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Friday, March 2

5 p.m. Art: Artists’ Reception for Jodi Colella and Andrea Thompson’s exhibitions at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston.

6 p.m. Art: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition Opening at University of Rhode Island Main Art Gallery, Kingston.

6 p.m. Art: Opening Reception for “Scientific Purposes,” an exhibition of paintings by Anna Schuleit Haber, at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston.

7 p.m. Music: Damon & Naomi and Thalia Zedek Band play at Lilypad, Cambridge.

7:30 p.m. Theater: Actors’ Shakespeare Project performs “Richard III” at Swedenborg Chapel, Cambridge.

8 p.m. Music: Jonathan Richman performs at the Somerville Theatre, Somerville.

8 p.m. Theater: “Skeleton Crew” debuts by Huntington Theatre Company at Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston. The show continues through March 31.

8 p.m. Theater: “Steve” by Zeitgeist Stage Company debuts at the Plaza Black Box Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston. Continues through March 23.

Saturday, March 3

9 a.m. Libraries: Derail (Diversity, Equity, Race, Accessibility, and Identity in Library Information Science) Forum 2018 at Simmons College, Boston.

10 a.m. Art:“T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America” exhibition opening day celebration at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem.

3 p.m. Books/Drag: “Storytime with Drag Kings, Queens, and Friends” at Boston Public Library.

5 p.m. Art: Aviary Gallery’s 7th Birthday // Natural Reaction Reception at Aviary, Boston.

6 p.m. Art: Solei “Trace” art opening at Piano Craft Gallery, Boston.

6:30 p.m. Art: Premiere of “Tortilla Social,” a film documenting Urbano Artist in Residence, Salvador Jiménez-Flores’ Tortilla Social project, at Urbano Project, Boston.

7 p.m. Rap: Dutch ReBelle performs at LilyPad, Cambridge.

7:15 p.m. MIT Hillel hosts “Purim on Ice” at Johnson Ice Rink, Cambridge.

8 p.m. Music/Art: “HipStory Presents: A HipStoric Night at the Museum,” with STL GLD, Latrell James and more, as part of MFA Late Nites at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Sunday, March 4

11:45 a.m. Party: Purim Carnival at Beth El Temple Center, Belmont.

3 p.m. Party: Kesher Purim Carnival at Kesher Nevatim, Somerville.

5:30 p.m. Theater: “Citizen Speak: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine” at ArtsEmerson, Boston.

8 p.m. Rock: Ladies Rock Camp 2018 March Showcase at Once Somerville.

Monday, March 5

6 p.m. Art/Activism: Asian Pacific Islander (API) Arts Network Kick Off – Creative Action for Social Change at Pao Arts Center, Boston.

6:30 p.m. Books: Emily Sweeney, author of “Gangland Boston,” speaks at West Roxbury Library, Boston.

7 p.m. Art: “Immersed: Video Art Technology,” a talk with new media artist Judith Barry and Cyberarts founder George Fifield, hosted by Catalyst Conversations, at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge.

Tuesday, March 6

6 p.m. Books: Kelly Barnhill, who won the 2017 Newbury Medal for her excellent young adult novel “The Girl Who Drank the Moon,” speaks about her new collection of stories, “Dreadful Young Ladies,” at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.

7 p.m. Books/Music: Ryan Walsh, author of “Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968,” speaks with in conversation with Carly Carioli at Brookline Booksmith.

7:30 p.m. Theater: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company perform’s Wendy Wasserstein’s play “Old Money” at Babson College, Wellesley.

Wednesday, March 7

6 p.m. Art/Activism: Aram Han Sifuentes, the founder of Chicago’s Protest Banner Lending Library, speaks at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston.

7:30 p.m. Theater: “Hamlet” performed by Bedlam at Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston.

Thursday, March 8

10:30 a.m. Theater: “The Snowflake Man” performed by PuppetKabob at Puppet Showplace Theater, Brookline.

12:30 p.m. Art/Activism: Protest Banner Lending Library Workshop with its founder, Aram Han Sifuentes, at School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

4 p.m. Books/Activism: Wee The People leads “Little Voices Big Change: Bridges Not Walls!” at Honan-Allston Library, Boston.

7 p.m. Art: Wangechi Mutu and Okwui Okpokwasili talk at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Friday, March 9

6 p.m. Art: “Con/textile/ized” exhibition reception at Jamestown Arts Center, Rhode Island.

7 p.m. Music: Julie Rhodes performs at Brighton Music Hall, Boston.

7 p.m. Music: An evening with Lou Barlow at ONCE Somerville.

8 p.m. Theater: Okwui Okpokwasili leads the play “Poor People’s TV Room” at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

8 p.m. Music: Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly perform at City Winery, Boston.

8 p.m. Theater: “Saint Joan” performed by Bedlam at Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston.

9 p.m. Music: “Brass Band Boogaloo in JP” at Bella Luna Restaurant, Boston.


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