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September-October 2019 2 Harvard 16B Extracurriculars Cambridge, Boston, and beyond Events on and off campus in September and October 16E “Visual Science: The Art of Research” At Harvard’s Science Center 16N A Day in Purgatory —and Beyond Nature, art, and food in and around Worcester 16P The Air of Contentment The Fairbanks House reflects Puritan-era life in Dedham. 16R Wenham Museum A new exhibit explores equestrian life and sport on Boston’s North Shore. 16J Classic, Funny, Macabre Explorer J.W. Ocker’s quest for what remains 16U All About the Food Boston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia MIKE RYAN Harvard Magazine 16a HARVARD SQUARED Democratic Republic of Congo documen- We’ll Extracurriculars tarian Dieudo Hamadi, director of Kin- shasa Makambo, the extraordinary 2018 Events on and off campus during September and October account of three young political activists, is this year’s McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Dis- FILM other genre films from the mid 1930s to the tinguished Filmmaking, and will be on hand Harvard Film Archive 1948 Paramount Decree, underscoring the to share and discuss his work. (October 4-9) harvardfilmarchive.org argument that they should be “recognized “The B Film” series screens The Octopus!, as a unique and quintessentially American GlobeDocs Film Festival Kid Glove Killer, and Weird Women, among art form.” (September 13-November 25) filmfest.bostonglobe.com This annual event, sponsored by The Boston From left: Child 1980, a dye-diffusion print, among works by photographer Olivia Parker at home the Peabody Essex Museum; the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, in Sanders Theatre; from Globe, features timely films, community FROM OLIVIA LEFT: PARKER/ COURTESY OF THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM; HARVARD RADCLIFFE ORCHESTRA; Fruits in Decay, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History gatherings, and conversations with journal- HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY HarvardTHE JOSEPH B. MARTIN Medical SchoolConference Center AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL school Research the possibilities... 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Brattle and Coolidge Corner Theatres. art prints, made from pressed leaves and Perry and Harvard professor of studies The riveting Canadian conductor and so- (October 2-6) other materials, by Steffanie Schwam and the of women, gender, and sexuality Robert prano Barbara Hannigan, subject of the STAFF PICK: Seeing Science citizen-science Tree Spotters Program. Reid-Pharr, discuss how their work as documentary I’m a Creative Animal, delivers NATURE AND SCIENCE (Through October 6) bio graphers addresses timely topics. Knafel the Elson Lecture on “Equilibrium.” Paine “Visual Science: The Art of Research,” open- Garden In the Woods Center. (October 11) Concert Hall. (September 23) ing September 20, explores how objects and images nativeplanttrust.org LECTURES have long been used to prove or convey scientific Step out for late-bloomers, libations, live mu- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study “Science Symposium on Gene Edit- Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra principles. The works, drawn from collections and sic, and after-hours strolls during Asters in radcliffe.harvard.edu ing” brings together leading international harvardradcliffeorchestra.org laboratories across the University, can “record fleet- the Evening. (September 27) “Writing Black Lives.” Institute dean scientists, clinicians, and ethicists to explore The student-managed, professionally con- ing observations, whether a painting of an animal and Harvard Law School Paul professor of case studies of select gene therapies—and ducted symphony orchestra opens its 212th glimpsed in the field, or an interaction between sub- The Arnold Arboretum constitutional law Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the bioethical implications of such research. season with Gustav Mahler’s monumental atomic particles that lasts a fraction of a second,” the arboretum.harvard.edu joined by Princeton’s Hughes-Rogers pro- Knafel Center. (October 25) Ninth Symphony, his final completed work. exhibit notes. “They can also make unseen things Fabric, Fiber & Phenology offers botanical- fessor of African American studies Imani Sanders Theatre. (October 5) visible.” MUSIC Like vibrational patterns of sound. “Sand plate” im- Harvard Music Department EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS ages, based on experiments by eighteenth-century music.fas.harvard.edu Harvard Museum of German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni, reveal The Blodgett Chamber Music Series features Natural History how stroking a string instrument’s bow across the the Parker Quartet performing works by hmnh.harvard.edu edge of a metal plate sprinkled with sand shifts the Shostakovich and Dvořák. Paine Concert A temporary special exhibit of the celebrat- grains into variable designs that trace the vibrational Hall. (September 20) ed glass flowers, Fruits in Decay, features waves. COURTESY OF THE HARVARD COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS fascinatingly precise renditions of formerly Also on display at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (chsi.harvard. REVEL IN THE Excitement OF FALL IN HARVARD SQUARE edible objects. (Opens August 31) edu), gallery in the Science Center, is the picture of an electron spiraling in a high-powered magnetic field (at Friday Spotlight Harvard Art Museums left), recorded at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 7pm – Park & Dine harvardartmuseums.org in Berkeley, California. (Lab founder Ernest Orlando You survived the drive so you deserve a Winslow Homer: Eyewitness high- Lawrence, Sc.D. ’41, won the 1939 Nobel Prize in phys- generous pour of wine and a beautiful lights illustrations that the American ics for inventing the atom-smashing cyclotron, a pivotal plate of housemade pasta at Benedetto. realist produced for Harper’s Weekly. breakthrough in conducting high-energy physics.) 10pm – Late Night (Opens August 31) The “Mondrian” color-paper collage (above) is among Sit back and enjoy an intimate show at the 1970s materials used by scientist Edwin H. Land ’30, Regattabar Jazz Club. Through more than 40 works by a S.D. ’57, to develop his influential “Retinex Theory of cross-section of global contemporary Color Vision.” Land studied chemistry at Harvard, but Saturday artists, the ambitious exhibit Crossing dropped out and went on to invent Polaroid photogra- 8am – Skip the Line Lines, Constructing Home: Dis- phy (and co-found the eponymous Cambridge-based Avoid the crowd and order Henrietta’s placement and Belonging in Con- corporation; see Treasure, March-April 2017, page 76), Table breakfast straight to your room. temporary Art examines the concepts which popularized the art form—arguably setting the Catch the last of this year’s family- of both national, political, and cultural stage for today’s image-driven digital revolution. vN.P.B. 11am – Go Crimson! COURTESY OF THE HARVARD COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Cheer on the Crimson at Harvard Stadium! friendly “traveling biergartens” hosted boundaries and “evolving hybrid spaces, Thankfully it’s just a quick sprint back to by The Trustees and Notch Brewing. TRUSTEES THE identities, languages, and beliefs created by nous Languages,” Mexican designer Gabri- activism and in chronicling homelessness your room if you need an extra layer. The European-style community gather- the movement of peoples.” (Opens Sep- ella Badillo, among others, presents her and derelict urban environments, especially ings (at various beautiful and historic tember 6) work during a program about “Maintain- during the tumultuous 1970s. (Opens Sep- 8pm – Warm Up Catch up and celebrate a big win with sites owned by the conservation organi- ing Heritage Languages in Our Com- tember 21) classmates over a mug (or two) of zation) offer locally crafted, lower-alco- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & munities” (October 12). Badillo is also a mulled wine at Noir Bar. hol “session” beers, along with activities Ethnology featured guest for “Animated Tales for deCordova Sculpture Park and like lawn games, live music, scavenger peabody.harvard.edu All,” a series of short films narrated in 68 Museum hunts, and property tours. This fall, the To help mark 2019 as the “Year of Indige- different indigenous languages of Mexico. decordova.org Sunday gatherings are held at: Minton Stable (October 14) Truthiness and the News highlights the evi- 9am – Bike Away Hop on one of the hotel’s complimentary Community Garden, in Boston’s Jamaica dentiary role of photography, from the first bikes for a quick morning tour of Cambridge Plain neighborhood (September 20-21); Rose Art Museum half of the twentieth century and the hey- – making frequent stops for baked goods. Appleton Farms, in Ipswich/Hamilton brandeis.edu day of print newspapers to the current era (October 4-6); and at Weir River Farm, Through photographs, prints, of “alternative facts.” (Opens October 11) 1pm – Take Your Time in Hingham (October 12-13).
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