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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street | 617.876.6837
brattlefilm.org
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| The Brattle shows the best in classic, cutting-edge, foreign, and art-house films. We also show first-run films and new releases of classic films, but our specialty is a repertory programming format consisting of films from a particular director, genre, or subject shown over the course of a week, or on the same weekday throughout the month. |
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Cambridge Arts Council
344 Broadway | 617.349.4380
cambridgeartscouncil.org
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| The Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) is the official arts agency for the City of Cambridge, MA. Established by City ordinance in 1974 and incorporated as a public non-profit in 1976, CAC's mission is to ensure that the arts remain vital for people living, working and visiting Cambridge. As both a service and presenting organization, CAC accomplishes this mission by stimulating public awareness of and support for the arts, preserving and celebrating the City's diverse cultural heritage, displaying art in public places, and developing opportunities to improve the overall aesthetic experience for residents and visitors of Cambridge. |
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street | 617.495.3251
ves.fas.harvard.edu/ccva.html
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Main Gallery - M-Sa 9a-11p, Su 12-11p
Sert Gallery - T-Su 1-5p
The Carpenter Center, on the east side of Quincy street between the Faculty Club and the Fogg Art Museum, is the only building on the North American continent designed by the famous French architect Le Corbusier. Despite the controversy over the wisdom of placing a building of such modern design in a traditional location, Le Corbusier felt that a building devoted to the visual arts must be an experience of freedom and unbound creativity. A traditional building for the visual arts would have been a contradiction. The Carpenter Center represents Corbusier's attempt to create a "synthesis of the arts," the union of architecture with painting, sculpture, through his innovative design. The building was completed in 1963, made possible by a gift from Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, and the intent to house the artistic entities of Harvard College under one roof came to fruition in 1968 as the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
The five levels of the building function as open and flexible working spaces for painting, drawing, and sculpture, and the ramp through the heart of the building encourages public circulation and provides views into the studios, making the creative process visible through the building design. The Sert Gallery, at the top of the ramp, features the work of contemporary artists, and the main gallery at street level hosts a variety of exhibitions supporting the curriculum of the Department. The Carpenter Center is also home to the Harvard Film Archive, which brings to the public a unique program of classic, rare and experimental films. For the HFA's screening schedule, please see hcl.harvard.edu/hfa. |
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Central Square Theater
450 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.835.1611
centralsquaretheater.org
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| Central Square Theater is a new state-of-the-art theatrical arts center, which opened in 2008. Audiences will find, under one roof, the distinctive repertoires of these two award-winning non-profit professional companies, The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater, as well as collaborative projects drawing on their creative synergy. As the first permanent home for both professional theater companies, Central Square Theater is a vibrant hub of theatrical, educational and social activity, where artists and audiences come together to create theater vital to the community. For more information please visit www.centralsquaretheater.org or contact Gia Podobinski, Marketing Director, at gmp@centralsquaretheater.org. |
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Dance Complex
536 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.547.9363
dancecomplex.org
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| The Dance Complex is the artist-run center for the movement arts in Cambridge. An omnicultural community offering concerts, classes and rehearsal space in the historic Odd Fellows Hall. |
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Harvard Box Office
Holyoke Center Arcade, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.482.BTIX
boston.com/artsboston/
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| See Boston's best shows for less. Get half-price, day-of-show tickets to theatre, music, dance and more at the Harvard Box Office. Ticket booth in Harvard Square. |
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Harvard Film Archive
Harvard University / Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street | 617.496.6046
harvardfilmarchive.org
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| Films are screened in the Main Auditorium of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and in the smaller adjacent theatre, B-04. Films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise indicated. All programs are subject to change. Individual Admission: General Public $7; Students & Senior Citizens $5; Special Events $10 or as indicated. Tickets are available only 30 minutes before showtime. |
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals
10 Holyoke Street | 617.495.5205
hastypudding.org/
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| The oldest theatrical organization in the United States. The modern Pudding show is a no-holds-barred drag burlesque with Harvard undergraduate men playing both male and female roles. Shows run from February-March. |
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Holyoke Center Events
1350 Mass. Ave. | 617.495.5214
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Hurst Gallery
53 Mt. Auburn Street | 617.491.6888
hurstgallery.com
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| Located in the Harvard Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hurst Gallery sells Antiquities, Asian, African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian, and American Indian art and artifacts.
Owner, Norman Hurst has over 20 years experience consulting for museums and private individuals, providing appraisals, cataloging, planning exhibitions, and building collections. Hurst Gallery's scholarly catalogues of specialized exhibits are circulated world-wide.
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ImprovBoston
40 Prospect Street | 617.576.1253
improvboston.com
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| Since 1982, ImprovBoston has entertained audiences with an innovative, fresh approach to improvisational theater. With critically acclaimed mainstage shows, groundbraking showcase productions, and a nationally known education program, ImprovBoston is a recognized center for development, performance, and promotion of the evolving art of improvisation. ImprovBoston presents a variety of shows for both families and adults, and holds workshops for adults, children and teens. For show or workshop details, please call or visit our webiste. |
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Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre
400 Harvard Street, Harvard Square | 617.354.7467
balletTheatre.org
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| Based at The Sanctuary Theatre in Harvard Square, Jos? Mateo's Ballet Theatre is the area's leading producer of new classical ballets. The company presents new works concerts featuring cabaret-style seating with cocktails during the show and its acclaimed production of The Nutcracker. The school offers ballets classes for children and adults of all ages and levels. |
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Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street | 617.395.1393
lily-pad.net/
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| The Gallery is open during the day Tuesday thru Saturday, from 1 to 7 pm, Sundays from 2-7, and almost every evening for performances. We feature the works of artists in all mediums, as well as performance art, poetry, music, and theatre. |
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Loews/Sony Theatre--Harvard Square
10 Church Street | 617.864.4580
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Lumen Eclipse
1 Harvard Square | 617.800.2636
lumeneclipse.com
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Lumen Eclipse is a media arts project founded to expand the public awareness of local, national, and international artists. We aim to provide a creative outlet for promoting artistic and cultural interests in our community.
The project exists in two spaces:
Outdoor: on a pair of large outdoor video displays in Harvard Square, MA that encourages public interaction with motion-based art.
Online: as an artistic and informational community. LumenEclipse.com showcases artwork, interviews, news, and events so viewers may learn more about the art and artists represented.
Updated monthly, Lumen Eclipse exhibitions feature original works that celebrate creative motion through animation, video, film, & motion graphics. We are committed to championing innovations in moving images by bringing artwork to the street, outside the confines of the gallery walls. |
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MARK Gallery
141 Huron Avenue | 617.576.MARK
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| Mark Gallery is a new contemporary art gallery featuring works by emerging artists, as well as those with regional reputations. We are located in a charming area of Cambridge among antique shops, restaurants, and similar services, at the intersection of Huron and Concord Avenues, only a few blocks from Huron Village and a short walk from Harvard Square and the Red Line T-stop. The gallery is pleased to offer a diversity of small and large paintings (watercolor, oil, pastel, mixed media) on canvas, paper and panel. |
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Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center
20 Sacramento Street | 617.547.1647
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| A visual arts center for children and practicing artists with workspace and studios for painting, drawing, printing, three-dimensional work and ceramics. The Center is named to honor Maud Morgan, who died in 1999 at the age of 96, and symbolized for many - optimism, resilience and generosity of spirit. As an artist she experimented with new media into her 90's, and as an individual she reached out to and encouraged hundreds of younger artists. |
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Middle East Cafe
472 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.864.EAST
mideastclub.com
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| The Club consists of four rooms, three of which have live entertainment nightly: Upstairs, Downstairs, and the Corner. The Restaurant and the Corner both with full menus, also serve as art galleries displaying the works of both local and international artists on a monthly basis. Staff and the customers are an international mix of musicians, students and professionals. |
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MIT List Visual Arts Center
20 Ames Street | 617.253.4680
tinyurl.com/yg2tkow
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| Just as MIT pushes the frontiers of scientific inquiry, the List Visual Arts Center explores challenging, intellectually inquisitive, contemporary art making in all media by presenting innovative works of emerging, national and international artists. A wide range of educational programs includes free gallery tours, artists' talks, lectures/forums, film/video screenings and many others. A map of the public art collection (works by Calder, Moore, Picasso) and Percent-for-Art projects is available online. |
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MIT Music and Theatre Arts
Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Ave. | 617.253.3210
tinyurl.com/3xaqnx
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MIT Musical Theatre Guild
Kresge Little Theater, 48 Massachusetts Ave. | 617.253.6294
tinyurl.com/2l9dlg
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| The MIT Musical Theatre Guild is the oldest and largest theatre organization at MIT, and we are entirely student-run! Formed from the merger of the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the Classical Musical Society, and the Tech Show Society in 1971, we produce a wide variety of Musical Theatre. We perform four shows a year so there is plenty of opportunity to act, sing, dance, tech, design, direct, and produce. So, if you want to be part of a great art form, come investigate MTG! |
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Out of the Blue Gallery
106 Prospect Street | 617.354.5287
outoftheblueartgallery.com/
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| Out of the Blue Art Gallery is a community arts gallery which is located in the heart of Central Square, Cambridge. It is a eclectic art gallery representing over 60 local artists' work from the New England area as well as art collections by the late Margarete Koehler-Bittkow, (1898-1964), from the famous Bauhaus School of Art in Germany during the time of Nazi occupation. The art always changes every month and the friendly atmosphere of the gallery complete with artist owners, one dog and four cats is quite a hit with the neighborhood of Cambridge. This gallery has been around for ten years and is open daily between the hours of noon and 8pm. Events such as poetry readings, prose readings, painting classes, figure drawing classes and art receptions are always a weekly or monthly adventure. Please if you are traveling, don't forget to say hi to Deborah Priestly or Tom Tipton or the gallery pets for that matter at 106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, Mass (just across from the Whole Foods) and expect to be greeted with a cup of coffee and a tour of the arts! Website: www.outoftheblueartgallery.com Kids welcome! Free to the public for touring. Events are usually donation based. |
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Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow Street | 617.868.2033
pierremenardgallery.com
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| Pierre Menard Gallery shows work by modern and contemporary artists in a variety of mediums. John Wronoski, owner of Lame Duck Books, opened the gallery in August 2006. Invested in both the literary and visual arts, Pierre Menard has become a unique and celebrated venue for literary events, exhibits of foreign and local artists, and is proud to produce a series of artist catalogues. |
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Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
99 Bishop Allen Drive | 617.661.7067
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| Our musicians choose the soloists, the repertoire, and the conductor, creating programs you will find only at Pro Arte. |
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Radius Ensemble
P.O. Box 400421 | 617.792.7234
radiusensemble.org
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| Individual Tickets: $16.00/ $18.00 at the door, Students & Seniors $10.00/ $12.00 at the door. All subscription Concerts are held at the Edward Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street. |
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Regattabar at The Charles Hotel
One Bennett Street | 617.661.5000
regattabarjazz.com
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| Top-flight live jazz nightly by national and international musicians at the diva of Boston's jazz clubs, The Regattabar. Shows, Tues-Fri at 7:30 & 10:00pm. Please visit our web site for full schedule information: www.regattabarjazz.com. Cocktails and bar menu available. |
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Ryles Jazz Club
212 Hampshire Street | 617.876.9330
rylesjazz.com
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| Neighborhood jazz is alive and well in this Inman Square fixture with its artsy, bohemian image. Two floors of Boston's hottest jazz and contemporary music, 6 nights a week, serving food and featuring a Sunday Jazz Brunch. Downstairs-street level features all types of the finest jazz acts, while upstairs features dance events (Upstairs: Thursday- Salsa, Friday- Brazillian, Saturday- swing). |
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SARASA Chamber Ensemble
Friends' Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park | 617.492.4758
sarasa-music.com
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| Sarasa was formed in response to a concert played by its founder, Timothy Merton, in the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1997, at the urging of a friend who was a prison volunteer. An inmate who heard that first concert remarked, "When art is well executed, it projects a message that transcends language, culture, and even aesthetic boundaries." Sarasa took these words to heart and since then has been bringing high-quality music to those who ordinarily have little access to it. In addition to its public concerts, the ensemble plays in adult and adolescent correctional facilities, homes for the elderly, mental hospitals, and institutions for the disabled. Sarasa also does three-week residencies in grade schools, using drawing and writing to bring children to a meaningful understanding of classical music. The name Sarasa is derived from a combination of Saraswathi, the Hindu goddess of art and culture, and the poetic sanscrit word rasa denoting the essence of sound. |
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Scullers Jazz Club
DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA | 617.562.4111
scullersjazz.com
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| Sculler's offers the best of both local and national jazz, soul and r&b artists in an upscale intimate setting. Dinner and show packages available, as well as overnight packages. |
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Stebbins Gallery
O Church Street | 617.576.0131
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Tango Society of Boston, The
PO Box 390055 | 617.699.OCHO
bostontango.org
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| The Tango Society of Boston was incorporated in June 1997 as a Massachusetts non-profit organization dedicated to the support and growth of the Argentine Tango. Within 5 months, it already had 250 members, and the numbers are growing weekly! While there are many facets to the Argentine Tango. The music and the culture being among the most prominent. It is the dance that brings most of us together. The Tango is a social and participant dance and is for everyone to learn and enjoy, regardless of dance background! |
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The Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.547.0759
lizardloungecambridge.com
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| Located two lights North of Harvard Square, The Lizard Lounge features live music nightly. Shows are 21 and over. Cover price varies and dress is casual. |
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Toad
1912 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.497.4950
toadcambridge.com
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| Located in the heart of Porter Square, across the street from the Porter Square "T" station and adjacent to Christopher's Restaurant, Toad offers live music nightly. Open 7 days a week, from 5pm to 1am Monday through Wednesday; 5pm to 2am Thursday through Saturday; and 6pm to 1am on Sunday. 12 beers on tap. Casual dress. |
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