Boston-based Eleuthera Trio (Lois Shapiro, piano; Francine Trester, violin; Julie Reimann, cello) will perform ‘Across Divides’ on Sunday September 18 at 3PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (1326 Washington Street). Tickets/donations can be made at the door or online. The concert benefits Doctors Without Borders — a nonprofit assisting…
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The Newton Free Library will host a virtual talk with investigative journalist Joshua Prager, author of The Family Roe: An American Story, on September 19 at 7PM, moderated by WBUR Radio Boston host Tiziana Dearing. A finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, The Family Roe offers extraordinary insight into the…
The Newton Community Chorus, starting its 41st season, welcomes new members of all voices to audition. Rehearsals begin on September 12 and continue on Monday nights at 7:30PM at the Newton Country Day School (785 Centre Street, Newton). A Newton tradition, the Chorus is open to all singers of all…
“If we don’t have it we’ll get it for you,” said Newton Free Library Director Jill Mercurio about requesting books not available through the Minuteman Catalog system. The Inter-Library Loan service reaches across the country to meet readers’ requests. Proving the point, a recent Newton Library member requested new books…
On a gray, rainy late August Monday afternoon, the newly renovated, reopened first floor Children’s Room at the Newton Library is filled with light, and children (from toddlers to “tweens”) and their parents and grandparents listening to stories, reading stories, and playing computer games or with the colorful array of…
Each year the Newton Cultural Council conducts a community survey to align council priorities with community interests. Last year the NCC granted more than $40K from municipal and state funds to more than 54 local artists and organizations to support local programming in Newton’s artistic, humanist, and scientific community. Please help guide…
The Newton Cultural Alliance will launch its Friday Night Folk series at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton) with a concert by The Black Feathers on September 9: refreshments outdoors at 6:30PM, concert indoors at 7:30PM. Tickets are $25.
Newton Theatre Company kicks off its 10th season with a one-night-only event not to be missed, presented by the team behind Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. No Child… is a tour-de-force exploration of the New York City public school system, in which Regan Sims transforms with rapid-fire precision into the teachers, students, parents, janitors, security…
Hankus Netsky & Janice Octavia Allen will kick off Newton Community Pride’s Fall Concert Series on September 11 at 3PM with a free concert at the Austin Street Plaza in Newtonville. If you were wowed by their recent performance at the Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts — or if you missed it…
The bilingual Huaxin Chinese School at Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA) will begin its 2022 Fall term on September 11. Classes are held on Sunday mornings at 437 Cherry Street, West Newton for children and adults. Register here. For more information, email [email protected]. In the evenings, the GBCCA also offers a…
Cappella Clausura and the Shift Orchestra Project will present a multimedia musical experience — Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered — on September 11 at 5:30PM at Emmanuel Church (15 Newbury St, Boston). Mass for the Endangered is a moving composition for choir and orchestra in which vibrant images…
The Newton Free Library’s annual gala fundraiser, Spring Fling — postponed from April because of Covid — will be held in-person at the Library on Saturday, September 17 to benefit the Library’s award-winning English Language Learners Program. The ELL Program is open to people who want to improve their English…