Events for June 17, 2016
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12:30 pm
Concerts in the Courtyard: Duo Esplanade at the Boston Public Library
Duo Esplanade explores the flexible sounds of flute and clarinet, both as solo instruments and as part of different instrumental combinations. The courtyard of the Central Library in Copley Square, one of Boston's most beautiful spaces, is filled with music during free, one-hour concerts throughout the summer. The courtyard hosts music that ranges from jazz […]
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Alain de Botton on “The Course of Love”
Alain de Botton recently wrote in the New York Times "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person." Join him at the Brattle Theater, in an event sponsored by Harvard Book Store, as he reads from his latest work, THE COURSE OF LOVE: A NOVEL. Tickets to this event are $5 and include a book signing.
Find out more »“A Young Black Man’s Education” at Porter Square Books
How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron […]
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.