The New Art Center (61 Washington Park, Newtonville) will host a free celebration of Holi, the Indian festival of color to welcome Spring, on April 7, noon to 4PM. Art-making, performances, food, dancing, and music throughout the day. The Grub Guru food truck will be there with tasty food available for…
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Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra will present The Unbroken Circle on Sunday, April 7 at 3PM at The Second Church in Newton (60 Highland Street, West Newton). Tickets are available online. Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal will lead Pro Arte in a wide-ranging concert featuring his own works and Boston Symphony Orchestra hornist Michael Winter.
The Tanglewood Marionettes will return to Newton to perform Sleeping Beauty on April 18, 11AM-12PM at Newton City Hall’s War Memorial Auditorium. Tickets are on sale now — $6 per person in advance or $10 at the door if seats are available. There are a limited number of tickets available…
Newton Theatre Company will present Kindertransport, a play by Diane Samuels and directed by Melissa Bernstein, at Saint John’s Episcopal Church (96 Otis Street, Newtonville) over two weekends: Tickets are available online. Between 1938 and the outbreak of war, almost 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, were sent by their…
It is fitting that Newton native Amelia LeClair brings her celebrated tenure as founder and Artistic Director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Clausura to a close by conducting the New England premiere of her orchestral edition of Dame Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D on March 3 at 4pm at the…
Surrounded by shelves of fiction and nonfiction books arranged to look like a well-stocked home library, two well-known, highly acclaimed mystery writers – Hank Phillippi Ryan and Joseph Finder – engaged in an hour-long discussion about the way they create their gripping, widely read novels. About thirty people – some…
Newton Community Pride is hosting these events, free and accessible to all, to celebrate Black History Month:
Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) is hosting an Organ Celebration featuring organist Yevgenia Semeina, the NHCC Choir, and the NHCC soloists on February 24, 7PM at the Newton Highlands Congregational Church (54 Lincoln St, Newton Highlands). It is free and open to the public, and there is a $50 suggested…
The New Philharmonic Orchestra will perform with baritone soloist Phil Lima in the New Phil’s second concert in its Classics series this year: Equality & Triumph! It takes place on Saturday, February 24 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, February 25 at 3PM at Grace Episcopal Church (76 Eldredge Street, Newton…
Temple Shalom of Newton (175 Temple Street, West Newton) invites all to Prayers for the Path an unforgettable afternoon concert of soulful melodies and heartfelt prayers on February 25, 1PM-3PM, featuring Singer/Songwriters Reb Ariel Hendelman & Marni Loffman. Light refreshments will be available for a donation. Tickets are now on sale.…
West Suburban YMCA is hosting a group exercise class – Dance for a Cause Blockbuster Dance Party – where participants will dance to movie soundtracks from Disney, Bollywood, and Barbie — and proceeds will support the WSYMCA’s Livestrong programs for cancer survivors. Registration is $25 and required. It will take place…
Temple Emanuel (385 Ward Street, West Newton) is hosting a series of free concerts of chamber music. On March 3 at 3PM, the Arabella (String) Quartet, a series favorite, will return. The members of the Arabella quartet hail from around the globe and first met at Yale University, where Causa…