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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…
Newton Free Library presents: Historical Fiction Panel
Newton Free Library presents: Historical Fiction Panel
Join Marjan Kamali, William Martin and Jane Healey for a panel discussion of their books, writing historical fiction and their behind-the-scenes research. This program is presented in partnership with the Ashland Public Library. Marjan Kamali was born in Turkey to Iranian parents. She is the author of two novels: The Stationery Shop, a Boston Globe best-seller, and Together Tea which was…
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New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
Children will explore theater games, stories and shorter character pieces, using imagination and creative skills, in this exciting class. Have fun as you develop self confidence and showmanship while working with award winning actor and sought-after Boston drama teacher Danny Bolton. Many of you know Danny as New Art Center’s summer performance instructor since 2004.…
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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: Visual Journaling
New Art Center presents: Visual Journaling
This 4 week workshop focuses on how to keep a sketchbook as a visual journal to develop ideas and practice drawing by recording the world around you. This fun and supportive class is suitable for emerging artists as well as seasoned sketch-bookers. Students will be introduced to a variety of methods and materials. Experimentation is…
1 event,
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: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
Children will explore theater games, stories and shorter character pieces, using imagination and creative skills, in this exciting class. Have fun as you develop self confidence and showmanship while working with award winning actor and sought-after Boston drama teacher Danny Bolton. Many of you know Danny as New Art Center’s summer performance instructor since 2004.…
1 event,
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: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
Children will explore theater games, stories and shorter character pieces, using imagination and creative skills, in this exciting class. Have fun as you develop self confidence and showmanship while working with award winning actor and sought-after Boston drama teacher Danny Bolton. Many of you know Danny as New Art Center’s summer performance instructor since 2004.…
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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 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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Suzuki School of Newton presents: Winter Faculty Concert
Suzuki School of Newton presents: Winter Faculty Concert
The Winter Faculty Concert will be hosted in-person by the Newton Presbyterian Church on Sunday, Nov. 21st at 4:00 PM (at 75 Vernon St. in Newton, MA). Pieces performed include works by Florence Price, Rebecca Clarke, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Tickets will be sold in advance and at the door. The link to buy tickets is here. Please get them early for…
2 events,
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…
Zamir Chorale presents: A Choral Rainbow
Zamir Chorale presents: A Choral Rainbow
This season, in response to the alarming rise in racism, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice, we are even more committed to using our resources to expose our audiences (and ourselves) to music representing different cultures, ethnicities, and ways of thinking. With that in mind, we are presenting an online series called "A Choral Rainbow,"…
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New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
Children will explore theater games, stories and shorter character pieces, using imagination and creative skills, in this exciting class. Have fun as you develop self confidence and showmanship while working with award winning actor and sought-after Boston drama teacher Danny Bolton. Many of you know Danny as New Art Center’s summer performance instructor since 2004.…
1 event,
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…
2 events,
New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
New Art Center presents: Let’s Put On A Play! – GR 3-5
Children will explore theater games, stories and shorter character pieces, using imagination and creative skills, in this exciting class. Have fun as you develop self confidence and showmanship while working with award winning actor and sought-after Boston drama teacher Danny Bolton. Many of you know Danny as New Art Center’s summer performance instructor since 2004.…
Newton Free Library presents: The Breaking of Baseball’s Color Barrier with Ted Reinstein
Newton Free Library presents: The Breaking of Baseball’s Color Barrier with Ted Reinstein
This program is presented in partnership with Tewksbury Public Library, the program sponsor. Please register here. Join author and longtime Chronicle reporter Ted Reinstein for a presentation on his latest book, Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier. The book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters…
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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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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…