A full slate of activities can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from performances of children's theater and French baroque dance music, to displays of Japanese calligraphy and Native American history.
SEASONAL
Arts First
www.harvard.edu/arts; 617-495-8676
May 5-8 • The University's annual performing arts festival showcases undergraduate talent in and around Harvard Square. This year's Harvard arts medalist is poet Maxine Kumin '46. Also set for May 1 (rain date May 8) is the Harvard Square Business Association's MayFair, offering artisans, theatrics, dance, and concerts from noon to 6 p.m. (www.harvardsquare.com.)
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| Left to right: A photograph of Nesouaquoit, "Bear in the Fork of the Tree," of the Fox tribe of Missouri, on display at the Peabody; the Chunsa Dance Troupe performs a Korean court dance at Arts First 2004; from Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings at the Fogg. |
| From left to right: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, President and Fellows of Harvard College; Joanne Ciccarello / Arts First; Harvard University Art Museums, President and Fellows of Harvard College |
THEATER
The American Repertory Theatre
www.amrep.org; 617-547-8300
March 5-26 • Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe, tells of a tragic infatuation.
March 16, 18, 22, and 23 • Island of Anyplace • This fantastical tale by Charles Marz teaches children about all aspects of the theater.
April 1-24 • Olly's Prison, by Edward Bond, reveals a man driven to commit an unspeakable act.
NATURE AND SCIENCE
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
www.cfa.harvard.edu/events.html; 617-495-7461
Free observatory nights on the third Thursday of every month.
MUSIC
Memorial Church
www.fas.harvard.edu/~tickets; 617-496-2222
March 23 at 8 p.m. • "Chaos and Order" (French dance suites), Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra.
Sanders Theatre
www.fas.harvard.edu/~tickets; 617-496-2222
March 4 at 8 p.m. • "Stravinsky, Saint-Saëns, and Brahms," Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
March 5 at 8 p.m. • "Concerted Talent," Radcliffe Choral Society.
April 15 at 8 p.m. • "Hindemith, and Songs for Soprano and Orchestra," Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
April 24 at 3 p.m. • "Duruflé's Requiem," Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus.
FILM
The Harvard Film Archive
www.harvardfilmarchive.org; 617-495-4700
March 11 at 7 p.m. • The Milk of Human Kindness (a French film), followed by a discussion with its director, Dominique Cabrera.
March 25-April 3 • "L.A. on Film" looks at contemporary life in the City of Angels.
EXHIBITIONS
Fogg Art Museum
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu; 617-495-9400/9422
Opening March 19 • From Heart, Mind, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings, including many from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Busch-Reisinger Museum
Continuing • "As though my body were naught but cinders:" Fin-de-Siècle Vienna presents works in various media from the turn of the twentieth century.
Sackler Museum
Through March 20 • Masterworks of East Asian Painting.
Through April 17 • Japanese Calligraphy and Painting.
Continuing • The Sport of Kings: The Art of the Hunt in Iran and India explores the age-old tradition in paintings, ceramics, decorative arts, and weaponry.
Carpenter Center for Visual Studies
www.ves.fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-3251
March 18 through April 22 • Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 19612002. A retrospective on the dancer/choreographer/filmmaker.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
www.peabody.harvard.edu; 617-495-1027
Opening April 14 • Breaking the Silence: Nineteenth-Century Indian Delegations to Washington, D.C. Photographs and documents.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
www.hmnh.harvard.edu; 617-495-3045
Continuing • Origins: Life's First Three Billion Years. The exhibition examines ancient microscopic life and its evolution.
LIBRARIES
Pusey Library
Through April 15 • The Harvard Theatre Collection presents 100 Theatrical Photographs by Angus McBean (1904-1990), many of them portraits. 617-495-2445.
Events listings also appear in the University Gazette.
