PAST EVENT DrumatiX

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Rapping, tapping, clapping and the beat, beat, beat of a drum. We hear it, we feel it and it makes us want to move.  Join us for a morning of fascinating rhythms with DrumatiX, a Boston based, createive, multi-faceted rhythm and dance group.  Creator Noa Barankin is an award-winning choreographer, dancer and musician.  She and […]

PAST EVENT Lyrical Guitar with Aaron Larget Caplan

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A recent recipient of the Medaille E’Etain from the Societe Academique Arts-Science-Lettres de Paris, Aaron Larget Caplan is a classical-world guitarist.  He has performed solo and Chamber music in Russia, Europe and across the United States.  He has premiered in over 65 solo and Chamber compositions, performed with orchestras, created commissioning endeavors, directed concert series, […]

PAST EVENT Letter and Spirit, The Rants, Chants and Coos of a Literary Musician

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Poet, songwriter, author, and educator Regie Gibson has performed, taught and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues on two contents and in seven countries, including Havana, Cuba. He has worked with Pulitzer Prize recipient Gwendolyn Brooks; Kurt Vonnegut, composer David Amram, Savion Glover, Grammy Award winner David Murray and others in a […]

PAST EVENT The Supreme Court and the First Amendment, Where are we headed

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s first important decisions dealing with the meaning and application of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  The Court’s approach to the First Amendment has steadily evolved since those early decisions and is evolving still. Retired Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice James F. […]

PAST EVENT Travel in Time, Mexico 250 AD to 2019 AD

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Nan Hass Feldman’s delightful images will be on display in the North Hill Art Gallery beginning October, 21, 2019. In the winter of 2018, Feldman visited the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico.  There she was able to view a collection of 3,000-year-old Pre-Columbian figures.  “The humanity and humor in these small clay figures was […]

PAST EVENT Boston and the Birth of Vaudeville

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Vaudeville, where double-takes, spit-takes, pratfalls, running jokes and animal acts were right at home.  Vaudeville, or “voix de ville” (Talk of the Town) as it was known in France was in its heyday in the United States in the late 19th century, and only began to wane when moving pictures eclipsed its appeal.  For the […]