The Cooper Center for Active Living will host a Personal Organizing 101 class for older adults that will focus on practical strategies for decluttering, organizing, and downsizing, helping participants to create more efficient, stress-free living spaces. Led by Jennifer Gershon, the event will help participants learn strategies to streamline their…
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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…
Starting Monday, June 2, residents can donate donate their clothing, household goods, and other items at a new, attended Donation Center in the parking lot of American Legion Post #440 (295 California Street, Nonanum). All donations benefit Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries. The Newton Donation Center will be open and staffed…
Newton PorchFest will be held on Saturday, June 7, 12-6PM, with free music by over 110 performaners playing in over 60 locations across Auburndale, Lower Falls, Waban, and West Newton. All events are free and open to the public. View the schedule and map here. Newton Porchfest is sponsored by…
The Walnut Street Minyan will host its next Family Shabbat, with special activities and treats for children, on June 7 from 10:15AM to 12:30PM at 858 Walnut Street, Newton. RSVP here by June 4 so each child — and their parents — will feel welcome. Email for more info.
The 48th annual Newton Highlands Village Day will be held on Sunday, June 8, 11AM-4PM on Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands. Face painting, caricature drawings, live music, vendors, and food. Free pony rides, 12PM – 2PM. Presented by the Newton Highlands Neighborhood Area Council and sponsored by Village Bank, Brookline…
Cub Scout Pack 210 invites alumni and community members to help celebrate its 25th anniversary at a special Blue & Gold Picnic on Sunday, June 8, from 11AM to 1PM at Auburndale Cove. For a quarter century, Pack 210 has been a cornerstone of local youth development, helping generations of…
The Charles River Wind Ensemble will perform a free concert, Ambiguity of Love. Works performed will include Nitescence crépusculaire by Alexandre Kosmicki, Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble by Frank Ticheli, and Glimpses of Love by Christopher Marshall. It will take place on Sunday, June 8, 3PM at 300 Hammond…
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston will present Serenade for Spring, a concert featuring cellist Aron Zelkowicz. This performance will take place on Sunday, June 8, 3PM at the Second Church in Newton (60 Highland Street, West Newton). Tickets available online. Works performed will include Luigi Boccherini’s Cello Concerto in G…
The Newton Free Library and Haiku Newton will present a Celebratory Reading of the 30 winning submissions from a pool of 232 haiku poems, as well as talk about the Haiku Newton project, now in its fourth year, and the evolution of haiku. It will take place on Monday, June…
The Zamir Chorale of Boston will perform a concert, Zamir in the Round: An Immersive Experience, the dynamic “surround-sound” to break down the invisible wall that often separates performers from their audience. Listeners will be placed right inside a circle of singers for an evening of offerings by George Gershwin,…
The Newton Free Library and the History Project will host an event, Improper Bostonians: An LGBTQ+ History of Massachusetts, with a presentation and conversation exploring the history of LGBTQ+ people, community, organizing, and change in Massachusetts drawing on sources like court cases, diaries, letters, photographs, videos, oral histories, and more.…