MIT Dance Theater Ensemble presents Neta Pulvermacher in To Fold a Big Bang, a dance workshop.
The workshop is a theatrical exploration of both the macro and the micro possible meanings of collisions (meetings) in movement-based work.
Public lecture: Friday, Sept. 26, 12 noon
Public showing of work: Sunday, Sept. 28, 2pm
Visual Arts Program Lecture Series: THIS IS TOMORROW? Urban Utopias - Dystopia - Heteropia
This series will evaluate “habitation” through the human senses and address concepts of urban utopia, the right to the city, modular habitats, shrinking cities, remote habitats, urban agriculture and weather conditions.
Public lecture series: Sept. 29 through Dec. 1, 7pm
The annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch features handblown pumpkins, created by MIT artists.
Dale Chihuly, 2008 Page Hazlegrove Lecturer in Glass Art, is most frequently lauded for expanding the Studio Glass movement to encompass the notion of collaborative teams within the creative process.
Glass pumpkin preview & sale: Fri-Sat, Sept. 26-27
Dale Chihuly lecture: Thursday, Oct. 2, 6:30pm
Innovation Weekend at the MIT Museum
The Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) and the MIT Museum invite you to an evening of networking, science outreach and fun, featuring 25+ science outreach organizations from MIT and across the Greater Boston area.
Science outreach night : Friday, Sept. 26, 5 pm
MIT's List Visual Arts Center presents: Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice
Artist Adel Abdessemed works across video, animation, performance and sculptural installation, and often focuses on the theme of global violence. This exhibit will include a mini retrospective of some of his street "actions" as well as several new works created specifically for this exhibition.
Opening reception and conversation with the artist : Friday, Oct. 10, 5:30 pm
Exhibit on view Oct. 11 through Jan. 4, 2009
Hours: 12-6pm everyday except Monday, Thurs. until 8
Designer Damon Rich surveyed the darkening realm of real estate markets: foreclosures, chains of title, exploding ARMs, and the obscure history of the mortgage, Old French for death vow. The resulting experimental installation aims to broaden and enrich the conversation about how society finances its living environments.
Exhibit tour and discussion: Monday, Oct. 6, 5:30 pm
Exhibit on view: Sept. 9-Dec. 21
Mulatu Astatke: "Ethiopian Contributions to the Development of World Music Instruments"
Ethiopian jazz artist Mulatu Astatke will give a public talk as part of his residency at MIT, October 10-24. A multi-instrumentalist on vibraphone, keyboards, organ and percussion, Mulatu is credited with adding Latin percussion to Ethiopian music. A number of Mulatu's songs were featured in the the Jim Jarmusch independent film Broken Flowers.
Public lecture: Thurday, Oct. 23, 7 pm
The Cardenes-Williams-Deveau Piano Trio
Pianist David Deveau is Senior Lecturer in Music at MIT and Artistic Director of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival. Deveau has been critically acclaimed internationally for his expressive and poetic interpretations of solo and chamber music repertoire ranging from Haydn to the present.
Concert: Friday, Nov. 7, 8 pm
Comics and Social Conflict
Comics have emerged as a key means of interpreting and disseminating controversial and contested histories. This panel, with Diana Tamblyn, Ho Che Anderson and Jeet Heer, will explore why historical material has become so important for comics art.
Panel discussion: Thursday, Oct. 23, 5 pm
Einstein's Dreams
This stage adaptation of Alan Lightman's acclaimed novel portrays Einstein in 1905, a modest but brilliant patent clerk in a new marriage, struggling to make ends meet, while in the back of his mind re-conceiving time. "Einstein's Dreams" is alternately wry and wild, funny and intellectually stimulating, provocative and surprisingly moving.
Performances: Nov. 18-Dec. 14, times vary
The Making of Americans
Conceived as a cross-media chamber opera for small orchestra, string quartet, six singers, and a chorus of regular families, The Making of Americans is adapted from Gertrude Stein’s 900+ page cubist novel. Book and direction by MIT’s Jay Scheib.
Preview: Fri-Sat, Nov. 21-22, 8pm
The Cambridge Science Festival is the first multi-day celebration of science and technology in the U.S.
Submit a proposal to run a program or host an event. The festival is looking for ideas that celebrate science, technology, engineering and math in ways that combine spirit, interactivity and audience appeal.
Submit a proposal: festival dates are Saturday, April 25 through Sunday, May 3
