Events for adults, families and kids in Newton, MA.
Ken Cheeseman will be reading Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on Sunday, December 16th at Terry O’Reilly’s Irish Pub in Newton. Only 40 seats are available! Admission is a minimum donation of $25 which will be matched by New Rep’s matching program. Only 4 seats per person.
Please buy tickets here.
Sunday, December 16 at 3pm
First Baptist Church
848 Beacon St, Newton Centre
T-accessible by the Green Line “D Line” Newton Centre stop
Please join the New Philharmonia Orchestra and special guests, Newton’s Boston Ballet School and All-City Honors Chorus Treble Singers!
Join us to celebrate friendship, joy and peace on earth through music, song and dance! The New Phil and their special guests, Newton’s Boston Ballet School and the 80-member Treble Singers children’s chorus, will delight the audience with this magical program – dance among the snowflakes, take a sleigh ride, and fill your heart with song! New Phil’s famous Instrument Petting Zoo follows the performance; this is a terrific opportunity for children of all ages to meet and try the orchestra instruments! This imaginative and interactive program is appropriate for family members of all ages.
Tickets: $10-$15
For tickets and more information, please visit www.newphil.org or call 617.527.9717.
Cappella Clausura’s alternative Christmas pageant is back December 15th and 16th! This program is ever-popular with families, with its graceful child dancers, sing-alongs, giant puppets – and gorgeous music. But what makes it different is the source of the music: written by mostly cloistered nuns from 12th – 17th century Italy and Germany and told from Mary’s point of view. Who knew they composed such beautiful music, hidden away in their convents!
In a truly different sort of Christmas pageant suited to the entire family, with puppets, adult and child dancers and beautiful costumes, Cappella Clausura, Amelia LeClair, Director, and Creationdance, Helena Froehlich, Director, present Gloria: A Renaissance Christmas Pageant. This magical foray into the wide variety of music written mostly by cloistered women celebrates perhaps the most famous mother and son, as seen from Mary’s point of view. For this unique concert, Cappella Clausura has chosen works from its repertoire of lush medieval, renaissance and baroque music by Hildegard von Bingen, Sulpitia Cesis, Raffaella Aleotti, and Chiara Cozzolani, as well as the stunningly beautiful contemporary music of Patricia Van Ness inspired by ancient chant. Giant puppets and lively laude, or anonymous processional hymns, from 14th century Florence, will be included. Froehlich and company dance to spectacular choreography dressed in richly-hued costumes as Cappella Clausura sings the Christmas story all the way from the birth of Mary to the Visit of the Magi. The audience is invited to sing with the performers and join in the wonder and merriment!
Who: Cappella Clausura with CREATIONDANCE
What: GLORIA: A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
When/Where:
Sat., Dec. 15, at 2:00PM – First Parish Church, 349 Boston Post Rd., Weston
Sat., Dec. 15, at 8:00PM – University Lutheran, 66 Winthrop St., Cambridge
Sun., Dec. 16, at 8:00PM – Parish of the Messiah, 1900 Commonwealth Ave., Newton
Contact: Director Amelia LeClair 617-964-6609 or manager@clausura.org
Tickets: $15 – $25 at www.clausura.org or at the door
On Sunday, December 2 from noon-6pm, Newton Centre is being transformed into a vintage Main Street for the Newton Cultural Alliance’s Arts Stroll & Shop. Featuring participation from 40 local businesses and 100 artists and musicians, the Stroll makes it fashionable for you to shop, eat, and art local.
The Newton Cultural Alliance (NCA), a coalition of 24 Newton non-profit arts and cultural members, is presenting the Stroll for the second year to make it easy for Newton residents and visitors to Shop Local – Eat Local – Art Local. The Stroll also brings culture and business together for the benefit of our community. Newton Centre shop and restaurant owners are enthusiastic for the opportunity to collaborate.
What can you expect at the Stroll? Empty storefronts on Centre St, Beacon St, and Union St are being turned into pop-up art galleries and performance spaces. Your favorite chic boutiques will be decked out and offering Stroll day discounts. Chefs are creating specialty menus for the event. NCA members the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Newton Open Studios, Newton Art Association, New Art Center, Cappella Clausura, Suzuki School of Newton, and more are providing the cultural entertainment. There’s fun and community spirit to be had for families, couples, friends, and everyone in between!
There is even a free community concert! At 4pm the NCA will present the collaborative performance at the First Baptist Church (848 Beacon St, Newton Centre). Join your friends and neighbors for the music and even join in a sing-a-long! Following the concert, a Stroll & Sing will follow luminaries that have been lit throughout the Centre. This is a guaranteed magical way to close a day full of community spirit, holiday joy, and supporting local businesses and organizations.
Stroll maps with participants and schedules are available in participating stores, on the Newton Cultural Alliance’s website, www.newtonculture.org, and the Arts Stroll & Shop Facebook page. For more information, visit www.newtonculture.org.
Please join me in supporting NewTV’s 5th auction. The proceeds from the auction will go towards college scholarships and for paid internships.
The auction also:
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For many older adults, driving is a symbol of freedom and independence and represents the ability to maintain connections and actively participate in the community.
However, driving abilities can change over time due to declining vision, decreased strength, stiff joints, slowed reaction times, medical conditions or medication usage. Motor vehicle injuries are the leading cause of injury-related deaths among 65 to 74 year olds and are the second leading cause, after falls, among 75 to 84-year- olds.
On Wednesday, December 5, Newton-Wellesley Hospital will offer a free seminar called
Tips for Talking with Older Drivers
The event will be held from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
in the Bowles Conference Center Second Floor
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 2014 Washington Street.
Talking with an older driver about stopping or altering driving can be a difficult and challenging conversation. This seminar offers easy-to-use, practical information to help families advise their loved ones on whether it is time to limit or give up driving. The seminar will cover topics like warning signs, conversation openers, how to construct a caring, effective conversation about driving, selecting the right messenger, and finding other forms of transportation so your loved ones can continue to be active and remain part of the community.
Debbie Kerrigan, MS, OTR/L, a senior occupational therapist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, will facilitate the program. She has been involved in driving rehabilitation and older driver safety for the last five years.
Last spring, Debbie was a recipient of a mini-grant from the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) in partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA). Under that grant, she developed two different educational presentations targeted toward older drivers, as well as physicians.
Light refreshments will be served. To reserve your seat for this free event email carefinder@partners.org or call 617.243.5900. For more information, please visit www.nwh.org/community.
Dr. Anthony Wolf, practicing child psychologist, speaker and author of parenting books including I’d Listen to My Parents if They’d Just Shut Up: What to Say and Not Say when Parenting Teens, will be presenting at Beaver Country Day School on Wednesday, November 28 at 7 PM in an event that is free and open to the public.
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Dr. Wolf will discuss the everyday challenges of raising teens in the 21st century and help parents understand how to successfully communicate with teens in today’s evolving world. As a highly regarded speaker who has appeared on shows including The TODAY Show and The View, Dr. Wolf provides tips, strategies, hope and humor to help guide parents through issues including technology, alcohol, drugs, sex, and more.
RSVP to the event through Eventbrite here.
“Parenting Strategies for the 21st Century”
WHAT: Parenting presentation by Dr. Anthony Wolf, Ph.D.
WHO: All parents – free and open to the public
WHEN: Wednesday, November 28 at 7 PM
WHERE: Beaver Country Day School 791 Hammond Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
WHY: To guide parents through communicating with teens about common issues including technology, alcohol, drugs, sex, and more.
William Landay of Defending Jacob is speaking at the Newton Free Library on Monday, November 26th at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30. Our book club has decided to attend this event instead of hosting our usual book club. Everyone who has read the book has raved about it. That it includes Newton landmarks is an added bonus! See you at this great free event!
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county (NEWTON!) for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis—a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.
Best of Newton Juried Art Fest is November 3rd and 4th, Saturday and Sunday, from 11 am to 5 pm. This craft show and sale features 77 juror-chosen artists. It will be held at the Newton Cultural Center at 225 Nevada Street in Newtonville.
Juror’s Award Exhibit will be held November 20th through December 31st. Top honors will be awarded to ten of the Best of Newton Artists. The group show will be held at NewTV Gallery at 23 Needham Street in Newton. The entrance is on Easy Street, next to National Lumber. For NewTV hours, go here or call 617-965-7200.
