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May 3 to 9, 2019: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Pictured above: Museum of Modern Renaissance, Somerville, May 6, 2017. \u00a0(Copyright Greg Cook)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Todd<\/a>
Todd Mckie’s painting “I Knew You Would Understand.” (Gallery NAGA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, May 3, 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\nReception for Todd McKie \u201cPardon Me for Painting\u201d<\/a> at Gallery NAGA, Boston<\/em>
\nThe local artist\u2019s paintings are like the love children of Joan Miro and William Steig.<\/p>\n

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\"Marie<\/a>
Marie Craig and Allison Maria Rodriguez “Secrets of the Unseen” at Fountain Street gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, May 3, 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\nReception for “Secrets of the Unseen”<\/a> at Fountain Street gallery, Boston<\/em>
\nArtists Marie Craig and Allison Maria Rodriguez explore “the possibilities of transcendence and rebirth through a conventionally unrecognized, hidden power” with installation, video, photography, animation, drawing and performance.<\/p>\n

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\"Museum<\/a>
Museum of Modern Renaissance, Somerville, during Somerville Open Studios, May 6, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, May 3, 6 to 9 p.m.<\/strong>
\nSomerville Open Studios speak preview<\/a><\/em>
\nSelect artists across the city open their workspaces to your prying eyes\u2014in advance of the full city open studios on May 4 and 5. The weekend\u2019s highlights include Hilary Scott\u2019s themed home<\/a> and the visionary Museum of Modern Renaissance<\/a>. Free.<\/p>\n

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\"Gorham<\/a>
Gorham Manufacturing Company, \u201cFruit Stand (detail),\u201d 1871, silver with gilding. (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, May 3<\/strong>
\n\u201cGorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970\u201d<\/a> at RISD Museum, Providence <\/em>
\nThis exhibit surveys 120 years of production by the Providence firm that rose to be the largest silver company in the world. Mary Todd Lincoln even bought one of their tea services for the White House. They impressed with pieces ranging from a modernist cubist coffee set to ornate designs that look like something out of a fairy tale palace or Neptune\u2019s undersea castle. Exhibition continues through Dec. 1, 2019<\/p>\n

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\"William<\/a>
William Steig, illustration for \u201cSylvester and the Magic Pebble\u201d (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). (Collection of Maggie Steig. \u00a9 1969 William Steig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, May 4<\/strong>
\n\u201cWilliam Steig\u2019s Sylvester and the Magic Pebble: A Golden Anniversary\u201d<\/a> at Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst<\/em>
\nThe late Boston writer and illustrator William Steig drafted fables of surpassing wonder and strangeness. For example, his 1969 book \u201cSylvester and the Magic Pebble,\u201d which won the Caldecott Medal. It\u2019s the story of a donkey who finds a magic pebble that he (accidentally) uses to transform himself into a boulder, much to his unhappiness. The exhibition offers preliminary sketches, storyboards, dummy books, Steig\u2019s paints and tools, personal family photographs and his prized Caldecott Medal. Exhibition continues through Dec. 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 4, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/strong>
\nInternational Indigenous Peoples Cultural Conference<\/a> at Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island<\/em>
\nFourth annual one-day conference highlighting the diversity and complexity of indigenous cultures throughout the world. This year\u2019s focus is the Polynesian culture of the south Pacific islands. King Aleka Dayne Aipoalani, Ali’i Nui of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi will be the event\u2019s honored guest. Panel discussions. Cultural demonstrations. Free.<\/p>\n

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\"Wake<\/a>
Wake Up the Earth Festival at Boston’s Southwest Corridor Park, May 4, 2013. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, May 4, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\nWake Up the Earth Festival<\/a> at Southwest Corridor Park, near Stony Brook MBTA Station, Boston<\/em>
\nThe 41st annual celebration of spring includes a parade, several stages of music, dance and theater, the Skate Stage near the skateboard park, and craft, nonprofit, and food vendors.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 4, 11 a.m.<\/strong>
\nSpring Foraging for Wild Urban Edibles<\/a>. Meet at Mattapan Square MBA Station, Boston<\/em>
\nUrban Farming Institute and Hike for Life show how to find spring wild edibles growing in the heart of the city, from the MBTA Station to the Neponset River Trail.<\/p>\n

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\""March<\/a>
“March for Science” at Boston Common, April 22, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, May 4, 11 a.m.<\/strong>
\nMarch for Science<\/a> at Cambridge Common<\/em>
\n\u201cTogether we can make a difference, advance scientific research, and raise support for evidence-based policies in New England.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 4, 2 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cMay the Fourth\u201d lightsaber build<\/a> at Parts and Crafts, Somerville<\/em>
\nBuild lightsabers and support the maker space\u2019s scholarship fund!<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 4, 2 to 5 p.m.<\/strong>
\nKentucky Derby & Fancy Hat Party<\/a> at Vernon Street Studios, Somerville<\/em>
\nChristina Balch writes: \u201cEvery Saturday of Somerville Open Studios, Kerri and I have cursed ourselves for not throwing a Kentucky Derby party with fancy hats. Well this year we’re actually doing it! Come by studio 52 at Vernon Street with your best hat game! We’re working on getting a TV in the studio for viewing, but there will be hats!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and May 5, 3 to 9 p.m.<\/strong>
\nFloor Lords 38th Anniversary Breakin\u2019 Battle<\/a> At Middle East\/Sonia, Cambridge<\/em>
\n\u201c2 VS 2 – Concept Breakin’ Battle\u201d at Sonia on Saturday. \u201c3 VS 3\u201d competition at the Middle East Night Club on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 4, 6 to 10 p.m.<\/strong>
\nPoints of Light Lantern Festival<\/a> at Western Canal, Lowell<\/em>
\nThird annual spring celebration of unity and renewal in which participants personalize water lanterns that will be released onto the Western Canal, creating hundreds of floating points of light. Plus food and music.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cShe Died for Our Convenience\u201d<\/a> by Strange Attractor at Paragon Mill, 25 & 39 Manton Ave., Providence <\/em>
\nA one-night-only, roving \u201cchoral haunting concerning the women who worked from 1898-1960 in the textile mill at the Earnscliffe Woolen Mill\/Paragon Worsted Co.\u201d Note: \u201cWe will ask you to move from one place to another throughout the evening, but you will not climb stairs or move in unpaved areas.\u201d Park across the street at the Atlantic Mills parking lot. Free.<\/p>\n

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\"\u201cThe<\/a>
\u201cThe Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore\u201d and \u201cA Medieval Bestiary\u201d Performed by Metropolitan Chorale and Puppet Showplace Theater at First Church, Cambridge, May 4, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore\u201d and \u201cA Medieval Bestiary\u201d<\/a> Performed by Metropolitan Chorale and Puppet Showplace Theater at First Church, Cambridge<\/em>
\nFantastical creatures come alive in this performance of works by Menotti and Schafer.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, May 5, 12:30 to 4 p.m.<\/strong>
\nLowell Earth Day Parade & Festival<\/a> at Lowell National Historical Park<\/em>
\nMile-long parade with local schools, puppets, costumes, and eco-conscious groups from the Greater Lowell area. Followed by family-friendly, sustainability festival at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren St. Free.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, May 5, 12:30 to 9:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cSomerlele: Somerville Ukulele Festival\u201d<\/a> at Arts at the Armory<\/em>
\nAll-ages, multiple levels workshops in the afternoon, followed by performances by \u201ctop local and regional ukulele artists\u201d in the evening.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, May 5, 2 to 4 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cWee Free Black Mamas: A Card-Making Marathon + Bailout Event\u201d<\/a> at MassArt, Boston<\/em>
\nWee The People host a free, kid-powered creativity marathon featuring card-making, a teach-in, t-shirt station and pop-up book lounge at MassArt’s DMC Atrium to protest \u201claws that unfairly keep moms in jail while they’re awaiting trial\u201d because \u201cthey can’t afford to pay their bail.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sunday, May 5, 3 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d<\/a> by Boston Lyric Opera at Harvard University\u2019s Ray Lavietes Pavilion, Boston<\/em>
\nMargaret Atwood\u2019s celebrated novel\u2014set in fanatically patriarchal religious dystopia in Boston and Cambridge\u2014becomes \u201cone of BLO\u2019s largest-ever productions.\u201d Anne Bogart directs composer Poul Ruders\u2019s score, commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera. The show runs through May 12.<\/p>\n

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\"Gerrit<\/a>
Gerrit Lansing reads at the Gloucester Writers Center, Feb. 27, 2016. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sunday, May 5, 5 p.m.<\/strong>
\nGerrit Lansing\u2019s Moon Birthday<\/a> at Gloucester Writers Center<\/em>
\nRemember and celebrate the late Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing with poems, song and stories.<\/p>\n

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Monday, May 6, 5:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cCurating a New Culture: Leaders of Color in the Visual Arts\u201d<\/a> talk at Boston Center For the Arts Mills Gallery<\/em>
\nArtsBoston\u2019s Network for Arts Administrators of Color hosts leaders of color in Boston\u2019s visual arts community for a discuss of challenges artists and arts administrators face in this heavily white and Eurocentric field. Panelists: Layla Bermeo, curator at Museum of Fine Arts; Cagen Luse, artist LunchTime Comix; Stella Aguirre McGregor, founder and director of URBANO Project Siddhartha V. Shah, curator of Indian and South Asian Art at Peabody Essex Museum. Free, but registration required.<\/p>\n

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\"Georgie<\/a>
Georgie Friedman \u201cFoyn Iceberg No. 1 (Right Side), Antarctica Series,\u201d 2017, photograph, archival pigment print. (Courtesy of the artist. \u00a9 Georgie Friedman. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wednesday, May 8, 6:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nArtist Georgie Friedman Speaks About \u201cFragments of Antarctica\u201d<\/a> exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/em>
\nThe Boston-area artist leads a in-depth 15-minute gallery talk about her videos of icebergs floating out to sea and other artworks from a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula. \u201cI want visitors to be challenged to consider their own relationships with nature and be aware of the current threats to our environment,\u201d Friedman told TuftsNow.<\/p>\n

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