Exhibition dates: February 3-21, 2016
Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Hours: Galleries: 12–7, Wed–Sun
Free and open to the public

Performance + Reception

with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku
Wed, Feb 3, 6 pm
Reception to follow

On Feb 3, Jill Johnson, dancer, choreographer and Director of Dance at Harvard, and Hans Tutschku composer and Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, perform in response to the installation of Pneumatic Bodies. Free and open to the public. 

Pneuma(tic) Bodies is an installation of sculptures and photographs that explores the relationship shared by the human body, objects, and architectural space through the enveloping medium of air. Three large, balloon–like forms made of thin plastic material occupy considerable visual and physical areas on Level 1 of the Carpenter Center. The objects continuously inflate via small cooling ventilators typically used to regulate temperature in personal computers.... Read more about Performance with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku for "Silvia Benedito + C. Alexander Häusler: Pneuma(tic) Bodies"

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE MASTER CLASS WITH KELLI O'HARA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE REGRET ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE. 

Presented By: Learning from Performers and Celebrity Series of Boston

Deemed “one of our greatest reinterpreters of musical standards” by New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley, Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara will lead a master class for Harvard student vocalists. (Co-sponsored by the Celebrity Series of Boston, which will present O’Hara in concert at Sanders Theatre on Sunday, February 28 at 7 pm. For more information and tickets, visit the Celebrity Series online or call 617.482.6661.)

... Read more about CANCELED: a master class with KELLI O’HARA

Presented By: Learning from Performers and Celebrity Series of Boston
ADMISSION: Free (tickets or RSVPs not required)

An acclaimed alumna of Saturday Night Live and now a regular on Broadway and concert stages, actor/vocalist Ana Gasteyer will lead a master class for Harvard student performers. Co-sponsored by the Celebrity Series of Boston, which is presenting Gasteyer in concert at Sanders Theatre on Saturday, February 6 at 8 pm.... Read more about a master class with ANA GASTEYER

Presented by: Dunster House
Free and open to the public

Annual performance featuring Harvard student soloists, the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, and guest conductor Edwin Jones.... Read more about 44th Annual Dunster House Messiah Sing

Presented by: Office of Career Services
For Harvard Undergraduates only. Please register through Crimson Careers.

Want to learn what it takes to succeed in the music industry? Join underground deep house and breakbeat techno musician and producer/DJ Justin Jay (dirtybird and Black Butter Records labels) and hear how he launched his music career from his dorm room at USC. Justin...

2016 Competition:

Open to Harvard undergraduate and graduate violists and cellists. All applicants must be available for the Parker Quartet's April 17 concert in Paine Hall (8pm) and for rehearsals with the Parker two weeks prior.
Applications due March 1, 2016. Finalists will be notified by the second week of March. Live audition callbacks will take place March 23 and 25, when finalists will be invited to play during a 20-minute rehearsal of the Tchaikovsky.

Introducing the first-ever Parker Quartet Guest Artist Award...

Presented by: Center for Public Leadership – Harvard Kennedy School

Free; Refreshments provided. RSVP required. Open to the Harvard community.

The current Creative Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams is one of world's preeminent and most-performed contemporary composers. His works have been celebrated by every major orchestra in the United States as well as orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia; his historical and politically-rooted operas, including The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China are among the most controversial and frequently-produced of any living composer.

Los Angles Philharmonic President and CEO Deborah Borda moderates a conversation in which Mr. Adams discusses his work and creative process.... Read more about The Creative Class: A Conversation with John Adams, Composer & Conductor, Moderated by Deborah Borda

Presented by: The Bok Center and the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)
Admission free and open to the public

With a focus on learning and teaching, the multidisciplinary panel discussion explores embodied research practices that emerge out of, and often challenge, traditional views of how to derive understanding. For more info visit www.transgressknowledge.com

A multidisciplinary panel discussion featuring:

Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Admission Free: No Tickets Required

Please join us for an evening of new music from composer Steven Kazuo Takasugi, the Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music, Radcliffe Institute and associate, Department of Music, Harvard University.

Based on the dark sideshows of Coney Island’s amusement parks in the early part of the 20th century, "Sideshow" is a meditation on virtuosity, freak shows, entertainment, spectacle, business, and the sacrifices one makes to survive in the world. A cycle of six aphorisms by the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus (1874–1936) is embedded as a subtext running through the work.... Read more about Concert by Composer Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow

Presented by: Cambridge Queen's Head Pub
Doors open at 5pm, music starts 10.30pm. Subject to venue capacity.
HUID required, 21+ to drink.
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Start your weekend off right with hip-hop genius DOLO backed up by members of Harvard's very own INTRINSICS. Good music, good food, good company: where else would...