Join the Indian Community of Newton and Mayor Ruthanne Fuller to celebrate Holi, the spring festival of color, on Saturday March 11 from 12PM to 1PM in front of Newton City Hall. Students from Newton North and Newton South High Schools will host the event featuring dance, art, music and…
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Cappella Clausura will present Blood Water Paint — a multimedia production celebrating Baroque painter and composer Artemisia Gentileschi — in two performances: As described in this article, the production consists of a play by Joy McCullough and cantatas by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, with eight musicians and six actors…
Boston College Philosophy Professor Richard Kearney will celebrate the launch of his novel, Salhttps://www.arrowsmithpress.com/richard-kearney/vage, at Connolly House at Boston College on March 16, 5PM-7PM. For more information, email irish.studies@bc.edu. Kearney is an Irish philosopher and writer who holds the Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He has written many…
On March 20 at 7PM in the Newton Free Library’s Druker Auditorium, Women in World Jazz will present a performance featuring composers who have used their music to promote social justice and peace, mobilize change, raise awareness of social issues and address inequality. It’s free and no registration is required. Women…
The choirs of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton and the UU Society of Wellesley Hills will be combining to sing for two Music Sunday services featuring the beautiful Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen. “The five movements of Lux Aeterna are based on various references to light from sacred…
Music Mondays is excited to present Thoreau Duo: Susan Jensen (violin) and Rebecca Thornblade (cello) on Monday March 27, 2PM-3PM at the Scandinavian Cultural Center, Nordic Hall (206 Waltham Road, Newton). Please join us live or by Zoom Thoreau Duo consists of two terrific musicians who are also Newton residents.…
“My illustrious lordship, I will show you what a woman can do,” Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi once said, asserting her right to compete in a field then dominated by men. Modern art historians have come to recognize her artistic excellence and innovation, while biographers have focused on her struggles as…
Are you a fan of Saturday Night Live, Broad City, or In Living Color? Do you love Jerry Seinfeld, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen or Tina Fey? If so, expect to be entertained by Nitrous Oxide, an evening of sketch comedy being performed at Newton North High School’s Little Theatre on…
The paintings, sculptures, and tapestries showcased in “This is America,” the latest exhibit at Newton’s Nearby Gallery, seek to depict the United States in all its varied complexities. The exhibit, curated by Jamaal Eversley, will run through March 5. It features work from 29 artists and one poet. According to…
For more than two decades, Newton South High School has offered seniors the chance to try their hand at directing in the annual Student Directing Festival. Students apply with a proposal for a short play they would like to direct, and if chosen, they become responsible for all aspects of…