City of Boston Calendar

2008 PRC Benefit Auction Preview Exhibitions

2008-09-19T04:00:00Z

With close to 200 vintage and contemporary prints representing every imaginable photographic process, the PRC Benefit Auction makes for an elegant and exciting exhibition. For full details on the 2008 PRC Benefit Auction, to be held on Saturday, October 25, and selected images, please visit www.prcboston.org/auction.htm

September 19 – October 19, 2008
Live Auction Preview Exhibition on display at the PRC
832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
October 2 – October 19, 2008
Silent Auction Preview Exhibition on display at Boston University’s 808 Gallery
Reception for both locations: Thursday, October 2, 5:30 – 7:30pm
808 and 832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

"Lossless"

2008-10-02T04:00:00Z

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents “Lossless,” a video installation by Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, on view from October 2–December 7, 2008 with an opening reception on October 2 from 5:30–6:30 p.m.

Access to experimental films has been limited by the scarcity of prints and often by filmmakers’ careful regulation of viewing conditions and formats. Though for years bootleg tapes, DVDs, and even unauthorized prints have circulated, many experimental films are now receiving much higher circulation through high-quality bit torrents available to anyone with an interest who knows how to find. “Lossless,” by Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, is a series of works that looks at the dematerialization of film into bits, exposing the residual effects of the process that makes file sharing possible. They used several methods to alter these works: interrupting the data streaming; removing basic information holding together the digital format; or comparing 35 mm to DVD and examining the difference between each frame. The project considers the impact of the digital age on filmmaking and film watching and the materiality and demateriality of film as an artistic medium, the audience for such obscure films, and the social aspects of this online community.

Roslindale Day Parade

2008-10-05T04:00:00Z

The Theme for the 2008 Parade will be "Roslindale Goes Green"

Visiting Faculty Show

2008-10-05T04:00:00Z

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents the "Visiting Faculty Show," with work by Sanford Biggers, Taylor Davis, Greg Halpern, David Lobser, and Catherine Lord, on view from September 15–October 23, 2008 in the Main Gallery, with a reception September 25, from 5:30-6:30pm. These five artists represent the growing multiplicity of disciplines taught in Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. From film and video to mixed media sculpture to animation and photography, the work in this show highlights the intersections between contemporary art and contemporary technologies to address contemporary concerns.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk

2008-10-05T12:00:00Z

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Boston

10/5/2008 8:00:00 AM Charles River Esplanade

Baked Fresh : An Indie Music, Arts and Design Festival

2008-10-05T14:00:00Z

Come peruse products from over 120 local artists, crafters and entrepreneurs, while you rock out to Boston based bands. Soak up artsy Sowa vibes as you wander around in the open air, checking out custom t's, vintage garb, silk-screened prints, photography, hand crafted jewelry and more. Grab a snack from one of the many food vendors or snag a spot on the Gaslight patio for a drink with a view of the music stage. Make sure to show up early for your FREE environmentally friendly MAP Boston tote filled with cool shwag!

Live performances by:
Emily Elbert
Tripl3 Crown
Adam Payne
The Sterns

Hosted by:
DJ Red Foxx

Walking Tour of Brookline's Jewish Cuisine

2008-10-05T14:00:00Z

What the Jewish cuisine is? Find it out under the expert guidance while tasting authentic Jewish food - matzo ball soup, latkes, falafel, kosher wines, noodle kugel ice cream and dozen more items from the best Brookline purveyors.
Visit many of the town's treasured Jewish food stores and restaurants - including Zaftig's, Kupel's Bagels, Rami's, Rubin’s, and the Butcherie.
Discover traditions, kosher rules, and influence of different cultures that lie behind the food. Hear unique personal anecdotes about the Brookline establishments’ owners and savor the rich history of Jewish Brookline and its famous residents.
Join us for this featured on TV eye-opening fabulous Boston neighborhood tour!
Tour is held rain or shine.
Sundays, 10am-1pm
Limited to 12 people

Walk Into History

2008-10-05T14:00:00Z

Interested in learning more about the rich history of America's Revolution? Come and join the Walk Into History tour brought to you by the Freedom Trail Foundation. Tour guides, who are dressed in traditional colonial garb, will take you to 11 of the 16 Freedom Trail sites.
These ninety minute tours are available Monday through Friday
10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm and on Saturday and Sunday at 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.thefreedomtrail.org or on the day of the tour. Hope to see you there!

Double Nine Festival

2008-10-05T15:00:00Z

Chong Yang means "double nine" in Chinese. Celebrate this autumn holiday by viewing chrysanthemums and getting ready for winter.

GIRLS Project Presents Indulge for a Cause!

2008-10-05T15:00:00Z

Indulge for a Cause!
A Social Networking & Fundraising Event to benefit the GIRLS Project/Girl TV
Are you ready for a relaxing day filled with good company, good music and fun activities? Would you like to get a mini massage? Do you enjoy yummy desserts and tasty pastries? Great event to make community connections while supporting the GIRLS Project/Girl TV. If you always wanted to get involved, interested in volunteering or just meet new people, this is the event to attend. This is just a taste of what you’ll experience on October 5@ 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Simmons College Residence Campus
Donation: $5-10
E-mail: celeste@thegirlsproject.org
For more information, visit www.thegirlsproject.org

Positively Roxbury Photography Display

2008-10-05T16:00:00Z

Positively Roxbury Library Photography Display- 2008
one artist's view on living in an inner city neighborhood where it is not all about crime and violence but beauty and historical value.

Friday, October 3, 2008 - Thursday, October 30, 2008

Boston Public Library-Dudley Street Branch
65 Warren Street
Roxbury, Massachusetts 02119

October 3 - October 30, 2008

Come and Meet the Artist- October 23rd - 5:30p - 7:00p

Hours of Operation of the Library:
Monday 12-8
Tuesday & Wednesday 10-6
Thursday 12-8
Friday & Saturday 9-5

I hope you will stop by to say Hello! October 23rd- 5:30p to 7p. Light refreshments will be served.

17TH Annual Cuban Flag Raising Ceremony

2008-10-05T17:30:00Z

“ EL GRITO DE YARA’’
The day Cuban Patriots called for Independence from Spain

Celebrate Handel!

2008-10-05T19:00:00Z

Enjoy a program of regal music by Handel, from the heroic sounds of his Coronation Anthems to soaring arias from Jephta and Ariodante. The engaging Harry Christophers leads the Chorus and Period-Instrument Orchestra, along with the gifted soprano Gillian Keith.

Celebrate Handel!

2008-10-05T19:00:00Z

Enjoy a program of regal music by Handel, from the heroic sounds of his Coronation Anthems, to soaring arias from Jephta and Ariodante. The engaging Harry Christophers leads the Chorus and Period-Instrument Orchestra, along with the gifted soprano Gillian Keith.

Chameleon Arts Ensemble - transcendent music I have heard

2008-10-05T19:00:00Z

Chameleon opens its second decade with a bang – three blockbusters from three centuries, works that define genres and set new benchmarks for what can be expressed through music. Don’t miss this tour de force concert, including Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola & harp, Brahms’ B Major Piano Trio, and Krzysztof Penderecki’s colossal Sextet, the first undeniable masterpiece of the 21st century.

Merngue & Me: Gallery Stroll with Frieda Garcia

2008-10-05T19:00:00Z

Merengue & Me: Gallery Stroll with Frieda Garcia, Chair, Planning Committee for the Merengue! Visual Rhythms/Ritmos Visuales Exhibit and retired Executive Director of United South End Settlements.

Given as part of Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 – October 15. ¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms/Ritmos Visuales, is a major traveling exhibition featuring more than forty works by twenty-eight historical and contemporary artists from the Dominican Republic for its only New England stop at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists.

¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms/Ritmos Visuales, is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10-5 until November 23, 2008.

Quilisma Consort: 16th c Spanish & Portuguese Music

2008-10-05T19:00:00Z

On Sunday, October 5, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., The Quilisma Consort, a Renaissance instrumental ensemble (Lisa Gay, Carolyn Jean Smith, and Melika M. Fitzhugh) presents ¡O dulce suspiro mío!: Spain & Portugal in the 16th Century-- Works of Juan del Encina, Francisco Guerrero, Pedro de Escobar, and others, at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, in the Sunday afternoon at the ‘Greenough House series of monthly parlor concerts.

The series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century “musical afternoons” in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House. Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students, and Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158. Afternoon tea follows the program.

The Quilisma Consort are Lisa Gay (director), Melika M. Fitzhugh, and Carolyn Jean Smith. They have been exploring the beautiful music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance together since 2004. The Quilisma Consort has been featured in the concert series of MIT Chapel, King's Chapel, the Boston Recorder Society, and the Loring-Greenough House.

Melika M. Fitzhugh is a long-standing member of the world music ensemble Urban Myth where she plays many instruments including fiddle, bass, and percussion. She came to the Quilisma Consort to focus on early music. She has a degree in music composition from Harvard University.

Lisa Gay founded the Quilisma Consort in 2004 to satisfy her addiction to early music. An avid recorder player and fan of Orlando de Lasso since childhood, she has performed in The Christmas Revels in Cambridge and Chicago, and with ensembles such as Calliope, The Masqued Phoenix Consort, and Ars et Amici. She studies recorder with John Tyson.

Carolyn Jean Smith received an MA in Early Music from the Longy School. She has performed with Stämbandet, Serendipity, and Cantata á Trois and has studied with Ford Weisberg, Sonja Lindblad, and John Tyson. She has performed in several venues, including the Society for Historically Informed Performance Concert Series, and can be heard on Nordic Voices, a CD by Stämbandet under the Nordic Sounds label.

Built in 1760, the Loring-Greenough House, a local landmark listed on the Massachusetts and National Registers of Historic Places, is located at 12 South Street (at the Civil War Monument) in Jamaica Plain, MA. It is owned and managed by the non-profit Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. as a historic house museum and site for art and music presentations. The Loring-Greenough House is wheelchair accessible.

For reservations call 617-524-3158, or for further information email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

FORD HALL FORUM: Jon Keller with Jeff Jacoby, "The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster"

2008-10-05T22:30:00Z

Free and open to the Public

JON KELLER
with JEFF JACOBY
The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster

Massachusetts. It is the proud birthplace of modern-day liberalism, and the nation’s foremost test kitchen for its agenda and political practices. It is also, some say, home to sluggish economic growth, insular political culture, and a government that often fails to deliver relief for the working-class people it claims to help the most. Are Massachusetts politics an ideal others should strive toward? Or have we led the rest of the country (or at least its Democrats) dangerously off course? Tonight Jon Keller, WBZ-TV News' Political Analyst, joins Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe columnist, to review the ups and downs of our beloved state’s political culture and what can be done to carve out a “new frontier” of American leadership.

Book signing will follow lecture and discussion.

ALEA III: 26th International Composition Competition

2008-10-05T23:00:00Z

An annual concert featuring premiere performances of finalists’ compositions.
Concludes with awarding of this year’s ALEA III Prize by a panel of distinguished judges.
Theodore Antoniou, conductor
Giovanni Bertelli (Italy) Im Anfange ruhiges
Josué Zamora (Mexico) Difracción
Jelle Tassyms (Belgium) Stax I
Kazumoto Yamamoto (Japan) Open Cluster
Nora Ponte (Argentina) Portrait Labyrinths
Elia Marios Ioannou (Cyprus) Apophis
Timothy Ernest Johnson (USA) Antyphony: Kasparov vs. Deep Blue

Hope Starts with Us. Join the Fight Against Breast Cancer

2008-10-06T00:00:00Z

Join the American Cancer Society in the fight against breast cancer at its 16th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5 mile walk on Sunday, October 5, 2008 starting at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston. Registration and rolling start are set for 8:00 a.m. -10:00 a.m. This inspiring event unites the entire community to honor and celebrate breast cancer survivors, educate women about the importance of early detection and prevention, and raise money to fund lifesaving research and support programs to further the progress against this disease. To form a team, register, or for more information, visit www.cancer.org/stridesonline, call 1-800-ACS-2345. Hope starts with us.

Visiting Faculty Show

2008-10-06T04:00:00Z

Walk Into History

2008-10-06T14:00:00Z

Farmers Market

2008-10-06T15:00:00Z

Massachusetts farmers' markets connect local consumers directly with fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, baked goods, and other products grown or produced on local farms. In addition to providing a healthy shopping experience, markets provide a natural setting for special events and build community in the neighborhoods where they take place.

Farmers Market

2008-10-06T15:00:00Z

Positively Roxbury Photography Display

2008-10-06T16:00:00Z

Rental Property Owner Seminar

2008-10-06T22:30:00Z

The City of Boston's Rental Housing Resource Center will host a seminar for rental property owners on Monday,October 6th from 6:30-8:30 p.m.the event will be held at the Curtis Hall Community Center ,20 South Street,Jamaica Plain.An experienced housing professional form the R.H.R.C. will be on hand to answer your questions on landlord-tenant issues.A free copy of the agency's popular Good Neighbors Handbook will be available for all attendees.

Visiting Faculty Show

2008-10-07T04:00:00Z

Farmers Market

2008-10-07T14:00:00Z

Boston Retirement Board

2008-10-07T14:00:00Z

Financial and Administrative Issues

Walk Into History

2008-10-07T14:00:00Z

Farmers Market

2008-10-07T15:00:00Z

Boston City Council-Committee on Public Safety

2008-10-07T15:30:00Z

Docket #0830
Order for a hearing to explore new technologies to enhance public safety.

Farmers Market

2008-10-07T16:00:00Z

Positively Roxbury Photography Display

2008-10-07T16:00:00Z

Boston City Council-Committee on Government Operations

2008-10-07T18:00:00Z

Docket #0946
An Ordinance regulating Public Donation Collection Bins.

Roxbury Farmers Market

2008-10-07T19:00:00Z

Boston Redevelopment Authority-Boston Civic Design Commission Meeting

2008-10-07T21:00:00Z

Environment Department-South End Landmark District Commission

2008-10-07T21:15:00Z

5:15 PM
119 Warren Street
5:30 PM
26 Montgomery Street
5:45 PM
303 Columbus Avenue
6:15 PM
74 Union Park (Cathedral High School)
6:40 PM
325 Columbus Avenue
7:00 PM
40 Clarendon Street
7:20 PM
Warren Avenue and West Canton Street
7:40 PM
537-551 Tremont Street
8:00 PM
275 Shawmut Avenue

Boston Public Schools "Pathways to Excellence" Community Forum: North Zone

2008-10-07T22:00:00Z

Superintendent Carol R. Johnson has submitted proposals to the Boston School Committee to ensure high-quality schools, stronger communities, and academic success for all students.

The "Pathways to Excellence" proposals are designed to support the Superintendent's Acceleration Agenda, which includes both academic priorities and strategies to strengthen operations and financial management.

Families, staff and the public are invited to comment on the plan.

Boston University Wind Ensemble

2008-10-07T23:30:00Z

David Martins, conductor
Robert Russell Bennett Symphonic Songs for Band
Johan de Meij Extreme Make-Over for Brass Band, Metamorphoses on a Theme by Tchaikovsky
Mark Camphouse Canzon, Fugato, And Hymn
Ottorino Respighi Huntingtower
Malcolm Binney (editor) Ballad for Band
Donald Grantham J'ai été au bal

Visiting Faculty Show

2008-10-08T04:00:00Z

Boston Licensing Board

2008-10-08T14:00:00Z

Alcoholic and Common Victualler's Licenses Hearings
284 Newbury Street
(Charlie's Eating and Drinking Saloon)
45 School Street
Ruth's Chris Steak House
179 Lincoln Street
Coffee Corner
188 Border Street
Pollo Campero
40-44 Harrison Avenue
The Juice Bar
296 Newbury Street
Newbury Cafe
479 Cambridge Street
El Cafetal
264 Newbury Street
Wisteria House

Walk Into History

2008-10-08T14:00:00Z

Farmers Market

2008-10-08T15:00:00Z

Public Tour of the Norman B. Leventhal "Walk to the Sea"

2008-10-08T16:00:00Z

Be among the first to walk the new Norman B. Leventhal "Walk to the Sea," just days after its dedication. The Boston Harbor Association's Vivien Li, a speaker at the 25 September dedication, will lead this free tour from Long Wharf to Beacon Hill. Highlighted by a series of informational panels about the history of the city, the Norman B. Leventhal "Walk to the Sea" is an exceptional way to experience Boston Harbor and its history.

Location: Meet at the Norman B. Leventhal "Walk to the Sea" informational panel at Long Wharf. To reserve a space, contact TBHA at 617-482-1722 or mail@tbha.org

Positively Roxbury Photography Display

2008-10-08T16:00:00Z

Farmers Market

2008-10-08T18:00:00Z

Board of Trustees Meeting for Dorchester Collegiate Charter School

2008-10-08T22:00:00Z

Brittany Conversations - Monotypes by Joyce Collier Fearnside

2008-10-08T22:00:00Z

Meet the Artist on October 8th!

Exhibit runs from Oct. 2 - Oct. 30th

Gallery Hours:
Mon - Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm
Fri - Sat: 10 am - 5 pm
Closed Sunday

Visiting Faculty Show

2008-10-09T04:00:00Z