Thursday, May 24, 2012

2012 Free Fun Fridays Schedule





Free Fun Fridays opens the doors to some of Massachusetts’ best cultural institutions at no cost to visitors. This year, a record-breaking 50 venues will participate in Free Fun Fridays, with five cultural institutions in Massachusetts open free-of-charge every Friday for 10 weeks this summer.
To learn more about the Free Fun Fridays and the Highland Street Foundation, visit www.highlandstreet.org or join us at facebook.com/HighlandStreet and on Twitter @HighlandStreet.



FRIDAY, JUNE 29
Tanglewood (Lenox)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston)
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)
Heritage Museums and Gardens (Sandwich)
Museum of African American History (Boston and Nantucket)

FRIDAY, JULY 6
Boston Children’s Museum (Boston)
Stone Zoo (Stoneham)
Cape Cod Museum of Art (Dennis)
Wenham Museum (Wenham)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown)

FRIDAY, JULY 13
Franklin Park Zoo (Boston)
Children’s Museum at Holyoke (Holyoke)
Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham)
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln)
Reagle Music Theatre (Waltham)

FRIDAY, JULY 20
Buttonwood Park Zoo (New Bedford)
Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center (Canton)
Hancock Shaker Village (Pittsfield)
Pilgrim Monument (Provincetown)
Higgins Armory Museum (Worcester)

FRIDAY, JULY 27
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Boston)
Children’s Museum in Easton (North Easton)
Springfield Museums (Springfield)
New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston)
New Repertory Theatre (Watertown)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston)
Norman Rockwell Museum (Stockbridge)
Amelia Park Children’s Museum (Westfield)
Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton)
Arnold Arboretum (Jamaica Plain)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
Battleship Cove (Fall River)
Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield)
Cape Cod Children’s Museum (Mashpee)
Fruitlands Museum (Harvard)
The Sports Museum (Boston)


FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston)
Edward Gorey House (Yarmouth Port)
New Bedford Whaling Museum (New Bedford)
Garden in the Woods (Framingham)
Concord Museum (Concord)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24
Boston Harbor Island Alliance (Boston)
USS Constitution Museum (Charlestown)
American Textile Museum (Lowell)
Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge)
Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum (Boston)
Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth)
The Discovery Museums (Acton)
MASS MoCA (North Adams)
EcoTarium (Worcester)



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About the Highland Street Foundation:
Since 1989, the Highland Street Foundation has worked to enrich the lives of children and families in Massachusetts by donating more than $130 million to worthy non-profit organizations. From its support of the TADpole playground in Boston Common, to providing tickets to local sporting events to local non-profits, to building capacity and providing technical assistance of hundreds of nonprofit organizations, the foundation is dedicated expanding opportunities families in Massachusetts and beyond.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Flamenco Dance, Art & Story Celebration




Flamenco Dance, Art & Story Celebration

This 90-minute event will begin with a reading of Lola's Fandango (awarded a starred review in Booklist), followed by fun, wearable craft-making. Then we'll join children's flamenco dance instructor Eve Costarelli, who will offer participants a brief demo before enlisting children in follow-me dancing around our wonderful Studio. Don't miss it!
Ages 2-10. $8 per child ($20 family max.); pre-registration required to attend.

Date and Time:

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Where:

89 Thoreau Street
Concord, MA 01742
(978) 369-1770

Cost:

$8.00

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Leonor Leal Workshop May 23-27, 2012


Leonor Leal Workshop
May 23-27, 2012

Leonor Leal is a wonderful teacher, don't miss this chance! Leonor has performed in the companies of Antonio “El Pipa," Andrés Marín and the Flamenco Ballet of Andalucía under the direction of Cristina Hoyos. After a stay in “The Corral de la Morería” in Madrid she received the outstanding dancer award in the Spanish and Flamenco Dance Choreography contest. At present, Leonor tours with two shows: eLe eLe, that obtained the Best Artist Prize revelation at the 15th Festival de Jerez of 2011 in its premiere; and Mosaicos, her new production in which she gets into the fascinating world of music and dance geometry (to be presented in the series “Flamenco Viene del Sur” in 2012). Her website is leonorleal.com

LOCATION

Boston Percussive Dance: 185 Green Street, Cambridge MA 02139

CONTACT

lauren@flamencoboston.com
See http://www.flamencoboston.com/workshops

WED-FRI MAY 23-25
5:30-6:30 bata de cola
6:30-8:00 technique (all levels)
8:00-9:00 choreography (intermediate)

SATURDAY MAY 26
5:00-6:00 bata de cola
6:00-7:30 technique (all levels)
7:30-8:30 choreography (intermediate)

SUNDAY MAY 27
11:00-12:00 bata de cola
12:00-1:30 technique (all levels)
1:30-2:30 choreography (intermediate)

SINGLE CLASS PRICES
technique $35 (1.5 hour)
choreography $25 (1 hour)
bata de cola $35 (1 hour)

FULL WORKSHOP PRICES (PAY IN FULL AT OR BEFORE FIRST CLASS)
technique $165 (save $10)
choreography $120 (save $5)
bata de cola $165 (save $10)
technique + choreography $275 (save $25)

LOCATION
Boston Percussive Dance 
185 Green Street Cambridge, MA 02139

CONTACT/REGIGTRATION lauren@flamencoboston.com
CASH PREFERRED. Or mail check payable to Lauren O'Donnell to:
Boston Percussive Dance/Green St Studios
ATTN: Lauren O'Donnell
185 Green Street 
Cambridge, MA 02139

Monday, April 16, 2012

India Jazz Suites: KATHAK MEETS TAP


Do not miss this very exciting dance production touring Boston next weekend (April 20-22). An electrifying, cross-cultural exchange of rhythm, energy and soul between Kathak (Indian classical dance) and Tap! 


India Jazz Suites: KATHAK MEETS TAP
Pandit Chitresh Das & Jason Samuels Smith
Friday, April 20, 7:30pm l Saturday, April 21, 8pm l Sunday, April 22, 3pm l $40
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Ave., Boston

For tickets and information call World Music/CRASHarts (617) 876-4275 or buy online at www.WorldMusic.org.


“Dazzling . . . with breathtaking precision. A dynamic exchange of dance ideas
that brilliantly illuminated distinctive differences between their respective art forms,
electrifying an enthusiastic sold-out crowd.”
—The Boston Globe

India Jazz Suites is an explosive collaboration between Pandit Chitresh Das, one of India’s foremost Kathak masters, and Jason Samuels Smith, the Emmy Award–winning tap dancer renowned for his amazing footwork in Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk. Indian classical musicians and a stellar jazz trio perform live to complete this powerful artistic exchange. The result is high entertainment that crosses all boundaries of age and culture—a blast of incredible speed and power, grace and beauty, epic storytelling and the pure joy of dance.

Free pre-performance talks with dance critic Debra Cash 30 minutes before each performance in The ICA/Boston lobby.
Free post-performance Q&A with the company: Friday, April 20.

Please see more information and links below.



Monday, April 9, 2012

Paco de lucía


If you do not have your tickets yet, there is still time! Do not miss this fabulous show!

WORLD MUSIC/CRASHarts PRESENTS
From Spain

                          Paco de lucía

Wednesday, April 11, 7:30pm, Boston Opera House
“The most advanced guitarist in any idiom.”—Guitar Review

For tickets and information call World Music/CRASHarts at (617) 876-4275 or buy online atwww.WorldMusic.org.

One of the world’s greatest guitarists, Paco de Lucía is a living legend of flamenco music. Considered by many to be the most innovative and influential flamenco artist of the last 40 years, he has had a revolutionary impact on the art form, infusing it with new life and bringing it worldwide attention. Paco de Lucía will be performing with his world-renowned flamenco sextet and the spectacular dancer Farruco.