Actress Sheryl Faye will portray Abigail Adams at the Cooper Center (345 Walnut Street, Newtonville) on Thursday, April 2 at 1:30PM. Abigail Adams is sometimes considered to have been a founder of the United States. She is one of the most documented first lady due to the many letters she…
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Cherry Street Music presents A Scottish Cèilidh — an evening of Gaelic folk music and dance led by caller Summer McCall and her band — on Saturday, April 4 at 7PM at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton). Pronounced “KAY-lee,” a cèilidh is a traditional Scottish (and Irish…
Bill Novak will tell some of his favorite jokes for and pertaining to older adults on Thursday, April 9, from 1:30-2:30PM at the Copper Center (345 Walnut Street, Newtonville). William Novak (born in 1948) is an American author and ghostwriter who has written or co-written around two dozen books, including…
Valerie & Friends presents Newton Community 2026 Spring Concert on Friday, April 10 from 7 – 8:30PM at the Jackson Walnut Park School (JWP) Student Center (200 Jackson Rd, Nonantum). Proceeds support the JWP Performing Arts Program. Hosted by a proud JWP alumna and Valerie Luxieo, the concert will feature…
The Naumburg Award–winning Lydian String Quartet will present an evening of exceptional chamber music on Friday, April 10 at 7:30PM at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton). The program features Schubert’s Quartettsatz, Lembit Beecher’s Juniper and Birch (2024, commissioned by the Lydian String Quartet), and Benjamin Britten’s String…
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra welcomes conductor Paul Polivnick to lead a concert entitled Signs of Life on Sunday, April 12 at 3PM at the Second Church in Newton (60 Highland St, West Newton). Conductor Paul Polivnik returns to Pro Arte in April for a powerful program of music for string orchestra. Antonín Dvořák transformed an…
Music Mondays at The Scandinavian Cultural Center (206 Waltham Street, West Newton) will host Jazz Tapestry on Monday, April 13 from 2PM-3PM. (The Aryaloka String Quartet, originally scheduled, is not available due to illness.) Jazz Tapestry is a trio featuring Billy Novick, clarinet /vocal, Tomoko Iwamoto, violin and Greg Toro, double bass. Both…
Ron Mitchell, President, CEO, and Publisher of the Bay State Banner, will speak in Cabot Park Village’s Black History Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 14 at 3PM in the Community Room of Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville). Ron Mitchell has spent more than 35 years in the New England media market…
Frank King will deliver a lecture on the one and only Patsy Kline at the Cooper Center (345 Walnut Street, Newtonville) on Thursday, April 16 from 1:30-2:30PM. King will focus on the gorgeous recordings and tragic life of Patsy Cline, considered to possess one of the most beautiful voices of…
Producer and Director Mark Vikram Purushotham will speak in Cabot Park Village’s Black History Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 15 at 10AM in the Community Room of Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville). Mark Vikram Purushotham is the Producer and Director of the production entity, Mercy Pictures. Starting in 2021, he…
The Scandinavian Cultural Center (206 Waltham Street, West Newton) is pleased to welcome photographer and board member Magnus Snorrason to Nordic Hall with his exhibition Animals Amongst Us, on view through April. Email for viewing times. ARTIST STATEMENT: Animals Amongst Us documents the non-human residents of our concrete landscape. From the domestic companions…
Join West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street, West Newton) for its Global Spotlight screening of Bending the Arc on Friday, April 17 at 5PM. In the 1980s, Dr. Paul Farmer and his co-founders launched Partners In Health (PIH), creating a community-based model that has saved millions of lives and advanced the fight for global…