Category: All About Newton

News, events, children’s activities in Newton, MA.

How Do Artists Create? Make Do
If you are interested in artists’ process, here is a short documentary film (about 30 min.) by a young filmmaker, Brian Frank, who set out across the country to interview artists in different media about the idea of “Make do” in their work and processes.

My friend, Lisa Rosowsky, is one of the people he interviewed, and you can see her working in her studio a bit. Enjoy!

Lisa Rosowsky has been on the faculty at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design since 1996, where she teaches graphic design, typography, and book design. She earned her AB from Harvard College and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. She produces mixed-media work in her studio in a converted factory building near Boston, Massachusetts.
November 29, 2014
Dec Vacation Art for Kids at Arsenal Center for Arts

The Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown offers great December Vacation art workshops for kids as well as Winter Classes for Adults and Children.

VACATION FUN!

Arsenal Center Offers December Vacation Art Workshops for Children

Watertown’s Arsenal Center for the Arts has December Vacation covered with Vacation Art Workshops for children in grades K-6.

The Great Artists (Grades K-6) December 29 – 30. Children can find inspiration in the works of famous artists, then make their own masterpiece. Sign up for morning and/or afternoon classes as different projects are offered each time.

Try It! (Grades K – 6) December 31. This fun, one-day workshop gives kids a chance to try out a variety of media and learn new skills. Sign up for the morning and/or afternoon session as different projects are offered each time.

Children will be divided into groups by age. Supervised Lunchtime is available for those who stay all day.

The Arsenal Center for the Arts begins the new year with an exciting program of winter art classes and workshops for adults and children beginning the week of January 12, 2014.

Adult offerings include a range of media and techniques for both beginning and more advanced students, with both morning and evening classes: Art Sampler, Acrylics, Expressive Watercolor, Monoprints, Ceramics, Drawing, Folk Assemblage, Poetry through the Four Seasons, Jewelry-Crafting and more.

Children’s classes (offered for four age ranges through teens) include Clay for Kids, Let’s Paint, Mixed-Media, Comics & Cartoons, Wheelthrowing, Intensive Drawing and more. Fun Parent/Child workshops for ages 2+ are also available.

To register online, go here or call 617-923–0100, ext. 8309.

Classes are held at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street in Watertown, with free parking and access to public transportation. Scholarships and Member discounts are available.

November 28, 2014
NNHS Mindset Parenting Workshop
Getting up to speed on the growth mindset

Parent/guardian workshop

Wednesday, December 3

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Newton North High School cafeteria

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea–the power of our mindset.

Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success–but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals–personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

Have you heard that Newton Public Schools is asking teachers and staff to explore how encouraging a “growth mindset” can motivate students to learn? Do you know that the research-based growth mindset is useful for all ages and in all settings-school, home, work, athletics?

Newton North School Council and PTSO invite ALL parents/guardians to a fun and engaging evening exploring the growth mindset. AsPrincipal Jen Price shows you how Newton Public Schools faculty are being trained in the use of the growth mindset, you’ll learn
- Effective ways to give praise
- Useful methods for encouraging children and teens to try new things and accept challenges
- Constructive ways to respond to failure
- Successful strategies for creating a parent-teacher dialogue about students’ development
You will also have a chance to apply the growth mindset during an interactive challenge.

To learn more about the growth mindset, read about Mindset or view this Ted Talk by Angela Duckworth.

Newton North School Council and PTSO look forward to seeing you on December 3!
November 27, 2014
Lady Eagles Girls’ Winter Soccer Clinic

Lady Eagles Winter Soccer Clinic

at Boston College

Dates: Mon Dec 29 – Thurs Jan 1

Time: 8.30am – 2.30pm

Ages: 6-14 years

Location: Alumni Stadium Bubble

Cost:

4 day option $295

3 day (Dec 29/30/31) $225

2015 Winter camp brochure.pdf

More specific information on the clinics, including information on how to register, can be found on our website.

If you have any questions,or would like more information, please see contact information below.

EMAIL: soccer.clinic@bc.edu

PHONE: 617-552-0982

November 26, 2014
Asian Females Face Unique Mental Health Challenges

“Asian American girls have the highest depression rate [among ethnic groups],” said Hyeouk “Chris” Hahm, an associate professor of social research at Boston University.

A panel, Invisible Minority No More: Exploring stress, coping, and mental health amongst Asian and Asian-American students, sought to expose the roots of the problem. The event is over but the conclusions drawn are here:

Asian and Asian American students face unique mental health challenges as a byproduct of both ethnic stereotypes and cultural attitudes towards emotional vulnerability, panelists at the Harvard Graduate School of Education said Wednesday. From The Harvard Crimson

November 25, 2014
Jim Guttmann’s Klezmer Concert

Saturday
November 22, 8:00 PM

Homegrown Coffeehouse, Needham, MA

On Saturday evening, November 22, Homegrown Coffeehouse will present bassist Jim Guttmann’s Bessarabian Breakdown, an exciting, eclectic excursion through klezmer music that ranges from traditional performances to fusions that stay true to their idioms.

WHAT IS KLEZMER MUSIC?
Klezmer music is the party music of the eastern European Jews, the folk music behind Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof. The music developed hundreds of years ago and has traveled with the Jews of eastern Europe throughout Europe and to the New World. Wherever they went, the Jewish musicians – known as klezmorim – would pick up the musical styles of the host culture and integrate it with their own klezmer music. In America the klezmorim fell in love with jazz and Latin dance music. Jim Guttmann’s Bessarabian Breakdown continues that tradition, blending traditional klezmer with various jazz styles, salsa and rhythm & blues.WHO IS JIM GUTTMANN?
Bassist Jim Guttmann’s career has taken him from smoky dives to Carnegie Hall, performing with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, violinist Itzhak Perlman, Broadway star Joel Grey, jazz singers Eartha Kitt and Mark Murphy, the legendary Boston string band Cheap Trills, blues masters Johnny Shines and James Cotton, Texas Swing legend Tiny Moore, guitar virtuoso Russ Barenberg, jazz & bluegrass violin wizard Matt Glaser, the Artie Shaw Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Whether he’s swinging a jazz tune, holding down the tumbao in an Afro-Cuban song or nailing a lively sirba with a klezmer band, he plays with warmth, sophistication and flawless time. The music in this program showcases his versatility as both a soloist and an ensemble player, and in each fusion new aspects of the original song provides him and his band mates with musical challenges that are fun and entertaining for the audience.WHO’S IN THE BAND?
The band is made up of some of Boston’s finest ethnic, jazz and improvising musicians including violinist Mimi Rabson, clarinet and sax man Ted Casher, Tom Hall on baritone sax, several current Klezmer Conservatory Band members including drummer Grant Smith, trombonist Mark Hamilton and cornetists Mark Berney & Gary Bohan. Percussion virtuoso Ernesto Diaz, jazz guitarist extraordinaire Jon Damian and pianist/accordionist Joe “Sonny” Barbato fill out the rhythm section. Truly a killer band.

ABOUT THE HOMEGROWN COFFEEHOUSE
The Homegrown Coffeehouse, celebrating 30 years at First Parish UU in Needham, is llocated just off the Needham town square at 23 Dedham Avenue (route 135).

The new space is a treat, visually and acoustically, so come on down for this great show!

Shows starts at 8:00 pm; doors open at 7:30 om. Tickets for all shows will be available online (see TICKET INFO below). Remaining tickets are sold at the door beginning about 7:30 p.m.

For more information about the show:

Tel: (781) 444-7478

E-mail: homegrownneedham@gmail.com

Twitter: @Homegrown02492

Web page here

TICKET INFO
Tickets for the show are $20, $15 for students and seniors and can be purchased in advance here.

November 21, 2014
38th Annual Wellesley Marketplace!

Wellesley Marketplace

November 22, 2014

9am – 4pm

Wellesley Middle School

Join over 175 of New England’s Finest Artisans for the 38th Annual Wellesley Marketplace. Photographer Sharon Schindler will be there and many other artisans from Newton!

Zoe Forbes of Fleuri Designs will be there too!

November 20, 2014
NNHS Coach Cap to be Honored at Rotary Luncheon

NEWTON NORTH “COACH CAP” PETER CAPODILUPO

TO BE HONORED AT

30^TH ROTARY ANNUAL FOOTBALL LUNCHEON

Newton North’s “Coach Cap” Peter Capodiluo, who is retiring at the end of this season, will be honored at the Rotary Clubs of Newton & Brookline 30^th Annual Football Luncheon on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at noon at the Braeburn Country Club. Boston Globe sportwriter Dan Shaughnessy will give the keynote address.

The luncheon, which began in 1984 and brings together Thanksgiving football “rivals”, is a time honored tradition attended by coaches, players and educators from both the Newton and Brookline school systems, along with many elected officials and other dignitaries and community leaders. All are welcome to attend!

To help honor Coach Cap, community members are invited attend the luncheon and also to write personal tribute messages which will appear in the luncheon program book. By purchasing a “tribute”, we will include your message in the program book and make a donation to the charity of Coach Cap’s choice.

To purchase luncheon tickets and/or to include your special message to Coach Cap, please visit our Eventbrite page at http:.

About Rotary

Rotary brings together a global network of volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. Rotary connects 1.2 million members of more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. Their work impacts lives at both the local and international levels, from helping families in need in their own communities to working toward a polio-free world. For more information, visit RotaryNewton.org.

November 19, 2014
Children’s Book Events at New Art Center

An Interactive Afternoon

with Jarrett Krosoczka

& Jef Czekaj

at The New Art Center

Sunday, November 23
3-5 pm

    New Art Center

    61 Washington Park

    Newtonville, MA 02460

What’s Happening

Participate in two interactive workshops:

From Brain to Book with Jef Czejak

Graphic Novel Writing Workshop with Jarrett

What to Bring

Bring paper, pencils and your imagination!

What Else

Book sale and signing following the program.

Suitable for children in grades 2-6.
Children need a ticket (click below).
Accompanying adult is complimentary.

Sign up here.

Wondermore cultivates children’s curiosity, creativity and academic achievement by igniting in them a love of good books. We bring acclaimed children’s book authors and illustrators into K-8 schools in under-served Boston neighborhoods for visits and writing workshops.

All proceeds will directly benefit Wondermore’s programming.

For more information on Wondermore please visit www.wondermoreboston.org

November 18, 2014
Holiday Events at the Prudential Center

THE SHOPS AT PRUDENTIAL CENTER ANNOUNCES 2014 HOLIDAY EVENT SCHEDULE

Gifts & Glam, Thursday, November 20 5pm – 8pm

Get a jumpstart on the holiday season with a glamorous shopping event at The Shops at Prudential Center on Nov. 20 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. From seasonal decorations to festive party outfits to gifts for friends and family,A Night of Gifts + Glam has something for everyone. The event will feature exclusive shopping discounts, styling tips and makeovers, sips and snacks stations, holiday entertainment and more. Attendees will also have the opportunity to enter to win a $500 Holiday Party Makeover sweepstakes. The event is free and open to the public.

Santa in the City

Come see Boston’s Best Santa in Belvidere Pavilion. Santa will arrive at The Shops at Prudential Center on Saturday,

Extended hours begin December 12. Check the website for details.

November 21. Capture the magic of the holiday season and bring the kids for a special photo with Santa in his Winter Wonderland located in Belvidere Arcade. A variety of photo packages are available, starting at $19.99.

Santa’s hours:
Monday-Friday 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturdays 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Sundays 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Take a Ride on the Polar Express

Polar Express Story Hour, featuring readings by “The Conductor”, hot chocolate, cookies and gifts for the children in attendance. Kids are encouraged to dress in their pajamas and visit The Shops at Prudential Center Food Court for a Polar Express Story Hour on Dec. 6 and Dec. 13. Following the readings, kids are invited to stay for a special musical performance

put on by local Boston children’s performers. The Dec. 6 and Dec. 13performances will be announced soon. Both concerts will take place from 12:45 -1:45 p.m.

All activities will take place in the Food Court at The Shops at Prudential Center.

The Shops at Prudential Center, 800 Boylston Street, Boston

November 17, 2014