{"id":11728,"date":"2019-05-09T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2019-05-09T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:30:22","slug":"recommended-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/05\/09\/recommended-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended: Bread & Puppet \u2022 Steampunk Fest \u2022 Bubble Fest \u2022 PorchFest \u2022 Mothers Day Walk For Peace \u2022 Duckling Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 10 to 16, 2019: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Pictured above:\u00a0Bread and Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cThe Basic Bye-bye Show” at Spontaneous Celebrations in Boston, April 21, 2018. (Copyright Greg Cook)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friday, May 10, 3 p.m.<\/strong>
\nCass Sunstein talks about \u201cHow Change Happens\u201d<\/a> at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge<\/em>
\nThe Harvard Law School professor and Administrator of the Obama White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs discusses his latest book, \u201cHow Change Happens,\u201d about \u201cHow does social change happen? When do social movements take off?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Bread<\/a>
Bread and Puppet Theater performs \u201cDiagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, May 10, 7 p.m.<\/strong>
\nBread and Puppet Theater performs \u201cDiagonal Life: Theory and Praxis\u201d<\/a> at Beneficent Congregational Church, Providence<\/em>
\nThe legendary Vermont theater of giant puppets, politics and sourdough bread brings its new show, of which founder Peter Schumann says, “The diagonal threatens collapse while always containing the possibility of uprising.”<\/p>\n

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\"View<\/a>
View of East Room, Peter Lynch Marblehead Neck House. (\u00a9 Peabody Essex Museum. Photo: Kathy Tarantola.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, May 11 <\/strong>
\n\u201cA Passion for American Art<\/a>: Selections from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Collection\u201d at the Peabody Essex Museum<\/em>
\nPaintings by Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Martin Johnson Heade plus sculpture, furniture, decorative art and Native American art spanning three centuries. All from the collection of Marblehead couple Carolyn and Peter Lynch, a Fidelity Investments financier. Exhibition continues through Dec. 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 11, 9 a.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cTom Wessels: Reading the Forested Landscape\u201d<\/a> at Urban Forestry Center, Portsmouth, New Hampshire<\/em>
\nDrawing on his book book, \u201cReading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England,\u201d author, ecologist and teacher Tom Wessels iintroduces people to approaches used to interpret a forest\u2019s history while wandering through it\u2014examining the shapes of trees, scars on trunks, the decay in stumps, the construction of stone walls, the lay of the land.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m. to p.m.<\/strong>
\nWatch City Steampunk Festival<\/a> on Waltham Common<\/em>
\nWaltham\u2019s free, all-day, outdoor steampunk offers aerialists, a Victorian mystery caper show, a whip performance, music by Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, dance, talks, food, vendors, more music, and kids’ activities.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, May 11, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/strong>
\nBoston Bubble Festival<\/a> at Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common<\/em>
\ngiant floating bubble demonstrations from various bubble performers, a Country 102.5 DJ, a stilt walker, a World Water Day demonstration from Boston Water and Sewer Commission, and giveaways from HP Hood, Kind Snacks, A Dog’s Journey, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Spirit Riding. Free.<\/p>\n

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\"Second<\/a>
Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band performs at Somerville’s Quincy Street Open Space as part of the annual PorchFest, May 13, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, May 11, noon to 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\nSomerville\u2019s annual PorchFest<\/a> all across the city<\/em>
\nPart hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. More than 200 bands acts are scheduled to perform on porches, in backyards and in parks all across the city. Free.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The 22nd Annual Anti-Gun Violence Mother\u2019s Day Walk For Peace In Dorchester, Boston, May 13, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sunday, May 12, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMother’s Day Walk for Peace<\/a> begins at Town Field Park, Dorchester<\/em>
\nBoston\u2019s annual Mother\u2019s Day Walk for Peace started in 1996 \u201cso mothers of murdered children could receive support and love from their neighbors.\u201d Twenty-three years later, the Mother\u2019s Day Walk organized by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute \u201ccontinues to be a powerful way to honor our loved ones who have been murdered and embrace our partners in peacemaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Duckling<\/a>
Duckling Day from Boston Common to the Public Garden, May 13, 2012. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sunday, May 12, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/strong>
\nDuckling Day<\/a> begins at Boston Common<\/em>
\nInspired by Robert McCloskey\u2019s classic children\u2019s book \u201cMake Way for Ducklings,\u201d dress as characters from the book and celebrate Mother\u2019s Day with a parade, led by the Harvard University Marching Band, from the Parkman Bandstand at Boston Common to the \u201cMake Way for Ducklings\u201d statues in the Public Garden. Prior to the parade, \u201cPlaytime on the Common\u201d offers juggling, magic, circus games, face-painting and so on. Registration fee.<\/p>\n

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