Events for October 9, 2019
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ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play arrives in a marvelously funny, spectacularly beautiful new production. This modern-day classic tragicomedy imagines the lives of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. As the story unfolds, they voice their confusion about the play that’s being performed without them, untangling bigger questions about life and death, reality […]
Find out more »#Read4Refugees
#Read4Refugees is an annual, worldwide read-in to support refugees. By staying in to read a book on a night of their choice between October 1st and 15th and donating what they would have spent on a night out, readers around the world will help bring critical resources to vulnerable refugees in Africa and around the […]
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CLA presents “My Name is ʻŌpūkahaʻia” by Moses Goods at Congressional Library and Archives
The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives will present a cultural and theatrical program in association with the bicentennial of the departure of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ (ABCFM) Pioneer Company from New England to the Sandwich Isles (Hawaiʻi) in 1819. The story of ʻŌpūkahaʻia is instrumental in understanding the history of 19th century Hawaiʻi and its connection […]
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Cambridge Forum: Christopher Leonard presents KOCHLAND: THE SECRET HISTORY OF KOCH INDUSTRIES AND CORPORATE POWER IN AMERICA at First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum welcomes award-winning author and journalist CHRISTOPHER LEONARD for a discussion of his latest book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. About Kochland The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make […]
Find out more »Fatima Bhutto presents NEW KINGS OF THE WORLD: DISPATCHES FROM BOLLYWOOD, DIZI, AND K-POP at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction FATIMA BHUTTO for a discussion of her latest book, New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop. About New Kings of the World A vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it […]
Find out more »Robert Kuttner presents THE STAKES: 2020 AND THE SURVIVAL OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY in conversation with E.J. Dionne Jr. at Cambridge Public Library
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed political analyst ROBERT KUTTNER for a discussion of his latest book, The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy. He will be joined in conversation by Georgetown University professor and Washington Post contributor E.J. DIONNE, JR. About The Stakes The 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.