The lure of warm churros and hot chocolate from Tango Mango, entertainment, and the colorful glow from an art installation — that could double for a massive “Lite Brite” toy — drew a bundled-up crowd for the January 23 kickoff for the fifth-annual WinterFEST. The Friday night portion of the…
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The City Council’s Public Safety and Transportation Committee voted Thursday, January 21 to shorten the trial of the Newton Centre Plaza pilot in the Langley Road parking lot, as officials weighed strong public support for the space against concerns about parking and accessibility. Several Councilors, including Ward 2 City Councilor…
A large crowd of Newton residents gathered on the Newton Centre Green on Saturday, January 10, to protest recent actions by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including a fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. The victim, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was shot and…
On Thursday, January 15 at 7PM at the Newton Free Library (330 Homer Street, Newton Centre), join Kimberly Toney, Inaugural Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections, jointly appointed to the John Carter Brown and John Hay Libraries at Brown University, for “Land as Archive in the Native Northeast.” Toney will discuss…
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra presents a concert for the entire family titled A Musical Menagerie at 3PM on Sunday, January 18 at Newton City Hall’s War Memorial Auditorium (1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton). To reserve a free ticket, go to the Pro Arte website. Conductor Conner Gray Covington leads this lively program, guiding audiences on a…
On Thursday, January 22 at 3PM, visit the Newton Free Library for Leaves in the Library, a colorful craft workshop designing your own decorated bookmark to take home, while also contributing paper leaves to a collaborative art installation that will brighten the Library and celebrate our 150th anniversary. No art experience…
Center Makor presents Art about the Holocaust at their Community Hub (1320 Centre St, Newton) from January 27-29. The show includes the screening of the documentary film The Lost Brothers, Israel along with an exhibition of graphic art, photographs, and wood inlay work. The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, January 27,…
Join the Newton Free Library and GBH for an Indie Lens Pop-Up! Hosted at the Library on Wednesday, January 28 at 6PM, this event will feature a screening of the Independent Lens documentary The Librarians, in which librarians across the U.S. examine how book review policies are shaping their communities. Following the screening will be…
The next book club meeting will be held virtually on Thursday, January 29 at 7:30PM. The book for discussion will be “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis” by Adam Hochschild. Historic Newton’s History Book Club meets regularly to discuss books about history. Meetings are free…
Visit the Newton Free Library (330 Homer Street, Newton Centre) on Tuesday, February 3 for a Haiku Writing Workshop from 7-8PM. Haiku is an ancient poetic form that conveys deep emotion and timeless truths, typically using only 17 syllables spanning three lines. Local poets Grey Held and Elizabeth Lund — two…