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Watertown Resident Cast in Play Festival at Curry College

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Curry College is pleased to announce that Watertown resident Nicholas Anastasi was cast in the Spring 2017 New Plays Festival. Nicholas, a junior and son of Cheryl and Peter Anastasi, played the role of Larry in “Houston, We Have a Problem.” Last year, he appeared in “Into the Woods” and “The Laramie Project.” Nicholas also serves as the Publicity Manager and Stage Manager for Curry Theatre, and participated in the sixth annual Boston One Minute Play Festival. The seventh annual New Plays Festival showcased five new student-written one act plays directed by Gail Phaneuf and Marcy Holbrook. For more information on the Curry Theatre program, visit curry.edu/theatre. About Curry College

Founded in 1879, Curry College is a private, four-year, liberal arts-based institution located on 131 acres in Milton, Mass.

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Mosesian Arts Earfull Series Includes Authors and Songwriters

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The Mosesian Center for the Arts is proud to announce the Earfull Spring 2017 Series – three evening events of literature and music with “Writers Reading and Songwriters Singing.”

Earfull events will take place May 23, June 6, and June 20 on our neighboring patio at Branch Line, 321 Arsenal Street in Watertown, and feature world renowned authors and musicians reading and performing some of their latest works. Tuesday, May 23 the Spring Series kicks off with:

Authors Jessica Shattuck and Andre Dubus III & Musicians Damon & Naomi and Patty Larkin

Tuesday, June 6 the series continues with:

Authors David Anthony Durham and Jayne Anne Phillips & Musicians Jen Trynin and Aaron Perrino

Tuesday, June 20 the final event of the Spring features:

Authors Annie Hartnett and Anita Shreve & Musicians Lyle Brewer and Dennis Brennan

The brainchild of Boston Musician and Author Jen Trynin and bookstore connoisseur Tim Huggins, Earfull first launched in the Fall of 2001 with the concept that, given a conducive environment, book people will appreciate being exposed to live music, and rock people will realize how cool it is to hear great authors reading their work aloud! EARFULL aimed to provide that environment, combining prominent author readings with established singer-songwriters in the hopes of broadening the appreciation of and audiences for both. After a brief hiatus from multiple sold-out seasons of the series, the Mosesian Center for the Arts brought the beloved programming back for a second season to a whole new audience. Tickets are on-sale now and are just $25 at MosesianArts.org.

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Watertown Resident Part of Creating Interactive Sound Sculpture in Boston

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The New England Foundation for the Arts’ Creative City program announces Sound Sculpture, an interactive, physical, light and sound installation by Ryan Edwards, a Watertown resident, and Andrew Hlynsky, the artists announced. It will be on view for two nights only: April 28 and 29, 2017 from 7:30 to 11 p.m. at The Innovation & Design Building, located at 21 Drydock Avenue, Suite 110E, in Boston. The events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.soundsculpture.space/. There will also be special family programming on Saturday, April 29 from noon to 2 p.m.

Sound/Sculpture is a multi-media installation that meets at the intersection of sculpture, sound composition, and dance.

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Mosesian Arts Center’s ‘Reclaimed’ Exhibit Features Trash Transformed into Art

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The Mosesian Center for the Arts announces “Reclaimed” art exhibition on view April 20 through July 7, 2017. Trash transformed. Urban waste and the imagination of artists intersect to create a large-scale exhibition that will leave viewers awe struck and inspired. This juried group exhibition promotes recycling and resource conservation by encouraging the reuse of a variety of materials in new, different, and creative forms. Featuring work by Lisa Barthelson, Peter Bradley Cohen, Thomas Deininger and over forty artists who work with reclaimed – recycled and repurposed – materials. “This ambitious exhibition is part of a series here at the Mosesian Center for the Arts designed to encourage visitors to engage with art, and the artists who create it, in unique and meaningful ways.” says Director of Exhibitions Kimberly Thompson Panay. Exhibiting artist Lisa Barthelson explains that “the concept for the ‘family debris’ series began to form in my mind, as I cleaned out, and purged boxes and bags of my children’s old toys and clothes.

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Watertown Man Singing with Handel + Haydn Society in 2 Local Concerts

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Watertown resident Patrick Waters will sing tenor in the upcoming Handel and Haydn Society program, Monteverdi’s Vespers, in Boston and Cambridge. The program features the work of Claudio Monteverdi and is led by conductor Harry Christophers and featuring Jeremy Budd (tenor) and Mark Dobell (tenor). The H+H orchestra and chorus will be joined by special guests, The Handel and Haydn Young Women’s Chamber Choir, conducted by Alyson Greer. “Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610,” shares conductor Harry Christophers, “is quite simply one of the greatest works of sacred music ever written and without doubt the most varied and inspired before Handel and Bach began composing their oratorios and passions. Its variety alone makes it unique – thrilling psalm settings with virtuosic writing for both multi-part choir and instrumentalists to exotic and sensual settings of texts.

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Mosesian Center for the Arts Invites Public to ‘Ink & Drink’

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The Mosesian Center for the Arts invites you to Ink & Drink, an Opening Reception for: Big Print/Little Print – an Exhibition of Epic Proportions & Uniform T-shirt Show and Pop-Up Shop on March 23 from 5:30-8 p.m.

Big Print/Little Print is a diverse look at all forms of hand printing – from BIG to small, esoteric to accessible – featuring monoprint, letterpress, woodcut, linocut, etching and more. Uniform explores the rise of the t-shirt as a modern day uniform for young and old alike. Exhibiting artists will be on hand to answer questions about their art and technique. The evening celebration of these two complimentary exhibitions culminates with free munchies and a cash bar reception in our newly redesigned MBar café. Attendees are also invited to try their hand at screen printing.

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3 Artists Featured in Latest Exhibit at Room 83 Spring, ‘Life: from life’

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The latest exhibition at the Room 83 Spring gallery features the work of three artists. Life: from life runs from March 9 to April 22, and there will be a reception on Saturday, March 11, from 3-5 p.m. Gallery Hours: Thursdays 3-5 p.m., Saturdays 1-4 p.m. or by appointment. The gallery sent out the following information:

Room 83 Spring is pleased to present Life: from life, a show exploring the intimacies of proximity and place in contemporary portraiture and interiors. In paintings by Laura Chasman and Nancy Gruskin, and sculpture by Leslie Sills, the domestic domain is celebrated as a deeply personal cache, tender, trend-free, timeless. From Alice Neel to Alex Katz, Fairfield Porter to David Park, Marisol to Mapplethorpe – Chasman, Gruskin, and Sills extend a lineage attesting to the visual richness of familial inspiration. Friends and family could be a loaded subject.

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Watertown Young Adult Author to Read from Her Latest Book

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Watertown young adult author Liza Ketchum will read from her latest book, Life Fantastic, at a local book store in March. 

Ketchum will from her book on  Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge, MA 02140 For more information go to http://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/liza-ketchum-life-fantastic

According to the publisher, Adams Media book division of Simon & Schuster, Life Fantastic is set in 1913 and Teresa LeClair, the daughter of former vaudevillians, longs to escape Vermont to star on Broadway. She hops a train to New York, but when her little brother stows away with her, her dreams come second to caring for him. Luckily, they’re taken in by big-hearted Maeve, who encourages Teresa in the singing contests she enters. Also competing is a gifted dancer, Pietro, and Teresa quickly comes to care for him. Pietro is black, and Teresa’s struggle can’t compare to the barriers he faces, on and off the stage.