Trips to the beach, picnics in the park, festivals galore, road trips, and lazy days hanging out with your favorite people. . . Ahh! Summer its been so long, and we've missed you so.
But now that you're here, lets not waste another moment.
Get your summer off to an amazing start and consider one of these fantabulous adventures.
Boston
Description: Harvard Book Store and the Harvard Museum of
Natural History are thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward
O. Wilson for a discussion of his new book, Letters to a Young Scientist.
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has
distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old.
Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants
and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly
illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career—both
his successes and his failures—and his motivations for becoming a biologist.
Date: 5/24/2013
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Geological
Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Price: $6 SOLD OUT
Memorial Day Community Weekend
Description: The MFA opens its doors—free of charge—to visitors from Boston and beyond for three days, May 25 to 27. Enjoy special exhibitions—including three paintings on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art—art making, gallery tours, family activities, and a community art project. All on-site contributions this weekend will be donated to The One Fund Boston.
Description: The MFA opens its doors—free of charge—to visitors from Boston and beyond for three days, May 25 to 27. Enjoy special exhibitions—including three paintings on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art—art making, gallery tours, family activities, and a community art project. All on-site contributions this weekend will be donated to The One Fund Boston.
Date: 5/25/2013 – 5/27/2013
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:45PM
Location: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue
Price: FREE
The Boston Abolitionists Project
Description: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passes and sends panic through the North Slope of Beacon Hill. Slave Catchers are on the hunt in northern cities like Boston. Thousands of free African Americans are fleeing the country. Abolitionists are challenging The Constitution of the United States. Anthony Burns, a former slave living freely in Boston is arrested. People in Boston and as far away as Worcester are rallying to save Burns from a return to slavery, and the country is headed toward Civil War.
Description: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passes and sends panic through the North Slope of Beacon Hill. Slave Catchers are on the hunt in northern cities like Boston. Thousands of free African Americans are fleeing the country. Abolitionists are challenging The Constitution of the United States. Anthony Burns, a former slave living freely in Boston is arrested. People in Boston and as far away as Worcester are rallying to save Burns from a return to slavery, and the country is headed toward Civil War.
Date: 5/24/2013 – 5/31/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: The Ex, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge
Price: $15
Columbus, OH
Asian Festival
Description: This annual event with more than 100,000 visitors and will continue to grow, thanks to the strong participation of many people regardless of origin and ethnicity. Because of the tremendous success, the festival has received strong support from state, city, corporate, and communities every year since its beginning in 1995. The festival is also recognized as one of the major special events in Central Ohio
Date: 5/25/2013 – 5/24/2013
Time: 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Location: Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E Broad St, Columbus OH
Price: FREE
Los Angeles
Columbus, OH
Asian Festival
Description: This annual event with more than 100,000 visitors and will continue to grow, thanks to the strong participation of many people regardless of origin and ethnicity. Because of the tremendous success, the festival has received strong support from state, city, corporate, and communities every year since its beginning in 1995. The festival is also recognized as one of the major special events in Central Ohio
Date: 5/25/2013 – 5/24/2013
Time: 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Location: Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E Broad St, Columbus OH
Price: FREE
Los Angeles
Patchwork Show: modern handmade festival
Description: Patchwork is a bi-annual, modern handmade festival showcasing local emerging artists, crafters & designers alongside artisan food, hands-on craft workshops and independent live music and DJ's.
Location: 125 N Broadway, Santa Ana 92701, 2nd & Sycamore intersection and section of 3rd St
Date: 5/26
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Price: FREE
Description: live music, food, and live art. Headliners of the 27th annual festival include Santigold, Common, Ziggy Marley and many more.
Date: 5/26 – 5/27
Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Location: UCLA Intramural Field, 405 Hilgard Ave., Westwood
Description: Visitors of all ages are invited to a free day at the museum, with bilingual tours, free programs, art-making activities, and live music by the Music of China Ensemble at UCLA.
Location: LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
Date: 5/27
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Price: FREE
Location: LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
Date: 5/27
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Price: FREE
Paley Center Love Arrested Development
Description: Screening Marathon with Trivia & Costume Contest! In anticipation of Arrested Development’s return to the small screen, the Paley Center is devoting the Saturday before the new season’s debut (we get all giddy just typing that…maybe it’s all the juice boxes) to a marathon screening of some of the series’s most beloved episodes.
Date: 5/25/2013
Time 12:30 to 6:00 pm ET
Location: Paley Center, 25 West 52 Street (between Fifth & Sixth Avenues)
Price: FREE for Paley Center Members; Included with general admission ($10 for adults; $8 for students and senior citizens; $5 for children under fourteen
Description: Celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage of Africa and its diaspora at the DanceAfrica Bazaar. Over 300 vendors from around the world converge on the streets surrounding BAM, transforming the neighborhood into a global marketplace offering African, Caribbean, and African-American food, crafts, and fashion.
Date: 5/25/2013 - 5/27/2013
Time: 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM (10:00 PM Saturday)
Location: BAM, Lafayette Ave and Ashland Pl
Price: FREE
Description: The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions they are open to anyone with a five minute story to share on the night’s theme [Prestige].
Date: 5/27/2013
Time: 7:00pm Doors/ 7:30pm Stories begin
Location: The Bitter End, 147 Bleeker Street
Price: A limited number of presale tickets will be available for $16 / $8 tickets at the door
San Francisco
Yerba Buena Garden Festival: Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ft. Big Bones
San Francisco
Yerba Buena Garden Festival: Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ft. Big Bones
Description: The Queen of classic jazz and blues is back
with her “little big band” the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, featuring the
sensational Big Bones, one of the world’s great blues harmonica players! Lavay
Smith’s all-star 7-piece band will perform a wide selection of instrumental and
vocal numbers from the heyday of Kansas City jazz and blues, including music by
Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson, Lester Young, and of course,
the great Count Basie.
Location: Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens
Date: 5/25
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Price: FREE
35th Annual Carnaval San Francisco 2013
Description: This year’s theme is Carnaval Harlem Shake, showcasing the best Latin American and Caribbean cultural arts – 8 city blocks bursting with music, dance, and exotic food, with a Grand Parade of dazzling pageantry
Description: This year’s theme is Carnaval Harlem Shake, showcasing the best Latin American and Caribbean cultural arts – 8 city blocks bursting with music, dance, and exotic food, with a Grand Parade of dazzling pageantry
Location: The two-day Festival takes place on Harrison Street between 16th and 24th
Streets. The Grand Parade starts at 9:30 AM at the corner of 24th and
Bryant Streets, where it will proceed West to Mission Street. From there, the
parade heads North on Mission down to 17th Street, where it will turn East and
flow into the Festival area.
Date: 5/25 – 5/26
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Price: FREE
Description: DIY Workshops, Antique Appraisals, Carnival
Games, and Scavenger Hunts . . . what more could you ask for?
Location: 1 Avenue of the Palms
Date: 5/25 – 5/26
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Price: $3
Washington, DC
Description: The free concert series features an array of
jazz artists performing a wide variety of styles—including salsa, blusion,
xylophone, and Afrofunk—every Friday evening from 5:00 to 8:30 at the National
Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Date: 5/24/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, National
Mall at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Price: FREE
Description: Blending a
traditional Chinese aesthetic with Western dance to extraordinary results, Shen
Wei Dance Arts presents Undivided Divided, a site-specific
piece where the dancers interact with multimedia, including video and sculpture.
Date: 5/23/2013 – 5/25/2013
Time: Various (45 Minute Installation)
Location: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street,
Price: $35
Description: Each year, the “National Memorial Day Concert”
presents a unique program honoring the valor and patriotism of Americans who
have served our country in times of conflict. The show pays tribute to their
sacrifices, as well as those of their families and loved ones
Date: 5/26/2013
Time: 8:00 PM, Gates open at 5:00 PM
Location: West Lawn of the US Capitol, First St NW
Price: FREE
Nationwide
Get Your Independent Film Spirit Flying with these Flicks screening this weekend at your local art house movie theater:
Frances Ha
What Maisie Knew
And if you're ever feeling I'm neglecting your city of residence, leave a comment and letting me know and I'll work it into the rotation.
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