| What's Coming Up in New England - May 1 |
[May. 1st, 2008|09:18 pm] |
Hi!
Here is your week in weird. I just moved out of Cambridge about 10 feet across city lines into Somervile. I have boxes all around and this weeks blog was written hastily. Please research as some of the locations or times of day are borrowed from last year. However, I did make sure to peg the calendar dates correctly.
Arts First, the arts festival run by Harvard, runs to May 4. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~arts/
This is unrelated, I believe, but at the same time, May 4, is the Harvard Square MayFair, 18 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA. 12-6pm. All throughout Harvard Square. Live music, dance, street performers. Kids rides, art activities. Sidewalk vendors. http://www.harvardsquare.com
There's a play about famous physicists at MIT. It's sure to be "electrifying". Q.E.D., Apr 30-May 4, http://artscal.mit.edu/index.php?template=1&fulltext=qed&start=20080430&end=20080503&id=9004323&tr=y&auid=3506964
The Ringling Bros. Circus is in town to May 4, way out in Worcester, MA, http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/804232
Night at the Museum @ Harvard Museum of Natural History is May 2. It's basically free admission from 5pm to 8pm. Cambridge, MA. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu
This is my favorite fashion event of the year. The MassArt Fashion Design Senior Collections, May 2, Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St. Boston, MA. 617-879-7676. http://www.massart.edu/about/news/press_rels.html
The Big Ol' Cow Cook Festival at MIT is May 2-May 3. If you don't know what this is, you're not invited.
My favorite a cappella group, The Housejacks, is touring again from their home in California, this time (boo hoo!) without local favorite Wes Carroll. May 2, Natick, http://www.housejacks.com/hj2000/gigs.html
The Boston Print Fair is basically a gallery show. It's free but they hope that you'll be buying books or anything printed like maps and woodcuts, from modern way back to Renaissance. May 2-4, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA. 617-266-6540. In the McKim Building Conference Rooms. http://www.bostonprintfair.com/
I've always wanted to visit the Cambridge Dulcimer Festival! It's May 2-4, at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA. (617) 547-6789. They have performances and even a beginners course. You can even sing along. http://www.jonweinberg.com/dulcifest or http://www.ccae.org
For a modern "Walden" experience, you can hardly camp out in Concord, MA. It's too suburban now. So try out the Monadnock Pastoral Poetry Retreat, in Hancock, NH, near Mt. Monadnock and the state park. You read poety. You write poetry. You meet poets. You ponder nature and the condition of humanity. May 2-4. http://www.matchbook.org/EventsCalendar.aspx
The Coolidge Corner Theatre is doing a retro 3D Film Festival with old stuff from the 1950s. May 2-8. Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA. 617-734-2500. http://www.coolidge.org
The Boston Asthma Walk is May 3 at Artesani Park, Soldiers Field Road, Brighton, MA. 781-890-4262. It's a 3.1 mile walk along the Charles River. Registration starts at 8:30am. 10am. http://www.asthmawalk.org
Perhaps the idea of walking alongside wheezing asthmatics does not please yuo. Well, then. Walk for Hunger, May 4, Boston, MA. 20 mile route, nations largest hunger fundraiser. Registration 7-9am. http://www.projectbread.org
Free Comic Book Day is a marketing gimmick, but who cares, it's free comics, yay! It's May 3 at comic book stores everywhere. http://www.freecomicbookday.com
Somerville Spring Garden Day & SomerGreen Festival is May 3. http://www.thegrowingcenter.org/calendar/demo.php
The Wake Up the Earth Festival & Parade is a hippie celebration thing in Jamaica Plain. May 3. Street festival. Participatory dancing & lessons. Raindate is following Saturday. Bands, dancers, puppet show, pageant. http://www.spontaneouscelebrations.org
If you'd like a Walking Tour of Chinatown, there is one May 3, and a few other dates too, search the catalogue. Chinatown Gate, Boston, MA. 617-730-2700. http://www.brooklineadulted.org/bin/catalog/bldCatalogPage.pl?File=FoodandWine.txt&Key=6
Harvard has an observatory. They have astronomers. The astronomers sometimes show movies! See 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1968 classic, at Phillips Auditorium, May 3. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/events/movie_night.html
Somerville Open Studios is May 3-4, and it's perhaps my favorite of them all. Also, I now live in Somerville. (Sorry, Cambridge!). 617-764-2287. Sat-Sun 12-6pm. Local arts exhibition. You get a map and walk all over invading, I mean, um, visiting local artists' homes. http://www.somervilleopenstudios.org
The Society For Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a social group of re-enactors who dress in medeival or renaissance garb, with varying levels of historical accuracy. Sometimes they weave and sing and have old timey feasts. Sometimes they fight! Blaaaarrrgh! Their May Day festival is May 4. Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA. Fencing, fighting, potluck, dance. 10am-10pm. http://www.eastkingdom.org/event-detail.html?eid=1331
The MIT 2.007 Engineering Competition is one of those courses where they build robots or gizmos and make them fight! May 7-8. MIT, Cambridge, MA. http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007
Continuing events:
-- Big Apple Circus, Boston, to May 4, http://www.bigapplecircus.org
-- Cambridge Science Festival, to May 4, http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org
-- Spin, to May 10, http://www.zeitgeiststage.com/
-- Pre-buy tickets for Neil Gaiman, who comes May 23 to MIT, http://cms.mit.edu/events/specialevents.php
-- JazzBoston Jazz Week, to May 3, http://www.jazzboston.org
-- The Drowsy Chaperone, to May 4, http://www.ticketmaster.com
-- Elections & Erections, to May 4, 617-547-8300
-Johnny
p.s. I found all the roommates and employees I posted about! |
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