Would you like to learn more about Chinese culture or study Mandarin at the beginner level? Starting Saturday, March 2, 2013, the Confucius Institute is offering three non-credit courses. Classes will be on the UMass Boston campus and taught by native speakers.
Chinese Culture: Past & Present
As an ancient country undergoing massive social changes since the late 70's, China is drawing attention from the world. This course is an introduction to 5000 years of Chinese culture and offers perspectives on how Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and other philosophies of life have deeply influenced Chinese culture.
Saturdays 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
March 2 - May 11, 2013
only $100
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Please Join the URBAN.Boston emerging network and Viet Aid as we meet new people, discover colleagues with common interests, and Identify areas for collaborative research through a café- style event where participants will have a chance to meet and work with small groups of individuals on important local and community issues.
Take public transit? Care about how you and yours get around, or why some can't get around? Want to make it better? Join us for Greater Boston's First Transit Equity Summit, this Saturday 9-4pm at City Year Head Quarters in the Back Bay.
Aaron Larget-Caplan will perform solo and chamber music with fellow Boston Conservatory faculty members Berit Strong and Olav Chris Henriksen (guitar), Sharon Leventhal (violin) and Boston Conservatory students Nicole Parks and Farley Kelly-Masterton (violins), Faith Jones (viola) and Nora Karakousoglou (cello). The program includes four works specially written for Larget-Caplan, including two by Boston Conservatory faculty members Jim Dalton and Kevin Siegfried.
Lucky Strike is an exhibition at Howard Art Project featuring the Master of Fine Arts thesis project of Joe Joe Orangias. The project was initiated by his research at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University on how architecture and design choreograph the body, and influence social experience. Focusing on the candlepin bowling alley as a distinct case of such structural influence, Orangias has salvaged the only remaining materials from the former Lucky Strike Lanes in Dorchester, MA with the generosity of the property owner. These materials have been repurposed into a series of paintings, sculptures, and a collaboratively written Lucky Strike Manifesto.
On the first Friday of every month join other members of the community to hear about topics that relate to diabetes care at the Codman Square Health Clinic. Contact Claudine Cooper at (617) 822-8145 or Stephanie Hucker at (617) 822-8740 for more information. Topics include
Join the festivities for Lincoln Day 2013! There will be drills and demonstrations by the B Company 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the 22nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the United States Sanitary Commission Boston Branch (the 22nd Massachusetts ladies civilian group).
The Peace Institute offers Sandtray Worldplay to survivors of homicide victims and service providers as an alternative therapeutic practice in which people express themselves and experiences through a natural, self-guided, self- healing process. Sand provides a mean of self discovery. "Sandplay" is used for growth, healing and spiritual development. Participants get to choose different colored and textured sands, and photos are provided as keepsakes for reflection and healing.
