Arts & Nightlife :: get out
To-do LisT THUrsdaY 11
winter FilM Fest › Seven of the world’s best ski and snowboard films › 1 pm › Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston › $15 › 866.539.0036 or bostonwinterfilmfestival.com ringling brotHers and barnuM & bailey circus › See listing for Thurs
FridaY 12
coMMunity suPPorted art HarVest Parties › Connecting three local artists directly to buyers by selling a limited number of shares in a unique line of artwork › noon › Catalyst, 300 Technology Square, Cambridge › Free › 617.576.3000 or ccae.org/csart sowa oPen MarKet › Open every Sunday through the end of October, SoWa hosts painters, sculptors, photographers, clothing and jewelry designers, milliners, handbag designers, house ware crafters, florists, bakers, local farmers, and more selling unique products › SoWa Open Market, 460 Harrison Ave, Boston › free or sowaopenmarket.com/ “tHe Politics oF loVe” › With Herb Silverman, and David Niose › 1:30 pm › Harvard Science Center , 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
“a Panel discussion on graPHic noVels” › With Charles Burns, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd › 6 pm › Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge › $5 › 617.876.6837 “eVery Votes counts: a series oF conVersations eXPloring tHe 2012 election” › With Alejandra St. Guillen and Dan Schneider › 7 pm › Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.547.6789 or ccae.org tie, tHe international eXPeriMental cineMa eXPosition › Selection of 12 contemporary 16mm films unified by their dissolution of boundaries as a productive artistic practice › 8 pm › Montserrat College of Art, 23 Essex Street, Beverly › Free › 978.921.4242 or experimentalcinema.givezooks.com/events/tie-beverly
suMMer street MarKets arts and craFts › Original, handmade works, including jewelry, glassware, woodworks, photography, sculpture, clothing, accessories, and more › Fri + Wed 11 am › Summer Street in Downtown Crossing, Summer and Washington Sts, Boston › Free › 617.482.2139 or bostonbid.org
saTUrdaY 13
art conteMPorary tour › With Art New England Editor-in-Chief Judith Tolnick Champa discussing the artistic process, the role of the artist, and the art object › 1 pm › Boston Center for Adult Education, 122 Arlington St, Boston › $20 › 617.267.4430 or bcae.org boston derby daMes: 2012 HoMe teaM cHaMPionsHiPs › Double header roller derby followed by after party › 5 pm › Shriner’s Auditorium, 99 Fordham Rd., Wilmington › $14 › 781.665.5725 Mini-MaKer Faire › Celebration of arts, crafts, engineering, science, and DIY ethos with twenty organizations exhibiting in booths › 3 pm › Union Square Plaza, 90 Union Sq, Somerville › Free or makerfairesomerville.com Mystical art and talent sHow › Variety of original paintings, stories, and song by many local spiritual artists › 7 pm › Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy St, Cambridge › $5-$10 › 617.864.4552 or soulstirring.org tour de soMerVille › 15-mile counterclockwise loop along the limits of Somerville › 10 am › Seven Hills Park, Davis Sq, Somerville › Free or somervillebikes.org/events.html
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MoNdaY 15
“global systeMs 2.0: Peace, goVernance and diMinisHing resources” › Panel discussion with the Dalai Lama and others › 1:30 pm › Kresge Auditorium at MIT, 48 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.253.3913 or events.mit.edu
TUesdaY 16
“gaMe oVer” › Weekly game night with fighting games and DDR set-ups, Magic the Gathering, Rock Band, Dance Central, and more › 5 pm › Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston › free › 617.451.2622 or › goodlifebar.com
WedNesdaY 17
“Future boston Presents asseMble!” › 6 pm › Emerald Lounge at Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston › free or futureboston.com “gdgt liVe” › Includes over 30 Boston-area tech companies › Bijou Nightclub & Lounge, 51 Stuart St, Boston › Free › 802.888.3293 MassacHusetts HealtH council annual awards gala › Honoring seven individuals and organizations that have promoted healthy living by example and the Annual Chef Challenge › 5:30 pm › Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, 606 Congress St, Boston › $200 › 617.338.4111 or mahealthcouncil.org
more at thephoenix.com/events Haunted HarVard › Tour Harvard campus and Cambridge Burying Yard, with ghost stories along the way.
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karaoke
Hong Kong @ Faneuil Hall › “Karaoke” › ThursFri 6 pm; Sat-Sun 5 pm; Mon-Wed 9 pm › 65 Chatham St, Boston › 617.227.2226 or › hongkongboston.com Kinsale › “Karaoke Night” › Thursdays at 8:30 pm › 2 Center Plaza, Boston › 617.742.5577 or › classicirish.com/ kinsale_about.html lansdowne Pub › “Live Band Karaoke” › Thursdays at 9 pm › 9 Lansdowne St, Boston › 617.266.1222 or › lansdownepubboston.com sissy K’s › “Karaoke Night” › Thurs + Sun-Wed 8 pm › 6 Commercial St, Boston › 617.248.6511 Fire + ice › “Karaoke Night”“ › 9
pm › 205 Berkeley St, Boston › 617.482.FIRE Jacque’s cabaret › “Mizery Loves Karaoke” › Karaoke hosted by Mizery › Tuesdays at 10:30 pm › 79 Broadway, Boston › No cover › 617.426.8902 or › jacquescabaret.com an tua nua › “Karaoke Night” › Wednesdays at 9:30 pm › 835 Beacon St, Boston › 617.262.2121 Hennessy’s ›”Live Band Karaoke” › Wednesdays at 9 pm › 25 Union St, Boston › 617.742.2121 or › somerspubs.com/hennessys_history
suMMer street MarKets arts and craFts › See listing for Fri tHursday 18 “bell rung” screening › Documentary concerning concussions and head-injuries in sports, with producer by Dorsey Levens on-hand for the screening › 7 pm › Ell Hall at Northeastern University, 342 Huntington Ave, Boston › Free or northeastern.edu arlington international FilM FestiVal › See listing for Wed Haunted HarVard tour › See listing for Thurs
acTivisM FridaY 12
occuPy boston decoloniZe to liberate worKing grouP Meetings › How do systems of oppression that come from colonization affect the movement? Find out a weekly meetings that include discussion, self-education, planning events and actions to help decolonize the movement. Follow @DecolonizeBos for updates. › 6 pm › First Parish Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St., Cambridge › free or decolonizeboston.org occuPy boston’s queer trans direct action worKing grouP Meeting › Smash gender and sexuality based oppression › 6 pm › Boston Common, Charles St, Boston › free or occupyboston.org
saTUrdaY 13
aniMal rigHts Protest against ringling bros circus › Activists from In Defense of Animals, Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, and local PETA activists meet in front of the TD Garden to protest the cruel conditions enforced upon elephants in the Ringling Bros. Circus. For more info: info@MassAnimalRights.org › 1 pm › TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston › free › 617.931.2000 or ringlingbeatsanimals.com boston FeMinists For liberation’s MarcH to end raPe culture › March with the Boston Feminist for Liberation in support of a number of feminist issues, predominantly rape culture › noon › Boston Common, Charles St, Boston › free or facebook.com/Bostonfeminists4lib
“eFFectiVe aniMal adVocacy 101” › As part of a weekend-long program by Farm Sanctuary surrounding the launch of Boston’s Compassionate Communities Campaigh, a keynote workshop will be held at Grasshopper. Learn how to be a more effective advocate for farm animals & how to get involved in vegan advocacy in Boston › 1 pm › Grasshopper, 1 North Beacon St, Allston › free › 617.254.8883 or grasshoppervegan.com eXPose aiPac - Money. war. islaMoPHobia › In protest of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee national donor’s conference at the Boston Seaport Hotel, activists will host a weekend of teaching, learning, exposing and protests. On Saturday, a People’s Form at the Palestine Cultural Center in Boston with speakers from Harvard, the National Iranian American Council, MA Rep. Denise Provost, and more. On Sunday, there’s a protest outside the Seaport Hotel. › 3:45 pm › Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace (PCCP), 41 Quint Ave, Boston › free or https://facebook. com/events/201251163339584 solidarity and green econoMy conFerence › The conference is open to all who “share a commitment to creating a world beyond individual competition, social exclusion, exploitation of labor and natural resources” › 9 am › Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester › free › 508.793.7711 or worcestersagealliance.org sunday 14 call For Volunteers at biKes not boMbs › Volunteers needed to help load bikes to CESTA in El Salvador, an environmental advocacy group that also runs a bike mechanic training program for young people › 10 am › Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St, Ste 8, Jamaica Plain › free or bikesnotbombs.org
MoNdaY 15
“reclaiMing PornograPHy one orgasM at a tiMe” › A discussion of sex-positive/radical pornography as activism, covering the educational value of queer and alternative porn across diverse bodies, genders, and ethnicities, as well as the concepts of consent and empowerment. Hosted by Madison Young, an award-winning feminist pornographer, performer, educator, and writer. $15 suggested donation, though nobody will be turned away for inability to pay › 7 pm › Libertalia Autonomous Space, 280 Broadway, Providence, RI › $15 suggested donation › 401.680.6264 or libertaliapvd.org