The Newton Community Preservation Committee’s meeting on Thursday, January 10, at 7 pm in City Hall Room 222 will include a public hearing on further funding for Newton’s long-running Homebuyer Assistance Program.
The full meeting agenda and full text of the proposal are online at the CPA website. Or contact Alice Ingerson by email or phone: 617.796.1144.
Dancers will learn the basic elements of Jazz Dance and Hip Hop set to today’s popular music. Along with dance technique instruction, they will be given the opportunity to creatively express themselves through open-ended movement.
Ages 4 to 6 yrs.
8 Fridays, 1:30-2:15pm
Cost: $96
Class dates: January: 11, 18, 25 February: 1, 8, 15 and March: 1 and 8.
Waban Library Center, 1608 Beacon Street
The class will include stretching exercises, progressions across the floor and sequences of age appropriate choreography that will build week to week. This fun, lively 45-minute class is offered to students who danced with us last season as well as new students.
To register please email us at wabanlibrary<at>gmail<dot>com
School of Rock Boston invites the general public to 3 sets of all-ages concerts in January:
Black Keys VS. The White Stripes takes place on 1/11 at the Arlington Center for the Arts & 1/12 at Johnny D’s;
Best of Boston Rock (1/19 & 1/20) and The Soul of Grohl (1/26 & 1/27) will be 1pm matinees at the #1 club in town, The Middle East in Cambridge.
42% of School of Rock students hail from the Newton, MA school districts and they would love your support! For more information, please call 617-923-3434 or visit SRB’s website.
Classes are held at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street in Watertown, with free parking and access to public transportation. Scholarships and Membership discounts are available.
For class descriptions, visit the Arsenal Center’s website. To register, call 617-923-0100, ext. 309.
Times Square isn’t the only fun place to spend New Year’s Eve…the New Year’s Open House at Newton City Hall has free live entertainment, face painting, refreshments and balloon animals!
From 1:30 to 3:30 on December 31st, there are four
different continuous live performances, so you can catch them all:
the Joanne Langione Dance Studio dancers, the ever-popular Newton Family Singers, the hilarious Big Joe the Storyteller, and
puppets and songs with Diana Kane.
Kids can get their faces painted and get a balloon animal to take home. The “price” of admission is a non-perishable food item for the Newton Food Pantries, or a child’s book or winter clothing item for Cradles to Crayons. Visit the Newton Community Pride website
for more information, or call 617-527-8283.
We are glad to announce the return of our Boston College Lady Eagles Soccer Clinics, starting with our Winter Session. The camp will be held from December 27 – December 30, from 12pm – 5pm at Boston College Alumni Stadium.
Our program is designed to develop the players in a fun environment. Players, aged 6 – 14 years, are grouped by age and ability and the program is catered to both the beginner and elite club level player.
Our goal is to challenge each camper to leave our clinics with an increased enthusiasm for the game and ideas to further develop them as individual players. The cost for the camp is $295 and registration is available online.
Please come to a family dinner and great live music (Loose Change and others) at the Congregational Church, 54 Lincoln Street, in Newton Highlands on December 21, 6PM-12AM.
Luke’s Lights was was born of a wish by Luke Voss-Kernan’s friends and family to spread his light far and wide by buying solar lights for communities in the developing world who live off the electrical grid. Our fundraiser on December 21 will be a celebration of Luke’s shimmer and his lightness of being. All proceeds will go towards a project of Unite-to-Light to bring lights to communities around the globe that otherwise live in darkness.
Tickets $20 are available online
For your $20 ticket fee, two lights will be sent to someone who cannot yet imagine how his/her life will change. We will also be selling the actual LED lights there for $20 each. You get to keep one; and another one gets sent to someone in need.
The Voice Department of Brookline Music School is pleased to announce its third annual Vocal Workshop for the Junior District Auditions on Sunday, January 13, 2013 from 1:00-3:00 pm at 25 Kennard Road in Brookline. This workshop is free and open to all students in the Eastern District who are planning to audition the following weekend.
The voice faculty will rehearse the required piece, drill sight-singing, and offer tips on vocal health and auditioning in this two-hour workshop. RSVP’s are requested from those who plan on participating. RSVP’s should include student’s name, voice part, and school district and should be emailed to the Voice Department Coordinator Bonnie Pomfret.
I am an Oak Hill and Bowen alum and current Rivers School Junior available as a babysitter/parents’ helper many afternoons after school, evenings, and
weekends. I am CPR-certified and enjoy art projects, reading to and with younger children and can help with homework.
I have provided childcare at my synagogue and to individual families. References available upon request. Please contact me by email. Thanks!
Back by popular demand after a very successful fall series: Try a zumba class with Param at the Hut and burn 500-900 calories while having a blast!
New session starts Monday January 7th, 6:45-7:45 pm.
Classes are $8 drop-in or 10 classes for $60.
Newcomers welcome!
The Hut is located on Tyler Terrace in Newton Centre, near the Mason-Rice School.
To sign up or for more information email Param or visit her website.