The Blue Heron Vocal Ensemble is hosting The Blue Heron Songbook — From Burgundy to Broadway, a concert of early music and contemporary songs from 15th century Burgundy to Broadway and beyond, performed on an intimate, festive program. There will also be wine and refreshments. Proceeds will benefit Blue Heron’s…
Ellen Foust’s photography exhibition, Bullough’s Pond Beauty – From Cloudscapes to Closeups, is on display until September 30 in the Mayor’s Fine Art Gallery (Newton City Hall, 2nd Floor, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue). The exhibition features 28 iPhone photographs and explores the beauty of Newton’s Bullough’s Pond in all four seasons,…
Green Newton’s online 2024 Environmental Leadership Celebration auction runs from September 9 at 9AM through September 19 at 10PM. Your bidding helps fund Green Newton’s many environmental initiatives, so bid high and bid often. Some of the items featured: Register and start bidding on the 2024 Environmental Leadership Celebration Auction…
Every two years, the Newton Police Department invites Newton residents and business owners to complete its Community Satisfaction Survey. The 2024 survey, just released, has 19 questions and will be open until September 19. The department aims to use the results to improve services and outreach to the Newton community.…
On September 17 at 7PM, The Allen Center will host an artist talk with Lou Jones, the photographer behind the exhibition, The PanAFRICA Project, in The Allen Center’s ground-floor gallery space (35 Webster Street, West Newton). The exhibition aims to create a contemporary visual portrait of modern Africa, using photography and…
Uniting Citizens for Housing Affordability in Newton (U-CHAN) will host a registration site for National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 17, 1-3PM at Trio Newton Apartments (858 Washington Street, Newtonville), in the plaza between Clover Food Lab and Mida. U-CHAN assists all Newton residents who wish to register, and…
Sam Farmer will be hosting an author talk for his book, A Long Walk Down a Winding Road – Small Steps, Challenges, & Triumphs Through an Autistic Lens, which aims to inspire and empower the reader. It will take place on Wednesday, September 18, 7-8PM at the Druker Auditorium in…
Green Newton will host its annual Environmental Leadership Awards Celebration on September 19, 6:30PM-9PM, at Hibernian Hall (151 Watertown Street). The event will celebrate the important work of environmental community members with the presentation of the 2024 Louise Bruyn Environmental Leadership Awards to six who have made significant contributions to…
Newton Parks, Recreation and Culture is presenting Art in Bloom Newton, a workshop where guests interpret artwork by creating a floral design using local flowers and foraged accents, under the guidance of Susan Margolin. It will take place on Thursday, September 19, 6-8:30PM at 1294 Centre Street, Newton Centre. Registration…
The Music at the Redeemer series will present a classical music concert — Wagner & Elgar — on Friday, September 20 at 7PM at the Church of the Redeemer (379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill), featuring Sarah Rose Taylor (Mezzo Soprano) and Nigel Potts (Organist). The program includes Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, Prelude to…
The Newton Conservators will lead a FREE walk through upland woods and wetlands, and by old stone fences and dramatic puddingstone outcroppings, at Saw-Mill Brook Conservation Area on Saturday, September 21 from 8:30 AM to 10AM. The walk will go from Vine Street to Marla Circle and return back along the…
Newton Baroque will present a capricious romp with chamber music from 17th Century Austria featuring music for two and three violins by Franz Biber, Johann Schmelzer, Giovanni Buonemente, and Johann Pachelbel. Not only will you hear Pachelbel’s celebrated Kanon, in which three violins play in canon over an ostinato bass,…
