Enjoy stories and world music with Four Shillings Short as they play traditional & original music from the Celtic Lands, Medieval & Renaissance Europe, India and the Americas on a fantastic collection of world instruments: Hammered & Mountain dulcimer, Mandolins, Renaissance Woodwinds, North Indian Sitar, Recorders & Tinwhistles, Banjo, Guitar, Charango, Psaltery, percussion, vocals & even a Krumhorn. “Four Shillings Short takes you on a musical journey through time and across the seas as they perform everything from Traditional Irish tunes and airs to Indian Ragas.” (Foothills Sun-Gazette, CA)
Aubrie Dionne, flute, Alicia Rockenhauser, oboe, and Céline Ferro, clarinet, are Mythic Winds. Join them for a delightful afternoon concert as they perform works by Malcom Arnold, Paul de Wailly, Alexander von Kreisler, Gustav Holst, Ludwig van Beethoven and Whitney Tustin.
Join Parents’ Choice Award-winning singer/songwriter, Emily Hall, for this sing-a-long musical adventure. With familiar tunes and some originals, visuals and surprises, Emily will get you up and moving along and having fun! Druker Auditorium.
Teens in grades 7-8 and their parents come together to talk about a new book each month and enjoy desserts! All are expected to read the book in advance in order to discuss it with the group. We meet once a month on 10/15, 11/5, 12/3, 1/7, 2/4, 3/3, 4/7, 5/5 and 6/2. Online registration is required. When you register, you register at the same time for ALL 9 months.
see details at https://www.meetup.com/BostonUke
Experience what the library has to offer for the homeschooling community! Each month will have a different theme that is explored through book groups and maker concepts. This program takes place every first and third Thursday. For ages 5-14. Teen Area.
Over the course of six weeks we will learn about theater, readers’ theater and prop-making. The culmination will be an exciting performance of a beloved children’s African folktale on 11/21! Children must attend at least four workshop sessions to take part in the final performance on 11/21. Workshop dates are on the following Thursdays: 10/24, 11/7, 11/14. Children must attend at least four workshop sessions to take part in the final performance on 11/21. Register online. Ages 6-9.
Look, listen, touch and play! Children will enjoy a storytime and activities to explore age-appropriate concepts. Tickets will be available 15 minutes before the program at the desk in the Children’s Room.
As the fall winds begin to blow, leaves change colors and one hundred or more tents “set up shop” on Newton Centre green, it hits you ……it’s Harvest Fair time! For 44 years this Autumnal celebration has brought our community together in one place to share good food, peruse unique hand- crafted goods, learn about local businesses, discover ways to create a “greener Newton” and of course watch the kiddies delight in their first ride on the ever popular caterpillar rollercoaster courtesy of Cushing Amusements. This year’s Harvest Fair will be October 19 and 20. Saturday the 19th will be amusement rides only. On Sunday the rides will be joined by crafters and vendors, food trucks and live entertainment on two stages. Bands scheduled as of this writing are The Buzzkills, The Mighty Silverbacks, Cross Street Band and Boston Rock and Soul Review. Not to be outdone by these professional musicians, the showcase stage will highlight a number of Newton’s finest student bands, dancers and community groups. Among them look for Suzuki School, Sullivan Irish Step Dancing, Youth Pro Musica Chorus, City Hall Strummers on ukulele and students from Jammin’ with You, In Home Jams and Rob’s Guitar School.
The fair will be open from 10 am to 5 pm both days. For more information contact Newton Cultural Development at pgannon@newtonma.gov. See you at the fair!
Get It Write is a two-hour workshop series, specifically designed for teens who write stories, poems and personal essays. Feel free to bring a sample of your writing to read aloud for guidance and gentle feedback. No matter what creative writing you’re interested in—even NaNoWriMo—this course will help you. The workshop instructor will be Lynette Benton of Tools and Tactics Writers. Online registration (required) is for all sessions which continue on 10/26, 11/2 and 11/9. Grades 6-12. Teen Area.
This event is for anyone who is working on a novel or needs a quiet space to work on their writing. A Municipal Liaison from NaNoWriMo’s Metrowest region will be on hand to provide advice. To sign up visit NaNoWriMo’s website or email the local region at nanowrimometrowestmaregion@gmail.com for information. Sessions will continue on November 2 and 16. Room B.
The gang, along with a new toy, takes a road trip, which leads to unexpected adventure. Rated G. Runtime 100 minutes.
Immerse yourself in an ancient illuminated manuscript: CC’s women clothed in Cistercian habit. Chant the hours in the medieval monastic day in 1554, Belgium; in between each “hour” explore, inspect, read, listen to scholars, eat and drink as we display HighRes reproductions of the pages from the Salzinnes Antiphonal, bookmaking tools, food and drink from that time and place. Scholar Judith Dietz, discoverer of the Salzinnes Antiphonal, will be present for Q&A’s.
As the fall winds begin to blow, leaves change colors and one hundred or more tents “set up shop” on Newton Centre green, it hits you ……it’s Harvest Fair time! For 44 years this Autumnal celebration has brought our community together in one place to share good food, peruse unique hand- crafted goods, learn about local businesses, discover ways to create a “greener Newton” and of course watch the kiddies delight in their first ride on the ever popular caterpillar rollercoaster courtesy of Cushing Amusements. This year’s Harvest Fair will be October 19 and 20. Saturday the 19th will be amusement rides only. On Sunday the rides will be joined by crafters and vendors, food trucks and live entertainment on two stages. Bands scheduled as of this writing are The Buzzkills, The Mighty Silverbacks, Cross Street Band and Boston Rock and Soul Review. Not to be outdone by these professional musicians, the showcase stage will highlight a number of Newton’s finest student bands, dancers and community groups. Among them look for Suzuki School, Sullivan Irish Step Dancing, Youth Pro Musica Chorus, City Hall Strummers on ukulele and students from Jammin’ with You, In Home Jams and Rob’s Guitar School.
The fair will be open from 10 am to 5 pm both days. For more information contact Newton Cultural Development at pgannon@newtonma.gov. See you at the fair!
Pianist Carlos Vargas will perform works by Bach, Gershwin/Wild, Bullumba Landestoy and Chopin. Mr. Vargas has a particular interest in developing programs that facilitate musical education for the underprivileged. A 2008 grant from the Boston Public Library allowed him to create a piano program through which dozens of children are able to receive free lessons in piano and theory.
Into the Collection offers visitors an opportunity to view and learn more about various objects from the McMullen Museum’s permanent collection rarely on display. To build on the current exhibition Alen MacWeeney and a Century of New York Street Photography, Assistant Director Diana Larsen, with the help of the Museum’s Student Ambassadors, will present on the Museum’s most recent acquisitions of street photography. Visitors are invited to learn from Museum staff, ask questions, and share their own knowledge and observations.
A film by Ursula Liang, who grew up in Newton, takes us behind the scenes of 9-man volleyball, a Chinatown street game with connections to Newton, giving us insights into Chinese-American history. Presented with the Boston Asian American Film Festival (held October 24-27) and the Boston Hurricanes team.
Read aloud for older kids! Enjoy cool, strange, weird and wacky stories…and snacks! Grades 2 and up. Storytime Room.
Get creative with the monthly Typewriter Poetry group. We’ll use old-school typewriters and write poems for library patrons on the spot! Grades 7-12. First floor Lobby.
Join musician and author Thomas Wolf for a program on his book, The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz. The multi-generational saga will be narrated with a live performance of a musical work Lea Luboshutz championed – César Franck’s dramatic violin sonata. The musicians will be Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Lucia Lin and pianist and Newton resident, Sayuri Miyamoto. This evening’s program honors Henrietta Dilyock who faithfully documented the history and culture of our city during her 16 years volunteering at the Newton Free Library. Please note seating at our programs is limited and will be provided on a first come, first served basis.
Join us for the opening reception for the combined Newton North and Newton South High Schools show in our Teen Gallery. There will be refreshments and live music provided by students from Newton North. Frames provided by Abraxis Framing Company in Auburndale.
Opera Italia at First Church in Chestnut Hill
with works by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Rossini, and more…
Christina Grandy de Oliveira soprano
Kristin Hagan mezzo soprano
Eduardo Ramos tenor
James Lesu’i baritone
and Kathryn Rosenbach piano
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Admission is free.
Seating is limited.
Have too much to do? Want to add something else to your plate? Join our book club for over-scheduled teens! This month we’ll be discussing Carry On by Rainbow Rowell while munching on snacks. Please pick up the book at the Main Desk. Grades 9-12. Teen Area.
Join our staff for a fun-filled music storytime. Listen to a story, sing songs, play instruments and move your body to the music. Geared toward kids through age 4. Join us in the Gallery directly after the program for a special Fun with the Friends of the Library reception in honor of National Friends of the Library Week. Enjoy snacks and surprises for all!
The first show of Newton Theatre Company’s seventh season is sure to be the spookiest of the year– just in time for Halloween!
Roald Dahl’s eerie children’s book is brought to life by David Wood’s lively adaptation. When a young orphaned boy moves in with his grandmother and becomes aware of the existence of witches, he must do whatever it takes to stop these powerful beings– including the Grand High Witch herself– from eliminating all the children in England.
Appropriate for children ages six and up.
Get It Write is a two-hour workshop series, specifically designed for teens who write stories, poems and personal essays. Feel free to bring a sample of your writing to read aloud for guidance and gentle feedback. No matter what creative writing you’re interested in—even NaNoWriMo—this course will help you. The workshop instructor will be Lynette Benton of Tools and Tactics Writers. Online registration (required) is for all sessions which continue on 11/2 and 11/9. Grades 6-12. Teen Area.
Learn more about the history of archery at Newton Centre Playground, try out a bow and arrow with On the Mark Archery, and view historic archery equipment or bring your own to display. Rain date, Sunday, October 27.
Principal Conductor Kevin Rhodes kicks off the season with a colorful program that explores how composers of art music first reckoned with a new force in 1920s American popular music: jazz. A visit to a Harlem jazz club inspired Darius Milhaud’s ballet La Création du monde, based on African myth. Before Aaron Copland developed his characteristic style, he used elements of jazz in compositions like Music for the Theatreto achieve a more American sound. Kurt Weill’s sultry cabaret music from The Threepenny Opera(including the hit “Mack the Knife”) satirizes the social excesses of Weimar Germany. George Gershwin’s famous Rhapsody in Blue, a one-movement piano concerto, will be performed in its original scoring for jazz band with Maestro Rhodes at the keyboard.
Join us for an intriguing look at what it was like to be a woman in the late 19th and early 20th century. Vocals and live music will accompany a slide show projecting English translations of Rabindranath Tagore’s works. He was a Nobel Laureate composer whose prolific thoughts permeated multiple forms of art including song, dance, painting, drama, poetry, prose, articles and music. A discussion will follow. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Newton Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The performers will be:
• Maitreyee Chakraborty, vocals
• Monami Roy, harmonium
• Dhruva Acharya, percussion
• Ayon Basumallik, keyboard
• Dave Chakraborty, sound and slide show
How were women’s rights impacted once they gained access to the ballot in 1920? Join Barbara Berenson for a talk that will:
• Explore how women have fared politically and legally over the past century
• Consider how women activists have built alliances and shaped laws in an effort to combat stereotypes
• Review some of the key developments over the past century
• Discuss the historical connections between women who opposed suffrage and those who oppose women’s rights today
Barbara Berenson is the author of, among other books, Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers (2018). This program is cosponsored by Historic Newton, Newton Human Rights Commission and the League of Women Voters/Newton.
Department Chair of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Professor of Geology at Boston College Ethan Baxter will take visitors through “William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape” to focus on the rocks prevalent in Richards’s works and what they reveal about the landscapes they are captured within.
Free; open to the public; prior registration requested at https://tinyurl.com/y5y6445w.
Come on a 1.5 mile historical walk that will explore the history of the various portion of the Webster Woods area, especially the interconnections between the portions owned by Newton, the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation, and Boston College. The walk will visit a number scenic features of the woods that have been attractive to nature photographers and is suitable for all ages but hiking shoes are recommended. The leader is Dan Brody.
The McMullen Museum is excited to welcome Boston College Professor and Department Chair of Earth and Environmental Sciences Ethan Baxter for a kids and families workshop focused on the geology present in “William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape.” Prof. Baxter will offer a tour through the exhibition, paying particular attention to various kinds of rocks. Kids and chaperones will be able to look closely at rock specimens that correspond to those in the paintings and learn the story behind their formation.
Kids and Families workshops are free and open to the public. Due to a limited number of seats, we require prior registration at https://cutt.ly/0wyEBiy.
Pieces reflecting our responses to the approach of winter—anxiety about survival and safety, remembrance of the dead, and hope and confidence that all shall be well. Featuring works by Poulenc, Mendelssohn, selections from Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, and Shruthi Rajasekar’s Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.
with Heinrich Christensen, organ
Advance tickets: $22 Adults/$18 Students, Seniors & Veterans (with valid ID)
Door prices: $25 Adults/$20 Students, Seniors & Veterans (with valid ID), $5 Low Income (with valid SNAP card)
In conjunction with “Alen MacWeeney and a Century of New York Street Photography”, Professor of Photography Karl Baden with the ILA presents a panel discussion: “When Everyone Has a Camera: Street Photography, the Right to Free Expression, and the Right to Privacy in the Internet Age”.
Because street photography occurs in a public space it has been protected as a right to free expression under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. The digital revolution of the past three decades, social media, the ubiquitous smartphone, and increasingly high resolution, affordable surveillance cameras, however, have blurred the line between public and private spaces. Suspicion and resistance by the general public has grown to being photographed by a random individual, especially without permission. At the same time, particularly in urban environments, the public is constantly on camera, surveilled by governmental and corporate entities, from body cams on a police officer’s lapels to satellite cameras powerful enough to read license plates. It is these paradoxical issues that the panel and exhibition seek to highlight and debate.
Free; please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/y3fy5gq3.
Into the Collection offers visitors an opportunity to view and learn more about various objects from the McMullen Museum’s permanent collection. Assistant Director Diana Larsen, with the help of the Museum’s Student Ambassadors, will present on a series of nineteenth-century landscape paintings, including new acquisitions now on view in the museum’s adjacent first-floor meeting rooms. Visitors are invited to learn from Museum staff, ask questions, and share their own knowledge and observations.
On Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 4:00pm, the faculty from the Suzuki School of Newton will present a concert at Second Church in Newton to benefit student scholarships.
The concert will feature chamber works for strings, winds, and piano by Cesar Franck, Bohuslav Martinů, Franz Schubert, Luys de Narvaez, and contemporary composers Jennifer Grady and Max Richter. In addition to the faculty performances, there will be a silent auction, a raffle, and a post-concert reception. The fundraising goal for this event is $10,000, all of which will directly offset the cost of tuition for scholarship students.
Tickets : https://ssnfall2019.bpt.me
The New Phil has an exciting season filled with celebratory spirit, incredible music, and exciting guest performances. Join us as we celebrate our 25th season with vibrant works of Mahler, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Vignieri and culminating with Beethoven’s great Symphony No. 9!
Classics I program:
Shostakovich Festive Overture
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major
Bruce Falby, Flute
Mahler Symphony No. 5
The New Phil has an exciting season filled with celebratory spirit, incredible music, and exciting guest performances. Join us as we celebrate our 25th season with vibrant works of Mahler, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Vignieri and culminating with Beethoven’s great Symphony No. 9!
Classics I program:
Shostakovich Festive Overture
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major
Bruce Falby, Flute
Mahler Symphony No. 5
New Phil’s annual holiday celebration filled with beautiful music and dance for children of all ages. Presented in collaboration with Boston Ballet School and Newton All City Treble Singers.
All Family Concerts are on Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m,
Followed by our Instrument Petting Zoo.