Category Archives: Events

How would you allocate $20 million in community preservation?

How would you allocate nearly $20 million for affordable housing, historic resources, open space & recreation land in Newton over the next 5 years?

Come tell us at a neighborhood birthday party (refreshments provided) for Waban, Newton Highlands & Newton Upper Falls. Tuesday, 27 March, from 7:30 – 9:00PM at the Waban Library Center, 1608 Beacon Street. Residents from all Newton neighborhoods are welcome.

Enjoy a slide show about past Community Preservation projects & neighborhood history. Share your funding priorities & add them to our interactive maps.

More details and info on Newton’s Community Preservation programs are on our website.

Register for 1-mile Heartbreak Hill Road Race (ages 8-90)

Registration is now open for Newton’s 20th annual Heartbreak Hill Road Race. This one-mile race on historic Heartbreak Hill takes place Sunday, April 15, beginning at 3PM at Newton City Hall.

The race is open to runners and walkers ages 8-90 (new lower age this year). The first 500 runners registered get a FREE t-shirt and a ticket to the pizza/pasta party on Saturday, 4/14.  Race details and registration information is at the Newton Community Pride website.

Open House for Highlands After School Program, March 27

The Newton Highlands After-School Program, just for middle school children is hosting an Open House for interested families on Tuesday, March 27 from 5:30-6:30 P.M. at Brigham House, 20 Hartford Street, Newton Highlands. This is a terrific opportunity for parents to learn more about the program as they plan for the next school year. Please join us and see the wonderful space that is the home base of this terrific program. For more information please contact: Rochelle Acker at 617-999-4617 or highlandsafterschool@gmail.com or visit our website highlandsafterschool.org

Benefit Concert, March 18

A benefit concert will be held Sunday, March 18th, 7 p.m. at Lutheran Church of the Newtons in Newton Center.

The West Stockbridge Chamber Players, professional musicians who play with the Boston Symphony, Boston Ballet, and Boston Pops Esplanade, among others, will perform the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and Borodin Trio in g.  BSO violinist Sheila Fiekosky will play the Bach Chaconne in d.  All profits benefit Kids4Peace, an interfaith organization.  Tickets: $20 in Advance, $25 at the Door, $10 Students.  More information about the event is available online.

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson for a discussion of her book about the epic journey of African Americans from the Jim Crow South to U.S. cities in the North and West in search of a better life in the early half of the twentieth century.

She interviewed more than a thousand people and gained access to new data and official records to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. Co-sponsored by: the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society of New England, Historic Newton, Myrtle Baptist Church, Newton Free Library, and the Newton Human Rights Commission. Monday, March 19, 7:30pm at the Newton Free Library, Homer Street.  Free & open to all.

Newton’s Horticultural Revolution: Sowing the Seeds of Change

From settlement to the dawn of a new republic, Newton’s landscape was dramatically transformed from an economy dependent on small family agriculture to one of Boston’s most prominent horticultural communities. As field crops gave way to the latest hybrid fruit and flower introductions, Newton’s citizens were transformed from farmers to gardeners.

Come explore this transformation with landscape historian Lucinda Brockway as she describes how Newton’s horticultural revolution was born. Thursday, March 17, at 7:00pm at  the Newton Free Library, Homer Street. Free & open to all.

Proposal to restore Newton’s Civil War Monument

At a public meeting on March 27, the Newton Community Preservation Committee will discuss a pre-proposal to restore the City-owned Civil War Monument in Newton Cemetery. The full text of the pre-proposal will be online soon under “Proposals & Projects” on the CPC website.  The meeting will be held at 7:00pm at the Waban Library Center, 1608 Beacon Street. All are welcome.

 

Legally Blonde – The Musical

Sorority star Elle Woods doesn’t take “no” for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone “serious,” Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Based on the movie starring Reese Witherspoon

March 15th, 16th, 17th, 2012, at 7:30PM. 2PM on the 18th
Tickets $10, $14, $16. Reserved Seating. Contact TheatreInk.net
Performing Arts Center at Newton North High School