photos, explore how to build a landscape using many layers of colors. After taking this class, you will be ready to draw landscapes from life using a medium that is easy to carry! All levels welcome, but…
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New Art Center presents: Creativity Lab – Adult Improv and Art-Making Workshop
New Art Center presents: Creativity Lab – Adult Improv and Art-Making Workshop
Energize your artist! Begin with a fresh canvas, a fresh mind, a fresh approach. All artists are welcome, and, all artistic genres are welcome. During our first hour of class, we collaborate on works of art, and, improvise inspired by a theme. The second hour, we work individually on our own creations (sculpt, paint, collage,…
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Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Join NTK’s all new Devising Ensemble! Our first program for middle schoolers gives participants the opportunity to explore new forms of performance and hone their artistic skills, all while creating an original piece of theatre as an ensemble. Specifically tailored to the interests of the students, this class is an excellent opportunity for young performers…
Historic Newton presents: The Origins of ‘Our Bodies Ourselves’
Historic Newton presents: The Origins of ‘Our Bodies Ourselves’
For 50 years, the book Our Bodies Ourselves has set the standard for frank, informative facts about women’s health care. Hear from Newton-based founding members of the Boston Women’s Health Collective about how they created the first stapled booklet and how their then-revolutionary approach to health care grew into an international bestseller. Why did the…
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New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Anthony Romero and Çaca Yvaire
New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Anthony Romero and Çaca Yvaire
Anthony Romero is a Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting artists and communities of color. His collaborative practice engages intercultural contact and historical narratives in order to generate reparative counter-images and social transformation. Recent projects and performances have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star…
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An Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: An Afternoon of Swedish History
An Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: An Afternoon of Swedish History
Join the Scandinavian Cultural Center for Carolus Rex - An Afternoon of Swedish History Concerning King Charles XII and the Great Northern War. “Were Socrates and Charles the Twelfth of Sweden both present in any company, and Socrates to say, ‘Follow me and hear a lecture on philosophy’ and Charles, laying his hand on his sword,…
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New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
Capture the beauty of the seasons with the immediacy of dry pastel in this Zoom class. Working from photos, explore how to build a landscape using many layers of colors. After taking this class, you will be ready to draw landscapes from life using a medium that is easy to carry! All levels welcome, but…
1 event,
New Art Center presents: Creativity Lab – Adult Improv and Art-Making Workshop
New Art Center presents: Creativity Lab – Adult Improv and Art-Making Workshop
Energize your artist! Begin with a fresh canvas, a fresh mind, a fresh approach. All artists are welcome, and, all artistic genres are welcome. During our first hour of class, we collaborate on works of art, and, improvise inspired by a theme. The second hour, we work individually on our own creations (sculpt, paint, collage,…
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Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Join NTK’s all new Devising Ensemble! Our first program for middle schoolers gives participants the opportunity to explore new forms of performance and hone their artistic skills, all while creating an original piece of theatre as an ensemble. Specifically tailored to the interests of the students, this class is an excellent opportunity for young performers…
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Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Jazz on Tap
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Jazz on Tap
Tap dance and jazz have a long and intertwined history. From the prohibition on musical instruments during the era of slavery, which prompted the enslaved African-Americans to find ingenious ways to use their bodies as percussion instruments, to the early 20th century New York City where Irish and African-American styles of dancing met and enriched…
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New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
Capture the beauty of the seasons with the immediacy of dry pastel in this Zoom class. Working from photos, explore how to build a landscape using many layers of colors. After taking this class, you will be ready to draw landscapes from life using a medium that is easy to carry! All levels welcome, but…
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New Art Center presents: Creativity Lab – Adult Improv and Art-Making Workshop
New Art Center presents: Creativity Lab – Adult Improv and Art-Making Workshop
Energize your artist! Begin with a fresh canvas, a fresh mind, a fresh approach. All artists are welcome, and, all artistic genres are welcome. During our first hour of class, we collaborate on works of art, and, improvise inspired by a theme. The second hour, we work individually on our own creations (sculpt, paint, collage,…
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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! Check back for the name of the recipe, the list of ingredients and instructions. 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…
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Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Join NTK’s all new Devising Ensemble! Our first program for middle schoolers gives participants the opportunity to explore new forms of performance and hone their artistic skills, all while creating an original piece of theatre as an ensemble. Specifically tailored to the interests of the students, this class is an excellent opportunity for young performers…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Kathy Anderson
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Kathy Anderson
In 2001 Kathy was invited to join a group of painters under the tutelage of the renowned artist, Richard Schmid. This opportunity renewed and revitalized her work and began a period of intense focus and rapid growth. Painting for these last 10 years with Schmid, his wife Nancy Guzik, and the group which has become…
Newton Free Library presents: Decolonizing – Placing Indigenous Peoples in the Conversation
Newton Free Library presents: Decolonizing – Placing Indigenous Peoples in the Conversation
Join Claudia Fox Tree, Arawak/Yurumein and Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, for an online conversation as they explore how U.S. narratives have shaped their understanding of themselves, one another and the complex world we live in. Their organic, cross-racial conversation will pay heed to current events,…
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New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Cicely Carew
New Art Center presents: Artist Talk with Cicely Carew
Boston-based, L.A.-raised artist Cicely Carew spent her formative years in Los Angeles, CA. She recently completed her MFA from Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA. Directly after graduation, she had a solo exhibition at Simmons University, Trustman Gallery, in 2020. She actively exhibits her work in galleries and was recently featured in the Newport…
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New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
Capture the beauty of the seasons with the immediacy of dry pastel in this Zoom class. Working from photos, explore how to build a landscape using many layers of colors. After taking this class, you will be ready to draw landscapes from life using a medium that is easy to carry! All levels welcome, but…
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Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Join NTK’s all new Devising Ensemble! Our first program for middle schoolers gives participants the opportunity to explore new forms of performance and hone their artistic skills, all while creating an original piece of theatre as an ensemble. Specifically tailored to the interests of the students, this class is an excellent opportunity for young performers…
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New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
New Art Center presents: Pastel Landscapes
Capture the beauty of the seasons with the immediacy of dry pastel in this Zoom class. Working from photos, explore how to build a landscape using many layers of colors. After taking this class, you will be ready to draw landscapes from life using a medium that is easy to carry! All levels welcome, but…
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Newton Art Association presents: Legal Issues for Artists
Newton Art Association presents: Legal Issues for Artists
What are your rights and legal obligations as an artist? What do you need to know about copyrights, contracts, commissions, and consignments with galleries? What are your precise legal liabilities? These and other artists’ rights issues will be discussed by Nicholas M. O’Donnell at our second professional workshop. Zoom link for the event is found…
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Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Newton Theatre Kids presents: Fall Classes – Devising Ensemble
Join NTK’s all new Devising Ensemble! Our first program for middle schoolers gives participants the opportunity to explore new forms of performance and hone their artistic skills, all while creating an original piece of theatre as an ensemble. Specifically tailored to the interests of the students, this class is an excellent opportunity for young performers…
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New Art Center Artist Talk: Anthony Romero & Çaca Yvaire
New Art Center Artist Talk: Anthony Romero & Çaca Yvaire
Anthony Romero is a Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting artists and communities of color. His collaborative practice engages intercultural contact and historical narratives in order to generate reparative counter-images and social transformation. Recent projects and performances have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star…
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Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Book Talk – “For the Love of Cod” with Eric Dregni
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Book Talk – “For the Love of Cod” with Eric Dregni
A journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate? Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it really one of the happiest countries on Earth? Eric Dregni had his doubts. Years ago…
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New Art Center presents: Luminaria Workshop for Parents and Kids
New Art Center presents: Luminaria Workshop for Parents and Kids
Make a festive luminaria candle-holder to adorn your home this winter! Parents and kids will add their creative twist to a lovely luminaria decoration for themselves or as a gift for friends and family. Children younger than 2nd grade must be accompanied by an adult. All houses will be made from red air dry clay…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Jason Turner
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Jason Turner
Jason Turner was an innovator. His approach to handling watercolor was radically different from many of his contemporaries. Far from being a watercolor purist, he often used unconventional materials and constantly reinvented his approach to watercolor painting. For those who love this artist’s work and have some experience with watercolor, this demo will offer a…