The Newton Cultural Alliance will host the 11th annual Strawberry Festival on Thursday, May 29, 6:30PM at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton). A celebration deeply rooted in the community, the Strawberry Festival will include a rich harvest of local music, visual art, and cherished time with friends and neighbors. Enjoy a…
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The Cooper Center for Active Living will present an event, Minis with a Mission, to provide opportunities for all people to receive the therapeutic and joyful benefits of interacting with miniature equines. The minis will bring healing, comfort, and delight through connecting hands, hearts, and hooves. It will take place…
The Newton Theatre Company (NTC) will dedicate its May 31 Monologue Project production to remembering the members of the Goldstein family who were so involved in NTC productions over the years and who died tragically on December 25 (see Fig City News article) This free event will take place on…
Music, Arts & Fashion Productions will host a show, A Night of Oscar-Winning Songs, featuring Spain’s Got Talent & Ukraine’s Got Talent sensation Sofia Shkidchenko, Carnegie Hall’s famous soprano Olga Lisovska, and award-winning baritone Afanasy. The event will also feature music, dance, fashion, and culinary artistry. It will take place…
There are many ways to cope with the deaths of loved ones – through mourning, by doing charitable works, and reminiscing, to name a few. For those grieving the December 25, 2024, accidental deaths of the four members of the Goldstein family, the Newton Theatre Company’s (NTC) Monologue Project will…
The 14th annual Nonantum Village Day will be celebrated on Sunday, June 1, 11:30AM-3PM at the Coletti-Magni Park (389 Watertown Street, Nonantum). Nonantum Village Day features music by Watch City Cadillacs, a trackless train, face painting, puppets, Nonantum Boxing Exhibition, and more. Food is available, at cost, by Nonantum Press,…
The Jameson Singers will host a Concert of Choral Gems featuring favorite choral works spanning six centuries. With a program including composers from Bruckner to Beach and Palestrina to Paulus, everyone will find something to love! This event is part of the Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts. It will…
The PMC Concert 2025: Beethoven and Ravel fundraising concert will be presented by Joel Bard and Sayuri Miyamoto and friends on Tuesday, June 3, at 7:30PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN, 1326 Washington Street, West Newton). This is their 20th annual chamber music concert to raise money…
Composite Chamber Players will present a concert, Love, Life and Death: Pieces for voice, viola, and piano on Wednesday, June 4, 7:30PM at the Church of the Redeemer (379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill). The program includes: The concert features sopranist Kayla Kovas, mezzo sopranist Nina Gojcaj, tenorist Nicholas Alessi, bassist…
Turtle Studios offers its Spring Drop-In Workshop Series — a weekly hands-on event inviting the community to learn and create alongside four local artists in a vibrant studio environment. Hosted at Turtle Studios’ shared space at 213 California Street in Nonantum, the series runs Thursdays from May 15 through June…