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• October 17 at 2 p.m. Extracurriculars From Trilobites to Extraterrestrials: Ex- ploring Life on Earth and Beyond, a fam- Special Events updates on related programming, visit the ily program featuring paleontologist Phoe- Celebrating the Millennium of museum website. be Cohen, Ph.D. ’10, explores the origins of Firdawsi’s Shahnama Why Books? life forms. The and Harvard Art • October 28 and 29 • October 21 at 6 p.m. Museums are participating in a series of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study The Asa Gray Bicentennial Celebration fall events organized by the Museum of www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar_2010- highlights the contributions of this “fa- Fine Arts in Boston (which has mounted books.aspx; 617-495-8540. ther of modern botany in North America,” the exhibit Romantic Interludes: Women Registration is required for this free, two- who was also the founder of the Harvard in Firdawsi’s Shahnama). The epic poem, day conference presenting speakers from Herbarium. Aramont professor of the his- composed by Persian poet Abu’l Qasim various disciplines who will “probe the tory of science Janet Browne will launch Firdawsi and completed in 1010 c.e., tells form and function of the book in a rapidly the museum’s multipart commemorative the story of the Persian people from the changing media society.” lecture series with a talk on Corresponding nology

creation of the world to the Muslim con- Naturalists: Asa Gray and the Making of Ameri- th quest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. Seasonal can Botany. • Through November 24, at Houghton The Farmers’ Market at Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology aeology and e and aeology http://hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/ www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/ag_market. and Ethnology h index.cfm; 617-495-2444. html. Runs through October. www.peabody.harvard.edu On display are five illustrated lithographed • In Cambridge, Tuesdays, 12:30-6 p.m. at 617-496-1027 editions of the Shahnama. Lectures by visit- Oxford and Kirkland streets. • Continuing: Storied Walls: Murals of the ing professors are also planned for Octo- • In Allston, Fridays, 3-7 p.m. at North Har- Americas. The exhibition features large- ber; visit the website for details. vard Street and Western Avenue. scale drawings, photographs, and some ac- T; Peabody museum of arc of museum Peabody T; • Through November 27 at the Harvard Art tual pieces of murals from Awatovi, Maya, AR Museums, www.harvardartmuseums.org; Exhibitions and Moche cultures. 617-495-9400; 485 Broadway Harvard Museum of Natural • Continuing: Digging Veritas: The Ar- Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi’s History chaeology and History of the Indian Col- Shahnama features nine paintings on dis- www.hmnh.harvard.edu lege and Student Life at Colonial Har-

play in the Islamic and Indian gallery. For 617-495-3045 vard. library; college Harvard Left to right: Firdawsi at the Court of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, on display at Houghton Library; a scene from Alice vs. Wonderland at the American Repertory Theater; and a detail from a watercolor of a figure and glyph from San Bartolo, Guatemala, at the Peabody Museum.

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LIQUIDATION The Harvard Film Archive SERVICES http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa Visit the website for complete listings. 617-495-4700 • September 17 and 18 The Musical Imagination of Miguel Gomes highlights the sensual visual style of this Portuguese filmmaker, who also ap- pears both nights to talk about his work. • October 15 through November 1 A Visit from Robert Gardner includes • instant cash paid screenings of his best-known , Dead ) A Document1Document1 11/20/03 11/20/03 11:51 11:51 AM AM Page Page 1 1 f Document1 11/20/03• je we11:51lry cAMon v ePagersion 1 Birds and Forest of Bliss, along with new First Stars, by David A. Aguilar (CfA) C • brokerage services works. Gardner, an international docu- guilar ( guilar A • October 30 .

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will discuss his art on October 29. Radcliffe Choral Orchestra and Harvard avid D Radcliffe Collegium Musicum perform a libraries fall concert with new choral director and Countway Library Center for the conductor Andrew Clark. 232 Boylston Street (Route 9) History of Medicine Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 617-524-2170; www.countway.harvard.edu/ Nature and science 617.969.6262 • 1.800.328.4326 menuNavigation/chom/exhibit.html The Harvard-Smithsonian Center www.davidandcompany.com Continuing: The Scalpel and the Pen: for Astrophysics The Life and Work of Oliver Wendell www.cfa.havard.edu/events Holmes, M.D. 617-495-7461; 60 Garden Street Observatory nights offer free, nontechni- theater cal lectures on astronomy and—weather

ASSISTEDASSISTEDLIVINGLIVINGRETIREMENTRETIREMENTCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY American Repertory Theater permitting—rooftop viewing on the third ASSISTEDRetirementLIVING RETIREMENT CommunityCOMMUNITY www.americanrepertorytheater.org Thursday of each month. Assisted Living Here’sHere’sHere’s what what what people people people are are are 617-547-8300 • September 16 at 7:30 p.m. sayingsaying about about us. us. • Through October 29 “Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterres- Whatsaying Do Harvard about Alumnius. This production of Cabaret, by John Kan­ trial Life and Its Astonishing Implications Have in Common? der and Fred Ebb, stars Amanda Palmer, of for Our Future” with educator and author the internationally known punk cabaret Jeffrey Bennett. Cadbury Commons band The Dresden Dolls. • October 7 at 7:30 p.m. An Uncommon Senior Residence • September 18 through October 9 Sky viewing with David Aguilar. Alice vs. Wonderland is a contemporary • October 21 at 7:30 p.m. adaptation by director János Szász in which “How Did the First Stars and Galaxies The Harvard alumni who six actresses play different parts of a young Form?” with Abraham (Avi) Loeb. chose CadburyName:Name:MiltonMilton Commons R. R. Occupation:Occupation:Name:PostalPostal Supervisor,Milton Supervisor, R. Retired Retired girl’s personality. For teens and adults. Hobbies:mayOccupation:Hobbies: haveReading,Reading,Postal retired Walking, Supervisor, Walking, Exercisingfrom Exercising Retired Events listings also appear in the University Hobbies: Reading, Walking, Exercising work,Lifestyle:Lifestyle: butIndependent, notIndependent, from Activelife. Active The music Gazette, accessible via this magazine’s web- ChoiceChoiceLifestyle: of Senior/Assisted of Independent,Senior/Assisted Living: Active Living: differenceChoiceCadbury ofCadbury Senior/Assisted is Commons people–those Commons Living: Sanders Theatre site, www.harvardmagazine.com. Cadbury Commons www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice “Therewho“There is alive is stable a stablehere and and gentle and gentle atmosphere the atmosphere of “There helpof help isand a and stable empathy empathy and throughout gentle throughout atmosphere the the 617-496-2222; all concerts begin at 8 p.m. ofstaff help that and serves empathy them. throughout Our the community.community. I feel I feelassured assured that thatI am I partam part of of • October 29 ory community.others’ lives, I feel as theyassured are ofthat mine. I am For part myself, of t others’programs lives, as they will are ofengage mine. For your myself, is

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