Join Jeff Costa for an electrifying aerobic-dance workout! The perfect marriage of exercise and dance, the Cardio Diva dance workout provides a fun environment for participants to get in touch with their “inner diva” while sweating to cutting-edge pop music and dancing to free-flowing and innovative choreography. Jeff Costa is known as the founder of what Time Magazine coined the “New Burlesque movement gym culture.”
Thursday, March 29th
7 – 8:30 pm
The Sports Club/LA
4 Avery Street at Tremont
Boston, MA 02111
Members $15; non-members $25
There is no advance sign up. Registration will take place on the night of the event. Please bring cash or check. Please contact Alexa Malzone at 617.375.8548 or amalzone@mp-sportsclub.com for more information.
Join Lauren Smith, MD, MPH, medical director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, who will present up-to-date information about concussions among young athletes and discuss what parents and athletes can do to improve recovery and reduce the likelihood of long term problems. She will also review the rules on sports-related head injuries in public schools in Massachusetts. Targeted for all parents and coaches.
No registration required. Co-sponsored by the Newton PTO Council, Williams PTO and The Newton Partnership.
Warning: Do not park in the Lasell College parking lot. They ticket and tow.
Dr. Lauren A. Smith is the Medical Director of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health where she works closely with the Commissioner to establish and implement departmental priorities. She is an Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She serves as a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Medical Center where she was the Medical Director of the Pediatric Inpatient Unit for 4 years.
Dr. Smith’s research career has focused on the implication of public polices for child health and childhood health disparities. She has authored two recent reports on the impact of affordable housingand energy costs on child health and well being as examples of the effects of public policy on health. She recently served as a W.T. Grant Health Policy Fellow in the office of House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and as a member of the Massachusetts Commission to End Racial Disparities in Health.
The New Philharmonia Orchestra is bringing a fantastic St. Patrick’s Day concert to Newton. The event combines classical music, traditional Celtic music, and audience sing-a-long favorites for an evening of great community fun! The event kicks off with a party featuring traditional Irish fare, a craft beer tasting, and strolling Irish musicians. Performances will follow the reception and will even include Irish dancing!
Well Within Massage and Integrative Health is offering a FREE Wellness day to support cancer patients and their caregivers.
WHEN
Sunday, March 18th from 10 am – 4 pm.
WHAT
Deborah Hunter-Jones, LMT is providing 30 min Oncology Massage sessions
Brynn Kessler, Lic Ac is providing 60 min Acupunture sessions
Dina Abbondante, LMT and Yoga instructor, is providing 45 min yoga classes
Susan Altman, Holistic Health Coach, is providing 15 minute nutritional consultations.
WHO
This is open to any and all cancer patients and their caregivers.
HOW
Registration is required. All services must be booked ahead of time by calling 617-209-9355. Participants will be mailed a registration & health history form to be filled out and returned by March 14th.
WHY
We were approached by our dedicated staff member, Deborah Hunter Jones, who is passionate about caring for those living with cancer. It is her initiative that inspired us and the rest of our staff who are donating their time and services, to reach out to this population.
GOODIES
We will be offering a raffle prize of an integrated package, called Hope and Healing, designed to support individuals going through cancer treatments/ recovery. It will include a combination of our services with practitioners trained to work with oncology patients. Nutritious snacks will also be provided.
Open house for JCC Kaleidoscope Creative Arts & Science Camp will be held on Sunday, February 12 at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC (333 Nahanton Street) in Newton from 2-4pm. Meet the camp director and staff and learn how children in entering grades K-11 will make friends and spread their creative wings at JCC Kaleidoscope Camp. Art, drama, science, cooking, dance, music, games, sports, swimming, fishing, boating and more. Two to eight week program with flexible registration. Visual Arts and Theater Arts Intensive programs available for children entering grades 6-11. Bus transportation available to and from Brookline, Framingham and Wayland. Host of the 2012 Consortium of Boston Area Children’s Theatre (CBACT) Festival. For more information, visit bostonjcc.org/kaleidoscope or call 617-558-6523. No charge for camp fair. Open to the entire community. A program of the Ryna Greenbaum JCC Center for the Arts.
Natick SEPAC 1st Annual Special Needs Resource Fair
Learn about some of the great special needs resources
available to Metrowest families in a relaxed, free,
easy-to-navigate forum. Meet with owners and therapists
for a wide range of great resources including:
• Therapeutic Yoga and Horseback Riding
• Occupational Therapy
• Social Groups
• Neuropsychologists
• Financial Planners
• Adaptive Sports
Do you have questions about nutrition but don’t know who to ask?
Come to our 4 week nutrition solutions workshop where you will get all of your questions answered.
In this workshop you’ll learn:
. How to incorporate delicious greens into your diet.
. Tips to eat foods you enjoy and not deprive yourself.
. To understand how your lifestyle affects your cravings.
. Steps to make easy healthy meals for you and your family.
February 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th from 7:30-8:30pm
Nutritional Health Coach Stacy Schwartz will lead the seminars.
Contact: Allison Benitez at 617-458-9758 for more information and to register. You won’t want to miss this!
Do you ever find yourself scheduling play dates 3 weeks in advance because your child has no free time? Do you think you might have too many toys in the house? Are there too many gifts coming into your home around the holidays or when it is your child’s birthday? Are you and your children over-scheduled and overwhelmed?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, please join us on Monday, February 6th at Mason-Rice from 7-9:00 pm to learn about “SIMPLICITY PARENTING” which can help kids and parents feel calmer, happier and more secure. Consultant and author Kim John Payne will speak about how to simplify your child’s toys and books, clothes, meals, bedtime and schedule, as well as how to filter out distractions from the adult world so you can feel more connected to your children and family. This is a free event hosted by the Mason-Rice, Angier and Zervas Elementary School PTO’s.
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Mindy Kaling will not be able to make the Spring Fling due to a scheduling conflict.
Mindy Kaling, author and actress on
“The Office,” will be one of our honored authors this year.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
More Honored Authors:
Mix & mingle with hosts Tom Ashbrook and Bill Novak,
distinguished authors, friends, and library lovers —
while savoring delicious food from Bakers’ Best, bidding on the
silent auction, and listening to live music.
Tickets go fast, so make your reservation
online today at
Leah Hager Cohen’s The Grief of Others is a 2011 New York TimesNotable Book of the Year. Losing a newborn is terrible enough, but when the baby comes wrapped in a shroud of secrets, insufferable grief often tears family members apart. The Ryries are just such a family.
Edith Pearlman
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories is a feast for fiction aficionados. The 2011 recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, Ms. Pearlman gives new meaning to the word “storyteller” in these 21 short stories, which include themes of young love, old love, thwarted love, and loved denied — and span settings from Jerusalem and South America to New England locations.
Tim Riley
Tim Riley is NPR’s music critic and biographer of John Lennon in Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music – the Definitive Life. Mr. Riley’s well-researched account of Lennon proves that there is still room for one more biography of this legendary figure.
Lou Ureneck
InCabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine, memoir writer Lou Ureneck turns his disappointments that come from middle-age job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, and a divorce into a moving meditation on brotherhood and a return to a simpler, more meaningful way of life.
For more information about the event and authors, please visit website .
Thank you to everyone who left a comment. Exciting News!!! EVERYONE WHO LEFT A COMMENT WINS!
HI Mia –
Thanks SO very much for all the concert hype, we truly appreciate it. I just noticed that 14 people have commented on the story so far. Originally we said we’d like to giveaway 5 Family Tickets but we have decided to give a Family ticket to everyone who has commented. The venue holds something like 500 people so there’s no reason not to bring as many people in as we can!
If more people respond, I can giveaway a total of 80 tickets.
To redeem their tickets, they need only e-mail me (krobbins@newphil.org) with their full name by 10am on Sunday, January 29th. They should reference you somewhere, either in the message or subject line. Unless they say otherwise, I will assume they want tickets to the Family Concert.
Will you be able to join us?
Thanks again and please let me know if this works for you!
Many thanks,
Kara
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Anna Larsen’s composition is being performed on Saturday, February 11 at 8pm and Sunday, February 12 at 3pm in a special concert featuring young artists and composers.
The New Philharmonia Orchestra is a Newton-based community orchestra under the umbrella of the Newton Cultural Alliance.
“Our mission and motto is Music for All and we accomplish this by providing a Classics Concert Series, Family Discovery Concert Series, Pops Concerts, Summer Concerts, and music outreach and education. We strive to produce high-quality classical music accessible. New Phil would also love to be added to your resource roll. Our next three programs this winter should be rather interesting to your readers. We are doing a Family Discovery Concert & Instrument Petting Zoo side-by-side with student performers and narrator this month, our February Classics concert features the World Premiere of a symphony by a 12 year old plus a concerto performance by teenager Aaron Wolff, and we are doing a “karaoke” concert on St. Patrick’s Day.”
GIVAWAY: 5 Family Tickets (2 Adults and 2 Students) to attend ANY Family or Classics Concert. Maybe you’d love to use it for …
Winter Dreams Family Discovery Concert and Instrument Petting Zoo
Sunday, January 29 at 3pm
Featuring a side-by-side performance with Newton All-City Orchestra
Greg Livingston, Director
Narrated performance of the musical adventure How Bear Lost His Tail
by local composer Pasquale Tassone
Narrated by Emily Paley, NNHS Senior
Click here to purchase tickets
To win tickets, please leave a comment. Winners will be selected at the end of January.
This year the MidWinter Coffeehouse returns on February 11th, 2012 at the First Unitarian Society in Newton (1326 Washington St., West Newton), to benefit the F.A. Day PTO.
The MidWinter Coffeehouse is a fun evening of live folk (and other) music, featuring traditional Irish music trio Corvus, event founder and former Day parent Rob Siegel , emcee Eric Moore, and Day parents and friends including Barb Cassidy, Eric Chasalow, George Attisano, and Pam McA’Nulty.
Beer, wine, and soft drinks will be available for sale along with light refreshments.
Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door if available (Adults over 21 only, please).
Doors open at 6:30, music starts at 7.
For tickets and more information please visit the website www.mwch.org or email midwintercoffee@gmail.com.
