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Harvard2 Cambridge, Boston, and beyond 16B Extracurriculars Events on and off campus in March and April 16D J.S. Bach and Josephine Baker Free concerts hosted by the Harvard music department 16J Mass Audubon Springtime timberdoodles, maple-sugaring, and falconry 16L Howardena Pindell’s Abstractions The Rose Art Museum 16H ArtWeek 2019 More than 525 events help “people access creativity across the Commonwealth” 16N Beyond Phở Vietnamese food options in Greater Boston ARTWEEK Harvard Magazine 16a Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 HARVARD SQUARED It’s a great partnership. Because we’re on equal footing. NATURE AND SCIENCE The Arnold Arboretum Extracurriculars www.arboretum.harvard.edu Gavin Van Horn, director of cultures and Events on and off campus during March and April conversations at Chicago’s Center for Hu mans and Nature, hosts a talk, “Shared SEASONAL dance, music, comedy, circus acts, and thea Journeys in the Urban Wilds,” and a Arts First Festival ter, along with art exhibits and handson walk: Cultivating Wildness Where www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu activities for all ages. The 2019 Harvard Arts You Are. (April 3 and April 4) The annual arts celebration in and around Medalist is Tracy K. Smith ’94 (see page 28), Harvard Square offers live performances of poet laureate of the United States. (May 25) An Introduction to Medicinal Plants is a fivepart series that explains the scien From left: A photograph of Albina Visilova, at the Naftalan Sanatorium, Azerbaijan (2010), at the Peabody Museum; from the Argentine film Zama, at the Harvard Film Archive; and tific principles and anthropological underpin FROM COURTESY LEFT: PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. © CHLOE DEWE MATHEWS; Dragon Mama, starring Sara Porkalob, at the American Repertory Theater nings of plantbased drugs found around the HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE; AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER Gail and Ed take real estate seriously. Themselves, not so much. 617-245-4044 • gailroberts.com GAIL ROBERTS Now enrolling! ED FEIJO & TEAM New Students Welcome Age 3, youth, teen-adult-pointe Summer program begins 7/1. View schedules at: freshpondballet.com Nina Alonso, Director, FPB 1798a Mass Ave, Cambridge 617.491.5865 16B March - April 2019 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 190303_Coldwell-GailRoberts.indd 1 1/11/19 12:32 PM HARVARD SQUARED HARVARD SQUARED world, with John de la Parra, an associate of bard, who timelessly asserts: “The country American Repertory Theater the Russianborn journalist and activist, New Houghton Library the Harvard University Herbaria, and Ernest is turning, the world is open...there are hun www.americanrepertorytheater.org Yorker staff writer, and author of the Nation www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton Anemone, lecturer at the Tufts University dreds of Hubbards...and they will own this In Dragon Mama, Seattlebased perform al Book Awardwinning The Future Is History: Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 at Experimental College. (April 17May 11) country some day.” (Through March 17) er, singer, writer, and producer Sara Pork How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, address 50 pairs items from the library’s history of chartered 1747 alob delves into the next chapter of her au es: “How Do We Talk About Migration?” science collection with rarely seen objects THEATER Harvard-Radcliffe tobiographical Dragon Cycle series, which Paine Hall. (April 34) from a private spaceflight collection, includ Lyric Stage Company of Boston Gilbert and Sullivan Players began with Dragon Lady, a work based ing some used during the mission by astro THE CLAGGETTS OF NEWPORT www.lyricstage.com www.boxoffice.harvard.edu on her grandmother, an unflappable Filipina The Radcliffe Institute for nauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman’s tale of The Gondoliers; or, The King of Bara- immigrant to the United States. Oberon. Advanced Study (Opens April 29) a family’s lust for power and money in the taria. Confusion reigns when a king dies and (March 20April 6) www.radcliffe.harvard.edu Master postCivil War American South, plays as two brothers learn that one of them is heir The Vision and Justice conference—with Currier Museum of Art well today as it did in 1939. Remo Airaldi to the throne; meanwhile, the new young The concertpartyperformance Clairvoy- keynote address by New York University law www.currier.org Clockmakers ’85, Harvard lecturer on theater, dance, and wouldbe queen is in love with someone ance features its creator, Diane Oh, and her professor Bryan Stevenson, J.D.M.P.A. ’85, Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the media, plays steely schemer Benjamin Hub else. Agassiz Theater. (March 29April 7) “original soul, pop, rock, and punk music.” LL.D. ’15, founder and executive director of Art of Independence highlights colorful, Oberon. (April 2428) the Equal Justice Initiative (see harvardmag. meticulously beaded textiles—a single panel in Colonial com/stevenson18, and short presentations takes up to 10 months to complete—that MUSIC by dozens of scholars, artists, writers, and were created by a community of women liv STAFF PICK: Music in the Air Shawn Colvin businesspeople—explores the role of arts in ing and working together in rural South Af America www.boxoffice.harvard.edu understanding the nexus of art, race, and rica. (Opens March 23) Among the free performances sponsored by the Harvard The enduring Grammy Award justice. Events include performances by Car December 8, 2018 – music department this spring is “Perle Noire: Meditations for winning singersongwriter and rie Mae Weems and Wynton Marsalis. FILM April 21, 2019 Joséphine” (May 3). Conceived by Peter Sellars ’80 and starring author performs her signature (April 2526) IFFBoston Julia Bullock, the luminous soprano and artistinresidence at “slowrelease works of craft www.iffboston.org the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the production features music, and catharsis.” Sanders Theatre. EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS The Independent Film Festival Boston The Redwood Library songs, and texts that make contemporary the life and work of (March 22) The Radcliffe Institute for offers documentaries and narrative features, & Athenæum Josephine Baker. Advanced Study short films, and animated and experimental The Americanborn Baker was a streetcorner and vaudeville America/We Need www.radcliffe.harvard.edu works not readily available elsewhere. New 50 Bellevue Avenue dancer who moved to Paris in the 1920s and forged a career as to Talk Willie Cole’s Beauties are fullscale prints and established filmmakers, along with a Newport, Rhode Island 02840 an international cabaret entertainer. She worked for the French www.boxoffice.harvard.edu made using crushed and hammered ironing host of regional practitioners, are featured www.redwoodlibrary.org Resistance during World War II (ultimately becoming a natural Coro Allegro, Boston’s LG boards, each honoring a woman significant to through screenings at the Brattle, Somer ized citizen of her adopted country), and went on to play a part BTQ+ and allied classical cho his personal and cultural history. Johnson ville, and Coolidge Corner Theatres, among in the American civilrights movement. rus, presents a concert that calls Kulukundis Family Gallery. (Cole gives a talk other venues. (April 24May 1) The production features texts by poet, essayist, and playwright PRODUCTIONS RUNAWAY for national dialogue and social during the opening reception on March 26; Claudia Rankine, along with original compositions by Tyshawn Soprano Julia justice. Program includes the world premiere exhibit opens on March 27) Harvard Film Archive Sorey, a multiinstrumentalist and assistant professor of compo Bullock, as of “A Triptych of American Voices: A Can www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa Josephine Baker, sition and creative music at Wesleyan University. He performs and pianist Angela tata of the People,” by awardwinning com Harvard Art Museums Thai filmmaker and VES visiting lecturer in the show, and is joined by members of the International Con Hewitt poser Fred Onovwerosuoke. www.harvardartmuseums.org Anocha Suwichakornpong, creator of the temporary Ensemble, founded by flutist and Harvard professor Sanders Theatre. (March 24) Scholars, including Laura Muir, curator of Canneshonored film short Graceland, cu of the practice of music Claire Chase. The The Bauhaus and Harvard exhibit (see rates a survey of New Thai Cinema, in show follows “no narrative, per se,” says Re Holden Choruses page 44), present new research on art cluding Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s Manta bekah Heller, the ensemble’s coartistic direc www.boxoffice.harvard.edu works and on the seismic design movement Ray and Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s Vanishing tor and its bassoonist. “It is a social tribute to The Radcliffe Choral Society hosts the Ris during the daylong Bauhaus 100: Object Point. (March 8April 13) more of [Baker’s] activism, and texts by Ran ing Voices Treble Chorus Festival, featuring the Lessons from a Historic Collection kine ground the audience in that world, ad Bostonbased Lorelei Ensemble. Symposium. (March 29) The Films of Lucrecia Martel explores dressing the activism through the voice of Jo Sanders Theatre. (April 56) the sensual and perceptive works by this séphine”—whom Bullock embodies on stage. The Peabody Museum of founding member of the New Argentine The department also hosts the Grammy Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Archaeology & Ethnology Cinema, a prominent figure in contempo Awardwinning Parker Quartet (March 31), www.boxoffice.harvard.edu www.peabody.harvard.edu rary world cinema. Martel appears for which performs a program of Mozart and The Visitas Weekend Concert includes Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews spent showings of both Zama (2017), based on the Brahms, along with “things are made to fill “Four Ragtime Dances,” by Charles Ives, and five years documenting people, nature, and book by Antonio di Benedetto, about a voids,” by graduate student Zeynep Toraman, the “Dance of the Seven Veils,” from Salome, landscapes along the Caspian Sea.