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Lamont Library 617-495-2454 • October 18 at 7 p.m. Extracurriculars The poems of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) are read by award-winning Harvard square o≠ers something for “Honk!” stage—traveling street bands— translator Clayton Eshleman. GY AND ETHNOLOGY; everyone this fall: saunter down to the and a “Mamapalooza” pavilion showcas- Woodberry Poetry Room. Charles River and join an ad hoc community ing moms who rock. Cabot Science Library choir as they light up the Weeks Footbridge, • October 12 at 8 p.m.; October 13 at 7 p.m. http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/#cabot learn the latest about animal sexuality at the www.aneveningwithchampions.org 617-495-5324 or 496-5534 Cabot Science Library, watch Olympic 617-493-8172 • Opening October 15 skaters cut the ice at the Bright Hockey Organized by Harvard undergraduates, Baby Flamingo Has Two Daddies: Sex, Center, or simply let the words of Peruvian the annual ice-skating show An Evening Gender, and Sexuality in the Animal poet César Vallejo wash over you during an with Champions raises money for the Kingdom features biological research sug- evening reading at . Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy gesting that sex and gender roles among Fund. Bright Hockey Center. animals are more fluid than previously SEASONAL • October 20-21 thought. • September 23 at 5 p.m. www.hocr.org www.revels.org Trek down to the river to watch athletes EXHIBITIONS 617-972-8300, extension 22 from around the world race in the annual Peabody Museum of Archaeology RiverSing 2007: Bridging the Charles two-day Head of the Charles regatta. and Ethnology with Voice and Light www.peabody.harvard.edu; 617-495-1027 Join Revels Inc. for this free event on the LIBRARIES • October 5-7 Weeks Footbridge in Cambridge. The www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas is procession begins at Winthrop Park. Pusey Library 617-495-2413 a weekend of lectures and tours related to • October 7, noon-6 p.m. • Continuing murals found in churches, sacred www.harvardsquare.com Family Album: The Roosevelts at Home grounds, and ceremonial rooms. Chil- The twenty-ninth annual Oktoberfest fea- features images from Sagamore Hill. dren’s programming is included. tures street performances, live music, • Opening September 11 • Opening October 25. dancing, and food from around the world, A Celebration of Charts: Two Hundred “A Good Type” showcases early Japanese as well as wares from more than 250 arti- Years of the U.S. Coast Survey highlights photographs. Among them, tinted scenes sans and merchants. New this year is the rare and exotic nautical documents. of kimono-clad geishas, samurai warriors, Left to right: A Henry Horenstein closeup, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; a photograph of a Japanese samurai at the

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and delicate cherry blossoms. A curator’s talk starts at 5:45 p.m. • Continuing: Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921–1925. • Continuing: The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark, with items such as bear-claw orna- ments, a painted bu≠alo robe, women’s dresses, and a whaling chief’s hat. Semitic Museum www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/ At Brookhaven 617-495-4631 Continuing: Ancient Egypt: Magic and the lifecare living is as good as it looks. Afterlife shows visitors some ancient views of life after death. Brookhaven at Lexington offers the security of quality on-site health care, Continuing: The Houses of Ancient Israel: opportunities for a healthy, active lifestyle and the companionship of Domestic, Royal, Divine features a full- people who share your commitment to independent living. scale replica of an Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 b.c.e.) village house. Call today for information about our priority wait list. Harvard Museum of Natural History Lexington, MA 02421 www.hmnh.harvard.edu (718) 863-9660 617-495-1027 (800) 283-1114 • Opening September 28 aboutbrookhaven.org Looking at Animals: Photographs by Henry Horenstein o≠ers a rich collection of sepia-toned close-ups of creatures from the land and sea. • Continuing: Climate Change: Our Global Experiment is an insider’s look at the science of climate. • Continuing: Nests and Eggs explores the world of birds’ eggs. Fogg Art Museum 617-495-9400/9422 • Opening October 6 Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). To com- memorate the inauguration of University president Drew Faust, this exhibit includes Walker’s silhouettes silkscreened onto 15 prints from the 1866 publication. Sackler Museum 617-495-9400/9422 • Opening September 22 Gods in Color: Painted Sculptures of Classi- cal Antiquity displays full-scale color recon- structions of Greek and Roman figures jux- taposed with original statues and reliefs in Wish you were the colorless state we find today. 85B5 Busch-Reisinger Museum 617-495-2317 • Through November 4: Light Display Ma- Caribbean vacation season is just around the corner. Reach an audience you can trust chines: Two Works by László Moholy-Nagy when you advertise your rental property in the Classifieds. o≠ers the artist’s seminal kinetic sculpture, Contact us at 617-496-6686 or at classifi[email protected] Light Prop for an Electric Stage (1930), and his

32B September - October 2007 NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL SECTION short, experimental film Light Play: Black • October 16-21 MUSIC White Gray, with choreographed sequences, The Veiled Monologues, by Adelheid Roosen, Sanders Theatre double exposures, and special e≠ects. is based on interviews with Turkish www.fas.harvard.edu/~tickets/ • Continuing: Making Myth Modern: women in Holland and their perspectives 617-496-2222 Primordial Themes in German 20th- on intimacy, sexuality, and love. • October 19 at 8 p.m. Century Sculpture. Eight dramatic pieces • October 27 through November 18 The Harvard Glee Club joins the Prince- by artists such as Max Beckmann, Joseph Donnie Darko. Directed by Marcus Stern, ton Glee Club and the Choir of St. Beuys, and Gerhard Marcks. this is a new adaptation of the 2001 cult George’s Chapel, Windsor, England, for a film classic about a troubled teenager who concert. NATURE AND SCIENCE meets a giant rabbit who tells him of the • October 26 at 8 p.m. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center world’s end during the 1988 presidential The Harvard Jazz Band, Harvard Univer- for Astrophysics campaign. sity Band, and Harvard Wind Ensemble www.cfa.harvard.edu/events.html perform works commemorating the one- 617-495-7461. Phillips Auditorium, FILM hundredth birthday of composer Leroy 60 Garden Street. Lectures and rooftop The Anderson ’29, A.M. ’30. viewing (weather permitting). www.harvardfilmarchive.org • October 27 at 8 p.m. • September 20 at 7:30 p.m. “Astronomy for Visit the website for complete listings. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has cho- Kids of All Ages.” 617-495-4700 sen to celebrate its two-hundredth year • October 18 at 7:30 p.m. • September 7-10 with a program that includes Beethoven’s “Fifty Years and Counting: The Dawn of the Ousmane Sembene–In Memoriam looks Fifth Symphony and Gustav Holst’s suite Space Age.” at the work of this Senegalese filmmaker. The Planets. • October 19-29 THEATER Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provoca- Events listings also appear in the University The American Repertory Theatre tion examines the Austrian director, whose Gazette, accessible via this magazine’s www.amrep.org; 617-547-8300 works include Cache and The Piano Teacher. website, www.harvardmagazine.com.

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