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dance http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/dance Extracurriculars 617-495-8683 Harvard Dance Center, 60 Garden Street Lectures The Harvard-Smithsonian Center • February 7, at 7 p.m. Mahindra Humanities Center for Astrophysics The Boston Ballet performs excerpts http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard. www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html from its spring season. edu/content/norton-lectures 617-495-7461; 60 Garden Street Sanders Theatre • February 20, at 7:30 p.m. • February 3, 12, and 27, at 4 p.m. “The Universe From Beginning to End” cel- The Harvard Film Archive The 2014 Norton Lectures present “The ebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the “Big http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa Ethics of Jazz,” by Herbie Hancock. Bang afterglow.” Guest speakers include 617-495-4700 (For details, tickets, and additional future Nobel Prize-winner Robert Wilson, who • January 10-26 s eum lecture dates, visit the website above.) explains “The Discovery of the Cosmic Mi- The Complete Andrei Tarkovsky. Screen- s arpenter Radcliffe Institute crowave Background.” ings include the Russian director’s Solaris, rt mu for Advanced Study Stalker, and The Mirror. arvard C

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Kimmelman discusses the rise of urban Loeb Drama Center 617-496-2222 ontemporary and H populations, revolts, and “The Politics of 64 Brattle Street • January 26, at 3 p.m. oretum; Suzanne L b Public Space.” • Through January 19 Pianist Robert Levin performs Piano So- C s Kelly

The Heart of Robin Hood. A new ver- nata No. 2, by John Harbison, and “Träume” f Jame y o

Nature and science sion of the classic tale in which the merry (“Dreams”), by Hans Peter Türk, among s The Arnold Arboretum band of thieves steal from the rich but other works. www.arboretum.harvard.edu; 617-524-1718 won’t share a penny with the poor. • February 1, at 8 p.m.

• Opening February 8 • Through January 5 The Greater Boston High School Choral aylor/ courte

Peters Hill 360: Photographs by Meri The Light Princess. Based on the story Festival features guest choirs and the Har- T avid t to right: merit to right: Bond/arnold ar Bond explores how changes in light in- by George MacDonald, the play highlights vard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. f

• enter; D From le fluence nature throughout the seasons. the all-important role of gravity. February 28, at 8 p.m. C Left to right: A wintry scene by Meri Bond, at the Arnold Arboretum; detail from “The Roof Is on Fire,” 1994, by Suzanne Lacey, at Carpenter Center; “Border Monument No. 227,” 2009, by David Taylor, at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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The Junior Parents Weekend Concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard Glee Club.

exhibitions & Events Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts www.ves.fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-3251 • Opening February 7 (with reception on February 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m.) Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) examines the daily interactions between art and human culture, and includes new works by artists in Cambridge, Boston, and Providence. www.harvardartmuseums.org Atlifecare Brookhaven living is as good as it looks. 617-495-9400/9422. Brookhaven at Lexington offers an abundance of opportunities for The museum buildings are closed for reno- intellectual growth, artistic expression and personal wellness. Our residents vation until the fall of 2014, but some special share your commitment to live a vibrant lifestyle in a lovely community. events are being held elsewhere. For details Call today to set up an appointment for a tour! and registration, call 617-495-4544. • Opening February 26 A Full-Service Lifecare Retirement Community At the David Rockefeller Center for Latin www.brookhavenatlexington.org (781) 863-9660 • (800) 283-1114 American Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street David Taylor: Working the Line. The art- ist’s multiyear project documents monu- ments along the U.S.-Mexican border, testaments to the impact of security forc- es, wall and fence construction, and the smuggling of drugs and humans. to Our anValued Advertising Partnersou The Semitic Museum www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu t k 617-495-4631 h Brookhaveny •February 4, at 6 p.m. Cadbury Commons The Sun Temple of Nefertiti: Sex and The Charles Hotel Death, a lecture by visiting assistant professor Jacque- Gail Roberts/Coldwell Banker lyn Williamson. Barbara Currier/Coldwell Banker Peabody Museum of Archaeology Ballet classes: and Ethnology Fresh Pond Ballet age 3 through teen, www.peabody.harvard.edu; 617-496-1027 adult and pointe. Carol & Myra/Hammond • Continuing: “Digging Veritas: The Brattle Office/Hammond Archaeology and History of the Indian Spring semester starts Jan. 6 College and Student Life at Colonial Register now International School of Boston Harvard” Lux, Bond & Green Fine Jewelry Harvard Museum of Natural History www.freshpondballet.com www.hmnh.harvard.edu; 617-495-3045 McLean Hospital & Pavilion • Continuing: Thoreau’s Maine Woods: A Visit us on Facebook: Sandrine’s French Bistro Journey in Photographs with Scot Miller facebook.com/FreshPondBallet commemorates the sesquicentennial of the naturalist’s influential book. Nina Alonso, Director, FPB Support from these advertisers helps us produce the independent, 1798a Mass Ave high-quality publication Harvard alumni Events listings also appear in the Univer- Cambridge, MA 02140 rely on for information about sity Gazette, accessible via this magazine’s 617.491.5865 the University and each other. website, www.harvardmagazine.com.

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