On Saturday, April 6 at 7:30pm, Suzuki School of Newton (SSN) faculty and advanced students will perform at the Scandinavian Living Center, 206 Waltham Street in Newton.
Distinguished SSN alumna Anna Larsen, age 13, will be one of the performers. The concert, which will showcase a Steinway B concert grand piano, is free and open to the public. The program ranges in styles from Bach and Beethoven to tango and ragtime and is sure to please piano lovers of all ages.
Newton North’s award-winning theatre troupe, Theatre Ink, presents “Spontaneous Generation.” Relying on audience participation and the cunning of the actors, Spon Gen is one show you will not want to miss. Wake the kids! Call the neighbors! Summon the spirits!
7:30pm on April 3,4,5,& 6
The Little Theatre at Newton North High School
457 Walnut Street, Newtonville
Tickets: $7.00
From the moment the first bacterium crawled onto the felsic shore and called itself man, Mother Earth has called on one troupe to be the guiding light for the despairing masses: SPONTANEOUS GENERATION! Back with four action-packed shows and combining short-form and long-form improvisation into one unique and hilarious thrill ride that will have you sneezing with laughter from start to finish.
Tickets ($7 each) can be purchased via the Theatre Ink website.
The CHESTNUT HILL ASSOCIATION invites the public, those who live in Chestnut Hill and those who don’t, to attend a presentation and discussion on public safety on Thursday, April 4 at 7:00 P.M. in the Parish Hall, behind the Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill (Doors open at 6:30).
A presentation will be made by a representative of the Newton Police Department, who will be ready to answer our questions and advise us on ways to be safer at home and away from home.
Please park behind the Church (off Suffolk Road) or on Suffolk Road, Kingsbury Road, or Reservoir Avenue, all of which are off Hammond Street.
The presentation will end about 8:00 p.m. Please feel free to invite your neighbors and friends who are interested. No charge for admission.
The Newton Mustangs Youth Football and Cheer is holding an information night on Friday April 5th at 7pm. Location is TBD and will be announced on the Mustangs’ website.
Open to all Newton Students in grades 2 – 8. Check the website for more information or to join the mailing list. Registration for new players will begin in April.
Is parenting a teen a new adventure for you? Join other parents for an eight-week series of evening conversations and learn to:
· Help your teen make wise choices
· Give you and your teen second chances
· Distill practical wisdom from ancient and contemporary Jewish sources
This program is based on Jewish wisdom but open for all faiths and traditions. The instructor Cheryl Harris, MA, EdM, is a professional psychologist and works at a public school.
Classes meet Wednesdays from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. at Hebrew College, Newton Centre,
beginning April 3, 2013.
Tuition: $155 per person; $250 per couple
Scholarships are available.
For more information, contact Raylea Pemstein via email or phone at 617-559-8708
The Newton Highlands After-School Program, just for middle school children, is hosting an Open House for interested families. This is the last open house before the April 12 enrollment deadline.
Saturday, April 6 from 5:00-6:00 P.M.
Brigham House, 20 Hartford Street, Newton Highlands.
This is a terrific opportunity for parents of 5th graders to learn more about the program as they plan for the next school year. The Highlands After School Program offers a safe, supervised, enrichment program that meets the developmental and recreational needs of the middle schooler. The program strives to provide support and foster independence in all students.
Please join us and see the wonderful space that is the home base of this terrific program. For more information please contact: Rochelle Acker (director) by phone at 617-999-4617 or email.
Women Working for Oceans and the New England Aquarium invite you to a photographic journey and ocean-friendly luncheon on April 12.
“Take Only Photos, Leave Only Footprints” is the story of humanity’s waste and nature’s resilience as told through a photographer’s lens and a scientist’s research in Kiribati, a remote island nation and marine protected area in the South Pacific.
Tuesday, April 12, 2013 at 11:30am
Simons IMAX Theatre in the New England Aquarium, Central Wharf, Boston
$60 includes a vegetarian lunch
Sign up online at the Women Working for Oceans website.
Newton’s 1st annual Latin American Fiesta, Saturday March 23, at the Newton Cultural Center will bring together the sights smells, music, rhythms, foods, dances, games and arts & crafts of many of the 23 countries comprising Latin America.
3-5pm — children’s activities
5:30-9pm — dinner, music, dancing for the whole family
The gala Fiesta begins with primarily kids’ activities from 3pm – 5pm. The children will create beautiful crafts indigenous to different Latin American countries, such as bark painting from Mexico and molas from Panama. They will make musical ‘instruments’ and join in a ‘batukada’ (parade) through the Cultural Center.
The fun for the kids ends with a pinata, but begins for the whole family with music, dancing and delicious Latin American food from 5:30pm – 9pm. Bring your dancing shoes and join in the rhythms of salsa, merengue and bolero music of Brazil, Cape Verde, Venezuela and Columbia.
Artists featured are: Rosalba Dancers, Cruzamente with Tal Shaolm-Kobi, Entre Amigos and the Mauro Tortolero Band. There is beautiful jewelry for sale, created from the Tagua nuts from Colombia by Maria Olga Mizrahi’s Baloka Jewelry, and handmade leather goods by Alvaro Lucena.
Admission is free, but please bring a non-perishable food item for the Newton Food Pantries. The Latin American Fiesta is co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office for Cultural Affairs and Newton Community Pride and its sponsors. More info is online.
On March 20, Mayor Setti D. Warren will host Youth Summit II, bringing teens, parents and community members back together to focus on solutions to the challenges discussed during Youth Summit I in October.
Youth Summit I was a chance to hear from and talk to our teens about what they are thinking, feeling, and experiencing.
Youth Summit II is an opportunity to learn about the priorities that emerged from our discussions in October and to help us move forward as a community to take action.
The evening will include a chance to hear from the Mayor, the Superintendent, and teens, small group discussions and an opportunity for all to express their opinion on the best solutions to pressing teen issues in Newton. Have a positive impact on the well-being of youth in our city by participating in this community event. Teens and adults are invited and encouraged attend.
Location: Brown Middle School, 125 Meadowbrook Road
Time: 6:00 – 9:00pm A light supper will be served from 5:30-6:00pm.
The summit is free but registration is required for the event. You can register by the Youth Summit website or by phone 617-796-1436, or by email youthsummit@newtonma.gov or joleary@newtonma.gov .
Youth Summit II is sponsored by the Newton Youth Commission, City of Newton Health and Human Services Department, and The Newton Partnership. The summit has been planned with the input of two Action Groups open to the public and by the Mayor’s Newton Teen Voice Program and the Keystone Leadership Program at the Boys and Girls Club. To learn more please visit www.newtonma.gov/youthsummit
People with disabilities are part of today’s society – in school and at work, in our families and communities. While it is common to feel awkward around people of differing abilities, do you wish that you could be more at ease and know what to do? Or are you comfortable around one kind of disability, but not others?
Join “Understanding Our Differences” for an important and informative program on Wednesday, March 20th – Raising the Comfort Level: Communicating and Interacting with People with Disabilities.
Wednesday, March 20
7:00-8:30 pm
Newton Ed. Center (Room 304)
, 100 Walnut Street, Newtonville
Pre-registration is required online.
Our presenter, Dr. David Ticchi, will share important tips to help you be more comfortable interacting with people with disabilities. In this 75-minute program, Dr. Ticchi will discuss the Respect for Human Differences Guidelines, which were developed at Newton North High School (NNHS). David is a long-time faculty member at NNHS; he also serves as Special Assistant to the President at Legal Sea Foods. He has been a speaker for Understanding Our Differences’ Blindness & Low Vision unit for more than 25 years.