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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: 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…
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Historic Holidays in Newton
Historic Holidays in Newton
How did residents of Newton celebrate the winter holidays in previous centuries? Our short videos explain family traditions at the Jackson Homestead and the Durant-Kenrick House in the 18th through 20th centuries, including baking gingerbread, donating clothing and toys to Newtonians in need -- and avoiding festivities altogether. Gain a perspective on the holidays and…
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Newton Free Library presents: You Came Through The Ruins – Tagore’s Songs and Poems of Life and Renewal
Newton Free Library presents: You Came Through The Ruins – Tagore’s Songs and Poems of Life and Renewal
Join Maitreyee Chakraborty and friends for a special concert that will focus on the works of the Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore. He was a writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Maitreyee is trained in the classical Indian vocal tradtion. When the world crumbles around us, death…
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Newton Free Library presents: Paul-André Bempéchat Performs Beethoven Sonatas
Newton Free Library presents: Paul-André Bempéchat Performs Beethoven Sonatas
Paul-André Bempéchat will return to the Facebook Live stage to perform a selection of Beethoven's sonatas! (You do not need to have a Facebook account to attend.) Paul-André Bempéchat is Music Fellow at Harvard's Cabot House. A Juilliard and Sorbonne graduate, he has enjoyed a forty-year performing and teaching career on both sides of the Atlantic, having…